At The End of Each Year The New Year’s Honours List Is Announced By The Palace. And At The End of Each Year Lots of People Go Out To Celebrate And Wake Up On New Year’s Day A Little Delicate. So Here’s A Reminder of Some of The People Who Have New Titles At The Start of This Year, Lest We Forget.
(The Whole List ~ Over 160 Pages ~ Is Available From The Cabinet Office)
Dame Shirley Bassey Becomes Only The Second Black Women Ever In 106 Years To Be Granted Membership of The Companions of Honour of The British Empire.
Venice Biennale Winning Artist Sonia Boyce OBE Who Previously Became The First Black Female Admitted To The Fellowship of The Royal Academy of Art In Over 24o Years, Is Now Appointed A Damehood.
And
Solange Urdang, Co. Founder of The Black British Theatre Awards, Is Herself Awarded An OBE, In The Black Theatre Awards 5th Anniversary Year
All Within The 75th Anniversary Year of Windrush (2023) In Which Diversity & Multi-Culturalism In Britain Can Be Seen To Have Clearly Succeeded To A Significant Degree
(Despite The Deeply Offensive Words From Britain’s Most Recent ‘Former’ Home Secretary, Who Declared In A Speech, Words To The Contrary)
Each Medal Is Literally A Badge of Honour. They Can Be Worn With A Pin, Ribbon or Sash. And Can Form Part of Ceremonial Dress On Special Occassions. Each Also Has Its Own Combination of Colours, Its Own Motto And Its Own Associated Chapel of Worship, To Which Attaches Special Privileges Such As The Right To Marry There or Attend Ceremonies There. At St Paul’s Cathedral, St Georges Chapel Windsor Castle And Westminster Abbey For Instance. In The Above Photo Gallery (Bottom Left) Is The UK Royal Family Coat of Arms Bears The Motto Diev Et Mon Droit (God & My Right) Which References The Battle Cry of King Richard I (1157-1199) And His Believe In Divine Right of The Monarch To Rule Britain (Notwithstanding He Was of French Dynasty)
Whilst Individuals Or Organisations Can Design Their Own Coats of Arms (With Crown, Crest, Shield, Supporters (Either Side of The Shield), Motto And Wreaths, Heraldry (or Armory) Courts Still Exist In Order To Settle or Verify Issues of Individual or Family Identity As They Relate To Certain Claims. Such Matters Are Dealt With By His Majesty’s High Court of Chivalry (The Lord Lyons Court In Scotland) And The College of Arms Honours.CabinetOffice.Gov.Uk
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It’s Official. Chivalry Is Not Dead!
Appointments & Admissions To Ancient ‘Orders’ of The Royal Court Live On Through The Birthday Honours List & New Year’s Honours List.
And The Chosen Ones Are Free To Decline or Accept!
Dame Shirley Bassey DBE CH Was Appointed A Dame of The British Empire In 1999 By Queen Elizabeth II For Services To The Performing Arts. Virtually A Quarter Century Later, On Friday November 17 2023, In Monoco She Was Awarded The Order of Saint Charles By Prince Albert II of Monoco To Honour & Recognise Merit & Services To The State Prince & The Principality. And In The New Years Honours List Announced December 30th 2023 She Was Admitted To The The Order of the Companions of Honour of The British Empire By King Charles III For Services To Music. There Motto Is ‘In Action Faithful And In Honour Clear’.
By The Time She Received Her Damehood In 1999 She Was Already Such A Star That She Had Been Asked On Three Seperate Occassions To Record Three Different Bond Movie Theme Tunes (Still The Only Star In History To Do So). Goldfinger 1964, Diamonds Are Forever 1971, And Moonraker 1979.
She’s Performed At The Royal Albert Hall Circa 45 Times.
In 1977 (The Year of Queen Elizabeth II’s 25 Year Jubilee) She Was The First Woman To Receive A BRIT Award For Best British Solo Female Artist. It Was The First Year of The Event And Was Televised Especially By The Then Thames Television TV Production Company. It Would Be 5 Years Before The Event Was Staged Again In 1982 And It Was Been Televised Annually Ever Since. Dame Bassey Also Headlined The 2012 Jubilee Musical Celebrations At Buckingham Palace.
Brought Up In Tiger Bay In Wales, She Is One of Six Children Raised By Her Nigerian Father And Welsh Mother.
