Knights Bachelor
- Frank Herbert Barlow, CBE, Secretary, Parliamentary Labour Party.
- John McFarlane Boyd, CBE, General Secretary, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.
- Montague Bernard Levine, Personal Physician to James Callaghan.
- Thomas Daniel McCaffrey. Formerly Chief Press Secretary, 10 Downing Street
- Joseph Percival William Mallalieu, lately Member of Parliament for Huddersfield East. Minister of Defence (Royal Navy) 1966–67. Minister of State, Board of Trade, 1967–68. Minister of Technology 1968–69.
- Thomas Gwilym Morris, CBE, QPM, Chief Constable, South Wales Constabulary.
- Raphael Herman Tuck, lately Member of Parliament for Watford.
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