1937 Coronation Honours

Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for the Fairfield division of Liverpool since 1931 and for East Nottingham 1924 to 1929. For political and public services.

George Frederick Clucas, Esq., C.B.E., Speaker of the House of Keys, Isle of Man.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Thomas Cox, D.S.O. For public and philanthropic services.

Robert William Dalton, Esq., C.M.G., His Majesty's Senior Trade Commissioner in Australia.

Hubert Arthur Dowson, Esq., Solicitor of Nottingham. President of the Law Society.

Oscar Follett Dowson, Esq., C.B.E., Legal Adviser, Home Office.

David Rowland Evans, Esq., General Secretary of the Liberal National Organisation. For political and public services.

Frank Fletcher, Esq., formerly Master of Marlborough College and Headmaster of Charterhouse School.

Colonel Edmund Vivian Gabriel, C.S.I., C.M.G., C.V.O., C.B.E. Gentleman Usher to His Majesty The King.

Charles Granville Gibson, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Pudsey and Otley since 1929. For political and public services.

Major Francis William Crewe Fetherston-Godley, O.B.E., D.L., Chairman, National Executive Council of the British Legion.

Arthur Frederick Hurst, Esq., D.M., F.R.C.P., Senior Physician to Guy's Hospital.

Ernest James Johnson, Esq. For political and public services in Staffordshire.

Sidney Midlane Johnson, Esq., Secretary of the County Councils Association.

Charles Sydney Jones, Esq., Pro-Chancellor of Liverpool University. For public services.

Henry Haydn Jones, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Merioneth since 1910. For political and public services.

Colonel John James Jones, V.D., J.P., D.L. For public and philanthropic services in Wales.

Thomas William Miller-Jones, Esq. For political and public services in the East End of London.

Percy John Luxton Kelland, Esq., M.R.C.V.S., Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Alderman Harold Vaughan Kenyon, M.B.E., J.P. For political and public services in West London.

Robert McDougall, Esq., J.P. For public and philanthropic services, especially to the National Trust.

Gilbert McIlquham, Esq., J.P. For political and public services in Gloucestershire.

William Marchbank Marshall, Esq. For political and public services in Scotland.

Commodore Charles George Matheson, D.S.O., R.D., R.N.R. (Retired), Commodore, Orient Steam Navigation Company.

Allen Mawer, Esq., Litt.D., F.B.A., Provost of University College, London. Director of Survey of English Place Names.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Cecil Russell Moore, C.B.E., M.P., Member of Parliament for the Ayr Burghs since June, 1925. For political and public services.

George Morley, Esq., C.B.E., Chief Constable of Durham.

Judge Allan George Mossop, Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China.

John Niven, Esq., Chairman of the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange.

Robert Howson Pickard, Esq., D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., Director of the British Cotton Industry Research Association.

Alexander West Russell, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Tynemouth since November, 1922. For political and public services.

Joshua Scholefield, Esq., K.C., Chairman of the Railway Assessment Authority. President, London Passenger Transport Arbitration Tribunal.

Harry Bertram Shackleton, Esq., Chairman of the Wool Textile Delegation. President of the Wool and Worsted Trades Federation.

Major Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, J.P., M.P., President of the National Farmers' Union.

Major Thomas Gabriel Lumley Lumley-Smith, D.S.O., F.S.A., Grand Secretary of Mark Master Masons.

Louis Saul Sterling, Esq. For political and public services.

John Taylor, Esq. For political and public services in Blackburn.

Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, C.B.,D.Litt., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History, University of St. Andrews.

Sylvanus Percival Vivian, Esq., C.B., Registrar-General in England and Wales.

Hugh Seymour Walpole, Esq., C.B.E. For services to literature.

Pelham Francis Warner, Esq., M.B.E. For services to sport.

Harold Beckwith Whitehouse, Esq., M.B., M.S., F.R.C.S., Professor of Midwifery and Diseases of Women, University of Birmingham.

William Valentine Wood, Esq., Senior Vice-President of the Executive of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company.

Captain William Henry Laycock Wordsworth, J.P. For political and public services in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

DOMINIONS.

Henry Chapman, Esq., C.B.E., Resident Director and General Manager of the Rhodesian Railway Companies.

