1974 New Year Honours

• Victor Grayson Hardie Feather, C.B.E., lately General Secretary, Trades Union Congress.
• Sir Denis Arthur Greenhill, G.C.M.G., O.B.E., lately Permanent Under- Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service.
• The Right Honourable Sir Burke St John Trend, G.C.B., C.V.O., lately Secretary of the Cabinet.

• James Anthony Stodart, M.P., Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

• William Wilkinson Addison, D.L., Chairman of Council, The Magistrates' Association.
• Alexander Sandor Alexander, Chairman, Imperial Foods Ltd. For services to the food industry.
• Ralph Ellis Brook, C.M.G., O.B.E., President, Association of British Chambers of Commerce. For services to Export.
• John Gilbert Newton Brown, C.B.E., Publisher, Oxford University Press.
• Thomas Brown, Chairman, former Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority.
• Daniel Norman Chester, C.B.E., Warden, Nuffield College, Oxford.
• Charles John Curran, Director-General, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Alan Graham Dawtry, C.B.E., T.D., Town Clerk, City of Westminster.
• Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, M.C., M P. For political and public services.
• Herbert Raymond Gower, M.P. For political and public services.
• William Woolf Harris, O.B.E. For political and public services in London.
• Charles William Hayward, C.B.E. For charitable services, particularly in relation to the care of the elderly.
• Arthur Ford Hetherington, D.S.C., Chairman, British Gas Corporation.
• John Maxwell Hill, C.B.E., D.F.C., Q.P.M., H.M. Chief Inspector of Constabulary.
• Stanley George Hooker, C.B.E., F.R.S., Group Technical Director, Rolls-Royce (1971) Ltd.
• Maurice George Kendall, F.B.A. For services to the theory of statistics.
• John Cowdery Kendrew, C.B.E., F.R.S. For services to the Ministry of Defence.
• Leslie Ernest Laycock, C.B.E., Chairman, Leeds Regional Hospital Board.
• Jan Alfred Lewando, C.B.E., Chairman, Carrington Viyella Ltd. For services to Export.
• Emile Littler. For services to the Theatre.
• Thomas Lodge, Consultant Radiologist, United Sheffield Hospitals.
• Herbert Reginald Mathys, T.D., lately Deputy Chairman, Courtaulds Ltd. For services to patent law.
• Leonard Francis Neal, C.B.E, Chairman, Commission on Industrial Relations.
• Charles William Oatley, O.B.E., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge.
• Daniel Eric Arthur Pettit, Chairman, National Freight Corporation.
• Professor Cyril Henry Philips, Vice-Chancellor, University of London. Director, School of Oriental and African Studies.
• Charlie Dennis Pilcher, C.B.E, Chairman, Commission for the New Towns.
• John Francis Prideaux, O.B.E., Chairman, Board of Governors, St Thomas' Hospital, London; Chairman, National Westminster Bank Ltd.
• Professor Hugh Norwood Robson, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sheffield.
• Frederick Henry Stewart, F.R.S., Regius Professor of Geology, University of Edinburgh.
• Francis Taylor, Founder, Chairman and Managing Director, The Taylor Woodrow Group.
• James Henderson Waddell, C.B., Deputy Under-secretary of State, Home Office.
• Joseph Meredith Whittaker, T.D., D.L., Chairman, Executive Council, County Councils Association of England and Wales.
• John Leslie Williams, C.B.E., lately Secretary General, Civil Service National Whitley Council (Staff Side).
• Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, C.B.E. For services to the British community in Florence and to Anglo-Italian relations.
• Mr Justice Darnley Arthur Raymond Alexander, C.B.E., Chief Justice, South-Eastern State, Nigeria.
• The Honourable Mr Justice Geoffrey Gould Briggs, Chief Justice, Hong Kong.
• Lawrence Kadoorie, C.B.E. For services to the community in Hong Kong.

State of New South Wales

• James Frederick John Auswild, C.B.E. For services to commerce and the community.
• The Honourable John Bryan Munro Fuller, M.L.C., Minister for Decentralisation and Development.
• Charles David Griffin, C.B.E. For services to the community.
• Gregory Blaxland Kater. For services to commerce.

State of Victoria

• Albert Edward Chadwick, C.M.G., M.S.M., of Toorak. For services to the community.
• Alexander Reid Creswick, of Melbourne. For services to horse racing.
• The Honourable Mr Justice Urban Gregory Gowans. For services to the law.
• David Fletcher Jones, O.B.E., of Warrnambool. For services to the decentralisation of industry and to the community.

State of Queensland

• Byrne Hart, C.B.E., M.C., of Brisbane. For services to business, the community and the sporting life of Queensland.
• The Honourable John Alfred Row, of Ingham. For services to Queensland as a Minister of the Crown and Parliamentarian.

• Admiral Sir Edward Beckwith Ashmore, K.C.B., D.S.C.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Andrew Humphrey, K.C.B., O.B.E, D.F.C, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Sir Charles Craik Cunningham, K.C.B., K.B.E, C.V.O. For public services.

