The New Year Honours 1975 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 on 1 January 1975 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1975.United Kingdom list: These countries include Papua New Guinea,Papua New Guinea list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Mauritius,Mauritius list: Fiji,Fiji list: and Grenada.Grenada list:
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honours.
At this time honours for Australians were still being awarded in the UK honours on the advice of the premiers of Australian states. The Australian honours system began with the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours.
At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominals MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.
United Kingdom
Life peers The Right Honourable Sir William Armstrong, G.C.B., M.V.O., lately Head of the Home Civil Service. Richard Patrick Tallentyre Gibson, Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. David Thomas Pitt, Chairman, Greater London Council. Colonel Sir Derek Wilbraham Pritchard, Chairman, Rothmans International Ltd. President, Institute of Directors. Sir Rudy Sternberg, Chairman, Sterling Group of Companies; Chairman, British Agricultural Export Council.
Privy Counsellor Joel Barnett, M.P., Chief Secretary, H M. Treasury. Member of Parliament for the Heywood and Royton Division of Lancashire. Roy Sydney George Hattersley, M.P., Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Member of Parliament for the Sparkbrook Division of Birmingham. Brian Kevin O'Malley, M.P., Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security. Member of Parliament for Rotherham.
Knight Bachelor John Lindsay Alexander, Chairman, Ocean Transport and Trading Ltd. Professor James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, O.B.E., Q.C., F.B.A., Chairman, House of Laity, General Synod of the Church of England. Professor Arthur Llewellyn Armitage, Vice-Chancellor, Victoria University of Manchester. Roger Gilbert Bannister, C.B E., lately Chairman, The Sports Council. Edgar Charles Beck, C B.E., Chairman, John Mowlem and Company Ltd. Frederick Arthur Bishop, C.B, C.V.O, Director-General, The National Trust. William Whytehead Boulton, C B.E., T.D., Secretary of The Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar. Edward Louis Britton, C B.E., General Secretary, National Union of Teachers. Derrick Hunton Carter, T.D., Chairman, Remploy Ltd. William Christie, M.B.E., Lord Mayor of the City of Belfast. David Charles Collins, C.B E., Chairman, Westland Aircraft Ltd. For services to Export. Alan Meredyth Hudson Davies, C.B.E., lately Chairman, Board of Governors, United Liverpool Hospitals. Frederick William Dampier Deakin, D.S.O., Historian. John Bealby Eastwood, Chairman, J. B. Eastwood Ltd. Edward Fennessy, C.B.E., Managing Director, Telecommunications, Post Office. Harold Montague Finniston, F.R.S., Chairman, British Steel Corporation. Hugh Ford, F.R.S., Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Ronald George Gibson, C.B.E. For services to the development of the National Health Service. Albert King, O.B.E., Leader, Leeds City Council. William Russell Lawrence, Q.C., Senior Master of the Supreme Court (Queen's Bench Division) and Queen's Remembrancer. Francis Scott McFadzean, Chairman, Shell Transport and Trading Company Ltd. Ieuan Maddock, C.B., O.B.E., F.R.S., Chief Scientist, Department of Industry. John Cyprian Nightingale, C.B.E., B.E.M., Q.P.M., Chief Constable, Essex Police. Edward Eric Pochin, C.B.E., lately Director, Medical Research Council, Department of Clinical Research, University College Hospital Medical School. Arnold Joseph Philip Powell, O.B.E., Architect. Professor Edward Austin Gossage Robinson, C.M.G., O.B.E., F.B.A. For services to Economics. Louis Sherman, O.B.E., Chairman, London Boroughs Association. Alexander Mair Smith, Director, Manchester Polytechnic. Alfred George Tomkins, C.B.E., General Secretary, Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union. Horace Alan Walker, Chairman and Chief Executive, Bass-Charrington Ltd. Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse, C.B.E., F.B.A., Art Historian. John Foster Wilson, C.B.E., Director, Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. Michael Thomond Wilson, M.B.E., Chairman, Export Guarantees Advisory Council. John Woolf, Film Producer. Chairman, Romulus Films Ltd.
Diplomatic and Overseas List The Honourable George Oswald Ratteray, C.B.E., President of the Legislative Council, Bermuda. Garfield St Aubrun Sobers. For services to cricket. The Honourable Arthur Dudley Spurling, C.B.E., J.P., Speaker of the House of Assembly, Bermuda.
Australian States State of New South Wales The Honourable Davis Hughes, Agent-General for New South Wales in London. The Honourable Kenneth Malcolm McCaw, Q.C., M.L.A., Attorney General of New South Wales. Alfred William Tyree, O.B.E. For services to the community.
State of Victoria The Honourable Mr Justice Oliver James Gillard. For services to the legal profession and as a Judge of the Supreme Court. William Shearer Philip, C.M.G., M.C., of Toorak. For outstanding services as a hospital administrator. Thomas Langley Webb, of Toorak. For services to business.
State of Queensland Theodor Charles Bray, C.B.E., of Brisbane. For services to tertiary education and the newspaper industry. James William Foots, of Brookfield. For services to Queensland's mining industry. The Honourable Seymour Douglas Tooth, M.L.A., Minister for Health.
