The New Year Honours 1970 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 30 December 1969 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1970.United Kingdom list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Sierra Leone list: Gambia list: Guyana list: Barbados list: Mauritius 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 Peer Baroness The Right Honourable Susan Lilian Primrose, Baroness Masham. For social services and services to disabled people.
Baron John Cowburn Beavan. For services to Journalism. Sir (Christopher) Frank Kearton, , Chairman, Courtaulds Ltd. Chairman, Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, 1966–1968. Captain The Right Honourable Terence Marne O'Neill, , lately Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
Privy Councillor Privy Counsellors The Right Honourable Wilfred Banks Duncan, Baron Brown, , Minister of State, Board of Trade since 1965. Edmund Emanuel Dell, , Member of Parliament for Birkenhead since October 1964. Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Technology, 1966–1967; Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Economic Affairs, 1967–1968; Minister of State, Board of Trade, 1968–1969; Minister of State, Department of Employment and Productivity since October 1969. Sir Arthur James Irvine, , Member of Parliament for the Edge Hill Division of Liverpool since 1947. Solicitor-General since August 1967. Sir Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, , Governor, Bank of England.
Knight Bachelor Walter Adams, , Director, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. Alfred Jules Ayer, Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford. Hubert Bennett, Architect to the Greater London Council. Harold Black, Secretary to the Cabinet of Northern Ireland. Lieutenant-Colonel James Carreras, . For services to Youth. Dudley Ross Chesterman, Warden, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Noël Peirce Coward. For services to the Arts. Professor Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, . For services to Archaeology in the Middle East. John Arthur Edwards, , President, London Rent Assessment Panel. Ronald McLeod Fairfield, , Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd. For services to Export. Arthur Gaitskell, . For services to overseas development. William Frederick Glock, . For services to Music. Sidney Francis Greene, , Chairman of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. Charles Herbert Stuart-Harris, , Professor of Medicine, University of Sheffield. Professor William Rede Hawthorne, . For services to Thermodynamics. Desmond Heap, Comptroller and City Solicitor, Corporation of the City of London. Charles Ronald Ironmonger, Alderman, Sheffield City Council. Richard Dawnay Lemon, , Chief Constable, Kent County Constabulary. John Todd Lewis, , Chairman, Birmingham Regional Hospital Board. Frank Milton, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate. Edward Grainger Muir, , Senior Surgeon, King's College Hospital, London. Philip Jack Oppenheimer, Managing Director, The Diamond Trading Co. Ltd. For services to Export. Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington, Technical Director, Pilkington Brothers Ltd. For services to Technology and Export. Professor Leon Radzinowicz, Wolfson Professor of Criminology and Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Professor Alexander Robertson, , Professor of Animal Health and Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Frederic Seebohm, , Chairman, Export Guarantees Advisory Council. Robert Southern, , General Secretary, Co-operative Union Ltd. Rudy Sternberg, Chairman, British Agricultural Export Council. For services to Export. Gwilym Tecwyn Williams, , President, National Farmers' Union for England and Wales. Richard Dilworth Young, Chairman and Managing Director, Alfred Herbert Ltd. For services to Export.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List John Ramsay Blagden, , lately Chief Justice, Zambia. Nigel Vernon Reed, , Chief Justice, Northern Nigeria. Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers, , lately Secretary-General, Council of Europe.
State of New South Wales The Honourable Harry Vincent Budd, President of the Legislative Council. Roderick William Miller, . For services to industry and commerce.
State of Victoria The Honourable Alistair Duncan Grant Adam, Justice, Supreme Court of Victoria. Edward Cohen, of Toorak. For services to the community.
State of Queensland Walter Beresford James Gordon Sparkes of Jandowae. For services to the beef cattle industry and to the community.
State of South Australia Brigadier Thomas Charles Eastick, . For services to ex-servicemen. The Honourable Glen Gardner Pearson, , Treasurer and Minister of Housing.
State of Tasmania The Honourable Marcus George Gibson, lately Senior Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of Tasmania.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir John Fitzroy Duyland Bush, . General Sir Geoffrey Musson, , (45438), late Infantry, Colonel The Light Infantry.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice Admiral Arthur Francis Turner, . Lieutenant-General Napier Crookenden, , (66121), late Infantry, Colonel The Cheshire Regiment. Lieutenant-General Henry Lowther Ewart Clark Leask, , (62419), late Infantry, Colonel Commandant Scottish Division. Air Marshal Gareth Thomas Butler Clayton, , Royal Air Force. Air Marshal Leslie Deane Mavor, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division John Saye Wingfield Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, , First Parliamentary Counsel. Frank Edward Figgures, , Second Secretary, HM Treasury. Alan Samuel Marre, , Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health and Social Security.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral George Cunningham Leslie, . Rear Admiral Cedric Kenelm Roberts, . Rear Admiral Desmond Noble Callaghan. Rear Admiral Ian David McLaughlan, . Rear Admiral Basil Charles Godfrey Place, . Rear Admiral John Douglas Trythall, .
Army Major-General Anthony John Deane-Drummond, , (71076), late Royal Corps of Signals, Colonel Commandant Royal Corps of Signals. Major-General John Houghton Gibbon, , (91397), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Patrick Robert Chamier Hobart, , (73080), late Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel Commandant Royal Tank Regiment. Major-General Keith Fielding Stephens, , (72161), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General David Noel Hugh Tyacke, , (66134), late Infantry. The Venerable Archdeacon John Ross Youens, , Chaplain to The Queen (135241), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
Royal Air Force The Venerable Leonard James Ashton, . Air Vice-Marshal Harry Burton, . Air Vice-Marshal James Clarke Taylor, . Air Commodore David Beatty Fitzpatrick, . Air Commodore Frederick Samuel Hazlewood, .
Civil Division Kenneth Barnes, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Department of Employment and Productivity. Stuart Verdun Collins, Chief Inspector of Audit, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Frank Cooper, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. Alexander Currall, , Director, Department for National Savings. John Abernethy Dickson, Director General, Forestry Commission. Harry Edward Drew, Director General of Quality Assurance, Ministry of Technology. Robert Audley Furtado, Presiding Special Commissioner, Board of Inland Revenue. David Francis Hubback, Under Secretary, Board of Trade. John William James, , Deputy Chief Medical Adviser, Department of Health and Social Security. Harold Cottam Johnson, , Keeper of the Public Records. Leonard Sidney Mills, Under Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Leonard Napolitan, Director of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Paul Randell Odgers, , Under Secretary, Office of the Secretary of State for Social Services. William George Onslow, Under Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. William Alan Wood, Second Crown Estate Commissioner.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Christopher William Machell Cox, , Educational Adviser, Ministry of Overseas Development. Sir John Nicholls, , lately Her Majesty's Ambassador, Cape Town.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Sir Maurice Henry Parsons, Deputy Governor, Bank of England.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List William Vincent John Evans, , Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Arthur David Kemp Owen, lately Co-Administrator, United Nations Development Programme.
State of Western Australia Sir Lawrence Walter Jackson, Chief Justice, Western Australia.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Kenneth Barnes, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Department of Employment and Productivity. Stuart Verdun Collins, Chief Inspector of Audit, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Frank Cooper, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. Alexander Currall, , Director, Department for National Savings. John Abernethy Dickson, Director General, Forestry Commission. Harry Edward Drew, Director General of Quality Assurance, Ministry of Technology. Robert Audley Furtado, Presiding Special Commissioner, Board of Inland Revenue. David Francis Hubback, Under Secretary, Board of Trade. John William James, , Deputy Chief Medical Adviser, Department of Health and Social Security. Harold Cottam Johnson, , Keeper of the Public Records. Leonard Sidney Mills, Under Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Leonard Napolitan, Director of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Paul Randell Odgers, , Under Secretary, Office of the Secretary of State for Social Services. William George Onslow, Under Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. William Alan Wood, Second Crown Estate Commissioner. Thomas Michael Crowley, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Technology. Professor John Conrad Waterlow, , Director, Medical Research Council Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, Jamaica.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, , Foreign and Commonwealth Office. John Halkett Baddeley, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alexander Hope Birch, , Counsellor, British High Commission, Accra. Peter Antony Carter, lately Head of British Residual Mission, Salisbury. Arthur Denis Farrell, , lately Senior Puisne Judge, High Court of Kenya. Walter Robert Haydon, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Herbert Ben Curtis Keeble, Her Majesty's Minister, British High Commission, Canberra. Peter Mennell, , lately Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Kinshasa. Gordon Philo, , lately Her Majesty's Consul-General, Hanoi. Nicholas George Frederick Taylor, , Commissioner in the United Kingdom for Eastern Caribbean Governments.
State of Victoria Ernest William Coates, Director of Finance and Permanent Head, Victorian Treasury.
State of Queensland Norman Stewart Pixley, , of Brisbane. For services to the community.
State of South Australia John Sampson White, , Secretary and Permanent Head, Premier's Department.
Royal Victorian Order Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) The Right Honourable Ann Fortune, Countess of Euston, .
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Charles Abrahams. Seymour John Louis Egerton. John Hastings James, .