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Professor Harry Allen, Emeritus Professor of American Studies, University of East Anglia, 81; Mr Mike Atherton, cricketer, 30; Mr Norman Bailey, baritone, 65; Sir Roger Bannister, neurologist and former Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, 69; Mr Wasim Bari, former Pakistan cricketer, 50; Mr Bryan Bass, former headmaster, City of London School, 64; Mr Alan Bleasdale, playwright, 52; Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, 45; Mr Barry Cryer, writer and comedian, 63; Mr Glyn Davies, High Commissioner to Namibia, 56; Professor Patrick Dowling, Vice-Chancellor, Surrey University, 59; Mr Peter Godfrey, former senior partner, Ernst and Whinney, 74; Professor Kenneth Gregory, warden, Goldsmith's College, London, 60; Mr Akira Kurosawa, film director, 88; Sir Geoffrey Leigh, chairman, Allied London Properties, 65; Sir David McNee, former Commissioner, the Metropolitan Police, 73; Mr Michael Manser, architect, 69; Mr Andrew Miller MP, 49; Lord Morris of Manchester, former MP, 70; Mr Michael Nyman, composer, 54; Sir Ralph Perring, former Lord Mayor of London, 93; Sir Desmond Pitcher, chairman, United Utilities, 63; Mr John Rowe QC, a Recorder of the Crown Court, 62; Mr Oliver Sherwood, racehorse trainer, 43; Sir Ian Todd, consulting surgeon, 77; Sir Edward Warner, former diplomat, 87; Sir Denis Wright, former diplomat, 87.
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