1975 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1975 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1975 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1975.^[1][2] New Zealand,^[3] Mauritius,^[4] Fiji,^[5] and Grenada.^[6]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honours.

At this time honours for Australians were still being awarded in the UK honours on the advice of the premiers of Australian states. The Australian honours system began with the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours.

At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominals MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.

United Kingdom

Life peers

• The Right Honourable Sir William Armstrong, G.C.B., M.V.O., lately Head of the Home Civil Service.
• Richard Patrick Tallentyre Gibson, Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain.
• David Thomas Pitt, Chairman, Greater London Council.
• Colonel Sir Derek Wilbraham Pritchard, Chairman, Rothmans International Ltd. President, Institute of Directors.
• Sir Rudy Sternberg, Chairman, Sterling Group of Companies; Chairman, British Agricultural Export Council.

Privy Counsellor

• Joel Barnett, M.P., Chief Secretary, H M. Treasury. Member of Parliament for the Heywood and Royton Division of Lancashire.
• Roy Sydney George Hattersley, M.P., Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Member of Parliament for the Sparkbrook Division of Birmingham.
• Brian Kevin O'Malley, M.P., Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security. Member of Parliament for Rotherham.

Knight Bachelor

• John Lindsay Alexander, Chairman, Ocean Transport and Trading Ltd.
• Professor James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, O.B.E., Q.C., F.B.A., Chairman, House of Laity, General Synod of the Church of England.
• Professor Arthur Llewellyn Armitage, Vice-Chancellor, Victoria University of Manchester.
• Roger Gilbert Bannister, C.B E., lately Chairman, The Sports Council.
• Edgar Charles Beck, C B.E., Chairman, John Mowlem and Company Ltd.
• Frederick Arthur Bishop, C.B, C.V.O, Director-General, The National Trust.
• William Whytehead Boulton, C B.E., T.D., Secretary of The Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar.
• Edward Louis Britton, C B.E., General Secretary, National Union of Teachers.
• Derrick Hunton Carter, T.D., Chairman, Remploy Ltd.
• William Christie, M.B.E., Lord Mayor of the City of Belfast.
• David Charles Collins, C.B E., Chairman, Westland Aircraft Ltd. For services to Export.
• Alan Meredyth Hudson Davies, C.B.E., lately Chairman, Board of Governors, United Liverpool Hospitals.
• Frederick William Dampier Deakin, D.S.O., Historian.
• John Bealby Eastwood, Chairman, J. B. Eastwood Ltd.
• Edward Fennessy, C.B.E., Managing Director, Telecommunications, Post Office.
• Harold Montague Finniston, F.R.S., Chairman, British Steel Corporation.
• Hugh Ford, F.R.S., Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London.
• Ronald George Gibson, C.B.E. For services to the development of the National Health Service.
• Albert King, O.B.E., Leader, Leeds City Council.
• William Russell Lawrence, Q.C., Senior Master of the Supreme Court (Queen's Bench Division) and Queen's Remembrancer.
• Francis Scott McFadzean, Chairman, Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd.
• Ieuan Maddock, C.B., O.B.E., F.R.S., Chief Scientist, Department of Industry.
• John Cyprian Nightingale, C.B.E., B.E.M., Q.P.M., Chief Constable, Essex Police.
• Edward Eric Pochin, C.B.E., lately Director, Medical Research Council, Department of Clinical Research, University College Hospital Medical School.
• Arnold Joseph Philip Powell, O.B.E., Architect.
• Professor Edward Austin Gossage Robinson, C.M.G., O.B.E., F.B.A. For services to Economics.
• Louis Sherman, O.B.E., Chairman, London Boroughs Association.
• Alexander Mair Smith, Director, Manchester Polytechnic.
• Alfred George Tomkins, C.B.E., General Secretary, Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union.
• Horace Alan Walker, Chairman and Chief Executive, Bass-Charrington Ltd.
• Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse, C.B.E., F.B.A., Art Historian.
• John Foster Wilson, C.B.E., Director, Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind.
• Michael Thomond Wilson, M.B.E., Chairman, Export Guarantees Advisory Council.
• John Woolf, Film Producer. Chairman, Romulus Films Ltd.
• The Honourable George Oswald Ratteray, C.B.E., President of the Legislative Council, Bermuda.
• Garfield St Auburn Sobers. For services to cricket.
• The Honourable Arthur Dudley Spurling, C.B.E., J.P., Speaker of the House of Assembly, Bermuda.

