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Airlie (S 1491) and Lord Ogilvy of Alyth and Lintrathen (S 1639); s of 12 Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, MC (d 1968), and Lady Alexandra Coke (d 1984), da of 3 Earl of Leicester; b 17 May 1926; Educ Eton; m 1952, Virginia Fortune, DCVO (1995; vice-pres Women of the Year, tstee Tate Gallery 1980–94, chm of tstees Nat Gallery of Scotland 1997–2000, Lady of the Bedchamber to HM The Queen 1973–), da of John Barry Ryan (d 1966), of Newport, RI, and Margaret Dorothy (Nin) (d 1995), da of Otto Kahn, of NY; 3 da (Lady Doune (Lady Doune Wake) b 1953, Lady Jane (Lady Jane Nairac) b 1955, Lady Elizabeth (Lady Elizabeth Baring) b 1965), 3 s (David, Lord Ogilvy b 1958, Hon Bruce b 1959, Hon Patrick b 1971); Heir s, Lord Ogilvy; Career Lt Scots Gds 1944; Capt ADC to High Cmmr and C-in-C Austria 1947–48, Malaya 1948–49, resigned cmmn 1950; chief cmmr for Scotland Scout Assoc 1960–61 (treas 1962–86, hon pres 1988–91); Capt Gen and Gold Stick-in-Waiting Queen’s Body Guard for Scotland (Royal Co of Archers) 2004– (Ensign 1975–85, Lt 1985–96, Capt 1996–2001, Pres 2001–04); chm: Westpool Investment Tst until 1982 (also resigned directorships), Ashdown Investment Tst Ltd 1968–82, Schroders plc 1977–84, General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corporation 1987–97 (dir 1962, dep chm 1975–87); dir: J Henry Schroder Wagg & Co 1961–84 (chm 1973–77), Scottish & Newcastle Breweries 1969–83, Baring Stratton Investment Tst plc (formerly Stratton Investment Tst) 1986–92, Royal Bank of Scotland 1991–93; Lord Chamberlain of the Queen’s Household 1984–97, Chllr Royal Victorian Order 1984–97, a permanent lord in waiting to HM The Queen 1998–; pres Nat Tst for Scotland 1997–2002, chm Historic Royal Palaces Tst 1998–2002, tstee Prince’s Fndn 2003–06; govr Nuffield Hosps 1984–89, dep chm of tstees Royal Collection Tst 1993–97, first chllr Univ of Abertay Dundee 1994–2009; HM Lord-Lt Tayside Region District of Angus 1989–2001 (DL Angus 1964); Hon LLD Univ of Dundee 1990; KStJ 1995 (CStJ 1981); Clubs White’s; Style— The Rt Hon the Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, PC; K Cortachy Castle, Kirriemuir, Angus (tel 01575 570108) AIRS, Graham John; s of George William Laurence Airs (d 1999), and Marjorie, ne´e Lewis (d 1967); b 8 August 1953; Educ Newport GS Essex, Emmanuel Coll Cambridge (MA, LLB); m 4 April 1981, Stephanie Annette, da of William Henry Marshall; Career admitted slr 1978; Slaughter and May 1976–80; ptnr: Airs Dickinson 1980–84, Slaughter and May 1987– (rejoined as asst slr 1984–87); memb Law Soc; Style— Graham Airs, Esq; K Slaughter and May, 1 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8YY (tel 020 7600 1200, direct line 020 7090 5050, fax 020 7090 5000, e-mail graham.airs@slaughtermay.com) AITCHISON, Prof Jean Margaret; da of John Frederick Aitchison (d 1997), of Debden Green, Essex, and Joan Eileen, ne´e Chivers (d 1994); b 3 July 1938; Educ Wimbledon HS GPDST, Girton Coll Cambridge (MA), Radcliffe Coll Harvard (AM); m 3 July 2000, John Robert Ayto; Career asst lectr in Greek Bedford Coll London 1961–65, lectr, sr lectr and reader in linguistics LSE 1965–92, Rupert Murdoch prof of language and communication Univ of Oxford 1993–2003, professorial fell Worcester Coll Oxford 1993–2003 (emeritus 