The 1972 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 23 May 1972 for the United Kingdom,United Kingdom list: Australia,Australia list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Mauritius,Mauritius list: Fiji,Fiji list: and Barbados.Barbados 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 Brigadier Sir Bernard Edward Fergusson, . For public services. Sir Harold Samuel. For public and charitable services.

Privy Counsellor The Right Honourable Charles Frank, Baron Byers, , Leader of the Liberal Party, House of Lords. Rodney Graham Page, , Minister for Local Government and Development. The Honourable Billy Mackie Snedden, , Treasurer for the Commonwealth of Australia. Sir Burke St. John Trend, , Secretary of the Cabinet.

Knight Bachelor Allan Ivor Baker, , Chairman, Baker Perkins Holdings Ltd. For services to Export. Donald James Barron, Chairman, Rowntree Mackintosh Ltd. For services to Export. Derek Harold Richard Barton, Hofmann Professor of Organic Chemistry, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Professor Misha Black, . For services to industrial design. Paul Elmore Oliver Bryan, . For political and public services. John Lawie Burgess, . For public services in Cumberland. Sydney Morris Caffyn, . For charitable services. William Oscar Carter, President, The Law Society. The Right Honourable Frederick Vernon Corfield, . For political and public services. Colonel William Robert Crawshay, . For public services in Wales. Martin Davies, , Director, National Gallery. Donald Macleod Douglas, , Professor of Surgery, University of Dundee. Professor Kingsley Charles Dunham, Director, Institute of Geological Sciences, and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society. Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, , Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition, University of London. John Ritchie Inch, , Chief Constable, City of Edinburgh Police Force. William Johnston Keswick, Director, Bank of England. Anthony Carey Lewis, , Principal, Royal Academy of Music. Patrick Arthur Macrory. For public services in Northern Ireland. Peter Thomson Menzies, Chairman, Electricity Council. Richard Anthony Meyjes, Head of Business Team, Civil Service Department. Edward Henry Nichols, , Town Clerk, City of London. Montague Illtyd Prichard, , Chairman, Perkins Engines Group Ltd. For services to Export. Leonard Redshaw, Assistant Managing Director, Vickers Ltd. For services to Export. William Reid, . For services to the North East. James Maude Richards, . For services to Architecture. Sydney Thomas Franklin Ryder, Chairman and Chief Executive, Reed International Ltd. Colonel Geoffrey Peter Shakerley, , Chairman, (Executive Council, County Councils Association. Robert Edward Graham Shillington, , Chief Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. John Arthur Stallworthy, Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford. Andrew Stephen, Chairman, The Football Association. Professor Michael Meredith Swann, , Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh. John Aked Taylor, . For political and public services in Yorkshire.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Lieutenant-Colonel Jeffrey Carlton Astwood, , Speaker of the House of Assembly, Bermuda. The Honourable Gilbert Alexander Cooper, . For public services in Bermuda. The Honourable John Anthony Holt Saunders, . For services to banking in Hong Kong.

Australian States State of New South Wales Arthur Thomas George. For services to the Australian-Greek community, universities and sport. George Mervyn Gray, , Under Secretary and Permanent Head of the Premier's Department and Secretary to the Cabinet. John Hedley Douglas Marks, . For services to hospitals and the community.

State of Victoria The Honourable George Oswald Reid, , Attorney-General and Chief Secretary.

State of Queensland The Honourable Alan Roy Fletcher, , Minister for Education and Cultural Activities. Councillor James Graham Walker, , of Longreach. For community services, particularly in the field of local government.

State of Tasmania The Honourable Mr Justice George Hunter Crawford, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division General Sir John Antony Jervis Read, , (62631), late Infantry, Colonel Commandant The Light Division, Colonel Commandant Small Arms School Corps, Colonel Commandant Army Catering Corps. Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Rosier, , Royal Air Force.

Civil Division Sir Arnold William France, , Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice Admiral John Edward Ludgate Martin, . Lieutenant-General John Houghton Gibbon, , (91397), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Colonel Commandant Royal Regiment of Artillery. Air Vice-Marshal Peter de Lacy Le Cheminant, , Royal Air Force.

Civil Division Idwal Vaughan Pugh, , Second Permanent Secretary, Department of the Environment. Henry Gabriel Ware, , HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. Lieutenant-Colonel The Right Honourable Sir Martin Michael Charles Charteris, , Private Secretary to The Queen and Keeper of Her Majesty's Archives.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Commandant Daphne Mary Blundell, , Women's Royal Naval Service. Rear Admiral Hilary Charles Nicholas Goodhart. Surgeon Rear Admiral Rex Philip Phillips, . Rear Admiral Charles William Haimes Shepherd, . Rear Admiral Alan Christopher Wyndham Wilson. Sidney Palmer, .

