The Queen's Birthday Honours 1958 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. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen. They were published on 3 June 1958 for the United Kingdom and Colonies, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
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
Baron Oliver Brian Sanderson Poole, CBE, TD. Member of Parliament for Oswestry, 1945-1950. Joint Treasurer, Conservative Party Organisation, 1952-1955; Chairman, 1955-1957; Deputy Chairman since 1957. For political and public services. Sir (Thomas) Ellis Robins, KBE, DSO, ED. For public services in Rhodesia.
Privy Councillor William Grant, TD, QC, MP. Member of Parliament for the Woodside Division of Glasgow since 1955. Solicitor General for Scotland since January 1955. Sir Godfrey John Vignoles Thomas, Bt, GCVO, KCB, CSI. Lately Private Secretary, to HRH The Duke of Gloucester.
Baronet Henry Arthur Benyon. For public services in Berkshire. David Martyn Evans Bevan, JP, DL. For public services, particularly to Commonwealth students from overseas. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Alexander Dunnington-Jefferson, DSO, DL. For public services in Yorkshire.
Knight Bachelor Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, Principal, Royal Academy of Music. Jack Croft Baker, CBE. Lately President, British Trawlers Federation Ltd. Archer Ernest Baldwin, MC, MP. Member of Parliament for Leominster since 1945. For political and public services. Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Lindsay Benson, DSO, MVO, MC, Honorary Treasurer, English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth. William Rushton Black. For public services. Chairman, National Research & Development Corporation. Brigadier John Smith Knox Boyd, OBE, MD, FRCP. For services to bacteriology. President, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. William Speight Carrington, Member of Council, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. William Cash, Chairman, Girls' Public Day School Trust. Walter Alexander Edmenson, CBE, DL. For public services in Northern Ireland. Alderman John Wesley Emberton, JP, DL. For political and public services in Cheshire. David Lewis Evans, OBE, Deputy Keeper of the Records, Public Record Office. Professor Keith Grahame Feiling, OBE, Historian and Author. William Herbert Garrett, MBE. For services to industrial relations. Alderman Richard Stephenson Harper, JP. For political and public services in Manchester. James William Francis Hill, CBE. For services to the Association of Municipal Corporations. Friston Charles How, CB, Secretary, Atomic Energy Office. Willis Jackson, Director of Research and Education, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd. Kenneth Ivor Julian, CBE, Chairman, South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. Alderman Ronald Barry Keefe. For political and public services in Norfolk. Colonel John Digby Mills, TD, DL. For political and public services in Hampshire. Colonel Frederick Austin Neill, CBE, DSO, TD, JP, DL. For public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Armand Hunter Kennedy Wilbraham Northey, JP. For political and public services in Wiltshire. John Sydney Pickles, Chairman, South of Scotland Electricity Board. Robert Rae, CB, Director, National Agricultural Advisory Service. Eric William Riches, MC, MS, FRCS, Surgeon and Urologist to Middlesex Hospital. John Edgar Robinson. For political and public services in Cheshire. William Clayton Russon, OBE, President, Festival of Wales. John Watt Senter, QC. For political services. Charles Archibald Philip Southwell, CBE, MC, Managing Director, Kuwait Oil Co. Ltd. John Newenham Summerson, CBE, Curator, Sir John Soane's Museum. For services to the history of Architecture. Professor Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams. For services to learning and literature in Wales. Gerald Wills, MBE, MP. Member of Parliament for Bridgwater since 1950. An Assistant Government Whip, 1952-1954; a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1954-1957; Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household since 1957. Ian David Yeaman, President, The Law Society, 1957-58.
State of Queensland Brigadier Kenneth Barron Fraser, CBE, ED, MS, FRACS, late Australian Military Forces, of Brisbane. For public services.
State of South Australia The Honourable Collier Robert Cudmore, a Member of the Legislative Council, State of South Australia, since 1933.
State of Victoria The Honourable William John Farquhar McDonald, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, State of Victoria. The Honourable Norman O'Bryan, a Judge of the Supreme Court, State of Victoria. Norman De Winton Robinson, Chairman of the Amateur Turf Club in the State of Victoria.
Commonwealth Relations Walter Harold Strachan Michelmore, MBE, a member of the United Kingdom business community in India. The Honourable John Murray Murray, Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia.
