The Queen's Birthday Honours 1978 were appointments by 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 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours were announced on 3 June for the United KingdomUK list: and Life Peers,Life Peers list: Australia,Australia list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Mauritius,Mauritius list: Fiji,Fiji list: The Bahamas,Bahamas list: Grenada,Grenada list: and Papua New Guinea.Papua New Guinea 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
Life Peer Baroness Dame Evelyn Joyce Denington, DBE, Chairman, Stevenage Development Corporation. Lately Chairman, Greater London Council. Margaret Susan Ryder, CMG, OBE, (Mrs. Cheshire), Founder and Social Worker, Sue Ryder Foundation for the Sick and Disabled of all Age Groups.
Baron William John Blease, lately Northern Ireland Officer of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Sir Robert Brockie Hunter, MBE, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Birmingham. Sir Paul Reilly, lately Director, Design Council. Sir Edwin Rodney Smith, KBE, lately President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Privy Councillor Gerald Bernard Kaufman, MP, Minister of State, Department of Industry. The Honourable Sir Robert Edgar Megarry, Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice. Roland Dunstan Moyle, MP, Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security. John Smith, MP, Minister of State, Privy Council Office.
Knight Bachelor Professor Kenneth John Wilson Alexander, Chairman, Highlands and Islands Development Board. The Honourable John Jacob Astor, MBE, Chairman, Agricultural Research Council. Professor George Grenfell-Baines, OBE. For services to Architecture. Terence Norman Beckett, CBE, Chairman and Managing Director, Ford Motor Co. Ltd. William James Bryden, CBE, QC, lately Sheriff Principal of the Lothian and Borders. Eric Wallers Cheadle, CBE. For services to the newspaper industry. Amos Henry Chilver, Vice-Chancellor, Cranfield Institute of Technology. John Stafford Cripps, CBE, lately Chairman, Countryside Commission. John Graham Cuckney, Chairman of the Crown Agents. Richard Kenneth Denby, President of The Law Society. Alastair Frederick Down, OBE, MC, TD, Chairman, Burmah Oil Co. Ltd. Denis Follows, CBE. For services to Sport. Francis Geoffrey Hawkings, Chairman, Stone Platt Industries Ltd. For services to Export. Barrie Heath, DFC, AE, Group Chairman, Guest Keen & Nettlefolds Ltd. For services to Export. Harry Thurston Hookway, Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman, British Library Board. Hans Leo Kornberg, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. Frederick Alfred Laker, Chairman and Managing Director, Laker Airways Ltd. William d'Auvergne Maycock, CBE, MVO, Director, Blood Products Laboratory, Lister Institute. Henry Roderick Moore, CBE, Chairman, North East Thames Regional Health Authority. Peter Parker, MVO, Chairman, British Railways Board. Ernest Jones-Parry, Executive Director, International Sugar Organization. Thomas Parry. For services to Welsh scholarship. Raymond William Pennock, Deputy Chairman, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. For services to Export. John Devereux Pile, TD, Chairman, Imperial Group Ltd. Professor Harry Raymond Pitt, Vice-Chancellor, University of Reading. Douglas Ranger, Dean, The Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Robert Telford, CBE, Managing Director, GEC-Marconi Electronics Ltd. For services to Export.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Anthony William Byrd Hayward. For services to British commercial interests and the British community in India. Yue-Kong Pao, CBE. For public and community services in Hong Kong.
Australian States State of Victoria Roderick Howard Carnegie, of Toorak. For services to industry. Louis Frederick Pyke, ED, of Malvern. For services to the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
State of Queensland Roderick Consett Proctor, MBE, of Hamilton. For services to the business community and people of Queensland. Frank Victor Sharpe, CMG, OBE, ED, of Clayfield. For services to the community.
State of Western Australia George Montario Bedbrook, OBE, of Floreat Park. For services in the fields of orthopaedic surgery and paraplegic and quadraplegic rehabilitation.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir Henry Leach, KCB.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice Admiral Arthur Desmond Cassidi. Vice Admiral John Morrison Forbes.
Army Major General Peter John Hall Leng, CB, MBE, MC, (307865) late The Royal Anglian Regiment, Colonel Commandant Corps of Royal Military Police. Colonel Commandant Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Lieutenant General John Wilfred Stanier, MBE, (365443) late The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons).
Royal Air Force Air Marshal John Moreton Nicholls, CBE, DFC, AFC. Acting Air Marshal John Gingell, CBE.
Civil Division Lawrence Airey, CB, Second Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury. Robert Temple Armstrong, CB, CVO, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. John Alexander Atkinson, CB, DFC, Second Permanent Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security. Henry Peter Rowe, CB, QC, First Parliamentary Counsel.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral Christopher Martin Bevan. Rear Admiral William James McClune. Rear Admiral Cecil Ernest Price, AFC. Rear Admiral Charles Arthur Winfield Weston.
Army Major General Albert Patrick Dignan, MBE, (410605), late Royal Army Medical Corps (now RARO). Major General John Hulbert Foster (343958), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major General Donald Edward Isles, OBE, (304096), Colonel Commandant The King's Division. Colonel The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding). Honorary Colonel 3rd Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve. The Venerable Archdeacon Peter Mallett, QHC, (432359), Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal William Edward Colahan, CBE, DFC, (Retd.) Air Vice-Marshal David Brownrigg Craig, OBE. Air Vice-Marshal Thomas Lawrie Kennedy, AFC. Air Vice-Marshal Charles Ernest Ness, CBE.
