The Queen's Birthday Honours 1973 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. They were published on 2 June 1973 for the United Kingdom,UK list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Mauritius,Mauritius list: and Fiji.Fiji 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 Colonies
Privy Councillor Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, MP, Minister of State for Defence. Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, MP, Chief Secretary, Treasury.
Knight Bachelor Geoffrey William Gerald Agnew. For services to Art. Stephen France Burman, CBE. For services to the University of Birmingham. Maurice Fletcher Coop. For political and public services in London and the Midlands. Alfred Rupert Neale Cross, FBA, Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford. Peter Lauderdale Daubeny, CBE. For services to the Theatre. Herbert John Salisbury Dewes, CBE, DL, Chairman, Cheshire County Council. James Fyfe Falconer, MBE, Town Clerk, Glasgow. Professor Raymond William Firth, FBA, Anthropologist. Colonel Alastair Stewart Durward Graesser, DSO, OBE, MC, TD. For public services in Wales. Keith Granville, CBE, Deputy Chairman, British Airways Board. John Archibald Browne Gray, FRS, Secretary, Medical Research Council. Anthony Charles Grover, Chairman, Lloyd's Register of Shipping. John Hall, OBE, MP. For political and public services. Charles Collier Johnston, TD. For political and public services in the North West. Andrew Watt Kay, Regius Professor of Surgery, University of Glasgow. Percy Edward Kent, FRS. For services to petroleum exploration. Henry Lumby, CBE, DL, Chairman, Lancashire County Council. Donald James Dundas Maitland, CMG, OBE, Chief Press Secretary, 10 Downing Street. James Woodham Menter, FRS, Director of Research & Development, Tube Investments Ltd. Ian Thomas Morrow, Deputy Chairman, Rolls-Royce (1971) Ltd. George Chester Ogden, CBE, DL, Town Clerk, Manchester City Council. Thomas Angus Lyall Paton, CMG, FRS, Senior Partner, Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners. Charles Henry Plumb, President, National Farmers' Union. Frederick Lincoln Ralphs. For services to Education. Alderman Herbert Redfearn. For political and public services in Yorkshire. Professor Eric Frank Scowen, Chairman, Committee on Safety of Medicines. David Arnold Solomon, MBE, Chairman, Liverpool Regional Hospital Board. Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey William Style, CBE, DSC, RN, Chairman, National Advisory Council on the Employment of the Disabled, for services to disabled people. Henry John Lester Suffield, Head of Defence Sales, Ministry of Defence. John Dudley Robert Tarleton Tilney, TD, MP. For political and public services. Tobias Rushton Weaver, CB, Deputy Secretary, Department of Education & Science. Colonel Joseph William Weld, OBE, TD. For public services in Dorset. Ernest Woodroofe, Chairman, Unilever Ltd.
Diplomatic Service & Overseas List The Honourable Mr. Justice William Alexander Blair-Kerr, Senior Puisne Judge, Hong Kong. The Honourable Milo Boughton Butler. For public services in the Bahama Islands. Mr. Justice Michael Herbert Frank Holden, CBE, ED, Chief Justice, Rivers State, Nigeria. The Honourable Mr. Justice John Crampton Summerfield, CBE, QC, Chief Justice, Bermuda.
Australian States State of New South Wales Tristan Venus Antico. For services to industry and the community. The Honourable Mr. Justice Alexander Craig Beattie. For services to the State. Leslie Joseph Hooker. For services to commerce and the community. Clyde David Allen Kennedy. For services to sport. George Proud. For services to the community.
State of Victoria The Honourable Raymond William Garrett, AFC, MLC, of Doncaster. For services in politics, civic affairs and defence. Clifton Vaughan Holland, of Brighton. For services to engineering.
State of Queensland William Guilford Allen, Snr., CBE, of Longreach. For services to the Queensland pastoral industry and the community. The Honourable Peter Roylance Delamothe, OBE, Agent-General for Queensland in London. Reginald Basil McAllister, CMG, CVO, of Herston. For outstanding services to Queensland and to charity and in fostering international relations.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Army Lieutenant-General (local General) Sir Harry Craufurd Tuzo, KCB, OBE, MC, (94690), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Colonel Commandant Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Lieutenant General Basil Ian Spencer Gourlay, OBE, MC. Vice Admiral John Rae McKaig, CBE.
Army Lieutenant-General David William Fraser, OBE, (184424), late Foot Guards.
Royal Air Force Air Marshal Denis Crowley-Milling, CBE, DSO, DFC. Acting Air Marshal John Alexander Carlisle Aiken, CB.
Civil Division Douglas Owen Henley, CB, Second Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury. John Joseph Benedict Hunt, CB, Second Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office. Arthur William Peterson, CB, MVO, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Jack Leslie Rampton, CB, Second Permanent Secretary, Department of Trade & Industry.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral Michael Harold Griffin. Rear Admiral Peter George La Niece, CBE. Rear Admiral Ian Jaffery Lees-Spalding. Major General Robert Beverley Loudoun, OBE. The Venerable Chandos Clifford Hastings Mansel Morgan, QHC. Rear Admiral Harry Desmond Nixon, MVO.
