The Queen's Birthday Honours 1965 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. The announcement date varies from year to year. The 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours were announced on 12 June for the United Kingdom,UK list: Australia,Australia list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Sierra Leone,Sierra Leone list: Jamaica,Jamaica list: Trinidad and Tobago,Trinidad and Tobago list: Malawi,Malawi list: and the Gambia.Gambia 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
Life Peer Baron Noel Gilroy Annan, , Provost of King's College, Cambridge. University Lecturer in Politics since 1948. Richard Beeching. Formerly Chairman, British Railways Board. Sir Russell Claude Brock, , President, Royal College of Surgeons of England. Sir Harold Roxbee Cox, lately Chairman, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Arnold Abraham Goodman, Solicitor. Senior Partner in Goodman, Derrick and Company. Chairman, Arts Council of Great Britain. Richard Ferdinand Kahn, , Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge since 1951. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
Privy Councillor John Diamond, , Member of Parliament for the Blackley Division of Manchester, 1945–1951 and for Gloucester since 1957. Chief Secretary, HM Treasury since 1964. Horace Maybray King, , Member of Parliament for the Test Division of Southampton, 1950–1955, and for the Itchen Division since 1955. Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker since October 1964. The Right Honourable Malcolm Newton, Baron Shepherd, Deputy Opposition Chief Whip, House of Lords, 1960; Deputy Speaker and subsequently Opposition Chief Whip, House of Lords. Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms and Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords since October 1964.
Knight Bachelor Felix Edward Aylmer Jones, . For services to the Stage. Alderman Joseph Reginald Balmer, . For political and public services in Birmingham. Alderman Albert Edward Bennett, . For political and public services in Stoke-on-Trent. Robert John Formby Burrows, President, Law Society. James Davidson Stuart Cameron, , Consultant Physician, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Thomas Fife Clark, , Director-General, Central Office of Information. Alderman Joseph Jackson Cleary, . For political and public services, in Liverpool. Alexander Bradshaw Clegg, Chief Education Officer, West Riding of Yorkshire. Alderman Jack Cohen, OBE, JP. For political and public services in Sunderland. Ronald Stuart Gumming, . Chairman, Scotch Whisky Association. Chairman, Distillers Company, Ltd. For services to export. Charles Sigmund Davis, , Legal Adviser and Solicitor, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Ministry of Land and Natural Resources. Robert Meredydd Wynne-Edwards, , Chairman, Engineering Institutions Joint Council. William Geoffrey Fiske, , Leader, Greater London Council. Lately Councillor, London County Council. Victor Gollancz, Publisher and Writer. George William Harriman, , Chairman and Managing Director, British Motor Corporation. For services to export. Alderman Sidney Pearson Hill, . For political and public services in Nottingham. Albert Henry Kennedy, Inspector General, Royal Ulster Constabulary. John Maurice Laing, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, John Laing and Son, Ltd. Hector Ross MacLennan, , President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. James Martin, , Managing Director and Chief Designer, Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, Ltd., Middlesex. For services to export and technology. Peter Brian Medawar, , Director, National Institute for Medical Research. Maurice Philip Pariser, Alderman, Manchester City Council. Terence Charles Stuart Morrison-Scott, , Director, British Museum (Natural History). Frederick Sidney Snow, , Founder and Principal, Frederick S. Snow & Partners, Consulting Engineers. Donald Gresham Stokes, , Managing Director and Deputy Chairman, Leyland Motor Corporation. For services to export. Duncan Mackay Weatherstone, , Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Benjamin Allen Williams, . For public services in Cheshire. Alderman Henry Edward Wright, . For political and public services in Plymouth. Colonel Arthur Edwin Young, , Commissioner of Police for the City of London.
State of Victoria Edward Leo Curtis, Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria.
State of South Australia Norman Lane Jude, lately Minister of Local Government, Minister of Roads and Minister of Railways, State of South Australia.
State of Western Australia Stanley Lewis Prescott, , Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia, State of Western Australia.
Commonwealth Relations Cecil Geraint Ames, President of the Sierra Leone and Gambia Court of Appeal. Alec Drummond Ogilvie, formerly President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India.
Overseas Territories Arthur Eber Sydney Charles, , Speaker, Legislative Council, Aden. Russell England . For public services in the Bechuanaland Protectorate. Asa Hubert Pritchard. For public services in the Bahamas. Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, , Premier and Minister of Finance, Mauritius. Nathaniel Henry Peniston Vesey, For public services in Bermuda.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Varyl Cargill Begg, .
Army General Sir Charles Jones, (34845), Colonel Commandant Corps of Royal Engineers.
Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal Sir William Laurence Mary MacDonald, .
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice Admiral John Fitzroy Duyland Bush, . Vice Admiral Raymond Shayle Hawkins, .
Army Lieutenant-General William Robert Macfarlane Drew, (52405), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Lieutenant-General Geoffrey Richard Desmond Fitzpatrick, (53670), late Royal Armoured Corps. Colonel, The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons).
