1979 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1979 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. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the Queen. They were published for the United Kingdom in two tranches, first on 15 June 1979 and second on 25 June 1979. Other countries' lists were published on 15 June 1979: Australia, New Zealand, Barbados, Mauritius, Fiji, Bahamas, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and Saint Lucia.Saint Lucia:

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, ''etc.'') and then divisions (Military, Civil, ''etc.'') as appropriate.

United Kingdom and Colonies

Life Peers

Baroness

*The Right Honourable Betty Harvie Anderson, (Margaret Betty, Mrs. Skrimshire), lately Member of Parliament for the East Division of Renfrewshire. Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, House of Commons, 1970–73.
* Jean Kennedy McFarlane, Professor and Head of Department of Nursing, University of Manchester.
* Diana Josceline Barbara, Mrs Neave, Widow of Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, .

Baron

*The Right Honourable John Emerson Harding Davies, . Formerly Member of Parliament for the Knutsford Division of Cheshire. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1970–72; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1972–74.
*The Right Honourable Joseph Bradshaw Godber, lately Member of Parliament for the Grantham Division of Lincolnshire. Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1972–74.
* Ralph Harris, General Director, The Institute of Economic Affairs.
* Hugh Emlyn Hooson, , lately Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire. Lately Leader of the Welsh Liberal Party.
*The Right Honourable Sir Robert Lynd Erskine Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
*The Right Honourable James Peter Hymers Mackay, , Lord Advocate.
*The Right Honourable Henry Oscar Murton, , lately Member of Parliament for Poole. Lately Chairman of Ways and Means, House of Commons.
*The Right Honourable Sir David Lockhart-Mure Renton, , lately Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire.
* Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford.
*The Right Honourable James David Gibson-Watt, Formerly Member of Parliament for Hereford.
*The Right Honourable Richard Frederick Wood, lately Member of Parliament for the Bridlington Division of Yorkshire.
Minister of Overseas Development 1970–74.

Privy Counsellor

* Terence Langley Higgins, , Member of Parliament for Worthing.

Knight Bachelor

*Professor Geoffrey Allen, Chairman Science Research Council.
* Reginald Frederick Brittain Bennett, , lately Member of Parliament for Fareham.
*James Clark Cameron, , Chairman of the Council, British Medical Association. For Services to Medicine.
* Robert Gordon Cooke, lately Member of Parliament for the West Division of Bristol.
* Horace Walter Cutler, , Leader, Greater London Council.
* Alfred George Fletcher Hall-Davis, lately Member of Parliament for the Morecambe and Lonsdale Division of Lancashire.
* Eric William Driver, Chairman, Mersey Regional Health Authority.
* Michael Owen Edwardes, Chairman, British Leyland.
* Stuart Newton Hampshire, Philosopher.
* Gordon Ivan Hobday, Chairman, Boots Company Ltd.
* Maurice Arthur Eric Hodgson, Chairman, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. For services to Export.
* Robert Frederick Hunt, , Chairman and Chief Executive, Dowty Group Ltd. For services to Export.
* Alexander Anthony Jarratt, , Chairman and Chief Executive, Reed International Ltd. For services to Export.
* Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, . For services to Landscape Architecture.
* Hugh Ferguson Jones, . For public services in South Wales. (Died)
* Henry Charles Kerruish, , Speaker of the House of Keys.
*Basil John Mason, , Director-General, Meteorological Office.
* Jasper More, lately Member of Parliament for the Ludlow Division of Shropshire.
*James William Spencer Mount, . For services to the horticultural industry.
* Noel Henry Moynihan, Chairman, The Save the Children Fund.
*John Henry Orr, , Chief Constable, Lothian and Borders Police.
* John Chance Palmer, President of the Law Society.
*Professor David Chilton Phillips, Biological Secretary, The Royal Society.
*Roy Shaw, Secretary-General, Arts Council of Great Britain.
* Ronald Oliver Carless Swayne, , Chairman, Overseas Containers Ltd.
*John Tooley, General Administrator, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
* Peter Edward Trench, , Chairman, Construction and Housing Research Advisory Council.
* Anthony Favill Tuke, Chairman, Barclays Bank Ltd.
* Gervas George Walker, Chairman, Avon County Council.
*John Robin Plowman, . For public services in Bermuda.