Australian States

State of New South Wales

• The Honourable Davis Hughes, Agent-General for New South Wales in London.
• The Honourable Kenneth Malcolm McCaw, Q.C., M.L.A., Attorney General of New South Wales.
• Alfred William Tyree, O.B.E. For services to the community.

State of Victoria

• The Honourable Mr Justice Oliver James Gillard. For services to the legal profession and as a Judge of the Supreme Court.
• William Shearer Philip, C.M.G., M.C., of Toorak. For outstanding services as a hospital administrator.
• Thomas Langley Webb, of Toorak. For services to business.

State of Queensland

• Theodor Charles Bray, C.B.E., of Brisbane. For services to tertiary education and the newspaper industry.
• James William Foots, of Brookfield. For services to Queensland's mining industry.
• The Honourable Seymour Douglas Tooth, M.L.A., Minister for Health.

State of Western Australia

• John Edward Parker, Chairman of the State Electricity Commission.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

• Admiral Sir Anthony Templer Frederick Griffith Griffin, K.C.B.
• General Sir Cecil Blacker, K.C.B., O.B.E., M.C., A.D.C.(Gen.), late Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, Colonel Commandant Corps of Royal Military Police, Colonel Commandant Army Physical Training Corps.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Neil Wheeler, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice Admiral John Anthony Rose Troup, D.S.C.*
• Admiral David Williams.
• Air Marshal Neil Cameron, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Marshal Kenneth Charles Michael Giddings, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Ian Powell Bancroft, C.B., Second Permanent Secretary, Civil Service Department.
• George Leitch, C.B., O.B.E., Chief Executive, Procurement Executive, Ministry of Defence.
• David William Shuckburgh Lidderdale, C.B., Clerk of the House of Commons.
• Ronald Robert Duncan McIntosh, C.B., Director General, National Economic Development Office.
• Douglas William Gretton Wass, C.B., Permanent Secretary, H.M. Treasury.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Rear Admiral James William Dunbar Cook.
• Commandant Mary Irene Talbot, Hon. A.D.C., Women's Royal Naval Service.
• Rear Admiral Alan George Watson.
• Rear Admiral Arthur Brooke Webb.
• Major-General Edward John Sidney Burnett, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., late Infantry.
• Major-General Hew Dacres George Butler, late Infantry.
• Major-General John Charles Gould, Royal Army Pay Corps.
• Major-General Harry Knutton, late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Alexander Matthew McKay, late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Colonel Commandant Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Major-General John Michael Strawson, O.B.E., late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Air Vice-Marshal Reginald Bullen, G.M., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Peter David George Terry, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Molly Greenwood Allott, A.D.C, Women's Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Melvin Clifford Seymour Shepherd, O.B E., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Sir William Godfrey Agnew, K.C.V.O., lately Clerk in Ordinary of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.
• John Angus Beaton, Deputy Director, Scottish Courts Administration.
• Patrick Benner, Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office.
• Lawrence Sam Berman, Deputy Secretary, Department of Industry.
• John Wilfrid Bourne, Deputy Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department.
• John Charles Burgh, Deputy Secretary, Department of Prices and Consumer Protection.
• Richard Philip Cave, M.V.O., Principal Clerk, Judicial Office, House of Lords.
• Harold Raymond Percy Chatten, General Manager, H.M. Dockyard, Rosyth, Ministry of Defence.
• Donald John Derx, Deputy Secretary, Department of Employment.
• Miss Hilda Mabel Hedley, Under Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security.
• Arthur Patrick Hockaday, C.M.G., Deputy Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence.
• Frank Basil Humphrey, Parliamentary Counsel.
• Major-General Brian St George Irwin, Director-General, Ordnance Survey.
• John Douglas Webster Janes, Deputy Secretary, Northern Ireland Office.
• Robert Hill Kidd, Second Secretary, Department of Finance, Northern Ireland.
• Peter Esmond Lazarus, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment.
• Anthony Keith Rawlinson, Deputy Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• Professor John James Andrew Reid, T.D., Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Security.
• Ronald Charters Symonds. Attached Ministry of Defence.
• Ernest Vize Symons, Deputy Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

• Sir Thomas Brimelow, K.C.M.G., O.B.E., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of H.M. Diplomatic Service.
• The Right Honourable Sir Morrice James, K.C.M.G., C.V.O., M.B.E., British High Commissioner, Canberra.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