At School Hers Is A Sad And All To Familiar Tale of Receiving Little Encouragement From British School Teachers As A Black Child or Dual Heritage Child. And Being Discouraged When She Showed Any Singing Talent. Even By The Choir Master She Recalls. And Being Subjected To Claims of Making A Teacher “Feel Uncomfortable.”
Born January 8 1937, She Left School At 14 And Began To Sing In Pubs & Clubs In The Evenings. Fabulously She Made Her First Performance At The London Palladium In 1957. Aged Just 20.
She Is The Only Female Singing Star To Have A Top 40 UK Album Over Each of The Last 7 Decades. Basically Every Decade Since! Like Barbara Striesand, Cher, And Gloria Gaynor, She Is A Global Super Star, A Gay Icon And A Genuine National Treasure.
In June 2023 She Was Added To The Music Legend Collection of Personalised Coins Pressed By The Royal Mint (She Said She Would Gift Hers To Her Great Grandson Who She Was Off To See For The First Time). It Is Inspiring That She Is Still Having Great New Experiences Aged 86 Very Nearly 87. And Still Looking Amazing!
Those Who’ve Declined Honours Include The Late Bajan & Jamaican Writer, Poet, Actor & PeakyBlinder @BenjaminZephaniah, Chef @NigellaLawson, And Monty Python Comedian And Basil Faulty Funnyman, Now Senior Citizen, Turned Right Wing Politics Presenter & Commentator @JohnCleeseOfficial.
Interestingly Some Chivlaric Orders Only Allow The Admission of A Limited Number of Living Members No Matter How Noble Any Other Nominees May Be. Whilst Admissions & Appointments Are Announced In The Bi-Annual Honours List The Actual Giving of The Medals By A Delegated Member of The Royal Family Takes Place In A Seperate Investiture Ceremony Later On In The Year. A Very Limited Number of Friends or Family Members May Attend The Event With The Recipient.
Various Different Royal Households (Royal Courts) Across Europe And Further Abroad Established Their Own System of Honours, Decorations And Medals Throughout The Early, High And Late Middles Ages (The Latter Also Known As The Dark Ages) For Noblemen Who Fought For The Sake of The Sovereign, Religious Crusades or Royal Missions. Such Medieval Noblemen Were Known As Knights Who Famously Travelled, Fought And Performed On Horseback. Given Their Association To The Royal Courts They Operated A Code of Conduct Relating To How They Behaved In Military, Diplomacy, And Romantic Missions, Which Was Known As Chivalry (Developed From The French Word ‘Cheval’ Meaning Horse).
Legendary Tales Centred Around The Warrior King Arthur And The Knights of The Round Table, Who Lived Circa The 5th Century, Are Most Famously Documented In The Manuscript By Welsh Clergyman Geoffrey Monmouth Called ‘History of British Kings’ Circa 1138. (Why There Is Such A Huge Gap Between King Arthur’s Day And His Story Being Documented On The Written Page Is Something That Is Historically, Largely, Notoriously, Ill-Explained.)
Similiar Such Medieval Tales of Triumph, Contained In Another Medieval Manuscript Called ‘The Matter of Britain’ Document Tales of William The Conqueror And The Battle of Hastings In 1066 Back, To Which The Current Monarchy Can Trace Their History And The End of The Invading Vikings And Anglo-Saxons. It Was After Normandy Conquest That The British Honoury System of Knighthoods, Orders And Medals Further Developed.
Each Knight Belonged To A Particular ‘Order’ (or Group) of Knights. In Arthurian Legends There Were Even The Queen’s Knights, Assigned To Protect Guinevere (The Wife of Warrior King Arthur). They Carried Plain White Shields (Hence They Were Known As White Knights).
In 1348 Edward III Established The Most Noble Order of The Garter, Which Is Still Celebrated With An Annual Procession At Windsor Castle Today.
In 1896 Queen Victoria Created The Royal Victorian Order (RVO). It Rewards Service To The Royal Family Directly. Established And Run By The Sovereign It Operates Without Governmental Interference. King Eward VII Prescribed The ‘Royal Victorian Chain’ In 1902 As Part of The Noble & Royal Dress For Those With Such Honours.
