1970 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1970 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 in supplements to the London Gazette of 30 December 1969 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1970.

At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.

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

United Kingdom

Life peer

Baroness

• The Right Honourable Susan Lilian Primrose, Baroness Masham. For social services and services to the handicapped.

Baron

• John Cowburn Beavan. For services to Journalism.
• Sir (Christopher) Frank Kearton, O.B.E., Chairman, Courtaulds Ltd. Chairman, Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, 1966-1968.
• Captain The Right Honourable Terence Marne O'Neill, D.L., lately Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

Privy Counsellor

• The Right Honourable Wilfred Banks Duncan, Baron Brown, M.B.E., Minister of State, Board of Trade since 1965.
• Edmund Emanuel Dell, M.P., Member of Parliament for Birkenhead since October 1964. Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Technology, 1966-1967; Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Economic Affairs, 1967-1968; Minister of State, Board of Trade, 1968-1969; Minister of State, Department of Employment and Productivity since October 1969.
• Sir Arthur James Irvine, Q.C., M.P., Member of Parliament for the Edge Hill Division of Liverpool since 1947. Solicitor-General since August 1967.
• Sir Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, G.B.E., Governor, Bank of England.

Knight Bachelor

• Walter Adams, C.M.G., O.B.E., Director, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.
• Alfred Jules Ayer, Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford.
• Hubert Bennett, Architect to the Greater London Council
• Harold Black, Secretary to the Cabinet of Northern Ireland.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Carreras, M.B.E. For services to Youth.
• Dudley Ross Chesterman, Warden, Goldsmith's College, University of London.
• Noël Peirce Coward. For services to the Arts.
• Professor Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, C.B.E. For services to Archaeology in the Middle East.
• John Arthur Edwards, C.B.E., President, London Rent Assessment Panel.
• Ronald McLeod Fairfield, C.B.E., Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, British Insulated Calender's Cables Ltd. For services to Export.
• Arthur Gaitskell, C.M.G. For services to overseas development.
• William Frederick Glock, C.B.E. For services to Music.
• Sidney Francis Greene, C.B.E., Chairman of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
• Charles Herbert Stuart-Harris, C.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor of Medicine, University of Sheffield.
• Professor William Rede Hawthorne, C.B.E. For services to Thermodynamics.
• Desmond Heap, Comptroller and City Solicitor, Corporation of the City of London.
• Charles Ronald Ironmonger, Alderman, Sheffield City Council.
• Richard Dawnay Lemon, C.B.E., Q.P.M., Chief Constable, Kent County Constbulary.
• John Todd Lewis, O.B.E., Chairman, Birmingham Regional Hospital Board.
• Frank Milton, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate.
• Edward Grainger Muir, F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Senior Surgeon, King's College Hospital, London.
• Philip Jack Oppenheimer, Managing Director, The Diamond Trading Company Ltd. For services to Export.
• Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington, Technical Director, Pilkington Brothers Ltd. For services to Technology and Export.
• Professor Leon Radzinowicz, Wolfson Professor of Criminology and Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
• Professor Alexander Robertson, C.B.E., Professor of Animal Health and Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh.
• Frederic Seebohm, T.D., Chairman, Export Guarantees Advisory Council.
• Robert Southern, C.B.E., General Secretary, Co-operative Union Ltd.
• Rudy Sternberg, Chairman, British Agricultural Export Council. For services to Export.
• Gwilym Tecwyn Williams, C.B.E., President, National Farmers' Union for England and Wales.
• Richard Dilworth Young, Chairman and Managing Director, Alfred Herbert Ltd. For services to Export.
• John Ramsay Blagden, O.B.E., T.D., lately Chief Justice, Zambia.
• Nigel Vernon Reed, C.B.E., Chief Justice, Northern Nigeria.
• Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers, V.R.D., lately Secretary-General, Council of Europe.

Australian States

State of New South Wales

• The Honourable Harry Vincent Budd, President of the Legislative Council.
• Roderick William Miller, C.B.E. For services to industry and commerce.