• Vice Admiral Michael Frampton Fell, C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C.*
• Vice Admiral George Francis Allan Trewby.
• Lieutenant-General Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, O.B.E., M.C., late Infantry, Colonel Commandant 3rd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets.
• Major-General Jack Wentworth Harman, O.B.E., M.C., late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Acting Air Marshal Ruthven Lowry Wade, C.B., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Michael Bowen Hanley, Attached Ministry of Defence.
• Nicholas Godfrey Morrison, C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office.
• Anthony Nathaniel Stainton, C.B., First Parliamentary Counsel.
• Peter Eustace Thornton, C.B, Second Permanent Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry.

Military Division

• Rear Admiral Sir Peter Anson, Bt.
• Rear Admiral Thomas Rennison Cruddas.
• Rear Admiral Edward William Ellis, C.B.E.
• Surgeon Rear Admiral Cyril Lawson Tait McClintock, O.B.E., Q H.S.
• Rear Admiral Ian George William Robertson, D.S.C.
• Major-General William Bate, O.B.E., late Royal Corps of Transport, Colonel Commandant Royal Corps of Transport, now R.A.R O.
• Major-General Roger Sydenham Marshall, T.D., Army Legal Services Staff, now R.A.R.O.
• Major-General Horace Rollo Squarey Pain, M.C., late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Major-General James Howden Robertson, F.D.S., Queen's Honorary Dental Surgeon, late Royal Army Dental Corps.
• Major-General Ronald Macaulay Somerville, O.B.E., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Air Vice-Marshal Alan Cyril Davies, C.B E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Eric Plumtree, O.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Rex David Roe, A.F.C, Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Arthur John Boreham, Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office.
• Frederick Gordon Burrett, Deputy Secretary, Civil Service Department.
• David Cardwell, Director, Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment, Ministry of Defence.
• Edward Geoffrey Cass, O.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
• Basil Brodribb Hall, M.C., T.D., Deputy Treasury Solicitor.
• Douglas Arthur Lovelock, Deputy Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry.
• Hugh Avant Lowry, Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland.
• Thomas Hamilton Shearer, Deputy Chief Executive, Property Services Agency, Department of the Environment.
• Henry Alexander Shewan, O.B.E., National Insurance Commissioner.
• Arthur Roger Thatcher, Deputy Secretary, Department of Employment.
• Ryland Lowell Degwel Thomas, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions.
• Geoffrey Charles Wardale, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment.
• Robert Windsor, Under Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security.
• Philip John Woodfield, C.B.E, Deputy Secretary, Northern Ireland Office.
• Robert Little Workman, Under Secretary, H.M. Treasury.

• The Right Honourable George Rowland Stanley, Earl of Cromer, K.C.M.G., M.B.E., H.M. Ambassador, Washington.

• Claude James Hayes, C.M G, Chairman, Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations.
• (Ernest) John Ward Barnes, M.B.E., H.M. Ambassador, The Hague.
• Denis Seward Laskey, C.M.G., C.V.O., H.M. Ambassador, Vienna.
• David Aubrey Scott, C.M.G., British High Commissioner, Wellington.

State of New South Wales

• The Honourable John Robert Kerr, C.M.G., Lieutenant Governor and Chief Justice.

• Ian Donald Cameron, O.B.E., Senior Technical Adviser, Ministry of Defence.
• Robert Goldsmith, Under Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry.
• Air Commodore Norman Walter Kearon, C.B.E, Chief Executive, British Aircraft Corporation, Saudi Arabia.
• Walter Plowright, Professor of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, Royal Veterinary College, University of London.
• John Roland Malcolm Whitehorn, Deputy Director-General, Confederation of British Industry. For services to Export.
• Derrick Charles Carden, H.M. Ambassador, Sana'a.
• Leonard Clifford William Figg, H.M. Consul-General, Milan.
• Ian Albert Clark Kinnear, Deputy Governor, Bermuda.
• Ian Macdonald Lightbody, Secretary for Housing, Hong Kong.
• Donald Hardman Macdonald, lately Manager, Banking Department, Bank for International Settlements, Basle.
• Arthur Frederick Maddocks, British Deputy High Commissioner, Ottawa.
• Peter Harold Reginald Marshall, Assistant Under-secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• John Ernest Powell-Jones, H.M. Ambassador, Phnom Penh.
• Iain Johnstone Macbeth Sutherland, lately Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Alexander Neilson Strachan Walker, Counsellor, H.M. Embassy, Washington.

State of Victoria

• George Frederick William Brown, lately Chairman of Commissioners, Victorian Railways.
• John Vincent Dillon, Under Secretary, Chief Secretary's Department.
• David Milton Myers, Vice Chancellor, La Trobe University.

State of Queensland

• Ivor Gray Morris, of Redbank. For services to industry and the community.

• Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett, K.C.V.O, C.M.G., O.B.E.

• Arthur George Linfield, C.V.O., C.B.E.
• Sir Ivison Stevenson Macadam, C.V.O., C B E.
• Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable Patrick Terence William Span, Baron Plunket, C.V.O.
• William Thomas Charles Skyrme, C.B., C.B.E., T.D.

• William Harry Gabb, M.V.O.
• Leslie William Green, M.B.E.
• Major Arthur John Stewart Griffin, M.V.O.
• Robert Lindsay, M.V.O., B.E.M.
• Colonel Donald Curtis McKinnon.
• George Albert Henry Pearce.

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.

