The New Year Honours 1966 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 1965 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1966.United Kingdom list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Sierra Leone list: Jamaica list: Malawi list: Gambia 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 Colonies
Life Peer Baroness Mary Danvers Stocks, Writer and Broadcaster, Formerly Principal of Westfield College in the University of London.
Barons Sir John (Jock) Middleton Campbell, Chairman, Booker Brothers, McConnell & Company Ltd. Chairman, Economic Development Committees for Building and for Civil Engineering. Sir John Scott Fulton, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex. Commander Sir (William) Stephen Richard King-Hall, President and Maker, Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government. Israel Moses Sieff, Chairman, Marks & Spencer, Ltd.
Privy Councillor Alice Martha Bacon, , Member of Parliament for Leeds, North-East, 1945–1955; and for Leeds, South-East since 1955. Minister of State, Home Office, since October 1964. Chairman of the Labour Party 1950; Member, National Executive Committee since 1941. John Freeman, , British High Commissioner in India. The Honourable Paul Meernaa Caedwalla Hasluck, Minister for External Affairs, Commonwealth of Australia. The Honourable Sir William Henry Spooner, , Lately Minister for National Development and Leader of the Government in the Senate, Commonwealth of Australia.
Knight Bachelor Alderman Charles William Allison, . For political and public services in Stockton-on-Tees. Ranulph Robert Maunsell Bacon, Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police. Professor Ronald Gilbert Baskett, , Director, National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading. Douglas James Bell, . Lately General Manager, Durgapur Steel Works, India. Alderman William James Bennett, . For political and public services in Essex. Eric Albert Bingen, Chairman, Remploy, Ltd. William Neil Connor, Journalist. Geoffrey Sandford Cox, , Editor, Independent Television News. Harry Walter Victor Crane, . For political services. Alderman George Brand Eddie, . For political and public services in Blackburn. Samuel Alexander Sadler Forster, , Chairman, Industrial Estates Management Corporation for England. Arthur Ernest Gough. For political and public services in Cardiff. Claude Herbert Grundy, lately Senior Master, Queen's Bench Division, Supreme Court of Judicature. Ludwig Guttmann, . For services to those suffering from paraplegia. Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, Military Historian. Joseph Anthony Hunt, . For services to Technical Education. Daniel Thomson Jack, , Chairman, Air Transport Licensing Board, Ministry of Aviation. William Jenkins, , Lord Mayor of Belfast. Christopher Frank Kearton, , Chairman, Courtaulds Ltd. For services to Export. Frederick Measham Lea, , lately Director, Building Research Station, Ministry of Technology. Alderman Fred Longworth. For political and public services in Lancashire. James Henry John Matthews, , Alderman, Southampton City Council. Arnold Ashley Miles, , Professor of Experimental Pathology, University of London and Director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. Alderman John Harry Molyneux, . For political and public services in Dudley. Clifford Naunton Morgan, , Senior Surgeon, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Alderman Thomas Henry Mytton. For political and public services in Monmouthshire. Maurice Henry Parsons, Executive Director, Bank of England. Roland Algernon Penrose, . For services to Art. Alderman Joseph Leopold Schultz, . For political and public services in Yorkshire. Charles Ronald Sopwith, Solicitor, Board of Inland Revenue. James Taylor, , Deputy Chairman, Royal Ordnance Factories Board. Arnold Charles Trinder, Aldermanic Sheriff, City of London. Arnold Learoyd Walker, , Chairman, Central Midwives Board. Professor William Lee Weipers, , Director of Veterinary Education, University of Glasgow Veterinary School. Kenneth Clinton Wheare, , Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford. Rector, Exeter College, Oxford. Arthur Thomas Worboys, , Chairman and Managing Director, London Brick Company Ltd.
Australian States Robert Bowden Madgwick, , Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England, State of New South Wales. Norman Bede Rydge, , Commissioner of the Rural Bank, State of New South Wales. Lewis Ronald East, , lately Chairman of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, State of Victoria. Reginald Francis Graham Fogarty, . For public and philanthropic services in the State of Victoria. Douglas Were Fraser, , Public Service Commissioner, State of Queensland.
Commonwealth Relations Norman Stanley Alexander, , Vice-Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Northern Nigeria. The Honourable Dauda Kairaba Jawara, Prime Minister of the Gambia. Ian William James McAdam, , Professor of Surgery, Medical School, Makerere University College, Uganda.
Overseas Territories Geoffrey Pearl Boon, . For public services in St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla. Lionel Alfred Luckhoo, , Commissioner for British Guiana in the United Kingdom.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace Kyle, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Sir Noël Kilpatrick Hutton, , First Parliamentary Counsel.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Derek Duncombe Steele-Perkins, .
Army Major-General Herbert John Mogg, (73153), late Infantry, Colonel Commandant, 1st Battalion The Royal Green Jackets (43rd & 52nd). Colonel Commandant, Army Air Corps. Major-General David Peel Yates, (52733), late Infantry, Colonel, The South Wales Borderers.
