The New Year Honours 1960 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 29 December 1959 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1960.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
Viscount The Right Honourable John Durival, Baron Rochdale, , Chairman, Cotton Board since 1957. President, National Union of Manufacturers, 1953–1956.
Baron The Honourable Sir Evelyn Baring, , lately Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Kenya, and lately Chairman, East Africa High Commission. Sir George Horatio Nelson, , Chairman, English Electric Co. Ltd.
Life Baron Sir Alfred Charles Bossom, , Member of Parliament for Maidstone, 1931–1959. For political and public services. The Right Honourable Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Member of Parliament for Peckham, 1924–1929 and for Bishop Auckland, 1929–1931 and 1935–1959. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1929–1931; Minister of Economic Warfare, 1940–1942; President of the Board of Trade, 1942–1945; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1945–1947; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1948–1950; Minister of Town and Country Planning, 1950–1951; Minister of Local Government and Planning, 1951. For political and public services.
Privy Councillor David Vivian Penrose, Baron Brecon, Minister of State for Welsh Affairs since 1957. John Dennis Profumo, , Member of Parliament for Kettering, 1940–1945 and for Stratford-on-Avon since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, 1952–1953; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1953–1957; Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1957–1958; Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, December 1958–January 1959; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs since January 1959. Sir Roland Welensky, , Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
Baronet Donald Kaberry, , Member of Parliament for North-West Leeds since 1950. Assistant Government Whip, 1952–1955; Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade, 1955. Joint Vice-chairman, Conservative Party Organisation since 1955. For political and public services. John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, , Member of Parliament for Reigate since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, 1957; Minister of State, Board of Trade, 1957–1959. For political and public services. George Richard Hodges Nugent, , Member of Parliament for Guildford since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1951–1957; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1957–1959. For political and public services. Sir James Paterson Ross, , President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Samuel Storey, , Member of Parliament for Sunderland, 1931–1945 and for Stretford since 1950. For political and public services.
Knight Bachelor Harold Walter Bailey, Professor of Sanskrit, University of Cambridge. Albert Frederick Bradbeer, , Alderman, Birmingham City Council. Richard Frank Burnand, , Senior Master, Queen's Bench Division, and Queen's Remembrancer, Supreme Court of Judicature. Professor Andrew Moynihan Claye, , President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Robert Annesley Wilkinson Dent, , lately Clerk of Public Bills, House of Commons. Derrick Melville Dunlop, , Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Lieutenant-Colonel Timothy Fetherston-Haugh, . For political and public services in the North of England. Myer Galpern, , Lord Provost of Glasgow. William Henry Glanville, , Director, Road Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Colonel Douglas Glover, , Member of Parliament for Ormskirk since 1953. For political and public services in North-West England. John Hammond, , Agricultural Scientist. Thomas Hargreaves. For political and public services in Lancashire. Thomas Winlack Harley, . For political and public services in Lancashire and Cheshire. Roger Henry Hollis, , attached War Office. Roger Antony Hornby. For political and public services in London. Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key, , Member of Parliament for Hastings since 1945. For political and public services. Joseph Latham, . Deputy Chairman, National Coal Board. David Theharne Llewellyn, Member of Parliament for Cardiff, North, 1950–1959. Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1951–1952. For political and public services. Joseph Flawith Lockwood, Chairman, Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey, Quain Professor of Physics, University College, London. Ronald Peter Morison, . For political and public services. Duncan Morris Oppenheim, Chairman, British American Tobacco Co. Ltd. Karl Theodore Parker, , Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Alderman Ralph Edgar Perring, lately Sheriff of the City of London. Major-General Geoffrey Taunton Raikes, , lately HM Lieutenant of the County of Brecknock. Leon Edgar Stephens, , Clerk of the Warwickshire County Council. John Barton Townley, For political and public services in Preston. Charles Frederick Trustam, Chief General Manager, Royal Insurance Co. Ltd. Arthur Bertram Waring, , Chairman and Managing Director, Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd. David Lumsden Webster, General Administrator, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Gwilym Ffrangcon Williams, , Vice-chairman, National Savings Committee.
State of Victoria William Wallace Stewart Johnston, , of the State of Victoria; in recognition of his work for Post-Graduate Education in Medicine.
State of Queensland William Labatt Payne, , President of the Land Court, State of Queensland.
State of South Australia The Honourable Charles Arthur Hillas Lempriere Abbott, a Judge of the Supreme Court, State of South Australia. The Honourable Cecil Stephen Hincks, Minister of Lands, Minister of Repatriation, and Minister of Irrigation, State of South Australia.
