1990 Birthday Honours

The Birthday Honours 1990 for the Commonwealth Realms were announced on 15 June 1990, to celebrate the Queen's Birthday of 1990.

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged firstly by the country whose ministers advised the Queen on the appointments, then by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

Life Peers

Baroness

• Right Honourable Barbara Anne Castle, former Member of Parliament and Member of the European Parliament.
• The Honourable Dame Lydia Selina Dunn, DBE, Chairman Honk Kong Trade Development Council.

Baron

• Sir Robert Haslam, Chairman, British Coal Corporation.
• Sir Peter Stewart Lane, Chairman of the executive committee, National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations.
• Professor Sir George Porter, President of the Royal Society.
• The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Privy Councillor

• Malcolm Ian Sinclair, Earl of Caithness, Paymaster-General.
• Sir William Gibson Clark, Member of Parliament, Croydon South.

Knights Bachelor

• Kingsley William Amis, CBE, Author.
• Thomas Richard Arnold, MP, for political service.
• Anthony Paul Bamford, DL, Chairman and Managing Director, J C Bamford Excavators Ltd.
• John Derek Birkin, TD, Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman, RTZ Corporation plc.
• Robert Calderwood, Chief Executive, Strathclyde Regional Council.
• Bernard Crossland, CBE, Emeritus Professor, Queen's University, Belfast.
• John Albert Dellow, CBE, Deputy Commissioner, Metropolitan Police.
• William Roland Doughty, Chairman, North West Thames Regional Health Authority.
• Norman Robert Foster, Principal, Foster Associates.
• Ronald Hugh Grierson, Chairman, South Bank Board.
• Peter Heatly, CBE, DL, For services to sports administration.
• Professor Frederick George Thomas Holliday, CBE, DL, Vice-Chancellor and Warden, University of Durham.
• Robert William Kerr Honeycombe, Emeritus Professor of Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.
• Robert Michael Marshall, MP, for political services.
• Robert Arthur McCrindle, MP, for political services.
• Donald John Miller, Chairman, South of Scotland Electricity Board.
• Professor John Edgar William John Mitchell, CBE, Chairman, Science and Engineering Research Council.
• Robert Knelm Morland, for political services.
• William Derek Pattinson, Secretary General, General Synod of the Church of England.
• Daniel Norton Idris Pearce, CBE, TD, DL, for political and public service.
• Peter John Phillips, OBE, Chairman, AB Electronic Products Group.
• Antony Richard Pilkington, DL, Chairman, Pilkington plc.
• Robert Paul (Bob) Reid, Chairman and Chief Executive, Shell (UK) Ltd.
• Michael John de Rougemont Richardson, former Managing Director, N M Rothschild and Sons Ltd.
• Ieuan Wyn Pritchard Roberts, MP, for political service.
• James Wilson Vincent Saville, OBE, Chairman, Broadmoor Hospital Advisory Committee ans Stoke Mandeville Hospital Spinal Injuries Centre, for charitable services.
• Allen John George Sheppard, Chairman and Group Chief Executive, Grand Metropolitan plc.
• Robert Shields, Professor of Surgery and Head of Department of Surgery, University of Liverpool.
• William Frederick Stones, OBE, Managing Director, China Light and Power Company Ltd.
• Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, Chairman, Civil Aviation Authority.
• Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE, Actor, Dramatist and Film Director.
• Edward Dillwyn Williams, Professor of Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, President, Royal College of Pathologists.
• Brian Gordon Wolfson, Chairman, Wembley plc. Chairman, National Training Task Force.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

Civil Division

• The Right Honourable Sir William Frederick Payne Heseltine, GCVO, KCB, AC, QSO, private secretary to The Queen.

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Vice Admiral Kenneth John Eaton.
• Vice Admiral Barry Nigel Wilson.

Civil Division

• Kenneth Carmichael Macdonald, CB, Second Permanent Under Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
• Michael John Anthony Patridge, CB, Permanent Secretary, Department of Social Security.
• James Brian Unwin, CB, Chairman, Board of HM Customs and Excise.
• Patrick Jeremy Walker, Ministry of Defence.

Companions of the Order of the Bath (C.B.)

