Sunday 29 March 2015

High Sheriff for 2015/16 in the Duchy of Cornwall

The Prince of Wales in his position as Duke of Cornwall has appointed the following High Sheriff within the Duchy of Cornwall.


Duchy of Cornwall

For the County of Cornwall
2015/2016: Mr Anthony Desmond Grenville Fortescue

High Sheriffs for 2015/16 in the Duchy of Lancaster

Her Majesty the Queen acting in her capacity as Duke of Lancaster has appointed the following people to the position of High Sheriff within the Duchy of Lancaster.


Duchy of Lancaster

For the County of Lancashire
2015/2016: Mrs Amanda Jane Parker JP

For the County of Greater Manchester
2015/2016: Mrs Sharman Rhona Birtles JP DL

For the County of Merseyside
2015/2016: Mr Robert Tudor Hooson Owen JP DL

High Sheriffs of England and Wales for 2015/16

The following people have been appointed High Sheriff for the Counties of England and Wales for 2015/2016 with the exception of Cornwall, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire who are appointed by the Dukes of Cornwall and Lancaster.


England

For the County of Bedfordshire
2015/2016: The Countess of Erroll

For the Royal County of Berkshire
2015/2016: Mr David Montagu Albermarle Bertie

For the County of Buckinghamshire
2015/2016: Mrs Anna Francesca Skelton

For the County of Cambridgeshire
2015/2016: Captain Victor Harold Lucas

For the County of Cheshire
2015/2016: Mr Charles William Holroyd CBE

For the City of Bristol
2015/2016: Dr Rosalind Penelope Kennedy

For the County of Cumbria
2015/2016: Mr Samuel Alan Miles Rayner

For the County of Derbyshire
2015/2016: Mr Oliver George Stephenson

For the County of Devon
2015/2016: Admiral Sir James Michael Burnell-Nugent KCB CBE

For the County of Dorset
2015/2016: Mrs Jennifer Sheila Coombs

For the County of Durham
2015/2016: Mr James Mark Featherstone Fenwick

For the County of East Riding of Yorkshire
2015/2016: Mr James Lawrence Dick OBE

For the County of East Sussex
2015/2016: Mrs Juliet Anne Smith

For the County of Essex
2015/2016: Mr Gerald Vincent Bodenham Thompson

For the County of Gloucestershire
2015/2016: Mr Roger John Head

For Greater London
2015/2016: Dr Ghazala Afzal

For the County of Hampshire
2015/2016: Lady Portal MBE

For the County of Herefordshire
2015/2016: Mr Edward Mortimer Harley

For the County of Hertfordshire
2015/2016: Mr Jonathan Charles Gosselin Trower

For the County of Isle of Wight
2015/2016: Mr Ronald Thomas Holland

For the County of Kent
2015/2016: Mr William Alexander

For the County of Leicestershire
2015/2016: Mr Gordon Drake Arthur

For the County of Lincolnshire
2015/2016: Air Vice Marshal Hector Gavin Mackay CB OBE AFC

For the County of Norfolk
2015/2016: Mr Nicholas Julian Hedley Pratt

For the County of Northamptonshire
2015/2016: Dr Ahmed Ibrahim Mukhtar

For the County of Northumberland
2015/2016: Mrs Lucy Helen Maxwell Carroll

For the County of North Yorkshire
2015/2016: Mr Charles David Forbes Adam

For the County of Nottinghamshire
2015/2016: Dr Jaswant Singh Bilkhu

For the County of Oxfordshire
2015/2016: Mr Thomas Henry Birch Reynardson

For the County of Rutland
2015/2016: Mr Andrew Jonathan Brown

For the County of Shropshire
2015/2016: Mr David Robert Stacey

For the County of Somerset
2015/2016: The Hon. Mrs James Nelson

For the County of South Yorkshire
2015/2016: Mr John Raymond Holt

For the County of Staffordshire
2015/2016: Mr John William Leavesley

For the County of Suffolk
2015/2016: Mrs Judith Veronica Shallow

For the County of Surrey
2015/2016: Mrs Elizabeth Ann Stafford Kennedy

For the County of Tyne and Wear
2015/2016: Miss Kathryn Lucy Hay Winskell OBE

For the County of Warwickshire
2015/2016: Mrs Janet Alison Bell-Smith

For the County of West Midlands
2015/2016: Mr Edward Jonathan Turpie MBE

For the County of West Sussex
2015/2016: Mrs Denise Lesley Anne Patterson

For the County of West Yorkshire
2015/2016: Mr Edmund John Seward Anderson

For the County of Wiltshire
2015/2016: Lady Gooch

For the County of Worcestershire
2015/2016: Sir Anthony Edward Winnington Bt


Wales

For the County of Clwyd
2015/2016: Mrs Janet Patricia Evans

For the County of Dyfed
2015/2016: Mr James Wilfrid Poyer Lewis

For the County of Gwent
2015/2016: Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Simon Tuggey

For the County of Gwynedd
2015/2016: Dr Elizabeth Mary Nesbit Andrews MBE

For the County of Mid Glamorgan
2015/2016: Mrs Jayne Ann James

For the County of Powys
2015/2016: Lieutenant Colonel Michael Hugh Ledston Lewis

For the County of South Glamorgan
2015/2016: Professor Heather Vivienne Stevens CBE

For the County of West Glamorgan
2015/2016: Mr Robert Michael Redfern

Wednesday 25 March 2015

New Lord Lieutenant for Greater London

Mr Kenneth Olisa OBE FBCS FRSA has been appointed by the Queen to become Lord Lieutenant for Greater London succeeding Sir David Brewer CVO CMG who retires on the 28 May 2015.