;Australian States
;;State of Victoria
* Jack Stuart Brockhoff, of Sandringham. For distinguished community service.
* Wilfred Deakin Brookes, , of Toorak. For distinguished service to commerce and industry.

;;State of Queensland
* Justin Hickey, of St Lucia. For distinguished service to the business community and people of Queensland.
* Ernest Walter Savage, of Jindalee. For outstanding services to the accountancy profession in Australia and to community interests and business enterprises in Queensland.

;;State of Western Australia
* Emeritus Professor Noel Stanley Bayliss, , of Nedlands. For his services to tertiary education and in the establishment of Murdoch University.
* Marcus Truby Beeck, of Katanning. For his role in the agricultural life of the State.

Order of the Bath

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

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
* General Sir Peter Whiteley, , Royal Marines.

;;Army
* General Sir Patrick Howard-Dobson, , (189025), late the Queen's Own Hussars. Colonel Commandant, Army Catering Corps.

;;Royal Air Force
* Air Chief Marshal Sir David Evans, .

;Civil Division
* Sir Frank Cooper, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
* Vice Admiral David Anning Loram, .
* Vice Admiral Cameron Rusby, .

;;Army
* Lieutenant General George Leslie Conroy Cooper, , (357063), late Corps of Royal Engineers.

;;Royal Air Force
* Air Marshal Philip Jacobus Lagesen, .

;Civil Division
* Kenneth Edward Couzens, , Second Permanent Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
*William Kerr Fraser, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office.
* Douglas Arthur Lovelock, , Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise.
* Geoffrey Charles Wardale, , Second Permanent Secretary, Department of the Environment.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
* Rear Admiral David William Haslam, .
* Commandant Sarah Vonla Adair McBride, , Women's Royal Naval Service.
* Rear Admiral Philip Reginald Marrack.
* The Venerable Archdeacon Basil Arthur O'Ferrall, .

;;Army
* Major General Michael Callan (400816), late Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
* Major General Samuel Knox Lecky, , (370164), late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Honorary Colonel, Queen's University (Belfast) Officers Training Corps.
* Brigadier Joan Olivia Elsie Moriarty, , (378906), Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps.
* Major General The O'Morchoe, , (393236). Colonel, The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th).
* Major General Geoffrey Boyd Wilson (373937), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
* Major General Henry Gabriel Woods, , (312522), late 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.

;;Royal Air Force
* Air Vice-Marshal Dudley Graham Bailey, .
* Air Vice-Marshal Paul Richard Mallorie, .
* Air Vice-Marshal Arnold Alec Morris.
* Air Vice-Marshal John Edward Smith, .

;Civil Division
*John Arthur Allen, , Principal Director, Ministry of Defence.
*Kenneth Thomas Barnett, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment.
*John Bertram Hardy Billam, , Legal Adviser, Department of Employment.
*Anthony Addison Birley, Clerk of Public Bills, House of Commons.
*George Dutton Gibb, Chief Dental Officer, Department of Health and Social Security.
*Frank Appleby Harper, , Under-Secretary, Department of Education and Science.
*Albert Blair Harrington, lately Medical Adviser, Civil Service Department.
*George Dennis Holmes, Director-General and Deputy Chairman, Forestry Commission.
*Anthony John Lippitt, Deputy Secretary, Department of Industry.
*William Burton Housley Lord, lately Director, Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment, Ministry of Defence.
*James Victor Morrison, , lately Deputy Secretary, Northern Ireland Civil Service.
*Karl Max Newman, Under-Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department.
*Arthur Alan Pritchard, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
*Robert Edwin Radford, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security.
*John Roderic Steele, Deputy Secretary, Department of Trade.
*Bernard Maurice Thimont, Controller, H.M. Stationery Office.
*Eric Vickers, Under-Secretary, Department of the Environment.
*Malcolm Widdup, Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury.

;Australian States
;;State of Victoria
* Ronald Geoffrey Downes, of Eaglemont. For public service to the State of Victoria.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
* Sir Alan Campbell, , HM Ambassador, Rome.
* Sir John Killick, , United Kingdom Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council.

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

;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
* Ronald Arculus, , HM Ambassador (designate), Rome.
* John Alexander Noble Graham, , HM Ambassador, Tehran.
* John Lang Taylor, , HM Ambassador, Caracas.

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

*Sidney Abramson, Under-Secretary, Department of Trade.
*David Bleackley, Assistant Director, Overseas Division, Institute of Geological Sciences.

