The New Year Honours 1959 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 announced on 30 December 1958 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1959.United Kingdom list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Ghana list: Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 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.
At this time, awards were still being made within the United Kingdom honours list on the advice of the premiers of Australian states. There was also a (federal) Australian honours list of awards made "on the advice of Her Majesty's Australian Ministers". The separate Australian honours system began in 1975.
United Kingdom and Commonwealth
Baron Sir William Edward Rootes, , chairman, Dollar Exports Council. Sir James Turner, President, National Farmers' Union, England and Wales.
Privy Councillor Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, Governor of the Bank of England. The Honourable Sir Philip Albert Martin McBride, , Minister for Defence, Commonwealth of Australia, 1950–1958.
Baronet Colonel Sir (Robert) Godfrey Llewellyn, , chairman, Organising Committee, British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Kenneth William Murray Pickthorn, , Member of Parliament for Cambridge University, 1935–1950, and for the Carlton Division of Nottinghamshire since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education, 1951–1954. For political and public services.
Knight Bachelor Cyril Wilson Black, , Member of Parliament for Wimbledon since 1950. For political and public services in Surrey. Aynsley Vernon Bridgland, . For political and public services. Aubrey Francis Burke, , deputy chairman and managing director, de Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd. Norman James Kerr Cadzow, . For political services in Scotland. Colonel Lionel George Archer Cust, , Secretary-General, Royal Commonwealth Society. Major-General Charles Anderson Lane Dunphie, , managing director, Vickers, Ltd. Professor Alexander William Gordon Ewing, Director, Department of Education of the Deaf, University of Manchester. Ian Anderson Johnson-Gilbert, , Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Clifford Frederic Gothard, . For political and public services in Burton-on-Trent. Alec Guinness, , Actor. Henry Roy Forbes Harrod, Economist. Colonel Joseph Henry Haygarth, . For political and public services in Middlesex. Alderman Isaac James Hayward, , Leader of the London County Council. Edward Milner Holland, , Chairman of the Bar Council. Attorney-General, Duchy of Lancaster. Hubert Hull, , President of the Transport Tribunal. Anthony Richard Hurd, , Member of Parliament for Newbury since 1945. For political and public services. John William Laing, , President, John Laing & Son, Ltd. Reginald Patrick Linstead, , Rector, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Robert Owen Lloyd, . For political and public services in Birkenhead. Douglas William Logan, Principal of the University of London. Ian Duff Lyle, . For political services. James Allan Milne, , chairman and managing director, J. Samuel White & Co., Ltd. President, Shipbuilding Conference. Air Commodore Henry Percy Smyth-Osbourne, . For political and public services in Devon. Edward Julian Pode, , managing director, Steel Company of Wales Ltd. Kelvin Tallent Spencer, , Chief Scientist, Ministry of Power. William Edmund Sykes, , Member of the Court of Common Council, City of London. Arthur Peregrine Thomson, , Professor of Therapeutics and Dean of the Medical School, University of Birmingham. Alderman Walter Ward, , chairman, Wool Textile Delegation. Thomas Yates, General Secretary, National Union of Seamen. State of South Australia Tom Elder Barr Smith, a prominent pastoralist in the State of South Australia. For public services. State of Victoria The Honourable Gordon Stewart McArthur, President of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria. Arthur Tennyson Smithers, , Director of Finance, State of Victoria. Commonwealth Relations James Beveridge Thomson, Chief Justice, Federation of Malaya. Overseas Territories Ronald Ernest German, , lately Postmaster-General, East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration. Stuart Gillett, , lately chairman, Tanganyika Agricultural Corporation. Stanley Eugene Gomes, Chief Justice, Trinidad and Tobago. Orlando Peter Gunning, , lately Deputy Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. Robert Lucien Morrison Kirkwood. For public services in The West Indies. Milton Augustus Strieby Margai, , Premier of Sierra Leone. James Mitchell, . For public services in North Borneo. Roland Theodore Symonette. For public services in the Bahamas. Thomas Crowe Spenser Wilkinson, Chief Justice, Nyasaland.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division General Sir Dudley Ward, , (41238), late Infantry Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Air Chief Marshal Sir George Holroyd Mills, , Royal Air Force.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Alexander Noel Campbell Bingley, . Vice-Admiral Robert Dymock Watson, . Army Lieutenant-General Michael Montgomerie Alston Roberts West, , (33582), late Infantry. Royal Air Force Air Marshal Walter Hugh Merton, . Acting Air Marshal William Mary Laurence MacDonald, . Civil Division Philip Dennis Proctor, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Power.