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1979 Dissolution Honours

1979 Dissolution Honours

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The 1979 Dissolution Honours List was issued in June 1979 following the general election of that year.[1][2]

The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour.

Life Peers (all Labour)

Baroness

Baron

Privy Councillor

The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:

Knight Bachelor

Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

  • Gavyn Davies, Policy Adviser to the Rt Hon. James Callaghan
  • David John Wise, National Secretary, Co-operative Party
  • Philip Wood, Formerly Private Secretary, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

  • Margaret Dougan, Private Secretary to Members of Parliament
  • David Evans, Chairman, Cardiff South East Labour Party
  • John David Fletcher Holt, Formerly Private Secretary, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
  • Albert Henry Long, Chief Clerk Superintendent, Whips Office, House of Commons
  • Peter Ronald McClellan Taylor BEM, Office Manager, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
  • Eva Florence Thomas, Secretary, Ely Labour Party, Cardiff
  • Annabel Urquhart, Assistant Scottish Organiser, Labour Party, Scotland
  • John Bretnall Warwicker, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil Division
  • Charles Edward Barton, Messenger, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
  • Pamela Broughton, Telephonist, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
  • Joseph Robert Hazard, Driver to the Rt Hon. James Callaghan
  • Colin Brian Holden, the Chef at Chequers
  • Daisy Elizabeth Riley, Cleaner, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
  • Wren Dorothy Woodcock, Stewardess at Chequers

References

  1. [1]
    "No. 47868". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1979. pp. 7599–7600.
  2. [2]
    "Peerage creations 1958-2008" (PDF). House of Lords Library. Retrieved 16 July 2016. Peerage creations are identified as being Dissolution Honours, not Resignation Honours.
  3. [3]
    AEU: Amalgamated Engineering Union. 1989. p. 5. Very quickly he had that problem under control and in 1975 was awarded a CBE, being knighted in Jim Callaghan's dissolution honours of 1979
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