Appointments

Rear-Admiral Sir Peter Anson, Mrs CM Gerrard, Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, Maj-Gen AML Hogge, Mrs DN James, Professor A. Kelly and Mrs JR Walshe, to be Deputy-Lieutenants of Surrey.

Mr Philip Harold Roger Browning, to be Provincial Stipendiary Magistrate for the Shropshire Commission Area.

Mr Christopher Miles McColl, to be Provincial Stipendiary Magistrate for the West Midlands Commission Area.

Mr Noel Jones, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Mr John Mesher, to be a Social Security Commissioner and a Child Support Commissioner.

Miss Elaine Rice Donnelly, to be a full-time chairman of Industrial Tribunals to the London South Region.

Professor GG Roberts, to be chairman of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council.

Mr Richard T. B. Langhorne, to be director and chief executive of the Wilton Park executive agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Mr George Cawood, to be joint district judge for the district of the Portsmouth County Court and in the District Registry of the High Court at Portsmouth.

Mrs Valerie Buckley, to be joint district judge for the districts of Manchester, Oldham and Stockport, and Tameside County Courts and in the District Registry of the High Court at Manchester, Oldham and Stockport.

Mr Michael Anthony Rosenberg, to be Provincial Stipendiary Magistrate for the South Yorkshire Commission Area.

Miss Elizabeth Johnson, to be joint district judge for the districts of Liverpool, St Helen's, Southport and Wigan County Courts and joint district judge in the District Registry of the High Court at Liverpool, St Helen's, Southport and Wigan.