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1941 New Year Honours

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

United Kingdom and British Empire[edit]

Viscount[edit]

• William Ewart, Baron Camrose, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Telegraph.

Baron[edit]

• The Right Honourable Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil. For public services.
• Field-Marshal Sir (William) Edmund Ironside, G.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1939–40.
• Sir Robert Molesworth Kindersley, G.B.E., President of the National Savings Committee.
• The Right Honourable Sir (Frank) Boyd Merriman, O.B.E., President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.

Privy Counsellor[edit]

• Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown, J.P., D.L., M.P., Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons.
• Sir Walter James Womersley, J.P., M.P., Minister of Pensions.

Baronet[edit]

• Sir William George Coxen, lately Lord Mayor of London.
• Sir Kenneth Lee. For public services.
• Hugh Lett, Esq., C.B.E., M.B., Ch.B., President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Knight Bachelor[edit]

• George Abbiss, Esq., O.B.E., Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police.
• Alderman James Henry Sutherland Aitken, Chairman, Lancashire Education Committee.
• Peter Frederick Blaker Bennett, Esq., O.B.E., J.P., Past President of the Federation of British Industries. Lately Director-General of Tanks and Transport in the Ministry of Supply.
• William Lawrence Bragg, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., F.R.S., Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge.
• Frank Brangwyn, Esq., R.A., LL.D. For services to Art.
• Alfred William Brown, Esq., LL.D., Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of H.M. Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor.
• Arthur Lewis Dixon, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
• Patrick Joseph Dollan, Esq., Lord Provost of Glasgow.
• Charles Doughty, Esq., K.C. For services to the Ministry of Labour and National Service and to the Ministry of Pensions.
• George Dyson, Esq., Mus.D., F.R.C.M., Director of the Royal College of Music.
• James Weir French, Esq., D.Sc., Chairman of Messrs Barr and Stroud.
• William John Gick, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Adviser to the Fourth Sea Lord on Supplies, and lately Director of Stores, Admiralty.
• Hugh Steuart Gladstone, Esq., J.P., D.L., Convener of Dumfriesshire.
• Allan John Grant, Esq., J.P., Managing Director, Messrs Thomas Firth and John Brown, Limited, Sheffield.
• John Harry Hebb, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., Director-General, Emergency Medical Services, Ministry of Health.
• Randle Fynes Wilson Holme, Esq., President of the Law Society, 1939–40.
• Captain Elias Wynne Cemlyn Jones, Alderman, Anglesey County Council. For public services in Anglesey.
• Patrick Ramsay Laird, Esq., C.B., F.R.S.E., Secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.
• Frederick William Leggett, Esq., C.B., Chief Industrial Commissioner, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• Ernest John Hutchings Lemon, Esq., O.B.E., M.I.Mech.E. For services to the Air Ministry. A Vice-President of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company.
• Charles Lidbury, Esq., Chief General Manager and a Director of the Westminster Bank.
• John Maxwell, Esq., C.B.E., Chief Constable, Manchester.
• Samuel Osborn, Esq., LL.D., J.P., Chairman of the Sheffield Juvenile Advisory Committee.
• Alderman Frank Edwin Newson-Smith, lately Sheriff of London.
• Frank Spencer Spriggs, Esq., Managing Director of the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company. President, Society of British Aircraft Constructors, Limited.
• Henry Steele, Esq., Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
• William Bruce Thomas, Esq., K.C., President of the Railway Rates Tribunal.
• John Sealy Edward Townsend, Esq., F.R.S., Wykeham Professor of Physics in the University of Oxford.
• Brigadier-General Julian Mayne Young, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief Divisional Food Officer for London and the Home Counties.

Dominions

• Colonel Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny, D.S.O., V.D., M.D., F.R.C.P., a leading Australian physician. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• George Francis Davis, Esq. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Robert Benson Ewbank, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., lately Commissioner for Natural Resources, Newfoundland.
• Lionel Arthur Lindsay, Esq., an eminent artist in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Fergus McMaster, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Directors of Qantas Empire Airways, Limited. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Clive McPherson, Esq., C.B.E., Representative of His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia on the British Phosphate Commission.
• The Honourable Robert Dove Nicholls, Speaker of the House of Assembly, State of South Australia.
• Edmund Charles Richards, Esq., C.M.G., Resident Commissioner, Basutoland.
• Professor Robert Strachan Wallace, LL.D., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, State of New South Wales. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.

