Farming leaders recognised in New Years Honours

Leading the way was Graham Robert Wynne, chief executive of the RSPB, who received a knighthood for services to nature conservation. He already holds the MBE.

Ian Duncan Millar, Scottish director of the National Fallen Stock Company and a director of the Moredun Institute, received the MBE for services to agriculture in Scotland. He runs a 300-acre mixed farm and a hill unit at Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross.

Also receiving the MBE, for services to agriculture, was West Wales farmer George Mathias, a former delegate to the NFU Council for 17 years and former Pembroke county chairman. He is a former chairman and president of the Pembroke Farmers Club and a past president of the South Pembrokeshire Ploughing Association.

Honours include:

KB

Graham Robert Wynne (Royston, Hertfordshire) chief executive, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, for services to nature conservation.

CBE

Prof Ian Richard Crute (St Albans, Hertfordshire) formerly director Rothamsted Research, for services to plant science.

OBE

Stephanie Hilborne (Nottingham) chief executive, The Wildlife Trusts, for services to Nature Conservation; Alison Mary McLean (Hereford) for services to rural affairs in the West Midlands; Dr Sydney Donnelly Neill (Belfast) director, Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences Division, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland Executive; Prof Timothy O’Riordan (Norwich) Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, for services to sustainable development.

MBE

John Stephen Morton Bower (Ivybridge, Devon) for services to the British Veterinary Association Animal Welfare Foundation; Prof Valerie Braybrooks (Spalding, Lincolnshire) Dean and Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Lincoln, for  services to education and to the food industry; Valerie Anne Dilcock (Pickering, North Yorkshire) for services to the North York Moors National Park Authority.

William Duncan (Upper Largo, Fife) for services to horticulture in Scotland; Ian Duncan Millar (Aberfeldy, perth and Kinross) for services to agriculture in Scotland; George Lewis Mathias (Tenby, Pembrokeshire) for services to agriculture; Edmund Caerwyn Roberts (Harlech, Gwynedd) chairman, Snowdonia National Park Authority, for services to the community in Gwynedd.

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