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 Gough served as such till she was released of her post early 2013. She then became FCO's Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In September 2015 Gough was appointed Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Ukraine. Gough is openly lesbian and raises two children with her partner, Julia Kleiousi. Judith Gough Judith Mary Gough CMG (born 8 November 1972) is a British diplomat and the current Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Ukraine. Gough was educated at the University of Nottingham (BA German and Russian, 1995) and at King's College London (MA War in Modern World, 2012). She then worked