The New Year Honours 1987 were appointments by most of the 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 1986 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1987 in the United Kingdom,UK: Australia,Australia: New Zealand,New Zealand: Barbados,Barbados: Mauritius,Mauritius: Fiji,Fiji: Grenada,Grenada: Papua New Guinea,Papua New Guinea: Tuvalu,Tuvalu: St Lucia,St Lucia: St Vincent & The Grenadines,St Vincent & The Grenadines: Belize,Belize: Antigua & Barbuda,Antigua & Barbuda: and St Christopher & Nevis.St Christopher & Nevis:

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 Peers Field Marshal Sir Edwin (Noel Westby) Bramall, G.C.B., O.B.E., M.C., Lord Lieutenant of Greater London and former Chief of Defence Staff. Sir Woodrow (Lyle) Wyatt, chairman, Horserace Totalisator Board.

Privy Counsellors Geoffrey Edwin Pattie, M.P., Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry. Member of Parliament Chertsey and Walton. Robin (Robert) Leigh-Pemberton, Governor, Bank of England. David Charles Waddington, Q.C., M.P., Minister of State, Home Office. Member of Parliament Ribble Valley.

Knights Bachelor John Derek Alun-Jones, managing director, Ferranti plc. For services to Export. Bernard Albert Ashley, chairman, Laura Ashley plc. William Jeffrey Benson, chairman, Export Guarantees Advisory Council. For services to Export. Peter Spencer Bowness, C.B.E., D.L. For political and public service. Zachry Brierley, C.B.E. For political and public service. Keith Bright, chairman and Chief Executive, London Regional Transport. John Harrison Burnett, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh. Albert Raymond Maillard Carr, Historian. Peter Maxwell Davies, C.B.E., Composer Professor Eric James Denton, C.B.E., For services to Marine Biology. John Alexander Dick, M.C., Lately Sheriff Principal, Glasgow and Strathkelvin. Professor Herbert Livingston Duthie, Provost, University of Wales College of Medicine. Robert Grieve (Robin) Duthie, C.B.E., chairman, Scottish Development Agency. Arnold Elton, C.B.E. For political and public service. Alexander MacPherson Fletcher, M.P. For political service. Francis Ross (Frank) Gibb, C.B.E., chairman and Chief Executive, Taylor Woodrow Group. Peter Alfred Graham, O.B.E., chairman, Crown Agents. Robert Louis Hargroves, C.B.E., D.L. For political service. The Right Honourable Bernard John (Barney) Hayhoe, M.P. For political service. Dennis Marcus Landau, Chief Executive, Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. John Roger Lovill, C.B.E., D.L., Lately Chairman, Association of County Councils. (David) Carol (Macdonell) Mather, M.C., M.P. For political service. Peter Anthony Newsam, chairman, Commission for Racial Equality. David Gerald Scholey, C.B.E., chairman, Mercury International Group plc. John Marks Templeton, For charitable services. David John Weatherall, Nuffield Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford. Mark Aubrey Weinberg, Lately Chairman, Marketing of Investments Board Organising Committee. Robert Donald Wilson, chairman, Mersey Regional Health Authority.

Diplomatic and Overseas

Peter Austin Philip Jermyn Allen, lately Chief Justice of Uganda. Oswald Victor Cheung, C.B.E., Q.C., J.P. For public services in Hong Kong.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Nicholas John Streynsham Hunt K.C.B. L.V.O.

Army General Sir Roland Guy, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., A.D.C, Gen. (397265), late The Royal Green Jackets, Colonel Commandant Small Arms School Corps.

Knight Commander (KCB) Military Division Vice Admiral John Jeremy Black, D.S.O., M.B.E. Vice Admiral John Julian Robertson Oswald. Lieutenant General Jeremy Calcott Reilly, D.S.O. (433223), Colonel The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Air Marshal Brendan James Jackson, Royal Air Force.

