The New Year Honours 1972 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 1971 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1972.United Kingdom list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Barbados list: Mauritius list: Fiji 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
Privy Counsellor Robert Alexander Lindsay, Lord Balniel, , Minister of State for Defence. The Honourable Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs, , a Justice of the High Court of Australia. Maurice Victor Macmillan, , Chief Secretary, HM Treasury.
Knight Bachelor Herbert Ashworth, Chairman, Housing Corporation. William Denholm Barnetson, Chairman, Reuters Ltd. Geoffrey Hirst Bateman, lately Surgeon, Ear, Nose and Throat Department, St. Thomas' Hospital, London. Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, , Designer and Photographer. Bernard Richard Braine, . For political and public services. John Howie Flint Brotherston, Chief Medical Officer, Scottish Home and Health Department. Colin Douglas Buchanan, , Professor of Transport, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford. Thomas Arthur Collier Burgess, Vice-Chancellor, County Palatine of Lancaster. Alderman Joseph Foster Cairns, Lord Mayor of Belfast. Einar Athelstan Gordon Caroe, , Chairman, Trustee Savings Banks Association. Kenneth Sholl Ferrand Corley, Chairman and Managing Director, Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd. For services to Export. Esmond Otho Durlacher. For political and public services in London. Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, . For services to the preservation of the environment and to architecture. Cyril Rupert English, Director-General, City and Guilds of London Institute. William John English, , Chairman, South Western Regional Hospital Board. John Dudley Harmer, . For political and public services in the South-East. Fred Hoyle, , Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, University of Cambridge. William Hardie Kininmonth, President, Royal Scottish Academy. Gilbert James Morley Longden, . For political and public services. Alexander Forbes McDonald, Chairman, Distillers' Co. Ltd. For services to Export. John Andrew McKay, , HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales. Peter Gordon Masefield, lately Chairman, British Airports Authority. William Gerard Morris, Recorder of Manchester and Judge of the Crown Court of Manchester. George Porter, , Fullerian Professor of Chemistry. Director, Royal Institution of Great Britain. Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, . For services to Numismatics and the Ashmolean Museum. Martin Roth, Professor of Psychological Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Archibald Edward Russell, . Lately Director, British Aircraft Corporation Ltd. Michael Sobell. For charitable services. Harold Macdonald Steward, Alderman, Liverpool City Council. Nigel Edward Strutt, , Chairman, Agricultural Advisory Council. Peter Frank Dalrymple Tennant, , Director-General, British National Export Council. For services to Export. Robert Hugh Willatt, Secretary-General, Arts Council of Great Britain. Hugh Walter Kingwell Wontner, , lately Aldermanic Sheriff, City of London.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Milton Pentonville Allen, , Acting Governor, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla. The Honourable Sidney Samuel Gordon, . For public services in Hong Kong. The Honourable Kan Yuet-keung, . For public services in Hong Kong. Thomas Oates, , Governor, St. Helena. The Honourable Mr. Justice James Wicks, Chief Justice of Kenya.
Australian States State of New South Wales Emil Herbert Peter Abeles. For services to transport, charities and universities. The Honourable Mr. Justice James Kenneth Manning, . For services to the law.
State of Victoria The Honourable Vernon Howard Colville Christie, , Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. Thomas Meek Ramsay, , of South Yarra. For public service and services to commerce.
State of Queensland The Honourable David Eric Nicholson, , Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. Clive Wentworth Uhr, , of Brisbane. For services to medicine and the community.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir Horace Rochfort Law, . General Sir John Mogg, , (73153), late Infantry. Colonel Commandant, The Royal Green Jackets; Colonel Commandant, Army Air Corps.
Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (DCB) Civil Division Mildred Riddelsdell, , Second Permanent Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice Admiral Peter William Beckwith Ashmore, . Vice Admiral John Charles Young Roxburgh, .
Army Major-General Roland Christopher Gibbs, , (114083), late Infantry. Colonel Commandant, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets. Lieutenant-General Frank Douglas King, , (138204), late Infantry. Lieutenant-General John Hugh Sherlock Read, , (73055), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
Royal Air Force Air Marshal Anthony Wilkinson Heward, . Air Marshal Thomas Neville Stack, .
Civil Division James Duncan Jones, , Second Permanent Secretary, Department of the Environment. Alan Derrett Neale, , Second Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral Colin Charles Harrison Dunlop, . Rear Admiral Philip Roger Canning Hicham. Major General Patrick Richard Kay, , Royal Marines. Instructor Rear Admiral Brinley John Morgan. Rear Admiral John Atrill Templeton-Cotill.