• Christopher Jeremy Morse. For services to the reform of the international monetary system.
• David Henry Thoroton Hildyard, C.M.G., D.F.C., United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Geneva.
• Maurice Oldfield, C.M.G., C.B.E., Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Anthony Derrick Parsons, C.M.G., M.V.O., M.C., H.M. Ambassador, Tehran.
• Andrew Alexander Steel Stark, C.M.G., C.V.O., H.M. Ambassador, Copenhagen.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• The Right Honourable Thomas Edward, Baron Bridges, lately Private Secretary (Overseas Affairs) to the Prime Minister.
• Jon Edmund Dixon, Under Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• Peter Thomas Haskell, Director, Centre for Overseas Pest Research, Ministry of Overseas Development.
• Professor Percy Edwin Alan Johnson-Marshall. For services to town-planning particularly in the developing countries.
• William Thomas Pearce, Assistant Secretary, Department of Trade.
• Mervyn Brown, O.B.E., British High Commissioner, Dar es Salaam.
• Michael Dacres Butler, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Albert James Macqueen Craig, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Alan Eaton Davidson, H.M. Ambassador, Vientiane.
• Alan Clowes Goodison, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• James Patrick Ivan Hennessy, O.B.E., Acting British High Commissioner, Kampala.
• Alexander King, C.B.E., lately Director-General of Scientific Affairs, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris.
• John Henry Lambert, Minister and Deputy Commandant, British Military Government, Berlin.
• Eric George Le Tocq, British High Commissioner, Mbabane.
• Li Fook-kow, Secretary for Social Services, Hong Kong.
• Hugh Thomas Arnold Overton, H.M. Consul-General, Düsseldorf.
• Cyril Felix Rolo, O.B.E., Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Major General Reginald Booth Stockdale, C.B., O.B.E., lately Head of the Inspection Control Division, Armaments Control Agency, Western European Union, Paris.
• David Michael Summerhayes, Minister, H.M. Embassy, South Africa.
• John Bryan Ward-Perkins, C.B.E., lately Director of the British School of Art and Archaeology, Rome.
• Jack Cecil Westoby, lately Director of Programme Co-ordination, Forestry Department, Food and Agriculture Organisation, Rome.

Australian States

State of New South Wales

• Walter Ralston Bunning. For services to architecture.
• Professor John Loewenthal, E.D. For services to medicine.

State of Victoria

• Brigadier Percival Philip Jackson, C.B.E., of South Yarra. For services to education, and as a soldier.
• Miss Margaret Alison Mackie, of Toorak. For services to the medical profession and as a hospital administrator.

State of Queensland

• Leslie Atherton Gerard Boyce, M.C., of Toowoomba. For services to the University of Queensland.

State of Western Australia

• Frank Adams Callaway, O B.E., Professor of Music, University of Western Australia.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Francis Stewart Denning, K B.E., C.B.
• Philip Stuart Milner-Barry, C.B., O.B.E.
• Ralph Southward.
• Edward George Tuckwell.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Thomas James Barnham, M.V.O.
• Alfred Lapthorn Blake, M.C.
• Acting Air Commodore Michael Austin D'Arcy, Royal Air Force.
• Douglas Albert Guest.
• Horace Gildard White, M.V.O.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

Fourth Class

• Geoffrey Arthur Briggs.
• Thomas Hope Findlay, M.V.O.
• Denis de Montmorrencie Guilfoyle, O.B.E.
• Colonel Robert Harvey Hilborn, M.B E., C.D.
• Geoffrey John Eustace Jameson.
• Major Alan Lockhart McCall.
• Miss Julia Fergusson Munro, M.V.O
• Francis Michael Nunan.
• John Clive Wilson Peacock.
• Captain Frank Wright Walton, D.F C
• Russell Dillon Wood, V.R.D.

Fifth Class

• Alan David Gordon Bell.
• Lieutenant (S) (O.C.A.) Geoffrey Connell, Royal Navy.
• Edwin George Johnson.
• Michael Vaughan Kenyon.
• Harry Ernest Pratt.
• Cyril Taylor, B.E.M.
• Miss Hester Winifred White.

Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) (RVM)

• Petty Officer Steward David Kenneth Athersuch.
• Police Constable Eric Stanley Blencoe, Metropolitan Police.
• Mary, Mrs Hickman.
• Charles Frederick Hodgson.
• Chief Communications Yeoman Gerald Rex King.
• Acting Flight Sergeant Patrick Joseph Malone, Royal Air Force.
• John Morgan.
• George William Pipkin.
• Ernest Robertson.
• Eric Savage.
• William John Stephenson Tallon.
• Police Constable Peter Leonard Tappin, Metropolitan Police.
• Ernest William Wright.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

• The Right Honourable Nathaniel Mayer Victor, Baron Rothschild, G.M., F.R.S., lately Director General, Central Policy Review Staff, Cabinet Office.

