27 June 2010

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Dame Barbara Monroe
Dame Barbara Monroe
SOUTH Londoners have been recognised by the Queen in her Birthday Honours list for everything from services to football to end-of-life care.
Professor Barbara Monroe, 59, who runs St Christopher’s Hospice in Lawrie Park Road, Sydenham, will now be addressed as Dame after being appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire.
She became chief executive at the hospice in 2000 and has been a social worker for more than 30 years, working as chairwoman of the national Child Bereavement Network and lecturing at King’s College London.
Dame Barbara, who was recognised for services to palliative care, said:
“I am thrilled and proud to receive this award.
“It recognises the importance of good care at the end of life for everyone and the significance of the work that hospices nationally and internationally do to achieve this.”
Southwark-based funeral director Barry Albin Dyer, 59, receives an OBE.
His firm, F A Albin & Sons, has dealt with the death of all the 473 servicemen and women who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr Albin Dyer OBE said:
“I am very privileged to have been able to help these people in a small way.”
He said it was overwhelming to receive an OBE and added it was for all 52 staff within the firm.
Peckham-based Hope Powell, who manages England Ladies football team, receives a CBE.
Ms Powell, 43, who was born in Lewisham, won 66 caps for England and played for Millwall Lionesses for nine years.
Continuing the sporting theme is Maxine Patricia Edwards, from Catford, who is given an MBE for services to women’s rugby.
Other honours for South Londoners include:
* Peter James Housden, from Blackheath, the permanent secretary at the Department for Communities and Local Government, who is knighted.
* CBEs to musician and record producer John Millar, from Balham, for services to the music industry, and Graham Pimlott, from Herne Hill, for services to business.
* Sian Jarvis, from Kennington, and Susan Owen, from Sydenham, both created Companions of the British Empire.
* OBEs to Clara Arokiasamy, from Forest Hill, John Cleary, from Dulwich, Roger Legate, from Streatham, Jehangir Malik, from Bermondsey and Keith Palmer, from Blackheath.
* MBEs to Alison Blackshaw, from Forest Hill, Alan Edwards and Doreen Walcott, from Catford, Alyson Ellis, Gary Payne and Patricia Hickson, from Rotherhithe, Fay Fullerton, from Dulwich, Judith Ish-Horowicz and James O’Neil, from Streatham, Emma Stewart, from Norwood, and Philip Walters, from Herne Hill.
Email: michael.stringer@slp.co.uk
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