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2000 Birthday Honours
The Queen's Birthday Honours were announced on 19 June 2000 to celebrate the Queen's Official Birthday in the United Kingdom,United Kingdom: Australia (12 June), New Zealand (13 June),New ZealandThe Queen's Birthday Honours 2000(13 June 2000), ''New Zealand Gazette''. Barbados,Barbados: The Bahamas,The Bahamas: Grenada,Grenada: Papua New Guinea,Papua New Guinea: Tuvalu,Tuvalu: Saint Lucia,Saint Lucia: and Belize,Belize: The recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged first by country, honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil, Overseas or Police list). United Kingdom Knight Bachelor * Professor Anthony Barnes Atkinson, Warden, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. For services to Economics. * David Rowat Barclay. For charitable services. * Frederick Hugh Barclay. For charitable services. * David Sydney Rowe-Beddoe, Chairman, Welsh Deve ... [...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] |
Stuart Lipton
Sir Stuart Anthony Lipton (born 9 November 1942) is a British property developer, a founder of Stanhope plc, and the co-founder of the property company Chelsfield with Elliott Bernerd, and now a co-founder (with Peter Rogers) and partner in Lipton Rogers Developments LLP. Early life Stuart was born in 1942 to a Jewish family, the son of Bertram Green and Jeanette Lipton (''née'' Lipton). He was educated at Berkhamsted School. His mother cofounded, with her brother Gerald Lipton MBE, the retailer Chinacraft in 1951. Career Lipton is responsible for over 20 million sq ft of development in London, including Broadgate, Stockley Park and Chiswick Business Park. Stuart is Deputy Chairman of Chelsfield Partners and as of 2015, through his property company Lipton Rogers, is developing 22 Bishopsgate, which will be the tallest skyscraper in the City of London. Stuart is on the London Finance Commission for the Mayor of London, is a Director of the National Gallery Trust Foundation, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice-Chancellor
A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system. In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations, the chancellor is usually a ceremonial non-resident head of the university. In such institutions, the chief executive of a university is the vice-chancellor, who may carry an additional title such as ''president'' (e.g. "president & vice-chancellor"). The chancellor may serve as chairperson of the governing body; if not, this duty is often held by a chairperson who may be known as a pro-chancellor. In many countries, the administrative and educational head of the university is known as the president, principal (academia), principal or rector (academia), rector. In the United States, the head of a university is most commonly a university president. In U.S., university systems that have more than one affiliated university or campus, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Newby
Sir Howard Joseph Newby (born 10 December 1947) is a British sociologist. He was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool in 2008 and retired in December 2014. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton from 1994 to 2001. He was appointed as the vice-chancellor of the University of the West of England (UWE), from March 2006. After 15 months at UWE he moved to the University of Liverpool and was almost immediately put on "gardening leave" at UWE for the duration of his year-long notice period, with the then deputy vice-chancellor, Steve West, acting up to the VC role before his subsequent substantive appointment. On 11 February 2014, it was announced that Newby would retire from his role as vice-chancellor of Liverpool in 2015. Early life He grew up in Derbyshire, going to John Port Grammar School in Etwall, before attending Atlantic College, an independent (private) residential sixth form college in Wales, as a scholarship student. He attended the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust was an NHS trust that ran Northwick Park Hospital and St Mark's Hospital in Harrow and Central Middlesex Hospital, Park Royal, London, England. In October 2014, the trust merged with Ealing Hospital NHS Trust to become London North West Healthcare NHS Trust. In May 2013 Moorfields Hospital opened satellite Eye Centreat Northwick Park meaning that patients could access their specialist services without having to travel to Moorfields. In October 2013 the Trust had to apologise when it was discovered that 822 patients on the waiting list for elected procedures had not been dealt with within the 18-week target. In November 2013 it emerged that waiting times for 2,700 elective patients had been improperly recorded at the Trust. A report said: “There was a culture where some staff felt under pressure to stop patients’ clocks prematurely.” The Trust has been at the centre of proposals for reconfiguration for some years, with suggestions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Morgan (nursing Administrator)
Sir Graham Morgan (born 20 August 1947) is a British healthcare professional and healthcare director. Early life and family Morgan was born on 20 August 1947 to Islwyn and Phyllis Morgan. He was educated at Treorchy Secondary Modern School in Treorchy, Wales. In 2006, Morgan entered into a civil partnership with Raymond Willetts. Raymond died in 2020. Career Morgan trained as nurse at Llandough Hospital, Cardiff, becoming a registered general nurse in 1969. He worked at Llandough Hospital as a staff nurse for a year, before spells at Royal Marsden Hospital and St Mary's Hospital, London. Between 1974 and 1983, he was the Nursing Officer at King's College Hospital, and was then Assistant Director of Nursing at St Charles' Hospital until 1991. He was the Special Nurse Adviser (1991–94) and then Director of Nursing and Quality (1994–99) at the Central Middlesex Hospital. Between 1999 and 2005, he was Executive Director of Nursing at the North West London Hospitals NHS Trust. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations
The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) is the national membership body for Scotland’s charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. SCVO works to support people to take voluntary action to help themselves and others, and to bring about social change. It provides services and support to the third sector in Scotland to advance shared values and interests. SCVO has approximately 2,800 members, ranging from individuals and grassroots groups, to Scotland-wide organisations and intermediary bodies. The organisation employs approximately 100 staff. Aims SCVO’s aims are to: * support third sector organisations to do their work * promote and support shared interests of third sector organisations * connect people with ways to get involved with their communities * as an organisation continually learn, develop and enhance its own effectiveness. Governance SCVO is governed by a Management Board with representatives elected from its Policy Committee. Anna Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil William David McIntosh
Sir Neil William David Mcintosh FCIPD (born 30 January 1940) is a Scottish public administrator. Career Educated at King's Park Senior Secondary School in Glasgow, Mcintosh worked for the sewing thread merchant J. & P. Coats (1957-59), then Honeywell Controls until 1962, when he joined the Berkshire, Oxford and Reading Joint Organisation and Methods Unit. After two years working at Stewarts & Lloyds, in 1966 Mcintosh became Senior Organisation and Methods Officer for Lanark County Council and then became the O&M officer at Inverness County Council three years later. In 1975, he joined Highland Regional Council, firstly as Personnel Officer, then, from 1981 as Director of Manpower Services. Between 1985 and 1992, he was Chief Executive of Dumfries and Galloway Regional Council, then, until 1996, he was the same for Strathclyde Regional Council. From then until 2001, he was Convener of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations. From 2002 to 2008, he was then a Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of Medical Royal Colleges
The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) is the coordinating body for the United Kingdom and Ireland's 23 Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties. It ensures that patients are safely and properly cared for by setting standards for the way doctors are educated, trained and monitored throughout their careers. The presidents of these organisations meeting regularly to agree direction. Established in 1974 as the Conference of medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties, it was renamed the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in 1996. It has established one Faculty of its own - The Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM), which is jointly administered by the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of General Practitioners. List of chairs of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges The Chair is the elected head of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Their term of officer is up to three years. * Dame Fiona Caldicott 1996 * Professor Narendra Babubhai Patel 1997 * Professor Rode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal College Of Pathologists
The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) is a professional membership organisation. Its main function is the overseeing of postgraduate training, and its Fellowship Examination (FRCPath) is recognised as the standard assessment of fitness to practise in this branch of medicine. Constitution The Royal College of Pathologists is a professional membership organisation, to maintain the standards and reputation of British pathology, through training, assessments, examinations and professional development. It is a registered charity and is not a trades union. Its 11,000 members work in hospital laboratories, universities and industry worldwide. History The College of Pathologists was founded in 1962, to optimise postgraduate training in the relatively young science of pathology, with its high importance in the diagnostic process, and the increasing range of specialist studies within it. The College received its Royal Charter in 1970 and its Patron is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderick MacSween
Sir Roderick Norman McIver MacSween (2 February 1935 – 11 December 2015) was a Scottish pathologist, professor of pathology at University of Glasgow, 1984 to 1999. MacSween was a past President of the Royal College of Pathologists (1996–99), a member of the General Medical Council (1998-2001) and was knighted for services to medicine and to pathology in 2000. He was a chairman of Tenovus Scotland, which annually award the Sir Roddy MacSween prize and medal to a medical student of the University of Glasgow for outstanding performance in pathology. He also chaired investigations into diseases affecting farmed fish upright=1.3, Salmon farming in the sea (mariculture) at Loch Ainort, Isle of Skye">mariculture.html" ;"title="Salmon farming in the sea (mariculture">Salmon farming in the sea (mariculture) at Loch Ainort, Isle of Skye, Scotland Fish farming or .... His ''Pathology of the liver'' has reached its 7th edition and is also an ebook. References Sources * Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Whip
The Chief Whip is a political leader whose task is to enforce the whipping system, which aims to ensure that legislators who are members of a political party attend and vote on legislation as the party leadership prescribes. United Kingdom In British politics, the Chief Whip of the governing party in the House of Commons is usually also appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, a Cabinet position. The Government Chief Whip has an official residence at 12 Downing Street. However, the Chief Whip's office is currently located at 9 Downing Street. The Chief Whip can wield great power over their party's MPs, including cabinet ministers, being seen to speak at all times with the voice of the Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher was known for using her Chief Whip as a "cabinet enforcer". The role of Chief Whip is regarded as secretive, as the Whip is concerned with the discipline of their own party's Members of Parliament, never appearing on television or radio in thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