Overseas Territories Roger Sewell Bacon, MBE. Lately Justice of Appeal, East African Court of Appeal. Cyril Handley Bird, CBE, Minister of Commerce & Works, Uganda. Colonel Aldington George Curphey, CBE, MC, ED, MD, CM. For public services in Jamaica. Edward John Davies, QC, Chief Justice, Tanganyika. Olumuyiwa Jibowu, Chief Justice of the High Courts of Lagos and Southern Cameroons, Federation of Nigeria. Arthur George Rixson Mooring, CMG, Deputy Governor, Western Region, Nigeria. George Edward Noel Oehlers, OBE. For public services in Singapore. Richard Ogilvy Ramage, CMG, Chairman, Public Service Commission, Uganda. Reginald William Taylor, CMG, Engineer-in-Chief, Office of the Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, and Engineering Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Civil Division Sir David Milne, KCB, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Walter Thomas Couchman, CB, CVO, DSO, OBE. Vice-Admiral Manley Lawrence Power, CB, CBE, DSO. Army Lieutenant-General Roderick William McLeod, CB, CBE (31581), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Arthur Seymour Bolt, DSO, DSC. Rear-Admiral Thomas Vallack Briggs, OBE. The Venerable Archdeacon Frederick Darrell Bunt, OBE, Chaplain of the Fleet. Rear-Admiral William Godfrey Crawford, DSC. Rear-Admiral Charles Leo Glandore Evans, CBE, DSO, DSC. Rear-Admiral John Strike Lancaster. Rear-Admiral Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, VC, DSO. Rear-Admiral Peter Douglas Herbert Raymond Pelly, DSO. Surgeon Rear-Admiral Richard Louis Gibbon Proctor, MD, ChB. Rear-Admiral Royston Hollis Wright, DSC.
Army Major-General Frank Hastings Brooke, CBE, DSO (41079), late Infantry. Brigadier Michael Preston Douglas Dewar, CBE (34749), late Infantry. Brevet and Acting Colonel Martin St. John Valentine Gibbs, DSO, TD (73516), The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales's Own), Royal Armoured Corps, Territorial Army. Major-General Frederick William Scriven Gordon-Hall, CBE (23877), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General St. John Cutler Hooley, CBE (26977), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major-General John Huston, QHS, MB, FRCS(Edin.) (27886), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Reginald Forster Johnstone, CBE (34843), late Infantry. Colonel Alastair Stevenson Pearson, DSO, OBE, MC, TD, ADC, DL (62792), Territorial Army. Colonel Walter John Macdonald Ross, OBE, MC, TD (66551), Territorial Army. Major-General Edward Dacre Howard-Vyse, CBE, MC (33342), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Henry Rudolph Graham, CBE, DSO, DFC. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Lancelot Miller Corbet. CBE, MB, BS, (Ret'd). Air Commodore Hubert Huntlea Chapman, CBE. Air Commodore Kenneth John McIntyre, CBE, (Ret'd). Air Commodore Walter Allan Stagg, CBE. Air Commodore Walter Philip Sutcliffe, DFC. Acting Air Commodore William Steven Gardner, OBE, DFC, AFC. Acting Air Commodore John Andrews Tester, CBE, (Ret'd).
Civil Division George Sidney Bishop, OBE, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. Colonel Sir John Archibald Ruggles-Brise, Bt, OBE, TD, JP, DL, Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Essex. Francis Blaise Gillie, Under-Secretary, Welsh Office, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. James Lawrence Girling, lately Comptroller-General, Patent Office & Industrial Property Department, Board of Trade. George Edward Godber, DM, FRCP, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. Ronald Frank Green, Second Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland. Thomas Edward Highton Hodgson, Under-Secretary, Munitions Supplies, Ministry of Supply. Colonel John Douglas Kewish, TD, DL, Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Chester. William Lewis, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office. Morien Bedford Morgan, Deputy Director, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. Frederick Ivor Ray, CBE, Director of Inland Telecommunications, General Post Office. James Gill Stewart, CBE, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
Additional Companion Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Martin Michael Charles Charteris, MVO, OBE, Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen.
Order of Merit (OM) Sir (Frank) Macfarlane Burnet, MD, FRCP.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Robert Heatlie Scott, KCMG, CBE, Commissioner-General for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in South East Asia.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) John Beresford Clark, CBE, Director of External Broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation. The Right Honourable Peter Alexander Rupert, Baron Carrington, MC, High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the Commonwealth of Australia. Air Vice-Marshal Sir Robert Allingham George, KCVO, KBE, CB, MC, Royal Air Force (Ret'd), Governor of the State of South Australia. Kenneth Phipson Maddocks, CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief (Designate), Fiji. Edward Henry Windley, CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief (Designate), Gambia (dated 11 June 1958). Sir Peter William Shelley Yorke Scarlett, KCVO, CMG, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Oslo. Richard Whittington, CBE, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Bangkok.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) George William Brazendale, Trade Commissioner, Grade I, Calcutta. Air Marshal Douglas Colyer, CB, DFC, (Ret'd), Civil Aviation Representative in Western Europe, Ministry of Transport & Civil Aviation. Peter Frank Dalrymple Tennant, OBE, Overseas Director, Federation of British Industries. The Honourable William Addison, OBE, MC, MM, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Southern Rhodesia. Edwin Cyril Geddes Barrett, formerly British Adviser, Kedah, Federation of Malaya. Ronald Harry Belcher, Deputy High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in the Union of South Africa. The Right Reverend James William Gleeson, Auxiliary Bishop to the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, and Director of Catholic Education in the State of South Australia. Stanley Radcliffe Lewis. For public services in the State of Victoria. Brian Allan Marwick, CBE, Resident Commissioner of Swaziland. Arthur Edward Moore. For public and charitable services in the State of Queensland. John Philip Attenborough, CBE, Minister for Social Services, Tanganyika.