2006 New Year Honours-The Daily Ledger

The New Year Honours 2006 in some Commonwealth realms were announced (on 31 December 2005) in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Grenada, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, and Saint Christopher and Nevis to celebrate the year past and mark the beginning of 2006.

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.

2006 New Year Honours

United Kingdom

Knights Bachelor

Professor John Macleod Ball, Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Oxford. For services to Science. Professor Ivor Martin Crewe, DL, Vice-Chancellor, University of Essex and Lately President, Universities UK. For services to Higher Education. John Dankworth, CBE, Jazz Musician. For services to Music. Christopher Fox, QPM, President, Association of Chief Police Officers. For services to the Police. William Benjamin Bowring Gammell, Chief Executive, Cairn Energy plc. For services to Industry in Scotland. David Michael Hart, OBE, lately General-Secretary, National Association of Head Teachers. For services to Education. Ian Bernard Vaughan Magee, CB, Second Permanent Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs. Dr. Allen James McClay, CBE, Chairman, ALMAC and chairman, Queen's University of Belfast Foundation. For services to Business and to Charity in Northern Ireland. Keith Mills, Chief Executive, London 2012. For services to Sport. Simon Milton, leader, Westminster City Council. For services to Local Government. Adrian Alastair Montague, CBE, Chairman, British Energy. For services to the Nuclear and Electricity Industries. Stephen Alan Moss, lately Director of Nursing and Patient Services, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham. For services to the NHS. Professor Michael Pepper, Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge. For services to Physics. Craig Collins Reedie, CBE, lately chairman, British Olympic Association. For services to Sport. John Henry Ritblat, Chairman, The British Land Company and Chairman of the Trustees, Wallace Collection. For services to the Arts. Michael Berry Savory, lately Lord Mayor of the City of London. For services to the City of London. Stephen Ashley Sherbourne, CBE, lately Chief of Staff to the Leader of the Opposition. Roger Singleton, CBE, lately Chief Executive, Barnardo's. For services to Children. Professor Graham Michael Teasdale, President, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. For services to Neurosurgery and victims of head injuries. David Robert Varney, Permanent Secretary, HM Revenue and Customs. Arnold Wesker, Playwright/Director. For services to Drama. Thomas Jones Woodward ("Tom Jones"), OBE, Singer. For services to Music. Professor Nicholas Alcwyn Wright, Warden, Barts and the London, Queen Mary School of Medicine. For services to Medicine.

2006 New Year Honours