The New Year Honours 2005 were appointments by some of the Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January.
New Year Honours were granted in the United Kingdom"New Year Honours List 2005", London Gazette; accessed 10 April 2026.] and New ZealandNew Zealand: "New Year Honours 2005" (14 January 2005) 2 New Zealand Gazette. at the start of 2005. Among these in the UK were knighthoods conferred on Mike Tomlinson, the educationalist; Derek Wanless, who led a review of the National Health Service; and Brian Harrison, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The former athlete Kelly Holmes was made a Dame. The television presenter Alan Whicker was appointed a CBE."New Year honours list 2005", The Guardian; accessed 17 November 2017.
The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honours and arranged by the country (in order of precedence) whose ministers advised The Queen on the appointments, then by honour with grades i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander etc. and then divisions i.e. Military and Civil, as appropriate.
United Kingdom Knights Bachelor Clive John Bourne, J.P. For services to Charity and to Education. Professor Robert Rees Davies, C.B.E., lately Chichele Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford. For services to History. Robert Gerard Finch, lately Lord Mayor of London. For services to the City of London. Professor Andrew Paul Haines, Dean, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For services to Medicine. Professor Brian Howard Harrison, lately Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Alan Jeffrey Jones, Chair, Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. For services to the Automotive Industry. Digby Marritt Jones, Director General, Confederation of British Industry. For services to Business. Roger Spencer Jones, O.B.E. For services to Business and Training in Wales. Robert Walter Kerslake, Chief Executive, Sheffield City Council. For services to Local Government. Professor John Hartley Lawton, C.B.E., F.R.S., Chief Executive, Natural Environment Research Council. For services to Ecological Science. Dr. Jonathan Michael, Chief Executive, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the National Health Service. Dr. Peter James Ogden, Founder of the Ogden Trust. For services to Education. Mervyn Kay Pedelty, lately Chief Executive, Co-operative Financial Services. For services to Business and to Charity. Matthew Clive Pinsent, C.B.E., Rower. For services to Sport. Professor Desmond Rea, O.B.E., Chair, Northern Ireland Policing Board. For services to the Police. Richard John Staite, O.B.E., Headteacher, Beeslack Community High School, Penicuik, Midlothian. For services to Education. Michael John Tomlinson, C.B.E., Chair, A-level Standards Inquiry, Working Group on 14–19 Reform and the Learning Trust for Hackney Schools. For services to Education. Professor James Cressee Elphinstone Underwood, Professor, Royal College of Pathologists and Professor of Pathology at the University of Sheffield. For services to Medicine. David Veness, C.B.E., Q.P.M., Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service. For services to the Police. John Stuart Vickers, Chair and Chief Executive, Office of Fair Trading. For public service. Derek Wanless. For public service.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Mark John Spurgeon Allen, C.M.G., counsellor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Professor Clive William John Granger. For services to Economics. Professor Basil Spyridonos Markesinis, Q.C., F.B.A. For services to international legal relations.
Order of the Bath Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (G.C.B.) Military Division Army General Sir Michael David Jackson, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., A.D.C. Gen (475176), late The Parachute Regiment.
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) Military Division Army Lieutenant-General (Local General) Kevin O'Donaghue, C.B.E. (486538), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
Royal Air Force Air Marshal Glenn Lester Torpy, C.B.E., D.S.O., Royal Air Force.
Civil Division (Edward) John Watson Gieve, C.B., Permanent Secretary at the Home Office. David John Normington, C.B., Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education and Skills.
Companions of the Order of the Bath (C.B.) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Peter Roland Davies, C.B.E. Rear-Admiral Niall Stuart Roderick Kilgour.
Army Major-General Jonathan Bernard Appleton Bailey, M.B.E. (494267), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Michael Huntley (494362), late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Lieutenant-General Anthony Malcolm Douglas Palmer, C.B.E. (487557), late The Royal Green Jackets.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal James Andrew Collier, C.B.E., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Peter Brett Walker, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Mark Eric Addison, director-general of operations and service delivery at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Colin McLauchlan Baxter, lately head of the Police and Community Safety Group in the Justice Department of the Scottish Executive. David Brummell, legal secretary to the Law Officers of the Office of the Attorney General. John David Coles, chief executive of the Warship Support Agency. Naomi Eisenstadt, director of Sure Start, Department for Education and Skills. Mark Gibson, director-general of the business group, Department of Trade and Industry. John Francis Gilhooly, chief executive of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. Brian Leslie Glicksman, treasury officer of accounts at HM Treasury. Robin Paul Halward, lately deputy director-general of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, Home Office. David Seymour, Legal Adviser to the Home Office and the Northern Ireland Office. Douglas Armitage Smith, lately chief executive of the Child Support Agency. George Macaulay Trevelyan, lately director of the delivery strategy team, Defra. Marjorie Williams, director of local services, Inland Revenue.
Order of St Michael and St George Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (K.C.M.G.) Diplomatic Division Edward Clay, British High Commissioner, Nairobi. Robert John Coleman, lately director-general of health and consumer protection, European Commission. John Douglas Kelso Grant, UK Permanent Representative to the European Union.