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

• Dorothy Mary, Mrs Rees, C.B.E. For public and local government services in South Glamorgan.

Australian States

State of Victoria

• Jacobena Victoria Alice, Lady Angliss, C.B.E., of Hawthorn. For services to the community and welfare work.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

• Surgeon Vice Admiral James Watt, Q H.S.
• Air Marshal Geoffrey Howard Dhenin, A.F.C., G.M., Q H.P., Royal Air Force.
• Charles Spencer Chaplin, Film Actor and Producer.
• Edwin Rodney Smith, President, Royal College of Surgeons of England.
• Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Author.
• Stephen John Linley Olver, C.M.G., M.B.E., British High Commissioner, Nicosia.
• John Eric Sidney Thompson. For services to archaeology.

Australian States

State of Western Australia

• John Evenden Virtue, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Captain Cecil Robert Peter Charles Branson, A.D.C., Royal Navy.
• Captain Kenneth Arthur Crawley, Royal Navy.
• Captain Robert William Frank Gerken, Royal Navy.
• Captain Geoffrey St. Maur Mills, A.D.C, Royal Navy.

Army

• Brigadier Sidney Ernest Dutton, M.B.E. (355689), late Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Now R.A R.O.)
• Brigadier Jack Spencer Fletcher, O.B.E. (397244), late Infantry.
• Brigadier Walter Peter Walker Robertson, O.B.E (278721) late Royal Corps of Signals, Colonel Gurkha Signals.
• Colonel George Brian Sinclair (376979), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Brigadier Eric David Smith, D.S.O., M.B.E. (388771), late Infantry.
• Brigadier John Nicholas Sonerville (269382), late Infantry.
• Brigadier Peter George Tynan, O.B.E. (198978), late Royal Armoured Corps.