Fourth Class

• Bernard Christian Briant, M.B.E.
• Kenneth Grant Chavasse.
• Reginald Joffre Elliott, M.V.O.
• Commander John Edwin Stroud Raymond, Royal Navy.
• Michael David Tims, M.V.O.

Fifth Class

• James Harper MacDonald.
• Kenneth William Moss.
• George Oakes.
• Ronald William Palmer.
• Miss Helen Dale Strange.
• William Hamilton Summers.
• Ernest Leslie Turnock, M.B.E.

• Augustus Lawrence Gordon Belcher.
• Chief Technician Martin Richard Cockett, Royal Air Force.
• Chief Marine Engineering Mechanic Frank William Coupland.
• Victor Fletcher.
• Chief Petty Officer Steward Peter William Ford
• Yeoman Bed Goer Alfred Stephen Groves, Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
• Lawrence Hardy.
• Yeoman Bed Goer Richard Farquharson Hewlett, B.E.M., Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
• Acting Flight Sergeant Brian George Leach, Royal Air Force Regiment.
• Alfred May.
• Arthur Ernest Wakeling.
• David William Wise.

• The Right Honourable Hartley William, Baron Shawcross, Q.C., Chairman, Panel on Takeovers and Mergers.

• Miss Josephine Barnes (Miss Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes), Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Charing Cross Hospital and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital.
• Emma Frances Heather, Mrs Clode, C.B.E., Chairman, Women's Royal Voluntary Service.

State of Victoria

• Phyllis Irene, Mrs Frost, C.B E., J.P., of Croydon. For outstanding services to the community.

• The Right Honourable John Lawson Ormrod Andrews, D.L. For political and public services in Northern Ireland.
• Professor Cyril Astley Clarke, C.B.E., F.R.S., President, Royal College of Physicians of London.
• The Right Honourable Laurence Michael Harvey, Earl of Rosse, M.B.E. For services to the arts.
• Acting Air Marshal Reginald Edward Wynyard Harland, C.B, Royal Air Force.
• William Western Greaves, C.B.E. For services to the British community in Argentina.
• Colonel Hugh Richard Deare Oldman, O.B.E., M.C., lately Defence Secretary, Sultanate of Oman.

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Superintendent Miss Joan Cole, O B.E., Women's Royal Naval Service.
• Captain James Edward Campbell Kennon, O.B.E., Royal Navy.
• Captain lorwerth Bonner Roberts, Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service.
• Captain Roi Egerton Wilson, D.F.C, Royal Navy.

Army

• Brigadier Toby St. George Caulfeild, M.B.E. (85504), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Brigadier John Charles Clinch (212330), late Royal Corps of Signals.
• Colonel Thomas Alexander Gibson, M.B.E. (380091), late Infantry.
• Colonel (Acting) Michael John Harbage, O.B E, M.C. (345097), The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
• Major-General Hugh Crozier Jeffrey, M.B., F.R.C.P.(Edin) (78767), Queen's Honorary Surgeon, late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Brigadier (Acting) Harold Leonard Guy Livingston, E.R.D. (68664), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, now R.A.R.O.
• Colonel Reginald George Edwin Tibble (352481), late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Colonel Courtenay Ernest Welch, M.C. (379637), late Infantry.

