New Year Honours

Civil- Order of the British Empire

OBE: Mr Gideon Samuel Ben-Tovim (m.1961)

Chair, Liverpool NHS Primary Care Trust for services to Health.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List - Order of St Michael and St George

CMG: Mr Timothy Mark Hitchens (m.1980)

LVO, Dir, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List- Order of the British Empire

OBE: Professor Derek Clive Offord (m.1965)

Formerly Professor, Russian Studies, University of Bristol.

For services to Russian Studies in Language and Culture