Jeremy Dickson Paxman is an English retired broadcaster,journalist,author,and television presenter. Born in Leeds,Paxman was educated at Malvern College and St Catharine's College,Cambridge,where he edited the undergraduate newspaper Varsity. At Cambridge,he was a member of a Labour Party club and described himself as a socialist,in later life describing himself as a one-nation conservative. He joined the BBC in 1972,initially at BBC Radio Brighton,relocating to London in 1977. In following years,he worked on Tonight and Panorama,becoming a newsreader for the BBC Six O'Clock News and later a presenter on Breakfast Time and University Challenge.
Robert Francis Cornish is a British former diplomat who previously served as the Foreign Office spokesman for Douglas Hurd,Senior Trade Commissioner to Hong Kong,Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macao,head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's news department,and Ambassador to Israel.
Sir Timothy Mark Hitchens,is a British diplomat and a former Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen Elizabeth II,in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom,1999–2002.
Lord Nicholas Charles Gordon-Lennox,the younger son of the 9th Duke of Richmond and his wife,Elizabeth,was a British diplomat,serving as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Spain from 1984 to 1989.
Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles is a British former diplomat. He was the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009–2010. After leaving the Foreign Office,he worked briefly for BAE Systems as international business development director. He left BAE Systems in 2013 and is now a senior adviser to the group chairman and the group chief executive of HSBC. He is also president of the Jane Austen Society.
Sir Geoffrey Doyne Adams served as the British Ambassador to Egypt from 2018 to 2021,as a member of the British Diplomatic Service. He was Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2013 to 2017.
Sir Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff was a British diplomat who was stationed in Iran at a key moment,and was ambassador to Switzerland.
Dame Barbara Logan Hay is a British diplomat who served as Consul-General in Los Angeles from July 2009 to August 2013.
Christopher John Ingham CMG is a retired British Diplomat.
Ian Noel Hughes is a British diplomat who has served as ambassador to Guatemala,El Salvador,Liberia and South Sudan,and high commissioner to Sierra Leone.
Dame Judith Anne Macgregor is a British diplomat who was High Commissioner to South Africa from 2013 to 2017. She previously served as Ambassador to Slovakia from 2004 to 2007,and Ambassador to Mexico from 2009 to 2013.
Sir John Jenkins is a British former diplomat who was ambassador to several countries.
The Special Honours are issued at the Queen's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer the award of the Order of the Garter,Order of the Thistle,Order of Merit,Royal Victorian Order and the Order of St John.
Sir Peter Hope was a British intelligence officer,later a diplomat,ambassador to Mexico.
John Charles Rodger Gray is a former British diplomat who served as Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps.
Graeme Jonathan Knott is a British diplomat and was the British Ambassador to Poland between 2016 and 2020. He also served as the British Ambassador to Hungary between 2012 and 2015.
Sir Roger Blaise Ramsay Hervey,KCVO,CMG is a retired British diplomat.
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