The Queen's Birthday 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. The appointments were made "on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday", and were published in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 May 1963.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
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.[2]
Recipients of honours are listed here as they were styled before their new honour.
The Right Honourable
Charles Hill, M.D., M.P., Member of Parliament for Luton since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Food, 1951–1955; Postmaster-General, 1955–1957; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1957–1961; Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs, 1961–1962. For political and public services.
Brigadier
Sir Alick Drummond Buchanan-Smith, C.B.E., T.D., J.P., D.L., Deputy Chairman of the Unionist Party in Scotland, 1960–1963. For political and public services in Scotland.
Joseph Bradshaw Godber, Esq., M.P. Member of Parliament for Grantham since 1951. Assistant Government Whip, 1955–1957; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and- Food, 1957–1960; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1960–1961; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs since 1961.
Sir John Gardiner Sumner Hobson, O.B.E., T.D., Q.C., M.P. Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington since 1957. Solicitor-General, 1962; Attorney-General since 1962.
The Right Honourable
Oliver Brian Sanderson, Baron Poole, C.B.E., T.D. Member of Parliament for Oswestry, 1945–1950. Joint Honorary Treasurer of the Conservative Party Organisation, 1952–1955;• Chairman, 1955–1957; Deputy Chairman, 1957–1959; Joint Chairman since April 1963.
Sir Eric Errington, M.P. Member of Parliament for Bootle, 1935–1945, and for Aldershot since 1954. For political and public services.
Charles Ian Orr-Ewing, Esq., O.B.E., M.P. Member of Parliament for Hendon North since 1950. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air 1957–1959; Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty, 1959; Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1959–1963. For political and public services.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Eric Coome Maynard Cullingford, Esq., Labour Attaché, British Embassy, Bonn.
James Littlewood, Esq., lately Chairman, Empire Cotton Growing Corporation.
John Barraclough Loynes, Esq., an Adviser, Bank of England.
Eric Lawrance Phillips, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
John Haddow Riddoch, Esq., Under Secretary, Ministry of Aviation.
Sydney Herbert Shaw, Esq., O.B.E., Geological Adviser, and Director of Overseas Geological Surveys.
William Allan McInnes Green, Esq., Town Clerk of the City of Perth, State of Western Australia.
John Charles Hooton, Esq., M.B.E., Legal Secretary, East African Common Services Organisation.
Norman Jameson, Esq., of Indooroopilly, State of Queensland. For services to industry.
Robin Leslie Darlow Jasper, Esq., Deputy British High Commissioner, Ibadan.
Frederick Austin Johnston, Esq., C.B.E., Chairman of the Finance Committee for the VIIth British Commonwealth Games, Perth, State of Western Australia.
William Gordon Mathieson, Esq., Under-Secretary and Comptroller of Accounts, Treasury, State of New South Wales.
Eric George Norris, Esq., Deputy British High Commissioner, Calcutta.
Aldhelm St John Sugg, Esq., Provincial Commissioner, Southern Province, Northern Rhodesia.
Kenneth Martin Cowley, Esq., O.B.E., Provincial Commissioner, South Province, Kenya.
John Cartwright Braddon Fisher, Esq., O.B.E., Administrative Officer, Class 1A, Sarawak.
Anthony Macgregor Grier, Esq., Under Secretary, North Borneo.
At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with
post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.
Fourth Class
The Reverend Patrick Thomas Ashton.
David Vincent Griffiths Buchanan, Esq., M.V.O.
Stephen Langton Forwood, Esq.
Edmund Frank Grove, Esq., M.V.O.
Captain David Gordon Roome, Royal Navy.
The Reverend Edwin Ward.
Fifth Class
Arthur George Horsley, Esq.
Miss Muriel Legg.
Regimental Sergeant-Major John Clifford Lord, M.B.E., Grenadier Guards.
George Edgar Vaughan, Esq., C.B.E., Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Panama City.
Sir Percival Joseph Griffiths, C.I.E., President of the India, Pakistan and Burma Association. For services to the British communities in India and Pakistan.
Sir Henry (Harry) Rudolph Howard, Chairman of the Organising Council for the VIIth British Commonwealth Games, Perth, State of Western Australia.
Brigadier William Prinsep St. John Becher (44803), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Brigadier Richard Hugh Castellain Bryers (63486), late Infantry.
Brigadier (temporary) Ronald Edward Coaker, M.C. (378164), late Royal Armoured Corps.
Brigadier (temporary) Michael Forrester, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. (69349), late The Parachute Regiment.
Brigadier James Merricks Lewis Gavin, O.B.E., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
Brigadier (temporary) John Belford Arthur Glennie, D.S.O., O.B.E. (63600), late Infantry.
Colonel Richard John Hardinge Harding-Newman, O.B.E. (49859), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Brigadier (Chief Recruiting Officer) Desmond Norris White Dundas Irven, late Royal Regiment of Artillery (Retired).
Brigadier James Alastair Harry Mitchell, D.S.O. (47593), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Brigadier George Le Fevre Payne (52707), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
Brigadier (now Major General (temporary)) Wilfrid John Potter, O.B.E. (56724), late Royal Army Service Corps.
Brigadier (temporary) Donald Verner Taylor Q.H.D.S., F .D.S. (67661), late Royal Army Dental Corps.
Brigadier George Robert Turner-Cain, D.S.O., A.D.C. (50884), late Infantry.
Colonel Ralph Melville Hector, M.B., D.M.R.D. (85411), late Royal Army Medical Corps; formerly serving with the British Joint Services Training Team, Ghana.