India

• Manohar Lal, Esq., Finance Minister of His Excellency the Governor of the Punjab.
• Khan Bahadur Maulvi Azizul Haque, C.I.E., M.L.A., Speaker, Bengal Legislative Assembly and Vice-Chancellor, Calcutta University, Bengal.
• Saiyid Fazl Ali, Esq., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Patna, Bihar.
• Robert Stonehouse Broomfield, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay.
• George Hector Thomas, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Chief Judge, Chief Court of Oudh, United Provinces.
• Godfrey Davis, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Judge, Chief Court, Sind.
• Alexander Cameron Badenoch, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Auditor-General of India.
• James Almond, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner, North-West Frontier Province.
• Hugh Stuart Crosthwaite, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service (retired), lately Member of the Federal Public Service Commission.
• Colonel Charles Frederick Carson, M.C. (late R.E.), General Manager, Nortih-Western Railway, Lahore, Punjab (on leave).
• Percy Launcelot Orde, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Punjab.
• Brigadier Clinton Gresham Lewis, O.B.E., Surveyor-General of India.
• Frederick Sayers, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police (retired), Madras.
• Frederick Ernest James, Esq., O.B.E., Member of the Central Legislative Assembly.
• Alec Aikman, Esq., C.I.E., lately Leader of the European Group in the Central Legislative Assembly.
• Brevet Colonel Ram Nath Chopra, C.I.E., Indian Medical Service (retired), Professor of Pharmacology and Director, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, Bengal.
• Edmund Lancaster Ball, Esq., Auditor of Indian Home Accounts, India Office, London.
• Shanti Sarup Bhatnagar, Esq., O.B.E., D.Sc., Director of Industrial Development, Advisory Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, and lately Director, University Chemical Laboratories, Lahore, Punjab.
• Robert Charles Bristow, Esq., C.I.E., Administrative Officer and Harbour Engineer-in-Chief, Port of Cochin.
• Harry Harrison Burn, Esq., Senior Director and Chairman, Board of Directors, Messrs McLeod & Co., Ltd., Bengal.
• M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Narsimha Ayyangar Gopalaswami Ayyangar Avargal, C.S.I., C.I.E., Prime Minister, Jammu and Kashmir Government.
• Alexander George Gray, Esq., J.P., Manager, Bank of India, Limited, Bombay.
• Khan Bahadur Syed Maratib Ali, C.B.E., Director of the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India.
• Colonel Alan Henry Lawrence Mount, C.B., C.B.E., lately Chairman, Pacific Locomotive Committee.
• Diwan Bahadur Khanderao Gangadhar Nadkar, Diwan and President of the Council of Administration (retired), Dhar State, Central India.
• Sorabji Dorabji Saklatvala, Esq., M.L.A., Director, Messrs. Tata Sons, Limited, Bombay.
• Lala Shri Ram, Mill-owner, Delhi.

Burma

• U Thwin, Member of the Senate and Chairman of the Burmese Chamber of Commerce, Rangoon.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

• George Gaggero, Esq., O.B.E. For public services in Gibraltar.
• Noel Brooks Livingston, Esq., Custos, Kingston, Jamaica.
• Hanns Vischer, Esq., C.M.G., C.B.E., lately Joint Secretary, Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies.
• Ambrose Henry Webb, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Tanganyika Territory.
• Norman Henry Pownall Whitley, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Uganda.
• Wilfrid Murray Wigley, Esq., O.B.E., lately Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Leeward Islands.
• Abraham Charles Gerard Wijeyekoon, Esq. For public services in Ceylon.

Order of the Garter (KG)[edit]

• Edward William Spencer, Duke of Devonshire, M.B.E.

