The New Year Honours 1963 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 28 December 1962 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1963.United Kingdom list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Nigeria list: Sierra Leone list: Jamaica list: Trinidad list: Uganda list: Rhodesia and Nyasaland list:
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
Earl The Right Honourable Albert Victor, Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough, . Member of Parliament for the Hillsborough Division of Sheffield, 1922–1931 and 1935–1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Trade, 1924; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1929–1931, 1940–1945 and 1945–1946; Minister of Defence, 1946–1950; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1950–1951. Leader of the Labour Peers in the House of Lords since 1955. For political and public services.
Baron The Right Honourable Sir Norman Craven Brook, . Lately Secretary of the Cabinet and Joint Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and Head of the Home Civil Service. Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, . For public services. Lately First Crown Estate Commissioner.
Life Peer Baron Sir Eric Cyril Boyd Edwards, . For political services.
Privy Councillor Sir David Callender Campbell, . Member of Parliament for Belfast South since 1952. Chairman, Ulster Unionist Group in the House of Commons since 1955. Lieutenant-Governor of Malta, 1943–1952.
Baronet Sir Arthur Espie Porritt, , President, Royal College of Surgeons. William Johnson Taylor, , Member of Parliament for Bradford North since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Supply, 1957–1959; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air, 1959–1962. For political and public services. Kenneth Pugh Thompson, , Member of Parliament for the Walton Division of Liverpool since 1950. Assistant Postmaster-General, 1957–1959; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education, 1959–1962. For political and public services. Richard Hilton Marler Thompson, , Member of Parliament for Croydon West, 1950–1955, and for Croydon South since 1955. An Assistant Government Whip, 1952–1954; a Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, 1954–1956; Vice-Chamberlain of HM Household, 1956–1957; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, 1957–1959; Parliamentary Under-secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office, 1959–1960; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Works, 1960–1962. For political and public services.
Knight Bachelor William Henry Arnold, , The Bailiff, Guernsey. Richard Frank Bonallack, . For political services in Middlesex and Essex. Kenneth Granville Bradley, , Director of the Commonwealth Institute. William John Carron. President, Amalgamated Engineering Union. James Wilfred Cook. For services to Organic Chemistry. Vice-chancellor, University of Exeter. Alderman Jonathan Lionel Percy Denny, . Lately Sheriff, City of London. Ian Fraser, , Senior Consultant Surgeon, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Herbert James Gunn. Portrait Painter. Cyril Ernest Harrison. Vice Chairman and Managing Director, English Sewing Cotton Company. Ltd. Walter Stewart Howard, , Alderman, Warwickshire County Council. Edmund Peder Hudson. Lately Managing Director, Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd. Alderman Frederick Lawrence, . For political and public services in London. Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence, . Lately Chairman, General Council of the Bar. William Lindsay, . For political and public services in Sussex. Peter George Macdonald, . For political and public services in Edinburgh. Harold Hill Mullens, Chairman, C. A. Parsons & Co. Ltd. and A. Reyrolle & Co. Ltd. Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors, Corpus Christi Professor of Latin Language and Literature, University of Oxford. Gerald David Nunes Nabarro, , Member of Parliament for Kidderminster since 1950. For political and public services. James Denning Pearson, Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman, Rolls-Royce Ltd. Montague Arnet Robinson, Chairman, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. Harold George Sanders, Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Thomas Holmes Sellors, , Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital and the National Heart Hospital. Henry Francis Spencer, Managing Director, Richard Thomas and Baldwins Ltd. Leslie Montagu Thomas, , Member of Parliament for Canterbury since 1953. For political and public services. Rear Admiral George Pirie Thomson, , Royal Navy (Retired). For services as Secretary, Services, Press and Broadcasting Committee. Reginald Everard Lindsay Wellington, , Director of Sound Broadcasting, British Broadcasting Corporation. Richard van der Riet Woolley, , Astronomer Royal.
State of Victoria Charles Holly McKay, , President of the Branch in the State of Victoria of the Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia.
State of Queensland George Edward Green, Company Director, of Brisbane, State of Queensland. For charitable and philanthropic services.
State of South Australia James Robert Holden, Resident Director of General Motors–Holden's Proprietary Limited in the State of South Australia.
Southern Rhodesia Cyril James Hatty, formerly Minister of Mines and Industrial Development, and African Education.
Nyasaland Edgar Ignatius Godfrey Unsworth, , Chief Justice, Nyasaland.