Royal Air Force

• Air Commodore Harold Montague Shephard, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Brian Gerald Tivy Stanbridge, M.V.O., A.F.C., A.D.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Daniel John Walliker, Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Commodore John Gilbert Matthews, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain Robert John Carson, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain Joseph Alfred Gilbert, Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain Walter John Ives, Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Kenneth Alexander Baird, Principal, Nottingham College of Education.
• Colin Lewis Gilbert Baker, lately Chairman, Dunlop Angus Industrial Group. For services to Export.
• Claude Cecil Barker, Alderman, Hertfordshire County Council.
• Professor Tibor Barna, Member, Monopolies Commission.
• John Walter Baxter, Senior Partner, G Maunsell & Partners Consulting Engineers.
• Terence Norman Beckett, Managing Director, Ford Motor Company Ltd., formerly a Vice President, Ford of Europe. For services to Export.
• George Harry Beeby, Chairman, Inveresk Research International. For services to' Industry.
• Charles John Michael Bennett, lately Deputy Chairman, Commonwealth Development Corpora- tion and lately Member, Economic Development Committee for Chemicals.
• Stephen Frederic Bennett, lately Chairman, British Timken.
• George Cromarty Bloom, General Manager and Chief Executive, Press Association Ltd.
• Frederick Ernest Bonner, Member, Central Elec- tricity Generating Board.
• John McFarlane Boyd, Member, Executive Council, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.
• Edmund Urquhart Broadbent, Director, John Laing and Son Ltd.
• Stuart Burge, Director, Nottingham Playhouse.
• Lionel John Burrows, lately Chief Inspector of Schools, Department of Education and Science.
• Kenneth Hotham Cadbury, M.C., Senior Director, Planning and Purchasing, Telecommunications, Post Office.
• Brian Apcar Carlisle, D.S.C., Regional Co-ordinator (Middle East), Shell International Petroleum Company Ltd.
• Peter Hugh Girard Chamberlin, Partner, Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, Architects.
• Robert Charlton, O.B.E. For services to Association Football.
• John Arthur Chatterton, Clerk to the Leicestershire County Council.
• Christopher William Clayson, O.B.E., Chairman, Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical Education.
• Robert Cox, M.B.E., Consultant Surgeon to the Army.
• Douglas Duncan Simpson Craib, Governor, North of Scotland College of Agriculture.
• Arthur Cross, Vice-Chairman, Redifon Ltd. For services to Export.
• Miss Constance Cummings (Mrs. Levy), Actress.
• John Philip William Dankworth. For services to music.
• Kenneth Frederick Grace Day, O.B.E., Clerk of the Birmingham Executive Council.
• Professor Eric James Denton, F.R.S., Marine Biologist and Physiologist.
• William Edward Egner, Headmaster, South Shields Grammar Technical School for Boys.
• Robin Jamieson Elles, O.B.E., Chairman, National Youth Employment Council,
• John Innes Elliott, Chief Architect and Surveyor, Metropolitan Police.
• Thomas Russell Fairgrieve, T.D. For political and public services in Scotland.
• John Field, lately Assistant Comptroller, Patent Office, Department of Trade and Industry.
• Myers Foggin, Principal, Trinity College of Music, London.
• Frank James Fowler, O.B.E, T.D., Regional Medical Officer, Yorkshire Regional Health Authority.
• Donald Gordon Frampton. For services to horticulture.
• John Leslie Garton, M.B.E., President, Amateur Rowing Association.
• James Haydon Wood Glen, Chief Executive Officer and Town Clerk, Kingston-upon-Hull City Council.
• Miss Janet Reaveley Glover, Headmistress, Sutton High School for Girls.
• John Patrick Riversdale Glyn, Chairman, Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Ltd.
• Sir Derek Burdick Greenaway, Bt., T .D ., D.L. For political and public services in London.
• Ellis Norman Gummer, O.B.E., Assistant Director-General (Administration) British Council.
• Nicholas Geoffrey Lempriere Hammond, D S.O., D.L., lately Professor of Greek, University of Bristol.
• William Hodkinson, O.B.E., Chairman, North West Region, British Gas Corporation.
• Bernard William Hodlin, lately Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Ministry of Defence.
• Maurice Ingram, lately Director, Agricultural Research Council, Meat Research Institute, Langford, Bristol.
• Donald Johnstone, Alderman, Birmingham City Council.
• Henry Arthur Jones, Vaughan Professor of Education, University of Leicester.
• James listen Jones, O.B.E., Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland.
• Thomas Jones, O.B.E., lately Secretary for Wales, Transport and General Workers' Union.
• Harry Judge, Q.F.S.M., Commandant, Fire Service Technical College.
• Arthur Katz, O.B.E., Deputy Chairman, Mettoy Company Ltd. For services to Export.
• James Duncan Kennedy, County Clerk, Stirling County Council.
• Egon Hynek Kodicek, F.R.S., lately Director, Medical Research Council, Dunn Nutritional Laboratory.
• Robert Newman Preston Lewin, Assistant Secretary, Northern Ireland Office.
• James Lindsay, lately Chairman, Cake and Biscuit Alliance Ltd. For services to Export.
• Albert Walter Lines, Director, Engineering and Nuclear Physics Divisions, Science Research Council.
• The Right Honourable Elizabeth, Countess of Longford, Author.
• Alan Charles Mackerras, Musical Director, Sadler's Wells Opera.
• James Kidd McLellan, Q.P.M, Chief Constable, Lanarkshire Constabulary.
• Thomas Henry Markland. For political services in Lancashire.
• Winifred Rachel, Mrs Mathias, lately Alderman, Cardiff City Council.
• Gordon Richards Matthews. For political and public services in the Midlands.
• Richard Edward Millard, Clerk to the Buckinghamshire County Council.
• Herbert Morley, Managing Director, General Steels Division, British Steel Corporation.
• Hugh Smith Nelson, President, Scottish Football Association Ltd.
• The Right Honourable Oswald Constantine John, Marquis of Normanby, M.B.E., Chairman, Board of Governors, King's College Hospital, London.
• Bernard John O'Kane, Chairman, Marconi-Elliott Avionic Systems Ltd.
• Sydney Macdonald Wodehouse Parker, lately Director of Engineering and Group Development, Automotive Products Company Ltd.
• Emily Winifred, Mrs. Parsons. For public services in Cambridgeshire.
• Ralph Warren Peacock. For services to the City of London.
• Frederick Derwent Pickering. For political and public services in Wessex.
• Cecil Millar Porter, Deputy Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Miss Dilys Powell (Elizabeth Dilys, Mrs. Russell), 'Film Critic, The Sunday Times.
• Richard Power Roberts, Chairman, Central Transport Consultative Committee for Great Britain.
• Colonel John Richard Hugh Robertson, O.B.E., lately Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, Department of the Environment.
• Bernard Francis William Scott, T.D., Managing Director and Deputy Chairman, Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd. For services to Export.
• Dennis Frederick Shaw, Chairman, Police Scientific Development Committee, Home Office Scientific Advisory Council.
• Colonel Edgar Donald Reid Shearer, O.B.E., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Northern Ireland Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association.
• Jack Sydney Sheppard, O.B.E., Crown Estate Mineral Agent.
• Hermann Simon, Chairman and Joint Managing Director, Evode Holdings Ltd. For services to Export.
• Ronald Sidney Skerman. For services to the insurance industry.
• Colin Diapre Smith, Assistant Secretary, Scottish Office.
• Walter Mervyn Wadham-Smith, Assistant Solicitor, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• Joanna Ravenscroft, Mrs. Spicer, O.B.E., Assistant Controller, Television Development, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Walter Stansfield, M.C., Q.P.M., Chief Constable, Derby County and Borough Constabulary.
• Commander Frederick Ralph Holland Swann, O.B.E., Chairman, Committee of Management, Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
• Colonel John Houston Taylor T.D., D.L., Chief Education Officer, Leeds.
• Ernest Cecil Tetsall, Chairman, Ipswich Dock Commission.
• David Eyron Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security.
• Geoffrey Harold Tovey, Director, Tissue Typing, Blood Transfusion and Organ Matching Services, Bristol.
• Harold Horsfall Turner, Secretary-General, The Law Society.
• Trevor Alfred Walden, Director, City of Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery.
• Professor Basil Charles Leicester Weedon, FR.S., Chairman, Food Additives and Contaminants Com- mittee. For services to food safety.
• Charles Weiss, Senior Partner, Charles Weiss and Partners.
• Allan George Williams Whitfield, Professor of Medicine, University of Birmingham.
• William Edward Woolley, Chairman, Blackburn and District Hospital Management Committee.
• Fred Wrigley, lately Deputy Chairman, Wellcome Foundation Ltd.

