The New Year Honours 1970 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 announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 30 December 1969 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1970.
At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.
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 Susan Lilian Primrose, Baroness Masham. For social services and services to disabled people.
Baron
John Cowburn Beavan. For services to Journalism. Sir (Christopher) Frank Kearton, , Chairman, Courtaulds Ltd. Chairman, Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, 1966–1968. Captain The Right Honourable Terence Marne O'Neill, , lately Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.
Privy Councillor
Privy Counsellors The Right Honourable Wilfred Banks Duncan, Baron Brown, , Minister of State, Board of Trade since 1965. Edmund Emanuel Dell, , Member of Parliament for Birkenhead since October 1964. Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Technology, 1966–1967; Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Economic Affairs, 1967–1968; Minister of State, Board of Trade, 1968–1969; Minister of State, Department of Employment and Productivity since October 1969. Sir Arthur James Irvine, , Member of Parliament for the Edge Hill Division of Liverpool since 1947. Solicitor-General since August 1967. Sir Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, , Governor, Bank of England.
Knight Bachelor
Walter Adams, , Director, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. Alfred Jules Ayer, Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford. Hubert Bennett, Architect to the Greater London Council. Harold Black, Secretary to the Cabinet of Northern Ireland. Lieutenant-Colonel James Carreras, . For services to Youth. Dudley Ross Chesterman, Warden, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Noël Peirce Coward. For services to the Arts. Professor Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, . For services to Archaeology in the Middle East. John Arthur Edwards, , President, London Rent Assessment Panel. Ronald McLeod Fairfield, , Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, British Insulated Callender's Cables Ltd. For services to Export. Arthur Gaitskell, . For services to overseas development. William Frederick Glock, . For services to Music. Sidney Francis Greene, , Chairman of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. Charles Herbert Stuart-Harris, , Professor of Medicine, University of Sheffield. Professor William Rede Hawthorne, . For services to Thermodynamics. Desmond Heap, Comptroller and City Solicitor, Corporation of the City of London. Charles Ronald Ironmonger, Alderman, Sheffield City Council. Richard Dawnay Lemon, , Chief Constable, Kent County Constabulary. John Todd Lewis, , Chairman, Birmingham Regional Hospital Board. Frank Milton, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate. Edward Grainger Muir, , Senior Surgeon, King's College Hospital, London. Philip Jack Oppenheimer, Managing Director, The Diamond Trading Co. Ltd. For services to Export. Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington, Technical Director, Pilkington Brothers Ltd. For services to Technology and Export. Professor Leon Radzinowicz, Wolfson Professor of Criminology and Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Professor Alexander Robertson, , Professor of Animal Health and Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Frederic Seebohm, , Chairman, Export Guarantees Advisory Council. Robert Southern, , General Secretary, Co-operative Union Ltd. Rudy Sternberg, Chairman, British Agricultural Export Council. For services to Export. Gwilym Tecwyn Williams, , President, National Farmers' Union for England and Wales. Richard Dilworth Young, Chairman and Managing Director, Alfred Herbert Ltd. For services to Export.
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
John Ramsay Blagden, , lately Chief Justice, Zambia. Nigel Vernon Reed, , Chief Justice, Northern Nigeria. Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers, , lately Secretary-General, Council of Europe.
State of New South Wales
The Honourable Harry Vincent Budd, President of the Legislative Council. Roderick William Miller, . For services to industry and commerce.