Overseas Territories Harry Durham Butterfield, . For public services in Bermuda. Wilfrid Bowen Havelock, Minister for Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Kenya. Cyril George Xavier Henriques, Chief Justice, Windward and Leeward Islands. Joseph Alexander Luckhoo, Chief Justice, British Guiana. André Lawrence Nairac, , Minister of Industry, Commerce and External Communications, Mauritius.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division General Sir Richard Wakefield Goodbody, , (26967), Colonel Commandant, Royal Horse Artillery; Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery; Colonel Commandant, Honourable Artillery Company (Territorial Army). Air Chief Marshal Sir Edmund Hudleston, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Sir Laurence Norman Helsby, , Joint Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury and head of the Home Civil Service. Until recently Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Desmond Parry Dreyer, . Vice-Admiral Peter William Gretton, .
Army Major-General Richard Elton Goodwin, , (40616), late Infantry; Colonel, 1st East Anglian Regiment (Royal Norfolk and Suffolk). Lieutenant-General Harold Edwin Knott, , (41299), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
Royal Air Force Acting Air Marshal Sidney Richard Carlyle Nelson, .
Civil Division Thomas George Barnett Cocks, , Clerk of the House of Commons. Sir Keith Anderson Hope Murray, Chairman, University Grants Committee.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Isaac William Trant Beloe, . Rear-Admiral John Fitzroy Duyland Bush, . Rear-Admiral Bryan Cecil Durant, . Rear-Admiral Raymond Shayle Hawkins. Rear-Admiral John Howson, . Rear-Admiral The Right Honourable David William Maurice, Viscount Kelburn, . Rear-Admiral Hugh Stirling Mackenzie, . Rear-Admiral John Percival Scatchard, . Surgeon Rear-Admiral Derek Duncombe Steele-Perkins, . Rear-Admiral Sir John Scarlett Warren Walsham, .
Army Major-General Theodore Henry Birkbeck, , (44960), late Infantry. Brigadier Ereld Boteler Wingfield Cardiff, , (39101), late Foot Guards. Major-General John Malcolm McNeill, , (41179), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Ambrose Neponucene Trelawney Meneces, , (44406), late Royal Army Medical Corps. The Venerable Archdeacon Ivan Delacherois Neill, , (89720), Chaplain-General to the Forces. Major-General Denis Arthur Kay Redman, , (63651), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Major-General Reginald Booth Stockdale, , (52739), Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Major-General John William Channing Williams, , (41246), late Infantry.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal John Worrall, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal John Lindsay Barker, . Air Commodore Benjamin Ball, . Air Commodore Wilfred Carter, . Air Commodore Hugh Patrick Connolly, . Air Commodore Ian George Esplin, . Air Commodore Lewis MacDonald Hodges, . Air Commodore Richard Julian Paget Prichard, .
Civil Division Colonel Sir Hugh John Francis Sibthorp Cholmeley, , Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Lincoln. Dennis Cliff Haselgrove, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Brigadier Kenneth Soar Holmes, , Director of Postal Services, General Post Office. Alan Blyth Hume, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office. George Leitch, , Assistant Under-Secretary of State, War Office. William Andrew Leitch, First Parliamentary Draftsman, Government of Northern Ireland. David Thomas Lewis, Government Chemist, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. John Haydon McCarthy, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. Kenneth McGregor, , Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Norman Victor Meeres, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Aviation. Ian Montgomery, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence. Samuel Dixon Musson, , Principal Assistant Solicitor, Ministry of Health. John Samuel Orme, , Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry. William Charles Tame, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Harry Truman Veall, Controller of Death Duties, Board of Inland Revenue. Frederick Charles Wilkins, Director of Stores, Admiralty.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir William Allmond Codrington Goode, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, North Borneo. Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (designate) in Bonn.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) George Herbert Andrew, , Second Secretary, Board of Trade. Sir Charles Richard Morris, Chairman, Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas. Norman Edgar Costar, , British Commissioner in Trinidad and Tobago. Paul Francis Grey, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Berne. Herbert Stanley Marchant, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Havana. Derek Martin Hurry Riches, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Leopoldville. John Christopher Blake Richmond, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Kuwait.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) George Blaker Blaker, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury. Philip Chantler, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Power. Joseph Lewis Reading, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. Major General John Francis Dawes Steedman, , Director of Works, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Andrew Greville Parry Way, Commander, Metropolitan Police, for services in Montreal. Claude Harry Fenner, , Director of Police Affairs, Federation of Malaya. Alexander Galloway, , lately Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda. George Peter Hampshire, an Assistant Undersecretary of State in the Commonwealth Relations Office. Bertram Speakman Hanson, , of Beaumont, State of South Australia. For services to radiotherapy. Edmund Angus Jones, Company Director, State of Victoria. For public services.