The New Year Honours 1952 were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire and Commonwealth. They were announced on 1 January 1952 for the British Empire,UK list: Australia,Australia list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Ceylon,Ceylon list: and PakistanPakistan list: to celebrate the past year and mark the beginning of 1952.
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
Viscounts The Right Honourable Sir John Anderson . For political and public services. The Right Honourable Brendan Bracken , Member for North Paddington, 1929–1945, for Bournemouth, 1945–1950, and for Bournemouth East and Christchurch since 1950. For political and public services. The Right Honourable Robert Spear Hudson , Member for Whitehaven, 1924–1929, and for Southport since 1931. For political and public services. The Right Honourable Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair . For political and public services.
Barons The Right Honourable Edward, Earl Winterton , Member for Horsham, 1904–1951. For political and public services.
Privy Counsellors Sir James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander . Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the King. Charles Williams , Member for Tavistock, 1918–1922, and for Torquay since 1924. For political and public services.
Baronets Nigel Claudian Dalziel Colman , Member for Brixton 1927–1945. For political and public services. Robert Villiers Grimston , Member for Westbury since 1931. For political and public services. Major Richard George Proby, Bt . For political and public services. Colonel Sir Leonard Ropner , Member for Sedgefield 1923–1929, and for Barkston Ash since 1931. For political and public services.
Knights Bachelor Professor Leonard Bairstow , Chairman, Aeronautical Research Council. George Percy Barnett, Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour and National Service. John Lucian Blake , Comptroller General, Patent Office. John Poland Bowen , lately Engineer-in-Chief, Corporation of Trinity House. Walter Russell Brain , President, Royal College of Physicians. Colin Campbell , Town Clerk of Plymouth. Hugh Maxwell Casson , lately Director of Architecture, Festival of Britain. Robert Catterall . For political and public services in Lancashire. Charles Gibson Connell. For political services in Scotland. John Harold Corah . For political and public service in Leicestershire. Robert Furness Fryars, Chairman and Managing Director, Associated Commercial Vehicles Sales Ltd. Ernest William Goodale , President, Silk and Rayon Users' Association. Reginald Playfair Hills , Junior Common Law Counsel to the Board of Inland Revenue. Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson , Member for Ilford, 1937–1945 and for Ilford North, since 1950. For political and public services. Major Herbert Leslie Joseph, Managing Director, Festival Gardens Ltd. Edward Herbert Keeling , Member for Twickenham since 1935. For political and public services. Colonel William John Kent , President, British Pottery Manufacturers' Federation. George Palmer Laidlaw , Chairman, Scottish Council of Social Service. Allen Lane, Founder and Managing Director, Penguin Books Ltd. Hans Eric Miller, Chairman, International Rubber Development Board. Rudolph Albert Peters , Whitley Professor of Biochemistry, University of Oxford. Arthur Hampden Ronald Wastell Poyser , Master in Lunacy, Supreme Court of Judicature. Judge John Prichard , lately President of the Court of Cassation, Baghdad. David Randall Pye , lately Provost of University College, University of London. John Knewstub Maurice Rothenstein , Director and Keeper, Tate Gallery. Professor Douglas Savory , Member for Queen's University, Belfast, 1940–1950, and for South Antrim since 1950. For political and public services. Alderman Alfred Ernest Shennan . For political and public services in Liverpool. William Woodthorpe Tarn , Hellenistic historian. Reginald Sparshatt Thatcher , Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Walford Hollier Turner . For political and public services in Birmingham. Lieutenant-Colonel George James Cullum Welch , Alderman and recently Sheriff of the City of London. Alexander Williamson , Chairman and Managing Director, William Beardmore & Company Ltd., Glasgow. Alderman Bertram Wilson . For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Professor Ernest Llewellyn Woodward , Editor of Documents on British Foreign Policy.
State of Victoria The Honourable Charles Gavan Duffy, Justice of the Supreme Court, State of Victoria. The Honourable John Herman Lienhop, Agent-General in London for the State of Victoria. The Honourable Archie Michaelis, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, State of Victoria. State of South Australia Edward James Ranembe Morgan, President of the Industrial Court and of the Board of Industry, State of South Australia. Southern Rhodesia Henry Telfer Low , Vice-Chairman of the Railway Board, Southern Rhodesia. For public services. Colonies, Protectorates etc. George Vance Allen , Vice-Chancellor, University of Malaya. Ivor Llewellyn Brace, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sarawak, North Borneo and Brunei. Commander James Grenville Pyke-Nott , Royal Navy (Retd), Colonial Administrative Service, Lieutenant-Governor, Eastern Region, Nigeria. Eboo Pirbhai . For public services in Kenya. George Seymour Seymour . For public services in Jamaica.
Order of The Bath (Military Division) Knights Grand Cross (GCB) Royal Navy Admiral Sir Philip Louis Vian . Army General Sir Brian Hubert Robertson , late Corps of Royal Engineers, Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Engineers; Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.