Civil Division (Andrew) Gordon Manzie, C.B., Second Permanent Secretary and Chief Executive, Property Services Agency.

Commander (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral John Burgess, L.V.O. Rear Admiral Richard George Heaslip. Rear Admiral Kenneth Arthur Snow.

Army Major General Thomas Anthony Boam, C.B.E. (424271), late Scots Guards. Major General Ralph John Crossley, C.B.E. (423988), late Royal Regiment of Artillery (now retired). Major General John David Whitlock Goodman (424336), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major General Richard Charles Keightley (430349), Colonel 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. Major General Brian Livesey (430931), late Royal Army Medical Corps (now retired). Major General Gordon Richard Oehlers (455486), late Royal Corps of Signals.

Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Dennis Allison, Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal George Philip Black, O.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal John Francis Humphrey Tetley, C.V.O., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Terence Philip White, Royal Air Force.

Civil Division Albert Bennett Fallows, Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue. Loudon Pearson Hamilton, Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland. Graham Allan Hart, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security. Gerald Albery Hosker, Deputy Treasury Solicitor. John Richard Jameson, Lately Under Secretary, Department of Education and Science. Garth John Jenkins, Legal Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. John Alfred Johnson, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Joan Kelley, Under Secretary, HM Treasury. John Lowell Kilgour, Director, Prison Medical Service, Prison Department, Home Office. Michael Cooper Neale, Assistant Under Secretary, Ministry of Defence. John David Rimington, Director General, Health and Safety Executive. Oscar Roith, Chief Engineer and Scientist, Department of Trade and Industry. James Mackenzie Tudhope, Regional Procurator Fiscal, Glasgow and Strathkelvin. Reginald Gordon Harry Watson, Director, Building Research Establishment, Department of the Environment. Ronald Weston, Under Secretary, Board of Customs and Excise. Robert Fellowes, L.V.O., Deputy Private Secretary to The Queen.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) Sir Julian Bullard, K.C.M.G., H.M. Ambassador, Bonn.

Knight Commander (KCMG) Christopher John Audland, C.M.G., lately Director-General for Energy, Commission of the E.C., Brussels. Martin Kenneth Ewans, C.M.G., British High Commissioner, Lagos. Arthur David Saunders Goodall, C.M.G., Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Jeremy Cashel Thomas, C.M.G., H.M. Ambassador, Athens. John Burns Ure, C.M.G., L.V.O., H.M. Ambassador, Brasilia.

Commander (CMG)

John Lewis Roberts, Assistant Under Secretary, Ministry of Defence. Robert John Alston, H.M. Ambassador, Muscat. John Allan Birch, Deputy Permanent Representative, U.K. Mission to the United Nations, New York. Graham Stuart Burton, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Charles David Stephen Drace-Francis, H.M. Chargé d'Affaires, Kabul. Maurice Anthony Foley, lately Deputy Director-General for Development Co-operation, Commission of the E.C., Brussels. Peter Edward Hall, lately Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Peter William Heap, Minister, British High Commission, Lagos. Alastair James Carl Euan Rellie, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Stanley Stephenson, lately British Consul-General, Vancouver. Michael Logan Tait L.V.O., H.M. Ambassador, Abu Dhabi. Edward Mark West, lately Deputy Director-General, F.A.O., Rome.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) The Right Honourable John d'Henin, Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, K.C.V.O., M.C.

Knights Commander (KCVO) John Charles Batten. William Reginald James Pullen, C.V.O.

Commanders (CVO) Major Shane Gabriel Basil Blewitt, L.V.O. Major Robert Anthony Gordon Courage, L.V.O., M.B.E. David Gordon Illingworth, L.V.O.

Lieutenants (LVO) The Reverend Canon Anthony Douglass Caesar. Peter Edwin Curnow. Percival William Flaxman. John Patrick Kyle, M.V.O. Gavin George Newing Mackenzie. The Reverend Canon John Gervase Maurice Walker Murphy. Victor Leslie Seyd.