Robert William Chapman, Esq., C.M.G., Professor of Engineering, University of Adelaide, State of South Australia. For public services.

William James Clemens, Esq., C.M.G., I.S.O., Commissioner, Public Service Board, Commonwealth of Australia.

Samuel Sydney Cohen, Esq. For public services in the State of New South Wales.

Major the Honourable Henry Alan Currie, M.C., Member of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria. For public services.

Ernest Davis, Esq., Mayor of the City of Auckland, Dominion of New Zealand.

Ernest Thomas Fisk, Esq., A.M.I.E. (Aust.). For public services in the State of New South Wales.

Charles John Boyd Norwood, Esq. For public services in the Dominion of New Zealand.

James Wallace Sandford, Esq. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.

The Honourable Alexander George Wales, J.P., Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria.

INDIA.

M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Subbarayalu Kumaraswami Reddiyar Avargal, lately Minister for Education and Public Health to the Governor of Madras, Madras.

Rao Bahadur Chaudhuri Chhotu Ram, Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, Minister for Development to the Governor of the Punjab.

Idwal Geoffrey Lloyd, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service (retired), lately Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma.

Robert Ernest Jack, Esq., Indian Civil Service,Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal.

Kenneth William Barlee, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay,

John Gibb Thorn, Esq., D.S.O., M.C., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, United Provinces.

Frederick Louis Grille, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Nagpur, Central Provinces.

George Richard Frederick Tottenham, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Secretary to the Government of India in the Defence Department.

Theodore James Tasker, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Revenue and Police Member, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad, Deccan.

Kenneth Mclntyre Kemp, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, J.P., Advocate-General, Bombay.

Brigadier Harold John Couchman, D.S.O., M.C., R.E., Surveyor-General of India.

John Nesbitt Gordon Johnson, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Chief Commissioner of Delhi.

Seth Haji Abdoola Haroon, Member of the Central Legislative Assembly, Merchant, Sind.

Colonel Arthur Olver, C.B., C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.N.L, Royal Army Veterinary Corps (retired), Expert Adviser in Animal Husbandry to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research.

Colonel Edward Hearle Cole, C.B., C.M.G., Indian Army (retired), Landlord, Okara Punjab.

Thomas Howard Elderton, Esq., Chairman, Calcutta Port Trust, Bengal.

Frank Birley, Esq., Member of the Madras Legislative Council, Director, Messrs. Best & Co., Ltd., Madras.

David Burnett Meek, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Educational Service, Indian Trade Commissioner in London.

Frank Herbert Brown, Esq., C.I.E., Honorary Secretary, East India Association, London.

Vivian Everard Donne Jarrad, Esq., Agent, Bengal-Nagpur Railway.

Narayan Vishvanath Mandlik, Esq., Advocate, Bombay.

COLONIES, PROTECTORATES, &c.

Wytialingam Duraiswamy, Esq., Speaker of the State Council, Ceylon.

Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn, Esq. For public services in Hong Kong.

Arthur Edwin Horn, Esq., C.M.G., M.D., M.R.C.P., Consulting Physician to the Colonial Office.

George Frederick Huggins, Esq., O.B.E. For public services in Trinidad.

Charles Ewan Law, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Zanzibar.

George William Arthur Trimmer, Esq., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., M.Inst.T., Chairman and General Manager of the Singapore and Penang Harbour Boards, Straits Settlements.

Armigel de Vins Wade, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Kenya.

Military

General Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO

General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough, GCMG, KCB, KCVO

Air Chief Marshal Sir John Miles Steel, KCB, KBE, CMG

Civil

Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, GCMG, former Governor-General of Australia

Sir Horace John Wilson, GCMG, KCB, CBE

Military

Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, CB, DSO

Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Ramsay, KCVO, CB, DSO

Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson, CB, CMG, DSO

Lieutenant-General Sir John Dill, CB, CMG, DSO

Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Karslake, KCSI, CB, CMG, DSO

