The Queen's Birthday Honours 1974 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 published on 7 June 1974 for the United Kingdom,UK list: Australia (for Papua New Guinea),Australia/PNG list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Mauritius,Mauritius list: Fiji,Fiji list: the Bahamas,Bahamas list: and Grenada.Grenada list:

At this time honours for Australians were still being awarded in the UK honours on the advice of the premiers of Australian states. The Australian honours system began with the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours.

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 Baroness The Right Honourable Margaret Rosalind, Baroness Delacourt-Smith, Widow of the Right Honourable Lord Delacourt-Smith. Formerly Councillor of the Royal Borough of New Windsor and a Justice of the Peace.

Baron Sir William Picken Alexander, Secretary, Association of Education Committees. Alfred Walter Henry Allen, , Chairman, Trades Union Congress. Professor Nicholas Kaldor, , Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge. Formerly special adviser, now consultant on tax matters to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir John Frederick Wolfenden, , formerly Chairman, University Grants Committee, and Director, British Museum.

Privy Counsellor The Right Honourable Sir Robert Lynd Erskine Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. The Honourable Sir John Pennycuick, Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice.

Knight Bachelor William Ferguson Anderson, , David Cargill Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Glasgow. Lennox Randal Berkeley, , Composer. William Peter Bulmer, Managing Director, Bulmer & Lumb (Holdings) Ltd. For services to Export. Eric John Callard, Chairman, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. For services to Export. Clement Clapton Chesterman, . For services to medicine overseas. Professor Stanley George Clayton, President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. John Rupert Colville, . For services to Churchill College. Bernard Delfont. For charitable services. Martin Llewellyn Edwards, , President, The Law Society. David Ernest Thomas Floyd Ewin, , Registrar and Receiver of St. Paul's Cathedral. Derek Ezra, , Chairman, National Coal Board. Eric Odin Faulkner, , Chairman, Lloyds Bank Ltd. William Stevenson Gray, Lord Provost of Glasgow. John Capel Hanbury, , Chairman, Central Health Services Council. Francis Alexander Lyle Harrison, . For public services in Northern Ireland. Stanley Holmes, , Chief Executive, Merseyside County Council. Andrew Fielding Huxley, , Royal Society Research Professor, University College, London. Emmanuel Kaye, , Founder and Chairman, Lansing Bagnall Ltd. For services to Export. His Honour Judge Dermot St Oswald McKee, Circuit Judge. Edward Lancelot Mallalieu, . Lately First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. For services to Parliament. Arthur Gregory George Marshall, . Chairman and Managing Director, Marshall of Cambridge (Engineering) Ltd. Walter Edmund Parker, Lately Senior Partner, Price Waterhouse & Company. For public services. Walter Laing Macdonald Perry, , Vice-Chancellor, The Open University. Melvyn Wynne Rosser. Chairman of the Welsh Council. Arthur South. Member and Leader, Norwich City Council. Richard William Southern, . For services to Mediaeval History. Patrick Muirhead Thomas, , Chairman, Scottish Transport Group. Brigadier Philip John Denton Toosey, . For public services. Denys Haigh Wilkinson, , Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Oxford.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Ira Marcus Simmons, , Governor, St Lucia.

Australian States State of New South Wales Hermann David Black, Chancellor of Sydney University. Frederick Walter Sutton, . For services to philanthropy and the community.

State of Victoria John Thyne Reid, , of Kew For services to the community and to the arts. Harold Frederick Stokes, , of Toorak. For dedicated services to the Austin Hospital and other community activities.

State of Queensland Charles Newton Barton, , Co-ordinator-General. Andrew Bruce Small, , of Surfers Paradise. For services to the welfare of the Gold Coast and the community generally. The Honourable Mr. Justice Charles Gray Wanstall, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland.

State of Western Australia The Honourable Crawford David Nalder, of Applecross. For services to the State and in local government.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Civil Division Sir Antony Alexander Part, , Permanent Secretary, Department of Industry.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice Admiral Arthur Mackenzie Power, . Lieutenant-General Patrick John Howard-Dobson, , (189025), late Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel The Queen's Own Hussars. Air Marshal Beresford Peter Torrington Horsley, , Royal Air Force Air Marshal Douglas Charles Lowe, , Royal Air Force.

Civil Division Frank Cooper, , Permanent Secretary, Northern Ireland Office. Conrad Frederick Heron, , Permanent Secretary, Department of Employment. Derek Jack Mitchell, , Second Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury. John Martindale Wilson, , Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral Lionel Dorian Dymoke. Rear Admiral Hubert Walter Elphinstone Hollins. Rear Admiral Jack Rowbottom Llewellyn. Rear Admiral William David Stewart Scott. Rear Admiral Derek Garland Spickernell.