2003–); BBC Reith lectr 1996; Books Linguistics (1973, 6 edn 2003), The articulate mammal: An introduction to psycholinguistics (1976, 5 edn 2007), Language change: Progress or decay? (1981, 3 edn 2001), Words in the mind: An introduction to the mental lexicon (1987, 3 edn 2003), Introducing language and mind (1992, new edn 2003), Language Joyriding (1994), The seeds of speech: Language origin and evolution (1996, extended edn 2000), The language web: The power and problem of words (1997), New media language (ed jtly, 2003), The word weavers: Newshounds and wordsmiths (2007); Recreations gardening; Style— Prof Jean Aitchison; K 45 Malvern Road, London E8 3LP (tel 020 7249 3734, e-mail jean.aitchison@worc.ox.ac.uk) AITKEN, Alexander William; s of Alexander John Aitken (d 1979), of Edinburgh, and Freda, ne´e Trueman, of Dunbar, East Lothian; b 9 May 1958; Educ RAF Changi GS Singapore, Leamington Coll for Boys, The Mountbatten Sch Romsey (played rugby and basketball to county level); m 9 May 1977, Caroline, da of Herbert Douglas Abbott; 2 s (Justin Richard b 1 April 1980, Alexander Joseph b 28 June 1983); Career deck hand Scot fishing trawler 1975, waiter Whitbread Wessex Potters Heron Motel Ampfield 1976, asst head waiter The Slipway Restaurant Lymington 1976, head waiter Grosvenor Hotel Stockbridge 1976, catering mangr Silhouette Casino 1976–77, restaurant mangr Le Chanteclere Restaurant Cadham Hants 1977–82, The Elizabethan Restaurant Winchester 1982–83, opened Le Poussin Restaurant 1983 (moving to Parkhill Hotel Lyndhurst 1999); featured in The Best of Europe series Discovery Channel TV; chef/cookery presenter: At Home with Maggie Philbin (Meridian TV), Southern Flavours (Meridian TV); memb: Master Chefs of GB 1986, Br Culinary Inst 1989; Awards three rosettes AA Restaurant Guide, one star Egon Ronay Guide, one star Michelin Guide, 4/5 Good Food Guide, Good Food Guide Hampshire Restaurant of the Year 1987 and 1992, Clover Award Ackerman Guide, Out of Town Restaurant of the Year The Times 1990–91, Daily Telegraph Restaurant of the Year 1996–97, AA Red Star Top 200 Hotels in GB& I; Recreations sailing, dressage, scuba diving, mushroom hunting; Style— Alexander Aitken, Esq; K Le Poussin at Parkhill, Beaulieu Road, Lyndhurst, Hampshire SO43 7RB (tel 023 80 282944, fax 023 80 283268, website www.lepoussinatparkhill.co.uk) AITKEN, Gill; Career slr and DG Law and HR DEFRA; Style— Ms Gill Aitken; K Defra, 3–8 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HH AITKEN, Gillon Reid; s of James Aitken (d 1954), and Margaret Joane, ne´e Simpson (d 1982); Educ Charterhouse, privately; Career with Stuart’s Advtg Agency 1958–59, ed Chapman & Hall Ltd 1959–66, ed Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1966–67, dir Anthony Sheil Assocs Ltd 1967–71, md Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1971–74, vice-pres Wallace, Aitken & Sheil Inc (NY) 1974–77; chm: Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd (now Aitken Alexander Associates) 1977–, Christy & Moore Ltd 1977–, Hughes Massie Ltd 1985–; Books The Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories (by A S Pushkin, trans, 1962), The Complete Prose Tales of A S Pushkin (trans, 1966), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, trans, 1970); Recreations crossword puzzles, ping-pong; Clubs Brooks’s, Beefsteak; Style— Gillon