The New Year Honours List for 2023 recognises the achievements and service of extraordinary people across Oxfordshire.
The New Year Honours List 2023 has been published, recognising the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the UK, and a raft of people across Oxfordshire have been recognised in list.
Amongst them is Lissie Harper, the widow of PC Andrew Harper, who was killed in the line of duty in 2019. She was pivotal in introducing Harper’s Law, which means mandatory life sentences for anyone convicted of killing an emergency worker whilst committing a crime.
Also on the list is former Radio Oxford presenter Anne Diamond has been made an OBE for her campaign to prevent cot death following the death of her third son Sebastian in 1991. The campaign is reported to have cut cot death incidence in the UK from 2,000 a year to around 300.
Sally Dicketts, who stepped down as the Chief Executive Officer of Activate Learning in April, also received further recognition for her services to education with a damehood. She was instrumental in leading Activate Learning through substantial growth.
Read on to see all the Oxfordshire people recognised in the New Year Honours List 2023 – the first New Year Honours list issued by King Charles.
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Professor Dame Hermione LEE DBE FBA
Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford.
For services to English Literature.
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Sally Anne Sheila DICKETTS CBE
Lately, Chief Executive Officer of Activate Learning.
For services to Education.
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Knighthoods
Professor Ian Trevelyan CHAPMAN
Chief Executive Officer, UK Atomic Energy Authority.
For services to Global Fusion Energy.
(Abingdon, Oxfordshire)
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Professor John Mitchell FINNIS AC KC FBA
Professor and Legal Academic.
For services to Legal Scholarship
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Professor Sian Meryl GRIFFITHS OBE
Deputy Chair, GambleAware and Chair, Global Health Committee, Public Health England.
For voluntary and charitable services, particularly during COVID-19.
(Kidlington, Oxfordshire)
Neil Francis Jeremy THE LORD MENDOZA
Commissioner for Culture.
For services to Arts and Culture.
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Dr Gurdial Singh SANGHERA
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc.
For services to the Technology Sector.
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Alan John EISNER
Lately Chair, Maggie’s.
For services to Charitable Fundraising.
(Asthall Leigh, Oxfordshire)
Dr Richard Alan FORTEY FRS
Senior Palaeontologist, Natural History Museum.
For services to Palaeontology and Geology.
(Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire)
Alaric Guy Code HORRIDGE
Chief Executive, Cadet Vocational Qualification Organisation.
For services to Further Education.
(Letcombe Regis, Oxfordshire)
Professor Richard Graham JONES
Science Fellow, Applied International Development, Met Office.
For services to Climate Science.
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Dr Krishna Rohan KANDIAH
Founder, The Sanctuary Foundation.
For services to Refugee Integration.
(Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire)
Carol Margaret KEFFORD
Lately Chief Nurse and Clinical Director at Nuffield Health.
For services to Nursing.
(Witney, Oxfordshire)
Michael Duncan WILLIAMS
Treasurer, World Rowing and Board Member, British Rowing.
For services to Rowing.
(Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire)
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Catherine Elizabeth BELTON
Author and Investigative Journalist.
For services to Journalism.
(Oxford, Oxfordshire)
Zoë Althea BOWDEN
Lately Deputy Director of Operations, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source.
For services to Science.
(Wantage, Oxfordshire)
Caroline Mary GRANT
Lately Headteacher, Billing Brook Academy Trust, Northampton, Northamptonshire.
For services to Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
(Banbury, Oxfordshire)
Alicia Charlotte HARPER
Campaigner for Harper’s Law.
For services to Victims of Violent Crime and their Families.
(Wallingford, Oxfordshire)
Kim Elizabeth JAMES
Head of School Improvement at Oxfordshire County Council.
For services to Education.
(Wantage, Oxfordshire)
Professor Marian KNIGHT
Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health, University of Oxford.
For services to Maternal and Public Health.
(Kidlington, Oxfordshire)
Jennifer Irene NOLAN
Founder and lately Manager, Lawrence Home Nursing Team Limited.
For services to End of Life Care.
(Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire)
Medallists of the Order of the British Empire
John Noah HALL
For services to the community in Cholsey, Oxfordshire, particularly during COVID-19.
(Didcot, Oxfordshire)
Timothy John RANCE
Production Manager, Penlon.
For services to the COVID-19 Response.
(Didcot, Oxfordshire)
