The 1971 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 4 June 1971 for the United Kingdom,United Kingdom list: Australia,Australia list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Mauritius,Mauritius list: and Fiji.Fiji 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

Baron Major The Right Honourable James Dawson Chichester-Clark, , lately Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.

Privy Counsellor The Honourable John Douglas Anthony, , Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry, Commonwealth of Australia. Sir Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, , Chairman of Ways and Means, House of Commons. Dr the Honourable Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, , Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Internal Security, and Minister of Information and Broadcasting of Mauritius.

Knight Bachelor Ove Nyquist Arup, . For services to Civil Engineering. Anthony George Bernard Burney, , Senior Partner, Binder Hamlyn & Co., Chartered Accountants. John Allen Clark, Chairman and Chief Executive, Plessey Co. Ltd. For services to Export. Charles Clore. For charitable services. Peter Averell Daniell, , Senior Partner, Mullens & Co., and Government Broker. John Henry Harris Davis, Chairman and Chief Executive, The Rank Organisation Ltd. William Richard Shaboe Doll, , Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford. Norman William Graham, , Secretary, Scottish Education Department. Fred Harvey Hutty. For services to Education. Harry Ernest Jones, , Agent of the Government of Northern Ireland in Great Britain. William Emrys Jones, Director General, Agricultural Development and Advisory Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. John Towersey Lidbury, Deputy Managing Director, Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd. For services to Export. Michael James Lighthill, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge. Charles Patrick Home McCall, , Clerk to the Lancashire County Council. George Gray Macfarlane, , Controller of Research, Ministry of Defence. James Wilson McKay, Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Godfrey William Rowland Morley, , President, The Law Society. Thomas Alexander Fraser Noble, , Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester. Basil Arthur Parkes, . For services to the fishing industry. Arthur Desmond Herne Plummer, , Leader of the Greater London Council. Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, lately Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford. Terence Mervyn Rattigan, , Playwright. Samuel Conrad Seward, , Director, Stone-Platt Industries Ltd. For services to Export. Henry Martin Smith, , HM Chief Inspector of Fire Services, Home Office. Percy Stephenson. For political and public services in Lancashire. Terence George Ward, . For services to Dental Surgery. Richard James Webster, . For political services.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Colonel the Honourable John Douglas Clague, . For public services in Hong Kong. James Olva Georges, . For public services in the British Virgin Islands. The Honourable Mr. Justice Louis Georges Souyave, Chief Justice, Seychelles.

Australian States State of New South Wales John Worroker Austin. For services to industry. Lincoln Carruthers Hynes, . For services to the community. John Robert Walton. For services to commerce.

State of Victoria Willis Henry Connolly, , of St. Kilda. For long and distinguished service with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria. Philip Frederick Jones, of Toorak. For services to journalism.

State of Queensland Leslie Charles Thiess, , of Brisbane. For services to the coal export industry and for his philanthropic activities.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Civil Division Sir Edmund Gerald Compton, , lately Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice Admiral Anthony Templer Frederick Griffin, , Royal Navy. Vice Admiral Robert George Raper, , Royal Navy. Lieutenant-General Harry Craufurd Tuzo, , late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Air Marshal Harry Burton , Royal Air Force.

Civil Division Kenneth Ernest Berrill, Chairman, University Grants Committee. Robert Braithwaite Marshall, , Second Permanent Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral Edward Findlay Gueritz, . Rear Admiral James Percy Knowles Harkness. Surgeon Rear Admiral Nicol Sinclair Hepburn, . Rear Admiral Frederick Charles William Lawson, . Rear Admiral Richard Douglas Roberts. Rear Admiral Arthur Rodney Barry Sturdee, .

Army Major-General Richard Lewis Clutterbuck, , late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Jack Raymond Reynolds, , late Royal Army Service Corps, now R.A.R.O. Major-General Jeremy Michael Spencer-Smith, , late Foot Guards. Major-General Walter Babington Thomas, , late Infantry.

Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Frank Ronald Bird, . Air Vice-Marshal Peter Charles Cleaver, . Air Vice-Marshal Desmond Ernest Hawkins, . Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Charles Lowe, . Air Commodore Philippa Frances Marshall, , Women's Royal Air Force.

