The Queen's Birthday Honours 1964 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. They were announced on 13 June 1964 for the United Kingdom,United Kingdom list: Australia,Australia list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Sierra Leone,Sierra Leone list: and Jamaica.Jamaica 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 Colonies
Viscount The Right Honourable John Scott Maclay, , Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire West since 1950; Member for Montrose Burghs, 1940–1950. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Production, 1945; Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1951–1952; Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, 1956–1957; Secretary of State for Scotland, 1957–1962. President of the National Liberal Council since 1957. For political and public services. The Right Honourable Harold Arthur Watkinson, , Member of Parliament for Woking since 1950. Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Transport, 1951–1952, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour and National Service, 1952–1955. Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1955–1959; Minister of Defence, 1959–1962. For political and public services.
Baron The Right Honourable Lord John Adrian Hope, , Member of Parliament for the Pentlands Division of Edinburgh since 1950, and for Northern Midlothian and Peebles, 1945–1950. Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1954–1956; Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1956–1957; Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, 1957–1959; Minister of Works, 1959–1962. For political and public services. Sir Roger Mellor Makins, , chairman, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1960–1964. William Morgan Fletcher-Vane, , Member of Parliament for Westmorland since 1945. Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1951–1954; to the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1954–1955, and to the Minister of Health, 1955–1956. Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1958–1960, and to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1960–1962. For political and public services.
Privy Councillor Andrew Robert Buxton, The Most Noble Duke of Devonshire, , Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations 1960–1962; Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations and for the Colonies since 1962. Peter John Mitchell Thomas, , Member of Parliament for Conway Division of Caernarvonshire since 1951; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Solicitor-General 1954–1959; Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Labour 1959–1961; Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office 1961–1963; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs since 1963.
Baronet John Charles Rodgers, , Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks since 1950. Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Right Honourable Viscount Eccles at the Ministries of Works and Education and the Board of Trade, 1951–1957; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, 1958–1960. For political and public services. Rolf Dudley-Williams, , Member of Parliament for Exeter since 1951. Parliamentary Private Secretary to Parliamentary Secretary, Financial Secretary and Civil Lord, Admiralty, 1957–1958; to the Secretary of State for War, 1958, and to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food since 1959. Chairman of the Western Area Conservative Associations. For political and public services.
Knight Bachelor Eric Frederick Beckett, . For political services in Dorset and Wessex. William Edmund Butlin, , chairman and managing director, Butlins. Terence Edward Cawthorne, , Consultant Otologist, London. John Cockram, Alderman and chairman, Hertfordshire County Council. Julian Stanley Crossley, chairman, Barclays Bank (Dominion, Commonwealth, Overseas). Geoffrey Cecil Ryves Eley, , chairman, Richard Thomas & Baldwins. John Scott Fulton, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex, and previously Vice-Chancellor, University of Wales. John Henderson, , Member of Parliament for the Cathcart Division of Glasgow since 1946. Chairman, Scottish Unionist & National Liberals Committee. Member of Glasgow Corporation 1926–1946. For political and public services. Thomas Clyde Hewlett, . For political services in Lancashire and Cheshire. Edmund Langley Hirst, , Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh. Stanley Silverwood Holt. For political and public services in Manchester. Lieutenant-Colonel Edmond Joly de Lotbinière. For political services in East Anglia. Arnold Lewis George Lindley, chairman, General Electric Company. Ronald Long, President, Law Society. William McKinney, , chairman, Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority. Professor Alan Aird Moncrieff, , chairman, Advisory Council on Child Care. Charles Norman, , Director, Joseph Rank. Brigadier Francis Smith Reid, , Secretary to the Speaker, House of Commons. Ian Archibald Richmond, , Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of Oxford. John Plowman Ricks, Solicitor, General Post Office. Peter Francis Runge, President, Federation of British Industries. Vice-chairman and managing director, Tate & Lyle Refineries. Neil Stanley Shields, . For political and public services in London and Hampstead. Arnold Silverstone. For political services in Middlesex and Essex. George Langley-Taylor, chairman, Council for the Preservation of Rural England. Colonel Cennydd George Traherne, , HM Lieutenant of the County of Glamorgan. Alexander Balmain Bruce Valentine, chairman, London Transport Board. Professor Edward Johnson Wayne, , Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine, University of Glasgow. Professor Vincent Brian Wigglesworth, , Director, Agricultural Research Council Unit of Insect Physiology, Cambridge. Harold Wilkinson, , deputy chairman, Shell Transport & Trading Company. Harold Woolley, . For services to farming. President, National Farmers' Union.
