Sporting honours within the New Year Honours list

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Sporting honours within the New Year Honours list as in article from Ananova News


MEMBERS OF THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

Grace Hollands, services to badminton.



Ananova News (http://www.ananova.com/sport/story/sm_851127.html)

I's good to see that badminton has a candidate in the Queen's Honours List.

But who is Grace Hollands and where is she from (Australia)? What has been her contributions? As an official, probably, as I have not heard of that name as a badminton player. Her more famous namesake was the late Grace Kelly, a Hollywood actress who got married to Prince Rainier of Monaco.

Loh,
These are for UK Nationals, Australia has it's own

OZ Awards (http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours_list.html)

Steve Waugh was of course Australian of the year (http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/winners.asp)

Excert from BBC website:

Guide to the Honours
British honours are awarded on merit, for exceptional achievement or service.
Anybody can recommend a British national for an honour, which consist of life peerages, knighthoods, appointments to the Order of the British Empire and gallantry awards to servicemen and women and civilians.

The Queen chooses the recipients on the advice of the Prime Minister, to whom recommendations are sent either by government ministers or by members of the public. The honours are published in the official Crown newspaper, the London Gazette.

Private nominations, made by individuals or by representatives of organisations to the Prime Ministers' Office, make up around a quarter of all recommendations.

Honorary awards for foreign nationals are recommended by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. A number of these orders for chivalry are made after a personal decision made by the Queen.

Orders of the British Empire
King George V in 1917 created these honours during World War 1 to reward services to the war effort by civilians at home and servicemen in support positions.

The orders are now awarded mainly to civilians and service personnel for public service or other distinctions and has a military and a civil division. Ranks in the Order are Knight or Dame Grand Cross (GBE), Knight or Dame Commander (KBE or DBE), Commander (CBE), Officer (OBE) and Member (MBE).

Mrs Grace Helen Pat Hollands. For services to Badminton in Cornwall. (Hayle, Cornwall)

Thanks Jump_smash for elaborating although we still don't really know who Grace Hollands is, except that she is from Cornwall, which is unheard of as being prominent in world badminton. I don't know how many of Cornwall's past badminton players were involved in the England team. I think Cornwall is better known outside of the UK as a tourist attraction.

I must have mixed up with the Queen's Birthday Honours List, which includes awards given to prominent citizens of the British Commonwealth, ie, foreigners or non UK citizens. I also see from your info that 'honorary awards can be given to deserving foreign nationals' as well.

OZ Awards winners over the years for Badminton:

Asmad ABDUL MAJID

Dorothy ALLISON

David Phillip BAMFORD

Rudolph BARTHOLOMEUSZ

Cedric BAXTER

Ernest Ronald BENNETT

Cuthbert BERENGER

June BEVAN

Mary Joy BEVERIDGE

Douglas Wilson BRAIN

Geraldine Mary BROWN

Robin BRYANT

Lisa CAMPBELL

Subash CHANDRA

Peter James CHAPMAN

Peter COCKER

Kevin CONLON

Peter Gordon COOPER

Judith Lorraine COUSINS

Neil EVANS

Shirley Louise FRANCIS

Nathan GUNASEKARAN

Richard GUNASEKERAN

Kenneth Lindsay HALL

Joan HARWOOD

Lisa HAYES

Kelvin Roy HAYES

Cyril John HILLS

Jean Patricia HINGSTON

Trevor Frank HODGKINSON

David Francis HOPPEN

Jane Suzanne HYLAND

Bryan John ILES

Judith ILES

Phyllis JUPP

Beng Na KO

Jan Elizabeth MARSHALL

Dot MATTHEWS

Ian Ross MCDOWELL

David Alan MCELROY

Clifton Alan MITCHELL

Lola MURFETT

Pat MURRAY

Valerie May NESBITT

Judy NYIRATI

Robert O'NEILL

Julia PHILLIPS

James PRITCHARD

Aileen Judith RAMLY

Roxley Mervyn REEVE

Peter Anthony ROBERTS

Evelyn SMITH

Noeleen Ruth STRINGER

Harry THOMPSON

Lola June THOMPSON

Ian TREMAIN

David TURNER

Kenneth Charles TURNER

Joy Nancy TWINING

Jean Phyllis TYRRELL

Gregory VELLACOTT

Lyn VENTRIS

Hector Roy WARD

Barrie Reginald WELCH

Barbara Fay WESLEY

Ronald Arthur WHITTLE

Donna Elizabeth WILLIAMS

Jason WILLIAMS

Sandra WILLIAMS

Annette WINSKILL

Patricia Joy WOOD

Leon YOUNG

For more info on Grace you can go to www.badders.com

It should be in the news section

Thanks Dill.

She's quite a remarkable lady and is better known as Pat instead of Grace Hollands. Now 91 years old, she was a former country first-team player and coach. Apparently she is still coaching youngsters! Indeed she has led an active badminton life, as quite apart from playing and coaching, she was a founder member of the Duchy of Cornwall Open and was a former head of sport and PE at Cornwall College in Pool.

So, we still have many active years in us yet if Pat Hollands is any role model.