Royal Air Force

• Air Commodore Donald Percy Hall, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain Michael John Armitage, Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain Richard Henry Arscott, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain Kenneth Joseph Goodwin, A.F.C, Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain Douglas Herbert Richard Weston, Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• James Aiton, Convener, County of Lanark.
• John Gray Allan, Legal Adviser and Solicitor, Crown Estate Commissioners.
• William Purdon Allan, Secretary, Scottish Football Association Ltd.
• Andrew Archibald, O.B.E., Deputy Chairman, Trustee Savings Banks Association.
• Stanley Ashburner, lately Executive Director, Property Services Agency, Department of the Environment.
• Miss Angela Baddeley (Madeline Angela, Mrs. Byam Shaw), Actress.
• Douglas George Badham, Chairman, Development Corporation for Wales.
• John Taylor Bain, Director of Education, Glasgow Education Authority.
• Lancelot Donald Abel Baron, D.F.C., Executive Director, Commonwealth Sugar Exporters' Association.
• Hugh Desmond Barry, lately Secretary, The Library Association.
• Robert Geoffrey Beldam, Chairman and Managing Director, Beldam Asbestos Company Ltd., Hounslow.
• Jack Birks, Technical Director, British Petroleum Trading Ltd.
• Raymond Cyril Charles Boniface, General Manager, Basildon Development Corporation.
• Edward Bostock. For services to the community in Richmond-upon-Thames and Twickenham.
• William Bowring, lately Secretary, Leeds Regional Hospital Board.
• Professor Percy Wragg Brian, F.R.S., Member, Agricultural Research Council.
• Charles Gordon Bridge. For services to the National Economic Development Council.
• James Arthur Buckley, Member for Marketing, British Gas Corporation.
• Robert William Burchfield, Chief Editor, The Oxford English Dictionaries.
• Eric George Lapthorne Bywaters, Professor of Rheumatology, University of London.
• Thomas Carlile, Managing Director, Babcock and Wilcox Ltd.
• James Sellar Christie. For services to The British Film Institute.
• Stanley George Clarke, Chief Inspector, Prison Service, Home Office.
• Adrian Redman Collingwood, T.D., Chairman, The Eggs Authority.
• Thomas Idwal Davies, Staff Inspector (Wales), Department of Education and Science.
• William Robert Denaro, Regional Controller, West Midlands, Department of Health and Social Security.
• Alexander Mitchell Donnet, National Chairman and Scottish Regional Secretary, National Union of General and Municipal Workers.
• Miss Jessie Elizabeth Mary Edwards, lately Headmistress, Dick Sheppard School, Tulse Hill, London.
• David Lewis Evans, Chairman, Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority.
• Edwin Arthur Everett, Registrar, Shoreditch County Court.
• Stephen Lonsdale Finch, Deputy Chairman, The Weir Group Ltd. For services to Export.
• Norman Laurence Franklin, O.B.E., Chief Executive, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.
• Neil Galbraith, Q.P.M., D.L., H.M. Inspector of Constabulary, Wales and South West Region.
• Thomas George Gibb, Group Co-ordinator, National Freight Corporation.
• Michael Nairn Gladstone, Commercial Director, Agrochemical Division, Fisons Ltd.
• Sampson Gold Stone, Chairman and Managing Director, Ward and Goldstone Ltd.
• Reginald Goodall, Conductor, Royal Opera House; for services to Music.
• Eric Thomson Goodwin, Chief Scientific Officer, National Physical Laboratory.
• Richard Gerald Grice, Chairman, Lake District Special Planning Board.
• Stewart Cathie Griffith, D.F.C., T.D. For services to Cricket.
• Howard Granville Hanley, Urologist, St. Peter's Hospitals, London.
• Denis Rawnsley Harper, lately Professor of Building, Institute of Science and Technology, University of Manchester.
• Edward Norman Harris, A.F.C. For services to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the construction industry.
• John Ramsden Haslegrave, O.B.E., T.D., Chief Executive, Portsmouth City Council.
• Neil Geddes Clarkson Hendry, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
• Miss Imogen Clare Holst, Director, Aldeburgh Festival; for services to Music.
• Professor John Pilkington Hudson, M.B E, G M., Director, Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol.
• Colonel James Hughes, O.BE., T.D., Chairman, The Royal British Legion.
• Norman Charles Hunt, Professor of Business Studies, University of Edinburgh.
• Charles Patrick Maule Hunting, T D., lately Chairman, The Hunting Group of Companies.
• Miss Pamela Hansford Johnson (The Right Honourable Pamela Helen Hansford, Lady Snow), Writer.
• Ivor Roberts-Jones, Sculptor.
• Ernest Martin Jukes, Q.C., Director-General, Engineering Employers' Federation.
• Thomas Barclay Odell Kerr, Vice-Chairman, The General Electric Company Ltd. For services to Export.
• Frederick Bruford Kitchen, lately Chairman. Van Den Berghs and Jurgens Ltd.
• Robert Anthony Bernard Leaper, Professor of Social Administration, University of Exeter.
• Leonard John Lickorish, Director General, British Tourist Authority.
• David George Luxton, lately Director, Royal Ordnance Factory, Nottingham, Ministry of Defence
• Ewen McEwen, Vice-Chairman (Engineering), Joseph Lucas Ltd.
• Paul Taunton Matthews, F.R.S., Professor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London.
• Professor Robert Charles Oliver Matthews, Chairman, Social Science Research Council.
• John Millar Meek, David Jardine Professor of Electric Power Engineering, University of Liverpool.
• Joseph Milner, Q.F.S.M., Chief Fire Officer, London Fire Brigade.
• Walter Horace Mulley, Member, Anglian Water Authority.
• John Oliver, Controller of Prison Planning and Co-ordination, Scottish Home and Health Department.
• John George Magrath Pardoe, Director General of Safety (Airworthiness), Civil Aviation Authority.
• William Train Paton, T.D, Managing Director, William Paton and Sons Ltd.
• William Francis Patton, Q.C For services to law in Northern Ireland.
• William Michael Thomas Pattrick, Principal, Central School of Art and Design.
• David Arthur Chester Peck, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• John Albert Cyril Prescott, Headmaster, Kirkby, Cherryfield County Junior School, Merseyside.
• Mia Lilly Kellmer Pringle (Mrs. Hooper), Director, National Children's Bureau.
• Lionel Roger Price Pugh, V.R.D., D.L., Board Member, British Steel Corporation.
• Thomas Morgan Haydn Rees, D.L., Chief Executive, Clwyd County Council
• Ernest Bradbury Robsinson, Deputy Chairman, Robinson and Sons Ltd. For services to Export.
• James Scotland, Principal, Aberdeen College of Education.
• Ernest Pattison Shanks, Q.C., Deputy Bailiff, Guernsey.
• The Honourable Michael David Sieff, Joint Managing Director, Marks and Spencer Ltd. For services to Export.
• Cedric Keith Simpson, Professor of Forensic Medicine, University of London.
• Harold Sinclair, Chairman, SSS Clutch Gears Ltd. For services to Export.
• Colonel George Michael Singleton, M.C., T.D, D.L., lately Vice-Chairman, West Midland Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association.
• Miss Joyce Eva Skinner, Director, Cambridge Institute of Education.
• Stanley James Beresford Skyrme, Chief Executive, National Bus Company.
• The Very Reverend Robert Leonard Small, O.B.E. For public services in Scotland.
• Craig Connell Smellie, M.V.O., formerly Assistant Secretary, Northern Ireland Office.
• John Lindsay Eric Smith. For services to the preservation of historic buildings
• John Philip Smith, Director and Chief Engineer (Civil), Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd.
• Professor Harold Charles Stewart, D L., Deputy Director-General, St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade.
• Darwin Herbert Templeton. For services to industry in Northern Ireland.
• Donald Elliott Todd, Deputy Director of Engineering, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• William Henry Trethowan, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham.
• Philip Turner, Solicitor to the Post Office.
• Philip Adrian Hope-Wallace, Critic, Music and Drama, The Guardian
• Francis Leonard Waring, Chairman, Coalite and Chemical Products Ltd.
• Cyril Gordon Wastell, Secretary General of Lloyd's.
• Ronald Frank Alfred Webber, Higher Collector, Liverpool, Board of Customs and Excise
• Wattie Jesse West, Director, National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Scottish Station.
• Frank Idris Whatley, B.E.M. For services to local government in Gwent.
• Douglas Harold Whitting, O.B.E. For services to Voluntary Service Overseas.
• Stephen Williams. For services to farming in Wales
• John Stewart Wordie, V.R.D., Chairman of Burnham, Pelham and Soulbury Committees

