The New Year Honours 1958 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 31 December 1957 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1958.United Kingdom list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Ghana list: Rhodesia and Nyasaland list:
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.
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 Commonwealth
Baronet Colonel Sir Robert Chapman, . For political and public services in the North of England. Godfrey Nicholson, , Member of Parliament for Morpeth, 1931–1935, and for Farnham since 1937. For political and public services. Sir Harry Platt, . Lately President, Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Knight Bachelor Stanislaus Joseph Baker, , Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District. Arthur Thomas Barnard, , Director-General of Inspection, Ministry of Supply. Walter Barrie, Chairman of Lloyd's. George Benson, . For public services. Professor James Ramsay Montagu Butler, , Chief Historian, Cabinet Office. William Richard Joseph Cook, . Deputy Director, Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, Aldermaston, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Alderman Christopher George Armstrong Cowan, . For political and public services in Middlesex. Henry Kenneth Cowan, , Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health for Scotland. Alderman William Crane, . For public services in Nottingham. Chairman, Housing Committee, Nottingham County Borough Council. Gerard John Regis Leo d'Erlanger, , Chairman, British Overseas Airways Corporation. James Boyd Douglas, , Chairman, Southern Area Agricultural Executive Committee, Scotland Claude Aurelius Elliott, , Provost of Eton College. Stanley Jaffa Harley. For political and public services in the Midlands. Major Ernest Sirdefield Harston, , Honorary Secretary, British Empire Service League. Frank Cyril Hawker, Director, Bank of England. Alderman Frederick Alfred Hoare. Lately Sheriff, City of London. Julian Sorell Huxley, Biologist and Writer. Christopher Kelk Ingold, Professor of Chemistry, University College London. Colonel Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley, . Member of Parliament for Kincardine and West Aberdeenshire, 1939–1950, and for North Angus and Mearns since 1950. For political and public services. Hans Adolf Krebs, , Whitley Professor of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. Honorary Director of the Cell Metabolism Research Unit of the Medical Research Council. Thomas George Lund, , Secretary of The Law Society. Colonel James MacBride Miller, , President, Association of County Councils in Scotland. Convener, Berwickshire County Council. Kenneth Murray, . Lately Chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland. Edward James Norman, Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. Fred Parkes. For political and public services in Lancashire. William Bentley Purchase, , one of HM Coroners for the County of London. Honorary Secretary, Coroners Society of England and Wales. Halford Walter Lupton Reddish. For political and public services in Rugby. Sydney Castle Roberts, Master of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. Foster Gotch Robinson. For public services in Bristol. Steven Runciman. (The Honourable James Cochran Stevenson Runciman). For services to Scholarship. John Weir Russell. For political services in London. Ernest Stacey. For political services in Liverpool. Hubert Gordon Thornley, , Clerk of the Peace and Clerk of the County Council, North Riding of Yorkshire. Ashley Skelton Ward. For political and public services in Sheffield. Alderman Daniel Thomas Williams, . For political and public services in Cardiff. Walter John Worboys, Chairman, Council of Industrial Design. Director, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. Vice-President, Associated British Chemical Manufacturers.
State of Tasmania Archibald Richard Park, , Lord Mayor of the City of Hobart, State of Tasmania.
State of Victoria William George Dismore Upjohn, , of Melbourne, State of Victoria. For services to Surgery. John Francis Williams, Managing Director of The Herald and Weekly Times, Ltd., Melbourne, State of Victoria.
Commonwealth Relations Owain Trevor Jenkins, a member of the United Kingdom business community in India.
Overseas Territories Michael Joseph Patrick Hogan, , Chief Justice, Hong Kong. Yusufali Alibhai Karimjee Jivanjee. For public services in Tanganyika. Audley McKisack, , Chief Justice, Uganda. George William Kelly Roberts, . For public services in the Bahamas.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir John Arthur Symons Eccles, .
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Robert Francis Elkins, . Vice-Admiral Richard George Onslow, .
Army Lieutenant-General Harold English Pyman, , (42251), late Royal Armoured Corps.
Royal Air Force Air Marshal Edmund Cuthbert Hudleston, . Air Vice-Marshal Arthur William Baynes McDonald, .
Civil Division Harry Work Melville, Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Peter Dawnay, . Rear-Admiral Roy Stephenson Foster-Brown. Rear-Admiral John Paul Wellington Furse, . Acting Vice-Admiral Douglas Eric Holland-Martin, . Captain Edgar Duncan Goodenough Lewin, , Royal Navy. Rear-Admiral George Oswald Naish. Surgeon Rear-Admiral Eric Thomas Sutherland Rudd, . Rear-Admiral George Arthur Thring, . Rear-Admiral Roger Stanley Wellby, . Rear-Admiral Guy Austin Moore Wilson.
