The Queen's Birthday Honours 1955 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 3 June 1955, for the United Kingdom and Colonies, Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon, Pakistan, and for various members of Commonwealth forces in recognition of services in Korea during 1954–1955.
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
Baron The Right Honourable Ralph Assheton, Member of Parliament for the Rushcliffe Division, 1934–1945, City of London, 1945–1950, and Blackburn West, 1950–1955; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service, 1939–1942, and Ministry of Supply 1942–1943; Financial Secretary, HM Treasury, 1943–1944; Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Party Organisation, 1944–1946. For political and public services. Sir Geoffrey Heyworth, chairman, Unilever Ltd. For public services. The Right Honourable Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale, Member of Parliament for Sowerby, 1931–1945, and Epsom, 1947–1955; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour & National Service, 1942–1945. For political and public services. Sir Arnold Duncan McNair, CBE, QC, lately President and United Kingdom Judge, International Court of Justice at The Hague.
Privy Counsellors Henry Brooke, MP, Member of Parliament for West Lewisham, 1938–1945, and Hampstead since 1950; Financial Secretary, HM Treasury since 1954; Leader of Conservative Party on London County Council, 1945–1952. Robert Hugh Turton, MC, MP, Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton since 1929; Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of National Insurance, 1951–1953; Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions & National Insurance, 1953–1954; Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs since 1954.
Baronet Sir Robert Archibald Cary, MP, Member of Parliament for Eccles, 1935–1945, and Withington Division of Manchester since 1951; a Government Whip, 1944–1945, and a Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, 1945. For political and public services. Sir George Horatio Nelson, chairman and managing director, The English Electric Co. Ltd., London. William McNair Snadden, JP, Member of Parliament for Kinross and West Perth, 1938–1955; Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, 1951–1955. His Honour George Clark Williams, QC. For public services in Carmarthenshire.
Knight Bachelor George Harold Banwell, Secretary, Association of Municipal Corporations. Harold Bishop, CBE, Director of Technical Services, British Broadcasting Corporation. Professor William Moir Calder. For services to Greek Scholarship. William Wiggins Cocker, OBE, JP. For political and public services in Lancashire. John Montagu Craster, JP. For political and public services in Northumberland. George Harold Curtis, CB, Chief Land Registrar. John Carmichael Denholm, CBE, President, Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom. Colonel Thomas Charles Dunlop, TD, DL. For political and public services in Ayrshire. Francis Alfred Enever, CB, MC, Deputy Treasury Solicitor. Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor, Writer. Benjamin Ifor Evans, Provost of University College London. Alderman Frank Savin Foster, CBE, JP. For political and public services in Essex. Lieutenant-Colonel Oswald Bissill Giles, DL. For political and public services in the Parts of Holland, Lincolnshire. Ronald Gould, General Secretary, National Union of Teachers. Hugh Rupert Granger, chairman and managing director, Duke's Grain Warehousing Co. Ltd. Albert William Grant, CBE, chairman, Engineering and Allied Employers' West of England Association. Archibald Frederick Harrison, CBE, Solicitor, Ministry of Labour & National Service. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Humphrey Haslam, OBE, DL. For political and public services in Hertfordshire. Wing-Commander Norman John Hulbert, DL, MP, Member of Parliament for Stockport, 1935–1950, and for North Stockport since 1950. For political and public services. Geoffrey Langdon Keynes, MD, FRCS, Consulting Surgeon, St Bartholomew's Hospital. Ivison Stevenson Macadam, CVO, CBE, Director-General of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Major Duncan McCallum, MC, MP Member of Parliament for Argyllshire since 1940. For political and public services. Robert Henry Maconochie, OBE, QC, Sheriff of Stirling, Dunbarton and Clackmannan. Richard Hope Miller. For political and public services in Knutsford. Robert Minshull Shone, CBE, Executive Member, Iron & Steel Board. William Arthur Steward, MP, Member of Parliament for Woolwich West since 1950; chairman, Select Committee of House of Commons on Kitchen and Refreshment Rooms, since 1951. For political and public services. Robert Sproul Stewart, CBE. For political services in Scotland. Alderman Edmund Villiers Minshull Stockdale, JP, lately Sheriff, City of London. Captain Cyril Ivan Thompson, Commodore Captain, , Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd. Geoffrey Stewart Tomkinson, OBE, MC, JP. For political and public services in Kidderminster. James Milliard Tucker, QC, Vice-chairman, Royal Commission on Taxation of Profits and Income. Sydney Vernon. For public services in Birmingham. Hugh Edmund Watts, CB, MBE, GM, lately HM Chief Inspector of Explosives, Home Office. William Emrys Williams, CBE, Secretary-General, Arts Council of Great Britain. State of South Australia Darcy Rivers Warren Cowan, MB, BS, a prominent physician in the State of South Australia. Commonwealth Services George Mason Mackinlay, President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India, 1954–1955. Oversea Territories William Alexander Bustamante. For public services in Jamaica. Hampden Archibald Cuke, CBE. For public services in Barbados. Patrick Herbert Fitz-Gerald, OBE. For public services in the Gold Coast. John Bowes Griffin, QC, Chief Justice of Uganda. Tayabali Hassanali Alibhoy Karimjee. For public services in Zanzibar. John Smith Moffat, OBE. For public services in Northern Rhodesia. Joseph Leon Mathieu-Perez, QC, Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago. George Gilmour Robinson, Chief Justice of Zanzibar. Harold Ernest Robinson. For public services in Trinidad. Hannibal Publius Scicluna, MBE. For public services in Malta. Ernest Emmanuel Clough Thuraisingham, CBE, JP. For public services in the Federation of Malaya. Rukirabasaija Agutamba Tito Gafabusa Winyi IV, CBE, Omukama of Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral the Right Honourable Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, KCB, DSO. General Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine, KCB, KBE, DSO (15806), late Infantry. General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO (15307), late Infantry Colonel, The Royal Irish Fusiliers.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Frederick Robertson Parham, CB, CBE, DSO. Vice-Admiral Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, CB, CBE, DSO.
