The Queen’s Birthday Honours List has recognised a number of leisure industry professionals.
The honour of Knights Bachelor went to former England footballer, Trevor Brooking, for his services to sport and Peter Robert Crane, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew for services to horticulture and conservation.
An LVO went to Elsa Myfanwy Davies, the director of the National Playing Fields Association.
MVO honours went to Barbara Helen Kerry Bishop, the visitor manager at Buckingham Palace and Thomas Henry Sharp, the chief yeoman warder of the Tower of London.
CBE’s were awarded to Nicholas Charles Fairthorn Barber for services to heritage; the artistic director of Dance Umbrella, Valerie Margaret Bourne; Diana Margaret Ellis for services to rowing; Bryan Forbes, the president of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain for services to the arts and to the former chair of the Learning and Skills Board, William McGinnis, for services to training and business in Northern Ireland.
Order of the British Empire honours given to Duncan Bannatyne, for services to business and charity; Anne Mulhern, for services to tourism in Glasgow; Albert Harrison, for services to aviation; Sonia Meaden for services to tourism in the south west; football’s Leslie Hughes; Michael Adamson for services to hospitality and tourism in the north east and Thomas Owen Saunders Lloyd DL for services to heritage.
Other OBE recipients included Sandra Elizabeth Mooney, director of health services for British Airways; George Bryan for services to tourism in the west Midlands; the former trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Susan Lesley Palmer; The Queen Mary 2 architect, Stephen Michael Payne, for services to the shipping industry; Susanne Prince for services to tourism and Michael Anthony Street for services to the airline industry.
MBEs went to Michael Gilbert Adamson, for services to hospitality and to tourism in the north east; a volunteer guide of the Burrell Collection, Margaret Elizabeth Anderson for services to museums; David Archer, assistant national park officer at Snowdonia for services to the environment and Richard Baker for services to hospitality and tourism.
Hugh Graham Belsey, the curator of Gainsborough’s House in Suffolk was also awarded an MBE for services to museums, alongside Stephen John Binns for services to heritage; John Anthony Dickinson for services to the sailing-based Woolverstone Project and Disabled Sailing in east Anglia; librarian, David Roger Dixon, of the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum for services to museums; Phillip Downs, the founder of the Manchester United Disabled Supporters Association; Vincent Fullam of the Ballynahinch Regeneration group and William Howard Frindall, the cricket statistician.
In the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List, Gregory David Green, the director general of the British Council was awarded a KCMG while Robert Franklin, VisitBritain’s executive vice-president for the Americas was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
