Profumo honoured for social work

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33869, 14 June 1975, Page 15

Profumo honoured for social work

LONDON. June 13. Mr John Profumo, a former (internment Minister wlv figured in one ol Britain's most sensational scandals, recency high honour from the Queen Indat alter 12 tears toiling in obscurity as a social worker.

The gazetting of Mr . Perfumo as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( C.8.E.) nas one of T.’ili awards in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Ranging deep into the fields of pulilie service and , arts, the awards embraced !: i entertainers like the conicj dian, Tommy Trinder. the C war-time heart-throb singer. Vera Lynn, and the actorplaywright. Peter Ustinov. j lop of lhe list were six life-iime peerages which in- ;• eluded a barony for Sir Wil- ; liam Barnetson. chairman of > United Newspapers and ; chairman of Reuters Two other publishing figures also were made barons. One was Sit Don Ryder, former chairman of the International Publishing Corporation (1.P.C.) and I now an industrial adviser to ; the Government. The other ~! was Sydney Jacobson, lately i I.P.C.’s editorial director and ■ deputy chairman. The award to Mr Profumo recalled his dramatic downfall from office in 1963 ■ when, as Secretary of State [for War, he admitted an I association with a call-girl who was involved at the [time with a Soviet diplomat. ! The case rocked the Con-; ! servative Government, of the ' I; day and was believed to. ijhave contributed to the |! party’s election defeat, the ■ I next. year. [I Since then Mr Profumo,; ’’now 60. has been engaged in '■ social work in London’s East End district. He inherited an

Italian barony from he father and wa> a tast-risms politico star tint . his uni den exit from the limelight Working ai I \ nbee Hal! a settlement for deprivec

Londoners. Mi Profumo helped fight against povertx and alcoholism. In 1968, he became an official prison visitor at Grendon gaol near London. He had already been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (0.8. E. for military service in North Africa. The list contained 30 new knighthoods. They included the northern Ireland police chief. Mr James Flanagan,

man. M- David Xio-A.-n ami a m-wspapei car;-x-m.-d " v waspish cai'K atmcs al Bi -i Mi Irindei ami Mi IXt. ( Bl s<. was the artless. I a\ Compton. Vera l.\nn wh.»e mu was one of the mar-i hits crooning "W -'ll Mei ' ■ with British servicemen in World Mat II be, am. Dame Commandei of thOrdet a the British Impm iD BE ) Another D. 8.1 went 1.the actress. Wendt Hilleperhaps most famous for ar

Eliza Doolittle role in a prewar film version of Pxgma lion. The award most likely to intrigue British television viewers was an 0.8. E. to the actor. Clive Dunn, who plays a decrepit corporal in the highly successful "Dad's Army" series about Britain's war-time home guard Most prominent of the awards to sport was a C.B.E to Brian Close, for mer England cricket captain with the England test team.