2010 Special Honours

As part of the British honours system, Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards made within royal prerogative, operational honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours

Life Peer

Baronesses

• Ms Floella Benjamin, OBE, DL, Actor, Presenter and Campaigner on Children’s Issues.
• Ms Rita Margaret Donaghy, CBE, formerly Chair, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
• Jeannie Drake, formerly Deputy General Secretary, Communication Workers Union.
• Dame Ellen Margaret Eaton, DBE, Chairman, Local Government Association.
• Ms Meral Hussein Ece, OBE, Local Government Councillor, Islington; Advocate of Equality issues.
• Dr. Dianne Hayter, Chair, Legal Services Consumer Panel.
• Ms Anna Healy, formerly Government and Political Adviser.
• The Right Honourable Helen Lawrie Liddell, formerly Secretary of State for Scotland.
• Ms Helen Margaret Newlove, Campaigner against anti- social behaviour.
• Ms Susan Nye, formerly Director of Government Relations, Prime Minister’s Office.
• Ms Kathryn Jane Parminter, formerly Chief Executive, Campaign to Protect Rural England.
• Ms Shireen Olive Ritchie, Local Government Councillor, particularly in social care for adults and children.
• Ms Deborah Stedman Scott, OBE, DL, Chief Executive, Tomorrow’s People, a national employment charity working in deprived areas of the United Kingdom.
• Miss Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock, OBE, formerly Chief Executive, Refugee Council and formerly Special Adviser to the Chancellor.
• Ms Margaret Wheeler, MBE, Director of Organisation and Staff Development, UNISON public service union.

Barons

• Sir Jeremy Hugh Beecham, DL. For services to English Local Government and first Chairman of the Local Government Association.
• Guy Vaughan Black, former Director, Press Complaints Commission; Executive Director, Telegraph Media Group.
• Sir Ian Warwick Blair, QPM, formerly Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
• The Right Honourable Paul Yaw Boateng, formerly Government Minister and MP for Brent South.
• Edward Peter Lawless Faulks, QC, Barrister, Leading Practitioner, Crime and Personal Injuries practice.
• John Gardiner, Deputy Chief Executive, Countryside Alliance.
• Michael James German, OBE, formerly Deputy First Minister for Wales.
• Roy Kennedy, Director of Finance and Compliance, Labour Party.
• Roger John Liddle, formerly Special Adviser on Europe.
• Sir Kenneth Donald John MacDonald, QC, formerly Director of Public Prosecutions.
• The Right Honourable Dr. Jack Wilson McConnell, formerly First Minister for Scotland.
• John Stephen Monks, General Secretary, European Trades Union Confederation.
• Dolar Amarshie Popat, Chief Executive of TLC Group, specialising in Healthcare and Hospitality.
• John Warren Shipley, OBE, leading Local Government Councillor in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
• Robert Wilfrid Stevenson, formerly Director, Smith Institute and Special Adviser to the Prime Minister.
• Nat Wei, Founder, Teach First and Founder, Future Leaders.
• Michael Williams, formerly Special Adviser on Foreign Affairs.
• The Honourable Simon Adam Wolfson, Chief Executive, Next plc.