2006 Special Honours

As part of the British honours system, the Special Honours are issued at the King's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours confer the award of the Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle, Order of Merit, Royal Victorian Order and the Order of St John. Life Peers are at times also awarded as special honours.

Baronesses

Life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.

Margaret Anne Ford, chairman, English Partnerships.^[1]
Margaret Jones, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, UNISON.
Denise Patricia Byrne Kingsmill, CBE, deputy chair, Design Museum.
Molly Meacher, Chair of the Clinical Ethics Committee for The Central and North West London NHS Trust.^[2]
Eileen Emily Paisley, vice-president, Democratic Unionist Party.
The Right Honourable Joyce Gwendolen Quin, former Member of Parliament for Gateshead East and Washington West; former Minister of State; Home Office, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Celia Marjorie Thomas, MBE, former Head of Office, Office of the Liberal Democrat Whips, House of Lords.
Sandip Verma, Founder, Domiciliary Care Services UK Ltd.

Barons

Karan Bilimoria, CBE, Chancellor of Thames Valley University.^[2]
The Right Honourable Colin David Boyd, Lord Advocate, Scottish Executive.
The Right Honourable Keith John Charles Bradley, former Member of Parliament for Manchester, Withington; former Minister of State, Home Office.
Wallace Hamilton Browne, Lord Mayor of Belfast.
John Patrick Aubone Burnett, former Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon.
Brian Joseph Michael Cotter, former Member of Parliament for Weston-Super-Mare.
Sir Geoffrey Dear, QPM, former Chief Constable of West Midlands Police.^[2]
Richard Harries, lately Bishop of Oxford.^[3]
David Noel James, CBE, chairman, Litigation Control Group Ltd.
Charles Guy Rodney Leach, Director, Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd.
John Robert Louis Lee, DL, Non-Executive Director, Emerson Developments (Holding) Ltd and James R. Knowles plc, and former Member of Parliament.
Sir Alexander John (Sandy) Bruce-Lockhart, OBE, Leader, Kent County Council and chairman, Local Government Association.
Jonathan Peter Marland, former director, Jardine Lloyd Thompson plc.
Sir William Manuel (Bill) Morris, former General Secretary, Transport and General Workers Union.
Councillor Maurice George Morrow, MLA, chairman, Democratic Unionist Party.
Sir David Rowe-Beddoe, Chairman of the Wales Millennium Centre.^[2]
Mohamed Iltaf Sheikh, Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum.
John Derek Taylor, CBE, Director of Taylors Bulbs of Spalding.
Robin Teverson, Director of Finance South West, and former Member of the European Parliament.
The Right Honourable William David Trimble, former Member of Parliament for Upper Bann; former Leader, Ulster Unionist Party.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Alan Stanley Collins, CMG.^[4]
The Very Reverend Dr John Henry Moses. On his retirement as Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral.^[5]

v t e 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)
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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 1997 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

2006 Special Honours

Baronesses

Barons

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO)

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

Royal Victorian Medal (RVM)

Royal Victorian Medal (Silver)

Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

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