The 1977 Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours were announced on 11 June 1977 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee and Birthday in the United Kingdom,United Kingdom: Canada,Canada: Australia,Australia: New Zealand,New Zealand: Barbados,Barbados: Mauritius,Mauritius: Fiji,Fiji: the Bahamas,Bahamas: Grenada,Grenada: and Papua New Guinea.Papua New Guinea:
The Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The dates vary, both from year to year and from country to country. All are published in supplements to the London Gazette and many are conferred by the monarch (or her representative) some time after the date of the announcement, particularly for those service people on active duty.
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
Appointments Her Majesty The Queen to be Colonel-in-Chief the Corps of Royal Military Police, and Honorary Air Commodore Royal Air Force Marham. His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh as Colonel-in-Chief Intelligence Corps and Honorary Air Commodore Royal Air Force Kinloss. His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales as Colonel-in-chief The Cheshire Regiment, The Gordon Highlanders, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) and The Parachute Regiment, and Honorary Air Commodore Royal Air Force Brawdy. Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne, Mrs Mark Phillips, as Colonel-in-Chief Royal Corps of Signals, and Honorary Air Commodore Royal Air Force Lyneham. Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, to be Honorary Air Commodore Royal Air Force Coningsby. His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester as Colonel-in-Chief Royal Pioneer Corps and Honorary Colonel Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia). Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester as Colonel-in-Chief Royal Army Educational Corps. His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent as Colonel-in-Chief The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Kent as Colonel-in-Chief 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards. Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Mrs. Angus Ogilvy, as Colonel-in-Chief The King's Own Royal Border Regiment.
Life Peers The Right Honourable Philip John Noel-Baker, Member of Parliament for Coventry, 1929–1931; Derby 1936–1950; Derby South 1950–1970. Secretary of State for Air 1946–1947. Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations 1947–1950. Minister of Fuel and Power 1950–1951. Field Marshal Sir Richard Michael Power Carver, , lately Chief of the Defence Staff. Pratap Chidamber Chitnis, chief executive, The Joseph Rowntree Social Service Trust. Sir Eric Roll, , chairman, S. G. Warburg and Company Ltd. Director, Bank of England. Kenneth William Wedderburn, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.
Privy Counsellors Peter Kingsley Archer, , Solicitor General. Member of Parliament for Warley West. Edward Stanley Bishop, , Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Member of Parliament for the Newark Division of Nottingham. Walter Harrison, , Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household. Member of Parliament for Wakefield. Sir Robert Michael Oldfield Havers, , Solicitor General 1972–1974. Member of Parliament for the Merton Division of Wimbledon. James Gregor Mackenzie, , Minister of State, Scottish Office, Member of Parliament for Rutherglen. Senator the Honourable Reginald Grieve Withers, Minister for Administrative Services and Vice-President of the Federal Executive Council, Commonwealth of Australia.
Knights Bachelor
Major-General William Ernest Victor Abraham, , lately National Chairman, Burma Star Association. Harold Winter Atcherley, chairman, Armed Forces' Pay Review Body. Sidney Charles Bacon, , managing director, Royal Ordnance Factories. For services to Export. George William Barlow, chairman and Chief Executive, Ransome Hoffmann Pollard Ltd. Norman Parris Biggs, lately chairman, Williams and Glyn's Bank Ltd. Kenneth Lyon Blaxter, , Director, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen. John Brown Bolton, . For public services in the Isle of Man. John William Buckley, chairman, Davy International Ltd. For services to Export. George Vernon Kennedy Burton, , chairman, Fisons Ltd. For services to Export. George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury, chairman, Cadbury Schweppes Ltd. For services to Export. John Wenman Crofton, Professor of Respiratory Diseases, University of Edinburgh. Alan Nugent Goring Dalton, , deputy chairman, English China Clays Ltd. For services to Export. Christopher John Dewhurst, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Charlotte's Hospital for Women, London. William Atkinson Downward. For public services in Manchester. Alexander Charles Durie, , Director General, The Automobile Association. Professor Idris Llewelyn Foster. For cultural services in Wales. Professor Frederick Charles Frank, , lately Professor of Physics, University of Bristol. Alexander Drummond Gibson, . For services to music in Scotland. Peter Reginald Frederick Hall, , Director, National Theatre. Raymond Evelyn Myles Humphreys, For public service in Belfast. Robert Brockie Hunter, , Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Morton Llewellyn, , chairman, Sports Council for Wales; President, British Equestrian Federation. Charles Francis Noel Murless. For services to Horse Racing. David Napley, President, Law Society. David Alexander Orr, , chairman, Unilever Ltd. For services to Export. Alan Guyatt Parks, Surgeon, London Hospital and St. Mark's Hospital. David Arthur Perris, , chairman, West Midlands Regional Health Authority. Edward Davies Pickering, lately chairman, Mirror Group Newspapers. Francis Alan Pullinger, , chairman, Haden Carrier Ltd. For services to Export. His Honour Judge Norman Grantham Lewis Richards, , Circuit Judge. Rex Edward Richards, . for services to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Leslie Edward George Smith, chairman, British Oxygen Company International Ltd. For services to Export. David Edward Charles Steel, , chairman, The British Petroleum Company Ltd. Professor Peter Frederick Strawson, . For services to Philosophy. Charles Hugh Willis Troughton, , chairman, British Council. David Valentine Willcocks, , Director, Royal College of Music. Leonard Gordon Wolfson, chairman, Wolfson Foundation. Frederick Ambrose Stuart Wood, chairman, National Bus Company.