Army Major-General Patrick Fisher Claxton, , (68519), late Royal Army Service Corps, now R.A.R.O. Major-General Ian Gordon Gill, , (79107), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Derek George Levis, , (70125), late Royal Army Medical Corps, now retired. Major-General Terence Douglas Herbert McMeekin, , (77531), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Harry Owen (137048), Army Legal Services, now R.A.R.O.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Ivor Gordon Broom, . Air Vice-Marshal Marcus Maxwell Gardham, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Griffiths, . Air Commodore Thomas Malcolm Grahame Bury, . Air Commandant Ann Smith McDonald, , Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
Civil Division Edward John Braybrook, Director-General of Supplies and Transport (Naval), Ministry of Defence. Arthur Caffin Brooke, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Commerce for Northern Ireland. Peter Willoughby Carey, Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office. William Henry Morton Clifford, , Solicitor, Department of Health and Social Security. George Roy Denman, , Deputy Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry. Hywel Wynn Evans, Permanent Secretary, Welsh Office. Ronald Petrie Fraser, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. (Secretary designate, Scottish Home and Health Department.) James Arnot Hamilton, , Deputy Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry. James Boag Howard, Assistant Under Secretary of State, Home Office. Dennis John Lyons, Director-General of Research, Department of the Environment. John Ringer Moss, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Robert Stanley Porter, , Director-General of Economic Planning, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Overseas Development Administration). Robert Press, , Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office. Rhys Price Probert, Deputy Controller of Aircraft (A), Procurement Executive, Ministry of Defence. Eric Hugh Alexander Stretton, Under Secretary, Department of the Environment. Colonel Kenneth David Treasure, , lately Chairman, Wales and Monmouthshire Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir William Alan Nield, , Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Sir Denis Arthur Greenhill, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Head of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. The Honourable Sir Con Douglas Walter O'Neill, , Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The Right Honourable Arthur Christopher John Soames, , Her Majesty's Ambassador, Paris.
Australian States The Honourable Sir Henry Edward Bolte, , Premier and Treasurer, State of Victoria.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Diplomatic Service and Overseas List John Henry Keswick, . For services to British interests in the Far East. Guy Elwin Millard, , Her Majesty's Ambassador, Stockholm. The Honourable Peter Edward Ramsbotham, , Her Majesty's Ambassador, Tehran.
Australian States The Honourable Robert William Askin, , Premier and Treasurer, State of New South Wales.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Charles William Capstick, Senior Principal Agricultural Economist, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Michael David Milroy Franklin, Under Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Cyril Robert Parke Hamilton, Deputy Chairman, The Standard Bank Ltd. Michael Hugh Lawrence, Principal Clerk and Head of Overseas Office, House of Commons. Walter Patrick Shovelton, Under Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry. John Fell Slater, Assistant Secretary, HM Treasury.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Harry Godfrey Mitchell Bass, British High Commissioner, Maseru. Joseph Alfred Dobbs, , Minister, Her Majesty's Embassy, Moscow. Martin John Moynihan, , Her Majesty's Ambassador and Consul-General, Monrovia. Andrew Lancelot Pope, , Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Bonn. Frank Charles Douglas Sargeant, lately British Deputy High Commissioner, Dacca. Ian McTaggart Sinclair, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. John Adam Thomson, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Peter Alan Grant Westlake, , Minister, Her Majesty's Embassy, Tokyo.
Australian States State of New South Wales Stanley Hains Lovell, . For services to surgery.
State of Victoria Professor James Adam Louis Matheson, , Vice-Chancellor, Monash University.
State of Queensland Leslie Frank Diplock, , of Scarborough. For public service.
State of South Australia The Honourable Berthold Herbert Teusner, , of Tanunda. For public and community service.
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) James Cecil Hogg, . Peter James Kerley, . Rear-Admiral Alexander Henry Charles Gordon Lennox, . Major James Rennie Maudslay, . Douglas Sinclair Miller, .
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Esmond Butler. Henry Louis Carron Greig. Charles John Leslie Hibberd. Group Captain Basil Anthony Primavesi, Royal Air Force. Peter Henry Ogle-Skan, .
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
Fourth Class Philip Hugh Halsey. Squadron Leader Richard Edward Johns, Royal Air Force. Commander John Michael Powell, Royal Navy. Michael Roger Ernest Ruffer, . Arthur Bartram Savage, . Major George Raymond Seymour. David Stevenson, . Roy Vincent Francis Turner, .
Fifth Class Flight Lieutenant Arthur John Finucane, , Royal Air Force (Retd.) John Patrick Kyle. Constance Jane Lugton. Eric Wingfield Morrell. Leonard Charles Munn. Flying Officer John Rae, Royal Air Force. Pamela Selby-Smyth. Irene Ellen Try.
Medal of the Royal Victorian Order (RVM) In Silver Lionel Allibone.