Military Division

Royal Navy

• Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Black, V.R.D.,* Royal Marines Reserve.
• Surgeon Commander Norman James Blacklock, Royal Navy.
• The Reverend Percy John Burgoyne, Q.H.C., Royal Navy.
• Commander John Spencer Cooper, Royal Navy.
• Acting Captain St. John Hamilton Herbert, Royal Navy.
• Commander William Hector Marquis Mackilliigin, Royal Navy.
• Commander William John Maggs, Royal Navy.
• Commander Jack William Edward Moreton, Royal Navy.
• Commander Ronald Walter Nickson, Royal Navy.
• Commander Peter Bramley Reynolds, Royal Navy.
• Commander William Richard Scott Thomas, Royal Navy.

Army

• Lieutenant-Colonel Giles Alexander Allan (411875), Irish Guards.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Anthony Clent Bird (376458), The Queen's Lancashire Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Samuel Greene Blair, T.D, M.B., F.R.C.S. (425811), Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Sidney Blewett, M B . (446840), Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard George Crowe (430278), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Arthur William Hickman (417382), Royal Corps of Signals.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Hedley Hooper (418295), Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Nigel Bedingfield Knocker (410272), The Queen's Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Shaun Lee-Browne, T.D. (421519), Wessex Regiment, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) John Philip Lloyd, T.D. (420747), The Royal Welch Fusiliers, Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Jolliffe London (364097), Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Mervyn Noel Samuel McCord, M.C. (407952), The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th).
• Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Bywater McNabb, M.B.E. (117906), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment).
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Simon Fendall Murray (383852), 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Colin Barry Overbury (444708), Army Legal Services Staff.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Patrick Ralph Palmer (430407), The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's).
• Lieutenant-Colonel David John Ramsbotham (427439), The Royal Green Jackets.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting) Alexander Bernard Robertson (299592), Army Cadet Force.
• Lieutenant-Colonel (Acting) Eric Smith (280302), Army Cadet Force.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Hubert Roy Wright (158281), Royal Army Educational Corps.

