1952 Birthday Honours

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The Queen’s Birthday Honours 1952 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, and were published in supplements the London Gazette on 30 May 1952 for the United Kingdom and Colonies, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, and Pakistan.

United Kingdom and Colonies

Viscount

  • The Right Honourable Sir Basil Stanlake Brooke, Bt, CBE, MC, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
  • The Right Honourable Sir (Alfred) Duff Cooper, GCMG, DSO, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1934–1935; Secretary of State for War, 1935–1937; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1937–1938; Minister of Information, 1940–1941; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1941–1943; HM Ambassador to France, 1944–1947.

Baron

  • General Sir George Darell Jeffreys, KCB, KCVO, CMG, JP, DL. For political and public services.
  • The Right Honourable Gavin Turnbull, Baron Simonds, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
  • Colonel Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew, TD, MP, Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock, 1924–1929; for Partick, 1931–1935; and for the Bute and Northern Division of Ayr and Bute since 1935; Chairman of Ways and Means since 1951.

Privy Counsellor

  • Colonel The Right Honourable Hugh William, Earl Fortescue, KG, CB, OBE, MC, Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, Chief Government Whip in the House of Lords.
  • The Honourable Eric John Harrison, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Defence Production in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Colonel Sir Charles Glen MacAndrew, TD, MP, Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock, 1924–1929; for Partick, 1931–1935; and for the Bute and the Northern Division of Ayr and Bute since 1935. Chairman of Ways and Means since 1951.

Baronet

  • Charles Lennard Chute, MC, DL. For public services in Hampshire, Chairman of the County Council.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Garden Beauchamp Duff, DSO. For political and public services in Aberdeenshire.
  • Sir (George) Leighton Seager, CBE, JP, DL. For political and public services.
  • Geoffrey Summers, CBE, JP, DL. For political and public services in Wales.
  • Sir Cecil Pembrey Grey Wakeley, KBE, CB, FRCS, President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Knight Bachelor

  • Carleton Kemp Allen, MC, QC, JP, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford.
  • Edward Arthur Anderson, JP. For political and public services in Middlesbrough.
  • Alderman Herbert William Barber. For political and public services in Southport.
  • Alderman Alfred Bates, MC, DL, lately Chairman, Lancashire County Council.
  • Bernhard Heymann Binder, Chartered Accountant.
  • Air Commodore Vernon Sydney Brown, CB, OBE, RAF (Retd.), Chief Inspector of Accidents, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
  • Geoffrey Abdy Collins, President of the Law Society.
  • William Percy Cowley, CBE, First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls, Isle of Man.
  • John Ellenborough Crowder, MP, Member of Parliament for Finchley since 1935. Second Church Estates Commissioner. For political and public services.
  • Henry Thomas Alexander Dashwood, JP, Registrar of the Court of Arches, of the Court of Faculties, and of the Diocese of London. Principal Registrar of the Province of Canterbury.
  • His Honour David Davies, QC, National Insurance Commissioner and Industrial Injuries Commissioner.
  • Rupert de la Bère, JP, MP, Member of Parliament for Evesham, 1935–1950, and for South Worcestershire since 1950. For political and public services.
  • Frederick Cecil Ellerton, Deputy Chairman, Barclays Bank.
  • Eric Errington, JP, Member of parliament for Bootle, 1935–1945. For political and public services in the North-West.
  • David Emrys Evans, Principal of the University College of North Wales, Bangor.
  • William Scott Farren, CB, MBE, Technical Director, A.V. Roe & Co. Ltd.
  • Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, University of Cambridge.
  • Archibald McDonald Gordon, CMG, Counsellor (Labour), HM Embassy, Washington.
  • Clarence Johnston Graham. For political and public services in Northern Ireland.
  • George Goldie Graham, OBE, JP, Secretary, Scottish Football Association.
  • Fred Haigh, Chairman, Wool Textile Delegation.
  • Charles Joseph William Harris, CBE, Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury.
  • William Errington Hume, CMG, MD, FRCP, Lately Senior Physician, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Durham.
  • Alderman Harold Warters Jackson. For political and public services in Sheffield.
  • Frederic Charles Johnson, CB, Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.
  • John Henry Keeling, Deputy Chairman, British European Airways Corporation.
  • Colonel Ambrose Keevil, CBE, MC, DL. For political and public services in the Home Counties.
  • John Geoffrey Nelson Lowles. For political and public services in the Home Counties.
  • Arnold Henry Moore Lunn. For services to British Skiing, and to Anglo-Swiss relations.
  • Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, OBE, Author.
  • Alderman Sidney Horatio Marshall, JP, DL, MP, Member of Parliament for Sutton and Cheam since 1945. For political and public services in Surrey.
  • Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews, CBE, Professor of Physiology, University of Cambridge. For services to the Air Ministry.
  • William Booth Rennie Morren, CBE, MVO, Chief Constable of Edinburgh City.
  • John Musker. For political and public services in London.
  • Lewis Bernstein Namier, Professor of Modern History, University of Manchester.
  • Carol Reed. Film producer and director.
  • Leslie Roberts, CBE, Chairman and Managing Director, Manchester Ship Canal Company.
  • Henry James Ross, Chairman, Scotch Whisky Association.
  • Herbert Babington Robin Rowell, CBE, AFC, DL, Chairman and Managing Director, R.& W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne.
  • Geoffrey Herbert Savage, Chairman, Central Conference of Employers and Trade Unions in the Engineering Industry.
  • Alderman Archibald Havergal Downes-Shaw, OBE. For political and public services in Bristol.
  • Major-General Kenneth William Dobson Strong, CB, OBE (Retd.), Director, Joint Intelligence Bureau, Ministry of Defence.
  • Vice-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor, CMG, CVO, Royal Navy (Retd.), Member of Parliament for South Paddington, 1930–1950. For political and public services.
  • Gordon Cosmo Touche, MP, Member of Parliament for the Reigate Division, 1931–1950, and for the Dorking Division since 1950. For political and public services.
  • Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler, CIE, MC, Secretary of the British Academy, Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, University of London.
State of Victoria
  • The Honourable Herbert John Thornhill Hyland, Minister of Transport, Prices & State Development, State of Victoria.
State of South Australia
    • John Keith Angas, a prominent pastoralist in the State of South Australia.