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Military Division

Royal Navy

• The Reverend Edward Appleyard, V.R.D., Royal Naval Reserve.
• Surgeon Captain Kenneth Morley Backhouse, V.R.D.*, Royal Naval Reserve.
• Commander (SD) Phillip James Ball, Royal Navy.
• Commander William George Berry Black, Royal Navy.
• Commander Anthony Bowen, Royal Navy.
• Commander John Frederick Carey, Royal Navy.
• Surgeon Commander David Michael Davies, Royal Navy.
• Commander Cedric Denis Fowler, Royal Navy
• Acting Commander John Raymond Hatch, Royal Navy.
• Commander Jonathan David Willoughby Husband, Royal Navy.
• Commander Anthony David Hutton, Royal Navy.
• Commander Denis Furnivall Swithinbank, DSC, Royal Navy.
• Lieutenant Colonel Michael Compton Lockwood Wilkins, Royal Marines.

Army

• Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Anthony Clay (411915) Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Middleton Davies (426864), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment).
• Major (Now Lieutenant-Colonel) John Graham Hind (397930), Royal Tank Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Anthony Johnstone M.B.E. (420864), Royal Corps of Signals.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Lewis Tudor Jones (417441), The Parachute Regiment.
• Lieutenant Colonel George Ronald Derrick Kennedy (385358), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Michael Koe (418308), The Royal Green Jackets.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (Now Colonel) Brian Hedley Marciandi (403537), The Queen's Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel David Macdonald Gollan Myles T.D. (421465), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Bernard Ogilvie, T.D. (409235), The Queen's Regiment, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Richard Pennell, M.B.E. (368220), The Royal Green Jackets.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (Staff Quartermaster) Stanley Price (435453), The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting) Kenneth Arthur Spring T.D. (331060), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Combined Cadet Force, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (Now Retired).
• Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Harrison Swinhoe (427484), Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Jean Valinder (232437), Royal Army Pay Corps (Now Retired).
• Lieutenant-Colonel Alan Edward Yardley (382846), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (Now R.A.R.O.).

Royal Air Force

• Acting Group Captain Myrddin Idwyll David, Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Stanley Walter Bainbridge (3053711), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander John Barrie Blakeley (2536956), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Barrie Ernest Frederick Faulkner (582642), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Patrick King (4151279), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Peter Alfred Knapton, D.F.C. (116984), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Ronald William Leppard (201551), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Eric Harold Macey (4159730), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander John Meadows (582381), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Geoffrey John Edward Moores (2469163), .Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Barry Hamilton Newton (607353), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander George Earl Ord (2456842), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander William George Wood (152184), Royal Air Force.

Overseas Awards

• Lieutenant Colonel Arthur John Ferrrary, E.D., The Gibraltar Regiment.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• Jack Ashley, M.P., Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent, South. For services to handicapped people.
• The Right Honourable Gerald Austin, Baron Gardiner, Q.C., Chairman of the Council of Justice.
• Professor Max Ferdinand Perutz, C.B.E., F.R.S. For services to Molecular Biology.

