1970 Birthday Honours

The 1970 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 5 June 1970.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

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.^[2]

Recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honours.

United Kingdom

Life peer

Baron

• Cyril Hamnett. For services to the Cooperative Movement.
• Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier. For services to the Theatre.
• Sir Max Leonard Rosenheim, K.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., President, Royal College of Physicians.
• The Right Honourable Lord Wheatley. For public services in Scotland.

Privy Counsellor

• The Right Honourable William, Baron Hughes, C.B.E., D.L., Minister of State, Scottish Office.
• John Morris, Minister of Defence for Equipment.

Knight Bachelor

• Charles Frederic James Barker, M.B.E. For services to the food industry and to Export.
• Leonard Frederick Behrens, C.B.E. For public services.
• Professor George Edward Gordon Catlin. For services to Anglo-American relations.
• William Alexander Roy Collins, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director, William Collins Sons and Company Ltd. For services to Export.
• Samuel Crowe Curran, D.L. For services to Technology and Education.
• Frank Fraser Darling, Vice-President, Conservation Foundation.
• Arthur Eric Courtney Drake, C.B.E., Chairman, British Petroleum Company Ltd.
• St John de Holt Elstub, C.B.E., Managing Director, Imperial Metal Industries Ltd. For public services and services to Export.
• Charles Forte, Chairman, Forte Holdings Ltd.
• Ralph Freeman, C.V.O., C.B.E., Senior Partner, Freeman, Fox and Partners, Consulting Engineers.
• William George Gillies, C.B.E. For services to Art.
• Professor Harry Godwin. For services to Ecology and Botany.
• Maurice Frederick Hackett, O.B.E., Chairman, South East Region Economic Planning Council and Chairman, North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board.
• Charles Edgar Mathewes Hardie, C.B.E., Chairman, British Overseas Airways Corporation.
• Julian Stephen Alfred Hodge, Chairman, Hodge Group Ltd.
• Thomas Norman Arthur Jeffcoate, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Liverpool.
• Ronald Ernest Charles Johnson, C.B., Secretary, Scottish Home and Health Department.
• Francis Avery Jones, C.B.E., F.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., Physician, Department of Gastro-Enterology, Central Middlesex Hospital.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Gordon Larking, C.B.E. For services to the British Legion.
• Ronald George Leach, C.B.E., Senior Partner, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Company.
• John Laurence Longland. For public services.
• John McWilliam. For services to local government in Fife.
• David Christie Martin, C.B.E., Executive Secretary, The Royal Society.
• Robert Frederick Payne, President, The Law Society.
• Norman Robert Reid, Director, Tate Gallery.
• Norman Andrew Forster Rowntree, Director, Water Resources Board.
• Edward Walters Senior, C.M.G., Chairman, Ransome, Hoffman, Pollard Ltd. For services to Export.
• Arnold Weinstock, Managing Director, General Electric and English Electric Companies Ltd. For services to Export.
• Charles Henry Trelease Williams, C.B.E., Chairman, Iron and Steel Industry Training Board.
• John Alexander Willison, O.B.E., Q.P.M., D.L., Chief Constable, West Mercia Constabulary.
• Kenneth Millns Wood, Chairman, Concrete Ltd. For services to Export.
• Isadore Victor Elyan, lately Chief Justice, Swaziland.
• John Michael Parsons. For services to British Commercial interests in India.
• The Honourable Edward Trenton Richards, C.B.E. For public services in Bermuda.
• Dermot Joseph Sheridan, C.M.G., Chief Justice, Uganda.
• Major William Thomson, O.B.E., J.P. For public services in Gibraltar.

Australian States

State of New South Wales

• The Honourable Mr Justice Bernard Sugerman, Q.C., President of the Court of Appeal.
• Elton Reginald Griffin, C.B.E. For services to industry and commerce.
• Robert Wentworth Norman. For services to banking and the community.