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (C.M.G.) Civil Division Elizabeth Kerr Burns, O.B.E., president of the International Association of Volunteer Effort. For services to Volunteering. Stuart John Doughty, chief executive of Costain Group plc. For services to International Trade and Investment. John Charles Odling-Smee, lately director of the European II Department of the International Monetary Fund. For services to International Finance.
Diplomatic Division Dr Robin William Baker, deputy director-general of the British Council. John Cummins, M.B.E., lately counsellor and HM Consul-General in Moscow. Paul Stephen Dimond, HM Ambassador to the Philippines. Major-General Robert Duncan Seaton Gordon, C.B.E. (490208), late 17th/21st Lancers. Allan Graham Gormly, C.B.E. For services to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Board of Management. David John Gowan, HM Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro. Alison Mariot Leslie, HM Ambassador to Norway. Philip Raymond Nelson, counsellor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. William Charters Patey, HM Ambassador to Sudan. Angela Joy Williams, lately director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
Royal Victorian Order Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.) Dr Claude Blair, O.B.E. For services to the Royal Collection. Edward Peter Demery, Clerk of the Royal Cellars. Major-General Geoffrey William Field, C.B., O.B.E., resident governor and Keeper of the Jewel House in the Tower of London. Vice-Admiral Michael Peter Gretton, C.B., director of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (UK). Brigadier Colin John McCrae Harrisson, O.B.E., formerly chief executive of King Edward VII's Hospital (Sister Agnes) Major-General David Houston, C.B.E., formerly Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland. Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Robert Johnston, K.C.B., O.B.E., formerly Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. Graeme Neil Munro, formerly director and chief executive of Historic Scotland. Surgeon Captain David Leslie Swain, L.V.O., R.N., Medical Officer to The Queen abroad.
Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order (L.V.O.) Philip Metcalf Bolam, honorary press officer of Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth. Elizabeth Faith Currer Buchanan, deputy private secretary to The Prince of Wales. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Guy Cartwright, secretary of the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood. Nicholas John Lucas Chance, J.P., private secretary to Prince and Princess Michael of Kent. Nigel John Fordham, formerly head of the Crown Agents Stamp Bureau. The Reverend Charles Robertson, Minister of Canongate Kirk. Constance Margaret Tyler, formerly assistant fundraising director of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award (UK). Dr Peter Wheeler, Apothecary to The Prince of Wales.
Members of the Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.) Gregory Peter Jerome Begley, formerly Accountant, Crown Estate Office, Windsor. Sergeant Douglas Davies Birnie, Metropolitan Police. For services to Royalty Protection. David Charles Curtis, Land Steward, Eastern Counties, Duchy of Cornwall. Sergeant Benjamin Lionel Dady, Metropolitan Police. For services to Royalty Protection. Charles Ian Paul Denyer, Clerk of the Chamber and Head of the Crown Office in Chancery. Andrew Francis Farquharson, Assistant to the Master of the Household, F Branch, Royal Household. Rupert David Featherstone, Senior Paintings, Conservator, Royal Collection. Inspector David Paul Fuller, Metropolitan Police. For services to Royalty Protection. Patrick John Garratt, formerly Gardening Supervisor, Government House, Canberra. Miss Bettina Marie Helen Gonsalves, formerly Fundraising Executive, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (UK). Ronald Clifford Harper, Deputy Property Manager, Buckingham Palace and St. James’s Palace. Stephen Howe, Chief Operating Officer, Outward Bound. Miss Sarah-Jane Lavington. For services to the late Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. Norman Henry Pattenden, M.B.E., formerly Royal Train Officer, English, Welsh and Scottish Railways. Miss Linda Hazel Saunders, Deputy Housekeeper, Buckingham Palace. Alec Tompson, formerly Land Agent, Gatcombe Park.
Bar to the Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) Ivan Richard Boggis, R.V.M., Tractor Driver, Sandringham Estate. Ronald James Forsyth, R.V.M., Palace Attendant, Windsor Castle.
Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) Anthony Lawrence Ambrose, Craft Welder, Crown Estate, Windsor. David William Bradshaw, Forestry Department Worker, Sandringham Estate. Paul Robert Chettle, Palace Attendant, Buckingham Palace. Eric Hanchett, formerly Gardener, Gatcombe Estate. Terence Charles Holdforth, House Manager and Butler, Sunninghill Park. Andrew Charles Napier, Polisher, C Branch, Royal Household. Divisional Sergeant Major Lincoln Frederick Harry Perkins, B.E.M., The Queen’s Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. Keith Aran Rembridge, Court Post Office, Buckingham Palace. Henry John Rudd, Stud Hand, Wolferton Stud. Brian Searle, Gardens Fitter, Hampton Court Palace. Alexander Milne Taylor, Mason, Balmoral Estate. Gary Michael Wilson, Chief Gilder, C Branch, Windsor Castle. Martin Woods, Head Gardener, Sandringham Estate.
Order of the British Empire
Knights and Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Civilian Division