Royal Air Force Acting Air Marshal Thomas Öther Prickett, .
Civil Division Arthur Lucius Michael Cary, , Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy). Arnold William France, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health. Sir Ronald Ernest German, , Director-General, General Post Office.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral Joseph Leslie Blackham. Surgeon Rear Admiral Eric Dick Caldwell, . Rear Admiral John Gervase Beresford Cooke, . Rear Admiral Hugh Richard Benest Janvrin, . Rear Admiral Robert William Mayo, . Rear Admiral Wilfred John Parker, . Rear Admiral Hugh Gordon Henry Tracy, . Rear Admiral John Garth-Watson. Rear Admiral Anthony Woodifield, .
Army Major-General Robert George Victor FitzGeorge-Balfour, (53288), late Foot Guards. Major-General James Craw Barnetson, (41955), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Desmond Alexander Bruce Clarke, (53615), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General James Arthur d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, (53668), late Royal Armoured Corps. Colonel, 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards. Major-General John Reid Holden, (71215), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Ronald Clarence Macdonald, (52682), late Infantry. Colonel, The Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers. Major-General Roger Ellis Tudor St. John, (52703), late Infantry. Major-General Frederick Joseph Swainson, (194065), late Royal Corps of Signals (now retired). Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Signals. Major-General Peter George Francis Young, (53743), late Infantry.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Richard Cecil Ayling, . Air Vice-Marshal Peter Hamilton Holmes, . Air Vice-Marshal James Edgar Johnson, . The Venerable Wilfred Ernest Granville Payton, . Air Commodore Henry Everard Crichton Boxer, . Air Commodore Ernest Shaw Sidey, . Air Commodore Sidney George Walker, .
Civil Division John Angus Beckett, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Power. Cyril Maxwell Palmer Brown, , Second Secretary, Board of Trade. Ronald Kington Christy, HM Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour. Eric William Eldridge, , Public Trustee. Cyril James Gill, HM Chief Inspector, Department of Education & Science. Eric Edwin Haddon, Director, Chemical Defence Experimental Establishment, Ministry of Defence (Army). Ronald Clive Kent, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Central Staff). George Gray Macfarlane, Director, Royal Radar Establishment, Ministry of Aviation. Colonel Arthur Noble, , Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Essex. Douglas Overend, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance. Kenneth Bruce Pepper, Commissioner, Board of Customs & Excise. John Ashworth Ratcliffe, , Director, Radio & Space Research Station, Science Research Council. Philip Rogers, , Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet. Frederick Robert Peter Vinter, Third Secretary, HM Treasury. Harry Whitby, Under-Secretary, Department of Agriculture & Fisheries for Scotland.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Paul Henry Gore-Booth, , lately British High Commissioner, New Delhi. Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Moscow.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Francis Alfred Loyd, , Her Majesty's Commissioner, Swaziland. Richard Ashton Beaumont, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, in Rabat. William Leonard Dale, , Legal Adviser, Commonwealth Relations Office. James Alexander Milne Marjoribanks, , Head of the United Kingdom Delegation to the European Communities, Brussels. Eugene Melville, , lately Minister (Economic), Her Majesty's Embassy, Bonn. William Bonnar Leslie Monson, , British High Commissioner, Lusaka. Edward Redston Warner, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Yaoundé.
Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) Margery Freda Perham, . For services to the development of new countries in Africa.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) George James Humphries, , Director of Overseas (Geodetic & Topographic) Surveys, Ministry of Overseas Development. Eric Atkinson Midgley, , Minister (Economic & Commercial) in India. Stanley Walden Payton, lately Governor, Bank of Jamaica. Professor John Henry Richardson. For services in industrial and wage disputes, in various oversea territories in the Commonwealth. Henry Moir Wilson, , formerly Head of Defence Research and Development Staff, Washington, Ministry of Aviation. Now Deputy Chief Scientist, Ministry of Defence (Army). Valdemar Jens Andersen, , Resident Commissioner, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. Arthur John Alexander Douglas, , Chief Secretary, Bechuanaland Protectorate. John Marcus Kisch, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office, seconded to the Commonwealth Relations Office. William Stanley Morgan, Chairman, Public and Police Service Commissions, Mauritius. John Percival Morton, , lately Security Intelligence Adviser, Colonial Office. Peter Granville Owen, Commissioner of Police, British Guiana. Jasper Augustine Peck, Assistant Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Patrick Cardinall Mason Sedgwick, Commissioner of Labour and Commissioner of Mines, Hong Kong. Leslie Clifford Bateman, Chief Executive, Malaya Rubber Board. James Reginald Alfred Bottomley, British Deputy High Commissioner, Kuala Lumpur. Peers Lee Carter, Inspector of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service Establishments. John Nicholas Henderson, Foreign Office. John Robert Hilton, Foreign Office.