State of Victoria

• The Honourable Murray Victor Porter, Agent-General for Victoria in London.
• Major-General Robert Joseph Henry Risson, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., E.D. For distinguished services to the community.

State of South Australia

• The Honourable Mr Justice Reginald Roderic St Clair Chamberlain, Q.C., Senior Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of South Australia.

State of Western Australia

• Thomas Edward Jewell Wardle, Lord Mayor of the City of Perth; for services to commerce and the community.

State of Tasmania

• Allan Walton Knight, C.M.G., Chief Commissioner, Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

• Admiral Sir Peter John Hill-Norton, K.C.B.
• General Sir Richard Michael Power Carver, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., A.D.C. (Gen.), late Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel Commandant Royal Tank Regiment, Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Kenyon Burnett, K.C.B., D.F.C., A.F.C., A.D.C., Royal Air Force.
• Sir Philip Allen, K.C.B., Permanent Under-secretary of State, Home Office.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice Admiral Peter Maxwell Compston, C.B.
• Lieutenant General Peter William Cradock Hellings, C.B., D.S.C., M.C.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Basil Oscar Paul Eugster, K.C.V.O., C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Foot Guards, Colonel Irish Guards.
• Lieutenant-General John Aubrey Taylor Sharp, C.B., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Colonel Commandant Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Air Marshal John Barraclough, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Sir William Richard Joseph Cook, C.B., Chief Adviser (Projects and Research), Ministry of Defence.
• Philip Rogers, C.B., C.M.G., Second Permanent Secretary, Civil Service Department.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Surgeon Rear Admiral (D) William Ivon Norman Forrest, Q.H.D.S., L.D.S., R.C.S.
• Major General Ian Stewart Harrison.
• Rear Admiral Ian Wyndham Jamieson, D.S.C.
• Rear Admiral Ian Stewart McIntosh, D.S.O., M.B.E., D.S.C.
• The Venerable Archdeacon Ambrose Walter Marcus Weekes, Q.H.C., A.K.C.
• Major General Anthony Patrick Willasey-Wilsey, M.B.E., M.C.
• Major-General Francis James Cecil Bowes-Lyon, O.B.E., M.C., late Foot Guards.
• Major-General Edward Michael Hall, M.B.E., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Roy Stuart Marshall, O.B.E., M.C., M.M.), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Maurice David Price, O.B.E., late Royal Corps of Signals, Colonel Commandant Royal Corps of Signals.
• Major-General Charles William Woods, M.B.E., M.C., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Air Vice-Marshal Cecil Howard Beamish, Q.H.D.S., F.D.S.R.C.S., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Percy Sansom Thomas, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Ruthven Lowry Wade, D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore John Lawrence Wemyss Ellacombe, D.F.C., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Arthur Hugh Chaplin, Principal Keeper of Printed Books, British Museum.
• Thomas Alfred Graham Charlton, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence.
• Edward Victor Denis Glazier, Director, Royal Radar Establishment, Ministry of Technology.
• Charles Addison Somerville Snowden Gordon, Principal Clerk, Table Office, House of Commons.
• Bernard Gottlieb, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
• Douglas Owen Henley, Third Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• John Arthur Hudson, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science.
• Fred Matthias Kearns, M.C., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
• William Allan Cunningham Mathieson, C.M.G., M.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development.
• George Irvine Mitchell, Legal Secretary, Lord Advocate's Department.
• John Lawrence Paisley, M.B.E., Chief Highway Engineer, Ministry of Transport.
• Theodore Burton Fox Ruoff, C.B.E., Chief Land Registrar.
• James John Sutherland Shaw, Deputy Secretary, Civil Service Department.
• Charles Edward Gordon Smith, M.D., M.R.C.P., Director, Microbiological Research Establishment, Ministry of Defence.
• James Alexander Young, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

• Sir Bernard Alexander Brocas Burrows, K.C.M.G., Permanent United Kingdom Representative on the North Atlantic Council, Brussels.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

• Sir Kenneth George Grubb, C.M.G., for services to the Church of England.
• Peter Allix Wilkinson, C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., H.M. Ambassador-designate, Vienna.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• William Lewis Bell, M.B.E., Head of the British Development Division in the Caribbean, Ministry of Overseas Development.
• Professor Cecil Terence Ingold. For services to Higher Education Overseas.
• George Russell Lee, Acting Assistant Director, Ministry of Defence.
• William Stovold Carter, C.V.O., lately Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Donald McDonald Gordon, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• Donald Frederick Hawley, M.B.E., Counsellor (Commercial), H.M. Embassy, Baghdad.
• John McKenzie, M.B.E., Deputy British High Commissioner, Calcutta.
• Kenneth Edward Mackenzie, lately Counsellor (Commercial), H.M. Embassy, Stockholm.
• Kenneth Charles Parsons, O.B.E., Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
• The Honourable Richard John McMoran Wilson, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Australian States

State of New South Wales

• Albert Oliver, Under-Secretary and Comptroller of Accounts, New South Wales Treasury.

State of Victoria

• Robert John Southey, President of the Liberal Party of Victoria.

State of Queensland

• Laurence John Hartley Teakle. For distinguished services to university education and administration.

State of South Australia

• Ernest Melville Schroder. For distinguished service to industry and the State.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Air Vice-Marshal Alan Hunter Cachemaille Boxer, C.B., D.S.O., D.F.C.
• Allen John Bridson Goldsmith, C.V.O., M.B., B.S.
• Lord Adam Granville Gordon, C.V.O., M.B.E.
• Sir David Lumsden Webster, F.R.C.M.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• The Most Honourable Patricia, Marchioness of Abergavenny.
• Mark Baring.
• Colonel Sir Thomas Pierce Butler, Bt., D.S.O., O.B.E.
• Colonel Donald Hamish Cameron of Lochiel, T.D., J.P.
• Roger Thomas Baldwin Fulford.
• Roy Frederick Lloyd, C.B.E., M.V.O.
• The Honourable Mary Anne Morrison.
• Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ferguson George Donaldson Smith, D.F.C., Metropolitan Police.
• Walter John George Verco, M.V.O.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominals MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.

Fourth Class

• Commander Brian Colin Gallagher, Royal Navy.
• Captain Richard Leoline Jenkins, Queen's Dragoon Guards.
• Stanley William Lionel Rivers Lucking, M.V.O.
• Laurence Ernest Nicholson.
• John O'Connor.
• Commander Peter Maxwell Stanford, Royal Navy.
• Chief Superintendent Herbert John Snowley, Thames Valley Constabulary.
• Thomas Hunter Thomson.

Fifth Class

• Francis William Collins.
• Reginald Charles Fisher.
• Sydney James Mooney.

Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) (RVM)

• Thomas Aspden.
• John Birchenough.
• Leonard Walter Cuff.
• Chief Writer Richard Saxon French.
• Frank Gannon.
• George Grant.
• Miss Susan Jones.
• Reginald Anthony McSweeney.
• Sergeant Terence Oakden, Royal Air Force.
• Miss Emily Edith Oliver.
• Yeoman Bedgoer Joseph Patterson, Her Majesty's Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
• Police Constable Duncan McCarter Scott, Metropolitan Police.
• George Thomas Frederick Smith.
• Robert Henry White.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

• Sir Ian Frank Bowater, D.S.O., T.D., Lord Mayor of London.

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

• Miss Dorothy Elizabeth Ackroyd, Director, Consumer Council.
• Margaret Isabel, Mrs Cole, O.B.E. For services to Local Government and Education.

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

• The Right Honourable Randal John Somerled, Earl of Antrim, D.L., Chairman, The National Trust.
• Sir Charles Demoree Newbold, C.M.G., Q.C., lately President, Court of Appeal for East Africa.