Major-General (Indian Army) Sir Roger Wilson, CB, DSO, MC

Air Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman, CB, DSO, MC

Civil

Lieutenant-Colonel George Augustus Anson, CBE, MVO

John Donald Balfour Furgusson, CB

Edgar John Forsdyke, FSA

Sir Thomas Robert Gardiner, KBE

Edward Mellanby, FRCP, FRS

Sir James Rae

Sir Godfrey John Vignoles Thomas, Bt., KCVO, CSI

Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, KCVO

Military

Rear-Admiral Francis Thomas Butler Tower, OBE

Rear-Admiral Alfred Englefield Evans, OBE

Rear-Admiral John Henry Dacres Cunningham, MVO

Rear-Admiral Edward Rupert Drummond, MVO

Rear-Admiral Herbert Fitzherbert, CMG

Engineer Rear-Admiral Augustus George Crousaz

Surgeon Rear-Admiral Guy Leslie Buckeridge, OBE, MRCS, LRCP, KHS

Paymaster Rear-Admiral Arthur Foster Strickland, OBE

Archdeacon Arthur Deane Gilbertson, OBE

Colonel-Commandant Alan George Barwys Bourne, DSO, MVO

Captain Arthur Goodall Maundrell, CIE, RIN

Major-General Osburne Ievers, DSO

Major-General Francis Stewart Gilderoy Piggott, DSO

Major-General Henry Marrian Joseph Perry, OBE

Major-General Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne, DSO, MC

Major-General Ernest Cyril Gepp, DSO

Major General Viscount Gort, VC, CBE, DSO, MVO, MC

Major-General Ernest Ker Squires, DSO, MC

Major-General Basil Alexander Hill, DSO

Major-General Maxwell Spieker Brander, OBE

Major-General Donald Kenneth McLeod, DSO

Major-General William Haywood Hamilton, CIE, CBE, DSO, FRCS

Major-General John Evelyn Duigan, DSO, MC

Major-General Henry Augustus Lewis, CBE

Colonel (Temp. Brigadier) Arthur Francis Gore Perry Knox-Gore, DSO

Colonel (Local Major-General) Robert Ferguson Lock

Colonel (Hon. Brigadier) Christopher George Ling, DSO, MC

Colonel James Aubrey Smith, CMG

Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Sheridan Barratt, C.M.G., M.C., Royal Air Force.

Air Vice-Marshal Ernest Leslie Gossage, D.S.O., M.C., Royal Air Force.

Air Commodore Albert Victor John Richardson, O.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., K.H.S., Royal Air Force.

Civil

Charles Seymour Wright, OBE, MC

Major-General Henry Augustus Lewis, C.B.E. (late Royal Artillery), Director of Artillery, the War Office.

Honorary Colonel George, Baron Rochdale, President, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Middlesex.

Honorary Colonel Sir Henry William Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, Bt., Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Warwick.

Colonel Leonard Green, M.C., T.D., Territorial Army, Commander, 125th (Lancashire Fusiliers) Infantry Brigade.

David Randall Pye, Esq., M.A., Sc.D., M.I.Mech.E., F.R.Ae.S., Director of Scientific Research, Air Ministry.

Order of Merit (OM)

Lieutenant-General the Lord Baden-Powell, GCMG, GCVO, KCB

Knights Grand Commander (GCSI)

the Maharaja of Jind, GCIE, KCSI

Knights Commander (KCSI)

Kanwar Sir Jagdish Prasad, CSI, CIE, OBE

Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

Mir Sir Muhammad Nazim Khan, the Mir of Hunza, KCIE

Knights Grand Cross (GCMG)

Sir William Henry Clark, KCSI, KCMG – His Majesty's High Commissioner for Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland.

Sir Robert Randolph Garran, KCMG, KC. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.

The Right Honourable Sir Michael Myers, KCMG – Chief Justice, Dominion of New Zealand.

Knights Commander (KCMG)

Sir David Thomas Chadwick, CSI, CIE – Secretary of the Imperial Economic Committee and of the Executive Council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux.

The Honourable Sir Frederick Wollaston Mann, LLM – Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of the State of Victoria.

Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas – Emeritus Professor, Auckland University College, Dominion of New Zealand. For services to education.

Dames Grand Cross (GCVO)

Evelyn Emily Mary, Duchess of Devonshire.

Nina Cecilia, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

Knights Grand Cross (GCVO)

Gilbert, Earl of Ancaster.

Field-Marshal Sir William Riddell Birdwood, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.S.L, G.C.M.G., C.I.E., D.S.O.

Lieutenant-General Sir George Sidney Clive, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, G.B.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.S.O.

