The New Year Honours 1995 were appointments by most of the sixteen Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries. They were announced on 31 December 1994 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1995 in the United Kingdom,United Kingdom list: New Zealand and Cook Islands,New Zealand and Cook Islands lists: the Bahamas,Bahamas list: Grenada,Grenada list: Papua New Guinea,Papua New Guinea list: the Solomon Islands,Solomon Islands list: Tuvalu,Tuvalu list: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines list: and Belize.Belize list:
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
United Kingdom
Life Peer Baroness The Honourable Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg, Head of Prime Minister's Policy Unit. Elizabeth Margaret Smith, Widow of the Right Honourable John Smith, .
Baron The Right Honourable James Arthur David Hope, Lord Justice-General of Scotland and Lord President of the Court of Session. The Right Honourable Robert William Brian McConnell, former Social Security Commissioner, Northern Ireland.
Privy Counsellor Geoffrey Denis Erskine Russell, Baron Ampthill, , Deputy Speaker and formerly Chairman of Committees, House of Lords. Timothy John Crommelin Eggar, , Member of Parliament for Enfield North and Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry. Michael Bruce Forsyth, , Member of Parliament for Stirling and Minister of State, Home Office.
Knight Bachelor John Derek Allen, , Chairman, Housing for Wales. For services to the Housing Association Movement. Professor James Armour, . For services to the Veterinary Profession and to Education. Professor Michael Richard Bond, Professor of Psychological Medicine and Vice Principal, University of Glasgow. For services to Medicine. Patrick Thomas Cormack, , Member of Parliament for Staffordshire South. For political service. His Honour Judge Robin Robert Daniel George David, , Resident Judge, Chester Crown Court. Alastair MacTavish Dunnett, . For services to Journalism and to public life in Scotland. The Honourable Rocco Forte, Chairman and Chief Executive, Forte plc. For services to Tourism. Ronald Claus Hampel, Chief Executive, Imperial Chemical Industries plc. For services to the Chemical Industry. Quinton Hazell, . For political and public service. Michael John Hopkins, . For services to Architecture. Professor Laurence Colvin Hunter, , Chairman, Police Negotiating Board. Professor Miles Horsfall Irving, Professor of Surgery, University of Manchester. For services to Medicine. Gavin Harry Laird, , General Secretary, Amalgamated Engineering Union. For public service and services to Industrial Relations. The Right Honourable Peter Robert Cable Lloyd, , Member of Parliament for Fareham. For political service. John Royden Maddox, Editor, Nature. For services to Science. Ronald Norman, , Chairman, Teesside Development Corporation. For services to Urban Regeneration. Christopher Hammon Paine, President, Royal College of Radiologists and Consultant in Radiotherapy and Oncology, Oxford. For services to Medicine. David Bruce Pattullo, , Governor and Group Chief Executive, Bank of Scotland. For services to Banking and to Business. Ian Maurice Gray Prosser, Chairman and Chief Executive, Bass plc. For services to the Brewing Industry. David Terence Puttnam, , Film Producer. For services to the Film Industry. Professor Peter Edward Lionel Russell. For services to Hispanic and Portuguese History and Literature Studies. The Right Honourable Timothy Alan Davan Sainsbury, , Member of Parliament for Hove. For political, public and charitable services. Robert Graham Stephens, Actor. For services to Drama. Professor Stewart Ross Sutherland. For services to Education. William Michael Vernon, Chairman, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. Geoffrey Henry Whalen, , Non Executive Director, lately Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, Peugeot Talbot Motor Company plc. For services to the Motor Manufacturing Industry. Gerald Arthur Whent, , Chief Executive, the Vodafone Group plc. For services to the Mobile Telecommunications Industry. Professor Arnold Whittaker Wolfendale, , Astronomer Royal and Professor of Physics, University of Durham. For services to Astronomy.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Richard Masters Gorham, . For services to the community in Bermuda. The Honourable John Joseph Swaine, , President of the Legislative Council, Hong Kong.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Hugo Moresby White, .
Army General Sir Charles John Waters, , (445998), late The Gloucestershire Regiment.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice Admiral Michael Cecil Boyce, .
Civil Division Austen Patrick Brown, Permanent Secretary, Department of Transport. Gerald Albery Hosker, , Her Majesty's Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral Neil Erskine Rankin, . Rear Admiral John Robert Shiffner
Army Major General Simon William St. John Lytle (467594), late Army Air Corps. Major General Anthony Leslie Meier, , (455061), late Royal Corps of Transport (since retired).
