New Year Honours list 2022: Scots including Andy Robertson, Jen Beattie and Beano illustrator receive award
dailyrecord.co.ukA school crossing attendant and several footballers are among the inspiring Scots to be hailed in the New Year Honours list.Professor Peter Mathieson, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, is knighted for services to higher education, while two other Scots receive knighthoods and two become dames.
Anita Frew, the first female chairwoman in Rolls-Royce's history and one of only 18 women leading boards among Britain's biggest listed companies, is given a damehood for services to business and the economy.
The Scottish businesswoman said: "It is a great privilege to be recognised in this way. I'm sure that if anyone had told me, as a young girl growing up in Scotland with a father and a grandfather who worked at Rolls-Royce, that one day not only would I chair that company but would have the honour to be made a dame, I would not have believed it." Dr Julie Maxton, executive director of the Royal Society and originally from Edinburgh, receives a damehood for services to science and to the law.
Professor Sir Peter said he is "honoured and flattered" to receive the knighthood. He said: "I do see it as recognition of the standing of the university.
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