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Rear Admiral Hugh Mexwell Balfour, LVO.
• Surgeon Rear Admiral (D) David Arthur Coppock
• Rear Admiral David Partin Pulvertaft

Army

• Major General Patrick Feltrim Fagan, MBE, late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major General Christopher Neville Last, OBE, late Royal Corps of Signals.
• Major General James Stuart Lee, MBE, late Royal Army Education Corps.
• Major General Edward George Willmott, OBE, Colonel Commandment Corps of Royal Engineers.

Royal Air Force

• Air Vice-Marshal Michael John Charles Worwood Dicken.
• Air Vice-Marshall Rhys Tudor Brackley Jones, QHS.
• Air Vice-Marshall David Owen Crwys-Williams.

Civil Division

• Alan Royal Atherton
• June Bridgeman
• Robert Brodie
• Ian Morgan Burns
• John Anthony Chilcott
• Geoffrey Bernard Claydon
• John Edward Fraser
• John Gustav Haycroft Gasson
• Robert Anthony Gomme
• Anthony John Lane
• Graham Scott Pearson
• Michael Lawrence Saunders
• Nicholas Willoughby Stuart
• William Dickson Thornton
• John Corelli James Thynne
• William Barry Wakefield
• Peter John Wormald

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

Diplomatic Division

• Nicholas John Barrington, CMG, CVO, British High Commissioner, Islamabad.
• David Howe Gillmore, CMG, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Gordon Wesley Jewkes, CMG, Director-General of Trade and Investment, USA and HM Consul-General, New York.

Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

Civil Division

• James Innes Maclear Dempster, OBE, for services to civil engineering.
• Alan Wesley Johns, OBE, Executive Director, Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind.

Diplomatic Division

• Michael John Bradley, QC
• Ivan Roy Callan
• Peter James Fowler
• Anthony Michael Goodenough
• Alan Charles Hunt
• Ian McCluney
• Derek Francis Milton
• Anthony Hugh Morgan
• Alan John Pover
• Michael Hewitt Shaw
• Richard Thomas
• Peter Gordon Wallis
• Frank Basil Wheeler

Royal Victorian Order

Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Colonel Allan Macdonald Gilmour, OBE, MC.
• Malcolm Rognvald Innes of Edingight, CVO.
• Colonel Bryce Muir Knox, MC, TD.

Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Dr. Alan Breck Gilmour, CBE.
• Alistair Graham Lynn, CBE, QPM.
• Frank Ronald Mintram, LVO.
• Group Captain Philip George Pinney, LVO, Royal Air Force.
• Peter Delaney Smith.

Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)

• Reverend James Alexander Keith Angus, TD, MA.
• Deborah Elizabeth Bean, MVO.
• Commander Antony Lovel Chilton, OBE, Royal Navy.
• Dr. Christopher Hugh Dearnley.
• Clement John Govett.
• Clifford George Page.
• David Leslie Smallman
• Robert Ashley Shute Stephenson, MVO.

Members of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) =

• Paul Martin Almond.
• Caroline Mary Katherine Crichton-Stuart.
• The Honourable Jennifer Bridget Denman.
• Brian George Johnston.
• Charles Patrick Neville Noble.
• Richard John Popplewell.
• Elizabeth Ann Roads.
• Flight Lieutenant Richard Henry Stanton, Royal Air Force.
• Richard Donald Sweetzer.
• Terence Paul Worrall.

Royal Victorian Medal

Royal Victorian Medal (Gold)

• Frederick William Mitchell, RVM.
• John Errick Taylor, RVM.

Royal Victorian Medal (Silver)

• Chief Technician Michael Leslie Anstee, Royal Air Force.
• Frederick George Benefer.
• Flight Sargeant Michael David Burnett, Royal Air Force.
• William Robert Evans.
• John Henry Floyd.
• Ronald James Forsyth.
• Messenger Sargeant-Major Edwin Grant, The Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
• Petty Officer Marine Engineering Mechanic (Mechanical) Leslie Richard Green, Royal Navy.
• Jeffery Robert Hampstead.
• Divisional Sargeant-Major Eric Lloyd, The Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
• Maurice Orson Musson.
• Elsie Avis Oates.
• Eileen Margaret Wood.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander of Order of the British Empire (KBE)

Diplomatic

• Terence Joseph Clark, CMG, CVO.
• Dennis Weatherstone.

Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

Civil Division

• Audrey Pellow, Lady Hylton-Foster, Convenor, Cross Bench Peers, House of Lords.
• June Kathleen Lloyd, Nuffield Professor of Child Health, University of London.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• Eileen Atkins, actress.
• Kenneth Dawson Bagshawe, Professor of Medical Oncology and Consultant Physician, Charing Cross Hospital, Director, Cancer Research.
• David Arthur Baldwin.
• Kenneth Frederick Bales.
• John Godfrey Ball.
• Robert Christopher Battersby, MBE.
• James Leatham Tennant Birley.
• Dorothy Blenkinsop.
• Duncan Robert Yorke Bluck, OBE.
• Ian Arthur Dennis Bouchier.
• Charles Stuart Bradley.
• Roy Edgar Brimblecombe.
• Anita Brookner, novelist.
• John Frederick Brown.
• Derek Cecil Butler.
• Henry Hartrick Cavan, OBE.
• Gerald Clark
• Gerald Dawson Clarkson, QFSM.
• Alan William Clements.
• John Wentworth Cook.
• Donald Arthur Cooper, AFC.
• John Walter Cooper.
• June Elizabeth Court.
• David Anthony Crampin.
• Jean Denton.
• Anne Letitia Dickson.
• Donald Elliot, QPM.
• Lesley Eric Evershed-Martin, OBE.
• Thomas Farmer.
• John Brian Finney.
• Wilem William Frischmann,
• Anthony Gerard Fleetwood Fuller.
• Robert Gavron.
• Ian Gibson.
• Martin John Gilbert.
• Robert Kerr Livingstone Gough.
• Mervyn Alexander Hadden.
• Geoffrey Francis Hamilton.
• Michael Harry Frank Hammond.
• Bernard Anthony Harrison.
• Graham James Hearne.
• William Heeps.
• Brian Hill, DL.
• Professor Cyril Hilsum.
• Walter Hogbin.
• Kenneth Edmund Holmes.
• John Everard Hosking.
• Eric James Howe.
• Adam Kenneth Fisher Hunter.
• Paul Cater Hyde-Thomson, DL.
• Peter Jackson.
• Rabbi Louis Jacobs.
• Peter Roy Albert Jacques.
• John Nigel Courtney James.
• Henry Bernard Levin.
• Professor John Marshall.
• Fiona McConnell.
• Stewart Crichton Miller.
• Charles Herbert Mitchell, DL.
• Charles Evan Henry Morris.
• Jean Daveena Ogilivy Morris, MBE.
• Ian Hill Nish.
• Roger Arthur Carver Norrington, OBE.
• Professor Charles Herbert Geoffrey Oldham.
• Mrs, Anne Mary Parker.
• Lady Margaret Parkes.
• Michael Sydney Perry, OBE.
• Mary Elizabeth Peters, MBE.
• Margaret Eva Rayner.
• Peter Philip Rigby.
• Michael Jeremy Lomax Sayers.
• Barry Edward Sealy.
• Gordon Robert Seward.
• John Michael Sewell.
• Norbert Singer.
• Graham William Smith.
• Bernard Leonard John Spratt.
• Professor Francis Gordon Albert Stone.
• Jeffrey Philip Tate.
• Frank Thomlinson.
• Colonel George Digby Thompson, MC, TD.
• Peter Tompkins.
• John Rosewarne Trahair.
• Peter Joseph Usher, OBE.
• Alan Warhurst.
• Leonard John Weaver.
• John Kay Welsby.
• Thomas Henry Martin Whipham.
• John Michael Stannage Whitehead, DL.
• Anthony Basil Wilbraham.
• Richard Geoffrey Wilkes, OBE, TD, DL.
• Ronald Millward Williams, DL.
• Thomas Brendan Wilson.
• Charles Milne Winter.
• Anthony John Keith Woodhead.

Diplomatic list

• Frederick William Harold Allen
• Robert Kilgour Booker
• John Dartnall Dexter, MBE.
• Harnam Singh Grewal, ED, JP.
• John Mark Ambrose Herdman, LVO.
• David Alan Challoner Nendick, JP.
• Trevor John Rutter, OBE.
• Thomas Hixson Savage.
• John Francis Yaxley, JP.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• Jeremy Berry, poet.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• Peter Johnson Barker, Broadcaster, British Broadcasting Corporation.

References

• Supplement to the London Gazette No. 52173 dated 16 June 1990.