New year honours 2015

The new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs in the UK and overseas, plus military and police honours

Dr Simon Fraser Campbell, CBE, FRS. Drug Discoverer and Scientific Adviser. For services to Chemistry. (Poole, Dorset) Dr Anthony Herbert Everington, OBE. Chair, NHS Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning Group. For services to Primary Care. Professor Julian Ernest Michael Le Grand, FBA. Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics. For services to Social Science and public service. (Bristol)  Sir John Hurt. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images John Vincent Hurt, CBE. Actor. For services to Drama. (Norfolk) Peter Ashley Kendall. For services to the Agricultural Industry in England and Wales. (Baldock, Hertfordshire) Andrew Valentine Morris, OBE. Chief executive, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the NHS. (Wokingham, Berkshire) Richard Leon Paniguian, CBE. Head, Defence and Security Organisation, UK Trade and Investment. For services to the UK Defence Industry. (London)

KNIGHTS BACHELOR Theodore Agnew, DL. For services to education. (East Somerton, Norfolk)  David Anthony Andrew Amess, MP. Member of parliament for Southend West. For political and public service. (Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex)  Matthew David Baggott, CBE, QPM. Formerly chief constable, Police Service of Northern Ireland. For services to Policing in the United Kingdom. (Solihull, West Midlands) Professor Richard Robert Barnett. Vice-Chancellor University of Ulster. For services to Higher Education and Business in Northern Ireland. (Coleraine, Londonderry) Professor Andrew Jonathan Bate, CBE, FBA. Literary Scholar and Provost, Worcester College, University of Oxford. For services to Literary Scholarship and Higher Education. (Oxford, Oxfordshire) Professor Martyn Poliakoff, CBE, FRS. Research Professor of Chemistry, University of Nottingham. For services to the Chemical Sciences. (Beeston, Nottinghamshire) Dickson Poon, CBE. For services to Business and to charity particularly Higher Education. (London) David Edward John Ramsden, CBE. Head, Government Economic Service. For services to Economic Policy Making. (London) Professor Nilesh Jayantilal Samani, DL. Professor of Cardiology, University of Leicester. For services to Medicine and Medical Research. (Leicester, Leicestershire).

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