The New Year Honours 1968 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 1967 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1968.United Kingdom list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Sierra Leone list: Jamaica list: Gambia list: Guyana list: Barbados 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
Life Peers Barons The Honourable William Michael Berry, , Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Telegraph. Sir William Henry (Harry) Pilkington, Chairman, Pilkington Brothers, Ltd. Chancellor, Loughborough University of Technology since 1966. Chairman, National Advisory Council for Education for Industry and Commerce since 1956. Thomas Johnston Taylor, President, Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd. Member, Forestry Commission. Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, . Lately High Commissioner for Aden and the Protectorate of South Arabia. Lewis Tatham Wright, , Chairman, Trades Union Congress. General Secretary, Amalgamated Weavers' Association.
Privy Counsellors The Right Honourable Frank, Baron Beswick, Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, 1965-July 1967. The Right Honourable Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon, , Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. Permanent United Kingdom Representative at the United Nations since 1964. Roy Mason, . Member of Parliament for Barnsley since 1953. Minister of State, Board of Trade, 1964-1967. Minister of Defence for Equipment since 1967.
Knights Bachelor His Honour Judge Carl Douglas Aarvold, , Recorder of the City of London. Colonel Michael Picton Ansell, . For services to British Show Jumping. Rowland Baker, , Technical Director, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). Oliver Charles Barnett, , Judge Advocate General of HM Forces. John Dykes Bower, . Lately Organist, St. Paul's Cathedral. Herbert Archbold Brechin, , Lord Provost of Edinburgh. David Brown, Chairman, The David Brown Corporation Ltd. For services to Export. Thomas Kingsley Collett, . For services to the City of London, and to Export. Air Commodore Louis Walter Dickens, , Chairman, Berkshire County Council. Professor Godfrey Rolles Driver, . For services to Hebrew and Biblical Studies. Lovedin George Thomas Farmer, Director, Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd. For services to Export. Reginald Eustace Goodwin, , Councillor, Greater London Council. Harold John Boyer Harding. For services to Civil Engineering. Frank Wild Holdsworth, , Orthopaedic Surgeon, United Sheffield Hospitals. Olliver William Humphreys, . For services to the Electronics Industry. Brynmor Jones, Vice-Chancellor, University of Hull. Percy Lord, Chief Education Officer, Lancashire County Council. Arthur Lionel Pugh Norrington, , Chairman, Advisory Committee of English Language Book Society, and for services to Export. Harry Robertson Page, City Treasurer of Manchester. Alan Sterling Parkes, . Formerly Mary Marshall Professor of the Physiology of Reproduction, University of Cambridge. Colonel Derek Wilbraham Pritchard, Chairman, British National Export Council. For services to Export. James Anderson Robertson, , Chief Constable, City of Glasgow Police. Athelstan Jack Scamp, , Chairman, Motor Industry Joint Labour Council. Alexander Abel Smith, , Deputy Chairman, British National Export Council for Europe. Managing Director J. Henry Schroeder Wagg and Company Ltd. For services to Export. Arthur Henry Smith, Chairman, United Africa Company, Ltd. Director, Unilever Ltd. Chairman, African Committee, British National Exports Council. For services to Export. Francis John Stratton, , Chairman, Fatstock Marketing Corporation Ltd. Harold Warris Thompson, , Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford. Foreign Secretary, Royal Society. John Edward Wall, , Deputy Chairman, Post Office Board. Frederick Edward Warner, Senior Partner, Cremer & Warner. For services to the chemical engineering profession. William James Percival Webber, . For services to Industrial Relations.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Louis Cools-Lartigue, , Governor, Dominica. Allen Montgomery Lewis, , Chief Justice of the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court. Ian Graham Turbott, , Governor, Grenada.
State of New South Wales Philip Belmont Charley. For services to primary industry. Erik Langker, . For services to the Arts. Colonel The Honourable Hector Joseph Richard Clayton, . For services to the State and to commerce.
State of Victoria Brigadier William Henry Hall, . For services to the welfare of ex-servicemen and their dependents. The Honourable George Augustus Pape, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria.
State of Queensland Abraham Fryberg, . For services in the fields of medicine and public health. William Alan Thompson Summerville. Agent-General for the State of Queensland in London.
State of Western Australia The Honourable Henry Keith Watson. For public services.
Order of the Bath
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, .
Army General Sir Geoffrey H. Baker, (50806), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir John Davis, .
Civil Division Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable Sir Michael Edward Adeane, , Private Secretary to The Queen. Sir Burke St John Trend, , Secretary of the Cabinet.
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Ian Leslie Trower Hogg, . Vice-Admiral Charles Piercy Mills, .
Army Major-General Mervyn Andrew Haldane Butler, (58152), late Infantry, Colonel Commandant, The Parachute Regiment. Lieutenant-General Walter Colyear Walker, (380258), late Infantry, Colonel, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles.
