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Mr Donald Anderson MP, 60; Lord Barber of Tewkesbury, environment consultant, 81; Mr Simon Bowes Lyon, Lord- Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, 67; Mr Nicholas Cook, cricketer, 43; Sir Edward Downes, conductor, 75; Dr Sir Patrick Duffy, former MP, 79; Mrs Laura Duncan, Sheriff of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, 52; Sir Patrick Fairweather, former ambassador to Italy and Albania, 63; Sir Stanley Grinstead, former chairman, Reed International, 75; Mr Derek Ibbotson, athlete, 67; Mr Edmund Knight, former Commissioner of Customs and Excise, 80; Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Le Cheminant, former Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey, 79; Mr Ken Livingstone MP, 54; Mr Kenneth Loach, television and film director, 63; Mr Barry Manilow, singer and composer, 53; Sir Peter Michael, chairman, Classic FM, 61; Miss Estelle Morris MP, 47; Mr William Sinton, ambassador to Panama, 53; Lt-Col Aidan Sprot, former Lord-Lieutenant of Tweeddale, 80; Mr Brian Statham, cricketer, 69; Captain Roderick Stirling of Fairburn, Lord-Lieutenant of Ross and Cromarty and Skye and Lochalsh, 67; Sir Maldwyn Thomas, former President, Welsh Liberal Party, 81; Professor Sir Alan Walters, political economist, 73.
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