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University Honours in Queen's Birthday List – University of Reading

17 June 2003

Photo: Howard Grubb
In the Queen's Birthday Honour's list this year, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Gordon Marshall received a CBE for services to economic and social research. Mr J. Malcolm Stansfield, retired member of the School of Agriculture Policy and Development, received an MBE for services to agriculture and to the community of Berkshire. Malcolm was with the University for 42 years before he 'retired' in September 2001. Since then he has worked as a sessional lecturer and has continued to serve agriculture throughout the UK and beyond. Malcolm is Secretary of the English Panel of Awards for the Royal Agricultural Society of England. His research centred around dairy herds – stockmanship, the management of research and teaching farms and agricultural policy effects on farming systems. Mr Fred J.E. McCrindle, Principal of Reading College and School of Arts and Design, a co-opted member of the University Court, received an OBE for his services to Further Education.