The New Year Honours 1982 were appointments by most of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries. They were announced in The London Gazette on 31 December 1981 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1982.United Kingdom, Overseas Territories & Australian States list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Mauritius list: Fiji list: Papua New Guinea list: Solomon Islands list: Tuvalu list: St Lucia list: St Vincent & Grenadines 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 Sir Ian Powell Bancroft, . Lately Head of the Home Civil Service. Sir William Nicholas Cayzer, , Chairman, British & Commonwealth Shipping Co. Ltd. Sir Charles Forte. Executive Chairman, Trust-Houses Forte Ltd. Sir Crawford Murray MacLehose, . Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong.

Privy Counsellor The Honourable Douglas Richard Hurd, . Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Member of Parliament for Mid-Oxfordshire. Timothy Hugh Francis Raison, . Minister of State, Home Office. Member of Parliament for Aylesbury.

Knight Bachelor George Thomas Thalben-Ball, . For services to music. Lawrence Arthur Barratt, Chairman and Managing Director, Barratt Developments plc. James Arnold Stacey Cleminson, , Chairman, Reckitt & Colman plc. James Macdonald Cobban, . For Public Service. Douglas Peter Grossman, . For Political and Public Service in Eastern England. Peter Frank Hannibal Emery, . For Political and Public Service. Anthony Fell, . For Political and Public Service. Basil Mortimer Lindsay-Fynn. For Political and Public Service in London. Victor Henry Goodhew, . For Political and Public Service. Nicholas Proctor Goodison, Chairman, The Stock Exchange. James Learmonth Gowans, , Secretary, Medical Research Council. John Currie Gunn, , Cargill Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow. Professor Douglas Chalmers Hague, . For Political and Public Service. John Charles Hermon, , Chief Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. George Trevor Holdsworth, Chairman, Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd. Robert Yewdall Jennings, , lately Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge. Jack Lewis, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Charles Ernest O'Halloran, Convener, Strathclyde Regional Council. Evelyn Charles Sackville Russell, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate. Peter Saunders. For services to the Theatre. Leonard Herbert Smith, . For Political and Public Service. Roy Colin Strong, Director, Victoria and Albert Museum. Adrian Christopher Swire, . For services to the shipping industry. George Walter Roberts Terry, , Chief Constable, Sussex Police. John Peter Mills Tizard, Professor of Paediatrics, University of Oxford. Alan Marshall Muir Wood, Senior Partner, Sir William Halcrow and Partners.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List The Honourable James Rufus Astwood, Chief Justice of Bermuda.

Australian States State of Victoria The Honourable John Gerald Norris, , For service to the law. Thomas Lindsay North. For service to the retail industry.

State of Queensland Archibald Archer, . For services to primary industries, government and the community.

State of South Australia Eric Emil von Schramek. For services to architecture and the community.

State of Western Australia Kenneth Joseph Townsing, . For public service and service to education.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division General Sir Richard Worsley, , (240132), late The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons).

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Army Lieutenant General Maurice Robert Johnston, , (403506), late 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards.

Royal Air Force Air Marshal John Robson Rogers, .

Civil Division William Ewart Bell, , Head of Northern Ireland Civil Service. Cecil Montacute Clothier, , Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, and Health Service Commissioner for England, Wales and Scotland.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral George Maxted Kenneth Brewer. Commandant Elizabeth Sara Anne Craig-McFeely, , Women's Royal Naval Service. Rear Admiral Peter Gerald Hammersley, . Major General John Jeremy Moore, , Royal Marines.

Army Major General Esmond John Bowen, , (298448), late Royal Army Dental Corps. Major General James Brown (397824), late Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major General Charles Richard Huxtable, , (420858), late The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding). Major General Peter Frank Aubrey Sibbald, , (393285), Colonel Commandant The Light Division. Major General John Aubrey Stephenson, , (400075), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Bertrand Brownlow, . Air Vice-Marshal Neville Stanley Howlett. Air Vice-Marshal Tom Birkett Stephenson. Air Commodore Helen Ferguson Renton, , Women's Royal Air Force.

Civil Division Alan Marshall Bailey, Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office. John Bilsland Bailey, Deputy Treasury Solicitor, Office of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. Peter Robert Barnes, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions. Kenneth Percy Bloomfield, Permanent Secretary, Department of Commerce for Northern Ireland. Robert Stanley Boyd, Solicitor, Board of Inland Revenue. John Desmond Bryars, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence. John Delafons, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment. Gordon William Fowler, Under Secretary, Home Office Ronald Gausden, lately HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installations, Department of Employment. John Edgar Hansford, Under Secretary, HM Treasury. Henry Knorpel, Solicitor, Department of Health and Social Security. John Alexander Marshall, Deputy Secretary, Northern Ireland Office. Wilfred Meakin, Managing Director, Royal Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Defence. Timothy Edward Nodder, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security. Douglas Boucher Smith, Deputy Secretary, Department of Employment. Edward John Gregg Smith, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Walter Purvis Smith, , Director General, Ordnance Survey. Derek John Wakefield, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Ernest John David Warne, Deputy Director General, Office of Fair Trading.

