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1987 Birthday Honours
Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The dates vary, both from year to year and from country to country. All are published in supplements to the London Gazette and many are conferred by the monarch (or her representative) some time after the date of the announcement, particularly for those service people on active duty. The 1987 Queen's Birthday honours lists were announced on 13 June 1987.New Zealand list: Recipients of honours are shown below as they were styled before their new honour. United Kingdom Life Peers Barons * Sir (Amos) Henry Chilver, Chairman, Milton Keynes Development Corporation; Vice-Chancellor, Cranfield Institute of Technology. * Sir Philip (Douglas) Knights, C.B.E., Q.P.M., D.L. Former Chief Constable, West Midlands Police. Privy Counsellors * Dr Rhodes Boyson, Minister of State for Local Government, Department of the Environment. * Lynda, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen's Birthday Honours
The Birthday Honours, in some Commonwealth realms, mark the reigning British monarch's official birthday by granting various individuals appointment into national or dynastic orders or the award of decorations and medals. The honours are presented by the monarch or a viceregal representative. The Birthday Honours are one of two annual honours lists, along with the New Year Honours. All royal honours are published in the relevant gazette. History Honours have been awarded with few exceptions on the sovereign's birthday since at least 1860, during the reign of Queen Victoria. There was no Birthday Honours list issued in 1876, which brought "a good deal of disappointment" and even rebuke for the Ministry of Defence. A lengthy article in the ''Broad Arrow'' newspaper forgave the Queen and criticised Gathorne Hardy for neglecting to award worthy soldiers with the Order of the Bath: "With the War Minister all general patronage of this description rests, and if Mr. Hardy has not seen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Caro
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using ' found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation. Early life and education Caro was born in New Malden, England to a Jewish family and was the youngest of three children. When Caro was three, his father, a stockbroker, moved the family to a farm in Churt, Surrey. Caro was educated at Charterhouse School where his housemaster introduced him to Charles Wheeler. In the holidays he studied at the Farnham School of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts) worked in Wheeler's studio. He later earned a degree in engineering at Christ's College, Cambridge. In 1946, after time in the Royal Navy, he studied sculpture at the Regent Street Polytechnic before pursuing further studies at the Royal Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Seymour Laughton
Sir Anthony Seymour Laughton FRS (29 April 1927—27 September 2019) was a British oceanographer. He was educated at Marlborough College and King's College, Cambridge. He worked for the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (now the National Oceanography Centre) and served as director in 1978. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980 and received a knighthood for services to oceanography in the 1987 Birthday Honours.He was awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe with more than 12,000 Fellows. Fe ... in 1989. References 1927 births 2019 deaths People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of King's College, Cambridge British oceanographers Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Bachelor Murchison Medal winners {{UK-scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
The Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate, known as Chief Metropolitan Police Magistrate until 1949, and also known as the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate and Chief Magistrate of the Police Courts of the Metropolis, was a senior British magistrate based in London. The most senior metropolitan stipendiary magistrate (full-time magistrates appointed for London and the surrounding counties), the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate had responsibilities for the administration of the London magistrates' courts as well as the appointment of metropolitan stipendiary magistrates. He also had special responsibilities in relation to extradition proceedings. The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate was based at Bow Street Magistrates' Court. The position was abolished on 31 August 2000 by the Access to Justice Act 1999, which unified the stipendiary bench of England and Wales and renamed stipendiary magistrates to District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts). The position of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Armand Hopkin
Sir David Armand Hopkin (10 January 1922 – 21 August 1997) was a British barrister, magistrate, and boxing administrator. He was Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate from 1982 to 1992, Chairman of the British Boxing Board of Control from 1983 to 1993, and President of the same body from 1991 until 1997. The son of Welsh Labour politician Daniel Hopkin, also sometime a Metropolitan Stipendiary magistrate, and of Edmée Hopkin, David Hopkin was educated at St Paul's School, London, University College, Aberystwyth, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read Modern Languages. He served in the British Army from 1942 to 1947, first in the Intelligence Corps, then in the Pioneer Corps, supervising Italian prisoners of war in Egypt. He attained the rank of honorary major. After being called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1949, Hopkin joined the staff of the Director of Public Prosecutions in 1950, where he remained until 1970, rising to become Deputy Director of Public P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esso
Esso () is a trading name for ExxonMobil. Originally, the name was primarily used by its predecessor Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup of the original Standard Oil company in 1911. The company adopted the name "Esso" (the phonetic pronunciation of Standard Oil's initials, 'S' and 'O'),Don't ignore history by Robert Sobel on Barro's, 7 Dec 1998 to which the other Standard Oil companies would later object. Standard Oil of New Jersey started marketing its products under the Esso brand in 1926. In 1972, the name Esso was largely replaced in the U.S. by the Exxon brand after the Standard Oil of New Jersey bought , while the Esso name remained widely used elsewhere. In most of the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger James Elliott