;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
* Douglas William Alfred Blye, , Secretary for Monetary Affairs, Hong Kong.
* Hugh Campbell Byatt, H.M. Ambassador, Luanda.
* Arthur David Saunders Goodall, Minister, H.M. Embassy, Bonn.
* Keith Hamylton-Jones, lately H.M. Ambassador, San José.
* Francis Robert MacGinnis, Minister and Deputy Commandant, British Military Government, Berlin.
* James Mellon, British High Commissioner, Accra.
* Henry David Alastair Capel Miers, Counsellor and Head of Chancery, H.M. Embassy, Tehran.
* John William Nicholas, British Consul-General, Melbourne.
* Gerald Victor Summerhayes, , Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office, Sokoto State, Nigeria.
* Ieremia Tienang Tabai. For public services in the Gilbert Islands.
* Benjamin Thorne, , lately Counsellor (Commercial), H.M. Embassy, Tokyo.
* Robert Lucian Wade-Gery, lately Minister, H.M. Embassy, Moscow.
* Harold Berners Walker, H.M. Ambassador, Bahrain.
* William Erskine Hamilton Whyte, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
* Christopher Matthew Woods, , Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

;Australian States
;;State of New South Wales
* The Honourable Mr Justice Athol Randolf Moffitt, , President of the Court of Appeal.

;;State of Victoria
* Peter Bruce Ronald, of Pakenham. For service to the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria and the community.
* Commander Richard Stanley Veale, , Royal Australian Naval Reserve (Retired), of Elwood. For service to the Royal Life Saving Society.

;;State of Queensland
* Kevin John Joseph King, of Hamilton. For community services, particularly to the Queensland Fire Services.

;;State of Western Australia
* Phillip Rennell Adams, , of Peppermint Grove. For services to the legal profession and in public service.
* Bernard Francis Prindiville, of South Perth. For services to commerce and the community.

Royal Victorian Order

Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO)

* The Right Honourable Ruth Sylvia, Dowager Baroness Fermoy, .

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

* Stephen James Hamilton Miller.
* James Wilfred Stubbs, .
* The Very Reverend Martin Gloster Sullivan.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

* Kenneth Gait Adams.
* Lieutenant Colonel John Chandos-Pole, ,
* Julian St John Loyd, .
* Charles MacGregor, .
* Colonel William George McHardy, .
* The Reverend Arthur Morton, .
* Kenneth Ronald Stowe, .

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)

* Anne Ainscough, .
* The Reverend Canon Alan Glendining.
* The Reverend Anthony Hall Harrison Harbottle.
* Thomas Alfred Joy.
* Commander John Andrew Marshall, Royal Navy.
* The Reverend Thomas James Trail Nicol, .
* William Richard Michael Oswald.
* Colonel Gordon Russell Simpson, .

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO)

* Ann Christine Bailey.
* William Richard Grout.
* Lieutenant Commander (S) (OCA) David John Howlett, Royal Navy.
* Isabelle Mary Melton.
* Major William Lancelot Arthur Nash, .
* Major Willie Shipley Phelps, .
* Arthur George Rawles.
* Robert Ashley Skute Stephenson.
* Major Walter Louvin Thompson, .

Order of the British Empire

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

;Civil Division
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
* Sir Yuet-Keung Kan, . For public services in Hong Kong.

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

;Civil Division
* Margaret Kate Weston, Director, Science Museum, Department of Education and Science.

; Australian States
;;State of Victoria
* Marie Freda Breen, , of Brighton. For distinguished community service.

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

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
* Vice Admiral John Stuart Crosbie Lea.
* Rear Admiral Oswald Nigel Amherst Cecil, .

;;Royal Air Force
* Acting Air Marshal Roy David Austen-Smith, .

;Civil Division
* Hedley Bernard Greenborough, C.B.E., President, Confederation of British Industry.
* Reginald Sydney Murley, , President, Royal College of Surgeons of England.

;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
* Albert Thomas Lamb, , HM Ambassador, Oslo.
* Vincent Gordon Lindsay White. For services to British commercial and community interests in the United States.

; Australian States
;;State of Victoria
* Donald Henry Trescowthick, of Toorak. For distinguished community service.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
* Captain Christopher Thomas Codrington.
* Captain John Ditchburn, Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service.
* Captain Wilbert Anderson Tofts, .
* The Right Reverend Francis Joseph Walmsley, Bishop-in-Ordinary to HM Forces, lately Principal Roman Catholic Chaplain (Naval).