New Zealand

Knight Bachelor

• William Norman Gough Dunlop JP – of Christchurch. For services to the farming industry.
• Leonard Albert Hadley JP – of Wellington. For services to the trade union movement.

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Civil Division

• Ian Gordon Lythgoe – chairman of the State Services Commission, 1970–74.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• Arthur Ernest Bockett OBE – commissioner of the Waterfront Industry Commission.
• John Patrick McVeagh – of Lower Hutt, Chief Parliamentary Counsel.

Order of the British Empire

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

Civil Division

• Mrs Lucy Ruth Kirk – widow of the Right Honourable Norman Eric Kirk MP, late Prime Minister of New Zealand. For public services.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

Civil Division

• Peter Tait OBE JP – of Napier. For services to local government.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• Laurence Alfred Cameron JP – of Lower Hutt. For services to commerce and the community.
• Mrs Miriam Patricia Dell – of Wellington. For public services.
• Robert James MacLachlan – Director-General of Lands, 1962–74.
• Stanley William Wilford Tong – of Auckland. For services to the legal profession and civic affairs.
• Pearce Melvin Eddy Williams OBE JP – of Kaikohe. For services to the community.

Military Division

• Brigadier Ronald Douglas Patrick Hassett MBE – Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Policy).

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• John Dunstan Atkinson – of Auckland. For services to scientific research.
• Gordon Alexander Brown JP – of Palmerston North. For services to the community.
• The Reverend Father Leo St John Close – of Dunedin. For services to the paraplegic movement.
• Bevan Ernest Congdon – of Dunedin. For services to cricket.
• James Francis Duncan – professor of inorganic and theoretical chemistry, Victoria University of Wellington.
• Maurice Francis Tancred Holmes – of Christchurch. For services to New Zealand trotting.
• Mrs Sheila Betty Holt JP – of Auckland. For services to the community.
• Donald Ross Hunter – of Dunedin, For services to the Otago Council and the community.
• The Reverend George Alfred Jeffreys – of Auckland. For services to youth and the community.
• Reginald David Lumsden – of Wellington. For services to the Industrial Court.
• Norman Alfred Nash – of Palmerston North. For services to the newspaper and printing industry and community.
• Mrs Eunice Olive Nieukerke – of Auckland. For services to education and the community.
• John Goodlet Pryde – of Wellington. For services to the farming industry.
• John Russell Ritchie – of Dunedin. For services to medicine.
• James Malcolm Ross – of Lower Hutt. For services to sport, especially smallbore rifle shooting.
• The Reverend Ernest James Salisbury – of Shaba, Zaire. For humanitarian services.

Military Division

• Surgeon Commander Thomas Shailer Weston VRD – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant Colonel Robert McLeod Dickie – Royal New Zealand Engineers (Regular Force).
• Lieutenant Colonel Neville Alan Wallace – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
• Group Captain Morris Charles Pollard – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• Miss Muriel Barron (Sister Mary Gabriel) – of Auckland. For services to the community.
• Desmond Terence Crowe – of Timaru. For services to the community.
• William Wallis Day JP – of Palmerston North. For services to local government.
• Patrick Ballance Desmond – of Palmerston North. For services to the dairy industry.
• Pieter Johannes De Vries – of Karamea. For exemplary devotion to duty as a patrolman on the Heaphy Track.
• Mrs Mary Frances English – of Auckland. For services to guiding.
• Miss Binda Mary Goldsbrough – of Christchurch. For services to physically handicapped children.
• Mrs Frances Eva Boronia Gregory – of Gisborne. For services to the community and local government.
• Councillor Leonard Robert George Harlen QFSM – of Hastings. For services to the Fire Brigade.
• Hugh Wilson Hayward JP – of Ngatea. For services to the community and local government.
• James Frederick Higgins JP – of Tokoroa. For services to local government and the community.
• Miss Florence Caroline Emily Howland – of Pukerua Bay. For services to social welfare.
• Lewis Evan Lewis – of South Auckland. For services to education.
• Bruce McHattie – of Auckland. For services to the deaf.
• Miss Rona Una McKenzie – of Auckland. For services to women's cricket.
• Mrs Norma Mangos – of Nelson. For services to the New Zealand Marching Association.
• John Patrick Murphy – of Marlborough. For services to the community.
• Mrs Beverley Pentland – of Petone. For services to the community especially fireworks safety.
• Miss Marjorie Ellen Rae JP – of Christchurch. For services to nursing and the community.
• George Skipworth JP – of Invercargill. For services to the community
• John Rickard Waigth JP – of Roxburgh. For services to the community and local government.
• Neil Apanui Watene JP – of Petone. For services to the Māori community.
• William Frederick Wise – of Hamilton. For public services particularly with the construction of the New Zealand Chancery in Canberra.
• Clifford John Bell – lately Superintendent, New Zealand Police.
• Keith Vincent – Superintendent, New Zealand Police.

