The 1968 Queen's Birthday Honours were appointments to orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms to reward and highlight citizens' good works, on the occasion of the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 May 1968.United Kingdom list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Jamaica list: Gambia list: Mauritius 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
Life Peer Barons Dr. Thomas Balogh, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, since 1945, Economic Adviser to the Cabinet Office, 1964–67. Sir William Rushton Black, chairman, National Research Development Corporation. Lately Chairman, The Leyland Motor Corporation. Sir Geoffrey Crowther, chairman, The Economist Newspaper Ltd., chairman, Trust Houses Group Ltd. Professor William David Evans, Professor and Head of the Department of Geology, University of Nottingham. John Henry Jacques, , chairman, Cooperative Union Ltd.
Privy Counsellor Gerald William Reynolds, , Member of Parliament for Islington North since 1958. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Army, 1964–65. Minister of Defence for the Army, 1965–1967. Minister of Defence (Administration) since 1967. Goronwy Owen Roberts, , Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1945–1950, and for the Caernarvon Division since 1950. Minister of State, Welsh Office, 1964–1966. Minister of State, Department of Education and Science, 1966–1967. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs since 1967. John Thomson Stonehouse, , Member of Parliament for Wednesbury since 1957. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Aviation, 1964–1966. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1966–1967. Minister of Aviation, 1967. Minister of State, Ministry of Technology since 1967.
Knight Bachelor Arthur Percival Hay Aitken, deputy chairman, Stone-Platt Industries Ltd. For services to Export. Captain George Edward Barnard, Deputy Master, Trinity House. Thomas Blackburn, Lately Chairman and Joint Managing Director, Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd. Matthew Busby, , Manager, Manchester United Football Club. Professor Herbert Butterfield, Historian. Cornelius Cameron, , Alderman, Nottingham City Council. William Derrick Capper, Chief Constable, Birmingham City Police. John Selby Clements, . For services to Drama. Karl Cyril Cohen, , Councillor, Leeds City Council. Leonard Drucquer, chairman, Council of Engineering Institutions. John Norman Valette Duncan, , chairman and Chief Executive, Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Ltd. For services to Export. Laurence George Gale, , Controller, Royal Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Defence. Frederic Evelyn Harmer, , deputy chairman, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Charles Felix Harris, . For services to the University of London. David Patrick Huddie, managing director, Aero Engine Division, Rolls-Royce Ltd. For services to Export. Raymond Winter Jennings, , Master of the Court of Protection, Supreme Court of Judicature. Henry Cecil Johnson , chairman, British Railways Board. William Kirby Laing, , chairman, John Laing & Son Ltd. Professor Emeritus Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, . For services to Archaeology. William Loris Mather, , chairman, Mather & Platt Ltd. For services to Export. Hubert Newton, lately President, International Union of Building Societies and Savings Associations. Geoffrey Stephen William Organe, , Professor of Anaesthetics, University of London, (Westminster Hospital Medical School). Rudolf Ernst Peierls, , Wykeham Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford. Norman George Mollett Prichard, , chairman, London Boroughs Association. John Renwick, , President, The Law Society. Kenneth Robson, , Registrar, Royal College of Physicians. Rupert Leigh Sich, , Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements. Iain Maxwell Stewart, lately chairman, Fairfields (Glasgow) Ltd. Allan Grierson Walker, , Sheriff of Lanarkshire. Barnes Neville Wallis, , Chief of Aeronautical Research and Development, British Aircraft Corporation (Operating) Ltd., Weybridge.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Cyril Alfred Pitts, United Kingdom citizen, lately resident in India.
State of New South Wales John William Goodsell, , chairman, Public Service Board. The Honourable Gordon Wallace, President, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales.
State of Victoria Councillor Arthur William Nicholson, , Mayor of the City of Ballarat.
State of Queensland Arthur Henry Petfield. For services to industrial development and to the community.
State of Western Australia Cyril Pangbourne Bird. For services to the community, particularly in the field of Public Accounting.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division General Sir Alan Jolly, , (49887), late Royal Armoured Corps. Colonel Commandant, Royal Tank Regiment.
Civil Division Sir William Armstrong, , Joint Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and Head of the Home Civil Service.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice Admiral Donald Cameron Ernest Forbes Gibson, . Lieutenant-General Robert George Victor Fitzgeorge-Balfour, , (53288), late Foot Guards. Lieutenant-General Ian Henry Freeland, , (53691), late Infantry, Deputy Colonel, The Royal Anglian Regiment. Acting Air Marshal Andrew Henry Humphrey, , Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Lewis MacDonald Hodges, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Basil Charles Engholm, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. William Alan Nield, , Permanent Under-secretary of State, Department of Economic Affairs.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral Józef Bartosik, . Rear Admiral George Clement Crowley, . Rear Admiral George Hammond Evans. Rear Admiral William Allen Haynes. Rear Admiral John Edward Ludgate Martin, . Surgeon Rear Admiral Stanley Miles. Rear Admiral William Terence Colborne Ridley, . Rear Admiral Denis Bryan Harvey Wildish.