Order of the Bath[edit]

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)[edit]

• General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., retired pay, Colonel, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, Aide-de-Camp General to The King.
• Sir Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins, K.C.B., Second Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• The Right Honourable Sir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. Formerly H.M. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Paris.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)[edit]

• Vice-Admiral Guy Charles Cecil Royle, C.B., C.M.G.
• Vice-Admiral Robert Henry Taunton Raikes, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O.
• Vioe-Admiral (Acting Admiral) John Cronyn Tovey, C.B., D.S.O.
• Vice-Admiral Sir George Frederick Basset Edward-Collins, K.C.V.O., C.B.
• Paymaster Rear-Admiral David Sydney Lambert, C.B., O.B.E.
• Lieutenant-General George James Giffard, C.B., D.S.O., late The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
• Lieutenant-General Robert Harold Carrington, C.B., D.S.O., Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, Governor of Edinburgh Castle.
• Colonel Gerald Trevor Bruce, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Glamorgan.
• Air Marshal Ernest Leslie Gossage, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O., M.C.
• Edward Victor Appleton, Esq., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• The Honourable Sir Alexander Montagu George Cadogan, G.C.M.G., C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office.
• Charles Northrup McLaren, Esq., Director-General of Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Supply.
• Archibald Rowlands, Esq., M.B.E., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production.
• Sir Arthur William Street, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., C.I.E., M.C., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)[edit]

Military Division

• Rear-Admiral Stuart Sumner Bonham-Carter, C.V.O., D.S.O.
• Rear-Admiral John Guy Protheroe Vivian.
• Rear-Admiral Arthur Lumley St George Lyster, C.V.O., D.S.O.
• Rear-Admiral Eric Ritchie Bent, D.S.C. (Retired).
• Rear-Admiral Frederick Arthur Buckley (Retired).
• Engineer Rear-Admiral Macleod Gamul Arthur Edwards, O.B.E.
• Temporary Surgeon Rear-Admiral Cecil Pembrey Grey Wakeley, D.Sc., F.R.C.S., F.A.C.S., F.R.A.C.S.
• Major-General Thomas Lionel Hunton, M.V.O., O.B.E., Royal Marines.
• Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Thomas Jacomb Hutton, M.C., late Royal Artillery.
• Major-General (acting lieutenant-General) Alan Gordon Cunningham, D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Artillery.
• Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Maurice Fitzgibbon Grove-White, D.S.O., O.B.E., late Royal Engineers.
• Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Thomas Ralph Eastwood, D.S.O., M.O., late The King's Royal Rifle Corps.
• Major-General John Walter Lennox Scott, D.S.O., late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Physician to The King.
• Major-General Robert Walter Dickson Leslie, O.B.E., late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Physician to The King.
• Major-General Vivian Henry Bruce Majendie, D.S.O., Colonel, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's).
• Major-General Charles John Wallace, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., late The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).
• Major-General the Honourable Percy Gerald Scarlett, M.C., late The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment).
• Major-General Lancelot Daryl Hickes, O.B.E., M.C., late Royal Artillery.
• Major-General Bevil Thomson Wilson, D.S.O., late Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Edwin Logie Morris, O.B.E., M.C., late Royal Engineers.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) William Archibald Kenneth Fraser, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.V.O., M.C., Indian Army.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) William Henry Goldney Baker, D.S.O., O.B.E., Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp to The King.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Thomas William Corbett, M.C., Indian Army.
• Major-General John Northcott, M.V.O., Deputy-Chief of the General Staff, Australian Military Forces.
• Acting Air Marshal Philip Babington, M.C., A.F.C.
• Acting Air Marshal Alfred Guy Roland Garrod, O.B.E., M.C., D.F.C.
• Air Vice-Marshal Paul Copeland Maltby, D.S.O., A.F.C.
• Air Vice-Marshal Richard Hallam Peck, O.B.E.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Rey Griffith Parry, D.S.O.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal James Milne Robb, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C.

