The Queen's Birthday Honours 1962 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 25 May 1962.United Kingdom list: Australia list: New Zealand list: Nigeria list: Sierra Leone list: Rhodesia & Nyasaland 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
Viscount The Right Honourable Cyril John, Baron Radcliffe, , Lord of Appeal in Ordinary since 1949. Chairman, Committee of Inquiry into the Monetary and Credit System, 1957–1959; Chairman, Committee of Inquiry into Security Procedures and Practices, 1961.
Baron The Right Honourable Sir William Mabane, , Chairman, British Travel and Holidays Association.
Privy Counsellor Major Sir William John St. Clair Anstruther-Gray, , Member of Parliament for North Lanarkshire, 1931–1945, and for Berwick and East Lothian since 1951. Assistant Postmaster-General, May–July 1945. Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, 1959–1962; Chairman of Ways and Means since January 1962. Brigadier Sir John George Smyth, , Member of Parliament for Norwood since 1950. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions, 1951–1953. Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953–1955.
Baronet Sir Frederic Collins Hooper, Managing Director, Schweppes Group of Companies. Adviser on Recruiting to Minister of Defence. The Right Honourable Sir Gordon Cosmo Touche, , Member of Parliament for Reigate, 1931–1950, and for Dorking since 1950. Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, 1956–1959; Chairman of Ways and Means, 1959–January 1962. For political and public services.
Knight Bachelor Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton, , Principal Choreographer and Associate Director, Royal Ballet, Covent Garden. Alderman George Frederick Chaplin, . For political and public services in Essex. Edward Foyle Collingwood, , Chairman, Newcastle Regional Hospital Board. Frederick William Delve, , Chief Officer, London Fire Brigade. Arthur John Driver, President of The Law Society, 1961–1962. Theodore Fortescue Fox, , Editor, The Lancet. Alderman James Mantle Greenwood, . For political and public services in London. Charles Stuart Hallinan, . For political and public services in Wales and Monmouthshire. George Ernest Haynes, , Director, National Council of Social Service. John Francis Hedges, . For political and public services in Wessex. Bernard Kenyon, Clerk of the Peace and Clerk of the County Council, West Riding of Yorkshire. William Errington Keville, . For services to the shipping industry. Deputy Chairman, Furness, Withy & Co. Ltd. Anthony Highmore King, , Senior Master, Queen's Bench Division and Queen's Remembrancer, Supreme Count of Judicature. William Halford Lawson, , Senior Partner in Binder, Hamlyn & Co., Chartered Accountants. Edwin Hartley Cameron Leather, , Member of Parliament for North Somerset since 1950. For political and public services. John Francis Lockwood, Master of Birkbeck College, University of London. For services to higher education in the Colonies. David Alexander Cecil Low, Cartoonist. David Lowe, , Deputy Chairman, Agricultural Research Council. Chairman, Scottish Horticultural Advisory Committee. Stephen James McAdden, , Member of Parliament for Southend East since 1950. For political and public services. Alexander Maitland, , Trustee, National Galleries of Scotland. Eric Mensforth, , Chairman, Westland Aircraft Ltd. John Turton Randall, Professor of Biophysics, University of London. Isaac Shoenberg. For services in the development of television and sound recording. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Eustace Smith, , Chairman and Managing Director, Smiths Dock Company Ltd. Richard Felix Summers, Chairman, John Summers & Sons Ltd. Part-time Member of the Iron and Steel Board. William Watson, Treasurer, Bank of Scotland.
State of Victoria William Ian Potter, of Melbourne, State of Victoria. For public services. The Honourable Reginald Richard Sholl, a Judge of the Supreme Court in the State of Victoria.
State of Queensland Professor Fred Joyce Schonell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the State of Queensland.
State of South Australia Henry Graham Alderman, a member of the legal profession in the State of South Australia. For public services.
Commonwealth Relations James Douglas Hardy, , formerly Secretary to the Government of Pakistan, President's Secretariat at Establishment Division. Nicol Stenhouse, formerly President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of India.
Overseas Territories Clyde Vernon Harcourt Archer, formerly Federal Justice, The West Indies. Bernard De Bunsen, , Principal of Makerere College, The University College of East Africa. Charles Godfrey Gasyonga II, Omugabe (hereditary ruler) of Ankole, Uganda. Gerald MacMahon Mahon, Chief Justice, Zanzibar. Ramparsad Neerunjun, , Chief Justice, Mauritius. George David Kamuriasi Rukidi II, Omukama (hereditary ruler) of the Toro Kingdom, Uganda. Arthur Frederick Thelwell, , Chairman, Christiana Area Land Authority, Jamaica.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir Alexander Noel Campbell Bingley, . General Sir Gerald Lathbury, , (34834), late Infantry; Colonel, The West India Regiment; Colonel Commandant, 1st Greenjackets, 43rd & 52nd; Colonel Commandant, The Parachute Regiment.
Civil Division Sir Henry Drummond Hancock, , Chairman, Local Government Commission (England).