Australian States

State of Queensland

• The Honourable Mr Justice Joseph Aloysius Sheehy, lately Senior Puisne Judge, Supreme Court of Queensland.

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Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton, C.B.E. For services to the Ballet.
• Dame Sybil Thorndike, D.B.E. (Agnes Sybil, Lady Casson). For services to the Theatre.

New Zealand

Knight Bachelor

• The Honourable Roy Emile Jack. For outstanding services as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Dove Myer Robinson. For outstanding services as mayor of Auckland from 1959 to 1965 and again from 1968.

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Air Vice-Marshal William Hector Stratton CBE DFC - Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

• The Right Honourable Keith Jacka Holyoake CH - Prime Minister.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

• Samuel Lawrence Ludbrook MB ChB - of Auckland. For most valuable services to paediatrics and child health.
• The Honourable John Kenneth McAlpine - of Christchurch. For most valuable services to politics.
• The Honourable Arnold Henry Nordmeyer - of Wellington. For most valuable services to politics.

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division

• Alan John Danks. For outstanding services as chairman of the University Grants Committee.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• William Patteson Pollock Gordon MB FRCS - of Stratford. For very valuable services to medicine.
• Bernard David Arthur Greig - of Wellington. For very valuable services as Controller and Auditor-General.
• William Maxwell Hamilton - of Wellington. For very valuable services as Director-General of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Geoffrey John Jeune - of Wellington. For very valuable services as chief judge of the Māori Land Court.

Military Division

• Major-General Richard James Holden Webb MBE - Chief of General Staff.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• Horace Ernest Carter. For valuable service to the community of Tauranga, especially as chairman of the Tauranga Harbour Board.
• Neill Thomas Gillespie - of Lower Hutt. For valuable services to local and national bodies.
• John Parry James - of Hamilton. For valuable services in the field of veterinary research.
• Brian James Lochore - of Eketahuna. For valuable services to the sport of rugby football.
• Allan Joseph McDonald JP - of Wellington. For valuable services as secretary, New Zealand Labour Party.
• Eric Percy Salmon JP - of Auckland. For valuable services to the community and the printing industry.
• David Thomas Spring JP - of Palmerston North. For valuable services to the community, particularly education.
• Andrew Shirlaw Murray JP - of Cheviot. For valuable services to education.
• Hanara Tangiawha (Arnold) Reedy - of Ruatoria, East Coast. For valuable services to the Māori people.
• Neil Lachlan Watson - of Invercargill. For valuable services to local government.
• James Busby Williams - of Gisborne. For valuable services to the community, particularly in local body affairs.
• Ralph Frederick Wilson - of Wellington. For valuable services as general director of the New Zealand National Party.
• Herbert Jenner Wily JP - of Auckland. For valuable services as a magistrate.

Military Division

• Commander Peter Ronald Silk - Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Colonel Robertson Harvey Smith - Colonels' List (Regular Force).
• Group Captain Bertram Collin Thomas Fitzgerald MBE - Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• Victor James Alexander - of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Mrs Laura Catherine Ambury - of Dargaville. For services to the community.
• George John Wedgwood Boon - of Stratford. For services to local body affairs as mayor of Stratford since 1957.
• Miss Helen Campbell - of Christchurch. For services to the nursing profession.
• William Arthur Gordon Craddock JP - of Westport. For services to the community, particularly in the field of sports administration.
• The Reverend Murray Holman Feist - of Auckland. For services as secretary for New Zealand of the Mission to Lepers.
• Richard Noel Fickling JP - of Auckland. For services to local government and to sport.
• Mrs Betty Phyllis Hanson JP - of Auckland. For services to education administration.
• The Reverend Kingi Matutaera Ihaka - of Auckland. For services to the Anglican Māori Church.
• Patrick Kearins - of Taihape. For services to local affairs.
• Miss Mary Timpany (Sister Mary Louise) - of Dunedin. For services to the education of deaf children.
• Walter James Ganley Parker - of Dannevirke. For services to the boy scout movement.
• Henry Trevor Parry JP - of Auckland. For services to the community.
• David Holt Rawson ED - of New Plymouth. For services to the community, especially in the field of mountain search and rescue.
• Arthur Henry Richards JP - of Napier. For services to the community, particularly to the welfare of the aged.
• Arthur Laurence Richardson JP - of Taneatua. For services in local government.
• Robert Thomas Scott JP - of Morrinsville. For services to local body affairs.
• Mrs Maora Tamihana - of Wellington. For services to Māori welfare.
• Herbert Henry Thomason MM JP - of Motueka. For services to local body affairs.
• Donald Alexander Thompson - of Masterton. For services to the community, particularly to cultural organisations.
• Arthur William Thomson - of Balclutha. For services to the community.