Civil Division

• James Scott Pringle, Esq., O.B.E., A.C.G.I., M.I.E.E.
• Alfred Baikie, Esq., President and Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Orkney, and Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Zetland.
• Major John Telfer Dunbar, D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of the City of Edinburgh.
• Major Delaval Graham L'Estrange Astley, D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Norfolk.
• Ernest Holloway, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Works, Air Ministry.
• Eric Norman de Normann, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works and Buildings.
• Ralph George Hawtrey, Esq., F.B.A., Assistant Secretary and Director of Financial Enquiries, H.M. Treasury.
• Godfrey Herbert Ince, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• Thomas Gilmour Jenkins, Esq., M.C., Second Secretary, Ministry of Shipping.
• William Thomas Matthews, Esq., O.B.E., Principal Assistant Secretary, Assistance Board.
• Robert Leslie Overbury, Esq., Assistant Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords.
• Sidney Hill Phillips, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Admiralty.
• Frederick Percival Robinson, Esq., Financial Secretary to H.M. The King.
• Arthur Nevil Rucker, Esq., C.B.E. Lately Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (the late Right Honourable Neville Chamberlain, M.P.).
• Thomas Herbert Sheepshanks, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Home Security.
• Robert Hill Tolenton, Esq., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• Robert Alexander Watson Watt, Esq., Scientific Adviser on Telecommunications, Ministry of Aircraft Production.
• John Joseph Wills, Esq., C.B.E., Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
• John Crompton Wrigley, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.

Order of Merit (OM)[edit]

• Professor (George) Gilbert Aimé Murray, M.A., D.Litt., D.C.L., LL.D., F.B.A., F.R.S.L.

Order of the Star of India[edit]

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)[edit]

• Major His Highness Rukn-ud-Daula Nusrat-i-Jang, Saif-ud-Daula Hafiz-ul-Mulk Mukhlis-ud-Daula wa Muin-ud-Daula Nawab al Haj Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan, Abbasi, Bahadur, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., LL.D, Nawab of Bahawalpur.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)[edit]

• Lieutenant His Highness Raja Har Indar Singh Bahadur, Raja of Faridkot.
• Sir Francis Lewis Castle Floud, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Chairman, Land Revenue Commission, Bengal.
• Sir Chetput Pattabhirama Ayyar Ramaswami Ayyar, K.C.I.E., Diwan, Travanoore State.

Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)[edit]

• Robert Edwin Russell, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service,. Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bihar.
• Henry Challen Greenfield, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar.
• Charles MacIvor Grant Ogilvie, Esq., C.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Defence Department.
• Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department.
• Evan Meredith Jenkins, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Supply, and lately Chief Commissioner, Delhi.
• John Bartley, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Additional Secretary and Draftsman to the Government of India in the Legislative Department.
• Godfrey Ferdinando Stratford Collins, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, and lately Revenue Commissioner and Revenue Secretary, Sind.
• Major-General Hugh Clive Buckley, M.D., F.R.C.S., K.H.P., Indian Medical Service, lately Surgeon-General with the Government of Bombay.
• Frank Lugard Brayne, Esq., C.I.E., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Development, Punjab.
• Robert Francis Mudie, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces.
• Philip Theodore Mansfield, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Orissa (on leave).
• Cyril Walter Gurner, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chairman, Calcutta Improvement Trust, Bengal.

Order of St Michael and St George[edit]

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)[edit]

• Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for Palestine and High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan.
• The Right Honourable Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, K.C.M.G., C.B., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Tokyo.

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)[edit]

• The Honourable Owen Dixon, Judge of the High Court of the Commonwealth of Australia.
• The Honourable Godfrey Martin Huggins, F.R.C.S., Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia since 1933. On the occasion of the Jubilee celebrations of the Colony.
• The Honourable Bertram Sydney Barnsdale Stevens, M.L.A., formerly Premier of the State of New South Wales.
• William Denis Battershill, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Cyprus.
• John Hathorn Hall, Esq., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., British Resident, Zanzibar Protectorate.
• Major Sir William Chollerton Lead, M.C. For public services in the Tanganyika Territory.
• Angus Somerville Fletcher, Esq., C.B.E., Director of the British Library of Information, New York.
• David John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Esq., C.M.G., an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Maitland Greenly, C.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., formerly Controller General, British Supply Board in Canada, and Chairman of the Prime Minister's Panel of Industrialists, 1938–39.
• Frank Horsfall Nixon, Esq., C.B., General Manager and Chief Underwriter, Export Credits Guarantee Department, and Joint Managing Director, United Kingdom Commercial Corporation, Limited.
• Sir Ashley Sparks, K.B.E., Ministry of Shipping Representative in the United States.

