1979 Dissolution Honours

The 1979 Dissolution Honours List was issued in June 1979 following the general election of that year.^[1]^[2]

The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour.

Life Peers

Baroness

Lena May Jeger, lately Member of Parliament for Camden, Holborn and St. Pancras South.

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 the Glasgow Shettleston; lately First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, House of Commons.
The Right Honourable Cledwyn Hughes CH lately Member of Parliament for Anglesey. Secretary of State for Wales 1966-1968; Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1968-1970.
The Right Honourable Sydney Irving, lately Member of Parliament for the Dartford. Chairman of Ways and Means, House of Commons 1968-70
The Right Honourable Norman Harold Lever MP Member of Parliament for the Manchester Central; lately Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Right Honourable William Ross MBE lately Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock. Formerly Secretary of State for Scotland.
The Right Honourable Robert Maitland Michael Stewart CH lately Member of Parliament for the Fulham. Formerly Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
The Right Honourable George Russell Strauss, lately Member of Parliament for Vauxhall. Minister of Supply 1947-51
Henry Reginall Underhill CBE National Agent of the Labour Party

Privy Councillor

The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:

Ernest Armstrong MP Member of Parliament for the North West Durham. Lately Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of the Environment
Jack Ashley CH MP Member of Parliament for the Stoke-on-Trent South
Trevor Alec Jones MP Member of Parliament for Rhondda. Lately Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Welsh Office
Gordon James Oakes MP Member of Parliament for Widnes. Lately Minister of State, Department of Education and Science
Harold Walker MP Member of Parliament for Doncaster. Lately Minister of State, Department of Employment

Knight Bachelor

Frank Herbert Barlow CBE Secretary, Parliamentary Labour Party
John McFarlane Boyd CBE General Secretary, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers^[3]
Montague Bernard Levine, Personal Physician to the Right Honourable James Callaghan
Thomas Daniel McCaffrey, Formerly Chief Press Secretary, 10 Downing Street
Joseph Percival William Mallalieu, lately Member of Parliament for the East Division of Huddersfield East. Minister of Defence (Royal Navy) 1966-1967. Minister of State, Board of Trade, 1967-1968. Minister of Technology 1968-1969.
Thomas Gwilym Morris CBE QPM Chief Constable, South Wales Constabulary
Raphael Herman Tuck, lately Member of Parliament for Watford

Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

The Right Honourable Denis Winston Healey MBE MP Member of Parliament for the Leeds East. Lately Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

The Right Honourable Judith Constance Mary Hart MP Member of Parliament for Lanark. Lately Minister for Overseas Development.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Donald Richard Coleman MP Member of Parliament for Neath. Lately Vice-Chamberlain of the Household.
Gordon Kenneth Dennis, Farmer, Lewes, Sussex
Derek Oliver Gladwin OBE Regional Secretary, Southern Region, General and Municipal Workers Union
James Hamilton MP 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 MBE Private and Constituency Secretary to the Right Honourable James Callaghan
Roger Stott MP 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 Right Honourable 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 BEM 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

British Empire Medal (BEM)

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 Right Honourable 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

References

↑ The London Gazette: no. 47868. pp. 7599–7600. 14 June 1979.
↑ "Peerage creations 1958-2008" (PDF). House of Lords Library. Retrieved 16 July 2016. Peerage creations are identified as being Dissolution Honours, not Resignation Honours.
↑ AEU: Amalgamated Engineering Union. 1989. p. 5. 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 |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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PM's Resignation Honours	1895 1945 1951 1955† 1957† 1963 1964 1970 1976 1979† 1990 1997 2007† 2010† 2016 †Not issued

Coronation Honours	1821 1831 1838 1902 1911 1937 1953

Dissolution Honours	1874 1885 1892 1895 1900 1906 1910 (January) 1910 (December) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935† 1945 1950 1951† 1955† 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (February) 1974 (October) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 †Not issued

Special Honours	2009 2013 2014 2015 2016

Additional Honours	1887 (Golden Jubilee) 1897 (Diamond Jubilee) 1923 Prime Minister 1935 (Silver Jubilee) 1977 (Silver Jubilee) 1990 (Queen Mother's 90th Birthday) 2002 (Death of Queen Mother and Princess Margaret) 2002 (Golden Jubilee) 2012 (Diamond Jubilee)

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