The Queen's Birthday Honours 1961 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. The announcement date varies, both from year to year and from country to country. The 1961 Queen's Birthday Honours for the United Kingdom,UK list: Australia,Australia list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Nigeria,Nigeria list: Sierra Leone,Sierra Leone list: and the Federation of Rhodesia and NyasalandFederation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland list: were announced on 2 June 1961.
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
Baron Sir Simon Marks, chairman and Joint Managing Director, Marks & Spencer Ltd. For public and charitable services. General Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, , chairman, British Transport Commission, 1953–1961.
Life Peer Sir Alexander Moncrieff Coutanche, Bailiff of Jersey since 1935. The Right Honourable Alfred Robens, chairman, National Coal Board, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1947–1951, Minister of Labour and National Service, 1951.
Privy Counsellor The Right Honourable Jack Nixon, Baron Craigton, , Member of Parliament for the Govan Division of Glasgow, 1950–1955, and for the Craigton Division of Glasgow, 1955–1959. Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, 1955–1959, and Minister of State, Scottish Office, since 1959. Sir John Kenyon Vaughan-Morgan, , Member of Parliament for Reigate since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, 1957; Minister of State, Board of Trade, 1957–1959.
Baronet Sir John Maxwell Erskine, , Director, Commercial Bank of Scotland, deputy chairman, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. For public services in Scotland. Colonel James Harwood Harrison, , Member of Parliament for Eye since 1951. An Assistant Government Whip, 1954–1956; a Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, 1956–1959; Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household since 1959. The Right Honourable Sir Roland Thomas Nugent. Lately Speaker of the Northern Ireland Senate. Minister Without Portfolio, 1944–1945; Minister of Commerce, 1945–1949; Leader of the Senate, 1944–1950. Lord Lieutenant for County Down.
Knight Bachelor William Kenneth Gwynne Allen, chairman and managing director, W. H. Allen, Sons & Co. Ltd., Bedford. John Fleetwood Baker, , Professor of Mechanical Sciences and Head of the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Sydney Barratt, chairman, Albright & Wilson Ltd. John Alan Birch, General Secretary, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. Thomas Maltby Bland, , Chairman of the Executive Council, County Councils Association; Vice-chairman, East Suffolk County Council. Professor John Boyd. For political and public services in Glasgow. Edward Joseph Brown, . For political services. Allen George Clark, chairman and managing director, Plessey Co. Ltd., Ilford, Essex. George Trenchard Cox, , Director, Victoria and Albert Museum. Harry Guy Dain, . Lately General Practitioner. For services to the British Medical Association and General Medical Council. Robert John Davies, . For political and public services in Wales. Arthur Bryce Duncan, lately chairman, Nature Conservancy. Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Eyre Crosthwaite-Eyre, , Member of Parliament for the New Forest and Christchurch Division, 1945–1950 and for the New Forest Division since 1950. For political and public services. Major-General Evelyn Dalrymple Fanshawe, . For political and public services in the East Midlands. Denys Theodore Hicks, , President of The Law Society. Austin Bradford Hill, , Professor of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. Charles Frederick William Illingworth, , Regius Professor of Surgery, University of Glasgow. Alderman Robert George Caldwell Kinahan, , lately Lord Mayor of Belfast. Thomas Malcolm Knox, Principal, University of St. Andrews. Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee, Headmaster, Winchester College. Reginald Stewart MacTier, , lately chairman, General Council of British Shipping and Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association. Cuthbert Gaulter Magee, , Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. Cyril Osborne, , Member of Parliament for Louth since 1945. For political and public services. Alderman Alfred George Beech Owen, . For political and public services in Staffordshire. Ralph Hubert John Delmé-Radcliffe. For political services in Hitchin. Herbert Vere Redman, , Counsellor (Information), HM Embassy, Tokyo. Harold Ernest Snow, . A Deputy Chairman and managing director, British Petroleum Co. Ltd. Francis William Walker, . For political and public services in Inverness-shire. Maurice Gordon Whittome, , Solicitor, Board of Customs and Excise. Captain James Paton Younger, . For public services in Scotland. Lord Lieutenant, County of Clackmannan.
State of Victoria Robert Rutherford Blackwood, General Manager, Dunlop Rubber Co. (Australia), for services to the University of Melbourne, State of Victoria. Major-General Alan Hollick Ramsay, , formerly Director of Education, State of Victoria.
State of Queensland Thomas Reginald Groom, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, State of Queensland. David John Muir, , Agent-General in London for the State of Queensland.
State of South Australia Edward Waterfield Hayward, Chairman of The St. John Council for the State of South Australia. Reginald Francis Matters, , a leading Gynaecologist in the State of South Australia.
State of Western Australia Henry Rudolph Howard, Lord Mayor of the City of Perth, State of Western Australia.