State of Victoria

• The Honourable Alistair Duncan Grant Adam, Justice, Supreme Court of Victoria.
• Edward Cohen, of Toorak. For services to the community.

State of Queensland

• Walter Beresford James Gordon Sparkes of Jandowae. For services to the beef cattle industry and to the community.

State of South Australia

• Brigadier Thomas Charles Eastick, C.M.G., D.S.O., E.D. For services to ex-servicemen.
• The Honourable Glen Gardner Pearson, M.P., Treasurer and Minister of Housing.

State of Tasmania

• The Honourable Marcus George Gibson, lately Senior Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of Tasmania.

Order of the Bath

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

• Admiral Sir John Fitzroy Duyland Bush, K.C.B, D.S.C.**
• General Sir Geoffrey Musson, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., late Infantry, Colonel The Light Infantry.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice Admiral Arthur Francis Turner, C.B., D.S.C.
• Lieutenant-General Napier Crookenden, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., late Infantry, Colonel The Cheshire Regiment.
• Lieutenant-General Henry Lowther Ewart Clark Leask, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., late Infantry, Colonel Commandant Scottish Division.
• Air Marshal Gareth Thomas Butler Clayton, C.B., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Marshal Leslie Deane Mavor, C.B., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• John Saye Wingfield Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, C.B., First Parliamentary Counsel.
• Frank Edward Figgures, C.B., C.M.G., Second Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• Alan Samuel Marre, C.B., Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Security.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Rear Admiral George Cunningham Leslie, O.B.E.
• Rear Admiral Cedric Kenelm Roberts, D.S.O.
• Rear Admiral Desmond Noble Callaghan.
• Rear Admiral Ian David McLaughlan, D.S.C.*
• Rear Admiral Basil Charles Godfrey Place, V.C., D.S.C.*
• Rear Admiral John Douglas Trythall, O.B.E.
• Major-General Anthony John Deane-Drummond, D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Corps of Signals, Colonel Commandant Royal Corps of Signals.
• Major-General John Houghton Gibbon, O.B.E., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Patrick Robert Chamier Hobart, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., late Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel Commandant Royal Tank Regiment.
• Major-General Keith Fielding Stephens, O.B.E., Q.H.S., M.B., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General David Noel Hugh Tyacke, O.B.E., late Infantry.
• The Venerable Archdeacon John Ross Youens, O.B.E., M.C., Chaplain to The Queen, Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
• The Venerable Leonard James Ashton, Q.H.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Harry Burton, C.B.E., D.S.O., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal James Clarke Taylor, O.B.E., Q.H.P., M.B., Ch.B., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore David Beatty Fitzpatrick, O.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Frederick Samuel Hazlewood, C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Kenneth Barnes, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Department of Employment and Productivity.
• Stuart Verdun Collins, Chief Inspector of Audit, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
• Frank Cooper, C.M.G., Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence.
• Alexander Currall, C.M.G., Director, Department for National Savings.
• John Abernethy Dickson, Director General, Forestry Commission.
• Harry Edward Drew, Director General of Quality Assurance, Ministry of Technology.
• Robert Audley Furtado, Presiding Special Commissioner, Board of Inland Revenue.
• David Francis Hubback, Under Secretary, Board of Trade.
• John William James, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Deputy Chief Medical Adviser, Department of Health and Social Security.
• Harold Cottam Johnson, C.B.E., Keeper of the Public Records.
• Leonard Sidney Mills, Under Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• Leonard Napolitan, Director of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• Paul Randell Odgers, M.B.E., T.D., Under Secretary, Office of the Secretary of State for Social Services.
• William George Onslow, Under Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
• William Alan Wood, Second Crown Estate Commissioner.

Order of St Michael and St George

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

• Sir Christopher William Machell Cox, K.C.M.G., Educational Adviser, Ministry of Overseas Development.
• Sir John Nicholls, K.C.M.G., O.B.E., lately Her Majesty's Ambassador, Capetown.

