1979 Dissolution Honours Explained
The 1979 Dissolution Honours List was issued in June 1979 following the general election of that year.[1]
The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour.
Life Peers (all Labour)
Baroness
Baron
- John Edward Brooks, Chairman of the Labour Party, Wales; former Leader of the Labour Group, County of South Glamorgan
- Sir Myer Galpern, lately Member of Parliament for Glasgow Shettleston; lately First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, House of Commons.
- Rt Hon. Cledwyn Hughes, lately Member of Parliament for Anglesey. Secretary of State for Wales 1966–1968; Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1968–1970.
- Rt Hon. Sydney Irving, lately Member of Parliament for Dartford. Chairman of Ways and Means, House of Commons 1968-70
- Rt Hon. Norman Harold Lever, Member of Parliament for Manchester Central; lately Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- Rt Hon. William Ross, lately Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock. Formerly Secretary of State for Scotland.
- Rt Hon. Robert Maitland Michael Stewart, lately Member of Parliament for Fulham. Formerly Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
- Rt Hon. George Russell Strauss, lately Member of Parliament for Vauxhall. Minister of Supply 1947-51
- Henry Reginall Underhill, National Agent of the Labour Party
The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- Donald Richard Coleman, Member of Parliament for Neath. Lately Vice-Chamberlain of the Household.
- Gordon Kenneth Dennis, Farmer, Lewes, Sussex
- Derek Oliver Gladwin, Regional Secretary, Southern Region, General and Municipal Workers Union
- James Hamilton, Member of Parliament for the Bothwell Division of Lanarkshire. Lately Comptroller of the Household
- John Emrys Jones, Secretary/Organiser, Labour Party, Wales
- Ruth Margaret Sharpe, Private and Constituency Secretary to the Rt Hon. James Callaghan
- Roger Stott, Member of Parliament for the Westhoughton. Lately Parliamentary Private Secretary
- Derek Adrian Webster, Chairman, Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail Ltd.
- Nigel Leonard Wicks, Formerly Private Secretary, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- Gavyn Davies, Policy Adviser to the Rt Hon. James Callaghan
- David John Wise, National Secretary, Co-operative Party
- Philip Wood, Formerly Private Secretary, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
- Margaret Dougan, Private Secretary to Members of Parliament
- David Evans, Chairman, Cardiff South East Labour Party
- John David Fletcher Holt, Formerly Private Secretary, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
- Albert Henry Long, Chief Clerk Superintendent, Whips Office, House of Commons
- Peter Ronald McClellan Taylor, Office Manager, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
- Eva Florence Thomas, Secretary, Ely Labour Party, Cardiff
- Annabel Urquhart, Assistant Scottish Organiser, Labour Party, Scotland
- John Bretnall Warwicker, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
- Civil Division
- Charles Edward Barton, Messenger, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
- Pamela Broughton, Telephonist, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
- Joseph Robert Hazard, Driver to the Rt Hon. James Callaghan
- Colin Brian Holden, the Chef at Chequers
- Daisy Elizabeth Riley, Cleaner, Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
- Wren Dorothy Woodcock, Stewardess at Chequers
Notes and References
- Web site: Peerage creations 1958-2008. House of Lords Library. 16 July 2016. Peerage creations are identified as being Dissolution Honours, not Resignation Honours.
- Book: AEU: Amalgamated Engineering Union. 1989. Very quickly he had that problem under control and in 1975 was awarded a CBE, being knighted in Jim Callaghan's dissolution honours of 1979. 5.
