The New Year 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. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 29 December 1964 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1965.United Kingdom list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Sierra Leone list: Jamaica list: Malawi 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
Baron (Life Peer) George James Cole, Chairman, Unilever Ltd. Sir Howard Walter Florey, . For services to Medicine. Sir Christopher Hinton, , lately Chairman, Central Electricity Generating Board. Sir William Graham Holford, Professor of Town Planning, University College, London.
Privy Councillor The Honourable Mr. Justice Stable, , (Sir Wintringham Norton Stable), Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division.
Knight Bachelor John Bailey. For political and public services in Bradford. Professor Robert Vivian Bradlaw, , President, General Dental Council. Alderman Dryden Brook. For political and public services in Halifax. His Honour Walker Kelly Carter, , Senior Official Referee, Supreme Court of Judicature. Charles Mills Cawley, , Chief Scientist, Ministry of Power. Leonard Cooke, , President, Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. David Paton Cuthbertson, , Director, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeenshire. Colonel William Lang Denholm, , Chairman, Shipping Federation Ltd. Maurice Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, Chairman, Davy & United Engineering Company, and for services to export. Alderman Nicholas Garrow, . For political and public services in Northumberland. Alderman William Hemingway, . For political and public services in Leeds. Alderman Mark Henig. For political and public services in Leicester. Alderman Gilbert Samuel Inglefield, , Aldermanic Sheriff, City of London. John Kenneth Trevor Jones, , Legal Adviser, Home Office. William Ross McLean, , Sheriff of the Lothians and Peebles. John McMichael, , Professor of Medicine, University of London. Stanley Matthews, . For services to Association Football. Peter Lowrie Meldrum, , Lord Provost of Glasgow. Karl Raimund Popper, Professor of Logic and Scientific Method, University of London. Gilbert Roberts, Partner, Freeman Fox & Partners, Consulting Engineers. Frederick Stratten Russell, , Secretary to the Council of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom and Director of the Plymouth Laboratory. Owen Alfred Saunders, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head of Department, Imperial College, University of London. Nicholas Thomas Sekers, , Founder and Manager of the Rosehill Theatre. Managing Director, West Cumberland Silk Mills Ltd. Harold Charles Shearman. For services to Education. Professor Laurence Dudley Stamp, , President, Royal Geographical Society. For services to land use. Joseph Lincoln Spedding Steel, Chairman, Triplex Holdings Ltd. Cyril James Stubblefield, Director, Geological Survey of Great Britain and Museum of Practical Geology. Ronald George Thornton, Vice-Chairman, Barclays Bank Ltd, and for services to export. Theodore Henry Tylor, Chairman, Executive Council, Royal National Institute for the Blind. Charles Haynes Wilson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Glasgow.
State of Victoria The Honourable Edward Herbert Hudson, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria. Eric Scott, . For his services to pharmacy in the State of Victoria.
State of Queensland William Alfred Brand, , of Childers, State of Queensland. For public services, particularly to the sugar industry.
State of South Australia Richard George Hawker, a leading industrialist and pastoralist in the State of South Australia.
State of Western Australia Ernest Thorley Loton, . For public services in the State of Western Australia.
Commonwealth Relations Horace John Croot, , Senior Specialist and Surgeon, Uganda. The Honourable Albert Michael Margai, Prime Minister of Sierra Leone. Malin Sorsbie, , Chairman, Munitalp Foundation, Kenya.
Overseas Territories Alfred Étienne Jerome Dupuch, . For public services in Bahamas. Richard Lyle Le Gallais, Chief Justice, Aden.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, . General Sir William Gurdon Stirling, , (36888), Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Civil Division Sir Thomas Padmore, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Ronald Vernon Brockman, . Vice-Admiral Frank Roddam Twiss, .
Army Major-General George Sinclair Cole, , (52577), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Lieutenant-General Geoffrey Randolph Dixon Musson, , (45438), Colonel, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
Royal Air Force Acting Air Marshal Brian Kenyon Burnett, . Acting Air Marshal Peter Guy Wykeham, .
Civil Division Sir Edmund Gerald Compton, , Comptroller and Auditor General, Exchequer and Audit Department. William Arthur Harvey Druitt, , HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. Martin Teall Flett, , Second Permanent Under-Secretary of State (Royal Air Force), Ministry of Defence.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Surgeon Rear-Admiral Maurice Henry Adams, . Rear-Admiral Patrick Uniacke Bayly, . Rear-Admiral Francis Brian Price Brayne-Nicholls, . Rear-Admiral David Granville Clutterbuck. Rear-Admiral Donald Cameron Ernest Forbes Gibson, . Surgeon Rear-Admiral John Morley Holford, . Acting Major General Bertram George Ralfs. The Venerable Archdeacon Raymond William Richardson, . Rear-Admiral David Apthorp Williams, .