;;Army
* Brigadier Roger Harvey Freeman, , (380723), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
* Brigadier Brian Leslie Graham Kenny (437098), late The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars.
* Colonel Leo Francis Macey (359009), late Royal Army Pay Corps.
* Brigadier Michael John Short, , (343040), late Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
* Brigadier John Roger Spurry (415908), late Royal Army Veterinary Corps (now R.A.R.O.).
* Brigadier (now Acting Major General) John Peter Barry Condliffe Watts, , (415012), late The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th).
* Brigadier Robert Wheatley, , (403972), late Corps of Royal Engineers.

;;Royal Air Force
* Air Commodore Frederick David Gibson Clark, .
* Air Commodore Kenneth John Hitchcock.
* Air Commodore Kenneth Robert Willy.
* Group Captain Duncan Allison.
* Group Captain John Walter Price, .

;Civil Division
* Lionel Philips Altman, Member of Council and Past President, Motor Agents Association.
* James Fraser Gillan Anderson, Regional Convenor, Central Regional Council, Scotland.
* Michael Cuthbert George Andrews, General Secretary, The Arthritis and Rheumatism Council for Research.
* Peter Clifton Aspinall, Managing Director, Chloride International, Ltd.
* John Melbourn Aubrey, General Manager, Courtaulds Ltd.
* Peter Eric Axon, O.B.E, Chairman, Pumps and Valves Working Party.
* Stephen Charles Clavell Bate, lately Chief Scientific Officer, Department of the Environment.
* Charles Edward Beauchamp, Deputy Board Member for Finance and Planning, Post Office.
* Donald Alfred Bennett, Chairman, International Synthetic Rubber Company Ltd. For services to Export.
* Robert Langley Page Berry, Director, National Anti-Waste Programme.
* Richard Evelyn Donohue Bishop, Kennedy Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University College, University of London.
* Frederick Peter Boyce, Chief Executive, Hertfordshire County Council.
* Christopher Richard Sandford Buckle, Writer, Critic and Designer.
* Frank Dudley Bushell, T.D, Chairman Housing and Environmental Health Committee, Association of District Councils.
* Herbert Sidney Elliott Catherwood, Chairman Ulsterbus Ltd. and Citybus Ltd.
* Richard Christopher, Secretary, Joint Matriculation Board.
* Ian Robertson Clark, Board Member, British National Oil Corporation Ltd.
* Patrick Victor Cotter, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
* Michael James Cotton, Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive, International Military Services Ltd.
* John Francis Crittall, For Public Services in Essex.
* John Stanley Cross, Chairman, Eastern Counties Farmers Ltd.
* John McCandlish Murdoch Cunningham, Director, Hill Farming Research Organisation.
* William John Dalziel, Deputy Chief Executive, Plessey Company Ltd. For services to Export.
* Kenneth Davis, O.B.E., General Manager, Dover Harbour Board.
* Stephen Martin De Bartolome, Chairman, Spear & Jackson International Ltd.
* Diarmuid Downs, Chairman and Managing Director, Ricardo Consulting Engineers Ltd.
* James Paris Duguid, Professor of Bacteriology, University of Dundee.
* Stanley Malcolm Duncan, Chairman, Dental Rates Study Group.
* Frederick Dalby Flower, M.B.E., lately Principal, Kingsway Princeton College.
* John Denny Fryer, Director, Weed Research Organisation, Agricultural Research Council.
* Douglas Fleming Hardie, Managing Director, Edward Parker and Company Ltd, Dundee.
* John Arthur Jones Harries. For public services in Wales.
* Norman Harris, Chairman, Planning, Highways and Transportation Committee, Association of District Councils.
* Douglas Hamilton Harrison. For services to Rugby Football.
* James Arthur Hartnett, Chairman, Eurotherm International Ltd. For services to Export.
* Colonel Roderick Travers Hawes, T.D, lately Chairman, Royal Humane Society.
* Robert Brumwel Henderson, Managing Director, Ulster Television Ltd.
* William Robert Henry, Chairman, Coats Patons Ltd, Glasgow.
* Joseph Max Hirsh, lately Director of Architecture and Planning, Westminster City Council.
* Gilbert Denis Hitchcock, Chairman, Bedfordshire Area Health Authority.