Army Major-General Ronald John Denys Eden Buckland, , (165022), late Foot Guards. Major-General Glyn Charles Anglim Gilbert, , (108156), late Infantry. Major-General James Herbert Samuel Majury, , (193883), late Infantry, now R.A.R.O, Colonel Commandant King's Division, Colonel The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th). Major-General Charles Edward Page, , (193565), late Royal Corps of Signals, now R.A.R.O., Colonel Commandant Royal Corps of Signals. Maior-General James Maxwell Sawers, , (95201), late Royal Corps of Signals.

Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Harold Ford. Air Vice-Marshal Philip Jacobus Lagesen, . Air Vice-Marshal Ronald James Arthur Morris, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Howard George Cadwallader. Air Commandant Barbara Mary Ducat-Amos, , Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service.

Civil Division Edward Armitage, Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, Department of Trade. Frederick Denys Beddard, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Security. Keith Brading, , Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies and Industrial Assurance Commissioner. Brian Crossland Cubbon, Deputy Secretary, Cabinet Office. Norman Dugdale, Permanent Secretary, Department of Health and Social Services, Northern Ireland. Hywel Eifion Evans, Under Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Trevor Poulton Hughes, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment. Kenneth Ernest Lefever, Commissioner and Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise. John Michael Moore, , Deputy Secretary, Civil Service Department. William Henry Nichols, Secretary, Exchequer and Audit Department. Thomas George Odling, Clerk of Committees, House of Commons. George Paine, , Director of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys and Registrar General of England and Wales. Clifford James Pearce, Under Secretary, Department of the Environment. Charles Barry Shaw, , Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland. James Ian Smith, Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland. David Richard Thompson, Registrar of Criminal Appeals and Master of the Crown Office.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Patrick Francis Hancock, , HM Ambassador, Rome. Sir Edward Heywood Peck, , United Kingdom Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Frederick John Llewellyn, Director-General, The British Council.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Edward Colin Viner Goad, lately Secretary-General, Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation. Sir Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bermuda. William Bernard John Ledwidge, , HM Ambassador, Tel Aviv. Charles Martin Le Quesne, , British High Commissioner, Lagos. John Oliver Wright, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Reginald Anderson, Assistant Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. Denis Parsons Burkitt, , Member, Medical Research Council External Scientific Staff. Professor Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, , Foreign Secretary, British Academy. For services to Historical Research. George Wicks Marshall, , Commercial Counsellor, HM Embassy, Copenhagen. William Nicoll, Minister, Office of the United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the European Communities.

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Geoffrey Allan Crossley, HM Ambassador, Bogota. Christopher Ewart Diggines, British High Commissioner, Port of Spain. Albert Thomas Lamb, , HM Ambassador-designate, Kuwait. Paul Henderson Scott, Senior Trade Commissioner and Head of Post, British Government Office, Montreal. Richard James Stratton, lately Political Adviser, Hong Kong. John Lang Taylor, lately Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. John Alan Thompson, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Willoughby Harry Thompson, , Governor, Montserrat. Michael Scott Weir, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Australian States State of New South Wales The Honourable Eric Archibald Willis, , Minister for Education. Charles Edward Winston. For services to medicine.

State of Victoria Professor Howard Hadfield Eddey, Professor of Surgery, University of Melbourne.

State of Queensland Edmond Rowlands Behne, of Brisbane. For services to the sugar industry.

State of Western Australia Ralph Herbert Doig, , lately Chairman, Public Service Board.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Lieutenant-Colonel John Mansel Miller, . Charles Lorz Strong, . The Right Reverend Roger Plumpton Wilson,.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Mary Goldie, . Edmund Frank Grove, . Major Sir Hew Fleetwood Hamilton-Dalrymple, Albert Montefiore Lake, . Hugh Brown Mounsey, . Leslie Alfred John Treby, . The Very Reverend Henry Charles Whitley.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

Fourth Class Alezander William Allan. Captain Charles Barry George Baker, Irish Guards. Commander Hugh Maxwell Balfour, Royal Navy. Squadron Leader Richard Felix, Royal Air Force. Lady Mary Katharine Fitzalan-Howard. Squadron Leader Ronald Montgomery Kerr, , Royal Air Force. John Llewellyn Powell, . Peter Christie Mauldon Shillitoe, . The Reverend Canon Rennie Simpson.

Fifth Class Sidney Burton, Superintendent, Norfolk Joint Police Force. James Davidson Duguid. Mary Alberth Gilbart. Norman Stanley Goode. Henry Reginald Hardy. George Richard Hart. Keith Howard. Alan Ross Thornton.

Medal of the Royal Victorian Order (RVM) In Silver Francis Alfred Alexander. C1920774 Acting Flight Sergeant Michael John Cochlin, Royal Air Force. Edward Duddigan. Harold Charles James Gray, . Andrew Grubb. Albert Jones. Chief Petty Officer Wilfred James Loveridge, J871457Q. Arthur Montgomery. Alfred William Pither. James Ian Reid. Maurice George Smith.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) Civil Division Sir Hugh Walter Kingwell Wontner, , Lord Mayor of London.