In 1917 George V Established The Most Excellent Order of The British Empire In Honour of Citizens Who Made Non Military Contributions To Society During WW1.
More Recently, Since The Passing of The Late Queen, On September 8th 2022, King Charles III, Now Has Ultimate Say Regarding Granting Honours To Selected Commowealth Citizens.
There Is A Formal Recommendation & Nomination Process Run Via The Cabinet Office. An Associated Committee Then Advices On The Subsequent Awarding of Honours, Decorations, And Medals To Members of The Royal Household, Military, Government, And General Public.
Dame Sonia Dawn Boyce DBE RA Is An Art & Design Professor At The London University of Art, Who Likes To Collaborate With Fellow Artists And Incorporate Elements of Drawing, Painting, Photography, Space, Sound And Video Into Her Work.
She Also Featured on On Desert Island Discs Earlier This Year. @SoniaBoyceArtist
The Documentary, ‘Imagine: Sonia Boyce Finding Her Voice’ Is Available On BBC iPlayer And Follows Her Progress As She Wins The Venice Biennale Golden Lion Price As The First Woman To Represent The UK In The Renowned International Art Competition.
In 2016 She Become The First Black Woman To Become A Fellow of The Royal Academy of Art And Effectively A Royal Academician, Some 248 Years After The Royal Academy of Art Opened In 1768. And In 2022 She Won The Golden Lion Prize At The Venice Biennale, As The First Black Woman Selected By The British Council To Represent Britain At The Event.
She Was Awarded An MBE In 2007 In The Late Queen’s Birthday Honours List, An OBE In Her Late Majesty’s 2019 New Year Honours List And A Damehood In The King’s 2024 New Year Honours List All For Services To Art.
Dame Boyce Has A Long Term Partner Mr David A Bailey, Also An Art Expert And Together They Have Two Young Daughters very Much Ensconced In The Art World. Wives of Knights Become Ladies. There Is No Equivalent For Husbands of Dames.
She Is A Proud Brixtonian, Has Exhibited At apalazzogallery, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy And Is Newly Represented By HauserWirth The Renowned Art Experts Based In Somerset.
- The Above Painting Is: Missionary Position II,
Watercolour, Pastel & Crayon On Paper, 1985 (123.8 × 183 cm) - @PalazzoGallery Posted December 6th 2023: Sonia Boyce OBE RA ‘Life Between Islands ~ Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now’ Opening Today – Until 1 April 2024
- Co-Curated By David A. Bailey @ICF_ (The International Curators Forum.Org)
- And Alex Farquharson @alexjfarquharson
- Organized By The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) Toronto, Canada @agotoronto
- Originated By Tate Britain @tate
- The Exhibition examines: the relationship between the Caribbean and Britain And Sees British art history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from a Caribbean perspective.
- timely and relevant themes such as the role of culture in decolonization
- the meaning of home, The Issue of reclaiming ancestral traditions, And The nature of Caribbean and diasporic identity
- racial discrimination and sociopolitical conflict
- @soniaboyceartist #apalazzogallery
Theatre Diversity Pioneer, Solange Urdang, Whose Parents Fled South Africa In Objection To Apartheid, And Who Co.Founded The Black British Theatre Awards, Is Admitted To The Order of The British Empire (Awarded An OBE) For Services To Dance & Musical Theatre
We Are Very Particular About Picture Selection Here At TO.P And When We Selected This Picture of Solange Urdang @solangeurdang For Our TheOrator.Press Black History Month Issue, October 2023, Featuring The Black British Theatre Awards (@BBTA’s) 5 Year Anniversary Special Feature, Little Did We Know She Would In Fact Be Receiving A Royal Honour “The Week In Between Christmas & New Year 2023” Just A Matter of Weeks Later.
With This Rather Royal Seal of Approval Following Our Black British Theatre Special We Are Reassured That Our Powers of Selection & Perception Working Well And We Should Keep Doing What We’re Doing. Namely, Building TheOrator.Press Online, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity And Accountability Magazine. A Positive Magazine, For Positive People, By Positive People!
Congratulations To Solange. We Are Thrilled The Palace Recognises Her Great Work Just Like Us And Innumberable Others Too. And We Look Forward To Co. Founder Omar Okai Receiving Due Royal Recognition Too. Meanwhile We Are Thrilled To Have Received His Gracious Statement of Support When We Reached Out To Him For Comment Regarding Solange’s Award.
