The 1951 New Years Honours were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced on 1 January 1951 for the British Empire,British Empire : Australia,Australia : New Zealand,New Zealand : Ceylon,Ceylon : and Pakistan.Pakistan :
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.
British Empire
Barons Archibald Crawford. For political and public services in Leicestershire. Thomas Macpherson, Member of Parliament for Romford, 1945–1950. For political and public services.
Privy Counsellors The Honourable Sir Owen Dixon, , Justice of the High Court of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Right Honourable Henry Charles Ponsonby, Earl of Drogheda, , Chairman of Committees, House of Lords. The Right Honourable Gordon, Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor, , Paymaster General.
Knights Bachelor George William Barr, , Managing Director, Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd., Glasgow. Percy Barter, , Chairman, Board of Control. Cecil Maurice Bowra, , Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford. Warden of Wadham College. Eric Ashton Carpenter, . For services as President, Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Alderman Richard Coppock, , General Secretary, National Federation of Building Trades Operatives. Thomas Dalling, , Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. William Kelsey Fry, , Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons. Richard Walker Haddon, , Chairman, Ministry of Agriculture Publicity Advisory Committee. Thomas Henry Havelock, , Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne. Edward Dave Asher Herbert, , Chairman, Short Bros., and Harland Ltd., Belfast. Christopher Hinton, , Deputy Controller of Atomic Energy (Production), Ministry of Supply. Gordon Morgan Holmes, , Consulting Physician, Charing Cross Hospital and National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. Leonard Stanistreet Holmes, , president of The Law Society. James Lythgoe, , City Treasurer, Manchester. Desmond MacCarthy, , Literary Critic. Andrew McCormick MacTaggart, Director, Balfour Beatty & Co. Ltd. President, Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors. David Hughes Parry, , Professor of English Law, University of London. Francis Harold Peake, Controller of Death Duties, Board of Inland Revenue. Richard Lloyd-Roberts, , Head of Personnel Management Branch, Ministry of Labour and National Service. William Alfred Souter. For services to the Tyne Improvement Commission. Henry Thirkill, , Chairman, Cambridge University Joint Recruiting Board. Edwin John Venner, , Member, State Management Districts Council. William Wallace, , Vice-President and Chairman of Finance Committee, Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation. William Turner Walton, , Composer. Colonel Victor Dunn Warren, , Lord Provost of Glasgow. Reginald Holmes Wilson, Comptroller, British Transport Commission. Harold Wooding, Chairman and Managing Director, Sudan Plantations Syndicate Ltd., and Kassala Cotton Co. Ltd.
State of South Australia Oscar Lionel Isaachsen, Chairman of Directors, Bank of Adelaide, State of South Australia.
State of Victoria The Honourable James Stanley Disney, Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria, since 1948. Colonel the Honourable George Victor Lansell, , a Member of the Legislative Council of the State of Victoria since 1928. For public services.
Southern Rhodesia The Honourable Robert Clarkson Tredgold, , Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia.
Colonies, Protectorates etc. Kofaworola Adekunle Abayomi, , Member of the Executive Council, Nigeria. Alport Barker, , Mayor of Suva, Fiji. David Edwards, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Uganda. Charles Geoffry Shield Follows, , Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Hong Kong. Gerald Robert Wight. For public services in Trinidad.
Order of the Bath
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor, .
Army General Sir Sidney Chevalier Kirkman, (5084), late Royal Regiment of Artillery (now retired). Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery.
Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir James Milne Robb, .
Civil Division Sir Godfrey Herbert Ince, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service.
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral The Honourable Guy Herbrand Edward Russell, . Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Nigel Oliver, .
Army Lieutenant-General Nevil Charles Dowell Brownjohn, (11450), late Corps of Royal Engineers. General Sir Frank Ernest Wallace Simpson, (15429), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Colonel Commandant, Royal Pioneer Corps.
Royal Air Force Air Marshal Charles Ronald Steele, .
Civil Division Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick, , High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Germany. Colonel Geoffry Christie-Miller, , lately Chairman, County of Chester Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association.
Additional Knight Commander Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard, , lately Garter Principal King of Arms.
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Dennis Marescaux Lees, . Rear-Admiral John Arthur Symons Eccles, . Rear-Admiral Frederick Robertson Parham, . Rear-Admiral Patrick Vivian McLaughlin, . Rear-Admiral Royer Mylius Dick, . Rear-Admiral (E) William Scarlett Jameson, . Acting Rear-Admiral (S) William McBride, . Surgeon Rear-Admiral Kenneth Alexander Ingleby Mackenzie, . Captain Richard Oliver Bellasis, , (Retired).