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice-Admiral Nigel Stuart Henderson, . Vice-Admiral John Michael Villiers, . Lieutenant-General John Winthrop Hackett, , (52752), late Royal Armoured Corps; Colonel Commandant, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Lieutenant-General Reginald Hackett Hewetson, , (40386), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Acting Air Marshal Leslie William Clement Bower, , Royal Air Force.
Civil Division George Edward Godber, , Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Home Office. Burke St. John Trend, , Second Secretary, HM Treasury. Brigadier The Right Honourable Charles George Vivian, Baron Tryon, , Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to The Queen.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Ian Gerald Aylen, . Rear-Admiral Joseph Charles Cameron Henley. Rear-Admiral John Augustine Ievers, . Rear-Admiral Edmund George Irving, . Rear-Admiral William James Munn, . Rear-Admiral Simon Edward Post, . Surgeon Rear-Admiral John Mansel Reese, . Rear-Admiral Maurice James Ross, . Rear-Admiral Godfrey Benjamin Teale, .
Army Major-General Ian Herbert Fitzgerald Boyd, , (38385), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General John Hamilton Cubbon, , (52600), late Infantry. Major-General Thomas Herbert Fischer Foulkes, , (39248), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Charles Harold McVittie, , (40716), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major-General William James Officer, , (21400), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Joseph Kenneth Shepheard, , (40410), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Patrick George Turpin, , (63806), late Royal Army Service Corps. Major-General Gerald Patrick Linton Weston, , (49963), late Infantry.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Kenneth Vernon Garside, . Air Vice-Marshal Thomas Conchar Macdonald, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Colin Murray Stewart, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal George Holford White, . Air Commodore Charles Beresford Eaton Burt-Andrews, . Air Commodore Arthur Hubert McMath Hely, . Air Commodore John Kevitt Rotherham, .
Civil Division Philip Stuart Milner-Barry, , Under-Secretary, HM Treasury. Gordon Bowen, , Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Reginald Geoffrey Elkington, Director of Establishment and Finance, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Arthur Acheson Farrell, Comptroller and Auditor General, Northern Ireland. William Geraghty, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, War Office. Ronald Ernest Charles Johnson, Under-Secretary, Scottish Home and Health Department. Kenneth Roy Johnstone, , Deputy Director-General, British Council. Brigadier Charles Ardagh Langley, , Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, Ministry of Transport. Wynne Llewelyn Lloyd, HM Inspector of Schools (Chief Inspector, Wales), Ministry of Education. Thomas Warburton McCullough, , HM Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour. Edward Somerville McNairn, Commissioner and Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue. Colin Hope Spens, Chief Engineer, Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Arthur Wallace Stableforth, Director, Veterinary Laboratories, Weybridge, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Robert William Button, , Superintendent, Services Electronic Research Laboratory, Admiralty. Frederick Thomas Tarry, , HM Inspector of Constabulary, Home Office.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Lieutenant-General Sir Edric Montague Bastyan, , Governor of the State of South Australia. Lieutenant-General Sir William Pasfield Oliver, , British High Commissioner in the Commonwealth of Australia. John Warburton Paul, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gambia. David Clive Crosbie Trench, , High Commissioner, Western Pacific. The Honourable Con Douglas Walter O'Neill, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extra-ordinary and Plenipotentiary in Helsinki. Sir Horace Anthony Claude Rumbold, , Minister, Her Majesty's Embassy, Paris. Francis Aimé Vallat, , Legal Adviser, Foreign Office.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Geoffrey Howard Herridge, Managing Director, Iraq Petroleum Company Ltd. John Collier Frederick Hopkins, Director, Commonwealth Mycological Institute. Donald Rhind, , Adviser on Agricultural Research, Department of Technical Co-operation. Leslie Thomas Douglas Williams, Director General, Defence Research Staff, British Defence Staffs, (Washington). Now Director General of Atomic Weapons, Ministry of Aviation. James Percival Ainslie, , a prominent surgeon in the State of Western Australia. Leonard Brian Walsh Atkins, , an Assistant Secretary in the Commonwealth Relations Office. Robert William Doughty Fowler, Deputy British High Commissioner in Canada. Donald Bernard Waters Good, Judge of Appeal, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Federation of Malaya. Vivian Edgar Hancock, of Indooroopilly, Brisbane, State of Queensland. For philanthropic services. Louis King, Under-Secretary, Secretary, Minister of Health, and Clerk of Executive Council, State of South Australia. Robert Casley Normand, , Director of Statutory Consolidation, State of Victoria. Edward Taylor Williams, formerly Railway Adviser, Malayan Railway Administration, Kuala Lumpur. Thomas Davidson Thomson, , Commissioner for Social Development, Nyasaland. Peter William Youens, , Deputy Chief Secretary, Nyasaland. Allan Rose Abrahams, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications and Works, Jamaica. Jack Jesson Adie, Permanent Secretary, Kenya. Caleb William Davies, , Permanent Secretary and Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Denis Whitfield Hall, Provincial Commissioner, Kenya. Allan Inglis, Director of Public Works, Hong Kong. Michael Somervillle Porcher, , Chief Secretary, British Honduras.