* John Ray Horrell, T.D., lately Chairman, Cambridgeshire County Council. For services to Education.
* Miss Jean Horsham, Assistant Secretary, Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.
* Raymond Illsley, Professor of Medical Sociology, University of Aberdeen.
* Douglas John Insole. For services to Cricket.
* Anthony Trafford James, Head of Division of Biosciences, Unilever Research Laboratory.
* Anthony Tom Brett-Jones. For services to quantity surveying.
* Oswald Arthur Kelting, lately Chairman, Basildon New Town Development Corporation.
* Frederick Douglas Kennedy, Assistant Solicitor, Department of Health and Social Security.
* Professor Robert Kilpatrick, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Pesticides.
* Arthur James Lee, D.S.C., Director, Fisheries Research, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
* John Maurice Lindsay, T.D., Director, The Scottish Civic Trust.
* Glyn Lloyd. For services to health and safety in the building industry.
* Colonel Herbert Gerard Thomas McClellan, O.B.E, T.D., lately Chairman North West of England and the Isle of Man Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association.
* The Reverend Donald Farquhar Macleod Macdonald, Principal Clerk, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
* Ian Murray McKellen. Actor.
* Neville Marriner. For Services to the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
* Wallace Monaghan, Chairman, Fine Fare (Holdings) Ltd.
* Stuart Angus Morrison, Professor Pianforte, Royal College of Music.
* Gregory George Sidney Mott, Managing Director, Vickers Shipbuilding Group, Ltd.
* Charles Heron Mullan, V.R.D,. lately Resident Magistrate, Northern Ireland.
* Catherine Theresa, Mrs Nealon, Chairman, Lothian Health Board.
* Joslyn Gray Owen, Chief Education Officer, Devon.
* Barry Newton Pain, Q.P.M., Chief Constable, Kent Constabulary.
* Kenneth Jamieson Peters, Managing Director, Aberdeen Journals, Ltd.
* John Phillips, Chairman, Distributive Industry Training Board.
* Miss Ruth Pitter. Poetess.
* Willam Johnson Prior, Member, Electricity Council.
* Stanley Race, Director, Redfearn National Glass Ltd.
* Hedley James Gordon Richards, Chief Inspector of Immigration, Home Office.
* Kenneth Frederick Roberts, Chief Executive, Wessex Water Authority.
* James Spalding Robertson, Assistant Secretary, Scottish Office.
* Eliot Joseph Ben Rose, Trustee Runnymede Trust.
* Alan Routledge, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
* John Kenneth Sinclair St Joseph, O.B.E., Professor of Aerial Photographic Studies, University of Cambridge.
* Anthony Henry Sansome, Managing Director, Metropolitan Cammell Ltd. For services to Export.
* Alexander Bruce Scott, V.R.D., Regional Controller, Board of Inland Revenue.
* Alexander Shapiro, lately Psychiatrist. For services to the Mentally Handicapped.
* John Dodson Shepherd, Regional Administrator, Yorkshire Regional Health Authority.
* James Henry Slater, General Secretary, National Union of Seamen,
* Walter Somerville, Physician, Department of Cardiology, Middlesex Hospital.
* Robert Emil Steiner, Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School.
* Leonard James Taylor, M.V.O., Assistant Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
* Frank Thistlethwaite, Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia,
* Christopher Wilson Thomas, Chairman, Avon Health Authority.
* Lady Freda Valentine. For service to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.
* Malcolm George Wilcox, M.B.E., lately President, Institute of Bankers.
* Andrew Wood Wilkinson, Nuffield Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Institute of Child Health, University of London.
* Nigel Ignace Bond-Williams, lately Member, Price Commission.
* George Charles Edward Wilson, Member, City of Sheffield Metropolitan District.
* John Spark Wilson, O.B.E., Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police.
* Michael John Wise, M.C., Professor of Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.
* George Soomerville Wishart, Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Office.
* Reginald Lewis Worsfold, Member for Personnel, British Gas Corporation.

