The New Year Honours 1991 were appointments by Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by people of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. They were published on 28 December 1990 for the United Kingdom,United Kingdom list: New Zealand and the Cook Islands,New Zealand and Cook Islands list: Mauritius,Mauritius list: 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: Belize,Belize list: Antigua and Barbuda,Antigua and Barbuda list: and Saint Christopher and Nevis.Saint Christopher and Nevis 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 Miss Phyllis Dorothy James (Mrs White), OBE, Author.
Privy Counsellors The Honourable Alan Kenneth McKenzie Clark, MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Defence; Member of Parliament, Plymouth Sutton. Angela Claire Rosemary, Mrs Rumbold, CBE, MP, Minister of State, Department of Education and Science; Member of Parliament, Mitcham and Morden.
Knights Bachelor Cyril James Anderton, CBE, QPM, Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police. Colin Barker, Chairman, British Technology Group. Jeffery Haverstock Bowman, Senior Partner, Price Waterhouse. Professor John Ivan George Cadogan, CBE, Director of Research, British Petroleum Frederick Howard Michael Craig-Cooper, CBE, TD. For political service. Robert Anthony Bevis (Tony) Durant, MP. For political service. Michael Anthony Epstein, CBE, Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Bristol; Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and Foreign Secretary, The Royal Society. Colonel James Dennis Compton Faulkner, CBE, VRD. For public services. Paul Leonard Fox, CBE, Managing Director, Network Television, British Broadcasting Corporation. Professor John Frank Kermode. For services to Literature. William Charles Leech, CBE. For charitable services. Maurice Sydney Lipworth, Chairman, Monopolies and Mergers Commission. The Right Honourable Richard Napier Luce, MP. For political service. Tom McDonald, OBE, Chairman, West Yorkshire and West Midlands Residuary Bodies. Ian Murray McKellen, CBE, Actor. Robert Alastair Newton Morton, Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive, Eurotunnel Group; Chairman, Eurotunnel plc. Andrzej Panufnik, Composer and Conductor. Eric Parker, Deputy Chairman and Group Chief Executive, Trafalgar House plc. The Right Honourable Timothy (Hugh Francis) Raison, MP. For political service. Lewis Robertson, CBE For services to Industry. Jeremy Rowe, CBE, Chairman, Occupational Pensions Board. Patrick Sheehy, Chairman, BAT Industries. Andrew Kirkpatrick Sloan, QPM, Chief Constable, Strathclyde Police. Professor Michael Warwick Thompson, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Birmingham. William Benjamin Utting, CB, Chief Inspector, Social Services Inspectorate. Colin John Shedlock Walker, OBE, Chairman, East Anglian Regional Health Authority. David Alan Walker, Chairman, Securities and Investments Board. Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne. For services to Journalism. Ian William Wrigglesworth. For political and public service.
Order of the Bath
Knights Grand Cross (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Benjamin Bathurst, KCB
Civil Division Sir Michael Quinlan, KCB, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence.
Knights Commander (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Lieutenant-General Henry York La Roche Beverley, OBE Army Lieutenant-General Richard Hull Swinburn, late 17th/21st Lancers. Lieutenant-General Michael John Wilkes, CBE, Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery. Lieutenant-General John Finlay Willasey Wilsey, CBE, Colonel, The Devon and Dorset Regiment; Colonel Commandant, Army Catering Corps.
Civil Division Derek Henry Andrews, CB, CBE, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. John Caines, CB, Permanent Secretary, Department of Education and Science. The Right Honourable Sir Robert Fellowes, KCVO, CB, Private Secretary to the Queen. Allan David Green, QC, Director of Public Prosecutions.
Companions (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Christopher Hope Layman DSO, LVO. Surgeon Rear-Admiral Ronald Edward Snow, LVO, OBE, QHP Rear-Admiral Christopher Lainson Wood. Army Major-General Colin Edward George Carrington, CBE, Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Transport. Major-General Robert John Swan Corbett, late Irish Guards. Major-General John Peter William Friedberger, CBE, Colonel, The Royal Hussars, (Prince of Wales's Own). Major-General Richard Leslie Peck, late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Dennis Shaw, CBE, late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Robert John Honey, CBE Air Vice-Marshal John Frederick Willis, CBE Air Vice-Marshal William John Wratten, CBE, AFC
Civil Division Alexander Gilmour Bell, Chief Reporter, Scottish Office. Edwin Geoffrey Bowman, Parliamentary Counsel. Ronald Frederick Coleman, Chief Engineer and Scientist, Department of Trade and Industry. Michael John Mackey Erritt, Grade 3, Central Statistical Office. David Allen Hadley, Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office. John Langdon Heritage, Head of Judicial Appointments Group, Lord Chancellor's Department. Brian Thomas Houghton, Grade 3, Board of Inland Revenue. The Reverend James Gordon Medcalf, Deputy Solicitor, Legal Directorate, Department of the Environment. Geoffrey Thomas Morgan, Grade 3, Cabinet Office. Martin Trevor Peters, Director, Royal Aerospace Establishment, Farnborough. Owen Rees, Grade 3, Welsh Office. Malcolm George Stephens, Chief Executive, Export Credits Guarantee Department. Valerie Patricia Marie Strachan, Deputy Chairman, Board of HM Customs and Excise. John Francis Sweetman, TD, Clerk of Committees, The House of Commons. Alan Harry Turney, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Ivan Harold Nutt Wallace, Senior Chief Inspector, Department of Education (Northern Ireland). Richard Thomas James Wilson, Deputy Secretary, HM Treasury.
Order of St Michael and St George
Companions (CMG) David William Brocklesby, lately Professor of Tropical Animal Health; Director of the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine. John Arnfield Heap, Head of the Polar Regions Section, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) Major-General Sir Walter Arthur George Burns, KCVO, CB, DSO, OBE, MC
Knights Commander (KCVO) Captain Richard Arthur Frederick Dobbs. Lieutenant-Colonel Hanmer Cecil Hanbury, LVO Sir John Nicholas Henderson, GCMG Julian St John Loyd, CVO Lieutenant-General Sir John Charles Chisholm Richards, KCB, CVO
Commanders (CVO) David Michael Dixon. Major-General Roy Laurence Cayley Dixon, CB, MC Major Michael John Parker, MBE. Susan Louise Wigley, LVO
Lieutenants (LVO) Davina Mary, The Countess Alexander of Tunis. Paul George Canham. Commander Hugh Douglas Younger Faulkner. John Eric Handcock. John Richard Hickish. Chief Superintendent Alfred Ernest Frederick Longhurst, Metropolitan Police. Sarah Elizabeth Anne Marsh, MVO
Members (MVO) Peter Graham Cooke. Richard Laurence Fitch. Squadron Leader David Warwick Gale, Royal Air Force. James Murray Grant. George Albert Griffiths. Squadron Leader Denis Laurence Mooney, Royal Air Force. Miss Rachel Anne Wells. Lieutenant-Colonel Donald James Charles Wickes. Captain Edward Patrick Whealing, Royal Marines.
Royal Victorian Medal
Silver Gladys Byworth. Roy Couch. Chief Technician John Entwhistle, A. ENG TECH A/P., Royal Air Force. Audrey French. Marine Steven Gilson, Royal Marines. Walter Gimpel. Robin Michael Hampstead. Andrew Littlejohn Kemp. Chief Technician Robert Holden Pinch, A. TECH E., Royal Air Force. Acting Petty Officer Marine Engineering Mechanic (Mechanical) Richard Wilfred Simpkins, Royal Navy. Raymond Slater. Joan Taylor. Frank Webb.
Order of the British Empire
Dames Commander (DBE) Civil Division Barbara Cartland, Novelist. Shirley, Lady Porter, DL. For political and public service. Victoire Evelyn Patricia, Lady Ridsdale. For political service. Lucie Rie, CBE, Potter. Professor Margaret Elizabeth Harvey Turner-Warwick, President, Royal College of Physicians.
Knights Commander (KBE) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Robert Charles Finch Hill. Royal Air Force Air Marshal Nigel Holroyd Mills, QHP, CBE
Civil Division Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, Lord Denham, PC. For political service. Terence Alexander Hawthorne English, President, Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Commanders (CBE) Military Division Royal Navy Commandant Anthea Larken, ADC, Women's Royal Naval Service. Captain Donald Andrew McVean. Colonel Ian Melville Hume Moore, ADC. Captain Hugh Peltor. Army Brigadier Michael William Betts, ADC, late Royal Corps of Transport. Brigadier John Barry Bloxham, Army Catering Corps. Brigadier Geoffrey Robert Durrant, MBE, QHVS, late Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Colonel John Vivian Fielding, late Royal Corps of Signals. Colonel Timothy John Granville-Chapman, late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Brigadier Alasdair Ian Gordon Kennedy, OBE, late the Gordon Highlanders. Colonel Edward James Pepper, late the Royal Tank Regiment. Colonel Alan Hackford Protheroe, MBE, TD, late The Royal Regiment of Wales, (24th/41st Foot), Territorial Army; Honorary Colonel, Territorial Army Public Information Pool. Royal Air Force Air Commodore John Anthony Cheshire, OBE Group Captain Joseph Charles French, OBE, ADC Group Captain Richard Hugh Gould. Group Captain John Edward Rooum, AFC Air Commodore George Edward Winch (Ret'd).
Civil Division William Anderson, Managing Editor, D. C. Thomson & Co. Anthony David Andrews, Deputy Managing Director, Bookers Seeds. John Trevor Arnett, DL, Deputy Leader, Hereford and Worcester County Council. Ronald Edward Artus, lately Group Chief Investment Manager and Director, Prudential Corporation plc. Susan Baird, Lord Provost, City of Glasgow District Council. Rosemary Dawn Bayman. For political service. John Bingham, lately Senior Manager, Head of Wheat Breeding Group, Plant Breeding International Cambridge Ltd. Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, Author, Professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia. John Brennan, Director of Works Service, Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland. June Paterson-Brown, DL, lately Chief Commissioner, The Girl Guides Association. John Roger Carr, Chairman, Countryside Commission for Scotland. George Hubert Challis, Chief Commoner, Corporation of London. Professor Christine Muriel Chapman, OBE, lately Chairman, Welsh National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting. John Gerald Collee, Robert Irvine Professor of Bacteriology, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh Medical School; Chief Bacteriologist, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Brian David Cooper, Principal Medical Officer, HM Prison Parkhurst. Ian Leonard Dixon. For political and public service. Francis Albert Edgar, Deputy Director, Northern Ireland Court Service. Anthony Joseph Eggington, Director Programmes and Deputy Chairman, Science and Engineering Research Council. Grahame Nicholas Elliott. For political and public service. Miss Valerie Jean Evans, lately Divisional Staff Inspector, Department of Education and Science. Dennis Larry Ashwell Farr, Director, Courtauld Institute, Galleries. Trevor Maurice Farrer. For political and public service. Albert John Figes, lately Grade 4, Ministry of Defence. Neil James Fitton, lately Director of Education, Cheshire. Kester William Norton George, Grade 4, Department of Trade and Industry. Sydney Gillibrand, Chairman, Aerospace Companies, British Aerospace plc.