Royal Air Force

• Wing Commander Robert Dennis Alexander, A.F.C. (1333627), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Bertram Brooke (79035), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Derek Thomas Bryant (2552398), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Geoffrey John Charles Claridge (3118831), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander William Noel Gilmer, A.F.C. 182613), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander (now Group Captain) Alan John Hume (3130602), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Leonard Stanley Laughton (119209), Royal Air Force (Retired).
• Wing Commander Edgar Francis Le Conte (149330), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Alec John Leggett (583273), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Ralph Lewis Mills (573326) Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Sidney Albert Ernest Munns, D.F.M. (116154), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Ernest Toole (59114), Royal Air Force.
• Wing Commander Edward Peter Wildy (193416), Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• George Stirk Adams, T.D., General Practitioner Ashford, Middlesex.
• Ralph Henry Thomas Alexander, Managing Director, General Electric Company Overseas Services Ltd. For services to export.
• Ernest Allday, Q.F.S.M., Assistant Chief Officer, London Fire Brigade.
• Russell James Laurence Allen, Chairman, Council of the British Industrial Biological Research Association.
• Thomas Nutter Allen, M.C., T.D., Assistant Director of Studies, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Ministry of Defence.
• Ralph Downs Appleton, T .D, lately Deputy Chairman, Aycliffe and Peterlee Development Corporations.
• William George James Appleton, lately Joint Deputy Managing Director, Stein Atkinson Stordy Ltd.
• Albert Ashforth, Head of Sales and Installation Division, Telecommunications Marketing Department, Post Office.
• James Priestley Aspden, Town Clerk, Warrington County Borough Council.
• Cyril Stanley Aynsley, lately Chief Reporter, Daily Express.
• Leslie Henry Baines, For services to local government and to National Savings in the Isle of Wight.
• Paul Balint, Chairman, Gunson's Sortex Ltd. For services to export.
• Reginald Samuel Ball, Director of Education, Harrow.
• Douglas John Barrington, Managing Director,. Lygon Arms Ltd., Broadway, Worcestershire.
• Sydney Hector Bell, Deputy Director and Secretary, The Paint Research Association.
• Charles Edward Bellairs, M.B.E. For political services.
• Major Roland Cecil Bellamy, T.D., D.L. For services to the magistracy in Grimsby.
• James Frederick Bereen, Consultant Anaesthetist, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
• Henry Crombie Beveridge. For political services in Glasgow.
• John Almond Rowland Blackman, Chief Administrative Officer, County Councils Association.
• Alan Blaney, Principal, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Miss Eleanor Milford Booker, M.B.E., Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Eric Simpson Booth, Director, Wool (and Allied) Textile Employers' Council.
• Harold Bridges, Founder, Harold Bridges' Charitable Foundation.
• Miss Anne Hayes Court Brown, Chief Regional' Nursing Officer, Western Regional Hospital Board, Scotland.
• George Mackay Brown, Author.
• Alfred Edward Brownjohn, Clerk to the Dental Estimates Board for England and Wales.
• Jennet, The Honourable Mrs. Bruce, County President, British Red Cross Society, Sutherland.
• Joseph Burgess, lately Registrar and Secretary, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
• Norman Charles Henry Burtenshaw, Football Referee.
• Francis Henry Busby, lately Town Clerk, Eastbourne County Borough Council.
• Douglas Cameron, Cellist.
• Frank Caplin, Technical Adviser to the Board of Racal-British Communications Corporation Ltd. For services to export.
• Gordon Garrington Shaw Chambers, Governor, Grade I, Prison Department, Home Office.
• Miss Mollie Clarke, Senior Adviser for Infant and Nursery Education in Devon
• Stanley George Gurney Clarke, Chairman and Managing Director, Courier Press (Holdings) Ltd.
• James William Clayphan, Technical Adviser, Ministry of Defence.
• Colonel Aymar Sinclair Joseph de Satge Clayton, D.L., Secretary, East Anglian Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association.
• Albert Percival Coldrick, lately General Secretary, Transport Salaried Staffs' Association.
• Miss Margaret Lilian Collins, Chief Social Development Officer, Runcorn Development Corporation.
• Constance Margaret, Mrs. Cornell, Independent Member, Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales.
• John Harman Corner, lately Headmaster, Vanburgh Castle School, Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.
• Robert Hudson Coulman, Chairman, Yorkshire River Authority.
• James Robertson Cowan, Director, Scottish Area, National Coal Board.
• John Russell Coward, Director, Notting Hill Housing Trust.
• Stanley Craigs, General Manager, Carrickfergus, Courtaulds Ltd.
• Walter Crossland, Director and General Manager, Portex Ltd., Hythe, Kent.
• Edwin Norman Crowe, Member, Legislative Council of the Isle of Man.
• Stanley Herbert Dainty, T.D, Director, Department of Public Health Engineering, Greater London Council.
• David Earsman Dalzell, Q P M., Deputy Chief Constable, Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Jacob Davis T.D., D.L., For political and public services in Wales.
• Arthur Dawson, Regional Secretary, Yorkshire and North Derbyshire Region, General and Municipal Workers' Union.
• Jacquelin, Mrs. Dean. For political and public services in Eastern England.
• Albert Edward De Barr, Director of Research, The Machine Tool Industry Research Association.
• Stuart Douglas, T.D., Director, British Man-Made Fibres Federation.
• James Drury, Manager, Electronic Systems Department, Edinburgh, Ferranti Ltd.
• Frederick Weir Dunning, Curator, The Geological Museum.
• Harry Earnshaw. For political and public services in Yorkshire.