State of Western Australia Richard Greenslade Moore, , Mayor of Kalgoorlie, State of Western Australia, since 1937.
Southern Rhodesia Ralph John Morton, , formerly a Judge of the High Court of Southern Rhodesia.
Commonwealth Relations John Douglas Keith Brown, Managing Director of Messrs. Jardine Henderson Ltd. For services to the United Kingdom community in India. Hamilton Macaulay, , a Company Director, of Chittagong, East Pakistan. For services to United Kingdom interests in Pakistan.
Overseas Territories Alastair Granville Forbes, Vice-President, Eastern African Court of Appeal. Charles Herbert Hartwell, , Chief Secretary, Uganda. Anthony Joseph Mamo, , Chief Justice and President of the Court of Appeal, Malta. Cecil Rex Niven, , Commissioner for Special Duties, Northern Region, Nigeria. Colin Raeburn, . For public services in Cyprus. Thomas Murray Shankland, , Chairman of the London Board of the Public Service Commission, Western Region, Nigeria. George Evelyn Sinclair, , Deputy Governor, Cyprus. Alexander Moody Stuart, . For public services in the Leeward Islands.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division General Sir Geoffrey Kemp Bourne, , (23643), Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery. Air Chief Marshal Sir Harry Broadhurst, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Sir Roger Mellor Makins, , lately Joint Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice-Admiral John David Luce, . Vice-Admiral Douglas Eric Holland-Martin, . Lieutenant-General Charles Phibbs Jones, , (34845), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Air Marshal Hector Douglas McGregor, , Royal Air Force. Acting Air Marshal Wallace Hart Kyle, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Ludovic James Dunnett, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Surgeon Rear-Admiral Douglas Murdo Beaton, . Rear-Admiral Dennis Royle Farquharson Cambell, . Rear-Admiral Desmond Parry Dreyer, . Surgeon Rear-Admiral (D) Charles Joseph Finnigan, . Rear-Admiral Peter William Gretton, . Rear-Admiral Walter Frederick Boyt Lane, . Rear-Admiral Hector Charles Donald Maclean, . Rear-Admiral Ronald Wilson Paffard, . Rear-Admiral Robert Francis Storrs. Rear-Admiral John Yelverton Thompson.
Army Major-General Stuart Hedley Molesworth Battye (37038), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Gerald Charles Hopkinson, , (47586), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General John Francis Metcalfe, , (41781), late Infantry; Colonel, The Queens Royal Surrey Regiment. Major-General Henry Quinlan, , (37629), late Royal Army Dental Corps. Major-General Frank McLean Richardson, , (36784), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Dennis Edmund Blacquiere Talbot, , (40742), late Infantry; Colonel, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Major-General George Arthur Thomas, , (36892), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Thomas Frederick Mackie Woods, , (38600), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
Royal Air Force Acting Air Marshal Samuel Charles Elworthy, . Air Vice-Marshal Edouard Michael Fitzfrederick Grundy, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Robert William Lowry Glenn, . Air Commodore Thomas Norman Coslett, . Air Commodore Edward Mortlock Donaldson, . Air Commodore Edward Gordon Jones, . Acting Air Commodore Richard Templeton Gething, . Acting Air Commodore Richard Ian Jones, .
Civil Division Colonel Lindsay William Saul Blackmore, , Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Richard Charles Bryant, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Alec Fulton Charles Clark, Under-Secretary, Scottish Home Department. Charles Sigmund Davis, Legal Adviser and Solicitor, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Laurence George Gale, , Director-General of Armament Production, War Office. Ernest John Meadon, Under-Secretary and Accountant-General, Ministry of Power. Michael Israel Michaels, Under-Secretary, Office of the Minister for Science. Roger Nathaniel Quirk, Under-Secretary, Office of the Minister of Science. James Henderson Waddell, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Robert Hendry Weir, Director-General of Engine Research and Development, Ministry of Aviation. Hector Ford Willis, Chief of the Royal Naval Scientific Service. Frank Wood, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry.
Additional Companion Commander Richard Colville, , Royal Navy (Retired), Press Secretary to The Queen.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Christopher Eden Steel, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Bonn.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Sir Philip Robert Morris, , lately Chairman of the Commonwealth Education Conference. Vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol. Sir Dick Goldsmith White, . For official services. The Honourable Humphrey Vicary Gibbs, , Governor of Southern Rhodesia. Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, . For Commonwealth Services. Geoffrey Walter Nye, , Adviser on Agriculture to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Richard Hugh Sedley Allen, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Rangoon.