New Lord Lieutenant for South Yorkshire

Mr Andrew Coombe DL FCA has been appointed by the Queen to become Lord Lieutenant for South Yorkshire succeeding Mr David Moody who retires on the 7 April 2015.

Tuesday 24 March 2015

LVO for Superintendent of the State Apartments

Mr William Brian Andrews MVO BEM was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) for his service as Superintendent of the State Apartments at St James’s Palace.

New Deputy Lieutenants of Greater London

Sir David Brewer CVO CMG JP, Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Greater London.

Mr Bruce Carnegie-Brown
Ms Colleen Lorraine Harris MVO
Mr David Christopher Fraser Jones
Vice Admiral Sir Adrian James Johns KCB CBE
Dr Mary-Clare Parker
Professor David Andrew Phoenix OBE

Life Peerage for Former Head of the Home Civil Service

Sir Robert Walter Kerslake has been granted the title of Baron Kerslake, of Endcliffe in the City of Sheffield. Under the Life Peerage Act 1958 and will sit in the House of Lords as a Crossbencher.

New Privy Councillors of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty the Queen approved the following people members of Her Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council.

Sir Edward Garnier QC MP
Mr Charles Hendry MP
Ms Anne Milton MP
Mr David Evennett MP
Mr Mark Field MP
Dr Julian Lewis MP
Mr Keith Simpson MP
Ms Fiona Mactaggart MP
Mr David Heath MP
The Rt Hon. The Baroness Garden of Frognal
The Rt Hon. The Baroness Northover

Friday 20 March 2015

New Deputy Lieutenants of Greater Manchester

Warren Smith, Lord-Lieutenant of Greater Manchester has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Greater Manchester.

Mr Darren Clark CStJ
Colonel Brian Gorski
Ms Shobna Gulati
Professor George Edward Thomas Holmes
Mrs Sue Lomas

New Deputy Lieutenants of Northumberland

The Duchess of Northumberland, Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Northumberland.

Mrs Carol Malia
Mrs Kathryn Tickell

New Aide-de-Camp of Army Reserve to the Queen

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Brigadier Alastair Andrew Bernard Reibey Bruce of Crionaich OBE DL to the position of Aide-de-Camp of the Army Reserve to her Royal Household.

Saturday 14 March 2015

New Deputy Lieutenants of Stirling and Falkirk

Marjory McLachlan, Lord-Lieutenant of Stirling and Falkirk has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Stirling and Falkirk.

Mr Gaston Robin Iffla
Mrs Philippa Maclean
Mr Archibald Stirling

Monday 9 March 2015

Queen Appoints Pages of Honour

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Marquess of Lorne, Master Lachlan Legge-Bourke, and The Hon. Augustus Stanhope as her pages of honour in succession to Master Arthur Chatto, The Hon. Charles Armstrong-Jones and Viscount Aithrie.

Archibald Frederick Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (b. 2004) son of Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th and 6th Duke of Argyll.

Lochy Legge-Bourke (b. 29 March 2003) son of Harry Russell Legge-Bourke nephew of Tiggy Legge-Bourke MVO.

Hon. Augustus Stanhope (b. 2005). Grandson of Charles Henry Leicester Stanhope, 12th Earl of Harrington and nephew of Serena Armstrong-Jones, Viscountess Linley.

Wednesday 4 March 2015

Honorary GCB for the President of Mexico

Her Majesty the Queen has presented Enrique Peña Nieto, President of the Republic of Mexico with an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Division of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (GCB).

Tuesday 3 March 2015

New Lieutenant of Her Majesty’s Tower of London

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Lieutenant-General Sir Simon Vincent Mayall KBE CB to the office of Lieutenant of Her Majesty’s Tower of London in succession to Lieutenant-General Peter Thomas Clayton Pearson CB CBE.

Queen Revokes disgrace’s Stars Honour

The Queen has accepted the Honours Forfeiture Committee’s advice regarding the cancellation and annulment of the honour awarded to the following person.

Mr Rolf Harris is to be stripped of his CBE awarded on the 17 June 2006 after being found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault on children. He was sentenced to a total of five years and nine months in prison.

Governor-General of Australia Revokes disgrace’s Stars Honours

His Excellency General The Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC has cancelled and annulled the honours awarded to Mr Rolf Harris.

Mr Harris’s Appointments as Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) and Member of the Order of Australia (AM) shall be cancelled and annulled and that his name shall be erased from the Register of the Order of Australia.

Mr Rolf Harris was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault on children. He was sentenced to a total of five years and nine months in prison.

Sunday 1 March 2015

CVO for Former Defence Services Secretary

Rear Admiral Simon Williams has been appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) for his service as Defence Services Secretary within the Royal Household.

New Deputy Lieutenants of Devon

Sir Eric Dancer KCVO CBE JP, Lord-Lieutenant of Devon has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Devon.

Mr Antoine F Khayat LL.B. JP
Mr William Michelmore

New Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire

Sarah Troughton, Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire.

Ms Helen Mary Browning OBE
General Sir John Freegard Deverell KCB OBE