Sir Roger James Elliott (8 December 1928 – 16 April 2018) was a British theoretical physicist specialising in the magnetic, semiconductor A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical resistivity and conductivity, electrical conductivity value falling between that of a electrical conductor, conductor, such as copper, and an insulator (electricity), insulator, such as glas ..., and optical physics, optical properties of condensed matter physics, condensed matter. Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Elliott obtained a DPhil in mathematics and theoretical physics from the University of Oxford in 1952. He was a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1952–3, then at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment until 1955, when he was appointed to a lecturership at the University of Reading. He returned to the University of Oxford in 1957, where he was the Wykeham Professor of Physics from 1974 until 1988. He served as chief executive of O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Electric Traction
British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Rentokil in 1996, and the merged company is now known as Rentokil Initial. History Early history Tramway services The company was founded in 1895 as British Electric Traction Company Ltd, with Sir Charles Rivers Wilson as chairman and Emile Garcke as managing director. It was involved in the electrification of tramways in British towns and cities, and also in Australia and New Zealand, for example in Auckland. From operating trams, BET moved on to manufacturing them with the purchase of Brush Electrical Engineering Company in 1901. The BET became the largest of the private owners of tramways in the British Isles. During its history, it gained control in England of the Metropolitan Electric and South Metropolitan systems in London, as well as systems in Barnsley, Barrow-in-Furness, Birmingham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Dundas
Sir Hugh Spencer Lisle Dundas, (22 July 1920 – 10 July 1995), nicknamed List of aviators by nickname#C, "Cocky", was a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War and later a senior broadcasting executive. He was promoted to squadron leader and awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom), Distinguished Flying Cross at the age of 21, advanced to Wing Commander (rank), wing commander at 22 and, at 23, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and became one of the youngest group captains in the RAF. Dundas retired from the RAF in 1949, and was Knight Bachelor, knighted in 1987 for his services to business and the media. Early life Born in Doncaster, on 2 July 1920, Dundas was a scion of a noble family. He was the grandson of the Scottish Liberal politician John Dundas (1845–1892), John Dundas and a great-great-grandson of Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland.Bishop 2004, p. 76. Dundas was also related to the Earl of Halifax.Franks 1980, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Postgraduate Medical School
The Royal Postgraduate Medical School (RPMS) was an independent medical school, based primarily at Hammersmith Hospital in west London. In 1988, the school merged with the Institute of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, and in 1997 became part of Imperial College School of Medicine. History The medical school had its roots in the British Postgraduate Medical School, based at Hammersmith Hospital. It incorporated by Royal Charter in 1931 and opened in 1935. Its first director was Edinburgh Medical School graduate Francis Richard Fraser. It was the result of recommendations by the Athlone Report of 1921, and was a pioneer institution of postgraduate clinical teaching and research. The school had always been closely linked with the Hammersmith Hospital and the Medical Research Council, where its teaching research and clinical work were carried out. Senior academic staff of the school provided consultant services and academic leadership for Hammersmith Hospital. The RPMS has had an enormous i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Dollery
Sir Colin Terence Dollery (14 March 1931 – 12 December 2020) was a clinical pharmacologist who spent much of his life working for SmithKline Beecham and its successor, Glaxo Smith Kline. He was knighted in the Queen's 1987 birthday honours. He was an honorary fellow of the British Pharmacological Society and a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. After graduating in medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1956, Dollery specialized in clinical pharmacology. He was appointed as a lecturer in therapeutics at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, in 1963, being promoted to Professor of Clinical Pharmacology in 1968. During his career he was: *Founding Chairman of the Clinical Pharmacology Section of the British Pharmacological Society (1975–1975) *Chair of the Clinical Section of the International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR; 1975–1978) *President of the IUPHAR (1987–1990). He received many awards including the Wellcome Gold Medal awarded by the Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Crouch
Sir David Lance Crouch (23 June 1919 – 18 February 1998) was a British Conservative politician. Crouch was educated at University College School, London and became a marketing consultant. He contested Leeds West in 1959, and served as Member of Parliament for Canterbury from 1966 until he retired in 1987. The awarding of his knighthood was announced shortly after he stood down as an MP. Personal life Crouch married Margaret Noakes in 1947. They had a son, sculptor Patrick Crouch, and a daughter. He died in Faversham, Kent, on 18 February 1998, aged 78. References Sources *''The Times Guide to the House of Commons'', Times Newspapers Ltd News Corp UK & Ireland Limited (trading as News UK, formerly News International and NI Group) is a British newspaper publisher, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the American mass media conglomerate News Corp. It is the current publisher of ..., 1966 Notice thegazette.co.uk. Accessed 8 January 2023. independent.co.uk. Accessed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
