Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The dates vary, both from year to year and from country to country. All are published in supplements to the London Gazette and many are conferred by the monarch (or her representative) some time after the date of the announcement, particularly for those service people on active duty.
The 1987 Queen's Birthday honours lists were announced on 13 June 1987.
Recipients of honours are shown below as they were styled before their new honour.
United Kingdom
Life Peers
Barons
Sir (Amos) Henry Chilver, Chairman, Milton Keynes Development Corporation; Vice-Chancellor, Cranfield Institute of Technology. Sir Philip (Douglas) Knights, C.B.E., Q.P.M., D.L. Former Chief Constable, West Midlands Police.
Privy Counsellors
Dr Rhodes Boyson, Minister of State for Local Government, Department of the Environment. Lynda, Mrs Chalker, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Knights Bachelor
James George Ackers, Chairman, West Midlands Regional Health Authority. George Blunden, Deputy Governor, Bank of England. Neville Bruce Alfred Bosworth, C.B.E. For political and public service. Anthony Alfred Caro, C.B.E., Sculptor. Clifford Jack Chetwood, Chairman and Chief Executive, George Wimpey plc. Peter Leslie Crill, C.B.E., Bailiff of Jersey. David Lance Crouch. For political service. Colin Terence Dollery, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School. Hugh Spencer Lisle Dundas, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., Chairman, British Electric Traction plc. Professor Roger James Elliott. For services to Theoretical Physics and National Computing. Archibald William Forster, Chairman and Chief Executive, Esso UK plc. David Armand Hopkin, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate. Anthony Seymour Laughton, Director, Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Natural Environment Research Council. Leslie Thomas Loader, C.B.E. For political and public service. John Lyons. For services to the Study of Linguistics. Colin Marsh Marshall, Chief Executive, British Airways plc. Bryan Hubert Nicholson, Chairman, Manpower Services Commission. Alan Turner Peacock, D.S.C. For public service. Basil Edward Rhodes, C.B.E., T.D., D.L. For political and public service. Robert Scholey, C.B.E., Chairman, British Steel Corporation. Albert Edward Sloman, C.B.E., Vice-Chancellor, University of Essex. Robert Courtney Smith, C.B.E. For services to Industry in Scotland. Robert William Wall, O.B.E. For political and public service. John Michael Wickerson, President, The Law Society.
Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice Admiral David Benjamin Bathurst. Vice Admiral William Richard Scott Thomas, O.B.E. Lieutenant General David John Ramsbotham, C.B.E. (427439), late The Royal Green Jackets. Colonel Commandant 2nd Battalion The Royal Green Jackets. Lieutenant General Antony Kenneth Frederick Walker (437194), Colonel Commandant Royal Tank Regiment. Air Marshal Laurence Alfred Jones, C.B., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
Civil Division
John Bilsland Bailey, C.B., H.M. Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. John Niall Henderson Blelloch, C.B., Second Permanent Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. Kenneth Percy Bloomfield, C.B., Head of Northern Ireland Civil Service and Second Permanent Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office. Terence Michael Heiser, C.B., Permanent Secretary, Department of the Environment.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Major General John St John Grey. Rear Admiral Ronald Victor Holley. Rear Admiral Andrew John Richmond. Major General John Boyne, M.B.E., late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Major General Anthony Showan Jeapes, O.B.E., M.C., late The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment. Major General Denis Edgar Ryan, late Royal Army Educational Corps. Major General Keith Spacie, O.B.E., late The Parachute Regiment. Major General Alan Yeoman, late Royal Corps of Signals, Honorary Colonel 37 (Wessex and Welsh) Signal Regiment (Volunteers). Air Vice-Marshal Derek Thomas Bryant, O.B.E., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Peter Francis King, O.B.E., Q.H.S., Royal Air Force. The Venerable Glyndwr Rhys Renowden, Q.H.C., Royal Air Force.