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.

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

New Deputy Lieutenants of Northamptonshire

David Laing, Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Northamptonshire.

Lady Judy Ellwood
Mrs Jane Charlton-Jones
Mr Nicholas Robertson
Mr James Shepherd-Cross
Mr James Saunders-Watson
Mr Crispin Holborow

New Lord Lieutenant for Somerset

Mrs Anne Caroline Maw DL has been appointed by the Queen to become Lord Lieutenant for Somerset succeeding Lady Gass DCVO JP who retires on 2 March 2015.

New Vice Lord Lieutenant of Orkney

James William Spence, Lord Lieutenant of Orkney has appointed the following person to the position of Vice Lord Lieutenant of Orkney.

Arthur Keith Johnson DL

Queen Revokes Nurse’s Knighthood

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

George Castledine is to be stripped of his Knighthood awarded on the 15 June 2007 after being found guilty by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for misconduct with a female patient and has been struck off the nursing register.

New Aide-de-Camp to the Queen

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Acting Colonel J. R. Collinge Aide-de-Camp to her household in succession to Colonel R. M. Lee.

New Vice Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry

Denis Desmond CBE, Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry has appointed the following person to the position of Vice Lord Lieutenant of County Londonderry.

Mrs Stella Burnside OBE DL

New Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen

Her Majesty the Queen has appointed the Reverend Canon Peter Holliday to be a Chaplain to Her Majesty within the Royal Ecclesiastical Household in succession to the Reverend Canon Christopher Milne Smith.

New Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset

Lady Gass DCVO JP, Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset.

General Sir Peter Wall GCB CBE

New Lord Lieutenant for Lincolnshire

Mr Toby Dennis DL has been appointed by the Queen to become Lord Lieutenant for Lincolnshire succeeding Mr Anthony Worth CVO who retires on 23 February 2015.

New Deputy Lieutenants of Berwickshire

Jeanna Swan, Lord-Lieutenant of Berwickshire has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Berwickshire.

Mr Henry Forrest Frew
Mrs Moira Katherine Pate Hughes
Mr George Lorimer Manner Romanes

New Vice Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian

Major Michael Williams MBE, Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian has appointed the following person to the position of Vice Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian.

Patrick Robertson Gammell DL

New Deputy Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire

Rear Admiral Michael Gregory OBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of Dunbartonshire.

Mr Thomas A Finnigan JP

Knighthood for the Duke of Edinburgh

His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh has been appointed Knight of the Order of Australia (AK) for his service to the people of Australia.

Knighthood for Former Chief of the Defence Force

Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston AC (Mil) AFC (Retd) has been appointed Knight of the Order of Australia (AK) for his service to the people of Australia.

New Member of the United Kingdom Privy Council

Her Majesty the Queen approved the following person member of Her Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council.

The Honourable Lord Malcolm

New Deputy Lieutenants of Kent

Viscount De L’Isle MBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Kent has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Kent.

Mr Paul Auston
The Lord Evans of Weardale KCB
Mr Geoffrey Arthur Miles
Mr Benedict Robert Kirwan Moorhead
Lieutenant Colonel John Brian O’Gorman
Mrs Georgie Mary Warner