Army Major-General Ronald Edward Coaker, , (378164), late Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel 17th/21st Lancers. Major-General Henry Holland Evans (66675), late Royal Army Educational Corps. Major-General Peter Howard Girling, , (95692), late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Major-General Michael Stephen Hancock, , (73072), late Royal Corps of Signals, Colonel Commandant Royal Corps of Signals.

Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Reginald Edward Wynyard Harland. Air Vice-Marshal Frederick Desmond Hughes, . Air Vice-Marshal Brian Pashley Young, .

Civil Division Albert Gwyra Beynon, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Wilfred Burns, , Deputy Secretary and Chief Planner, Department of the Environment. Joan Davies Cooper, Director of Social Services, Department of Health and Social Security. Leonard Richard Creasy, , Director of Civil Engineering Development, Department of the Environment. Brian Arthur Cullum Duncan, , Judge Advocate General of HM Forces. Robert Fell, , Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department. Gordon Neville Gadsby, Chief Scientific Officer (A), Ministry of Defence. Frank Dickinson Lawton, Solicitor, Department of Employment. Alan Lord, Deputy Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue. Norman Jordan-Moss, , Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security. Edward Hurry Palmer, Comptroller of Defence Lands, Ministry of Defence. Sidney John Palmer, , Deputy Director General, Ships, Ministry of Defence. Leo Pliatzky, Deputy Secretary, HM Treasury. William George Pottinger, , Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland. Patrick Shea, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland. Geoffrey Ward Stallibrass, , Controller, National Air Traffic Services, Department of Trade and Industry.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Archibald Laurence Patrick Kirwan, , Director and Secretary, Royal Geographical Society.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Frank Dixey, , Consulting Hydrogeologist to the Department of Water Development, Cyprus. John Nicholas Henderson, , HM Ambassador, Warsaw. Charles Peter Hope, , HM Ambassador, Mexico City. Sir Robert Lucien Morrison Kirkwood. For services to Anglo-Jamaican relations and to the sugar industry. Frederick Archibald Warner, , HM Ambassador-designate, Tokyo.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) John Lewis Jones, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Defence. Jacob Jordan Watson, Counsellor (Labour), British Embassy, Washington. Cyril Montgomery White, , Chairman, Foreign Compensation Commission, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Lawrence John White, Assistant Secretary, Board of Customs and Excise.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List The Most Reverend George Appleton, , Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem. Rae Gordon Britten, lately British Deputy High Commissioner, Dacca. Edward Peter Nayler de Haan, , Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. John Boyd Denson, , lately British Chargé d'Affaires, Peking. John Alexander Noble Graham, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Edward Firth Henderson, HM Ambassador, Qatar. Ernest Gordon Lewis, , Governor, Falkland Islands. Reginald Louis Secondé, , Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Charles James Treadwell, HM Ambassador, Abu Dhabi.

Australian States State of Victoria His Honour Judge George Leo Dethridge, Chairman of County Court Judges, County Court of Victoria.

State of Queensland Frank Victor Sharpe, , of Brisbane. For his services to aviation and to the avocado industry.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) The Right Honourable Charles John, Viscount Cobham, .

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Brigadier Geoffrey Paul Hardy-Roberts, . Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Charles William Mackenzie Penn, .

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) The Right Honourable (Elizabeth) Vere Drummond, Baroness Birdwood, . Edwin Richard Cawston. Rear-Admiral Anthony Davies, . Alice Anne Hawkins, . Herbert Harry Hobbs, . Albert Charles Edward Musk, . Albert Edward Perkins, , Commander, Metropolitan Police. Commodore Courtenay Alexander Rives Shillington, , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Retired).

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

Fourth Class Commander Lionel Armitage Bird, Royal Navy. Sidney Scholfield Campbell. Captain Ian Walter Farquhar, The Queen's Own Hussars. Surgeon Commander Philip Fulford, Royal Navy. Oswald Gillespie, Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. The Reverend Canon James Seymour Denis Mansel. Geoffrey Montague Fenwick Stow.

Fifth Class Mary Ashby. David Frederick Batson. Marie Lilian Greiner. George Edward Wilson.

Medal of the Royal Victorian Order (RVM) In Silver Thomas William Bell. 2028660 Corporal of Horse Cyril Benjamin Blake, The Life Guards. Sydney William Bloomfield. Michael Silvester Donoghue. Leslie Hoskin. Chief Marine Engineering Artificer David Leonard Moody P/MX 857740. Catherine Josephine O'Neill. Yeoman Bed Goer Edward Cyril Parfett, Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Yeoman of the Guard. William Roper. 305026 Corporal of Horse Stanley Vaudin, The Life Guards. James Watt. Cyril Alfred Webb. Arthur Leslie Wrixen.

Bar to the Royal Victorian Medal (in Silver) Arthur Ernest Henness.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Civil Division Sir Hamilton Edward de Coucey Howard, , Lord Mayor of London.

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) Civil Division Unity Viola Lister, . For political and public services in London. The Right Honourable Bridget Horatia, Baroness Plowden. For services to Education.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) Military Division