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)[edit]

• Hugh Traill Armitage, Esq., Deputy Governor of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Charles Bullock, Esq., Secretary for Native Affairs, Chief Native Commissioner and Director of Native Development, Southern Rhodesia.
• Charles Noble Arden Clarke, Esq., Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
• Edward Parkes, Esq., M.V.O., I.S.O., Under-secretary, Chief Electoral Officer, Chief Secretary's Department, and Clerk to the Executive Council, State of Tasmania.
• Frederick Geoffrey Shedden, Esq., O.B.E., Secretary, Department of Defence, Commonwealth of Australia.
• John Everard Stephenson, Esq., C.V.O., O.B.E., Assistant Undersecretary of State, Dominions Office.
• Arthur Maurice Wiseman, Esq., M.C., His Majesty's Senior Trade Commissioner in the Dominion of Canada.
• Wallace Charles Wurth, Esq., Chairman of the Public Service Board, State of New South Wales.
• Bernard Traugott Zwar, Esq., M.D., M.S., F.R.A.C.S., President, Royal Melbourne Hospital, State of Victoria. For public services.
• Ralph Clarence Morris, Esq., Inspector-General of Police, Burma.
• Major Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, D.S.O. For public services in Kenya.
• Sze Jen Chan, Esq. For public services in the Straits Settlements.
• William Henry Flinn, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Barbados.
• Leslie Brian Freeston, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Tanganyika Territory.
• Gerard Edward James Gent, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke, Esq., Auditor-General, Ceylon.
• Alexander William George Herder Grantham, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Jamaica.
• Joseph Welsh Park Harkness, Esq., O.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Gold Coast.
• Walter Harragin, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Attorney-General, Kenya.
• James Richard Mackie, Esq., Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Nigeria.
• James Scott Neill, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Administrator, Dominica, Windward Islands.
• Edgar Stanley Pembleton, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, Nigeria.
• Marcus Rex, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, British Resident, Perak, Federated Malay States.
• Major Alan Saunders, O.B.E., M.C., Colonial Police Service, Inspector-General of Police and Prisons, Palestine.
• Archibald Guelph Holdsworth Smart, Esq., M.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., Assistant Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Charles Robert Smith, Esq., Principal Representative in North Borneo of the British North Borneo (Chartered) Company.
• Hugh Whitelegge Thomas, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for Native Affairs, Gold Coast.
• Algernon Edward Vere Walwyn, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, Nigeria.
• John Balfour, Esq., a Counsellor in the Foreign Office.
• Ernest Francis Withers Besley, Esq., Legal Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy in Cairo.
• Cecil John Edmonds, Esq., C.B.E., Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Iraq.
• Godfrey Arthur Fisher, Esq., formerly His Majesty's Consul-General at Antwerp.
• Captain Francis Edward Foley. For services rendered to the Foreign Office.
• Victor Courtenay Walter Forbes, Esq., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Lima.
• John Henry Jones, Esq., O.B.E., a Director in the Department of Overseas Trade.
• Gordon Thompson Maclean, Esq., one of His Majesty's Inspectors-General of Consulates.
• Eric Denholm Pridie, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., Director of the Sudan Medical Service.
• James William Stafford, Esq., O.B.E., Director of the Passport and Permit Office.
• Robert Thomson Leiper, Esq., D.Sc., M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., Professor of Helminthology in the University of London and a Director of the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
• David John Lidbury, Esq., D.S.O., lately Chairman of the First Commission of the Buenos Aires International Postal Congress, 1939. Regional Director, London Postal Region.
• Charles Brinsley Pemberton Peake, Esq., M.C., Chief Press Adviser to the Minister of Information.
• Robert Jones Shackle, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Charles Norman Stirling, Esq., Head of the Neutral Trade Department, Ministry of Economic Warfare.

Order of the Indian Empire[edit]

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)[edit]

• Sir Henry Duffield Craik, Bt., K.C.S.I., Governor of the Punjab.
• His Highness Maharaja Mukhtar-ul-Mulk, Azim-ul-Iqtidar, Rafi-ush-Shan, Wala Shikoh, Mohtasham-i-Dauran, Umdat-ul-Umara, Maharajadhiraja Alijah Hisam-us-Saltanat George Jivaji Rao Scindia Bahadur, Shrinath Mansur-i-Zaman, Fidwi-i-Hazrat-i-Malik-i-Muazzam-i-Rafi-ud-Darjat-i-Inglistan, Maharaja of Gwalior.
• His Highness Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia Maharaja Pratap Singh Gaekwar Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur, Maharaja of Baroda.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)[edit]

• His Highness Raja Vikram Singh, Raja of Narsingarh, Central India.
• Major His Highness Nasir ul-Mulk, Mehtar of Chitral.
• Raja Shrimant Raghunathrao Shankarrao Pandit Pant Sachiv, RajaofBhor.
• George Townsend Boag, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Madras.
• John Gilbert Laithwaite, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Secretary to the Governor-General (Personal), and Private Secretary to the Viceroy.
• Kenneth Samuel Fitze, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Secretary to His Excellency the Crown Representative, and lately Resident for Central India.
• Major-General Ernest William Charles Bradfield, C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Medical Service, Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for India, and lately Director-General, Indian Medical Service.

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)[edit]

• Sardar Bahadur Sardar Mohan Singh, lately Adviser to the Secretary of State for India.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Fendall Campbell, Indian Political Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province.
• Arthur Vivian Askwith, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Commissioner, Delhi, and lately Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Home Department.
• Brigadier Ernest Wood, M.C., Director-General, Department of Supply, Government of India.
• Major-General William Henry McNeile Verschoyle-Campbell, O.B.E., M.C., Director of Ordnance Services, Army Headquarters, India.
• Denys Pilditch, Esq., Indian Police, Director, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India.
• George Milne Harper, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Senior Member, Board of Revenue, United Provinces.
• Charles Alexander Muirhead, Esq., Agent and General Manager, South Indian Railway.
• John David Westwood, Esq., Agent and General Manager, Bengal and North-Western Railway, Gorakhpur.
• John Whitcombe Hearn, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Lahore Division, Punjab.
• William Robert Tennant, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Auditor-General of India.
• Thomas Cooke Samuel Jayaratnam, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner (officiating), Jubbulpore Division, Central Provinces and Berar.
• Sidney Lionel Marwood, Esq., Indian Civil Service Commissioner (officiating) Patna Division, Bihar.
• Yeshwant Anant Godbole, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bihar.
• Major Thomas Faulkner Borwick, D.S.O., Director of Ordnance Factories, India.
• David Alexander Smyth, Esq., C.B.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police (officiating), Central Provinces and Berar.
• Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) George Adrien Pirn, Commandant, Officers' Training School, Belgaum.
• Alakh Kumar Sinha, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Bihar (retired).
• Ivon Hope Taunton, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Revenue Commissioner and Revenue Secretary, Sind, and lately Chief Secretary to the Government of Sind.
• Nilakanta Mahadeva Ayyar, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chairman, Coal Mines Stowing Board, Government of India.
• James Philip Mills, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Assam.
• Haravu Venkatamarasimh Varada Raj Iengar, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Finance Department.
• Benjamin George Holdsworth, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Madras in the Revenue Department.
• William Christie, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces in the Finamce Department.
• Francis Archibald Farquharson, Esq., M.C., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch.
• Noel Victor Housman Symons, Esq., M.C., Indian, Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal in the Revenue Department.
• Frederick Chalmers Bourne, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Home Department, and lately Deputy Commissioner, Lahore, Punjab.
• Archibald Macdonald Livingstone, Esq., M.C., Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India.
• Francis Michael Dowley, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Public Works Department, Madras (on leave).
• Arthur Oram, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, North-West Frontier Province.
• Douglas John Blomfield, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Communications and Works Department (Communications and Buildings Branch), Bengal.
• Lionel Fielden, Esq., lately Controller of Broadcasting, Government of India.
• Cecil Claude Wilson, Esq., V.D., Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests (retired), Madras.
• Shamaldhari Lall, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy High Commissioner for India, London.
• Basil John Knight Hallowes, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Ajmer-Merwara.
• Stanley Paul Chambers, Esq., lately Income Tax Adviser to the Central Board of Revenue, Government of India.
• Shavax Ardeshir Lal, Esq., Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative Department, and Secretary of the Council of State.
• Henry James Frampton, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department.
• Major Cyril Percy Hancock, O.B.E., M.C., Indian Political Service, Deputy Secretary, Political Department.
• Reginald Edwin Anthony Ray, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General, Intelligence Branch, Bengal.
• Hugh Weightman, Esq., Indian Political Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department, and lately Political Agent, Bahrain.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Short, Indian Medical Service, Director, King Institute, Guindy, Madras.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hawes Elliot, M.B.E., M.C., M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., F.R.C.S., D.M.R.E., Indian Medical Service, Surgeon to His Excellency the Viceroy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel David Clyde, M.D., D.P.H., Indian Medical Service, Civil Surgeon, Lucknow, United Provinces.
• Cuthbert George Milford Mackarness, Esq., Indian Forest Service, Conservator of Forests, Assam.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Hugh Crichton, Indian Medical Service, Chief Health Officer, Delhi.
• John Aldhelm Raikes Bromage, Esq., lately Superintending Engineer, Health Services, Delhi.
• Harry George Champion, Esq., Indian Forest Service, lately Conservator of Forests, United Provinces.
• Surendra Nath Das Gupta, Esq., PhD, D.Litt., Indian Educational Service, Principal, Government Sanskrit College, Calcutta, Bengal.
• Rao Bahadur Ranchhodbhai Bhaibabbai Patel, Barrister-at-Law, Prothonotary and Senior Master, High Court of Judicature, Bombay.
• Richard Marsh Crofton, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Director-General and Secretary, Revenue Department, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad, Deccan.
• Percy Stuart Macdonald, Esq., General Manager, Thomas Duff & Co., Calcutta.
• Arthur Stanley Trollip, Esq., General Manager, Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Co., Ltd., Bombay.
• Bashir Husain Zaidi, Esq., Chief Minister, Rampur State.