• Kenneth Charles Easton, General Practitioner, Richmond, Yorkshire.
• Campbell William Edwards, Director, Bridport-Gundry (Holdings) Ltd. For services to export.
• Ernest Andrew Sommerville Faulds. For political services in Eastern England.
• Hugh Robert Featherstone, Director, Freight Transport Association Ltd.
• James Graham Fulton. For services to the Scottish fishing industry.
• Thomas Gannon, Headmaster, Milefield Middle School, Barnsley.
• Edward John Oliver Gardiner, lately Deputy Secretary, Association of Municipal Corporations.
• Walter William Garwood, Superintending Architect, Department of Health and Social Security.
• John Rhodolph Glen, lately Headmaster, Swarchffe Middle School, Leeds.
• Major Thomas William Gracey, D.L., Commander, St. John Ambulance Brigade, and Commissioner, East, South and North Devon.
• Allan Wallace Grant, M.C., T.D., Managing Director, Ecclesiastical Insurance Office Ltd.
• Brigadier Reginald Wilfred Hackett, lately Chair- man, General Committee, Royal Army Pay Corps Regimental Association.
• Bernard Neil Halliday, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police.
• Leslie John Pyke Halstead, Principal Architect, Department of Education and Science.
• John Harrison, lately Regional Microbiologist, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• The Reverend Joseph Benson Harrison, General Secretary, Church of England Council for Social Aid,
• Leonard Ernest Hart. For political and public services in the South East.
• Hugh Hazlett, lately Staff Inspector, Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland.
• Harry Robert Hearn, Head of Aerosol Division, The Metal Box Company Ltd.
• Louie Ellen, Mrs. Henson, Honorary Alderman, Leeds City Council.
• James Herbert, lately Headmaster, Sir Wilfrid Martineau School, Birmingham.
• Mary Dixon, Mrs. Sainsbury-Hicks (Mary Wilson), lately Staff Inspector for Special Education (Inner London Education Authority).
• Walter Higgins, Headmaster, Manor High School, Oadby, Leicester.
• Frank Alfred Hodges, Eastern Regional Member, National Savings Committee.
• Bernarr Eugen Hopkins, Senior Principal Scientific Officer, National Physical Laboratory, Department of Trade and Industry.
• Miss Florence Edna Houghton, lately Director of Nursing Services, Somerset County Council.
• Leonard Arthur Howes. For services to the community in Norwich.
• Thomas Thompson Hubble, M.B.E. For political and public services in the North of England.
• Geoffrey Arthur Hughes, lately Superintending Quantity Surveyor, Department of the Environment.
• Miss Daisy Deborah Hyams (Mrs. Hart), Managing Director, Tesco Stores (Wholesale) Ltd. For services to the food trade.
• William Gregory Ibberson, Chairman, George Ibberson and Company Ltd. For services to the cutlery industry.
• Miss Sylvia Alexandra Jacobs, Principal, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Rees Henley James, Music Adviser, Herefordshire Education Committee.
• William Jeffrey, Principal, Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Edinburgh.
• William Alan Jenkins, Chairman, Board of Visitors, H.M. Prison, Wakefield.
• Evan Trefor Jones For services to the Royal British Legion.
• Gwilym Murray Jones, M.B.E., General Practitioner, Caerphilly, Glamorgan.
• John Emlyn Jones, Treasurer, Manchester Regional Hospital Board.
• Alex Peter Josephides, Superintending Architect. Property Services Agency, Department of the Environment.
• James Reid Kelso, Q.P.M., Deputy Chief Constable, City of Glasgow Police.
• Thomas Kilvington, Deputy Director of Radio Technology, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
• Arthur Tracy Lambert, Director, R H Thompson and Company Ltd.
• Alan John Le Brun, Chief Immigration Officer, Jersey.
• Cyril John Lindsey, T D. For political services.
• Eric Albert Lovegrove, Postmaster Controller, Eastern Central and Foreign Section, London Postal Region, Post Office.
• Douglas Dean Lovell, T.D For political and public services in the West of England.
• Katharine, Mrs. Lowe. For services to the community in Manchester.
• Ernest McDonnell, Headmaster, Birley High School, Manchester.
• Gerald McGuire, National Countryside and Education Officer, Youth Hostels Association (England and Wales).
• Alexander McIntosh, Town Clerk, Motherwell and Wishaw.
• Joseph Shanks McLean, lately Head of Department of Chemistry, Paisley College of Technology.
• Michael McLuskey, Director, Beck and Contracts Ltd. For services to Export.
• George McRiner, D.F C., Operations Grade I (Commandant), Civil Aviation Authority.
• James Lionel Manning, Sports writer and broadcaster.
• George William Mantle, Assistant Secretary, Department for National Savings.
• Harold Mark, Principal, Lord Chancellor's Department.
• Michael Robert Matthews, Member, Economic Development Committee for the Hotels and Catering Industry.
• Alistair Francis Macleod Matthews, Assistant General Manager (Fields Co-ordmator), British Petroleum Company Ltd.
• Richard John Hannay Meade. For services to Riding.
• John Mitchell, Editor/Manager and Director, Craven Herald Ltd, Skipton, Yorkshire.
• Tom Noel Mitchell, Regional Architect, Liver- pool Regional Hospital Board.
• William Burrell Alan Mitchell, lately Chairman, The Savings Bank of Glasgow.
• Richard Edward Moira, Partner, Moira and Moira, Architects, Edinburgh.
• John Glaister Morrison, Q.P .M., Deputy Chief Constable, Birmingham City Police.
• Elizabeth Gwendolen, Mrs. Mullins. For services to the Gwen Mullins Trust.
• Christopher Needham. For services to the British Standards Institution.
• John Hugh Nicholl, Vice-Chairman, former Londonderry County Council.
• Miss Ann Gould Notman, lately Chief Nursing Officer, Plymouth and District Hospital Management Committee.
• Hubert Culliford Palin, General Practitioner, Burnley, Lancashire.
• Richard Henry Pamplin, Secretary, Staff Side, Police Council for the United Kingdom.
• Jonathan Cyril Park. For services to the National Health Service.
• Robert Benton Peacock, lately Chairman, High Mowthorpe Experimental Husbandry Farm Advisory Committee.