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

• Sir Maurice Henry Parsons, Deputy Governor, Bank of England.
• William Vincent John Evans, C.M.G., M.B.E., Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Arthur David Kemp Owen, lately Co-Administrator, United Nations Development Programme.

Australian States

State of Western Australia

• Sir Lawrence Walter Jackson, Chief Justice, Western Australia.

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

• Thomas Michael Crowley, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Technology.
• Professor John Conrad Waterlow, M.D., F.R.C.P., Director, Medical Research Council Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Jamaica.
• Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, C.B.E., Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• John Halkett Baddeley, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Alexander Hope Birch, O.B.E., Counsellor, British High Commission, Accra.
• Peter Antony Carter, lately Head of British Residual Mission, Salisbury.
• Arthur Denis Farrell, Q.C., lately Senior Puisne Judge, High Court of Kenya.
• Walter Robert Haydon, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Herbert Ben Curtis Keeble, Her Majesty's Minister, British High Commission, Canberra.
• Peter Mennell, M.B.E., lately Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Kinshasa.
• Gordon Charles George Philo, M.C., lately Her Majesty's Consul-General, Hanoi.
• Nicholas George Frederick Taylor, J.P., Commissioner in the United Kingdom for Eastern Caribbean Governments.

Australian States

State of Victoria

• Ernest William Coates, Director of Finance and Permanent Head, Victorian Treasury.

State of Queensland

• Norman Stewart Pixley, M.B.E., V.R.D., of Brisbane. For services to the community.

State of South Australia

• John Sampson White, J.P., Secretary and Permanent Head, Premier's Department.

Royal Victorian Order

Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO)

• The Right Honourable Ann Fortune, Countess of Euston, C.V.O., J.P.

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Charles Abrahams.
• Seymour John Louis Egerton.
• John Hastings James, C.B.
• Sir Joseph Thomas Molony, Q.C.
• The Right Honourable David Arthur Thomas, Earl of Westmorland.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Wilfrid Greenhouse Allt, C.B.E.
• John Gilbert Cook, C.B.E., M.V.O.
• Group Captain Alexander Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, Royal Air Force.
• Miss Aydua Helen Scott-Elliot, M.V.O.
• Thomas Charles Birkett Hodgson, O.B.E., Q.P.M.
• Alfred William Hurll, C.B.E.
• John Ronald Jones.
• Miss Rosina Mary McLennan, M.V.O.
• Kenneth Newis, C.B., M.V.O.
• Richard Rashleigh Shelley.
• William Digby Sturch.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

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

Fourth Class

• Squadron Leader Philip George Fearn, Royal Air Force.
• Miss Margaret Hawksley.
• Eric Warrington Lloyd, T.D.
• Arthur Charles Neal, M.V.O., B.E.M.
• Commander Michael Alan Oliver, Royal Navy.

Fifth Class

• Supply Lieutenant (O.C.A.) Albert William Baker, Royal Navy.
• Miss Anne Mary Downes.
• Miss Edith Mary Fisher, B.E.M.
• Edward Kenneth McLeod Hilleary.
• Joseph Kealey.
• Joseph Matthews.
• Miss Gladys Ramsay.
• Leslie Gilbert Taffs.

Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) (RVM)

• Cyril Frederick Ash.
• Divisional Sergeant Major Alfred Barnstaple, Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
• Ernest Bennett.
• Sergeant Thomas Charles Briggs, Royal Marines.
• Ernest Edward Gates.
• Albert Edward Gent.
• William Cyril Hawthorn.
• Thomas Shannon Howatson.
• Police Constable Leslie Hyson, Metropolitan Police.
• William Johnson.
• Chief Communications Yeoman Albert Major.
• Warrant Officer Robert Henry Norris, B.E.M., Royal Air Force.
• Miss Norma Ivy Minnie Preece.
• Warrant Officer Ronald Frederick Tooke, B.E.M., Royal Air Force.
• Herbert Thorpe Warwick Wood.