Civil Division William Ewart Bell, Permanent Secretary, Department of Finance for Northern Ireland. William Rupert Graham Bell, Under-Secretary, Department of Industry. James Armstrong Gordon Carmichael, Chief Medical Adviser, Department of Health and Social Security. John Seton Cassels, Director, Manpower Services Commission. John Rankin Christie, lately Deputy Master and Comptroller, Royal Mint. Peter Tiarks Ede England, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence. James Allan Ford, MC, Under-Secretary, Scottish Office. Graham John Graham-Green, TD, Chief Master of the Supreme Court Taxing Office. Peter John Hudson, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence. Fred Jones, CBE, Deputy Secretary, HM Treasury. William Ian McIndoe, Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office. Ronald Sydney Matthews, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security. Joseph Michael Moran, QC, Legal Secretary to the Lord Advocate and First Parliamentary Draftsman for Scotland. George Walker Moseley, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment. Derek Leslie Pearson, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development. Robert Burnell Roper, Chief Land Registrar. Alan Thompson, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education and Science. Francis Walley, Under-Secretary, Department of the Environment. James Webb, Under-Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue. Additional Member William Frederick Payne Heseltine, CVO, Deputy Private Secretary to The Queen.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Maurice Oldfield, KCMG, CBE, lately Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Derick Rosslyn Ashe, CMG, Leader of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, Geneva. Donald Frederick Hawley, CMG, MBE, British High Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur. Herbert Ben Curtis Keeble, CMG, HM Ambassador, Moscow. Jeffrey Charles Petersen, CMG, HM Ambassador, Stockholm.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Richard Cerdin Griffiths, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development. Alan Waller Woodruff, Wellcome Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Professor Ben Atkinson Wortley, OBE, QC. For services to international law.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Adrian Clarence Buxton, HM Ambassador, La Paz. George Buchanan Chalmers, Minister (Economic), HM Embassy, Tehran. Patrick Taylor Davies, OBE, Chief Inspector, Area Courts, Kano State, Nigeria. John Christopher Edmonds, CVO, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Timothy John Everard, Counsellor (Economic) HM Embassy, Athens. Paul Ronald Ninnes Fifoot, Counsellor (Legal Adviser) United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, New York. Colin Frederick Figures, OBE, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Lord Nicholas Charles Gordon-Lennox, MVO, Counsellor and Head of Chancery, HM Embassy, Paris. Michael Hugh Morgan, British High Commissioner, Freetown. Robert James O'Neill, lately Foreign and Commonwealth Office. John Rowland Rich, Counsellor (Commercial) HM Embassy, Bonn. Clifford William Squire, MVO, Counsellor, HM Embassy, Washington. Benjamin Leckie Strachan, HM Ambassador, Sana'a.
Australian States State of New South Wales Charles Beynon Lloyd Jones. For services to commerce and the arts. State of Victoria Alfred Dunbavin Butcher, of North Balwyn. For services to the Zoological Board of Victoria. State of Queensland Norman Gregory Joseph Behan, of Bardon. For services to the community particularly in the fields of medicine and the arts. State of Western Australia Ronald Darling Wilson, QC, of Nedlands. For services to the community.
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson. William Alan Wood, CB.
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Lieutenant Colonel William Dalison Keown-Boyd, OBE. Group Captain Desmond Lionel Edmonds, AFC, Royal Air Force. Reginald Joffre Elliott, MVO. Air Marshal Sir Maurice Lionel Heath, KBE, CB. Colonel Frank McEachren, ED, CD. Lord Rupert Charles Montacute Nevill.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO) Peter Bacon. The Reverend Felix Vivian Allan Boyse. Robert George Emberson. Frank Reginald Francis, MBE. Captain Roland Henry Grimshaw, Irish Guards. John Brook Marriott. Lieutenant Colonel Trevor le Mare Sharpe, OBE, Coldstream Guards. Conrad Marshall John Fisher Swan.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO) Maurice Harold Allen. Mabel Anderson. Jeffrey Bertram Cackett. Norma Rose Dunlop (Norma Wilkins). Anne Elizabeth Fisher, MBE. Sonia Hill. William Hewit Murray Millar. Eric Giles Paton, MBE. Marguerite Reid. Edward Victor Schopman.
Royal Victorian Medal (RVM) In Gold Joseph Annison. James Robert Emmerson.
In Silver Betty Bush. George Royal Bushell. Frank Samuel Cranston. Chief Radio Supervisor Albert Deane, J889812Q. Donald Edred Easterbrook. Charles Elliott. Police Constable Roger Charles Fletcher, Metropolitan Police. David Stewart Forsyth. V0685502 Chief Technician Roger Henry Harris, Royal Air Force. William Hudson. Police Constable Donald William Jarvis, Metropolitan Police. F194S038 Sergeant Michael Edward Legg, Royal Air Force. Edward George Murphy. S4235891 Master Air Load Master Peter Ronald Stokes, Royal Air Force. Alexander Webster. Frederick George Wills, BEM.