The New Year Honours 1916 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were announced on 1 January 1916.
A number of the honours were gazetted as being in recognition of the services of officers during the War. These are noted with a # below.
Knight Grand Cross (GCB)
Civil Division
The Right Hon. Sir George Houstoun Reid, G.C.M.G.
Sir Robert Chalmers, K.C.B.
Knight Commander (KCB)
Military Division
Vice-Admiral Edward Eden Bradford, C.V.O. #
Vice-Admiral Herbert Goodenough King-Hall, C.V.O., C.B., D.S.O. #
Acting Vice-Admiral Charles Edward Madden, C.V.O. #
Rear-Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, C.M.G., M.V.O. #
Acting Vice-Admiral The Honourable Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, C.B. #
Acting Vice-Admiral John Michael de Robeck. #
Rear-Admiral Dudley Rawson Stratford De Chair, C.B., M.V.O. #
Acting Vice-Admiral Henry Francis Oliver, C.B., M.V.O. #
Vice-Admiral Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon, C.V.O., D.S.O., retired. #
Temporary Major-General Archibald Paris, C.B., R.M.A. #
Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake, K.C.M.G., C.B., Colonel, The East Lancashire Regiment, Chief of the General Staff, India.
Major-General Arthur Phayre, C.B., Indian Army, Commanding Secunderabad Division.
Major-General Fenton John Aylmer, V.C., C.B., Adjutant-General in India.
Civil Division
Colonel Henry Capel Lofftt Holden, C.B., Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, War Office.
Ernley Robertson Hay Blackwell, Esq., C.B., Assistant Under Secretary, Home Office.
Lionel Earle, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., Secretary, H.M. Office of Works.
Noel Thomas Kershaw, Esq., C.B., Assistant Secretary, Local Government Board.
Frederick Francis Liddell, Esq., C.B., Second Parliamentary Counsel, The Treasury.
Military Division
Rear-Admiral Stuart Nicholson, M.V.O. #
Captain Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler, R.N. #
Captain George Price Webley Hope, R.N. #
Commodore Algernon Walker Heneage, M.V.O., R.N. #
Captain the Honourable Algernon Douglas Edward Harry Boyle, M.V.O., R.N. #
Captain Hughes Campbell Lockyer, R.N. #
Captain Lionel George Preston, R.N. #
Engineer Captain William Whittingham, R.N. #
Engineer Captain Henry Humphreys, R.N. #
Engineer Commander George Edward Andrew, R.N. #
Fleet Surgeon Arthur Gaskell, R.N. #
Fleet Paymaster Hamnet Holditch Share, R.N. #
Captain Charles Alfred Bartlett, R.N.R., R.D. #
Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) John MacNeill Walter, D.S.O., Deputy Adjutant-General, Headquarters, India.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Francis John Fowler, D.S.O., Indian Army, Commanding Derajat Brigade.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Alexander Henry Eustace, D.S.O., Indian Army, Commanding Kohat Brigade.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Wyndham Charles Knight, D.S.O., A.D.C., Indian Army, Commanding Bombay Brigade.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Frederick Hopewell Peterson, D.S.O., Indian Army, Commanding Jhelum Brigade.
Colonel Francis Herbert Sullivan Thomas, Indian Army.
Colonel Arthur William Cripps, Indian Army, Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, Lahore Division.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Charles Edward Hendley, Indian Army.
Colonel Edward Hearle Cole, Indian Army.
Brevet Colonel William Westropp White, Indian Medical Service.
Civil Division
Rear-Admiral Arthur William Waymouth. #
Rear-Admiral Morgan Singer. #
Captain Laurence Eliot Power, M.V.O., R.N. #
Captain Clement Greatorex, M.V.O., R.N. #
Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Edward Blumberg, R.M.L.I. #
Engineer Rear-Admiral William Henry Riley. #
Surgeon-General William Henry Norman, R.N. #
Temporary Surgeon-General Humphrey Daw Rolleston, M.D., F.R.C.P., R.N. #
Honorary Captain Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, Bart., R.N.R. #
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Orby Shipley, Commanding 3rd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Henry Launcelot Errington, Commanding Inns of Court Officers Training Corps.
Honorary Brigadier-General Horatio Reginald Mends (Retired Pay), Secretary, West Riding of York Territorial Force Association.
Major-General John Wallace Carson, Canadian Local Forces. #
Honorary Brigadier-General Frank Robert Crofton Carleton (Retired Pay), Director of Organisation, War Office. #
Colonel Willoughby Garnons Gwatkin, Canadian Local Forces. #
Colonel Charles Philip Martel, Superintendent, Royal Gun and Carriage Factories, Royal Arsenal. #
Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Lionel Charles Gostling Tufnell, Officer in Charge of Records and Commanding Army Ordnance Corps. #
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Phipps, Royal Garrison Artillery Inspection Staff, Royal Arsenal. #
Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler, Esq., lately Joint Secretary on the Indian Public Services Commission.
Albert Gray, Esq., K.C., Counsel to the Chairman of Committees, House of Lords.
Sidney West Harris, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Home Office.
George Macdonald, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Scotch Education Department.
Henry Gascoyen Maurice, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
Walter Frederick Nicholson, Esq., Clerk, The Admiralty.
Garnham Roper, Esq., Assistant Board of Trade.
Robert Fitzwilliam Starkie, Esq., Magistrate, Ireland.
Percy Thompson, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue.
John Anthony Cecil Tilley, Esq., Chief Clerk, Foreign Office.
Justin Theodore La Brooy, Esq., Civil Assistant to the Chief Superintendent, Royal Ordnance Factories. #
Arthur William James MacFadden, Esq., M.B., Chief Inspector of Foods, Local Government Board. #
Henry James, Esq.
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)
His Excellency General Sir Beauchamp Duff, G.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., C.I.E., A.D.C. General, Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Forces in India.
Knight Commander (KCSI)
Sir Steyning William Edgerley, K.C.V.O., C.I.E., Member of the Council of India.
Harrington Verney Lovett, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of the Lucknow Division, United Provinces, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
Robert Woodburn Gillan, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, President of the Railway Board.
Maharaj Sri Bhairon Singh Bahadur, C.S.I., Vice-President and Political Member of the State Council, Bikaner, Rajputana.
Henry Sharp, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Educational Service, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India in the Education Department, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations.
Ludovic Charles Porter, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Secretary to the Government of India in the Education Department.
Robert Russell Scott, Esq., Principal Clerk, The Admiralty, late Joint Secretary, Indian Public Services Commission.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Walter Edward, Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, V.D., Commandant, 2/7 Hampshire Regiment. #
Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)
Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles, G.C.B., C.V.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the City and Garrison of Gibraltar.
His Highness, Ibrahim, Sultan of the State and Territory of Johore, K.C.M.G. (Honorary)
Knight Commander (KCMG)
Sir Edward Marsh Merewether, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Sierra Leone.
William Lamond Allardyce, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands.
The Honourable William Thomas White, Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada.
The Honourable Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom.
The Honourable Sir Charles Kinnaird Mackellar, Knt., Member of the Legislative Council of the State of New South Wales, and lately President of the State Children's Relief Board.
Collingwood Schreiber, Esq., C.M.G., General Consulting Engineer to the Government of the Dominion of Canada.
Esme William Howard, Esq., C.V.O., C.M.G., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Sweden.
The Honourable Lancelot Douglas Carnegie, M.V.O., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Portuguese Republic.
William Edwin Brunyate, Esq., C.M.G., Legal Counsellor to the Egyptian Government.
Sheikh Said Ali el Morghani, C.M.G. (Honorary)
Vice-Admiral Frederic Edward Errington Brock, C.B. #
Vice-Admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden. #
Vice-Admiral Sir George Edwin Patey, K.C.V.O. #
Vice-Admiral Arthur Henry Limpus, C.B. #
Rear-Admiral Cecil Fiennes Thursby, C.M.G. #
Surgeon-General Sir James Porter, R.N., LL.D., M.D., K.C.B., Honorary Physician to the King. #
Temporary Surgeon-General Sir William Watson Cheyne, Bart., R.N., M.B., C.B., Honorary Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the King. #
Thomas Alexander Vans Best, Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Leeward Islands.
Thomas Inglis Binnie, Esq., Director of Public Works, Nyasaland Protectorate.
James Rufus Boose, Esq., Travelling Commissioner, Royal Colonial Institute.
William Brymner, Esq., President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
John Cadman, Esq., D.Sc., Professor of Mining in the University of Birmingham; Petroleum Adviser to the Colonial Office, and Coal Mining Adviser to the Government of Nigeria.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry James Grasett, Chief Constable, Toronto.
The Honourable Victor Albert Nelson Hood, Private Secretary to the Governor of Victoria.
Surgeon-General Guy Carleton Jones, Director of Medical Services; Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Brigadier-General James Charles MacDougall, Commanding Canadian Training Division; Canadian Expeditionary Force.
John Middleton, Esq., M.A., Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Mauritius.
Charles Frederick Wray Palliser, Esq., Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand.
