The New Year Honours 1996 were appointments by most of the sixteen Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries. They were announced on 29–30 December 1995 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1996 in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the Cook Islands, The Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, and Antigua and Barbuda. United Kingdom Life Peer Barons Sir David Howe Gillmore, , former Head of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. Sir Robert Kilpatrick, , lately President, General Medical Council. Dick Taverne, , President, PRIMA Europe Limited. Privy Counsellor David Philip Heathcoat-Amory, , Member of Parliament for Wells and Her Majesty's Paymaster General. Michael Ancram, , Member of Parliament for Devizes and Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office. Sir John Marcus Fox, , Member of Parliament for Shipley and Chairman of the 1922 Committee. Knight Bachelor Peter Leahy Bonfield, , Chairman, ICL plc. For services to the Information Technology Industry. Christian John Storey Bonington, . For services to Mountaineering. Professor David Craig Carter, Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, and Chairman, Scottish Liver Transplantation Unit, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. For services to Medicine. Professor Cyril Chantler, Children Nationwide Medical Research Fund, Professor of Paediatric Nephrology, United Medical and Dental Schools, Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals. For services to Medicine. Charles Noel Davies, lately Chief Executive, VSEL Ltd. For services to the Defence Industry. Professor Graeme John Davies. For services to the Higher Education Funding Council, England. Ian Leonard Dixon, , Chairman, Willmott Dixon Ltd. For services to the Construction Industry. Michael Gilbert Heron. For services to Vocation Education and Training. Colin Frederick Newton Hope, Chairman and Chief Executive, T&N plc. For services to the Motor Manufacturing Industry. Professor John Harold Horlock, , Treasurer and Vice President, the Royal Society. For services to Science, Engineering and to Education. Francis Roger Hurn, Chairman and Chief Executive, Smiths Industries plc. For services to the Engineering Industry. Paul Rupert Judge. For political and public service. Harold Stanley Kalms, Executive Chairman, Dixons Group plc. For services to the Electrical Retailing Industry. Graham Kirkham. For charitable services to the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and to the Animal Health Trust. Professor Harold Walter Kroto, , Royal Society Research Professor, University