Royal Air Force Acting Air Marshal Peter Carteret Fletcher, .
Civil Division Louis Petch, , Second Secretary, HM Treasury. David Radford Serpell, , Second Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade.
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Peter William Beckwith Ashmore, . Instructor Rear-Admiral Albert John Bellamy, . Surgeon Rear-Admiral Eric Blackburn Bradbury, . Rear-Admiral Kenneth Hayden Farnhill, . Rear-Admiral Peter Cecil Gibson. Surgeon Rear-Admiral Dudley Plunket Gurd, . The Venerable Archdeacon Christopher Prior, . Rear-Admiral Robert George Raper.
Army Major-General Douglas Lyall Darling, (63638), late Infantry. Major-General Anthony Henry George Dobson, (52585), late Corps of Royal Engineers (now retired). Major-General John Primrose Douglas, (58983), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General David Boswell Egerton, (63503), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General The Honourable Michael Fitzalan-Howard, (71887), late Foot Guards, Colonel, The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers). Major-General Richard Keith-Jones, (62519), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Christopher Mark Morrice Man, (63924), late Infantry, Deputy Colonel, The Queen's Regiment (Middlesex).
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Alan Hunter Cachemaille Boxer, . Air Vice-Marshal Anthony Wilkinson Heward, . Air Vice-Marshal Michael Dillon Lyne, . Air Vice-Marshal William Gwyn Morgan, . Air Vice-Marshal Bruce Robinson, , (Retired). Air Commodore Frederick Beresford Sowrey, .
Civil Division Eric Walter Dean, , Principal Assistant Solicitor, Board of Trade. William James Glenn, Chief Civil Engineer, Ministry of Public Building and Works. Captain Michael Hodges, , Royal Navy (Retired). Lately Under Secretary, Cabinet Office. Peter Howard Jones, Assistant Under-secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). Ronald Robert Duncan McIntosh, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Department of Economic Affairs. Ieuan Maddock, , Controller of Industrial Technology, Ministry of Technology. Robert Braithwaite Marshall, , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Power. Evan Walter Maude, Economic Minister in Washington and Head of United Kingdom Treasury and Supply Delegation. Alan Derrett Neale, , Second Secretary, Board of Trade. William Dennis Pile, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. John Watkins-Pitchford, , Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Social Security. William John Thompson, Comptroller and Auditor-General, Northern Ireland. Edward Howsley Watson, Solicitor and Legal Adviser, Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Ministry of Health.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Sir Francis Brian Anthony Rundall, , lately Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Tokyo.
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Harold Leslie Bowes, Chairman, Latin American Committee, British National Export Council.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Thomas Brimelow, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Warsaw. Frederick Charles Everson, , Minister (Economic), Her Majesty's Embassy, Paris. Donald Charles Hopson, , British Chargé d'Affaires, Peking. Michael Sanigear Williams, , Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Holy See. The Right Reverend John Leonard Wilson, , Lord Bishop of Birmingham. Prelate of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Professor John Howard Middlemiss, , Director of Radiodiagnostic Department, United Bristol Hospitals and Member of Medical Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Overseas Development. Graham McIntosh Patrick, , Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Public Building and Works. Edward Thomas William Swaine, , Director, Exhibitions Division, Central Office of Information. William Denison Clare Wiggins, , Director of Overseas (Geodetic and Topographic) Surveys, Ministry of Overseas Development.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Ronald Arculus, Deputy Consul-General, Washington. Norman Aspin, Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Her Majesty's Embassy, Tel Aviv. Hugh Glencairn Balfour-Paul, Deputy Political Resident, Bahrain. Arthur Joseph Boase, , Warden of the St. John Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem. Stanley George Burt-Andrews, , lately Her Majesty's Consul-General, St. Louis. John Horace Ragnar Colvin, lately Her Majesty's Consul-General, Hanoi. Professor Zelman Cowen, lately Dominion Liaison Officer, Australia. Percy Cradock, Counsellor and Head of Chancery, Office of the British Chargé d'Affaires, Peking. George Roy Denman, lately Assistant Secretary, United Kingdom Delegation to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Geneva. Edward Caston Eates, , Deputy Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong. John Edgar Galsworthy, lately Counsellor (Economic), Her Majesty's Embassy, Bonn. Hywel George, , Administrator, Saint Vincent. Reginald Hugh Hickling, lately Legal Adviser, British High Commission, Aden. Edward Foster James, , Foreign Office. Patrick John Keen, , Foreign Office. Athelstan Charles Ethelwulf Long, , Chief Secretary and Deputy Queen's Commissioner, Swaziland. John Vincent Prendergast, , lately Director of Intelligence, British High Commission, Aden. Kenneth Gordon Ritchie, lately Deputy British High Commissioner, Lusaka.
State of New South Wales