Major The Right Honourable Sir Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, K.C.B., C.V.O., M.C.

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Right Honourable Sir John Allsebrook Simon, G.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., O.B.E., K.C., M.P.

Dames Commanders (DCVO)

Lady Helen Cynthia Colville.

Lady Helen Violet Graham.

Knights Commanders (KCVO)

Major James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander, C.M.G., C.V.O., O.B.E.

Colonel Sir John Atkins, K.C.M.G., M.B., F.R.C.S.

George Nevile Maltby Bland, Esq., C.M.G.

Major-General Bertram Norman Sergison-Brooke, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.

The Honourable Gerald Henry Crofton Chichester, C.V.O.

Brigadier-General Sir Smith Hill Child, Bt., C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O., D.S.O.

Arthur William Steuart Cochrane, Esq., C.V.O.

Sir Henry Walford Davies, C.V.O., O.B.E., Mus.Doc.

Major-General Alan John Hunter, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C.

Robert Uchtred Eyre Knox, Esq., C.V.O., D.S.O.

Edward Howard Marsh, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O. (dated 11 February 1937).

George Frederic Still, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hugh Stephenson Turnbull, K.B.E.

Commanders (CVO)

Colin Mackenzie Black, Esq., W.S.

The Honourable Lettice, Mrs. Geoffrey Bowlby.

Ernest Bullock, Esq., Mus.Doc., F.R.C.O.

Osmund Somers Cleverly, Esq.

James Eggar, Esq., C.B.E.

Colonel Lancelot Merivale Gibbs, D.S.O., M.C.

The Honourable Arthur Jared Palmer Howard.

Eric Cyril Egerton Leadbitter, Esq.

Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Piers Walter Legh, C.M.G., C.I.E., M.V.O., O.B.E.

Brigadier-General Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont, D.S.O.

Percy Metcalfe, Esq.

Colonel William Kenyon Mitford, C.M.G.

Owen Frederick Morshead, Esq., D.S.O., M.V.O., M.C.

Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Gordon Neale, C.I.E.

Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Edmund Gascoigne Nugent, M.V.O., M.C.

Major Ronald Thomas Stanyforth, M.V.O., M.C.

John Everard Stephenson, Esq., O.B.E.

Norman Richard Coombe Warwick, Esq., M.V.O., O.B.E.

Miss Edith Margaret Watson, C.B.E.

Miss Dorothy Yorke.

Members of the Fourth Class (LVO)

Charles Lambert Bayne, Esq.

Miss Catherine Black, M.B.E., R.R.C.

Lieutenant the Honourable Thomas William Edward Coke.

Miss Rosina Davies, M.B.E., A.R.R.C.

Cyril Frederick Gamon, Esq.

Major Norman Wilmhurst Gwatkin.

Major George Frederick Thomas Hopkins, M.V.O., M.C.

Miss Cicely Howland, O.B.E.

Lionel Logue, Esq.

John Lowther, Esq.

Ivison Stevenson Macadam, Esq., C.B.E.

Charles Johns Mole, Esq., M.B.E.

Captain Hugh Donald Ross, M.C.

Captain Roy Dugdale Salmon, M.C.

Major Christopher Ronald Spear, M.C.

Henry Austin Strutt, Esq.

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward John Patteson Travis Walker, O.B.E.

Members of the Fifth Class (MVO)

William Arthur Chadwick, Esq.

Alfred William Evans, Esq.

Miss Helen Louisa Gardiner.

Henry William Francis Godley, Esq.

William Rose Jarvis, Esq.

Joseph Walter Jones, Esq.

John Thomas Lincoln Kendle, Esq.

Herbert William Kirk, Esq.

Charles Philip Waters, Esq.

Knight Grand Cross (GBE)

Military Division

Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, K.C.B.,C.B.E.

General Sir Archibald Rice Cameron, K.C.B., C.M.G., Retired Pay, Colonel, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), late General Officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Scottish Command, and Governor of Edinburgh Castle.

Civil Division

Sir Ernest John Strohmenger, K.B.E., C.B., lately Deputy Chairman, Unemployment Assistance Board.

Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Fakhr-ud-Daulah Nawab Sir-Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan Bahadur, Saulat Jang, K.C.I.E., Nawab of Jaora, Central India.