Army Major-General Douglas Bluett, , (35617), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General James Norman Carter, , (34655), late Infantry. Major-General Guy Patrick Gregson, , (34436), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General John Winthrop Hackett, , (52752), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Reginald Hackett Hewetson, , (40386), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Douglas Anthony Kendrew, , (44766), late Infantry. Major-General Alfred Henry Musson, , (6094), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Cosmo Alexander Richard Nevill, , (38525), late Infantry. Brigadier (temporary) James Alexander Rowland Robertson, , (384323), late Infantry. Major-General Leslie de Malapert Thuillier, , (34405), late Royal Corps of Signals.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Victor Swanton Bowling, . Air Vice-Marshal Frank Westerman Felgate, . The Reverend Canon Alan Stanley Giles, . Air Vice-Marshal John Forde Hobler, . Air Vice-Marshal Frederick Elvy Lipscomb, , (Retired). Air Vice-Marshal Wilfrid Ewart Oulton, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Eric Cecil Bates, . Air Commodore Harold John Maguire, .
Civil Division John Clifford Blake, Solicitor and Legal Adviser, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Reginald Samuel Brownell, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland. Hayne Constant, , Director, National Gas Turbine Establishment, Ministry of Supply. Colonel Philip Ralph Davies-Cooke, , Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the Comities of Denbigh and Flint. Joshua Edward Synge Cooper, , Assistant Director, Government Communications Headquarters. Arthur Charles Walter Drew, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, War Office. Eric John Horatio Edenborough, , Clerk of the Journals, House of Commons. Collis William Evans, , Under-secretary, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. Frank Chalton Francis, Keeper, Department of Printed Books, British Museum. David Hulse Leadbetter, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education. William Wilfred Morton, Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue. John Francis Mountain, Under-Secretary, Admiralty. Francis William Musson, , Under-Secretary, attached Foreign Office. John Edward Serby, , Director-General, Guided Weapons, Ministry of Supply. Herbert Tetley, Deputy Government Actuary.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) The Most Honourable Gerald Rufus, Marquess of Reading, . Leader of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Colombo Plan Consultative Committee Meeting, 1957. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, 1953–1957. For public services. Sir Michael Robert Wright, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Baghdad.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Howard George Charles Mallaby, , High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand. The Honourable Alan James Mansfield, Chief Justice of the State of Queensland. Geofroy William Tory, , High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the Federation of Malaya. The Right Reverend Wilfred Marcus Askwith, , The Lord Bishop of Gloucester, Prelate of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. Alexander Thomas Williams, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Leeward Islands. William Denis Allen, , Foreign Office. Edgar James Joint, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Bogotá. George Humphrey Middleton, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Beirut.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Major-General William Alfred Dimoline, , Secretary, British Group, Inter-Parliamentary Union. Archibald Laurence Patrick Kirwan, , Director and Secretary, Royal Geographical Society. Cyril Edward Thorogood, United Kingdom Trade Commissioner, Colombo. Frederick William Verry, , Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry. The Honourable Gilbert Lawrence Chandler, Minister of Agriculture, State of Victoria. Edgar Rowland Dawes. For public services in the State of South Australia. John Fitzsimmons Meynink, a Grazier in the State of Queensland. For public services. Allan Frederick Bates, Financial Secretary, Cyprus. Conrad Swire Kerr Bovell, Inspector-General, Nigeria Police Force. Brigadier Norman Baldwin Brading, , House Governor, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Federation of Nigeria. Anthony Geoffrey Hopwood Gardner-Brown. For services as Deputy Chief Secretary of the Federation of Nigeria. Claude Bramall Burgess, , Cadet Officer, Staff Grade, Hong Kong. Alan Hart Dutton, , Financial Secretary, Aden. John Orman Gilbert, British Resident, Brunei. Geoffrey Leicester Gray, , Secretary for Local Government, North Borneo. Douglas Basil Hall, Secretary for Native Affairs, Northern Rhodesia. Hugh Alastair Harding, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. Kenneth William Stewart Mackenzie, Secretary to the Treasury, Kenya. Victor George Matthews, , Commissioner, East African Office, London. James Patrick Murray, Senior Provincial Commissioner, Northern Rhodesia. The Right Reverend Cecil John Patterson, , The Lord Bishop of the Niger. William Henry Justinus Rangeley, Provincial Commissioner, Nyasaland. James Taylor Rea, President of the City Council, Singapore. John Shaw Rennie, , British Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides. Charles Anthony Langdon Richards, Resident, Buganda, Uganda. Colonel William Lancelot Rolleston, , Minister for Communications and Works, Tanganyika. Kenneth Graeme Stewart Smith, Colonial Secretary, Gambia. Anthony Charles Christopher Swann, , Provincial Commissioner, Kenya. Brian St. George Thwaites, Administrative Officer, Class I, Eastern Region, Nigeria. Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Charles White, , Chief Constable, Cyprus Police Force. Brigadier John Edmund Alexander Baird, , Military Adviser to the Political Resident, Bahrain.