A FORMER Worldwide President of the Mothers' Union (MU),
Rosemary Kempsell (above), has been appointed a
Commander of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list, for
services to family life in the UK and abroad. A member for more
than 35 years, she led the worldwide MU from
2006-2012
The Most Revd David Moxon, Director of the
Anglican Centre in Rome, and the Archbishop of Canterbury's
Representative to the Holy See, has been appointed a Knight
Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. The Archbishop
Emeritus, who is from New Zealand, co-chairs ARCIC III.
The Mid-Worcester MP Peter Luff, who led a
cross-party campaign to win freedom for PCCs to decide against
registering chancel-repair liability, is knighted for political and
public service.
Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, the composer and
conductor (Features, 9 August), is
made a Companion of Honour, for services to music.
Other CBEs include Dr James Smith, who founded
the Aegis Trust and the national Holocaust Centre in Laxton, on the
edge of Sherwood Forest, after a family pilgrimage to the Holy Land
(for services to Holocaust education and genocide prevention), and
the Chaplain of the Fleet, the Revd Scott Brown
QHC, a Presbyterian minister.
The head teacher of the Sir John Cass Foundation and Redcoat C
of E Secondary School in Tower Hamlets, London, Haydn
Evans, is appointed CBE; Nigel Spencer, a
teacher at All Saints' C of E Primary School, Harwich, in Essex,
receives an MBE. Eileen Withrington, a volunteer
at St Jude and St Paul's C of E Primary in Islington, London,
receives a British Empire Medal.
Rod Bull, who became a trustee of the Most
Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem after
retiring as chief executive of its eye hospital last year, receives
an OBE for services to healthcare in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories.
OBEs also go to Margaret Boden, chief executive
of Christian Aid Ireland, for services to interna-tional
development; and Richard Buckley, the
archaeologist who led the search for the remains of Richard III in
a Leicester city-centre car park.
Ruth Dearnley, a former director of Spring
Harvest, who now heads the charity Stop the Traffik, receives an
OBE for services to awareness and prevention of human trafficking.
Among other OBEs are Lenox Green, for services to
the community through the Rainbow Christian Centre in Hulme,
Greater Manchester; and the singer Katherine
Jenkins, for services to music, and for charitable
services.
Elizabeth (Betty) Baines is awarded the MBE for
services to bell-ringing in Norfolk and North Suffolk; as is the
lead worker Terence Fillary, whose work includes
markings on the restored bells at St Magnus the Martyr, London
Bridge, for services to historic building restoration and
conservation. The former Chaplain of HM Prison Swansea, the
Revd Lionel Hopkins, is appointed MBE for services to
prison staff and prisoners, and to the community in Swansea; and
Canon Alan Hughes TD receives one for services to
the community in Berwick upon Tweed.
Other MBEs go to David Lodge, who chairs the
Friends of Essex Churches' grants committee, for services to
building conservation; Canon Roy McCullough, who
chairs the Blackburn diocesan advisory Committee, for services to
the C of E; Brian Miles, a director of the All
Saints Community Development Company, which grew out of All
Saints', King's Heath, Birmingham, for services to young people;
and Carol Pemberton, the musical director and
singer with Black Voices, a Christian gospel group.
MBEs are also awarded to Elliott Ward, who
chairs the governors of Dame Allan Schools, Newcastle upon Tyne,
for services to education and to the community in Newcastle;
Christopher Whitmey, for services to the Hereford
diocese, including education in South Wye; Jane
Jerrard, co-ordinator and adviser for the
primary-education project of the diocese of Hyderabad, for services
to education, particularly for girls, in Pakistan; and
Rabbi Mark Winer, for services to interfaith
dialogue and to social cohesion. He was involved in the process
leading to a treaty between Israel and the Vatican; and in
negotiations over a dispute about a convent at Auschwitz.
The organist of St George's, Jesmond, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Fred Peacock, receives a BEM for services to
church music. In 2012, on the day when the Queen celebrated her
Diamond Jubilee, Mr Peacock, who shares a birthday with the Queen,
was celebrating his 50 years as organist at St George's.
Another Newcastle recipient of the BEM is Elizabeth
Screen, for services to Martha and Mary's Community Café
and to the community in Heaton. The café was established as a
community drop-in centre by the churches of the town.
Penelope Brookman, a volunteer dance and drama
teacher at St Mary's C of E Primary School, Kintbury, in Berkshire,
receives a BEM for services to education; Keith
Coleman, a veteran church organist at St Mary's,
Rivenhall, and St Francis's, Silver End, in Essex, for services to
music; Anne Crawley, a volunteer with Operation
Christmas Child; and Kathleen Moyle for
services to the restoration of Salem Chapel in East Budleigh,
Devon.
In Hollywood, Angela Lansbury is made a DBE,
for services to drama and to charitable work and philanthropy.