Lyndon Trott (6722) has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Guernsey in the King’s New Year’s Honours.  The President of the Policy & Resources Committee was recognised mainly for his contribution to politics and financial services over a 25-year span.

Deputy Trott said “it was a great honour for which he was enormously grateful”, and thanked the many people with whom he had worked, as well as his family.  He said “This is really recognition of the many people I’ve worked with – political members, public servants, business colleagues and many other people in the Guernsey community.  It’s a very special community which I’m deeply proud to have served for so many years, and it has been a team effort.  In particular, it is my family who deserve recognition because they, like the families of all those who enter public political life, give a huge amount inf terms of support, patience and understanding.  Politics in a small and passionate community is often intense.  It seldom makes you popular, and it takes up a lot of your life, which is fine as a personal choice, but it’s harder on your family.  My family has been incredibly supportive and I can’t thank them enough.”

After working in financial services locally and in the UK, and as a commercial fisherman alongside his father, Deputy Trott was the youngest member of the States when he was first elected in 2000.  In May he will celebrate 25 years as a States member, and for much of that period he has also retained commercial and voluntary roles in the finance industry.  He has already said this States term will be his last before he retires from politics in June.