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

Floella Benjamin, OBE, DL, Actor, Presenter and Campaigner on Children's Issues.^[1]
Rita Margaret Donaghy, CBE, formerly Chair, Conciliation and Arbitration Service.
Dee Doocey, OBE, Chair of the London Assembly.
Jeannie Drake, formerly Deputy General Secretary, Communication Workers Union.
Dame Ellen Margaret Eaton, DBE, Chairman, Local Government Association.
Meral Hussein Ece, OBE, Local Government Councillor, Islington; Advocate of Equality issues.
Dr. Dianne Hayter, Chair, Legal Services Consumer Panel.
Anna Healy, formerly Government and Political Adviser.
Judith Jolly, Chair of Executive Committee of Liberal Democrats in Devon and Cornwall.
Susan Kramer, former Liberal Democrat MP.
The Right Honourable Helen Lawrie Liddell, formerly Secretary of State for Scotland.
Helen Margaret Newlove, Campaigner against anti- social behaviour.
Susan Nye, formerly Director of Government Relations, Prime Minister's Office.
Kathryn Jane Parminter, formerly Chief Executive, Campaign to Protect Rural England.
Shireen Olive Ritchie, Local Government Councillor, particularly in social care for adults and children.
Fiona Shackleton, LVO, lawyer specialising in family law.
Deborah Stedman-Scott, OBE, DL, Chief Executive, Tomorrow's People, a national employment charity working in deprived areas of the United Kingdom.
Maeve Christina Mary Sherlock, OBE, formerly Chief Executive, Refugee Council and formerly Special Adviser to the Chancellor.
Patience Wheatcroft, Editor-in-Chief of the Wall Street Journal Europe.
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.
Patrick Cormack, former Conservative MP.^[2]
Michael Dobbs, author, presenter and adviser to Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
Edward Peter Lawless Faulks, QC, Barrister, Leading Practitioner, Crime and Personal Injuries practice.
Andrew Feldman, businessman and Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party.
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.
Alistair Cooke, OBE, career in education, authorship and politics.
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.
Bernard Ribeiro, CBE, FRCS, retired Consultant General Surgeon; member of the Health Policy Research Advisory Board of the American College of Surgeons.
John Sharkey, Chairman of the Liberal Democrat 2010 General Election campaign.
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.
Nicholas True, CBE, past Deputy Head of the PM’s Policy Unit; former Private Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords; Leader of Richmond Borough Council
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.

References

[1] The London Gazette of Monday 14th June 2020

[2] Latest peerages announced

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British honours lists
New Year Honours	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902† 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940† 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 † Not issued because of Birthday Honours of the new monarch (1902) and World War II (1940)
Birthday Honours	1860 1861 1862 1863§ 1864§ 1865§ 1866 1867 1868§ 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876§ 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887† 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897† 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911† 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937† 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953† 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 § Not issued † Not issued because of Jubilee Honours (1887, 1897) and Coronation Honours (1911, 1937, 1953)
Coronation Honours	1821 1831 1838 1902 1911 1937 1953 2023† † Not issued
Jubilee Honours	1887 (Golden) 1897 (Diamond) 1935 (Silver) 1977 (Silver) 2002 (Golden) 2012 (Diamond) 2022 (Platinum)† † Not issued
Demise Honours	2002 (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret) 2021 (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) 2023 (Queen Elizabeth II)
Dissolution Honours	1874 1885 1892 1895 1900† 1906† 1910† 1918† 1922 1923† 1924 1929 1931 1935† 1945 1950 1951† 1955† 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (February) 1974 (October) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017† 2019 2024 † Not issued
Prime Minister's Resignation Honours	1895 1905 1916 1923 1924 1945 1951 1955† 1957† 1963 1964 1970 1976 1979† 1990 1997 2007† 2010† 2016 2019 2022 (Johnson) 2022 (Truss) 2024 † Not issued
Special Honours	1923 1952 1972 1973 1974 1977 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1985 1987 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1999 2001 2004 2006 2007 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026
Additional Honours	1911 (Delhi Durbar) 1953 (Korea) 1969 (Investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales) 1990 (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday)
Honours by nation	Australia Canada Ceylon India New Zealand