Order of the British Empire

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

• The Right Honourable Roy Herbert, Baron Thomson of Fleet, Chairman, The Thomson Organisation Ltd.

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

• Commandant Marion Mildred Kettlewell, C.B.E., Hon. A.D.C., Director, Women's Royal Naval Service.
• Brigadier The Honourable Mary Mackenzie Anderson, M.B.E., Hon. A.D.C., Women's Royal Army Corps.
• Bessie Ellen, Mrs Bottomley, J.P. For public and social services.
• Miss Margaret Miles, Headmistress, Mayfield School, Putney.

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

• Acting Air Marshal Robert Edward Craven, C.B., O.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• The Right Honourable Ross Campbell, Baron Geddes, C.B.E., D.L. For services to tourism and shipping.
• Sir Samuel Hoare, C.B., lately United Kingdom Representative, United Nations Human Rights Commission.

Australian States

State of New South Wales

• The Honourable Vernon Haddon Treatt, M.M., Q.C., Chief Commissioner, City of Sydney.

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Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• Sir James Chadwick. For services to Science.
• Sir Alan Patrick Herbert. For services to Literature.

New Zealand

Knight Bachelor

• James Nimmo Crawford Doig. For outstanding services to commerce and exporting industries.
• The Honourable Mr Justice Trevor Ernest Henry – Senior Puisne Judge, Supreme Court.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• Percy Lyndon Laing – lately Commissioner of Works.
• John Seabrook AFC ED JP – of Auckland. For valuable services to the community and to commerce.

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division

• Te Arikinui Te Ata-i-Rangikaahu – of Huntly. For outstanding services to the Māori people.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• Harry Edgar Duff Daysh JP – of Wellington. For very valuable services to commerce and the community.
• Robertson Huntly Stewart – of Christchurch. For very valuable services to the manufacturing industry.
• Bryan Shuckburgh Trolove JP – of Kaikoura. For very valuable services to sheep farming, especially as a member of the New Zealand Wool Board.
• Noel Spencer Woods – Secretary of Labour.

Military Division

• Brigadier Robertson McKay Paterson DSO – Brigadiers' List (Regular Force).

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• Frank Maine Bateson – of Tauranga. For valuable services to science in the field of astronomy.
• Arthur Ernest Bockett – of Wellington. For valuable services to the waterfront industry.
• Gordon Alison Guy Connal – of Christchurch. For valuable services to local bodies and the arts.
• John Joseph Enwright MB ChB – of Auckland. For valuable services at the Qui Nhon Hospital in Vietnam over the past five years.
• [[John Hannibal George|John Hannibal George JP MP]] – of Roxburgh. For valuable services to politics.
• Ronald Victor Giorgi JP – of Hastings. For valuable services to the community, particularly in local body affairs.
• Thomas Hill – of Dunedin. For valuable services to education.
• Montague Harry Holcroft – of Paekakariki. For valuable services to journalism.
• Noel Jones JP – of Nelson. For valuable services to the community.
• Peter McIntyre – of Wellington. For valuable services to the arts.
• Mrs Jocelyn Maud Ryburn – of Dunedin. For valuable services to the Plunket Society of New Zealand.
• James Alexander Stenberg – of Auckland. For valuable services to the community and to the arts.
• Joseph Listen Wilson JP – of Auckland. For valuable services to the Navy League.