Knights Commander (KCB) Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Maurice James Mansergh . Vice-Admiral (E) The Honourable Denis Crichton Maxwell . Army Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Arnhold Bullick Dowler , late Infantry, Colonel, The East Surrey Regiment. General Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts , late Corps of Royal Engineers. Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir William Forster Dickson . Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Penrose Martyn Sanders .
Companions (CB) Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Peter Grenville Lyon Cazalet . Rear-Admiral John Harvey Forbes Crombie . Rear-Admiral William Wellclose Davis . Surgeon Rear-Admiral Frederick George Hunt . Rear-Admiral St John Aldrich Micklethwait . Rear-Admiral (E) George Campbell Ross . Rear-Admiral Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff . Major-General Humphry Thomas Tollemache , Royal Marines. Army Major-General Colin Bullard , Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers. Major-General Roderic Duncan Cameron , late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Maurice Lea-Cox , Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Brigadier (Acting) Douglas Inglis Crawford , late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. Major-General David Dawnay , late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Maurice Brian Dowse , late Infantry. Major-General Henry Robert Bowreman Foote , late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Harold Francis Sylvester King , Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major-General Cyril Henry Norton , late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Joseph Montague Sabine Pasley , late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Joseph Howard Nigel Poett , late Infantry. Major-General John Evered Witt , late Royal Army Service Corps. Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Roger Cole Spencer . Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Granville White . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Leslie William Cannon . Air Commodore James Alfred Easton (Retd). Air Commodore Herbert Dorman Spreckley . Air Commodore Sydney Richard Ubee . Group Captain Eric Douglas MacKinlay Nelson.
Order of The Bath (Civil Division) Knights Commander Sir (William) Robert Fraser , Deputy Chairman and Secretary, Central Land Board and War Damage Commission. Harold Percival Himsworth , Secretary, Medical Research Council.
Companions Edmond Arrenton Armstrong , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation. John Foster Caldwell , First Parliamentary Draftsman, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland. Colonel Joseph Gerald Gaskell , Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Glamorgan. Roscoe Herbert , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Food. Frank Higginson , Secretary, Imperial War Graves Commission. Robert Henry Locke, Director of Postal Services, General Post Office. Edwyn James Mares, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Colonel William Mather , lately Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of the City of Glasgow. Ronald Henry Melville, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry. Arthur Douglas Owen, Commissioner, Board of Customs & Excise. Robert Rae, Director, National Agricultural Advisory Service, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. Leslie Harold Robinson, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply. Frederick James Root, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Works. Curteis Fraser Maxwell Norwood Ryan , Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Pierce Nicholas Netterville Synnott, Under-Secretary, Admiralty. Geoffrey Wheeler, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence. Ira Wild , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Alan Wilson, Chief Inspector of Audit, Ministry of Housing & Local Government.
Order of St Michael & St George Knights Grand Cross (GCMG) Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gold Coast. The Right Honourable Sir Oliver Shewell Franks , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Washington, D.C.
Knights Commander (KCMG) Anthony Foster Abell , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Sarawak. Reginald James Bowker , Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office, lately His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Rangoon. Andrew Benjamin Cohen , Governor and Commander-in-Chief Designate, Uganda. Percy Wynne Harris , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gambia. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Rupert Hay , Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. Major-General Sir John Noble Kennedy , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Southern Rhodesia. Major-General Richard George Lewis , Director-General, Foreign Office Administration of African Territories. Gilbert Mackereth , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Bogota. John Miller Martin , Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office. The Honourable Sir John Demetrius Morris, Chief Justice of the State of Tasmania. Patrick Stratford Scrivener , His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Berne.
Companions (CMG) Grantley Herbert Adams, Leader of the House of Assembly and Member of the Executive Committee, Barbados. Walter Adams , Secretary, Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies and the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee. Robert Blackley , lately British Resident, Tripolitania. Major-General Geoffrey Kemp Bourne , lately General Officer Commanding, British Troops, Berlin. John Catarinich , Director of Mental Hygiene, State of Victoria. Kenneth Arthur Davies , Colonial Geological Survey Service, Director of Geological Survey, Uganda. Edward Victor Grace Day, Colonial Administrative Service, British Adviser, Kedah, Federation of Malaya. Brigadier Augustus Klingner Ferguson , Military Adviser to the United Kingdom Political Representative in Tokyo. Charles Worthington Fowden Footman, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Nyasaland. Algernon deKewer Frampton, Colonial Agricultural Service, Agricultural Adviser to the Comptroller for Development & Welfare, West Indies Henry Ralph Fraser . For public service in Uganda. Stewart Gillett, lately Director of Agriculture, Kenya, now Chairman and General Manager, Overseas Food Corporation, Kongwa, Tanganyika.