Royal Air Force
Air Commodore Lewis MacKenzie Crooks, O.B.E., M.B., M.Ch., Royal Air Force.
Acting Air Commodore Guy Chamberlain Godfrey, M.B.E., Royal Air Force.
Group Captain John Finch, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
Group Captain Francis Edward Frayn, M.B.E., Royal Air Force.
Group Captain David Abbott Green, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
Group Captain David Lawrence Pitt, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
Group Captain Frederick James Robinson, O.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
Group Captain Philip Henry Stibbs, Royal Air Force.
Group Captain Albert Frederick Wallace, O.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
Group Captain Richard David Williams, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
Alderman William Hancock. For political and public services in Staffordshire.
Alderman Joseph William Hardcastle. For political and public services in Scarborough.
Alfred Harris, Esq., D.S.O. For political services in London.
Frederick Hayday, Esq., National Industrial Officer, National Union of General and Municipal Workers, Chairman, General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
Dorothy Veale, Mrs. Haythornthwaite, O.B.E. For political services in the North-West.
Edward Stanley Hiscocks, Esq., Director, Tropical Products Institute, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
John Reginald Brayley Hodgetts, Esq., Assistant Solicitor, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance.
George Bruce Howden, Esq., Chairman, Ulster Transport Authority.
The Right Honourable
Edward Herbert, Baron Jessel, A Deputy Speaker and a Chairman of Committees, House of Lords.
Richard Morris Owen, Esq., Senior Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
Ernest Geoffrey Parsons, Esq., Liaison Officer to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food for part of the South Western Region.
Max Ferdinand Perutz, Esq. For services to research on the molecular shape of haemoglobin.
John Redvers Proudfoot, Esq., General Manager and Secretary, Clyde Navigation Trust.
William Clark Ramsay, Esq., Honorary Treasurer, Rugby Football Union.
Ebenezer Mayne Reid, Esq. For services to Agriculture in Northern Ireland.
Harold Gilbert Reynolds, Esq., O.B.E., Elected Member representing Eastern Region, National Savings Committee.
Colin Riley, Esq., O.B.E., Vice Chairman and General Manager, General Electric Company (Telecommunications) Ltd., Coventry.
Professor
Alexander Robertson, Director and Professor of Veterinary Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh.
James Anderson Robertson, Esq., O.B.E.,. Chief Constable, City of Glasgow Police.
Alfred Esmond Robinson, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., Lately Chairman and Managing Director, British Oil and Cake Mills Ltd.
William Albert Victor Sanderson, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.
Frederick Sanger, Esq. For services to research on the molecular structure of protein.
Bernard Charles Saunders, Esq., Senior Scientific Adviser, Eastern Civil Defence Region.
Lucien Felix Savournin, Esq., Director of Lands, Ministry of Public Building and Works.
George Edward Scott, Esq., O.B.E., Chief Constable, West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary.
Harry Donald Secombe, Esq., Comedian and Singer. For services to the Army Benevolent Fund.
John Reginald Sharp, Esq., Joint Governing Director, Lansing Bagnail Ltd. and J. E. Shay Ltd.
Percival Albert Sheppard, Professor, Department of Meteorology, Imperial College of Science and Technology.
Colonel Eric Ashley Shipton, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., Member of the Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of the City of London.
Charles Anthony Goodall Simkins, Esq., Attached to the War Office.
Edgar Charles Bate-Smith, Esq., Director, Low Temperature Research Station, Cambridge, Agricultural Research Council.
Horace Spibey, Esq., H.M. Inspector of Schools, Ministry of Education.
Captain
Robert Frederick Thomas Stannard, O.B.E., D.S.C., Royal Navy (Retired), Director, London Communications-Electronic Security Agency.
Basil Ernest Stephenson, Esq., Director of Engineering, Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd.
Leonard Thomas George Sully, Esq., Director of Contracts, Air Ministry.
John Russell Thorlby, Esq. For political and public services in Somerset.
John Stewart Ellerman Todd, Esq., Public Works Loan Board Commissioner.
Frederick Gerald Tryhorn, Esq., Forensic Science Adviser, Home Office.
John Madder Wallace, Esq., Lately Chairman of Board of Governors, Royal Marsden Hospital, London.
Stanley Tom Ward, Esq. For political and public services in the Isle of Ely and Cambridgeshire.
Charles Alexander Wells, Esq., M.B., F.R.C.S., Professor of Surgery, University of Liverpool.
Robert Vaughan Whelpton, Esq., Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Ministry of Aviation.
Gabriel Ernest Edward Francis White, Esq., Director of Art, Arts Council of Great Britain.
Frank Bede Young, Esq., M.B.E., Chairman of the Council, Rural District Councils Association of England and Wales.
William Young, Esq., Engineer Surveyor-in-Chief, Marine Survey, Ministry of Transport.
Basil Franklin Dyson, British subject resident in Italy.
Roger Packman Hinks, British Council Representative, France.
George Hodson, British subject resident in Switzerland.
Patrick Murdoch Johnston, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Managua.
Lieutenant-Colonel Desmond George McCaully, O.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., Senior Medical Officer, Trucial States.
Donald MacFarlane, Her Majesty's Consul-General, Frankfurt.
The Very Reverend George Herbert Martin, O.B.E., Provost of All Saints' Cathedral, Khartoum, and Archdeacon of the Northern Sudan, Aden Colony and Protectorate, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Miss Kathleen May Palmer Smith, British subject resident in Iran.