Diplomatic and Overseas List Sydney Douglas Gun-Munro, , Governor of St. Vincent. Denis Eustace Gilbert Malone, Chief Justice of Belize. The Honourable John Henry Sharpe, . For public services in Bermuda. Run Run Shaw, . For public and community services in Hong Kong. Luther Reginald Wynter, . For public services and services to medicine in Antigua.
Victoria, Australia Bernard James Callinan, , of Rew. For distinguished service to the State. Norman Cameron Coles, of Malvern. For distinguished service to commerce.
Queensland, Australia Edward Sholto Douglas, of Hamilton. For distinguished services as a member of the legal profession. David Walter Longland, CMG, of Camp Hill. For eminent services to the Crown and to the cerebral palsied. Edward Houghton Lyons, of Holland Park. For distinguished services in Australia's financial and commercial worlds.
Western Australia The Honourable Arthur Frederick Griffith, of Crawley. Lately President of the Legislative Council. The Honourable Ross Hutchinson, DFC, of Cottesloe. Lately Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir David Williams, . Army Lieutenant General Sir David House, (203138), late The Royal Green Jackets, Colonel Commandant The Light Division, Colonel Commandant Small Arms School Corps. Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir Douglas Lowe, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Sir John Joseph Benedict Hunt, , Secretary of the Cabinet.
Knight Commander (KCB) Military Division Admiral Raymond Derek Lygo. Lieutenant General Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley, (251309), late The Parachute Regiment, Colonel Commandant The Prince of Wales' Division Lieutenant General Peter Hudson, (330952), late The Royal Green Jackets. Air Marshal Robert William George Freer, , Royal Air Force. Air Marshal William John Stacey, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Peter Robert Baldwin, , Permanent Secretary, Department of Transport. Richard Douglas Barlas, , Clerk of the House of Commons. Kenneth Barnes, , Permanent Secretary, Department of Employment. Brian Crossland Cubbon, , Permanent Secretary, Northern Ireland Office. Leo Pliatzky, , Second Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury.
Companion (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral William Noel Ash, . Rear Admiral Gordon Walter Bridle, Surgeon Rear Admiral (D) Albert Edward Cadman, . Major General Roderick Jarvis Ephraums, , Royal Marines Rear Admiral Derek Graham Satow. Army Major General Hugh Macdonald-Smith (324755), late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Major General Giles Hallam Mills, (207511), late The Royal Green Jackets (now RARO). Major General John Humphrey Page, (251684), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major General Kenneth Perkins, (369841), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major General Peter Charles Shapland, (320366), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major General Patrick Anthony Macartan Tighe, (261167), late Royal Corps of Signals. Major General David Tod Young, (354597), Colonel The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal John Ivan Roy Bowring, . Air Vice-Marshal George Colin Lamb, . Air Vice-Marshal Francis Richard Lee Mellersh, , (Retired). Air Vice-Marshal Peter Greville Kaye Williamson, . The Venerable John Hewitt Wilson, .
Civil Division Geoffrey Fraser Aronson, Legal Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Thomas Terence Baird, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Services, Northern Ireland. Edward Ussher Elliott Elliott-Binns, Under Secretary, Scottish Office. Frederick Howard Brooman, Under Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue. Miss Sheila Jeanne Browne, Senior Chief Inspector, Department of Education and Science. Thomas Ernest Ashdown Carr, Senior Principal Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Security. Wallace Rodney Corrie, Under Secretary, Department of the Environment. Clifford Thomas Cross, Commissioner, Board of Customs and Excise. Rodger William Deans, Solicitor, Scottish Office. Constant Hendrik De Waal, Parliamentary Counsel. Robert Walker Gray, Deputy Secretary, Department of Trade. Geoffrey Hugh Green, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence. Colonel Geoffrey Bridgman Grey, , lately chairman, West Midland Territorial and Volunteer Reserve Association. Hugh Philip Johnston, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment. Cyril Desmond Evans Keeling, Secretary, Price Commission. Douglas McKean, Under Secretary, HM Treasury. Michael William Massy Osmond, Solicitor, Department of Health and Social Security. Hubert Scholes, Under Secretary, Department of Industry. Oliver Simpson, Chief Scientist, Home Office. William Stewart, Deputy Controller Aircraft, Ministry of Defence. Kenneth Ronald Stowe, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. Thomas Alan Whittington, Under Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department.
Order of St Michael and St George
Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) Sir Nicholas Henderson, , HM Ambassador, Paris Sir Donald Maitland, , United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the European Communities, Brussels
Knight Commander (KCMG) Colin Hamilton Allan, , Governor, Solomon Islands Arthur Wilfred Bonsall, , Director, Government Communications Headquarters John Archibald Ford, , HM Ambassador, Jakarta