Army Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Bishop Callander, KBE, CB, MC (10503), late Infantry Colonel, The Royal Leicestershire Regiment. Lieutenant-General Cecil Stanway Sugden, CB, CBE (27005), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
Royal Air Force Air Marshal Thomas Geoffrey Pike, CB, CBE, DFC. Acting Air Marshal Bryan Vernon Reynolds, CB, CBE. Air Vice-Marshal George Robert Beamish, CB, CBE.
Civil Division Sir John Alexander Charles, MD, FRCP, Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Home Office. George Phillips Coldstream, CB, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery and, Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor. Frank Cyril Musgrave, CB, Second Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Laurence Arthur Boutwood, OBE. Engineer Rear-Admiral John Ernest Cooke. Rear-Admiral Leonard Francis Dunford-Slater. Rear-Admiral John Dudley Nelson Ham. Rear-Admiral Christopher Theodore Jellicoe, DSO, DSC. Rear-Admiral Manley Lawrence Power, CBE, DSO. Surgeon Rear-Admiral Seymour Grome Rainsford, MD, DSc. Rear-Admiral William Halford Selby, DSC. Rear-Admiral Ernest Henry Shattock, OBE. Rear-Admiral Guy Willoughby.
Army Major-General Eric Gilmour Brown, CBE (18643), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major-General Kenneth Christie Cooper, DSO, OBE (27871), late Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Philip Le Marchant Stonhouse Stonhouse-Gostling, CBE (12039), late Royal Regiment of Artillery (now RARO). Major-General Basil Perronet Hughes, CBE (26978), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Robert Charles Moss King, DSO, OBE (28105), late Infantry. Brigadier Gilbert Reader McMeekan, DSO, OBE (22955), late Corps of Royal Engineers (now RARO). Major-General Frederick David Moore, CBE (23670), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Albert Sachs, CBE, QHP, MD, MRCP (36785), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Brigadier and Chief Paymaster Ernest Thomas Cobley Smith, CBE (12906), Royal Army Pay Corps. Major-General John Wren, CBE, QHDS, FDS (5532), late Royal Army Dental Corps (now retired).
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal John Goodenough Elton, CBE, DFC, AFC. Air Vice-Marshal Alan David Gillmore, CBE. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Paul Sandland Blockey, CBE. Acting Air Vice-Marshal William Alfred Opie, CBE. Air Commodore Thomas Charles Dickens, CBE. Air Commodore Henry Algernon Vickers Hogan, DFC. Air Commodore Ronald Lancelot Phillips, CBE. Air Commodore William Edward Victor Richards, CBE. Group Captain Kenneth Walter Godfrey, CBE, Royal Air Force Regiment.
Civil Division Reginald John Ayres, CBE, Accountant General, Ministry of Fuel & Power. Brigadier Edward Roy Caffyn, CBE, TD, chairman, County of Sussex Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. Walter Eric Chiesman, MD, FRCP, Medical Adviser, HM Treasury. John Rupert Colville, CVO, lately Joint Principal Private Secretary to the Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill, KG, DM, CH, MP. Colonel George Reginald Curtis, OBE, TD, DL, chairman, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. George William Hoggan Gardner, CBE, Director-General of Technical Development (Air), Ministry of Supply. Douglas John Gordon, Clerk Assistant, House of Commons. Thomas Douglas Haddow, Under-Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland. John Lawson, Under-Secretary, Admiralty. John Leckie, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Francis William Walker McCombe, CBE, Chief Charity Commissioner. Alan Samuel Marre, Accountant General, Ministry of Health. George Richard Parsons, CBE, Director of Establishments and Organisation, General Post Office. David Bruce Pitblado, CVO, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. John Neish Ritchie, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food. Sir (Horace) Anthony Claude Rumbold, Bt, CMG, Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Edward Kennedy Stopford, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, War Office. Norman Charles Wright, Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Esler Maberly Dening, KCMG, OBE, Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Tokyo.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Edgar Abraham Cohen, CMG, Second Secretary, Board of Trade.