State of Western Australia John Edward Parker, Chairman of the State Electricity Commission.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Admiral Sir Anthony Templer Frederick Griffith Griffin, K.C.B. General Sir Cecil Blacker, K.C.B., O.B.E., M.C., A.D.C.(Gen.), late Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, Colonel Commandant Corps of Royal Military Police, Colonel Commandant Army Physical Training Corps. Air Chief Marshal Sir Neil Wheeler, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Vice Admiral John Anthony Rose Troup, D.S.C.* Admiral David Williams. Air Marshal Neil Cameron, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Marshal Kenneth Charles Michael Giddings, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Ian Powell Bancroft, C.B., Second Permanent Secretary, Civil Service Department. George Leitch, C.B., O.B.E., Chief Executive, Procurement Executive, Ministry of Defence. David William Shuckburgh Lidderdale, C.B., Clerk of the House of Commons. Ronald Robert Duncan McIntosh, C.B., Director General, National Economic Development Office. Douglas William Gretton Wass, C.B., Permanent Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral James William Dunbar Cook. Commandant Mary Irene Talbot, Hon. A.D.C., Women's Royal Naval Service. Rear Admiral Alan George Watson. Rear Admiral Arthur Brooke Webb.
Army Major-General Edward John Sidney Burnett, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., late Infantry. Major-General Hew Dacres George Butler, late Infantry. Major-General John Charles Gould, Royal Army Pay Corps. Major-General Harry Knutton, late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Alexander Matthew McKay, late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Colonel Commandant Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Major-General John Michael Strawson, O.B.E., late Royal Armoured Corps.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Reginald Bullen, G.M., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Peter David George Terry, A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Commodore Molly Greenwood Allott, A.D.C, Women's Royal Air Force. Air Commodore Melvin Clifford Seymour Shepherd, O.B E., Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Sir William Godfrey Agnew, K.C.V.O., lately Clerk in Ordinary of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. John Angus Beaton, Deputy Director, Scottish Courts Administration. Patrick Benner, Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office. Lawrence Sam Berman, Deputy Secretary, Department of Industry. John Wilfrid Bourne, Deputy Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department. John Charles Burgh, Deputy Secretary, Department of Prices and Consumer Protection. Richard Philip Cave, M.V.O., Principal Clerk, Judicial Office, House of Lords. Harold Raymond Percy Chatten, General Manager, H.M. Dockyard, Rosyth, Ministry of Defence. Donald John Derx, Deputy Secretary, Department of Employment. Hilda Mabel Hedley, Under Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security. Arthur Patrick Hockaday, C.M.G., Deputy Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. Frank Basil Humphrey, Parliamentary Counsel. Major-General Brian St George Irwin, Director-General, Ordnance Survey. John Douglas Webster Janes, Deputy Secretary, Northern Ireland Office. Robert Hill Kidd, Second Secretary, Department of Finance, Northern Ireland. Peter Esmond Lazarus, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment. Anthony Keith Rawlinson, Deputy Secretary, H.M. Treasury. Professor John James Andrew Reid, T.D., Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Security. Ronald Charters Symonds. Attached Ministry of Defence. Ernest Vize Symons, Deputy Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue.
Order of St Michael and St George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Thomas Brimelow, K.C.M.G., O.B.E., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of H.M. Diplomatic Service. The Right Honourable Sir Morrice James, K.C.M.G., C.V.O., M.B.E., British High Commissioner, Canberra.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Christopher Jeremy Morse. For services to the reform of the international monetary system. David Henry Thoroton Hildyard, C.M.G., D.F.C., United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Geneva. Maurice Oldfield, C.M.G., C.B.E., Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Anthony Derrick Parsons, C.M.G., M.V.O., M.C., H.M. Ambassador, Tehran. Andrew Alexander Steel Stark, C.M.G., C.V.O., H.M. Ambassador, Copenhagen.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) The Right Honourable Thomas Edward, Baron Bridges, lately Private Secretary (Overseas Affairs) to the Prime Minister. Jon Edmund Dixon, Under Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Peter Thomas Haskell, Director, Centre for Overseas Pest Research, Ministry of Overseas Development. Professor Percy Edwin Alan Johnson-Marshall. For services to town-planning particularly in the developing countries. William Thomas Pearce, Assistant Secretary, Department of Trade. Mervyn Brown, O.B.E., British High Commissioner, Dar es Salaam. Michael Dacres Butler, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Albert James Macqueen Craig, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Alan Eaton Davidson, H.M. Ambassador, Vientiane. Alan Clowes Goodison, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. James Patrick Ivan Hennessy, O.B.E., Acting British High Commissioner, Kampala. Alexander King, C.B.E., lately Director-General of Scientific Affairs, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris. John Henry Lambert, Minister and Deputy Commandant, British Military Government, Berlin. Eric George Le Tocq, British High Commissioner, Mbabane. Li Fook-kow, Secretary for Social Services, Hong Kong. Hugh Thomas Arnold Overton, H.M. Consul-General, Düsseldorf. Cyril Felix Rolo, O.B.E., Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Major General Reginald Booth Stockdale, C.B., O.B.E., lately Head of the Inspection Control Division, Armaments Control Agency, Western European Union, Paris. David Michael Summerhayes, Minister, H.M. Embassy, South Africa.