;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
* Alan Collings, Financial and Development Secretary, Gibraltar.
* John Dare. For services to the British community in Zambia and to Anglo-Zambian relations.
* John de Fleurriet Delaforce. For services to the British community in Oporto.
* Michael John Falconer-Flint. For services to British commercial interests in Sydney.
* Ronald Vincent Giddy, Commissioner of Inland Revenue, Hong Kong.
* Gavin Joseph Buckle Green, . For services to British commercial interests and to the British community in Cairo.
* John Gilbert Hanson, lately British Council Representative, Iran.
* Vassel Godfrey Johnson, , Financial Secretary, Cayman Islands.
* Una Gertrude Lister. For services to medicine in Nigeria.
* John Edwin Alfred Miles, , British High Commissioner, Mbabane.
* Sydney Miller, . For public services in the Falkland Islands.
* Nigel Francis Overy. For services to British commercial interests and to the British community in Thailand.
* Alfred Ramsay Petrie. For services to the British community in Singapore.
* Keith Owen Shipley, , lately Special Adviser to the Chief Minister, Gilbert Islands.
* Clement Spearman, HM Ambassador, Santo Domingo.
* Bryan Edwin Swingler, Education Adviser, British Council, India.
* Horace Walwin Young, . For public services in Belize.

; Australian States
;;State of New South Wales
* Professor David Gilbert Benjafield, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney.
* Brian John Downey Page, of Point Piper. For service to commerce.
* Dulcie Stretton, of Paddington. For service to the community.

;;State of Victoria
* Lorna Lloyd-Green, , of Toorak. For service to medicine as a doctor.
* Owen James Whelan, of Templestowe. For service to commerce and industry.

;;State of Queensland
* Roy Charles Cooper, of St Lucia. For his contribution to the banking profession and service to the community.
* Roy Heather Fields, of Corinda. Formerly Chairman, Public Service Board.

;;State of Western Australia
* Richard Cleaver, of South Perth. For services to the community.
* Murray Willoughby James, of Perth. For services to journalism and the community.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
* Commander Roy Barrington Brooke.
* Commander Edward Robert Chapman.
* Commander Alan Gray.
* Commander Michael Royffe Hare.
* Commander Michael John Howitt.
* Commander Walter Cyril Kirk.
* Lieutenant Colonel George Umfreville Manuel, Royal Marines Reserve.
* Reverend John David Pibworth, Royal Naval Reserve.
* Acting Commander Cecil Edward Robins.
* Commander George Derek Stubbs.
* Commander Michael Owen Taylor.
* Commander Antony Guy Worsley.

;;Army
* Colonel (Acting) George Scott Aitken (389683), Army Cadet Force, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve.
* Major (Acting Lieutenant Colonel) William John Dickson Bradfield, , (321283), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve.
* Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Patrick Cadoux-Hudson (397200), Corps of Royal Engineers.
* Lieutenant Colonel (Staff Quartermaster) Hedley George Higman Croft, , (474773), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (now R.A.R.O.).
* Lieutenant Colonel James Alexander Dunsmure (441089), Scots Guards.
* Lieutenant Colonel Charles Alexander Ewing (463420), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
* Lieutenant Colonel Robert John Hayman-Joyce (474714) The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own).
* Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Arthur Searle Hinton (374182), The Royal Green Jackets.
* Lieutenant Colonel (now Acting Colonel) David Herbert Jenkinson, , (430346), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
* Lieutenant Colonel Michael David Johnstone (481448), Royal Army Pay Corps.
* Lieutenant Colonel Michael Leslie Mathams (442835), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
* Lieutenant Colonel Graham William Parker (423423), Royal Corps of Transport.
* Lieutenant Colonel John Keith Pitt (430177), Royal Corps of Transport.
* Lieutenant Colonel Charles Alexander Ramsay (449039), The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys).
* Lieutenant Colonel Brian Thomas (413892), Corps of Royal Military Police.
* Lieutenant Colonel (now Acting Colonel) Michael Robert Volkers (443581), Army Air Corps.
* Lieutenant Colonel (now Acting Colonel) Edward George Willmott (449082), Corps of Royal Engineers.

;;Royal Air Force
* Wing Commander William Reo Carr (2354528).
* Wing Commander John Anthony Connell (4008324).
* Wing Commander Ronald Alfred Edwards (607376).
* Wing Commander (now Group Captain) Joan Hopkins (2826839), Women's Royal Air Force.
* Wing Commander Brian Conrad Johnson (607987).
* Wing Commander Roy Langstaff, , (4040354).
* Wing Commander Michael Thomas Noel Liddiard (607501).
* Wing Commander Norman Roper (2572379).
* Wing Commander David Malcolm Smith (592833).
* Wing Commander John Buchanan Thorne (2771555).
* Wing Commander Nigel John Tidmus (584773).
* Wing Commander Nigel John Russell Walpole (3511028).