State of Victoria Horace Rostill Petty, Agent-General for Victoria in London.
State of Queensland Herbert George Watkin, Director-General of Education, Queensland.
State of Tasmania William Edward Lodewyk Hamilton Crowther, . For services in the fields of medicine and literature in Tasmania.
Commonwealth Relations Derek Quicke Erskine. For political and public services in Kenya. Albert Ridgeby Foster, formerly President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India. Ian Malcolm Lewis, Attorney-General, Northern Nigeria. Henry Ellis Isidore Phillips, , Minister of Finance, Nyasaland. Egbert Udo Udoma, Chief Justice of Uganda. Thomas Williams, , formerly Speaker of the Legislative Council, Northern Rhodesia.
Overseas Territories Myles John Abbott, Chief Justice of Bermuda. Harold George Christie, . For public services in the Bahamas. Ivo Charles Clayton Rigby, Senior Puisne Judge, Hong Kong. Peter George Russo, . For public services in Gibraltar.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Army General Sir Michael West, (33582), late Infantry.
Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir Denis Barnett, .
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Frank Henry Edward Hopkins, .
Army Lieutenant-General (temporary) Alan Jolly, (49887), late Royal Armoured Corps; Colonel Commandant, Royal Tank Regiment.
Royal Air Force Air Marshal Sir John Grandy, .
Civil Division Philip Allen, , Second Secretary, HM Treasury. Ronald Henry Melville, , Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. David Stephens, , Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Anthony Davies. Rear-Admiral Gordon Thomas Seccombe Gray, . Rear-Admiral John Osler Chattock Hayes, . Rear-Admiral Ian Leslie Trower Hogg, . Rear-Admiral Horace Collier Lyddon, . Rear-Admiral David Parks Mansfield. Rear-Admiral Charles Piercy Mills, . Rear-Admiral John Stanley Raven. Rear-Admiral Raymond Haydn Tribe, .
Army Major-General Arthur Henley Dowson, (40372), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Lewis Trevor Furnivall, (52313), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Richard Alan Fyffe, (53778), late Infantry. Major-General Walter Morland Hutton, (50984), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Derek Boileau Lang, (56733), late Infantry. Major-General George Harris Lea, (58116), late Infantry. Major-General Herbert John Mogg, (73153), late Infantry; Colonel Commandant, Army Air Corps. Major-General William Arthur Robinson, (50009), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Albert Avion Case, . Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Charles Eveleigh, . Air Vice-Marshal Paul Davie Holder, . Air Vice-Marshal John Bernard Russell, . Air Commodore Arthur Foden, . Air Commodore Leslie Deane Mavor, . Air Commodore William Kilpatrick Stewart, .
Civil Division Frank Alexander Adams, Under-Secretary for Finance and Accountant General, Ministry of Health. Herbert Jeffery Collins, , lately Under-Secretary, Foreign Office. Edward Gelderd Dryburgh, , Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. Basil Charles Engholm, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Sidney Golt, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Robin Reynolds Goodison, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Aviation. Christopher Pascoe Hill, , Chief Commissioner, Charity Commission. Howard Owen Hooper, , Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. James Duncan Jones, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. James Henry McGuinness, Under-Secretary, Scottish Development Department. James Mackerron Mackay, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. William Bonnar Leslie Monson, , Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office. Colonel Alfred John Page, , chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of London. Louis Petch, Third Secretary, HM Treasury. William Patrick Denny Skillington, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Public Building and Works.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Arthur Hilton Poynton, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Major-General William Henry Alexander Bishop, , British High Commissioner in Cyprus. The Right Honourable Julian Edward George, Earl of Oxford and Asquith, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Seychelles. Thomas Eardley Bromley, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (designate) in Algiers. Nicolas John Alexander Cheetham, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Mexico City. Robert Hugh Kirk Marett, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Lima. Gordon Coligny Whitteridge, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Rangoon.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Robert William Bernard Carter, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. Graham Douglas Clifford, Secretary, Institution of Electronic & Radio Engineers. Ronald Arthur Dickinson, Assistant Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department. Percy Cyril Claude Garnham, , Professor of Protozoology, University of London. Paul Philip Howell, , Director, Middle East Development Division, Beirut, Department of Technical Co-operation.