WILLIAM CHAPMAN, the former Prime Minister’s Secretary for Appointments, who now works for Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation, has been awarded the CVO in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, announced last Saturday.
The broadcaster and writer Joan Bakewell, who has presented many programmes on religious subjects, including Heart of the Matter, has been made a DBE, for services to journalism and the arts.
The Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, Hugo Brunner, becomes a KCVO. He has chaired the Dorchester Abbey Campaign, whose project manager, Dr John Metcalfe, has been awarded an MBE for his many hours of voluntary service.
Brian McHenry is the former general counsel at the Office of Fair Trading, but has been better known in C of E circles as a former vice-chairman of the House of Laity. He has served on the Archbishops’ Council, the Crown Appointments Commission, and the General Synod’s standing orders committee. He receives a CBE.
Professor Dianne Willcocks, Vice Chancellor of York St John University, also receives a CBE for her services to higher education. She became Principal of Ripon & York St John in 1999, and led the church foundation to gaining the title of university in 2006.
Another well-known name to the Church is that of the author Marina Warner, whose critical book on the cult of the Virgin Mary, Alone of All Her Sex, has shaped many people’s view of the subject since 1976. She also receives a CBE.
Among the OBEs is the Revd Peter Beacham, from Exeter diocese, who is Heritage Protection Director of English Heritage, responsible for decisions about the listing of buildings. His award is for services to the historic environment.
Other OBEs include Jennifer Bate, one of the most famous of concert organists, and a composer, who gave the first performances of great works by Olivier Messiaen, on whom she is a leading authority; Henry Cator, a farmer and chartered surveyor from Salhouse, in Norfolk, who has chaired Norwich Cathedral’s successful eight-year £10-million fund-raising campaign; John Dalby, head teacher of St Philip’s C of E Primary School, Hulme; and the former President of the Methodist Church in Ireland, the Revd David James, for services to the community in Northern Ireland.
Among the MBEs are the Revd Professor June Boyce-Tillman, Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchester, for services to music and education; Gillian Evans, former editor of the Eggardon and Colmers View, the parish and community magazine of Askerswell, Loders, Powerstock and Symondsbury, for voluntary services in Dorset; Canon Robert Evans, a retired priest in Liverpool diocese, for voluntary service to the maritime industry in Merseyside; John Foulkes, deputy head teacher at St Margaret’s C of E High School, Liverpool, for services to the community in Tuebrook; Lilian Ostle, school secretary of Walesby C of E Primary School, Newark, Nottinghamshire, for services to education and the community in New Ollerton; and Iris Roy, for services to education. At St James’s C of E Primary School, Haslingden, in Lancashire, she was the lollipop lady for 14 years, before becoming a non-teaching assistant.
Also among the MBEs are Annie Spiers, for services to children as founder and trustee of the Big Buzz after-school club in Everton, Liverpool; the Revd Robert Spratt, director of Missions to Prisons since 1996, and former Prison Chaplain at HM Prison Preston, in Lancashire, for public and voluntary service; Canon William Twaddell, a retired Anglican priest who chairs the governors at at Clounagh Junior High School, Portadown (voluntary services to education); the Revd Hilary Watkins, Assistant Curate of Aisholt, Enmore, Goathurst, Nether Stowey, Over Stowey and Spaxton with Charlynch, in Bath & Wells diocese, for voluntary services to the Citizens Advice Bureau and the community in the South-West; the Revd Diane Williams, Chaplain of Edinburgh University since 2000, and previously Chaplain of Lancaster University, for services to higher education.
In the overseas list, Nigel Sonadi receives the British Empire Medal for services to the community and to the Anglican Church in Papua New Guinea. |
back to News
previous story
|
next story 
back to top
%231%23.gif "Anne Wray Independent Financial Adviser © site")