Aitken, Esq; K Garden Flat, 4 The Boltons, London SW10 9TB (tel and fax 020 7373 7438); Aitken Alexander Associates, 18–21 Cavaye Place, London SW10 9PG (tel 020 7373 8672, fax 020 7373 6002, e-mail gillon@aitkenalexander.co.uk) AITKEN, Robin Peter; s of William Ferguson Kent Aitken, and Dorothy Fane Brown; Educ Prior Park Coll Bath, Univ of Bristol; m 1978, Sarah Anne Nagle; 2 da; Career reporter; trained West Midlands Press Ltd 1973–76; BBC: joined 1978, worked on successively Radio Brighton, BBC Scotland, BBC Radio News, Money Programme, BBC Breakfast, On The Record, Today Programme; Recreations walking, reading history, skiing, gardening, rugby; Style— Robin Aitken, Esq; K Today Programme, BBC TV Centre, London W12 7RJ AITKEN, William (Bill); JP, DL (Glasgow 1992); s of William Aitken (d 1977), and Nell (d 1978), of Glasgow; b 15 April 1947; Educ Allan Glen’s Sch Glasgow, Glasgow Coll of Technol; Career insurance underwriter 1965–99; district ct judge 1985–; cncllr City of Glasgow 1976–99 (ldr of the oppn 1980–84 and 1992–95, convener Licensing Ctee, vice-convener Personnel Ctee 1977–80), bailie City of Glasgow 1980–84, 1988–92 and 1996–99, MSP (Cons) Glasgow 1999–2011; Scot Parl: Cons Parly justice spokesman, vice-convener Justice 2 Ctee; chief whip Cons Pty 2003–04, Parly Business Mangr 2003–04, convener Parly Justice Ctee 2007–11; Recreations walking, foreign travel, reading, wining and dining with friends; Style— Bill Aitken, Esq, DL; K e-mail wmaitken@hotmail.co.uk AITMAN, David Charles; s of Gabriel Aitman, and Irene Bertha, ne´e Polack; b 11 April 1956; Educ Clifton, Univ of Sheffield (BA); m 26 March 1983, Marianne Lucille, da of
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Edward Atherton; 1 s (Marcus), 2 da (Lauren, Polly); Career admitted slr 1982; ptnr: Denton Wilde Sapte 1988–2001, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2001– (departmental managing ptnr 2003–06, global practice ldr 2006–10); memb Law Soc; LRAM; Books Butterworth’s Encyclopaedia of Competition Law (chapter on intellectual property licensing, 1991), Practical Intellectual Property (chapter on competition law), Yearbook of Media Law (chapter on competition law), Bellamy & Child’s European Community Law of Competition (chapter on telecommunications); Recreations tennis, wind surfing, music (performing and concert going); Style— David Aitman, Esq AKAM, Prof Michael Edwin; s of William Edwin Akam (d 2010), and Evelyn Warriner, ne´e Thorne (d 1996); b 19 June 1952, Bromley, Kent; Educ Eltham Coll, Kings Coll Cambridge (BA), Magdalen Coll Oxford (DPhil); m 21 April 1979, Dr Margaret Madeline Bray; 2 s (Thomas Edwin b 18 July 1983, Simon Hugh b 18 July 1985); Career coll lectr in zoology Magdalen Coll Oxford 1978, MRC res fell Lab of Molecular Biology Cambridge 1978–79, Damon Runyan res fell Dept of Biochemistry Stanford Univ Calif 1979–81, MRC sr fell Dept of Genetics Univ of Cambridge 1982–1990, Wellcome princ fell and founding staff memb Wellcome/CRC Inst Cambridge 1990–97, res prof of developmental genetics Univ of Cambridge 1997, prof of zoology Univ of Cambridge 1997– (head Dept of Zoology 2010–), dir Univ Museum of Zoology Cambridge 1997–2010; professorial fell Darwin Coll Cambridge 2006–; chm Br Soc of Developmental Biology 1989–94; Waddington Medal Br Soc for Developmental