Army Major-General Edward John Hunter Bates, , late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Ewing Henry Wrigley Grimshaw, , late infantry. Major-General William Herbert Hargreaves, , late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Eustace John Blois Nelson, , late Foot Guards. Major-General Marshall St John Oswald, , late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General John Anthony Jervis Read, , late Infantry. Major-General Robert Alexander Stephen, , late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Francis Brian Wyldbore-Smith, , late Royal Armoured Corps.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal William Vernon Crawford-Compton, . Air Vice-Marshal Peter Carteret Fletcher, . Air Vice-Marshal Edgar Knowles, . Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Leonard Seabrook. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Norman Colpoy Simpson Rutter, . Air Commodore George Roy Gunn, . Air Commodore Ian Douglas Napier Lawson .
Civil Division William Eden Tatton-Brown, Chief Architect, Ministry of Health. The Right Honourable Ronald John Bilsland, Baron Clydesmuir, , President, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Lanark. Frank John Doggett, Under-Secretary (Establishments and Organisation), Ministry of Aviation. Julian Clement Peter Elliston, , Parliamentary Counsel. Alexander Thomas Kingdom Grant, , Under-Secretary, Export Credits Guarantee Department. Peter Henderson, , Principal Medical Officer, Department of Education and Science. Harold William Hobbs, , Deputy Controller, Royal Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Defence (Army). Kenneth Roderick Mackenzie, Clerk of Public Bills, House of Commons. Frank Fiddes Main, , Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health and Local Government for Northern Ireland. John Hayes Marriott, , attached Ministry of Defence. Charles James Maston, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour. Antony Dillwyn Peck, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State (Programmes and Budget), Ministry of Defence (Central Staff). Albert William Cecil Ryland, Director of Inland Telecommunications, General Post Office. John Hugh Street, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. John Crighton Thompson, , Director of Naval Electrical Engineering, Ministry of Defence (Navy).
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Joseph John Saville Garner, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office. Sir Evelyn Dennison Hone, , lately Governor of Northern Rhodesia.
Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) Nancy Broadfield Parkinson, , Controller, Home Division, British Council.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Cosmo Dugal Patrick Thomas Haskard, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Falkland Islands. Roger William Jackling, , Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations. Anthony Handley Lincoln, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Caracas. The Honourable John Patrick Edward Chandos Henniker-Major, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Copenhagen. Archibald Duncan Wilson, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Belgrade.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Ewen Broadbent, formerly Assistant Secretary, Sovereign Base Areas Administration, Cyprus, Ministry of Defence (Air). Alexander Currall, Senior Trade Commissioner, Canada. Colonel Edgar Allen Griffin, , Regional Director, Southern Region, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. William Douglas Sweaney, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development. John Arthur Briscoe Allan, Commissioner of Prisons, Kenya. David Lee Cole, , British High Commissioner in Malawi. David John Coward, , Registrar-General, Official Receiver and Public Trustee, Kenya. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Royal Dickenson, Postmaster General, Southern Rhodesia. Marcus Bertram Hoare, , of Brisbane, State of Queensland. For services to the welfare of ex-servicemen and women. Norman Stewart Carey Jones, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Lands and Settlement, Kenya. Denis Owen Mathews, , General Manager, East African Tourist Travel Association, Kenya. Clement Aubrey Pounsett, Public Service Commissioner and Chairman, Public Service Board, State of South Australia. The Honourable Arthur Gordon Rylah, , Chief Secretary and Attorney-General, State of Victoria. Harold Smedley, , British High Commissioner in Ghana. Peter Ernest Walters, Civil Secretary, Eastern Region, Kenya. Gavin Edward Wyatt, Managing Director, East African Power and Lighting Company Ltd, Kenya. Ewen Cameron Thomson, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Northern Rhodesia. (Dated 23 October 1964). Samuel Horatio Graham, , Administrator, St. Vincent. Lawrence John Hobson, , Political Adviser to the High Commissioner for Aden and the Protectorate of South Arabia. George Peter Lloyd, Colonial Secretary, Seychelles. Donald Alonzo Wiles, , lately, Administrator, Montserrat. Michael Gerard Laurie Joy, , lately Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Stockholm. John Ormsby ormick, , Foreign Office. Antony Ross Moore, lately Foreign Office. Norman Jordan-Moss, Counsellor, United Kingdom Delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Peter Richard Oliver, lately Counsellor, Her Majesty's Embassy, Djakarta. Stephen John Linley Olver, , lately Counsellor (Administration), Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. Reginald Arthur Phillips, , Assistant Director-General, British Council. Alan Desmond Frederick Pemberton-Pigott, lately Foreign Office. Caryl Oliver Imbert Ramsden, Counsellor, Her Majesty Embassy, Brussels.