to Export. Laurence George Gale, , Controller, Royal Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Defence. Frederic Evelyn Harmer, , deputy chairman, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Charles Felix Harris, . For services to the University of London. David Patrick Huddie, managing director, Aero Engine Division, Rolls-Royce Ltd. For services to Export. Raymond Winter Jennings, , Master of the Court of Protection, Supreme Court of Judicature. Henry Cecil Johnson , chairman, British Railways Board. William Kirby Laing, , chairman, John Laing & Son Ltd. Professor Emeritus Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, . For services to Archaeology. William Loris Mather, , chairman, Mather & Platt Ltd. For services to Export. Hubert Newton, lately President, International Union of Building Societies and Savings Associations. Geoffrey Stephen William Organe, , Professor of Anaesthetics, University of London, (Westminster Hospital Medical School). Rudolf Ernst Peierls, , Wykeham Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford. Norman George Mollett Prichard, , chairman, London Boroughs Association. John Renwick, , President, The Law Society. Kenneth Robson, , Registrar, Royal College of Physicians. Rupert Leigh Sich, , Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements. Iain Maxwell Stewart, lately chairman, Fairfields (Glasgow) Ltd. Allan Grierson Walker, , Sheriff of Lanarkshire. Barnes Neville Wallis, , Chief of Aeronautical Research and Development, British Aircraft Corporation (Operating) Ltd., Weybridge. Diplomatic Service and Overseas List Cyril Alfred Pitts, United Kingdom citizen, lately resident in India. State of New South Wales John William Goodsell, , chairman, Public Service Board. The Honourable Gordon Wallace, President, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales. State of Victoria Councillor Arthur William Nicholson, , Mayor of the City of Ballarat. State of Queensland Arthur Henry Petfield. For services to industrial development and to the community. State of Western Australia Cyril Pangbourne Bird. For services to the community, particularly in the field of Public Accounting. Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division General Sir Alan Jolly, , (49887), late Royal Armoured Corps. Colonel Commandant, Royal Tank Regiment. Civil Division Sir William Armstrong, , Joint Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and Head of the Home Civil Service. Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice Admiral Donald Cameron Ernest Forbes Gibson, . Lieutenant-General Robert George Victor Fitzgeorge-Balfour, , (53288), late Foot Guards. Lieutenant-General Ian Henry Freeland, , (53691), late Infantry, Deputy Colonel, The Royal Anglian Regiment. Acting Air Marshal Andrew Henry Humphrey, ,