Biology 2005, Kowalevsky Medal St Petersburg Soc of Naturalists 2007, Linnean Medal for Zoology 2009; memb European Molecular Biology Orgn (EMBO) 1987; FLS 1999, FRS 2000, fell American Assoc for Advancement of Science 2006; Publications The Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms (co-ed, 1994); numerous articles published in learned jls; Recreations the living world; Style— Prof Michael Akam; K Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ (tel 01223 336601, fax 01223 336676) AKENHEAD, Hon Mr Justice; Sir Robert Akenhead; kt (2008); s of Lt-Col Edmund Akenhead, TD (d 1990), and Angela Miriam, ne´e Cullen; b 15 September 1949; Educ Rugby, Univ of Exeter (LLB); m 9 Dec 1972, Elizabeth Anne, da of Capt Frederick Hume Jackson, CMG, OBE, of Tonbridge, Kent; 1 s (Edmund b 1983), 3 da (Eleanor b 1978, Isobel b 1980, Rosalind b 1985); Career called to the Bar Inner Temple 1972 (bencher 1997), QC 1989, recorder of the Crown Court 1994–2007 (asst recorder 1991–94), judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen’s Bench Division) 2007–, judge in charge Technol and Construction Court 2010; Books Building Law Reports (jt ed), Site Investigation and the Law (with J Cottington, 1984), Technology and Construction Court Practice and Procedure (with M Davis, 2007); Recreations cricket, skiing, theatre, golf; Style— The Hon Mr Justice Akenhead; K Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL AKERS, Richard John; s of Mike Akers, and Colly, ne´e Cleton; b 1 August 1961, Woking, Surrey; Educ Cranleigh Sch, Queens Coll Oxford (MA); m 2 July 1988, Sally, ne´e Rodwell; 3 da (Emily b 14 May 1990, Jessica b 16 March 1992, Bethan b 6 May 1994); Career devpt mangr Arc Properties Ltd 1985–89 (grad trainee 1983–85), devpt surveyor AMEC Devpts Ltd 1989–95; Land Securities Group plc: devpt mangr 1995–98, asst dir 1998–2001, head of retail portfolio mgmnt 2001–04, md retail 2004–; memb Br Cncl of Shopping Centres; RICS 1990; Recreations tennis, golf; Style— Richard Akers, Esq; K Shepherds Down, Hill Road, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 2NH; Land Securities, 5 Strand, London WC2N 5AF (tel 020 7024 5438, fax 020 7776 9476, e-mail richard.akers@landsecurities.com) AKERS-DOUGLAS, Francis Alexander Moreton (Frank); s of Anthony George Akers-Douglas (d 1991), and Dorothy Louise, ne´e Gage (d 2010); b 23 September 1948; Educ Eton, Brown Univ USA; m 1, 1974 (m dis 1997), Hon Julian Mary, eld da of 2 Baron Bruntisfield, qv; 2 s (Joseph Michael Aretas b 1979, James George b 1989); m 2, 1998, Lorna Farquharson; 1 s (Maxwell Alastair Edward b 1998), 1 da (Emma Claire b 2000); Career Binder Hamlyn: articled clerk 1967, ptnr 1978–97, head Private Client Servs 1980–97; ptnr Smith & Williamson 1997–; memb: Tax Faculty ICAEW, Soc of Trust and Estate Practitioners 1993; FCA 1971; Books Butterworths: Self Assessment and Simplification (1994), Corporal Haggis (1996); Recreations tennis, cricket, woodlands management; Clubs Boodles; Style— Frank Akers-Douglas, Esq; K Smith & Williamson, 25 Moorgate, London EC2R 6AY (tel 020 7131 4232, e-mail fad@smith-williamson.co.uk) AKHTAR, Prof Muhammad; s of Muhammad Azeem Chaudhry; b 23 February 1933; Educ Punjab Univ Pakistan (MSc), Imperial Coll London (PhD, DIC); m 3 Aug 1963, Monika E, ne´e Schurmann; 2 s (Marcus, Daniel); Career res