Dame Grand Cross (GBE)

Civil Division

Enid Muriel, Mrs. Lyons. For public services rendered in the Commonwealth of Australia.

Dames Commanders (DBE)

Civil Division

Mary, Mrs. Graham Browne, (Miss Marie Tempest). For services to the stage.

Geraldine Southall, Mrs. Cadbury, J.P. For public and philanthropic services in Birmingham.

Ellen Frances, Mrs. Pinsent, C.B.E., late Senior Commissioner, Board of Control.

Miss Violet Edith Wills. For public and philanthropic services.

Edith Muriel, Lady Anderson. For public and social welfare services in Newfoundland and the State of New South Wales.

Margaret, Baroness Strickland. For philanthropic services in Malta.

Knights Commanders (KBE)

Military Division

Vice-Admiral Henry John Studholme Brownrigg, C.B., D.S.O.

Vice-Admiral James Murray Pipon, C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O., O.B.E. (Retired).

Major-General Horace de Courcy Martelli, C.B., D.S.O., late Royal Artillery, Lieutenant-Governor and Commanding The Troops, Jersey District.

Major-General Edward Nicholson Broadbent, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., late The King's Own Scottish Borderers, Lieutenant-Governor-and Commanding The Troops, Guernsey and Alderney District.

Major-General William James Norman Cooke-Collis, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., late The Royal Ulster Rifles, General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.

Major-General Andrew Jameson McCulloch, C.B., D.S.O., D.C.M., Colonel, The Highland Light Infantry - (City of Glasgow Regiment), Commander, 52nd (Lowland) Division, Scottish Command, late General Officer Commanding the Troops, Malta.

Air Vice-Marshal Alfred William Iredell, C.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., K.H.P., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

James Sidney Barnes, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Admiralty.

Gerald Bain Canny, Esq., C.B., Deputy Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue.

Evelyn John Maude, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Health.

James Stirling Ross, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Air Ministry.

Robert Vaughan, Esq. For political and public services in Merionethshire.

George Bernard Lomas-Walker, Esq. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Henry Herbert Couzens, Esq., a British subject, until recently resident in Rio de Janeiro.

Colonel John Chappell Ward, C.M.G., C.I.E., D.S.O., M.B.E., Director of the Port of Basra and Director of Navigation, Iraqi Government.

The Honourable John Richards Harris, M.D., Minister of Public Instruction and Minister of Public Health, State of Victoria.

Sir James Gordon McDonald, O.B.E. For services to Southern Rhodesia.

John Sanderson, Esq. For services to the Commonwealth of Australia.

Sir Navroji Bapuji Saklatvala, C.I.E., Director, Messrs. Tata Sons, Ltd., Bombay.

Rao Bahadur Madhorao Ganesh Deshpande, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director of the Central Provinces and Berar Provincial Co-operative Bank, Ltd., Nagpur, Central Provinces.

Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, Asantehene, Gold Coast.

Raja Abdul Aziz ibni al-marhum Raja Musa, Raja Muda of Perak, Federated Malay States. (Honorary)

His Highness Daudi Chwa, K.C.M.G., Kabaka of Buganda, Uganda Protectorate. (Honorary)

His Highness Tengku Ismail, Tengku Mahkpta of Johore, Malay States. (Honorary)

References

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Contents

Order of the Thistle

Royal Victorian Chain

Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

Order of the British Empire (GBE)

Privy Council

Earldoms

Viscountcies

Baronies

Knights/Ladies of the Order of the Garter (KG/LG)

Knights/Ladies of the Order of the Thistle (KT/LT)

Privy Counsellors

Baronetcies

Knighthood

Military

Civil

Military

Civil

Military

Civil

Order of Merit (OM)

Knights Grand Commander (GCSI)

Knights Commander (KCSI)

Knights Grand Cross (GCMG)

Knights Commander (KCMG)

Dames Grand Cross (GCVO)

Knights Grand Cross (GCVO)

Dames Commanders (DCVO)

Knights Commanders (KCVO)

Commanders (CVO)

Members of the Fourth Class (LVO)

Members of the Fifth Class (MVO)

Knight Grand Cross (GBE)

Dame Grand Cross (GBE)

Dames Commanders (DBE)

Knights Commanders (KBE)

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