;;Civil Division
*Benjamin Leslie Alexander, General Medical Practitioner, Manchester.
*Douglas Ambrose, Principal Scientific Officer, National Physical Laboratory.
*Kenneth Paxton Anderson, lately Veterinary Surgeon, Stirling.
*Hylda, Mrs. Armstrong, lately Chairman, Northern Ireland Consumer Council.
*Alan George Osborn Ashpole, County Land Agent and Valuer, Cambridgeshire County Council.
*Leslie Pearson Bamford, lately Chairman, Garment and Allied Industries Requirements Board.
*James Pirie Bannerman. For services to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
*Richard Hedderwick Barclay, T.D., Chairman, Child Health Programme Planning Group, Scottish Health Service Planning Council.
*The Reverend Gordon Emerson Barritt, Principal, National Children's Home.
*John Barry, lately District Nursing Officer, West Sussex Area Health Authority.
*Fritz Beer, lately President, Foreign Press Association, London.
*George William Bell, County Secretary, Tyne and Wear, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association.
*Francis George Bellchambers, T.D., Principal, Department of Transport
*Miss Nancy Blackburn, Head, Department of Catering Studies, Huddersfield Polytechnic.
*John Joseph Blackstock, Director of Industrial Relations, Lucas Girling Ltd., Cwmbran, Gwent.
*Ernest Thomas William Bowen, formerly Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence.
*Thomas Jackson Brannon, Assistant Works Manager, Ashington, Alcan (U.K.) Ltd.
*Miss Beatrice Mary Bray. For services to the community in Filey.
*Robert Brennand, Principal Professional and Technology Officer, Department of Health and Social Security.
*Geoffrey Edward Brett, E.R.D., lately General Manager (Class 1), South Central Area, London Telecommunications Region, Post Office.
*Ronald William Buckingham, National Vice-Chairman, The Royal British Legion.
*The Reverend Canon Peter Buckler, Director, J. Arthur Rank Centre. For services to agriculture.
*Tom Byatt. For services to the community in Stoke-on-Trent.
*Wing Commander Noel John Capper, A.F.C. For services to the Royal Air Forces Association in Scotland.
*George Carruthers, Member for Personnel Services, Board of National Bus Company.
*Squire Clayton, Statistician, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
*Gordon Clifford, Chairman, Clifford's Dairies Ltd.
*Jack Coates, lately Principal, Ministry of Defence.
*The Reverend Monsignor John Conroy, Administrator, Motherwell Cathedral.
*Kenneth Clifford Cook, Chairman, Merseyside Improved Houses.
*Raymond Edgar Cooke, Managing Director, K E F Electronics Ltd. For services to Export.
*Miss Kathleen Dorothea Beale Cooper, Senior Principal, Ministry of Defence.
*The Reverend William Thomas Cowlan, lately Director, Council for Christian Care in Devon.
*William Aubrey Craig, Treasurer, Association of Young Farmers' Clubs of Ulster.
*George Bryan Crosthwaite, T.D., Chairman, Bronx Engineering Company Limited, Stourbridge. For services to Export.
*John Allan Cuthbertson, Senior Principal, Department for National Savings.
*Frederick Arthur Cutting, Q.P.M., Chief Constable, Northamptonshire Police.
*Winifred Monica, Mrs. Dance, M.B.E. For services to the Society •for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
*Percival Robert Dashwood, Managing Director, British Rail Property Board.
*Frederic Thomas Day, Veterinary Surgeon, Newmarket.
*Miss Mary Elizabeth Dean, County Superintendent, Cheshire, St. John Ambulance Brigade.
*James Henry Denyer, Director, Newcastle Airport.
*Clive Derby, Chief Executive, British Hotels, Restaurants and Caterers' Association.
*Robert Donington, Writer and Musician.
*Ernest Dowson, lately, Headmaster, Grange School, Oldham.
*Miss Ursula Anne Lindsay Dreydel, Principal, St. Clare's Hall, Oxford.
*Fred Dunkerley, Chairman, Standard Mill, Rochdale.
*Eric Arthur James Edwards, M.C., lately Principal Officer, Centres Section, Sports Council.
*David Clark Elsbury, Deputy Managing Director, Racal Electronics Ltd. For services to Export.
*Eric Stanley James Elston, Member, Fisheries Research and Development Board.
*Walter James George Evans. For services to local government in Powys.