Army Brigadier (temporary) James Rupert Cochrane, (33328), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Nigel William Duncan, (12071), late Royal Armoured Corps. Brigadier (temporary) Alfred Francis Hely, (34589), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. Brigadier Harold Montague Hinde, (8457), late Royal Army Service Corps (now retired). Major-General Harold Arthur Hounsell, (13149), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Kenneth Frank MacKay Lewis, (14122), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Brigadier (temporary) Geoffrey Alex Colin Macnab (22973), late Infantry. Brigadier (temporary) Herbert Clive Phipps, (13926), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Brigadier (temporary) Cedric Rhys Price, (33361), Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Arthur Charles Shortt, (10886), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Brigadier (temporary) (now Colonel) Doidge Estcourt Taunton, (27998), late Infantry. Major-General Thomas Young, (10380), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
Royal Air Force Air Vice Marshal William Arthur Darville Brook, . Air Vice Marshal Douglas Macfadyen, . Acting Air Vice Marshal Theodore Newman McEvoy, . Air Commodore Charles Edward Chilton, . Air Commodore Wilfred Leslie Freebody, .
Civil Division Herbert Wilfred Ayers, , Under-Secretary and Accountant-General, Ministry of National Insurance. Eric Barnard, , Deputy Secretary, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. Russell Frederick Bretherton, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade (now serving in the Cabinet Office). Richard William Barnes Clarke, , Under-Secretary, HM Treasury. William Richard Joseph Cook, , Chief of the Royal Naval Scientific Service, Admiralty. Robert Annesley Wilkinson Dent, Clerk of Public Bills, House of Commons. Mitchell Macdonald Dobbie, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Town & Country Planning. Ralph Neville Heaton, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education. Charles Thomas Houghton, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries. Colonel Sir Herbert Patrick Hunter, , DL, Chairman, County of Stafford Territorial & Auxiliary Forces Association. Andrew Lockhart Innes, Legal Secretary and Parliamentary Draftsman, Department of the Lord Advocate. William Francis Porter McLintock, , lately Director of the Geological Survey and Museum. Commander Seton Steuart Crichton Mitchell, , Royal Navy (Retired), Chief Engineer, Armaments Design Establishment, Ministry of Supply. Richard Royle Powell, , Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Defence. Ewart Watson Ravenshear, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel & Power. John Ross, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Sidney Donald Sargent, Director of Personnel and Accommodation, General Post Office. William Strath, Third Secretary, HM Treasury. Robert Bernard Waterer, Principal Assistant Solicitor, Board of Inland Revenue. Sydney Frank Wilkinson, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health.
Order of Merit (OM) The Right Honourable Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, . Marshal of the Royal Air Force, the Right Honourable Hugh Montague, Viscount Trenchard, .
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Percivale Liesching, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Commonwealth Relations Office. Sir John Stuart Macpherson, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nigeria.
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Sir Alexander Hyslop Maxwell, Chairman, British Travel and Holidays Association. Admiral Sir Thomas Hugh Binney, , Governor of the State of Tasmania. Sir Laurence Barton Grafftey-Smith, , High Commissioner in Pakistan for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Hugh Macintosh Foot, , Chief Secretary, Nigeria, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief Designate, Jamaica. Alfred William Lungley Savage, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Barbados. Major-General Terence Sydney Airey, , General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, British Element, Trieste Force. Walter St. Clair Howland Roberts, , His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Bucharest. Oswald Arthur Scott, , His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, at Helsinki.
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) William Abbott, , HM Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education. William Asbury, lately Land Commissioner, Schleswig-Holstein, Control Commission for Germany (British Element). James William Blackshaw, , Assistant-Secretary, Ministry of Supply. Wilfred John Hall, , Director of the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology. John Macgregor Bruce Lockhart, , Principal Intelligence Officer, Control Commission for Germany (British Element). Kenneth McGregor, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Cyril John Pyke, Head of Finance and Economic Department, Administration of African Territories, Foreign Office. James Ramsay, , British subject resident in Portugal. Mark Dalcour Tennant, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service. Leonard Waight, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury. Clifford Craig, , Surgeon Superintendent, Launceston General Hospital, State of Tasmania. Ian Morrison Ross Maclennan, High Commissioner designate in Southern Rhodesia for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Godfrey Eccleston Boyd Shannon, an Assistant Secretary in the Commonwealth Relations Office. George Lowe Sutton, . For services to Agriculture in the State of Western Australia. Robert Perceval Armitage, , Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Gold Coast. Richard Dennis Blandy, , Colonial Administrative Service, Resident Commissioner, New Hebrides. Edward Arthur Carr, Colonial Administrative Service, Commissioner of the Colony, Nigeria. Hubert Childs, , Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner of the Protectorate, Sierra Leone. Frederick Crawford, , Colonial Administrative Service, Director of Development, Northern Rhodesia, Governor and Commander-in-Chief Designate of the Seychelles. William Leonard Dale, Deputy Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.