1953 New Year Honours

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Barons

• Sir Clive Latham Baillieu, K.B.E., C.M.G., Chairman, Dunlop Rubber Company. For public services.
• The Right Honourable Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill, Baronet, Member of Parliament for Mid Antrim, 1915–1922, for County Antrim, 1922–1950, and for North Antrim, 1950–1952. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India and Burma, 1939–1940. Member of Parliament of Northern Ireland and first Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, 1921–1929. For political and public services.
• The Right Honourable Lord Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, Rector, Newcastle Division, University of Durham, 1937–1952. For public services.

  Privy Counsellors

• Lucien Macull Dominic de Silva, Esq., Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon.
• Commander Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, Royal Navy, M.P., Member of Parliament for the Pollok Division of Glasgow since 1940. Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, 1945, and since 1951.

  Baronets

• Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, G.C.B., O.B.E., A.F.C.
• Captain John Helias Finnie McEwen, Member of Parliament for Berwick and Haddington, 1931–1945. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, 1939–1940; Lord Commissioner of H.M. Treasury, 1942–1944. For political and public services.
• Sir Ernest Henry Pooley, K.C.V.O., Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain.

  Knights Bachelor

• John Kenneth Atkinson, Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue.
• His Honour Hugh Loveday Beazley, Common Serjeant of the City of London.
• John Benstead, C.B.E., Deputy Chairman, British Transport Commission.
• Alfred George Ernest Briggs, Deputy Controller of Supplies, Ministry of Supply.
• Herbert Walter Butcher, M.P., Member of Parliament for Holland with Boston since 1937. Lord Commissioner of H.M. Treasury and Government Joint Deputy Chief Whip since 1951.
• Vincent Zachary Cope, M.D., F.R.C.S., Consulting Surgeon, St. Mary's Hospital, London.
• Harold Roxbee Cox, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Arthur Croft, For political and public services in Bradford.
• James Croysdale, For political and public services in Leeds.
• Matthew Watt Drysdale, Chairman of Lloyds.
• Arthur William Mickle Ellis, O.B.E., D.M., F.R.C.P., Consulting Physician, London Hospital. Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford.
• Lincoln Evans, C.B.E., General Secretary, Iron and Steel Trades Confederation.
• Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing, M.P. Member of Parliament for Weston-super-Mare since 1934. For political and public services.
• Walter Fletcher, C.B.E., M.P., Member of Parliament for Bury, 1945–1950, and for Bury and Radcliffe since 1950. For political and public services.
• Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson Gower, Chairman of the Surrey County Cricket Club.
• John Bewley Greaves, C.M.G., O.B.E., Senior Trade Commissioner in the Commonwealth of Australia, Board of Trade.
• Charles Kenneth Felix Hague, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd. Deputy Chairman, Royal Ordnance Factories Board.
• Professor William Keith Hancock, Chief Civil Historian, Cabinet Office.
• John James Craik Henderson, For political and public services in Scotland.
• Albert Henry Stanley Hinchliffe, For services to the Association of British Chambers of Commerce. Governing Director, Glazebrook, Steel and Company, Ltd.
• William Graham Holford, Professor of Town Planning, University College, London.
• Reuben James Hunt, For political and public services in Essex.
• William Oliphant Hutchison, President, Royal Scottish Academy.
• Harold Jeffreys, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, University of Cambridge.
• Colonel Robert Godfrey Llewellyn, C.B., C.B.E., M.C., T.D., J.P., D.L. For political and public services in Wales.
• Major Ernest Guy Richard Lloyd, D.S.O., M.P., Member of Parliament for East Renfrew since 1940. For political and public services.
• James Miller, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
• Frank Percival Montgomery, M.C., M.B. For public services in Northern Ireland.
• James Frederick Mountford, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool.
• Basil Edward Nicolls, C.V.O., C.B.E., lately Director of Home Broadcasting, and lately Acting Director-General, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Stanley Colston Parkin, C.B.E., General Manager and Secretary, National Dock Labour Board.
• Stephen Herbert Pierssene, T.D., General Director of the Conservative and Unionist Central Office since 1945. For political services.
• William Henry Pilkington, Chairman, Pilkington Brothers, Ltd. Vice-President, Council of Building Material Producers.
• Clifford Walter Radcliffe, C.B.E., D.L., Clerk of the Middlesex County Council.
• Herbert Read, D.S.O., M.C. For services to literature.
• Dennis Holme Robertson, C.M.G., Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge.
• Frank Shires, President, Food Manufacturers' Federation.
• Alderman Thomas Dalrymple Straker-Smith, J.P. For political and public services in Northumberland.
• Harold Sutcliffe, M.P., Member of Parliament for the Royton Division of Lancashire, 1931–1950, and for the Heywood and Royton Division since 1950. For political and public services.
• Arthur Landsborough Thomson, C.B., O.B.E., Second Secretary, Medical Research Council.
• Alderman Denis Henry Truscott, T.D., lately Sheriff of the City of London.
• Major Charles Tuff, J.P., D.L.. For political and public services in Kent.
• Francis Weatherby, M.C., lately Secretary of the Jockey Club.
• Robert Bruce Wycherley, M.C., Managing Director, Abbey National Building Society.

• Peter MacCallum, M.C., MSc, M.D., a Member of the Medical Board, State of Victoria, and formerly Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne.

