Judith Weir her appointment as the Master of the Queen's Music, succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (whose term of office expired in March 2014), would be announced; this was officially confirmed on 21 July. In May 2015, Weir won The Ivors Classical Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. Weir is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. In 2018 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Weir's musical language is fairly conservative, with a "knack of making simple musical ideas appear freshly mysterious." Her first stage work, "The Black Spider", was a one-act opera which
Judith Webb Judith Webb Judith Webb is a former Major in the British Army and a proponent of equal physical standards for male and female service members. She appeared on the BBC 100 Women list for 2013. She was the first woman to command an otherwise all-male squadron of the British Army. Webb served in the 28th Signal Regiment of the British Army, and served in Germany and Cyprus. She was the first women to command an all-male squadron. She retired from the Army in 1986. In 2013 and 2014, Webb argued against women being allowed into British Army combat infantry units,