Cambridge academics and senior staff listed in the Queen's Birthday Honours

Professor Stephen Patrick O’Rahilly is appointed a Knight Bachelor, Professor Alan Dashwood is appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, Professor William Rodolph Cornish, is appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, Professor David Ford is appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Anthony David Lemons is appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

Professor, Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, Department of Clinical Biochemistry

Professor, Sir Stephen O’Rahilly is appointed a Knight Bachelor for his services to Medical Research.

After graduating in Medicine from University College Dublin in 1981, O’Rahilly undertook postgraduate clinical and research training in general medicine, diabetes and endocrinology in London, Oxford and Harvard.  He arrived in Cambridge in 1991, obtaining a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellowship and establishing his laboratory at the University of Cambridge.  He is currently Chair of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Cambridge, as well as Co-Director of the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science and Director of the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit.

O’Rahilly has won many awards for his work, including the Society for Endocrinology Medal, the European Journal of Endocrinology Prize and the Novartis International Award for Clinical Research in Diabetes and was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999, and the Royal Society in 2003.

“I am delighted to accept this honour on behalf of the many dedicated colleagues who have worked with me over more than 20 years to make Cambridge a centre of excellence for research and clinical care in the area of metabolic and endocrine diseases. Having lived in the UK for more than half my life I am touched that the work I have been involved in has been recognised by my adopted country in this way.”

Professor, Sir Alan Dashwood, Emeritus Professor of European Law, Faculty of Law

Professor, Sir Alan Dashwood is appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for his services to the development of European Law.

Arriving in Cambridge in 1995, Dashwood is now Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Law and Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. In January 2012 he became a part-time Professor of Law at City University.  He is also a Barrister in Henderson Chambers, a Bencher of the Inner Temple and took Silk in 2010.

He specialises in the law of the European Union, and appears regularly in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the EU.  Before election to his Chair at Cambridge, he was a Director in the Legal Service of the Council of the EU. He was the founding Editor of European Law Review and was one of the Joint Editors of Common Market Law Review until December 2008. He is a co-author of Wyatt and Dashwood’s European Union Law, the sixth edition of which appeared in 2011, and contributes frequently to legal periodicals. At the invitation of the FCO, he led a team of Cambridge lawyers in drafting a model EU Constitution, as a contribution to the work of the Convention on the Future of Europe. He was appointed CBE in 2004.

"Regarding its legal obligations under the EU Treaties, the UK has a compliance record second to none. We also have arguably the best legal education on EU Law and some of the best scholarship. I'm grateful that my small contribution to this success story should have been so generously recognised."

Professor William Cornish, Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Faculty of Law

Professor William Cornish is appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for his services to promoting understanding of British Law in Central Europe.

Originally from Adelaide, Cornish completed his postgraduate studies at Oxford - one of the first group of British Commonwealth scholars in 1960. He was side-tracked from a return to Australia by a post in the Law Department at the LSE.

On arriving in Cambridge in 1990, he became the first Director of the Law Faculty’s Centre for European Legal Studies. Cornish is recognised  for the contribution he has made to the British Law Centre at Warsaw University and several other law schools in the region.  He has been much helped in this over the last twenty years by other scholars, mostly Cambridge-based, and by teaching staff who are working full-time in Warsaw. The course he has taught has made a distinctive contribution to the process of Europeanisation that the countries of central Europe have undergone in the same two decades.

A  Fellow of Magdalene College, he was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1984 and is an External Academic Member of the Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law, Munich.  In 1997 he was made an Honorary Queen's Counsel.

Cornish's particular interests are in the law of intellectual property and in modern legal history. His publications include: The Jury (1970), Law and Society in England 1750-1950 (1989) and Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trademarks and Allied Rights (4th edition, 1999)

He has recently been Chairman of the National Academies Policy Advisory Group's working party on 'Intellectual Property and the Academic Community', whose report is available from the Royal Society.

He writes: "My special interests at the moment include the adaptation of the patent system to biotechnology and the impact of multi-media on intellectual property"

Professor David Ford, Regius Professor of Divinity, Faculty of Divinity

Professor Ford is appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his services to theological scholarship and inter-faith relations.

The Regius Professor of Divinity, a Fellow of Selwyn College and Director of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme, Ford took up his post in Cambridge after teaching theology in the University of Birmingham for fifteen years.

Co-founder of the Scriptural Reasoning movement which gathers Jews, Christian and Muslims to read and discuss their sacred texts, he has been involved in a wide range of inter-faith projects, within and outside the academy, in Britain and around the world.

He was awarded the Sternberg Foundation Gold Medallion for Inter-faith Relations in 2008 and the Coventry International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation in 2012.
Ford is a Trustee of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton and an Advisor to the Institute of Comparative Scripture and Interreligious Dialogue in Minzu University of China, Beijing.

Alongside his work on inter-faith relations, other interests include the work of the L’Arche communities for people with learning disabilities and the place of theology and religious studies in higher education. He is currently working on a theological commentary on the Gospel of John.

His recent publications include: The Future of Christian Theology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

"I am delighted. I look forward to going on working in theology and inter-faith relations. My thanks go to the team of the Cambridge Inter-faith Programme and all who have supported it, and to the ‘Scriptural Reasoning’ movement. I also recall in gratitude those who taught me in Trinity College Dublin, Yale, Tübingen and Cambridge. In particular I think of Stephen Sykes, my first theology teacher and PhD supervisor in Cambridge -  I was honoured to succeed him as Regius Professor of Divinity”.

Anthony David Lemons, Director of Physical Education and Sport, University of Cambridge

Mr Lemons is appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to University sport.

With a career spanning over 44 years, including positions at the Universities of Liverpool and Edinburgh and the National Sports Institute in Paris, he has been the Director of Physical Education at the University of Cambridge for 30 years. During this time, he has transformed the position of sport within the University and the community at large, by developing extensive partnerships and delivering new opportunities for sport, exercise and health related fitness across the region.   He is a Fellow of Hughes Hall.

This year will see the completion of Phase 1 of a £50m Sports Centre for the University, the result of 15 years of negotiation, planning, design and fundraising work, led by Lemons and a huge moment in the history of sport at the University that will provide world-class facilities. Sporting facilities delivered under Lemons management also include a Grade 1 athletics track, synthetic hockey pitch and pavilion, and an Indoor Cricket School. In addition to his commitment to provide the best quality sports facilities for the University and it's sportspeople, Lemons has also worked closely with the city to ensure that all of the facilities are available to the wider community.

Lemons is a founder and Head of the Cambridge MCC Universities Centre of Excellence, one of only six in the Country. He also helped to establish the Eric Evans Fund to provide financial support to student athletes, coaches and officials.

Dedicating his working life to University Sport, he has tried to ensure that the sportspeople of Cambridge and beyond have access to top quality sports facilities across the region.