Royal Air Force Acting Air Marshal Harold John Maguire, .
Civil Division Thomas Douglas Haddow, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office. William Wilfred Morton, , Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Major General Francis Christopher Barton, . Rear-Admiral Thomas William Best. Rear-Admiral Arthur James Cawthra. Rear-Admiral Patrick Walter Willingdon Graham, . Rear-Admiral Sidney Grattan-Cooper, . Rear-Admiral Ian Lachlan Mackay McGeoch, . Surgeon Rear-Admiral (D) William Leonard Mountain, . Rear-Admiral William Donough O'Brien, . Rear-Admiral Charles Kerr Thorneycroft Wheen.
Army Major-General Basil Oscar Paul Eugster, (65413), late Foot Guards. Major-General Peter James Glover, (62881), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, British Defence Supply Liaison Staff, India. Major-General Patrick Holberton Man, (58144), late Infantry. Major-General Wilfrid John Potter, (56724), late Royal Army Service Corps, Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major-General Michael Whitworth Prynne, (50836), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General William Digby Manifold Raeburn, (65383), late Foot Guards. Major-General Gordon Farleigh Upjohn, (66136), late Infantry (now R.A.R.O.). Major-General John Edward Francis Willoughby, (58173), late Infantry.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Alexander Vallance Riddell Johnstone, . Air Vice-Marshal David Cecil McKinley, . Air Vice-Marshal Peter Theodore Philpott, . Air Vice-Marshal Denis Graham Smallwood, . Air Vice-Marshal Harold Guy Leonard-Williams, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal David Nigel Kington Blair-Oliphant, . Air Commodore Edward Geoffrey Lyall Millington, .
Civil Division Alfred Robert Walter Bavin, Under-secretary, Ministry of Health. Charles Henry Blake, Assistant Under-secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). John Francis Bowyer, lately Chief Registrar, Bankruptcy and Companies Departments and Registrar of Restrictive Practices Court, Supreme Court of Judicature. Lieutenant-Colonel Edward James Augustus Howard Brush, , lately Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for County Down. Albert Rowland Bunker, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Frank Edward Figgures, , Third Secretary, HM Treasury. Leslie Thomas Foster, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Public Building and Works. Hugh Gardner, , Under-secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. John Ernest Greeves, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland. John Richings James, , Chief Planner, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart, , lately Foreign Office. Basil Wilfrid Lythall, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). William Alan Nield, Deputy Under-secretary of State, Department of Economic Affairs. Henry Walter Smart, Director, Savings Department, General Post Office. John Gerald Smith, Chief Highway Engineer, Ministry of Transport.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Diplomatic Service Robert Stewart Crawford, , lately Foreign Office. Robert William Doughty Fowler, , British High Commissioner, Dar es Salaam. John Baines Johnston, , lately British High Commissioner, Salisbury. Edward Heywood Peck, , British High Commissioner-Designate, Nairobi. John Arthur Pilcher, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Vienna.
Commonwealth Relations The Honourable Henry Edward Bolte, , Premier of the State of Victoria.
Colonial Office Hugh Selby Norman-Walker, , Her Majesty's Commissioner, Bechuanaland. The Right Honourable John Roland, Baron Martonmere, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bermudas or Somers Islands.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Leo Bernard Aloysius Grace, , Chief Technical Adviser on Meat Inspection, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Edward Ian Roy MacGregor, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Aviation. Formerly Civil Air Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington.
Diplomatic Service Mark Echalaz Allan, , Inspector of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Establishments. Kenneth Geoffrey Bennett, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Uganda. Kenneth Carter Benton, Foreign Office. Donald George Bompas, Auditor-General, Malaysia. John Noel Ormiston Curle, , Her Majesty's Consul-General, Boston. Stanley James Gunn Fingland, British Deputy High Commissioner, Salisbury. Leonard Hagestadt, , Labour Attaché, Her Majesty's Embassy, Paris. David Henry Thoroton Hildyard, , Foreign Office. Peter Hope Johnston, lately Provincial Commissioner and Local Courts Adviser, Tanzania. John Edward Killick, Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. Edward Noel Larmour, British Deputy High Commissioner, Lagos. Alistair Mackay, Financial Adviser, British High Commission, New Delhi. Archibald Campbell MacKellar, Administrative Officer Staff Grade, Northern Nigeria. Dugald Malcolm, , lately Her Majesty's Vice-Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps. Peter Meinertzhagen, Regional Controller, Commonwealth Development Corporation in West Africa. Philip Brian Cecil Moore, lately British Deputy High Commissioner, Singapore. James Conwy Morgan, British Deputy High Commissioner-Designate, Canberra. David Aubrey Scott, British Deputy High Commissioner, New Delhi. Edwin Leonard Sykes, British Deputy High Commissioner, Karachi. James Alexander Turpin, Counsellor (Commercial), Her Majesty's Embassy, The Hague. Cyril Charles Webster, lately Director of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya.