Birthday honours list

THIRTY years of service to Catholic education has led to an OBE award in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for Miss Francis Shaw, deputy principal of Digby Stuart College of Education, Roehampton. London.
A spokesman for Digby Stuart said that staff and students were particularly proud that the award had been made in the centenary year of the College. Miss Shaw's first post was as history lecturer.
Fr Ronald Roberts, a priest from Brentwood Diocese, receives an OBE for his work with handicapped children in the Lebanon.
An MBE goes to Mr Patrick O'Shea for 38 years' nursing at Bridge Hospital for the mentally sub-normal in Witham, Essex. Mr O'Shea retired last December.
Other Catholics named in the Birthday Honours list include:
Knights Bachelor: James Bernard Flanagan, Chief Constable Royal Ulster Constabulary; Charles Hyde Villiers, chairman Guinness Mahon & Co.
GCMG: Sir Edward Tomkins, HM Ambassador Paris.
CBE: Brig D. W. V. P. O'Flaherty, late RA; Frederick Wolff, chairman, Federation of Commodity Associations.
OBE: Thomas Fahy, deputy secretary Birmingham Chamber Industry & Commerce for services to export; Mrs. A. S. D. Lowndes Marques, for services to the British community in Lisbon; Frederick Tanner, lately managing director of Howson-Algraphy Ltd, Collingham, Yorks.
MBE: Miss Phyllis Atkinson, lately headmistress Our Lady & St Nicholas School, Liverpool; Sr Celeste Bowe, principal tutor St Joseph's Hospital, Rosewall, Midlothian; Bro Michael Curtin, De la Salle Brother, Kowloon, Hong Kong; John Leahy, lately contracts manager, Remploy Ltd; R. B. McKell, president of St Mungo (Glasgow) Conference, St Vincent de Paul Society; Lawrence McLaughlin, head teacher St Fillan's Primary School, Glasgow; Miss Mary O'Neill, 31 years as nurse in Sheffield; Bro J. P. Purcell, for services to community in British Solomon Islands.
Royal Red Cross: Member First Class — Wing Officer Margaret M. O'Connor. P.M.R.A.F,N.S.