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Varyl Cargill Begg, . Rear-Admiral Kenneth St Barbe Collins, . Rear-Admiral Nicholas Alfred Copeman, . Rear-Admiral John Lee-Barber, . Major-General Reginald William Madoc, , Royal Marines. Rear-Admiral George Anthony Francis Norfolk, . Major-General Ian Hurry Riches, , Royal Marines. Rear-Admiral Reginald Thomas Sandars. Rear-Admiral Bertram Wilfrid Taylor, . Rear-Admiral Michael Southcote Townsend, . Army Major-General Roland Anthony Bennett, , (31401), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Laurence Francis de Vic Carey, , (27904), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Samuel Moore-Coulson, , (47984), late Royal Army Educational Corps. Major-General Richard Walter Craddock, , (47540), late Infantry. Major-General Harold Cecil William Eking, , (27911), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General William Harrington Hulton-Harrop, , (34623), late Infantry. Major-General Leonard Hamilton Howard-Jones, , (31824), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Major-General George Charles Gordon-Lennox, , (39276), late Foot Guards. Major-General Denis Stuart Scott O'Connor, , (38415), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General William Francis Robert Turner, , (39501), late Infantry. Royal Air Force Acting Air Vice-Marshal Glynn Silyn-Roberts, . Air Commodore Reginald Herbert Embleton Emson, . Air Commodore William Donald James Michie. Air Commodore Melvin Kenneth Drowley Porter, . Air Commodore Victor Henry Batten Roth, . Air Commodore Stanley Charles Widdows, , (Retired). Acting Air Commodore Hughie Idwal Edwards, . Civil Division Matthew Campbell, Secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. Charles Harold Chorley, Parliamentary Counsel. Air Commodore Allan Robert Churchman, , chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, Belfast. Michael Magnus Vere Custance, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation. Denis William Dobson, , Deputy Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, Lord Chancellor's Office. John Euston Bell Finlay, , Commissioner and Director of Establishments and Organisation, Board of Customs and Excise. William Brian Littler, Director-General, Scientific Research (Munitions), Ministry of Supply. Colonel Donald McMillan, , Director, External Telecommunications, General Post Office. Antony Alexander Part, , Under-secretary, Ministry of Education. Cyril Woods Sanders, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Joseph Whiteley Stork, , Director of Studies, Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. Gerald Saumarez Whittuck, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry. Sir Ronald Evelyn Leslie Wingate, , lately Commissioner and chairman, Tripartite Commission for the Restitution of Monetary Gold.
Order of Merit (OM) Field Marshal the Right Honourable Harold Rupert Leofric George, Earl Alexander of Tunis, .
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Frank Godbould Lee, , Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade. Sir Abraham Jeremy Raisman, . For services to the Commonwealth. Sir Harold Anthony Caccia, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Washington.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Guy Frederick Thorold, , Economic Minister and Financial Adviser, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. The Honourable Robert Cosgrove, formerly Premier of the State of Tasmania. The Honourable Sir Roland Welensky, , Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Sir Ralph Francis Alnwick Grey, , Deputy Governor-General, Federation of Nigeria. Charles Hepburn Johnston, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Amman. Oscar Charles Morland, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (designate) in Tokyo. Major-General William Arthur Scott, , Director of Communications, Foreign Office. Charles Arthur Evelyn Shuckburgh, , lately Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Roland Cecil Cooke, , Director, Exhibitions Division, Central Office of Information. For services in connection with the British Government Pavilion at the Universal and International Exhibition, Brussels. Samuel Frank Follett, Director-General, Ministry of Supply Staff, British Joint Services Mission, Washington. Thomas Harvey Searls, , lately Director, Universities and Adult Education Department, British Council. Clifford Waite, chairman and Joint Managing Director, Consolidated Tin Smelters, Ltd. The Honourable Geoffrey Ellman-Brown, , formerly a Member of the Executive Council, Southern Rhodesia; at present representing the Government of Southern Rhodesia on the Board of Directors of the Rhodesian Iron & Steel Company. Alfred Howard Greenham, Agent-General and Trade Commissioner in London for the State of South Australia. Arthur Hugh Peters Humphrey, , Secretary to the Treasury, Federation of Malaya. Edward Tom Stanley Pearce. For services to the sugar industry of the State of Queensland. Herbert Taylor. For public services in the State of Victoria. Simeon Olaosebikan Adebo, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Western Region, Nigeria. Andrew Clarence Francis Armstrong, Permanent Secretary, Federation of Nigeria. Edmund Spencer Stanley Burrowes, Financial Secretary, Barbados. Norman Lace Corkill, , Health Adviser, Aden Protectorate. John Osbaldiston Field, Commissioner of the Cameroons. Louis Nathaniel Blache-Fraser, Federal Financial Secretary, The West Indies. Leonard Martin Heaney, Senior Provincial Commissioner, Tanganyika. Hugh Anthony Stephen Johnston, , Permanent Secretary to the Premier, Northern Region, Nigeria. Patrick John Law, , Labour Commissioner, Uganda. Thomas Edwin Letchworth, Administrative Officer, Northern Region, Nigeria. Christopher George Frederick Frampton Melmoth, Minister of Finance, Uganda. Norman Stewart Price, , Provincial Commissioner, Northern Rhodesia. Arthur Frederick John Reddaway, , Administrative Secretary, Cyprus. Amir Sha'Afal bin Shaif, Amir of Dhala, Western Aden Protectorate. Gerald Kennedy Nicholas Trevaskis, , Adviser and British Agent, Western Aden Protectorate. Walter Joseph Durham Wadley, Director of Education, Kenya.