Civil Division Paul Adams, , Chief Master, Taxing Office, Supreme Court of Judicature. Sidney Charles Bacon, Controller, Royal Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Defence. Ian Powell Bancroft, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment. Jack Eglington Beddoe, Under Secretary, Department of the Environment. Edward Percy Brown, Chief Inspector and Commissioner, Board of Customs and Excise. Richard Henry Watson Bullock, Deputy Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry. Neil Francis Cairncross, Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office. William Robert Cox, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Andrew Francis Joseph Grant, lately Director of Home Regional Services, Department of the Environment. Edwin William George Haynes, Under Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry. Patrick Dalmahoy Nairne, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. William John Conway Plumbe, lately HM Chief Inspector of Factories, Department of Employment. Henry Peter Rowe, Parliamentary Counsel. David Somerville, Under Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security. Joanna Miriam Spencer, , Under Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry. Douglas William Gretton Wass, Deputy Secretary, HM Treasury.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Archibald Duncan Wilson, , HM Ambassador, Moscow. Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright, , HM Ambassador, Tehran.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Geoffrey George Arthur, , HM Political Resident, Bahrain. Reginald Michael Hadow, , HM Ambassador, Buenos Aires. John Edward Killick, , Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Crawford Murray MacLehose, , Governor-designate, Hong Kong. John Howard Peck, , HM Ambassador, Dublin.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Christopher Mervyn Dalley, Chairman, Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd. George Geoffrey David Hill, Assistant Secretary, Department of the Environment. Professor William Edgar Kershaw, . For services to parasitology. Harry Norman Roffey, Assistant Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List David Pascoe Aiers, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. William Stanley Bates, British High Commissioner, Georgetown. Roy Grissell Bennett. For services to British interests in Singapore. Edwin Bolland, Counsellor, HM Embassy, Washington. Michael Denys Arthur Clinton, , Deputy Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong. Kenneth Arthur East, Minister, British High Commission, Lagos. Anthony Arthur Golds, , HM Ambassador and Consul-General, Yaoundé. Keith Lyndell Gordon, lately Justice of Appeal, West Indies Associated States Supreme Court. David Gerard Gordon-Smith, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Geoffrey Ernest Derek MacBride, , Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Frank Mills, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Terence John O'Brien, , HM Ambassador, Kathmandu. Reginald McCartney Samples, , Head of British Government Office and Senior Trade Commissioner, Toronto. Anthony James Williams, HM Ambassador and Consul-General, Phnom Penh.

Australian States State of New South Wales Edwin James Walder. For services to the State.

State of Victoria Councillor Edward Wallace Best. For services to local government and the community especially as Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne.

State of Queensland Alderman William Robert Golding, . of Gladstone. For outstanding public service.

State of South Australia Maxwell Lewis Dennis, of Glenelg East. For outstanding public service.

Royal Victorian Order

Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) The Honourable Olivia Vernon Mulholland, .

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) The Right Honourable Gilbert James, Earl of Ancaster, . Major-General the Honourable Michael Fitzalan-Howard, . John Francis Hewitt, .

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Reginald Wilfrid Barrow, . Robert Edward Boote. Brigadier William Greenwood Carr, . Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Andrew Balvaird Lawson, . Commander Philip Brian Martineau, , Royal Navy (Retired). Edward Max Nicholson, . Marshall Arnott Sisson, . Cecil Dennis Waldron, .

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

Fourth Class James Bell. The Reverend Ronald Budge. Ethel Strachan Colquhoun, . Commander John Phillip Edwards, Royal Navy. Squadron Leader Thomas Alvin Jackson, , Royal Air Force. John William Lewis, . Malcolm Henry McQueen. Adrian Vincent Pelly, . Leslie Potts. Harold Vince Tillotson.

Fifth Class Walter Arthur Carpenter. George Crisp. Ann Mary Hughes. Joan Margaret Kirby. Diana Mary Robina Makgill.

Medal of the Royal Victorian Order (RVM) In Silver Henry Charles Owen Clarke. Police Constable Edward William Fry, Metropolitan Police. George Gordon. William Holloway. Police Constable Evan John Jones, Metropolitan Police. Chief Petty Officer John Roland Mayes, P/JX 818355. Bernard Wallace McLaren. Arthur Stanley Shergold. Reginald Southgate. William Henry Spong. William George Tinson.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Military Division Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Henry Freeland, , (53691), late Infantry, Deputy Colonel The Royal Anglian Regiment (Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire).

Civil Division Sir Peter Malden Studd, Lord Mayor of London.

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) Civil Division Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw. For services to Education.

Australian States State of Victoria Mabel Irene, Lady Coles, , of Mount Eliza. For charitable activities.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) Military Division Surgeon Vice Admiral Eric Blackburn Bradbury, , Royal Navy. Acting Air Marshal John Samuel Rowlands, , Royal Air Force.

Civil Division Sir John Norris Nicholson, , Chairman, Ocean Steam Ship Company Ltd. Ernest John Partridge, President, Confederation of British Industry. The Right Honourable Robert Hugh Turton, . For political and public services.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Rudolf Franz Josef Bing, . For services to Anglo-American relations. Professor Douglas Vernon Hubble, , lately Dean of Medical Faculty, Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa.

Australian States State of Queensland