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Christopher Charles Cotton Coville, Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal John Anthony Gerard May, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Jennifer Helen Bacon, Grade 2, Health and Safety Executive, Department of Employment. Alastair Gordon Balls, Chief Executive, Tyne and Wear Development Corporation. Robin Arthur Birch, Grade 2, Department of Social Security. Brian Elseley Cleave, Solicitor, Inland Revenue. Hilary Stephen Crow, lately Chief Planning Inspector and Chief Executive, Planning Inspectorate Agency, Department of the Environment. Joan Margaret Firth, Grade 3, Department of Health. Jonathan Paul Foster, Grade 3, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Rosalind Edith Jean Gilmore, lately chairman and First Commissioner, Building Societies Commission, and Chief Registrar, Registry of Friendly Societies. John Alexander Gordon, Grade 3, Ministry of Defence. Anthony Charles Hutton, Grade 2, Department of Trade and Industry. Stephen James Lander, Grade 3, Ministry of Defence. Michael Charles Malone-Lee, Grade 2, Lord Chancellor's Department. Keith Cameron Meldrum, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Harold Hernshaw Mills, Grade 2, Scottish Office. Joseph Grant Pilling, Grade 2, Department of Health. Oliver Richard Siddle, , General Manager Enterprises, British Council. John Martin Steele, , Grade 3, Northern Ireland Office. Eric John Thompson, lately deputy director and Director of Statistics, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir David Hugh Alexander Hannay, , United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) John Gilbert Hanson, , Director General, British Council. Peter William Heap, , HM Ambassador, Brasilia.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) David Robert Campbell Durie, Deputy Permanent Representative to the European Union.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Anthony Ivall Aust, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. David Colin Brown, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Thomas Bryant, H.M. Consul-General, Zurich. Christopher Donald Crabbie, H.M. Ambassador, Algiers. James Smith-Laittan, British Trade Commission, Hong Kong. Michael John Peart, , H.M. Ambassador, Vilnius. Geoffrey Alan Tantum, , Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Anthony Richard Thomas, H.M. Ambassador, Luanda.
Royal Victorian Order
Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) The Right Honourable Virginia Fortune, Countess of Airlie, , Lady of the Bedchamber to The Queen. The Right Honourable Elizabeth, The Lady Grimthorpe, , Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Thomas Raymond Dunne, Lord Lieutenant of Hereford and Worcester. Captain Philip Malcolm Edge, Deputy Master and Chairman, Board of Trinity House. David Courtenay Mansel Lewis, Lord Lieutenant of Dyfed.
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) The Honourable Richard Beaumont, chairman, James Purdey & Sons Ltd. Sir Robert John Anderson Carnwath, lately Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. Lieutenant Colonel David Edward Cox, , lately Director of The Prince of Wales's Committee. James Jesse Gardner, , lately Chairman of the Trustees of The Prince's Trust. Nigel Ralph Southward, , Apothecary to The Queen and Apothecary to the Royal Household. Robert Douglas Sturkey, Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia.
Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) Captain Richard Ashworth de Sausmarez Cosby, Royal Navy. For services to HM Yacht Britannia. Geoffrey Douglas Crawford, Deputy Press Secretary to The Queen. Antony Reginald Kenney, lately Trustee of The Prince's Trust. Suzanne Marland, Assistant Private Secretary to The Duchess of Gloucester. Peter James Mathers, Head of Royal Matters Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Hugh Ashley Roberts, Deputy Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art. Oliver James Bewsher Prince-White, Royal Liaison Officer at Central Office of Information. Commander Nicholas Peter Wright, Royal Navy. For services to HM Yacht Britannia.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) John Seymour Barker, Members' Secretary, Royal Ascot. Anthony Burrows, Accountant to The Prince and Princess of Wales's Household. Donald Clews, lately Honorary Treasurer of the Cheshire Committee of The Prince's Trust. Sergeant Andrew Bruce Crichton, lately Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department, Metropolitan Police. Kenneth Dick, lately Director, Crawfords Catering. Edward George Fancourt, , Senior Furniture Conservator, Royal Collection Department. Sergeant John Robert Harding, , Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department, Metropolitan Police. Genevieve Sallis Holmes, lately Personal Secretary to The Prince of Wales. Kevin Michael McGarry, lately Tourism and Arts Officer, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Richard Edward Mole, Maintenance Manager, St James's and Kensington Palaces. Elizabeth Pauline Moore, Secretary, Farrer & Co. Sergeant Allan Ritson Peters, , Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department, Metropolitan Police. Warrant Officer John Pixton, Royal Air Force. For services to The Queen's Flight. Roger William Smith, Legal Executive, Duchy of Lancaster. Squadron Leader Douglas Alan Whittaker, Royal Air Force. For services to The Queen's Flight.
Medal of the Royal Victorian Order (RVM) In Gold Fred Veraon Knight, , Foreman Forester, Needwood Estate, Duchy of Lancaster.
In Silver Raymond George Frank Adams, Fencer, Crown Estate, Windsor Great Park. Petty Officer (Seaman) John Christopher Allen. For services to HM Yacht Britannia. Sergeant Graham Paul Bartlett. For services to The Queen's Flight. David John Beels, Associate Sales Director, Greenaways. Patrick Joseph Bennett, Foreman Gardener, Windsor Great Park, Crown Estate. Ronald Arthur John Cooper, lately Gardener, Windsor Great Park, Crown Estate. Chief Technician Donald Stephen McKenzie Gordon. For services to The Queen's Flight. Sergeant Robert Paul Haden. For services to The Queen's Flight. Sergeant David Brian Jones. For services to The Queen's Flight. William Frederick Kennedy, lately Plumber's Assistant, Balmoral Estate. Sergeant Reginald Frederick Lawrey. For services to The Queen's Flight. David Albert Michael Lay, Water Services Turncock, Windsor Castle.