The 2019 New Year Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The New Year Honours are awarded as part of the New Year celebrations at the start of January and were officially announced in The London Gazette at 22:30 on 28 December 2018. Australia, an independent Realm, has a separate honours system and its first honours of the year, the 2019 Australia Day Honours, coincide with Australia Day on 26 January.
The riband and badge of a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour
Insignia of a Knight / Dames Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Insignia of a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Sir Edward Julian Egerton Leigh is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gainsborough, previously Gainsborough and Horncastle, since 1983.
Official portrait, 2020