The Queen's Birthday Honours 1976 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 4 June 1976 for the United Kingdom,UK list: Australia,Australia list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Mauritius,Mauritius list: Fiji,Fiji list: the Bahamas,Bahamas list: Grenada,Grenada list: and Papua New Guinea.Papua New Guinea list: These were the first Birthday Honours on the advice of Papua New Guinean Ministers for Papua New Guinea, as the nation had gained independence from Australia on 16 September 1975.

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honours (and any subsequent honours), and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

At this time honours for Australians were still being awarded in the UK honours on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, as well as in the new Australian honours system which had been established in the previous year.

At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominals MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.

United Kingdom

Life peers

Baroness Barbara Mary, Lady Jackson, D.B.E., President, International Institute for Environment and Development.

Baron Sir Philip Allen, G.C.B., For public services. Professor Asa Briggs, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex. Edward Benjamin Britten, O.M., C.H., Composer.

Privy Counsellor Michael Francis Lovell Cocks, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. Reginald Freeson, M.P., Minister for Housing and Construction, Department of the Environment. Henry Oscar Murton, O.B.E., T.D., M.P., Chairman of Ways and Means, House of Commons. David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, M.P., Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security.

Knight Bachelor William Sydney Albert Atkins, C.B.E., Chairman, W. S. Atkins Group. For services to Export. Group Captain Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C. For services to disabled people. William John Granville Beynon, C.B.E., F.R.S., Professor of Physics, University College of Wales. Frederic Bernard Bolton, M.C. For services to the shipping industry. Graham MacGregor Bull, Director, Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park, Medical Research Council. Richard Guy Cave, M.C., Chairman, Smiths Industries Ltd. James Ogilvy Blair-Cunynghame, O.B.E., Chairman, National and Commercial Banking Group Ltd. John Christopher Donne, Chairman, South East Thames Regional Health Authority. Robert McCallum Douglas, O.B.E., Chairman, Robert M. Douglas Holdings Ltd. For services to Export. Herbert Frank Cobbold Ereaut, Bailiff of Jersey. Harold Josiah Finch. For public services in Wales. Douglas George Horace Frank, Q.C., President of the Lands Tribunal. Professor Otto Kahn-Freund, F.B.A., Q.C. For services to labour law. Arthur Ernest Hawkins, Chairman, Central Electricity Generating Board. Horace William Heyman, Chairman, English Industrial Estates Corporation. George Henry Kenyon, D.L., Chairman of Council, University of Manchester. Denys Louis Lasdun, C.B.E., Architect. Frank Henry Burland Willoughby Layfield, Q.C., Chairman, Committee of Inquiry into Local Government Finance. Edmund Naylor Liggins, T.D., President of The Law Society. Francis Wingate William Pemberton, C.B.E. For services to agriculture. Robert James Philipson, President, Royal Scottish Academy. Frederick William Pontin. For charitable services. John Emms Read, Chairman, EMI Group of Companies. George Sharp, O.B.E. For services to local government in Scotland. James Cheseborough Swaffield, C.B.E., R.D., Director-General and Clerk, Greater London Council. Roger John Massy Swynnerton, C.M.G., O.B.E., M.C., lately Agricultural Adviser, Commonwealth Development Corporation. Geoffrey Wilkinson, F.R.S., Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Frederic Calland Williams, C.B.E., F.R.S., Professor of Electrical Engineering (Electro Technics), University of Manchester. Professor Robert Evan Owen Williams, Director, Public Health Laboratory Service. Rowland Sydney Wright, C.B.E., Chairman, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. For services to Export. Brian Walter Mark Young, Director General, Independent Broadcasting Authority.

Australian States State of New South Wales Colin Joseph Hines, O.B.E. For services to ex-servicemen. Neville Drake Pixley, M.B.E., V.R.D. For services to the community.

State of Victoria The Honourable Mr Justice John Erskine Starke, of Mount Eliza. For distinguished service to Victoria. Ian Jeffreys Wood, M.B.E., of Toorak. For services to medicine.

State of Queensland Francis Joseph McAvoy, C.B.E., of Daradgee. For his contribution to agriculture and to the development of the Queensland and Australian sugar industry. The Honourable Wallace Alexander Ramsey Rae, Agent-General for Queensland in London.

