The Birthday Honours List 2012 was released on 16 June 2012 in the United Kingdom. on 11 June 2012 in Australia on 4 June 2012 in New Zealand, on 15 June 2012 in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Belize, Saint Lucia, Solomon Islands, and The Cook Islands. The Birthday Honours List was released during the height of the Diamond jubilee celebrations, and was therefore styled The Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours 2012 in New Zealand, while United Kingdom celebrated the jubilee with a separate list later that year. The recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged first by country, honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil, Overseas or Police list). United Kingdom Knight Bachelor Antony Brian Baldry. For Public and Political Service. Peter Birkett, Chief Executive, Barnfield College, Luton. For services to Further Education and the Academy Movement. Robin Bosher, lately Headteacher, Fairlawn Primary School, Haseltine Primary School, and Kilmorie Primary School, Lewisham. For services to Education. Michael Boyd, Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company. For services to Drama. Kenneth Charles Branagh. For services to Drama and to the community in Northern Ireland. The Right Honourable Malcolm Gray Bruce, . For Public and Political Service. His Honour Judge Clive Vernon Callman. For services to Law, Education and Charity. Thomas Anthony Cunningham, . For Public and Political Service. Charles William Dunstone, Founder and Chairman, Carphone Warehouse Group. For services to the Mobile Communications Industry and to charity. Professor Richard John Evans, Regius Professor of History, University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. For services to Scholarship. Peter Fahy, , Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police. For services to Policing. Professor William Timothy Gowers, Royal Society Research Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge. For services to Mathematics. Dr William Haughey, . For services to Business and Philanthropy. Thomas Michael Sydney Hughes-Hallett, Chief Executive, Marie Curie Cancer Care. For services to Palliative Care. Professor Robert Ian Lechler, Vice Principal (Health), King's College London, and Executive Director, King's Health Partners. For services to Academic Medicine. Professor James McDonald, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Strathclyde. For services to Education, Engineering and the Economy. David McVicar, Director. For services to Opera. Dr Daniel Moynihan, Chief Executive, The Harris Federation of South London Schools. For services to Education. Brian Walter Pomeroy, .