Army Major-General John Humphrey Stephen Bowring, , (56617), late Corps of Royal Engineers, Colonel Gurkha Engineers. Major-General Peter Edward Moore Bradley, , (63546), late Royal Corps of Signals, Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Signals. Major-General Charles Julius Deedes, , (56714), late Infantry, Colonel The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Major-General Raymond Cyril Alexander Edge, , (53654), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Fergus Alan Humphrey Ling, , (64575), late Infantry. Major-General Ian Argyll Robertson, , (62986), late Infantry. Major-General Phillip Thomas Tower, , (71007), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Peter de Lacy Le Cheminant, . Air Vice-Marshal Harold Brownlow Martin, . Air Vice-Marshal George Henry Morley, . Air Commodore Peter Gerald Desmond Farr, . Air Commodore Idris George Selvin Hemming, , (Retired). Air Commodore Stanley Edwin Druce Mills, , (Retired).
Civil Division Rowland Lancelot Allen, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. Richard Douglas Barlas, , Second Clerk Assistant and Clerk of Committees, House of Commons. Charles Young Carstairs, . Under-Secretary, Ministry of Public Building and Works. Cecil Charles Hall, Director, Warren Spring Laboratory, Ministry of Technology. William Francis Spencer Hawkins, . Chief Master, Chancery Division of the Supreme Court of Judicature. John Joseph Benedict Hunt, First Commissioner, Civil Service Commission. Alexander Anthony Jarratt, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Department of Employment and Productivity. John Andrew Jukes, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Department of Economic Affairs. Herbert John Whitfield Lewis, Chief Architect, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. John Andrew Oliver, Second Secretary, Ministry of Development for Northern Ireland. Robert Macdonald Shaw, , Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. Charles Anthony Goodall Simkins, , attached Ministry of Defence. Anthony Edward Walter Ward, , Solicitor, Ministry of Social Security. (Died, 21 May 1968). James Murray Widdecombe, , Director General of Supplies and Transport (Naval), Ministry of Defence. Geoffrey Masterman Wilson, , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Members of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross, of the said Most Distinguished Order Sir Geoffrey Wedgwood Harrison, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Moscow. Sir Patrick Reilly, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Paris.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Robin William John Hooper, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Aden. Arthur James de la Mare, , British High Commissioner, Singapore. Roderick Francis Gisbert Sarell, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Tripoli. Eric Henry Wyndham White, lately Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (G.A.T.T.), Geneva.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Professor Brian Gilmore Maegraith, , Dean, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. John Duncan Miller, Lately Head of the European Office International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Cicely Delphine Williams, , For services to paediatrics overseas.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Colin Hamilton Allan, , British Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides. John Ernest Fleetwood Codrington, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Bahama Islands. Halsey Sparrowe Colchester, , Foreign Office. Thomas Anthony Keith Elliott, Political Adviser, Hong Kong. Ratu Penaia Kanatabatu Ganilau, , Minister for Fijian Affairs and Local Government, Fiji. Edward Ferguson Given, lately Counsellor, Office of the Political Adviser to the Commander-in-Chief, Far East, Singapore. John Dunn Hennings, lately Head of British Office, Salisbury, Rhodesia. Kenneth Douglas Jamieson, lately Counsellor (Commercial), Her Majesty's Embassy, Caracas. Arthur Terence Lecky, Foreign Office. James Livingstone, , Controller, Establishments Division, British Council. Jeffrey Charles Petersen, lately Counsellor (Commercial), Her Majesty's Embassy, Athens. Henry Sydney Herbert Cloete Stanley, Foreign Office/Commonwealth Office. Robert Mathieson Tesh, Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Cairo. John Sutherland Thomson, , Administrator, British Virgin Islands. Charles Douglas Wiggin, , Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Tehran. Edward Youde, , Counsellor and Head of Chancery, United Kingdom Mission to United Nations, New York.
State of New South Wales The Honourable Abram Landa, Agent General for New South Wales in London.
State of Victoria Leonard Bell Cox, , chairman, National Gallery Trustees. For services to the community.
State of Western Australia Alfred Charles Curlewis. For services to local government and to the community.
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Hedley Fielden, .
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Rear Admiral Christopher Douglas Bonham-Carter, . Major-General Cyril Harry Colquhoun, . Colonel the Right Honourable Wykeham Stanley, Baron Cornwallis, . Major-General David Dawnay, . Major-General Basil Oscar Paul Eugster, . Jack Alexander Sutherland-Harris, . Major the Honourable Francis Michael Legh, . Murray Louis Tyrrell, .
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Peter Dimmock, . Commander John Lawlor, Metropolitan Police.