2016 Special Honours
British government recognitions
As part of the British honours system , Special Honours are issued at the Queen's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer the award of the Order of the Garter , Order of the Thistle , Order of Merit , Royal Victorian Order and the Order of St John . Life peerages are at times also awarded as special honours.
Conservative Party
Mark Ian Price , CVO Baron Price of Sturminster Newton in the County of Dorset – 4 March 2016[ 4] Order of the Garter ribbon
Knight's Bachelor ribbon Ribbon bar of the Order of the Bath
Honorary Order of St Michael and St George ribbon
Honorary Baron Peter Piot - for services to the global response to AIDS and the Ebola epidemic[ 7] Royal Victorian Order ribbon Royal Victorian Order (Honorary appointment) ribbon Insignia of a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Honorary
Graham Paul Sharpe, LVO [ 10]
Lieutenant General Richard Nugee , CBE [ 11]
Nicholas Altham Kidd, LVO [ 12]
David George Clark, MVO [ 13]
Chief Inspector Timothy Andrew Marriott Nash, MVO [ 14]
Peter Charles Taylor, MVO [ 15]
Alan Richard Donnithorne, MVO [ 16]
Terence Joseph Lynch - on retirement as Operations Surveyor, London Palaces, Royal Household – 23 February 2016[ 17]
Captain (QGO) Buddhibahadur Bhandari, Queen’s Gurkha Engineers – on relinquishment of his appointment as Queen’s Gurkha Orderly Officer – 15 July 2016[ 18]
Captain (QGO) Muktiprasad Gurung, Queen’s Gurkha Engineers – on relinquishment of his appointment as Queen’s Gurkha Orderly Officer – 15 July 2016[ 18]
Henry John Goulding; in recognition of his work for the Sandringham Estate and the Duchy of Lancaster. – 19 July 2016.[ 19]
Meryl Georgina Walter; formerly Assistant Communications Secretary, Royal Household. – 18 October 2016[ 20] Ribbon bar of the Order of the British Empire (Military) Ribbon bar of the Order of the British Empire (Civil)
Honorary Military division
Honorary
The Hon. Mrs Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb – 16 December 2016[ 6]
The Hon. Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan – 16 December 2016[ 6]
The Hon. Mrs Justice Nerys Angharad Jefford – 16 December 2016[ 6]
The Hon. Mrs Justice Juliet Mary May – 16 December 2016[ 6]
The Hon. Justice Denise McBride – 16 December 2016[ 6]
The Hon. Mrs Justice Finola Mary Lucy O’Farrell – 16 December 2016[ 6]
Military division Major General Robert Bernard Bruce, DSO [ 22]
Brigadier James Richard Hugh Stopford – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Honorary Military division
Honorary Sophie Katsarava - in recognition of her outstanding contribution to strengthening relations between Georgia and the United Kingdom in the education sector.[ 23] [ 24] Military division Ribbon bar of the Distinguished Service Order
Ribbon bar of the Distinguished Service Cross Sergeant (now Acting Colour Sergeant) Robert Baden John Colley, Royal Marines – 18 March 2016[ 22] Ribbon bar of the Military Cross Royal Victorian Medal ribbon Silver Georgina Mary Jean Tindal - on retirement as Resident Warden, Pensioner Accommodation at Windsor. – 6 December 2016[ 26] Palm of the Mentioned in Despatches Palm of the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service
Acting Major (now Major) Henry Dowlen, MBE Royal Marines Reserve – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Petty Officer Engineering Technician (Weapon Engineering) Luke Ebsworth, Royal Navy – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Warrant Officer 1 Engineering Technician (Marine Engineering) Alan Evans, Royal Navy – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Commander Stuart Andrew Finn, Royal Navy – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Corporal Matthew Goldsworthy, Royal Marines – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Chief Petty Officer (Underwater Warfare) Julian Lee, Royal Navy – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Marine August Emanuel Nils Lersten, Royal Marines – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Petty Officer (Diver) Stuart Russell Rice, Royal Navy – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Captain David Bissett Smith, Royal Fleet Auxiliary – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Sergeant Lewis David Arthey, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Lieutenant Colonel (now Colonel) Dominic Stead James Biddick, MBE MC The Royal Anglian Regiment – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Staff Sergeant Andrew John Coy, Army Air Corps – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Sergeant (now Acting Staff Sergeant) Thomas Edward Trevithick Dawson, The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Sergeant (now Acting Staff Sergeant) Paul Anthony Dilloway, Royal Army Medical Corps – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Clement Gidlow-Jackson, MBE The Rifles – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Staff Sergeant Gregory Mitchell Haskins, Adjutant General’s Corps (Royal Military Police) – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Brigadier Andrew Gordon Hughes, MBE [ 22]
Warrant Officer Class 2 Paul Michael Kearney, The Royal Anglian Regiment – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Staff Sergeant Richard Charles Kerry, Adjutant General’s Corps (Royal Military Police) – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Lieutenant Colonel (now Acting Colonel) Eldon Nicholas Somerville Millar, MBE [ 22]
Brigadier Charles Spencer Thomas Page, MBE [ 22]
Major Samuel James Roberts, Intelligence Corps – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Captain Philip Charles Rowland, Royal Corps of Signals – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Warrant Officer Class 2 Jamie Rufus, The Rifles – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Acting Staff Sergeant Gareth David Taylor, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Captain Timothy James Hamilton Towler, The Royal Regiment of Scotland – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Flight Lieutenant Samuel John Baker, Royal Air Force – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Wing Commander Matthew Edward Lawrence, Royal Air Force – 18 March 2016[ 22]
Order of St John ribbon
Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St John
Knight of the Order of St John
John Walker Bain, MNZM JP [ 28]
Geoffrey Thomas Ridley[ 28]
Surgeon Rear Admiral Lionel Jarvis , CBE [ 29]
Richard Ward Clark
His Excellency Lieutenant General Edward Grant Martin Davis , CB CBE [ 30]
Lieutenant General Sir James Benjamin Dutton , KCB CBE ADC [ 30]
Dr Kenneth Forde[ 30]
Dennis Clair Hensley[ 30]
The Very Reverend Ernest Hunt III[ 30]
The Reverend Preston Telford Kelsey II[ 30]
The Reverend Dr Joseph Walter Lund[ 30]
General Sir John Chalmers McColl , KCB CBE DSO [ 30]
Mark Charles Pigott[ 30]
The Reverend Carl Dietrich Reimers[ 30]
John Winthorp[ 30]
The Reverend Deacon Robert John Amadeus Zito[ 30]
Dame of the Order of St John
Commander of the Order of St John
Officer of the Order of St John
New Zealand
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