The New Year Honours 1964 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 on 1 January 1964 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1964.
United Kingdom
Viscount
The Right Honourable David McAdam, Baron Eccles, K.C.V.O. For public services.
Baron
Roy Herbert Thomson, Esq., Chairman, The Thomson Organisation, Ltd. For public services.
Privy Counsellor
Sir William Alexander Bustamante, Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs, Jamaica, since August, 1962. George John Charles, Marquess of Lansdowne, D.L., Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations and for the Colonies, Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1958–1962. The Right Honourable William Brereton Couchman, Baron Merthyr, T.D., Lord Chairman of Committees and Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, since 19S7. Sir Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson, Q.C., M.P., Member of Parliament for Epsom since 1955. Solicitor-General since July, 1962. Dr. Eric Williams, Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs, Trinidad and Tobago, since August, 1962.
Baronet
John Sinclair-Wemyss Arbuthnot, Esq., M.B.E., T.D., M.P., Member of Parliament for Dover since 1950; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions, 1952, and Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953–1955; and to the Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, 1956–1957; Second Parliamentary Church Estates Commissioner. For political and public services. Sir (Edward) Charles Dodds, M.V.O., M.D., P.R.C.P., President, Royal College of Physicians. Courtauld Professor of Biochemistry, University of London. Sir Clarence Johnston Graham. For political services in Northern Ireland. Humphrey Charles Baskerville Mynors, Esq., Deputy Governor, Bank of England, since March, 1954. William McEwan Younger, Esq., D.S.O., D.L. For political and public services.