“I have know Solange since 1990, almost 34 years. Having taught at the Urdang Academy when it’s was in Covent Garden. I was employed as a teacher by her trail blazing mother Leonie Urdang, who comes from a family of Anti Apartheid activists and was one of the first people to open the arts training for all creeds and colours in Britain long before the term ‘ diversity ‘ was coined.
this included employing black teachers, directors and choreographers in her performing arts school. I have witnessed Solange take up the mantle when her mother passed away.
The school under her leadership grew and became ‘thee‘ most all round diverse school in Europe. She has raised millions in scholarships over the years so young future performers can carry out their dreams, without being hindered by lack of wealth or lack of opportunity.
We Have, Over The Near 34 Years, Become Very Close Friends And Are Both Respected Within The Performing Arts, Which Has Gained The Trust of Not Just The Performers But Creatives And Producers.
Theatre & Dance Diversity Pioneer Solange Urdang With Co.Founder Omar Okai
At Their
BBTAs
Sun Oct 29th 2023
Solange More So Within The Educational System.
This Is The Reason Why We Joined Together To The Black British Theatre Awards.
Her Honour Is Not Actually Just For The BBTAS, It Is Infact For Her Entire Body Of Work And Contribution To The Arts In Education And Her Continued Determination To Break Down Walls And Strive For Equality.
To Infact Get An Honour Can Take Years. Somebody Has To Champion You, Get All Of The Information Together And References From Various Body’s.
The Black British Theatre Awards Would Not Be The Main Reason, It Is In Fact For Her Work As, Now Former CEO, Of The Urdang Academy And Her Involvement With Other Governing Bodys.
I Am Extremely Proud Of Solange For Her Hard Tireless Work. And Her Ethic, Along With Mine, Is This Reason Why We Started The BBTAS.”
The Innovative & Inclusive Work of @solangeurdang, Omar Okai And The Black British Theatre Awards @thebbtas Helps Spur The Development of Powerful Theatre Productions Such As This Year’s Panto At The Brixton House Theatre. See Seperate Review In The December Issue of TheOrator.Press (TO.P)
What An Honour! The First New Year’s Honours List Since The King’s Coronation In The Spring & His Birthday Honours List of Summer Last Year
A Game of Thrones Mother & Daugher, An Archbishop of Canterbury Who Crowned The King On A Majestic Alter, A Spice Girl’s Husband, A British-African Dentist, A British-African Entrepreneur, A British-African Scientist, An Opera Innovator, A Reforming Music Maker, An Edgy Shakespearean, A British-Kiwi Publican, A Baker, Two Olympic Gymnastic Sisters, A Hollywood Director, A Real-Life Life-Saver, A Taxi Driver, Three Fierce Lionesses, Two Football Champions Fighting Racism, A History-Making Nine Year Old Childrens’ Champion, An Ex-Factor Winner Based In California & A Pioneer Publisher Based In Jamaica Are All Amongst A Special Eclectic Selection of Multi-Cultural British Citizens Rewarded For Good Works In The 2024 New Years Honours List
Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock @#MaggieAderinPocock Receives A Damehood For Services To Science, Science Education & Diversity. She Is A Proven Space Expert, Scientist. And Multi-Culturalism Success. She Became Chancellor of Leicester University In February 2023.
She Is One of A Number of Black Professionals Who Contributed To A Report By The Commission For Race And Ethnic Disparities In Britain For The Government. It Was Commissioned Following Protests Demanding Social Justice Reform After The Murder of George Floyed In Amercia, In May 2020, During Lockdown. The Report Became Infamous In Some Quarters As It Was Condemned By Many Members of The Black Community As Unrealistic And An Egregious Exercise In Whitewashing. Think Tank TheRunnymeadeTrust.Org Dismissed It As ”A Let Down”.
On Receiving A Doll of Her Likeness From Barbie Manufactureres Mattel Earlier This Year (March 2023, In Honour of International Women’s Day) She Said “I Hope My Doll Will Remind Girls That When You Reach For The Stars, Anything Is Possible.”