Military Division

• Lieutenant Commander Reginald Samuel Hurden - Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major James Richard Milton Barker - Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Major Francis Edward Hopkinson - Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery (Territorial Force).
• Warrant Officer First Class Graeme Joseph Brighouse - Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Warrant Officer First Class Andrew Gilmour McNearnie - Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Squadron Leader James William Crook - Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Squadron Leader William Ross Donaldson - Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Walter Thomas Ryde - Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Philip Arthur Barnes JP - of Wellington. For valuable services as ministerial private secretary.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Civil Division

• Eric Raymond Clark - of Taumarunui. For services to the community and interest in the education of the Māori people.
• Miss Hilda Frame - of Lyttelton. For services to the community.
• Richard Geoffrey Groves - of Opotiki. For services as a sports coach.
• Frederick Arthur Halldane - of Christchurch. For services in voluntary defence training.
• Mrs Susannah Hoggard - of Paraparaumu. For services to the community.
• Frederick Livingstone Irving - of Nelson. For services to psychiatric nursing.
• William Arthur Lindsay. For services as manager of the Waitangi National Trust at Paihia, Bay of Islands, since 1951.
• Leslie William Louisson JP - of New Plymouth. For services to the blind.
• Harold Allan Ben Pattenden - of Hamilton. For services as a foreman fitter with the New Zealand Electricity Department since 1944.
• Walter William Soal - of Ashburton. For services as a member of the St John Ambulance Brigade since 1940.
• Miss Dorothy Steel JP - of Dunedin. For services to CORSO.
• Floyd Davis West - of Hokitika. For services as a line overseer, New Zealand Electricity Department.

Military Division

• Chief Marine Engineering Mechanician Arthur James Thomas Curry - Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Bryan Thomas Barlow - Royal New Zealand Volunteer Reserve.
• Chief Petty Officer Arthur James Thomas Peacock - Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Staff Sergeant Bernt Ludolf Sweder Fernand van Asbeck - Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
• Staff Sergeant Temporary Warrant Officer Second Class John Thomas Bennett - Royal New Zealand Engineers (Regular Force).
• Staff Sergeant Thomas Hippolite Rangi - Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Corporal Peihopa Brown - New Zealand Special Air Service (Regular Force).
• Flight Sergeant James Halligan - Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Dennis Owen Huggard - Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Bar to the Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Squadron Leader John Clark Buckmaster AFC - Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Queen's Police Medal (QPM)

• Frank Laurence Diggle - superintendent, New Zealand Police Force.
• Bernard George Waller - senior sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

References

1. United Kingdom list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 45117. pp. 6365–6396. 5 June 1970.
2. Australia list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 45118. pp. 6399–6404. 5 June 1970.
3. New Zealand list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 45119. pp. 6405–6408. 5 June 1970.
4. Sierra Leone list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 45120. p. 6409. 5 June 1970.
5. Mauritius list: The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 45121. p. 6411. 5 June 1970.