Peter Barron has been a member of the Keswick MRT for 27 years. Photo: Keswick MRT

Alfred Wainwright’s biographer and two mountain rescue volunteers have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Writer Hunter Davies was appointed an OBE for his services to literature.

David Williams, leader of the Aberdyfi Search and Rescue Team, was made an MBE for services to mountain rescue and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He is also a senior warden with Snowdonia National Park Authority.

Peter Barron, a ranger with the Lake District National Park Authority and volunteer member of Keswick Mountain Rescue Team was awarded the British Empire Medal.

Hunter Davies

Mr Davies, who lives in London and Loweswater, wrote Wainwright, the Biography and The Wainwright Letters.

Mr Williams, 63, as well as leading his town’s mountain rescue team is operations manager for the RNLI in the area.

Mr Barron has been a member of the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team since 1987 and was also responsible for setting up the project that saw the return of ospreys to the Lake District in his role with the park authority.