• Edmund Britten Jones, M.B., F.R.C.P., a leading physician in the State of South Australia. For public services.
• Herbert Kingsley Paine, C.M.G., Judge of the Insolvency Court, State of South Australia.

• Joseph Totterdell, Esq., Lord Mayor of the City of Perth. State of Western Australia.

• Allan Robert Eliott Lockhart, Esq., C.I.E., President, Associated Chambers of Commerce, India; 1951–52.

• Marie Joseph Barnabé Francis Herchenroder, Q.C., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Mauritius.
• Robert Scott, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Administrative Service, Administrator, East Africa High Commission.
• Allan Chalmers Smith, M.C., Chief Justice, Sierra Leone.
• Aubrey Kenneth Solomon, C.B.E., Q.C., President of the Legislative Council, Bahamas.
• Eric Crawford Tansley, C.M.G., Managing Director of West African Produce Marketing Companies.

  Order of the Bath

Knights Grand Cross (GCB)

• Admiral Sir John Hereward Edelsten, K.C.B., C.B.E.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir William Forster Dickson, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force

• The Right Honourable Sir Ulick Francis Canning Alexander, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., C.M.G., O.B.E., lately Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to The Queen.
• Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers, G.B.E., K.C.B. For public services.

  Knights Commander (KCB)

• Vice-Admiral Charles Edward Lambe, C.B., C.V.O.
• Vice-Admiral William McBride, C.B., C.B.E.
• General Sir Richard Nelson Gale, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry. Colonel, The Worcestershire Regiment.
• General Sir Cameron Gordon Graham Nicholson, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Air Marshal Sir Basil Edward Embry, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.

• Sir Geoffrey Stuart King, K.B.E, C.B., M.C., Secretary, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Sir Roger Mellor Makins, K.C.M.G., Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, and Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, designate, in Washington.
• Thomas Padmore, Esq., C.B., Second Secretary, H.M. Treasury.

  Companions (CB)

• Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony Wass Buzzard, Bt., D.S.O., O.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral John Wilson Cuthbert, C.B.E.
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Thomas Norman D'Arcy, C.B.E., L.R.C.P. & S., D.O.M.S.
• Rear-Admiral Frank Trowbridge Mason.
• Rear-Admiral William Geoffrey Arthur Robson, D.S.O., D.S.C.
• Instructor Captain Harry Victor Rumsey, M.M., Royal Navy.
• Rear-Admiral Arthur David Torlesse, D.S.O.
• Rear-Admiral Robert Spencer Warne, C.B.E.
• Major-General Kennett Bayley, C.B.E., late Infantry.
• Major-General Arthur Joseph Beveridge, O.B.E., M.C., M.B., Q.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Basil Aubrey Coad, C.B.E. D.S.O., late Infantry.
• Major-General Sidney Arthur Cooke, O.B.E., late Infantry.
• Major-General Launcelot Eric Cutforth, C.B.E., Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Brigadier Leonard Frank Field, C.B.E., late Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major-General Richard Wakefield Goodbody, D.S.O., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General William Edward Gordon Hemming, C.B.E., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Lancelot Edgar Connop Mervyn Perowne, C.B.E., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General John Christopher Walkey, C.B.E., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Mervyn Savile Wheatley, C.B.E., late Royal Corps of Signals.
• Major-General John Harold Owen Wilsey, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Infantry.
• Major-General Harold Williams, C.B.E., late Corps of Royal Engineers, at present on loan to the Government of India as Engineer-in-Chief, Indian Army.
• Air Vice Marshal Edward Demetrius Dalziel Dickson, C.B.E., F.R.C.S., M.D., Q.H.S., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Edward Crisp Farman, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Henry Paterson Fraser, C.B.E., A.F.C, Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore William Joseph Grisham, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Jack Harris Harris, C.B.E., Royal Air Force Regiment.
• Air Commodore Wallace Hart Kyle, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C. A.D.C., Royal Air Force.

• John Buckingham, Esq., Director of Research Programmes and Planning, Royal Naval Scientific Service, Admiralty.
• Archibald William Major Bull, Esq., Clerk of the Journals, House of Commons.
• John Eric Bullard, Esq., Under-Secretary, National Assistance Board.
• Wilfred Harry Curtis, Esq., C.B.E., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, War Office.
• Frederick Laurence Edwards, Esq., O.B.E., Accountant General, Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
• John Saye Wingfield Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Esq., Parliamentary Counsel.
• William Henry Glanville, Esq., C.B.E.,Director, Road Research Laboratory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Frank Grant, Esq., O.B.E., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Victor Percy Harries, Esq., Under-Seeretary, Ministry of Supply.
• William Hughes, Esq., Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Guy Maynard Liddell, Esq., C.B.E., M.C., War Office.
• Gwilym Ivor Morris, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• John Hubert Penson, Esq., C.M.G., M.C., Under-Secretary, H.M. Treasury Attache at H.M. Embassy in Washington, Ministry of Materials.
• Herbert John Shelley, Esq., O.B.E., Chief Inspector, Ministry of Education.
• Rupert Leigh Sich, Esq. Principal Assistant Solicitor, Treasury Solicitor's Branch, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Robert Spence, Esq., Chief Chemist, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Ministry of Supply.
• Arthur Wood Taylor, Esq., Commissioner, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Brigadier George Hands Walton, C.B.E., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, County of Durham.
• Arnold Sydney Whitehead, Esq., C.B.E., Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue.