New Year Honours list: Hampshire residents who have been honoured

CBE

Peter Charles Barfoot. Founder and chairman Barfoots of Botley. For services to Sustainable Farming. (Hampshire)

OBE

Professor Ian Hamer Brown. Head of VirologY. Animal and Plant Health Agency. For services to Animal Health and Welfare. (Hampshire)

Dr William Peter Robin Mitchell. For services to Computing and to Artificial Intelligence Education. (Hampshire)

MBE

Francis Vincent Benali. Volunteer and Ambassador Cancer Research UK. For services to Cancer Patients in the UK. (Hampshire)

Dominic James Boddington. Founder Respect4us and lately vice Principal, Open Academy. For services to Alternative Education in Norfolk. (Hampshire)

Linda Pauline Ann Caddy. Foster Carer Hampshire County Council. For services to Children. (Hampshire)

Robert Frederick Caddy. Foster Carer Hampshire County Council. For services to Children. (Hampshire)

Peter Colenutt. Formerly Chair Education Building Development Officer's Group. For services to Education. (Hampshire)

Neil Cussen. Police Staff Thames Valley Police. For services to Policing and to Forensic Science. (Hampshire)

Dr Naomi Eales. Operations Officer National Crime Agency. For services to Law Enforcement. (Hampshire)

Alison Kentuck. Receiver of Wreck Maritime and Coastguard Agency. For services to Salvage and Underwater Heritage. (Hampshire)

Alison Kentuck, Receiver of Wreck at the Southampton-based Maritime and Coastguard Agency, gets an MBE for services to salvage and underwater heritage.

Colleagues say her research has resulted in the return of historically important objects to their rightful owners, including a bell from a ship which sank in the First World War.

Alison has overseen and protected the rights of wreck owners and salvors from all backgrounds, from multinational companies to individual divers.

She and her colleagues have undertaken groundbreaking prosecutions relating to wreck and salvage offences under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 and the Fraud Act 2006.

She led a team which was awarded the Prosecutors’ Convention Team of the Year Award 2015 by the Attorney General.

Kevin Michael Saunders. Hampshire Constabulary and Search and Rescue Volunteer. For service to Policing and to the community in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. (Hampshire)

BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL

BEM

Suzanne Barnley. Founder Help4Harry. For voluntary and charitable service. (Hampshire)

Christopher John Beadle. For services to the community in Old Basing and Basingstoke Hampshire. (Hampshire)

John Horton. For services to Calshot lifeboat station in Hampshire. (Hampshire)

Pensioner John Horton has been awarded the British Empire Medal after half a century of service to the RNLI.

John, 83, of Holbury, is said to have made a "phenomenal" contribution to Calshot lifeboat station over the past 50 years.

He has ordered the launch of the lifeboat on more than 635 occasions, saving142 lives.

An RNLI spokesman said: "His service started in July 1970. He was a crew member for seven years and then coxswain for 14 years.

"After that he became a DLA for 5 years before becoming Hon Sec (now LOM) for 10 years."

Sandra Berriman. For services to the community in Liss Hampshire. (Hampshire)

Sokphal Din. For services to Holocaust Education. (Hampshire)

Jacqueline Helen Jack. Staff Officer Defence Business Services, Ministry of Defence. For services to Military Personnel and to Charity. (Hampshire)

Dr Jocelyn Oswald Dobbie Johnston. For services to the community in Aldershot Hampshire, and Elstead, Surrey. (Surrey)

Mark Kevan Thompson-Smith. For services to Music in Hampshire and West Sussex. (Hampshire)

Roland Warmington. For services to Lifesaving and to HM Coastguard. (Hampshire)