Bernard Senior, Esq., I.S.O., Treasurer of the Island of Ceylon.
Adam Smith, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
Brigadier-General Frederick Hugh Gordon Cunliffe. ("in connection with military operations in the Cameroons.")
Captain Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, R.N., Naval Attache to His Majesty's Embassy at Washington.
Andrew Ryan, Esq., late First Dragoman at His Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople.
Thomas Harold Lyle, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Bangkok.
Arthur Hyde Lay, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Seoul.
Colonel William Hacche Drake, R.A., Adjutant-General for the Soudan.
Commodore Roger John Brownlow Keyes, C.B., M.V.O., Ad.C. #
Captain Douglas Lionel Dent, R.N. #
Commodore Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice. #
Captain Wilfrid Nunn, R.N., D.S.O. #
Acting Commander Leopold Arthur Bernays, R.N. #
Temporary Major William Wellington Godfrey, Royal Marine Light Infantry. #
Major Arthur Edward Bewes, Royal Marine Light Infantry. #
Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)
His Highness Maharaja Sir Ranbir Singh Bahadur, K.C.S.I., Chief of Jind, Punjab.
Knight Commander (KCIE)
Edward Vere Levinge, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bihar and Orissa.
Major Cecil John Lyons Allanson, Indian Army, lately Military Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Madras.
Rao Bahadur Chunilal Hari Lai Setalvad, Second Presidency Magistrate, Bombay.
John Andrew Turner, Esq., M.D., Executive Health Officer, Bombay Municipality.
Suresh Prosad Sarbadhikary, Esq., M.D., Calcutta.
John Norman Taylor, Esq., Public Works Department, Officiating Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Branch, Upper Jhelum Canal, Punjab.
Khan Bahadur Sardar Din Muhammad Khan, Laghari, late Acting Tumandar of the Laghari tribe in the Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab.
Lionel Linton Tomkins, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Punjab.
Douglas Marshall Straight, Esq., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, United Provinces, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
Babu Mot-i Chand, a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
Matthew Hunter, Esq., Indian Educational Service, Principal, Rangoon College.
John Tarlton Whitty, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector of Gaya, Bihar and Orissa.
Moses Mordecai Simeon Gubbay, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department, and lately Wheat Commissioner for India.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Augustus Muspratt-Williams, Royal Artillery, Chief Inspector of Explosives with the Government of India.
Raja Bhagwat Raj Bahadur Singh, of Sohawal, Central India.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Charles MacWatt, Indian Medical Service, Chief Medical Officer, Rajputana, and Civil Surgeon, Ajmer.
George Paris Dick, Esq., Government Advocate, Central Provinces.
Horatio Norman Bolton, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Peshawar District, North-West Frontier Province.
Major William John Keen, Indian Army, Political Agent, Dir, Swat and Chitral, North-West Frontier Province.
Major William Magill Kennedy, Indian Army, President of the Assam Labour Board.
Khan Bahadur Sheikh Makbul Hosain, United Provinces Provincial Service, Revenue Minister in the Kashmir State.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Cyril Harcourt Roe, Director of Movements and Quarterings, Quartermaster-General's Branch, Army Headquarters, India. #
Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless Shore, C.B., D.S.O., Director of Staff Duties and Military Training, Army Headquarters, India. #
Lieutenant-Colonel George Sim Ogg, Royal Artillery, Superintendent, Gun and Shell Factory, Cossipore. #
Major Charles Hugh Hodges Nugent, Royal Engineers, Inspector of Machinery, Military Works Services, India. #
Commander Michael Warren Farewell, Royal Indian Marine, Port Officer and Marine Transport Officer, Karachi. #
Major John Bertram Cunliffe, Madras Artillery Volunteers. #
Temporary Captain Evelyn Berkeley Howell, Special List, Censor of Indian Mails with the Indian Expeditionary Force in France. #
Knight Grand Cross (GCVO)
The Honourable Sir Derek William George Keppel, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., C.I.E., Master of the Household to His Majesty.
Knight Commander (KCVO)
Richard Maximilian, Baron Acton, M.V.O., late Lord in Waiting to His Majesty.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Robert Dunlop-Smith, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Political Aide-de-Camp to the Secretary of State for India.
Surgeon-General Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby, K.C.M.G., F.R.C.S., Surgeon in Ordinary to His Majesty.
Commander (CVO)
William Rose Smith, Esq., C.B., Clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster.
John George Griffiths, Esq., Honorary Secretary, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.
Staff Surgeon Robert Joseph Willan, R.N.V.R. (Dated 10 November 1915.)
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