Lioness Goalkeeper Mary Earps @1MaryEarps Has Received An MBE For Services To Association Football In The 2024 New Year’s Honours List Just Days After Winning The BBC’s Sports Personality of The Year 2023. And Just Weeks After International Sports Clothing Giant Nike U-Turned On Its Decision Not To Manufacture Her Kit, As They Underestimated The Public Demand There Would Be For It. After Having Got Their Initial Decision Diabolically Wrong, When In Response To A Huge Public Outcry They Finally Made It Available For The Public To Buy, It Sold Out From All Available Nike Supplied Outlets Within Days & Hours. This Episode Has Only Further Elevated Her Superstar Status Even Higher.
Lauren Hemp Also Received An MBE. Both Lionesses Join @LucyBronze MBE And @BethMead MBE Who Received Honours In The King’s Birthday Honours List Earlier This Year In The Spring.
Mead Preceeded Earps By Winning BBC Sports Personality of The Year Last Year 2022 @BethMead, The First Female Footballer And Openly Gay Sports Star To Do So. She Said She Hoped Her Win Would Encourage More Transparency & Acceptance In The Mens Game (In 2021 It Was Won By Tennis Sensation Emma Radacanu. And In 2020 It Was Formula 1 Champion Lewis Hamilton.)
Captain Millie Bright Received An OBE. And She Revealed On Her Instagram Page on Christmas Day That She Was In Shock When Her Partner Proposed To Her In Mauritius And Only Said Yes When He Reminded Her He Was Still Waiting For An Answer! @MBrighty04
One of The Few Black Football Managers In Association Football, Troy Townsend @towno10 Has Been Awarded An MBE For Services To Diversity & Inclusion In Football. As Has Sanjay Bhandari Chairman of Anti-Racism Football Charity @Kick It Out
The Youngest Ever Honouree Is 9 Year Old Childrens’ Safety & Wellbeing Champion, Tony Hudgell. He Is A Truly Brave, Amazing, And Phenonmenal Fundraiser. And He Receives A BEM (British Empire Medal). So Mature @CabinetOffice
LeonaLewis Who Won The 3rd Series of X Factor In December 2006 (On Simon Cowell’s Team) And Went On To Build A Successful Music Career Including Sellout Concerts With Hits Such As ‘A Moment Like This’ ‘Bleeding Love’ And ‘One More Sleep’ Is Appointed An OBE For Services To Music. Married And Living In America She Was On The International Honours List @LeonaLewis
Sir Ridley Scott, 2006, Directing Denzel Washington, In An American Gangster (Released 2007) @DenzelOnly. RSA Films (Ridley Scott Associates) “Promotes Diversity, Purpose, And Agility” RidleyScott.Com
Britain And Jamaica Based Media Marketing Consultant Yvonne Wilks O’Grady Is Awarded An OBE For Services To Media, Publishng & Charity. She Graduated From The University of Westminster With A 2:1 Degree In Social Science In 97, Did A Postgraduate Course In Strategic Marketing In 98 And Is Now A Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Marketing.
She Helped Manage The Live TV & Radio Broadcast of The 2012 Olympics From The UK To JA. And The Development of The Sportsman & Sportswoman of The Year Awards Helping To Showcase Jamaica’s Sporting Prowess. Currently She Runs Group Corporate Affairs At Jamaica’s Leading Media Company RJRGleanerGroup.Com Whose Longest Standing Brand Is Radio Jamaica 94FM.
Ms Wilks Has A Daughter On The Autism Spectrum And Supports A Number of Special Needs Organisations And Charities Including The Maxfield Park Children’s Home In Jamaica And The British Autistic Society @nationalautisticsociety
(Top L) Game of Thrones Star @Emilia_Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) Pictured With GoT Trusted Companion And Co-Star @Natalie Emanuel (Missandei) Recieves An OBE For Her Work With The Brain Charity SameMeOrg Which She Set Up With Her Mother After Suffering A Number of Brain Anyurisms And Recovering Spectacularly. The Mother Daughter Duo Are Reportedly The First To Receive A Double OBE (For Services To Charity).
(Top Centre) The Most Reverand & Rt. Hon Lord Archbishop Justin Welby @JustinWelby Receives A Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) For Services To The Coronation. Sir Antonio Pappano, Conductor of The Coronation Orchestra, Is Also Receives A Royal Victorian Order And In Comparison Becomes A Commander of The Royal Victorian Order (CVO).