Army Major General Robert Cyril Ford, CBE, (284433), late Royal Armoured Corps. Brigadier Sheila Anne Elizabeth Heaney, MBE, TD, Honorary ADC, (192854), Women's Royal Army Corps. Major General Mervyn Janes, MBE, (243497), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major General Leonard Thomas Herbert Phelps, OBE, (328216), late Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Cresswell Montagu Clementi, CBE. Air Vice-Marshal Herbert Durkin. Air Vice-Marshal Eric Donald Hills, CBE. Air Vice-Marshal Alexander McKay Sinclair Steedman, CBE, DFC. Group Captain The Honourable Peter Beckford Rutgers Vanneck, OBE, AFC, ADC, DL, Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
Civil Division John Elliott Aiken, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Health & Social Services, Northern Ireland. Peter Robert Baldwin, Deputy Secretary, HM Treasury. Ewen Broadbent, CMG, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence. James William Calder, OBE, HM Chief Inspector of Mines & Quarries, Department of Trade & Industry. William John Chalmers, CBE, Secretary and Director General, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. William John Charnley, Controller of Guided Weapons & Electronics, Ministry of Defence. George Edward Dudman, Legal Adviser, Department of Education & Science. John Garlick, Director General, Highways, Department of the Environment. Christopher Alfred Herbert, Principal Director, Ministry of Defence. William Alfred Hobbs, CBE, Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue. James Hogarth, Under Secretary, Scottish Home & Health Department. James Littlewood, Director of Savings, Department for National Savings. Carrol Austin John Naish O'Sullivan, The Public Trustee. Richard Domville Poland, Under Secretary, Department of the Environment. Raymond Frederick Prosser, MC, Deputy Secretary, Department of Trade & Industry. Claud Richard Ross, Deputy Secretary, Central Policy Review Staff, Cabinet Office. Terence Rowland Frazer Skemp, Parliamentary Counsel.
Additional Member Philip Brian Cecil Moore, CMG, 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) Diplomatic Service & Overseas List Sir Robert Stewart Crawford, KCMG, CVO, lately Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Sir Colin Tradescant Crowe, KCMG, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, New York.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Diplomatic Service & Overseas List Arthur Antony Duff, CMG, CVO, DSO, DSC, British High Commissioner, Nairobi. Horace Phillips, CMG, HM Ambassador, Ankara. John Laurence Pumphrey, CMG, HM Ambassador, Islamabad.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Ralph Ingham Hallows, MBE, lately Adviser, Bank of England. For services to British interests in the Middle East. Nicolaas Basil Jacques Huijsman, Assistant Secretary, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (Overseas Development Administration). John William Purseglove. For services to the improvement of tropical agriculture. Grenfell William Totman, OBE, Controller of Finance, Commonwealth Development Corporation. Raymond Henry Willmott, Counsellor (Energy & Shipping), British Embassy, Washington.
Diplomatic Service & Overseas List Arthur Henry Brind, Acting British High Commissioner, Kampala. Derek Neilson Brinson, MC, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. John Kenneth Drinkall, HM Ambassador, Kabul. John Redvers Freeland, Counsellor (Legal Adviser), United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, New York. Charles Philip Haddon-Cave, Financial Secretary, Hong Kong. John Henry Gladstone Leahy, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. John Stephen Longrigg, OBE, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Donald Collin Cumyn Luddington, Secretary for Home Affairs, Hong Kong. James Ironside McGhie, Minister (Commercial & Economic), HM Embassy, Tokyo. Peter George Arthur Wakefield, lately Minister (Commercial & Economic), HM Embassy, Tokyo.
Australian States State of New South Wales Arthur Frederick Deer. For services to commerce and the community.
State of Victoria Colonel Alfred Newcombe Kemsley, CBE, ED, of Brighton. For services to the Shrine of Remembrance and the community in peace and war. The Honourable Ivan Archie Swinburne, MLC, of Myrtleford. For services to politics and the community.
State of Queensland Alan Johnston Campbell, of Kenmore. For services in rural and associated fields of endeavour.
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) The Right Honourable Ralph Francis Alnwick, Baron Grey of Naunton, GCMG, KCVO, OBE.
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Oliver Nicholas Millar, CVO. The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Robert Wright Stopford, CBE, DD.
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Lieutenant-Colonel Simon Claud Michael Bland, MVO. Lieutenant-Commander Peter Richard Buckley, MVO, Royal Navy. Major-General Peter Bernard Gillett, CB, OBE. Ernest Geoffrey Parsons, CBE. The Reverend Roger Lewis Roberts. John Philip Strudwick, CBE. Charles George Robert Warner, MVO. Air Commodore Archie Little Winskill, CBE, DFC, Royal Air Force.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO) Geraldine Margaret Cousland, MVO. Alistair Cumming Fraser. Commander Alfred Austin Lockyer, Royal Navy. Colonel William George McHardy, MBE, MC. Major Raymond MacLaran. Donald Morrison, MVO.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO) Ronald Henry Aubery. Squadron Leader Edward Alfred Ball, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Retired). Squadron Leader Michael Collison Darby, Royal Air Force. Diana Olive Heald. Sydney Arthur Pollard. Henry David Skam. Kenneth Waite. Enid Mary Westwood.
Medal of the Royal Victorian Order (RVM) In Silver 2739070 Sergeant Daniel Owen Bowen, Welsh Guards. Marjorie Dawson. Percy Amos John Godfrey. Frederick George Clifford William Hibbert. Herbert Edward Long. Chief Petty Officer Cook Cyril Thomas Marter, P/M868817E. Frederick William Mitchell. Mary O'Dwyer. William Edward Rowe. Stanley John Welch. David Tames Whincup.