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Birthdays

Thursday 19 December 1996 00:02 GMT
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Birthdays

Sir Antony Buck QC, former MP, 68; Mr Ross Buckland, chief executive, Unigate, 54; Mr Timothy Eggar MP, Minister of State, Trade and Industry, 45; The Right Rev Ian Harland, Bishop of Carlisle, 64; Brigadier Lewis Harris, cartographer, 86; Sir Brian Hill, former chairman, Higgs & Hill, 64; Mr Syd Little, comedian, 54; Mr Robert Ponsonby, former Controller of Music, BBC, 69; The Marquess of Queensberry, former professor of ceramics at the Royal College of Art, 67; Dr David Bowe-Beddoe, chairman, Welsh Development Agency, 59; Sir David Rowe-Ham, former Lord Mayor of London, 61; Lord Weir, a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 65; Mr Tony Wheeler, founder, Lonely Planet travel guides, 50; Mr Maurice White, rock singer, 55.

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