• Alexander Philip, General Manager, Scottish Region, British Railways Board.
• Herbert Reginald Poole, Chief Executive, Liverpool Council of Social Service.
• Miss Mary Powell, Principal Nursing Officer, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, Shropshire.
• John Anthony Price, County Planning Officer, Pembrokeshire.
• Robert Beverlin Price, Member, former Urban District Council, Ballymoney, County Antrim.
• William McKay Rae, Managing Director, Radar and Equipment Division, Electrical Musical Industries Electronics Ltd.
• Frank Reginald Reeves, Director of Education, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.
• George Overton Richards, Secretary, University of Leeds Institute of Education.
• James Taylor Robertson, Member, Scottish Air Cadet Council.
• Leslie Alexander Robertson, lately Deputy Director of Social Services, City of Westminster.
• Thomas Robertson, Senior Inspector (Horticulture), Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland.
• Thomas Bernard Robinson, Secretary, The Marie Curie Memorial Foundation.
• Michael James Rogers, Chief Executive, Lloyd's Common Market Secretariat. For services to Export.
• John Douglas Rothery, M.B.E, Senior Principal, Ministry of Defence.
• Alec William Alfred Rundle, lately Chairman (Executive), A Gallenkamp and Company Ltd. For services to Export.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Rudyard Holt Russell, President, Amateur International Boxing Association.
• Hugh Sanders, Principal Probation Officer, Sheffield.
• John Stuart Sansom, Technical Controller, Thames Television Ltd
• Tom Scott, Principal Careers Officer, Denbighshire Education Authority
• William Scott, Clerk to the Teesside Justices.
• John Sewell. For services to the European Atlantic Movement.
• Philip Hooper Sewell, Library Adviser, Department of Education and Science.
• William Arthur Seymour, Assistant Director, Ordnance Survey, Department of the Environment.
• Norman William Sharp, General Manager, Munich Office, Turbo-Union Ltd, Rolls-Royce (1971) Ltd., Bristol Engine Division.
• Miss Hilda Marjorie Simpson, Principal Nursing Officer (Research), Department of Health and Social Security.
• Gordon Archbold Slater. For services to music in Lincoln.
• Esme Jane Watson, Mrs. Smail, lately President, Dundee, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association.
• Miss Sarah Colman Small, Foreign and Common- wealth Office.
• George Stewart Smith, Chairman, Exeter and Mid Devon Hospital Management Committee.
• Gertrude, Mrs. Smith, Psychiatiic Social Worker in Wiltshire.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Campbell Cory Smith, D.S O. For services to social welfare in Northern Ireland.
• Leslie Harold Smith, T D, D L., General Manager, Leicester City Transport.
• Robin Neville Smith, M C., T.D., Director, Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for the Disabled.
• John Ranald Stainer, Registrar of the Royal College of Music.
• Eric Pemble Stevens, M.B.E., Works Manager, Martin Baker Aircraft Company Ltd.
• John Stoker, Town Clerk, Wallsend Borough Council.
• Eric Geoffrey Taylor. For political and public services in Lancashire.
• Rodney Leon Taylor, Principal, Science Research Council.
• Miss Alison Margaret Tennant. For public services.
• William Risk Thomson, County Surveyor and Bridgemaster, Worcestershire County Council.
• Alan Jeffrey Tomsett, Financial Controller, British Transport Docks Board.
• Hubert Harold Tranter, H.M. Deputy Superintending Inspector of Factories, Midlands (Nottingham) Division, Department of Employment.
• Miss Nora May Turner, M.B.E., lately Principal, Department of Trade and Industry.
• Joseph John Vickers, Farmer and Auctioneer, County Durham. For services to agriculture.
• Reginald Wailes. For services to Industrial Archaeology.
• Frank Raphael Waley, M.C., Member, Advisory Committee on the Landscape Treatment of Trunk Roads.
• Alexander Stewart Warren, D L., Councillor, Glasgow Town Council.
• Captain Ronald Owen Edwick Webb, Senior Ship Manager, Esso Petroleum Company Ltd.
• Stephen Frederick Wheatcroft, Member, Economic Development Committee for the Movement of Exports.
• Edward Frederick Wheeler. For political services.
• Sydney Coe-Gunnell White, Managing Director, B.R.S. Parcels Ltd.
• William Clark Whiteford, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Agricultural Education of the West Midlands Advisory Council for Further Education.
• Geoffrey Whitehouse, Production Director, Wickman Wimet Ltd.
• Scovell Frederick Charles Whitmore, Deputy Chairman, South Western Electricity Board.
• Martin Matthew Whittet, Physician Superintendent, Craig Dunain Hospital, Inverness.
• Norman Ewart Wiggins. Chairman, Kensington and Chelsea Rent Tribunal.
• Michael George Wilde, Project Director (Concorde), Commercial Aircraft Division, British Aircraft Corporation Ltd.
• John Wilkinson, Director, Westmorland Branch, British Red Cross Society.
• Walter James Philipps Williams, Chairman, Haverfordwest Supplementary Benefits Appeals Tribunal.
• William David Wills. For services to handicapped children.
• Alan Wilson, Principal Professional and Technology Officer, Ministry of Defence.
• William Frank Wood, Head of Research Reactors Division, Harwell, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
• Joseph Leslie Wright, M.B,E, Principal, Cabinet Office.
• Howard John Yallop, lately Principal Scientific Officer, Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment, Ministry of Defence.
• John Alexander Young, Town Solicitor, Belfast City Council.
• Andrew Zinovieff, Chairman, Durham and District Disablement Advisory Committee.

• The Right Honourable Henry, Baron Cohen of Birkenhead. For services to medicine.
• The Right Honourable Angela Olivia, Countess of Limerick, G.B.E. For services to the International Red Cross.
• The Right Honourable William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, M.C., D.L., M.P. For political and public services.