Appointments

Mr Nicholas John Coleman and Mr Jonathan Richard Playford QC, to be circuit judges, on the South Eastern Circuit.

Mr John Armitage, Lord Hunt of Wirral, Professor Maxwell Irvine, Miss Patricia Hunt and The Rev Professor E.W. Nicholson, to be Governors of the English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth.

Mr David Madden, to be ambassador to the Hellenic Republic.

Mr John Martin, to be British High Commissioner to the Republic of Cyprus.

Mr Rupert Matthew Jackson QC, to be a Justice of the High Court.

M Michel Van Doosselaere, immediate past President of the Council of the Bars and Societies of Europe, to be Honorary Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.

Mr Nicolas Dusan Bratza QC, to be a Justice of the High Court.

Mr Edward Glover, to be British High Commissioner to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana.

The Right Rev Tim Stevens, Suffragan Bishop of Dunwich, Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, to be Bishop of Leicester.