Commonwealth Relations Henry Morton Leech Williams, , President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India.
Overseas Territories Charles Rudolph Campbell, , chairman, Public Service Commission, Jamaica. Ralph Abercromby Campbell, Chief Justice, Bahamas. Trevor Jack Gould, Justice of Appeal, Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa. Patrick Hobson. For public services in Trinidad. Clifford de Lisle Inniss, Chief Justice, British Honduras. Joseph Patron, , Speaker of the Legislative Council, Gibraltar. Henry James Tucker, . For public services in Bermuda. Michael William Turner, . For public services in Hong Kong.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir John Peter Lorne Reid, . General Sir Richard Amyatt Hull, , (36442), late Royal Armoured Corps.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, . Vice-Admiral Royston Hollis Wright, . Lieutenant-General Richard Neville Anderson, , (38648), late Infantry Colonel, The King's Own Royal Border Regiment, Colonel, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles. Lieutenant-General William Gregory Huddleston Pike, , (31590), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Air Marshal Ronald Beresford Lees, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Sir Charles Craik Cunningham, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Bruce Donald Fraser, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Talbot Leadam Eddison, . Rear-Admiral John Byng Frewen. Rear-Admiral Derick Henry Fellowes Hetherington, . Rear-Admiral Arthur Richard Hezlet, . Rear-Admiral Frank Henry Edward Hopkins, . Rear-Admiral Vernon St Clair Lane Magniac. Rear-Admiral Charles Bernard Pratt. Rear-Admiral Arthur Allison FitzRoy Talbot, . Rear Admiral Wilfred Geoffrey Stuart Tighe.
Army Major-General Henry Templer Alexander, , (52569), late Infantry. Major-General Walter Arthur George Burns, , (50398), late Foot Guards. Major-General Hamish Manus Campbell, , (38852), Royal Army Pay Corps. Major-General Claude Ian Hurley Dunbar, , (41098), late Foot Guards. Major-General Geoffrey Richard Desmond Fitzpatrick, , (53670), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Norman Leslie Foster, , (44079), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Desmond Spencer Gordon, , (50906), late Infantry. Major-General Charles Henry Pepys Harington, , (44880), late Infantry. Major-General The Right Honourable Henry Charles, Baron Thurlow, , (47526), late Infantry.
Royal Air Force Air Vice Marshal Charles Broughton, . Air Vice Marshal Brian Kenyon Burnett, . Air Vice Marshal Christopher Harold Hartley, . Air Vice Marshal Thomas Ulric Curzon Shirley, . Air Vice Marshal Frederick Snowden Stapleton, . Air Vice Marshal Peter Guy Wykeham, . Acting Air Vice Marshal Bernard Albert Chacksfield, . Air Commodore Walter MacIan King, .
Civil Division Robert Burns, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Aviation. Neville Marriott Goodman, , Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. Norman William Graham, Under-Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland. Anthony Henry Jeffreys, Clerk Assistant of the Parliaments. Philip Staniforth Newell, Under-secretary, Admiralty. Anthony Percivall Pott, Chief Architect, Ministry of Education. Sydney Redman, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, War Office. Matthew Stevenson, , Under-secretary, HM Treasury. Henry Forbes Summers, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Reginald Cockroft Sutcliffe, , Chief Scientific Officer, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry. Mark Dalcour Tennant, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour. Ronald George Robert Wall, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Alfred Cecil Williams, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland. Alan Wolstencroft, Director of Radio Services, General Post Office.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Frederick Crawford, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Uganda.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Boris Petrovitch Uvarov, , lately Director, Anti-Locust Research Centre. William Arthur Weir Clark, , High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Cyprus. Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith, , Governor of the State of Queensland. John Buchanan, , Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Isham Peter Garran, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Mexico City. Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Addis Ababa.
Honorary Knight Commander Mohammed Ikramullah, formerly Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations in Pakistan.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Alexander Robson Bruce, , United Kingdom Trade Commissioner for New South Wales. Grahame Richard East, Assistant Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue. Alexander James Kellar, , Attached War Office. Claude Evan Loombe, Adviser to the Bank of England. John Ronald William Wilby, United Kingdom Trade Commissioner, Ontario. Thomas Johnston Buchan. For political and public services in the State of Victoria. Gerald William St. John Chadwick, an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Commonwealth Relations Office. George Read Fisher, chairman of the Board of Directors, Mount Isa Mines Pty Ltd., State of Queensland. Albert Millin, , in recognition of his long service to the European Advisory Council, Swaziland. William Shearer Philip, , President of the Board of Management, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, State of Victoria. John Orde Poynton, , Director of the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, State of South Australia. Cecil Majella Sheridan, Attorney-General, Federation of Malaya. Herbert Louis Adams, , Chief Administrative Officer, East Africa High Commission.