Military Division

• Lieutenant Commander David Trevor Ingram – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Marine Engineering Artificer Terence Richard Martin – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Stewart Thomas Foster ED – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps (Territorial Force).
• Warrant Officer First Class Lance Repington Reeves – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Murray Dobson Sherwood – locomotive supervisor, New Zealand Railways.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil Division

• Miss Clare Martha Ambler – of Auckland. For services in local government.
• Harry Winfield Bennett JP – of Christchurch. For services to local government.
• Miss Elizabeth Joyce Addison Birley – of Tauranga. For welfare services.
• Norman Henry Brayshaw – of Blenheim. For services to the community.
• John Drummond – of Akaroa. For services to the community.
• Russell MacLennan Glendinning – of Lumsden. For services to tourism.
• Mrs Joyce Iris Klempel – of Westland. For services to the community.
• Miss Gladys Lorimer McAndrew – of Levin. For services to nursing.
• Howard Leon Mallitte – of Wellington; For services to youth and the Navy League Sea Cadet organisation.
• Mrs Mona Ross Moore – of Tarras, Central Otago. For services to the community.
• Mrs Alma Phyllis Neave JP – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Mrs Helga Marshall Newson – of Christchurch. For services to intellectually handicapped children.
• John Joseph O'Brien – of Sydney, Australia. For social welfare work.
• Mrs Doris Ogden – of Auckland. For services to the community.
• Edward Benjamin O'Reilly JP – of Clyde. For services to the community.
• Norman Arthur Prier – of Eastbourne. For services to the community.
• John Te Rangianiwaniwa Rangihau – of Hamilton. For services to the Māori people.
• Mrs Ellen June Sullivan JP – of New Plymouth. For services to the community.
• Mrs Kuini Katarina Ellison Te Tau – of Masterton. For services to the community.
• Lindsay Eunus Warmington – of Dargaville. For voluntary services to the community.
• Miss Olive Charlotte Mary Wharton – of Wellington. For services to the blind.
• Kenneth Cecil Wilkinson – of Lower Hutt. For services to sport, especially table tennis.
• Eric Drayton Withell – of Nelson. For services to brass bands.
• David Skinner Paterson – lately Detective Sergeant, New Zealand Police.

Military Division

• Chief Radioman James Drummond – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Chief Signalman Russell Graham Hockley – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Gunnery Instructor Graham Clive Holloway – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Corporal Maxwell Harry Lyver – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
• Sergeant Donald Grant Tanui Roa – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Regular Force).
• Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Johnson Taylor – Royal New Zealand Army Service Corps (Regular Force).
• Flight Sergeant Air Ordnanceman Graham Brian Parcell – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Ronald Stanley Soden – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader Frank Hamilton Roach – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Fire Service Medal (QFSM)

• Alex Douglas Barton – Chief Fire Officer, Dannevirke Volunteer Fire Brigade.
• John Fogarty – Senior Station Officer, Lyttelton Volunteer Fire Brigade (Christchurch Metropolitan Fire Brigade).
• Harold Thomas Genese – Chief Fire Officer, Tauranga United Fire Brigade.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Charles Erlston Weir Black – Senior Sergeant, New Zealand Police.
• Michael John Vaughan – Constable, New Zealand Police.

Grenada

Order of the British Empire

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• Wilbert Everard Douglas. For services to the community.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• Nicholas Alexander Brathwaite, Chief Education Officer.
• Walter Eden St. John. For services to the community.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• Miss Irva Merle Baptists. For services to education.
• Milton Matthew John, Agricultural Assistant, Ministry of Agriculture.
• Joseph Augustus Pitt. For services to arts and crafts and the community.

References

1. United Kingdom list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46444. pp. 1–33. 31 December 1974.
2. New Zealand list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46446. pp. 37–40. 31 December 1974. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
3. New Zealand list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46446. pp. 37–40. 31 December 1974.
4. Mauritius list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46447. p. 41. 31 December 1974.
5. Fiji list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46448. p. 43. 31 December 1974.
6. Grenada list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46449. p. 45. 31 December 1974.