State of Western Australia The Honourable William Stewart Bovell, J.P., of Busselton. For long and outstanding service to Western Australia.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Admiral Sir Terence Lewin, K.C.B., M.V.O., D.S.C., A.D.C. General Sir Roland Gibbs, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry, Colonel Commandant The Parachute Regiment, Colonel Commandant 2nd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets. Air Chief Marshal Sir Neil Cameron, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Vice Admiral Peter Murray Austin. Lieutenant General Peter John Frederick Whiteley, O.B.E. Lieutenant General Arthur John Archer, O.B.E., late Infantry. Lieutenant General Richard Edward Worsley, O.B.E., late Royal Armoured Corps. Air Marshal Richard Gordon Wakeford, M.V.O., O.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Acting Air Marshal Alexander McKay Sinclair Steedman, C.B., C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force. William Robert Cox, C.B., Chief Executive, Property Services Agency, Department of the Environment. Hywel Wynn Evans, C.B., Permanent Secretary, Welsh Office. John Garlick, C.B., Second Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office. William Geraghty, C.B., Second Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Rear Admiral Herbert Gardner. Rear Admiral David Hepworth. Rear Admiral Sefton Ronald Sandford. Major General David Crichton Alexander. Major General John Geoffrey Robyn Allen, late Royal Armoured Corps, Colonel Commandant Royal Tank Regiment. Major General Kenneth Hall, O.B.E., late Royal Army Educational Corps. Major General John McGhie, Q.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major General Thomas Anthony Richardson, M.B.E., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major General Henry Ernest Roper, late Royal Corps of Signals, Colonel Commandant Royal Corps of Signals. Air Vice-Marshal Charles Melvin Gibbs, C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Charles Gilbert Maughan, C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal George Edwin Thirlwall, Royal Air Force. Air Commodore Arthur Sidney Ronald Strudwick, D.F.C., Royal Air Force (Retired).

Civil Division Lawrence Airey, Deputy Secretary, H.M. Treasury. Harry Munro Archibald, M.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security. Michael Thomas Emilius Clayton, O.B.E., Principal Director, Ministry of Defence. Andrew James Collier, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Social Security. Alfred Hyam Dalton, Deputy Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue. Frederick Harold Dean, Judge Advocate General of Her Majesty's Forces. George Lawrence Jose Engle, Parliamentary Counsel. John Michael Evelyn, Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions. John Graham, lately Under Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Norman Hancock, lately Director of Warship Design, Ministry of Defence. Peter Le Cheminant, Deputy Secretary, Department of Energy. William Gerald Malcolm, M.B.E., lately Permanent Secretary, Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland. Archibald Ralph Melville, C.M.G., lately Under Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development. Maurice Milne, Deputy Director General (Highways), Department of the Environment. Anthony John Phelps, Deputy Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise. Ian Macbeth Robertson, M.V.O., Under Secretary, Scottish Education Department. Walter Patrick Shovelton, C.M.G., Deputy Secretary, Department of Trade. William Jeffrey Smith, Under Secretary, Northern Ireland Office. Christopher Albert Taylor, lately Inspector General, Insolvency Service, Department of Trade.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Michael Walker, K.C.M.G., British High Commissioner, New Delhi.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Alan Hugh Campbell, C.M.G., Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Clive Martin Rose, C.M.G., Ambassador, Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the negotiations on Mutual Reduction of Forces and Armaments and associated measures in Central Europe, Vienna. Nigel Clive Cosby Trench, C.M.G., H.M. Ambassador, Lisbon. Charles Douglas Wiggin, C.M.G., D.F.C., A.F.C., H.M. Ambassador, Madrid.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Kenneth George Henry Binning, Under Secretary, Department of Industry. Professor Leonard Jan Bruce-Chwatt, O.B.E., For services to malaria control in developing countries. Sue Ryder, O.B.E. (Margaret Susan, Mrs Cheshire), Founder, The Sue Ryder Foundation. For services to displaced people and refugees. Anne Hunter, Mrs Smallwood, Commissioner, Board of Inland Revenue. Anthony William Stephens, Chief Officer, Sovereign Base Areas Administration, Cyprus, Ministry of Defence. William James Adams, Counsellor, Office of the United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the European Communities, Brussels. Hugh Michael Carless, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Stanley Gascoigne, O.B.E., Secretary to the Cabinet, Bermuda. Charles Sydney Rycroft Giffard, Minister, H.M. Embassy, Tokyo. John Moore Heath, H.M. Consul-General, Chicago. John William Dixon Hobley, Q.C., Attorney-General, Hong Kong. Cynlais Morgan James, Minister, H.M. Embassy, Paris. John Charles Moir Mason, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Richard Neil Posnett, O.B.E., lately Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Belize. Peregrine Alexander Rhodes, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Cabinet Office. Barry Granger Smallman, C.V.O., British High Commissioner, Dacca. Robert Sneddon, M.B.E., Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Henry Steel, O.B.E., Legal Counsellor, United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, New York. John Stainton Whitehead, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Australian States State of New South Wales William Ernest Henry, Under-Secretary and Comptroller of Accounts, New South Wales Treasury.

State of Victoria Reginald Jackson, Q.P.M., J.P., Chief Commissioner, Victoria Police.

State of Queensland James Richard Lambert Hyne, of Maryborough. For his contribution to the community and to the timber industry.

State of Western Australia Laurence Charles Brodie-Hall, of Gooseberry Hill. For services to mining and associated development and to the community.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Major Sir Ralph Hugo Anstruther, Bt, C.V.O., M.C. The Right Reverend William Launcelot Scott Fleming, D.D. Wilfred William Hill Hill-Wood, C.B.E. Philip Brian Cecil Moore, C.B., C.M.G.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) Henry Barraclough, M.V.O. Geoffrey de Bellaigue, M.V.O. Christopher Robert Vesey Holt, V.R.D. Frank Ernest Rehder. Colonel Kenneth Edward Savill, D.S.O.