*Miss Mary Isolen Fergusson, Consultant, Blyth and Blyth (Consulting Civil Engineers).
*Norman Firstbrook, Chief Accountant, Department of Industry.
*Douglas Norman Fogden, Assistant Chief Surveyor (Estates), Metropolitan Police Office.
*Charles Forde, Headmaster, Kenmure St. Mary's School, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow.
*Gerald Marcel Forty, Director, Fine Arts Department, British Council.
*Walter Jonathan Foster, General Secretary, Anglo-Austrian Society.
*Pauline Margaret Wrench, Mrs. Frankland, M.B.E. For services to the Girl Guides Association in London and the South East.
*Alexander McCulloch French, Chairman, Spinney's (1948) Ltd. For services to Export.
*Robert Justin Froggatt, Chief Research Laboratories, EMI Ltd. Scientist, Central
*Edzell Trevor John Fuge, District Alkali Inspector, Department of Employment.
*James Herbert Thompson Gardham, Director of Social Services, Humberside County Council.
*David Hall Gibson. For services to youth in Cheshire.
*Dermot Michael Gillespie, Joint Managing Director, Olivers (Barnstaple) Ltd.
*John Hendry Hepburn Gillespie, Managing Director, Port of Tyne Authority.
*Victor George Gotts, Senior Principal, Home Office.
*Miss Margaret Ethel Grainger, Senior Principal, Department of Health and Social Security.
*Thomas Francis Guest, Station Manager, Aberthaw ' A ' and ' B ' Stations, South Western Region, Central Electricity Generating Board.
*Miss Elizabeth Joan Hardy, lately Regional Administrator, North Western Region, Women's Royal Voluntary Service.
*Glanville Harries, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence.
*Clifford Roy Harington, Director, Ellis and Goldstein (Holdings) Ltd. For services to Export.
*Frederick Ernest Harris. For services to the baking industry.
*Michael Rendel Harris, Overseas Director, Oxfam.
*Lieutenant Colonel James Malcolm Harrison, T.D., Chairman, Liverpool Cathedral Executive Committee.
*John Hayes, County Engineer, Greater Manchester Metropolitan County Council.
*Frederick James Percival Haynes, Principal, Department of Trade.
*Austin Haywood, M.B.E., Q.P.M., Deputy Chief Constable, West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police.
*John William Heath, Deputy Collector, Board of Customs and Excise.
*Miss Joan Gloria Hickmott, Primary Schools Adviser, Dorset County Council.
*Joseph Geoffrey Hilton. For services to the magistracy in Leicester.
*Miss Lisbeth Hockey, Director, Nursing Research Unit, Department of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh.
*John Lindsay Hogg, lately Health Service Administrator, Northern Ireland.
*Kenneth Lionel Hollingsworth, Chief Probation Officer, Essex Probation and After-Care Service.
*Christopher James Edward Hosegood, Divisional Managing Director, Aviation Division, Smiths Industries Ltd. For services to Export.
*William Houghton, Chief Fire Officer, Oxfordshire Brigade.
*Ronald Houston, Chief Medical Officer, Shell U.K. Ltd.
*Beatrice, Mrs. Howard, Member, London Borough Council of Ealing.
*Frederick Hugh Howorth, Chairman and Managing Director, Howorth Group of Companies.
*Glyn Owen Hughes, Principal, Board of Inland Revenue.
*Charles Hunnisett. For charitable services in Sussex.
*George Alexander Hunter. For services to Sport and particularly to the Scottish Amateur Rowing Association.
*Stewart Ross Ingram. For services to the development of modern language teaching.
*Donald Hamilton Irvine, Regional Adviser in General Practice, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
*William James Jackson, Chief Executive, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.
*Senator Reginald Robert Jeune, Chairman, Trustee Savings Bank of the Channel Islands.
*Ivor Norman Jones, Principal Planning Officer, Department of the Environment.
*Thomas Kelly, lately Government Secretary, Isle of Man.
*Marjorie Hilda, Mrs. Kenning, President, Derbyshire Branch, British Red Cross Society.
*Alexander Kenworthy. For services to the Guild of Agricultural Correspondents.
* Francis Henry King, Author.
*Miss Cleo Laine

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