(Top R) Red Bull & Motor Sport Boss Christian Horner, Husband of Ginger Spice, Geri Haliwell Horner, Pictured Above At The 2021 No Time To Die James Bond Premiere, Also Receives A New Year’s Honour. The Former Spice Girl @gerihalliwellhorner Posted “Congratulations @christianhorner On Your CBE! We Are All So Proud of You, Awarded For Your Amazing Contributions To Motorsport”.
Dr Olurotimi Babatunde Adesanya Founder of Watling Street Dental Care & The African-Caribbean Dental Asstn UK @acda_uk Receives An MBE For Services To Oral Hygiene acda-uk.org
Silver Fox Baker & The Great British Bake Off Star @paul.hollywood Receives An OBE For Services To Baking & Broadcasting
Inseperable Athletic Sisters Becky & Ellie Downie Are Both Awarded MBEs For Services To Gymnastics. The Olympians Are Known For Their Bright Personalities, Being Essential Team GB Ambassadors And Style-Icons @doubledownies
Fellow Fashionista, Retail Consultant @MaryPortasOfficial Receives A Damehood For Services To Business & Broadcasting.
racy Writer JillyCooper.co.Uk Is Awarded A Damehood For Services To Literature & Charity.
Already Knighted By Queen Elizabeth II In 2002, Filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott Is Now Newly Elevated By King Charles III In 2024 New Year’s Honours List And Becomes A Member of The Order of The Knight Grand Cross of The British Empire. He Has Directed Innumerable Films Including The 1991 Road Trip Hit Movie Thelma & Louise, Which Is Now A Cult Classic & Especially Loved By Large Sections of The LGBT+ Community. GI Jane In 1997. Gladiator In 2000. American Gangster Starring Denzel Washington In 2007, The Biopic About African-American Criminal Mastermind Frank Lucas. And Napolean Starring Joaquin Phonenix Released (2023). RidleyScott.Com He And His Brother Tony Scott Also Co Produced The Hit American Series The Good Wife (Which Ran For Seven Seasons From 2009-2016 Featuring An All Star Cast Including Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo & Alan Cummings).
Tragically In 2012 Sir Ridley Lost His Younger Brother & Fellow Filmmaker Tony Scott, Aged 68, To Suicide, After He Jumped From A Los Angeles Bridge, Reportedly Having Previously Received A Cancer Diagnosis. Sir Ridley, Now 85, Set Up Scott Free Studios With His Brother In 1995 @ScottFree.
Rizwan Javid @Untangled29 Talks With The BBC Late Dec 2023 After News of His MBE For Services To Vulnerable People Is Announced In The 2024 Nw Year’s Honours List
Rizwan Javid, A Young Elizabeth Line Railway Worker Has Received An MBE For Services To Vulnerable People. This Is After Saving 29 Lives Through Making Personal Interventions With People Who He Thought Showed Signs of Potentially Taking Their Own Lives.
He Recently Announced On His Instagram Page @Untangled29 That He Will Be Starting A New Podcast Soon Talking About Mental Health Issues And How To Help Others. And He Encourages People To Share Their Stories As They May Inspire Others. It Will Be “Unravelling Thoughts One Conversation At A Time”.
We @TheOrator.Press.On.Insta Will Continue To Report On Mental Health Issues & Wellbeing Throughout The Year.
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Addison Lee Cab & Courier Firm Founder Sir John Griffin, Who Started Out As A Cab Driver, And Formed The Firm In 1975, With Just One Car, Now Aged 81, And A Prince’s Trust Enterprise Fellow, Is Knighted For Services To Business & Charity In The New Years Honours List 2024
He Is A Conservative Party Supporter, A Supporter of Budding Entrepreneurs, And In 2013 He Was The First Person To Be Voted Business Person of The Year By The Irish Post. That Was The Same Year He Sold The Company To The Carlyle Group For £350m @OneCarlyle.
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Bayo Adelaja, Is An Entrepreneur And The Founder & CEO of Do It Now Now. Founded In 2016 It Supports Underserved & Overlooked Communities In Becoming More Empowered & Independent. She Receives An MBE For Services To Financial Inclusion, Social Mobility And Entrepreneurship.
Stuart (Neil Luke) Murphy, Former Sky Arts Boss Who Went On To Become CEO of The ENO (English National Opera) Receives A CBE For ‘Services To Opera’. It’s An Area of The Arts He Has Made Great Efforts To Make More Inclusive & Affordable For More Different People. ENO.org
In October 2022 He Announced His Intention To Leave the Opera Organisation At The End of September 2023. In Response Dr. Harry Brunjes, ENO And London Coliseum Chair, Said In A Statement: “Stuart Has Been An Outstanding CEO During Exceptional Times. He Has Shown True Leadership Through Covid And In Developing An Ambitious Strategy, Creatively And Corporately, And A Diverse, Talented Company To Ensure The ENO Is In Robust Shape For Future Challenges.”
“Stuart’s Dynamism And Energy Meant That The Company Not Only Survived But Thrived During The Pandemic. His Impact Will Be Felt For Years To Come – Whether Through The Young Faces Now Enjoying The ENO’s Opera For Free At The London Coliseum, Or The Better Representation That Can Be Seen On Stage, In The Pit, Backstage And Front Of House Or Through Its Efficient Management.”
James Ainscough, CEO of The RoyalAlbertHall.Com Receives An OBE For Services To Music. He Returned In January 2023 Having Worked There Previously.
He Is Committed To Modernising And Diversifying The Royal Venue In Order To Make It More Accessible & Appealing To A Greater Number of Performers And Audience Members Who Might Not Otherwise Visit The Iconic, Regal, Musical, World-Famous Performance Centre.
He Is Also A Supporter of BLIM @BlackLivesInMusic And @HelpMusicians
Another Music Man Receiving Recognition Is Althestan Micheal Eavis (Founder of Glasonbury) Who Receives A Knighthood For All The Work He Does (With His Daughter, Emily) Relating To The World-Famous Annual Music Festival In Somerset.
Gregory Doran, Artistic Director Emeritus At The Royal Shakespeare Company (The RSC), Is Knighted For Services To The Arts. Pictured Here By Ian jones, Tuesday July 18 2023 At Windsor Castle During A Reception To Mark The 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio (Book Collection). With The King & Queen Consort And RSC Chair Shiriti Vadera (The First Person of Colour To Hold The Position) @TheRSC
Tim Randall Martin, Founder & Owner of JD Whetherspoon, Receives A Knighthood For Services To Hospitality & Culture. The Name of The Company Is Totally Made Up. JD Comes From The Corrupt Commissoner Character In The Hit 70s & 80s American Action Comedy Series The Dukes of Hazard. And Whetherspoon Was The Name of A Teacher In His Native New Zealand Who Told He’d Never Amount To Anything!
A Staunch Brexit Campaigner & Continued Supporter, (Intriguingly Seemingly Unconcerned About Staff Shortages Caused By Leaving The European Union) Ironically He Himself Is An Immigrant Having Emigrated From New Zealand To Britain. He Founded JD Whetherspoon In 1979. It Is Famous For It Low Prices, Early Opening Hours, And Converting Buildings Previously Used For Different Businesses Into Pubs. It Also Owns A Substantial Number of Hotels With A Wheterspoon Pub Attached (Such As The White Lady In Edinburgh Pictured Above).
Last Month It Announced It Had Sold The Coronet Pub, On Holloway Road Islington For Commerical Reasons. (Originally Opened As The Savoy Cinema In 1940 It Became A Pub In 1983). In 2015 It Was Successfully Sued For Tens of Thousands of Pounds For Racial Discrimination Ater Refusing Entry To Members of The Irish Gyspy Traveller Community.
In 2018 The Company Famously Removed Itself From All Social Media Due To Its Anti-Social Element. However It Retains An Online & Digital Presence Through Its Website & An App.
The App Allows Customers To Order Food & Drink For Their Table Without Going Up To The Bar And Others To Buy & Send Food & Drink To Their Table Too By Sharing Their Table Details If Others Are Feeling Generous!
Having Suffered Substantial Illness As A Child Griffin Set Up The Griffin Institute BioMedical Research Centre In North London, After Achieving Great Business Success As An Adult.
He Is Also The Chairman of Business Support Group Finito.
The Carlyle Group, The New Owners of Addison Lee, Are Based In Washington DC And Officially Embrace Diversity, Equality & Inclusion.
New American Owners of Addison Lee Cab & Courier Company Regarding Staff Wellbeing
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