scientist Res Inst for Med and Chemistry Cambridge USA 1959–63; Univ of Southampton: lectr 1963–, sr lectr then reader, prof of biochemistry 1973–98, head Dept of Biochemistry 1978–93, chm Sch of Biochemical and Physiological Sciences 1983–87, chm Inst of Biomolecular Sciences 1989–91, emeritus prof 1998–; distinguished nat prof and DG Sch of Biological Sciences Univ of the Punjab Lahore Pakistan 2002–; dir SERC Centre for Molecular Recognition 1990–94; author of articles in learned jls; founding fell Third World Acad of Sci 1984 (vice-pres 1998–2003, treas 1993–98, lectr 1996); memb: Royal Soc of Chemistry, American Chem Soc, Biochemical Soc; award of Sitara-I-Imtiaz by Govt of Pakistan 1981, Flintoff medal 1993; Hon DSc Univ of Karachi 2000; FRS (memb Cncl 1983–85); Style— Prof Muhammad Akhtar, FRS; K School of Biological Sciences, The University of Southampton, Bassett Crescent East, Southampton SO16 7PX (tel 023 8059 4338) AL-DUWAISAN, HE Khaled; Hon GCVO; b 15 August 1947; Educ Cairo Univ (BA), Univ of Kuwait (business admin dipl); m; 2 c; Career Kuwaiti diplomat; researcher Miny of Foreign Affairs 1970–71, diplomatic attache´ 1971–72, third sec 1972–74, second sec 1974–76, joined Embassy of Kuwait in Washington DC 1975, first sec 1976–80, counsellor 1980–84, ambass extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Netherlands 1984–90, appointed non-resident ambass to Romania 1988, ambass to the Ct of St James’s 1993– (Doyen of Diplomatic Corps 2003); non-resident ambass: Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1994–95, Republic of Ireland 1995–; memb: Advsy Bd Centre of Near and and ME Studies SOAS 1998–, Management of Public Sector Projects and facilities: an Executive Program for Kuwait Harvard Univ 2005–; co-ordinator with UN during creation of the demilitarised zone and with UN ctee for return of missing and stolen property 1992; Award of Excellence Br Business Forum 2009, Lifetime Contribution to Diplomacy in London Diplomat Magazine 2009, Three Faiths Forum Gold Medallion 2010; Freeman City of London 2001; memb: IOD, RIIA; Clubs Queen’s Tennis; Style— HE Mr Khaled Al-Duwaisan, GCVO; K Embassy of the State of Kuwait, 2 Albert Gate, London SW1X 7JU (tel 020 7590 3400) AL FAYED, Mohamed Abdel Moneim; b 27 January 1933, Alexandria, Egypt; m; 4 c; Career owner: L’Hotel Ritz Paris 1978–, House of Fraser 1985 (floated on London Stock Exchange 1994), Harrods 1985–2010 (hon chm 2010–), Turnball and Asser, Fulham FC 1997–; jt prodr Chariots of Fire 1980 (4 Academy Awards); fndr Liberty Publishing, relaunched Punch magazine 1996; La Grande Me´daille de la Ville de Paris 1985, Plaque de Paris, Offr Le´gion d’Honneur (France) 1993 (Le´gion d’Honneur 1986), Commendatore Order of Merit (Italy) 1990; Style— Mr Mohamed Al Fayed; K Harrods Limited, 87–135 Brompton Road, London SW1X 7XL AL-HASSANI, Prof Salim T S; b 23 July 1941; Educ Victoria Univ of Manchester (BSc, MSc, PhD); Career prof of high energy rate engrg UMIST (now Univ of Manchester); tech dir: Reverse Engrg Ltd UK, EROS project; chm Fndn for Science, Technol and Civilisation; conslt: BP, John Brown, MOBIL, HEREEMA, Br Gas, AMOCO, BUKOM; expert witness on explosion damage in process plants, aircraft and offshore facilities; NYSci Award for Global Science 2010; MInstD, FInstPet, fell Br Sci Assoc 2009; Publications 1001