The Queen's Birthday Honours 1966 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.
The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The Queen. The announcement date varies from year to year. The 1966 Queen's Birthday Honours were announced on 11 June 1966 for the United Kingdom,UK list: Australia,Australia list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Sierra Leone,Sierra Leone list: Jamaica,Jamaica list: Malawi,Malawi list: and The Gambia.Gambia list:
United Kingdom and Commonwealth
Life Peer Baroness Dame Evelyn Adelaide Sharp, , lately Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
Baron Peter Ritchie Calder, , Professor of International Relations, University of Edinburgh. John Cooper, , General Secretary and Treasurer, National Union of General and Municipal Workers. Sir (Henry Cecil) John Hunt, . For services to Youth. Sir William Hunter McFadzean, Chairman, British National Export Council. Arthur Moyle, , Member of Parliament for Stourbridge Division of Worcestershire, 1945–1950; and for Oldbury and Halesowen, 1950–1964. Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Right Honourable Clement Attlee, 1946–1955.
Privy Councillor The Honourable Charles Frederick Adermann, Minister for Primary Industry, Commonwealth of Australia since 1958. The Right Honourable George Rowland Stanley, Earl of Cromer, , Governor of the Bank of England. George Darling, , Member of Parliament for Hillsborough Division of Sheffield since 1950. Minister of State, Board of Trade since 1964. Jennie Lee, , Member of Parliament for North Lanark, 1929–1931, and for the Cannock Division of Staffordshire since 1945. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Public Building and Works, 1964–1965, and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Education and Science since 1965. The Honourable William McMahon, Treasurer, Commonwealth of Australia. The Honourable John Ross Marshall, Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, Minister of Industries and Commerce and Overseas Trade since 1960.
Knight Bachelor Arthur George Algeo, . For public services in Northern Ireland. Roy George Douglas Allen, , Professor of Statistics, University of London. Alderman John William Allitt, . For political and public services in Derbyshire. Alderman George Astbury, . For political and public services in Cheshire. Charles Barratt, Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace, City of Coventry. William Godfrey Cretney, Headmaster, The Regis School, Tettenhall, Staffordshire. Alexander Haddow, , Professor of Experimental Pathology, University of London and Director, Chester Beatty Research Institute, Institute of Cancer Research. Ian George Wilson Hill, , Professor of Medicine, Queen's College, Dundee, University of St. Andrews. John Denis Nelson Hill, , Professor of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London. Derek Percy Hilton, , President of the Law Society. Horace Edwin Holmes, , Labour Member of Parliament for Hemsworth, 1946–1959. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Robert Hugh Le Masurier, , Bailiff of Jersey. Norman Longley, , Chairman, Construction Industry Training Board. Albert Victor Martin, . For services to the National Health Service. Anthony Horace Milward, , Chairman, British European Airways. Leslie Gordon Newton, Editor, The Financial Times. Anthony Edward Percival, , Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department. Lionel Pinnock Poole, . For political and public services in Northamptonshire. Alderman Frank Leslie Price. For political and public services in Birmingham. Joseph Richards, President of the Football League. Martin Ryle, Professor of Radio Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Frank Schon, Chairman and Managing Director, Marchon Products Ltd. William Kenneth Macleod Slimmings, , Chairman, Board of Trade Advisory Committee. Hugh Charles Tett, Chairman, Esso Petroleum Company Ltd. Michael Kemp Tippett, , Composer. Siegmund George Warburg, Director, S. G. Warburg & Co. Hugh Thomas Weeks, . For services to Industry. Henry Weston Wells, , Chairman, New Towns Commission.
State of New South Wales William Dobell, . For services to Art, particularly as a landscape and portrait painter. William Theodore (Theo) Kelly, . For services to commerce and industry. The Honourable Robert Christian Wilson, . For services to primary industry.
State of Victoria Joseph Robert Archibald Glenn, . For distinguished services, particularly as Chairman of the Interim Council, La Trobe University. Ross Grey-Smith, of South Yarra. For services to horse-racing, particularly as Chairman of the Victoria Racing Club.
State of Western Australia Eric Fleming Smart, , a leading farmer and grazier.
State of Tasmania Douglas William Leigh Parker, , lately Director of Orthopaedic Services, Department of Health Services.
Commonwealth Relations Harvey Kincaid Stewart Lindsay, Managing Director, The Metal Box Company of India Limited. George Patrick Gordon Mackay, , lately General Manager, East African Railways and Harbours. Charles Demoree Newbold, , President, East African Court of Appeal.
Overseas Territories Julian Darrell Bates, , Permanent Secretary to the Government of Gibraltar. Courtenay Robert Latimer, , Minister in charge of the Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland Section, British Embassy, Cape Town. Alberto Maria Rodrigues, . For services to the community in Hong Kong. Maurice Scott, , Speaker, Legislative Council, Fiji. John Carter, . For public services in British Guiana.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division General Sir Reginald Hackett Hewetson, (40386), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery and Army Physical Training Corps.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, . Lieutenant General Norman Hastings Tailyour, .
Army Major-General Richard Michael Power Carver, (64649), late Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Royal Air Force Acting Air Marshal Frederick Ernest Rosier, . Acting Air Marshal Denis Frank Spotswood, .
Civil Division Antony Alexander Part, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Building and Works. Matthew Stevenson, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Edward Beckwith Ashmore, . Major-General Peter William Cradock Hellings, . Rear-Admiral Peter Norris Howes, . Rear-Admiral Henry Hugh Hughes. Rear-Admiral Colin Duncan Madden, . Major-General Nigel Harry Duncan McGill. Rear-Admiral Michael Patrick Pollock, . Rear-Admiral Arthur Francis Turner, . Rear-Admiral Rupert Charles Purchas Wainwright, .
Army Major-General William Brian Francis Brennan, (52442), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Raymond Douglas Coate (41435), Royal Army Pay Corps. Major-General Napier Crookenden, (66121), late Infantry. Major-General The Honourable Miles Francis Fitzalan Howard, (68110), late Foot Guards. Major-General Peter Bernard Gillett, (62517), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Godfrey John Hamilton, (380636), late Infantry. Major-General The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, (72764), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Alan Neilson Moon, (40175), late Royal Army Dental Corps. Major-General George Le Fevre Payne, (52707), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Robert Edward Craven, . Air Vice-Marshal Keith Horace Gooding, . Air Vice-Marshal John Hugh Lapsley, . Air Vice-Marshal Graham Reese Magill, . Air Vice-Marshal Christopher Neil Foxley-Norris, . Air Commodore Edward James Morris, .
Civil Division Norman Percy Allen, Chief Scientific Officer I, Superintendent, Metallurgy Division and Deputy Director, National Physical Laboratory, Ministry of Technology. Colonel George Sheldon Bayliss, , lately Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Stafford. Lewis Rowland Beesly, Director General, Aircraft Production, Ministry of Aviation. Robert Donald Murray Bell, Under-Secretary, Scottish Development Department. Edward Clifford Cornford, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Defence (Army). Thomas Cameron Fraser, , Industrial Director, National Economic Development Council. Albert Norman Harrison, , lately Director of Naval Construction, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). Stephen Charles Hawtrey, Clerk of the Journals, House of Commons. Charles Peter Scott-Malden, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Stanley Paul Osmond, Third Secretary, HM Treasury. Geoffrey Parker, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Godfrey Martin Ellis Paulson, , Grade 3 Officer, Foreign Office. Norman Singleton, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour. William Thomas Charles Skyrme, , Secretary of Commissions, Lord Chancellor's Office. Arthur Roy Slyth, , Secretary, Exchequer and Audit Department.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Norman Victor Kipping, , formerly Director-General, Federation of British Industries.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Sir Stanley Unwin, Chairman, George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Frederick Blackmore Arnold, , Minister (Commercial), British High Commission, Canberra. Cyril Stanley Pickard, , British High Commissioner, Karachi. Michael Norman Francis Stewart, , Minister, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. Frank Stanley Tomlinson, , British High Commissioner, Colombo.
State of Victoria The Honourable Sir Henry Arthur Winneke, , Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Colonial Office James Carnegie McPetrie, , Legal Adviser, Colonial Office.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Thomas Cecil Garside James, Assistant Secretary, Headquarters Far East Air Force, Ministry of Defence (Royal Air Force). Lucius Perronet Thompson-McCausland, lately Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England. Arthur Keith Pallot, Director of Finance and Establishments and Assistant Secretary, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Edward Tenney Caswell Spooner, , Dean of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Derick Rosslyn Ashe, Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Havana. Ian Fowler Baillie, , British Agent and Assistant High Commissioner, Aden. Denys Downing Brown, , Foreign Office. Ronald Arthur Burroughs, Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Lisbon. Rohan D'Olier Butler, Foreign Office. Donovan Harold Clibborn, Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Rio de Janeiro. Solomon Joseph Gross, Counsellor (Economic and Commercial), British High Commission, Accra. Reginald Alfred Hibbert, Chargé d'Affaires, Her Majesty's Embassy, Ulan Bator. Herbert John Hinchey, , lately Financial Secretary, East African Common Services Organisation. Clifford Norman Jupp, Counsellor (Economic and Commercial), Her Majesty's Embassy, Belgrade. Arthur William Kent, , lately Treasurer, Nairobi City Council, Kenya. William Arnold Knight, , Controller and Auditor-General, Uganda. Leslie Alfred Marsden, Commissioner of Police, Nigeria. Alan Michell, Foreign Office. John Oscar Moreton, , Commonwealth Relations Office. Hugh Travers Morgan, Counsellor, Office of the Deputy Commandant, British Military Government, Berlin. James Murray, Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Djakarta. Humphrey Leslie Malcolm Oxley, , Commonwealth Relations Office. Arthur Michael Palliser, lately Foreign Office. Frederick Nigel Moliere Pusinelli, , Director of Establishments and Assistant High Commissioner (Supernumerary), Aden. Richard Seymour, , British Council Representative, Germany. Howard Frank Trayton Smith, Foreign Office.