Australian States State of Victoria Kenneth David Green, . For public service.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Sir Reginald Hibbert, , HM Ambassador, Paris. Sir Anthony Parsons, , United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Diplomatic Service and Overseas List John Charles Burgh, , Director-General, British Council. Major John Emsley Fretwell, , lately Minister, H.M. Embassy, Washington. Iain Johnstone Macbeth Sutherland, , H.M. Ambassador, Athens.

Australian States State of Victoria The Honourable Rupert James Hamer, . For political and public service.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Patrick Craigmile Duff, Assistant Secretary, Overseas Development Administration. John Keith Lumley Thompson, , Counsellor (Science and Technology), HM Embassy, Washington.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Michael O'Donel Bjarne Alexander, HM Ambassador-designate, Vienna. Stephen Jeremy Barrett, lately Head of British Interests Section, Royal Swedish Embassy, Tehran. Christopher Keith Curwen, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Timothy Lewis Achilles Daunt, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Patrick Morris Coventry Denby, lately Assistant Director-General, International Labour Organization, Geneva. William Norman Hillier-Fry, British, High Commissioner, Kampala. Wilfred Jones, British High Commissioner, Gaborone. Robin John Taylor McLaren, Political Adviser, Hong Kong. The Honourable Humphrey John Hamilton Maud, Minister, HM Embassy, Madrid. John Albert Leigh Morgan, HM Ambassador, Seoul. James Ernest Reeve, HM Consul-General, Milan. Derek Tonkin, HM Ambassador, Hanoi. Ian Sinclair Winchester, Minister-designate, HM Embassy, Jedda.

Australian States State of Queensland Roy Deicke. For service to the sugar industry.

State of Western Australia Leslie Edward Stephenson McCarrey, Permanent Head of the Treasury Department.

Royal Victorian Order

Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO) Alice Anne Wall, .

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) William Frederick Payne Heseltine, . Captain Miles Buckley Wingate.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Lieutenant Colonel Rodney Onslow Dennys, . James George Eve. Professor Kenneth Gordon Lowe. Maurice Mendoza.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

Fourth Class Surgeon Captain Norman James Blacklock, , Royal Navy (Retired). Squadron Leader David Hurley, , Royal Air Force. Harry Dockrill Jones, . The Reverend John Francis Morgan Llewellyn. Captain Robin Stafford Markes, Royal Navy. Dolores Malita De Rohan Monreal, . Captain Michael Antony Claes Moore, Royal Navy. Squadron Leader David John Rowe, Royal Air Force. George Drewry Squibb, .

Fifth Class Jacquetta Anne Adams. Vivien Irene Joy Clifford. Elizabeth Hazel Cuthbert. Dorothy Joan Ferme. George Black Lowe. Superintendent Paul Nicholas Officer, Metropolitan Police. Lieutenant Commander Philip Anthony Shaw, Royal Navy.

Medal of the Royal Victorian Order (RVM) In Gold William Baker, . William John Prater, .

In Silver Police Constable Michael Charles Allen, Metropolitan Police. Derek Charles Chappell. Harry Crago. F8077616 Sergeant Richard Ian Dawling, Royal Air Force. Mary Doran. A8007964 Sergeant Paul Ronald George Howarth, Royal Air Force. Leading Steward David George Martin, L958329Q. Noel McCombie. Police Constable Donald Royston Murphy, Metropolitan Police. Charles John Tack.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Military Division Admiral Sir Anthony Morton, . General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, , (251309), Colonel The Gloucestershire Regiment, Colonel Commandant The Parachute Regiment.

Civil Division Sir Francis Aimé Vallat, , lately Member of the International Law Commission.

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) Civil Division Elisabeth Jean Frink, , Sculptor. Catherine Mary Hall, , General Secretary, Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom. Ida Felicity Ann Yonge, . For Political Service.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) Military Division Surgeon Vice Admiral John Albert Bews Harrison, . Air Marshal Arnold Alec Morris, , Royal Air Force.

Civil Division The Reverend William Owen Chadwick, Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge. President of the British Academy. The Honourable Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, . For Political and Public Service.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List John Patrick Ivan Hennessy, , lately Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Belize.

Australian States State of Western Australia The Honourable Frederick Charles Chaney, , Lord Mayor of Perth.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Military Division Royal Navy Surgeon Rear Admiral Francis Michael Kinsman, . Captain Richard Edgar Lambert. Captain Michael Cecil Maurice Mansergh. Captain Michael L'Estrange Tudor-Craig, .

Army Brigadier David John Atkinson, , (433287), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Brigadier Richard Anthony Clay, , (411915), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.