Royal Victorian Order[edit]

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)[edit]

• Sir Ulick Roland Burke.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Gordon Neale, C.I.E., C.V.O.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)[edit]

• Colonel Frank Benson, C.B.E.
• Charles Craik Cunningham, Esq.
• Captain Fitzroy Hubert Fyers, M.V.O.
• Edmund Claud Malden, Esq., M.B., B.Ch., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
• Cornelius James Selway, Esq., C.B.E., T.D.
• Cecil George Lewis Syers, Esq.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hyde Villiers, T.D.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)[edit]

At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominals MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.

Fourth Class

• Commander (now Captain) the Honourable Edward Pleydell-Bouverie, R.N.
• Albert Canning, Esq., O.B.E.
• Major Alfred Francis Custance.
• Henry Clement Game, Esq., O.B.E.
• George Proctor Middleton, Esq., M.B., Ch.B.
• Miss Violet Roberta Stewart-Richardson, O.B.E.
• Commander Derek Howard Seeker, R.N.
• Thomas Blundell Turner, Esq.
• Robert James Wallace, Esq.

Fifth Class

• Hubert Christopher Randolph Calver, Esq.
• James Charles Edward Cole, Esq.
• Frank Vaughan, Esq.
• Charles Ralph Warren, Esq.

Order of the British Empire[edit]

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)[edit]

• Sir Thomas Robert Gardiner, K.C.B., K.B.E.,. Director General of the Post Office. Lately Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Security.
• Sir (William) Arthur Robinson, G.C.B., C.B.E., lately Secretary, Ministry of Supply.

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)[edit]

• Irene, Mrs Dion Boucicault (Miss Irene Vanbrugh). For services to the Stage.
• Cecil Mary Nowell Dering, Viscountess Craigavon
• Stella, Dowager Marchioness of Reading, Chairman, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence.
• Reniera, Lady Stanley. For public and social welfare services in Southern Rhodesia.