Military Division

• Commander (Special Branch) William Ephraim Voysey Lowe – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Spencer Cocks – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (Regular Force).
• Wing Commander Gordon Ernest Erridge – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• Frank Auld – of Whangarei. For services to the community.
• James Watson Birnie -of Taupo. For services to the community and to local bodies.
• Christopher Bernard Bouzaid – of Auckland. For services in the field of yachting.
• Mrs Nancy Vivian Jessie Claridge – of Upper Hutt. For services to the YWCA movement of New Zealand.
• Arthur Thomas Cushen – of Invercargill. For services to the community as a radio journalist, and to the blind people of Invercargill.
• Douglas Scott Dodds – of Christchurch. For services in the field of pharmacy.
• James Stewart Douglas – resident engineer, Ministry of Works, Westport.
• Mrs Edna Mary Fairhall – of Marlborough. For services to the community.
• Frederick William Finer – of Hawera. For services to local bodies.
• Mrs Marie Lilian Griffin – of Auckland. For services in the field of marriage and family guidance.
• John Sidney Hickey JP – of Opunake. For services to local bodies and the dairying industry.
• Mrs Jean Caroline Lodge – of Rotorua. For services to the community and in the field of sport, especially basketball.
• Arthur Baird Martin – of Martinborough. For services to local bodies and to the community.
• Geoffrey Grey Muir – of Gisborne. For services to journalism and the newspaper industry.
• John Craig Pollock JP – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Charles Holmwood Sturton – of Tauranga. For services to the New Zealand Police.
• Turi Rangi Te Kani JP – of Tauranga. For services to the Māori people.
• Howard Charles James Thompson – of Wellington, formerly Assistant Secretary of Labour.
• William Goddard Volckman MB ChB – of Canterbury. For services to the community as a general practitioner.
• Miss Olwen Frances Watson – of Napier. For services to the nursing profession.

Military Division

• Lieutenant (Special Duties) Thomas Martin Morrow – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Maurice John Blair – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
• Major Eric Vernon Braggins – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Captain Joan May Burn – New Zealand Women's Royal .Army Corps (Regular Force).
• Chaplain Class III Whakahuihui Vercoe – Royal New Zealand Chaplains Department (Regular Force).
• Warrant Officer First Class Barry Roy Veysey – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Warrant Officer William Robinson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• David Kennedy – lately Conservator of Forests, New Zealand Forest Service, Rotorua.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil Division

• Andrew Joseph Francis Brown – of Dunedin. For services to the community as an entertainment promoter.
• Mrs Nellie Scott Climie – of Paeroa. For services to education, the community and in the historical field.
• Frederick James Cullen – of Nelson. For services to the community, especially as a visitor to mental hospitals.
• Henry Leslie Emerson JP – of Tauranga. For services in a first aid capacity on hydroelectric schemes on the Waikato River.
• Mrs Zena Bell Gay – of Nelson. For services to the community, especially in the field of indoor basketball.
• Miss Isobel May Hollis – of Wellington. For services as a police matron and as a probation officer.
• Mrs Gwyneth Olwyn Jepson – of Auckland. For services to returned servicemen and women and their dependants.
• Eric Alfred Johnson – of Marlborough Sounds. For services to the community.
• Murray Albert Le Fevre – Constable, New Zealand Police, Reefton.
• Bruce Graham MacKenzie – Constable, New Zealand Police, Eketahuna.
• Miss Edna Frances Neville – of Christchurch. For services to the community as an entertainer.
• Eric Priar Nisbet – of Rotorua. For services as a sporting coach, especially swimming.
• James Coull Stirling. For services as supervisor of Government Grounds, Wellington.
• Mrs Bernice Muriel Wells – of Auckland. For services as a lip-reading teacher with the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing.
• Mrs Mary Elizabeth Will – of Palmerston North. For community services, especially to Country Women's Institutes.

Military Division

• Medical Petty Officer Cecil Cameron – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Petty Officer Ronald Duncan Robinson – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Visual Instructor Arthur Charles Venus – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Sergeant Frederick Bigg-Wither – Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (Regular Force).
• Sergeant Thomas Riri – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Flight Sergeant Francis Harold Hodgson – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Flight Lieutenant (Temporary Squadron Leader) Larry Alexander Olsen – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Fire Service Medal (QFSM)

• Howard Leonard Hooker – Deputy Chief Fire Officer, Cambridge Volunteer Fire Brigade.
• Hector Vincent Sylvester Oliver – Chief Fire Officer, Nelson Fire Brigade.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Bruce Harry Constable – Detective Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.
• Cyril Leonard Scanlan – Superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.

Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air

• Flight Lieutenant William John Ramsay – Royal New Zealand Air Force.