Members (MVO) Derek Chappell, R.V.M. Elizabeth, Mrs. Craig-Cooper. Richard Laurence Day, R.V.M. Captain Peter Marsden Heming, Royal Marines. Gordon Albert Hiscock. Vernon George Jewell. Miss Rosemary Winifred Menzies. Inspector Frank Graham Smith, Metropolitan Police. Reginald Ernest Willson. Jennifer Murray, Mrs. Band. Joseph Cowell. Glyn George. Ian Kenneth Gray.

Companions of Honour

Sydney Brenner, For services to Molecular Biology. Sir John Newenham Summerson, C.B.E., For services to the history of Architecture.

Order of the British Empire

Dames Commander (DBE)

Penelope Jessel. For political service. Jean Iris Murdoch, C.B.E. (Mrs Bayley), Novelist. Simone Ruth, Mrs. Prendergast, O.B.E., D.L. For political and public service. Sheila Margaret Imelda Quinn, C.B.E. Lately President, Royal College of Nursing.

Knights Commander (KBE) Military Division Vice Admiral Hugh Leslie Owen Thompson. Lieutenant General Charles Patrick Ralph Palmer, C.B.E. (430407), Colonel The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's).

Civil Division Sir Terence (Norman) Beckett, C.B.E., Lately Director General, Confederation of British Industry. Robert Andrew, Viscount Caldecote, D.S.C., chairman, Investors in Industry Group plc. Professor Richard Oswald Chandler Norman, Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence. Professor Sir (Henry) Peter (Francis) Swinnerton-Dyer Bt., chairman, University Grants Committee.

Commanders (CBE) Military Division Royal Navy Commodore Michael Verney Nigel Bradford RD*, Royal Naval Reserve. Colonel Andrew Bernard Harfield, A.D.C. Captain David Pentreath, D.S.O., Royal Navy.

Army Colonel Michael Brenton Haliburton Ashmore, O.B.E. (465723), late The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Colonel William James Hiles (424355), late The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th). Colonel John Charles Holman, O.B.E. (457182), Deputy Colonel The Queen's Regiment. Colonel Harry John Lowles, M.B.E. (436567), late The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment. Colonel John Donald Macdonald, O.B.E. (457210), late Royal Corps of Transport. Colonel Philip John Sanders (474051), late Royal Tank Regiment. Colonel Hugh Nicholas Tarver (457286), late The Queen's Regiment. Colonel Paul Francis Wilson, O.B.E. (430489), late The King's Regiment, Territorial Army (now retired).

Royal Air Force Group Captain Anthony John Chetwynd Balfour, Royal Air Force. Air Commodore Reginald Thomas Dawson, Royal Air Force. Group Captain John Donald Drysdale, O.B.E., Royal Air Force. Air Commodore Donald James Harrison, Royal Air Force. Air Commodore Robert John Honey, Royal Air Force.

Civil Division Anthony Victor Alexander, Director, Sedgwick Group plc. Peter Winder Allsebrook, D.L., Chairman, TNT (UK) Ltd. Robert John Attwell, Grade 5, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Alan Ayckbourn, Playwright. Douglas Claude Back. For political and public service. (James) David Francis Barnes, Chairman, Pharmaceuticals Economic Development Committee. Joseph Gray Bell, Chairman and Managing Director, Richards (Shipbuilders) Ltd. Professor Peter Martin Biggs, Director, Houghton Poultry Research Station, Huntingdon. Roger Birch, Q.P.M., Chief Constable, Sussex Police. Thomas Renfrew Bone. For services to Education in Scotland. John Morton Boyd. For services to the conservation of the natural environment in Scotland. Frederick Gordon Brook-Shepherd, Author and Journalist. Lately Chief Assistant Editor, Sunday Telegraph. John Lawson Broome, Chief Executive, Alton Towers Ltd. Kenneth Cameron, Professor of English Language; Head of Department of English Studies, University of Nottingham.