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)[edit]

• Vice-Admiral Richard Augustus Sandys Hill, C.B., C.B.E. (Retired).
• Vice-Admiral Clinton Francis Samuel Danby, C.B.
• Major-General (local Lieutenant-General) Dudley Stuart Collins, C.B., D.S.O., Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers.
• Captain Arthur Routley Hutson Morrell, J.P., Deputy Master of the Corporation of Trinity House.
• William Palmer, Esq., C.B., Second Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• Kenneth Oswald Peppiatt, Esq., M.C., Chief Cashier, Bank of England.
• Sir Allan Gordon Gordon-Smith, D.L., Managing Director, S. Smith and Sons (Motor Accessories) Limited.
• John Smale Sutton, Esq., C.B., Deputy Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Donald Edward Vandepeer, Esq., Second Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Edwin Mortimer Drower, Esq., C.B.E., Adviser to the Ministry of Justice, Iraq, and Judge of the Iraqi Courts.
• Harold Winthrop Clapp, Esq., M.Inst.E.E. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Frank William Frederick Johnson, D.S.O., a pioneer of Southern Rhodesia. For public services to the Colony.
• Vincent Strickland Jones, Esq., O.B.E., Vice-President and General Manager of the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company, Limited. For services to Newfoundland.
• Geoffrey Syme, Esq. For services to journalism in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Sir Homi Mehta, Director of the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India.
• Maxwell MacLagan Wedderburn, Esq., C.M.G., lately Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Ceylon.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (December 2015)

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)[edit]

• James Louis Garvin, Esq., LL.D., Litt.D., Editor of The Observer.
• The Right Honourable William Morris Hughes, D.C.L., LL.D., K.C., Minister for the Navy and Attorney-General, Commonwealth of Australia.
• Arthur Henry Mann, Esq., lately Editor of The Yorkshire Post.

Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal for public services in India[edit]

Bar to the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal[edit]

• Olive, Mrs Monahan (wife of the Reverend C. H. Monahan of the Wesleyan Mission), Chief Medical Officer (retired), Kalyani Hospital, Madras.

Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal[edit]

• Katharine Isobel, Lady Lumley (wife of Sir Roger Lumley, G.C.I.E., T.D., Governor of Bombay).
• Gladys, Lady Hallett (wife of Sir Maurice Hallett, K.C.S.I, C.I.E., Governor of the United Provinces).
• Shrimant Soubhagyavati Lilawatibaisaheb Patwardhan, Ranisaheb of Jamkhandi.
• Dorothy Kate, Mrs Barne, M.B.E. (wife of the Right Reverend G. D. Barne, C.I.E., O.B.E., Bishop of Lahore), Punjab.
• Miss Elizabeth Jane Colhoun, Irish Presbyterian Zenana Mission, Rajkot, Western India States Agency.
• Charlotte, Mrs Cooper, Chief Commissioner, Girl Guides Association, Bengal.
• Miss Reba Cuthbert Hunsberger, M.D., Lady Doctor-in-Charge, Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, Sialkot City, Punjab.
• Daisy Elizabeth, Mrs Munro, M.B.E., Lady Superintendent, Civil Hospital, Karachi, Sind.
• Vidyagauri, Lady Ramambhai Nilkanth, M.B.E. widow of the late Sir Ramanbhai Mahipatram Nilkanth), Ahmedabad, Bombay.
• Khadija, Mrs Shuffi Cumruddin Tyabji (widow of the late Mr Shuffi Tyabji, Merchant, Bombay), Member of the Legislative Assembly, Bombay.
• Robert Greenhill Cochrane, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.P., Medical Superintendent, Lady Willingdon Leper Settlement, Chingleput, Madras.
• The Reverend James John Ellis, Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, Dharapuram, Coimibatore District, Madras.
• Sardar Bahadur Raja Jeoraj Singh, of Sandwa, C.B.E., O.B.I., Major-General in the Bikaner State Forces, Member, Executive Council, Bikaner State, Rajputana.
• Lieutenant William Patrick Smythe Mitchell, M.B.E., Indian Medical Department, Chief Medical Officer, Bastar State.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Lockhart Downes Yule, Indian Medical Service, lately Officer Commanding, Indian Military Hospital, Delhi Cantonments.

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