Cumbrian Honours lists

Knighthoods

• Professor Vernon Charles Gibson CB FRS for services to science and to defence

CBE

• Paul Caldwell for services to agriculture and to rural areas

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• Richard Alan Warren for services to mountain rescue in Cumbria and the Lake District

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• Nicholas James Barrett for services to outdoor education
• James Matthew Batchelor for services to technology for older people
• John Rodger Cairns for services to public transport
• Douglas Kerr for services to aviation heritage
• Mark Todd for services to sailing and to young people
• Robert Walker for services to neurodiversity
• Jeremy Richard Wilson for services to indoor climbing

Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (BEM)

• Margaret Hartley for services to the community in West Cumbria
• Nigel Robert Lister for services to the nuclear industry and to mountain rescue
• Marjorie Anne Nicholson for services to the arts and to the community in Barrow in Furness
• Kevin Walsh for services to the community in Carlisle, Cumbria

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Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• Martin Daltry for services to UK cultural relations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Mr Daltry was born in Carlisle and lived in Burgh-by-Sands. He leads the British Council in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• The Very Revd Mark Christopher Boyling for services to Carlisle Cathedral and to the community in Cumbria.
• Dr Amanda Jean Carson for services to farming and to the protection of rare breeds.
• Roger Philip Glossop for services to theatre and the performing arts.
• Paul Hornby for services to philanthropy and to the communities of Barrow-in-Furness and South Cumbria.
• John Lee Nixon for services to Association Football.

Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (BEM)

• Dr Christopher Jeremy Ayling for services to the community in Ennerdale.
• David Davidson for services to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and to the education sector in Cumbria.
• Charles Thomas Devlin for services to the community in Ireby.
• Stuart McCourt, Commanding Officer, Whitehaven Unit, Sea Cadets. For voluntary service to young people and to the environment.
• Allan Craig Muirhead for services to the community in Kirkby Lonsdale.
• Christopher John Young for services to positive safety culture and to male mental health. 

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

• Lorrayne Hughes, chief executive of Cumbria Education Trust, for services to education
• Professor Brian James Webster-Henderson, deputy vice chancellor of the University of Cumbria and professor of nursing, for services to the NHS and to education
• Humphrey Giles Welfare, of Burgh-by-Sands, near Carlisle, for services to heritage in the North of England

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

• Andrew Airey for services to the prevention of young suicide. Andy, of Eden, is part of 3 Dads Walking, who all lost their children to suicide and are campaigning to raise awareness
• David Geoffrey Jones for services to the community in Morland
• Victoria Jayne Moorby, head of marketing at Oxley in Ulverston, for services to the defence and aerospace industry
• Richard Ogden for services to the community in Cumbria and to young people in the UK and abroad
• Fiona Kennedy Stobart for services to community palliative care
• James Edward Walker for services to tourism

Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (BEM)

• Thomas Coulthard for services to heritage and to the community in the Lake District
• Dennis Laird for services to the community in Barrow

Officers of the Order of the British Empire – OBE

• Joshua MacAlister for services for vulnerable children

Members of the Order of the British Empire – MBE

• Judith Anne Godden for services to the community in Westmorland and Lonsdale, Cumbria
• Helen Housby for services to netball
• Penny Kirby, team leader of Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team, for services to mountain rescue in the Lake District
• Elsie Barbara Martlew for political and public service
• Rebecca Robson for services to victims of domestic abuse
• Simon Rogan, chef, for services to the food industry
• Karen Shepperson for services to education
• Peter Buchan, Nuclear Transport Solutions managing director of shipping, for services to the nuclear industry and young people

Medallist of the Order of the British Empire – BEM

• Sean Balmer, of Cockermouth Swimming Club, for services to swimming in Cumbria
• Melanie Jane Gardner, fine and decorative arts curator for services to the arts and culture in Cumbria
• Peter William Garwood for services in the Community in Barrow
• Graham Walter Hundley for voluntary service to the British Red Cross
• Jane Elizabeth Morris-Eyton for services to the community in Bootle
• Michelle Louise Pearse, chair of Changing Lives Learning Trust in West Cumbria, for services to education and the community in West Cumbria
• Captain Michael Neville Pemberton, chief executive of BEC, for services to regeneration and to the community in Cumbria