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1941 New Year Honours

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Viscount

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 Constantino 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 Fred 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 Gerrard Wijeyekoon, Esq. For public services in Ceylon.
  • Order of the Garter (KG)

  • Edward William Spencer, Duke of Devonshire, M.B.E.
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

  • 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)

  • 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)

    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)

  • Professor (George) Gilbert Aimé Murray, M.A., D.Litt., D.C.L., LL.D., F.B.A., F.R.S.L.
  • Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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 Centra/I 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 Siirgeon-General witih 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.
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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.
  • Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)

  • 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)

  • His Highness Raja Vikram Singh, Raja of Narsingarh, Central India.
  • Major His Highness Muhammad Nasir-ul-Mulk, Mohtar of Chitral.
  • Raja Shrimant Raghunathrao Shankarrao Pandit Pant Sachiv, Raja of Bhor.
  • 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)

  • 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., Ph.D., 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.
  • Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

  • Sir Ulick Roland Burke.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Gordon Neale, C.I.E., C.V.O.
  • Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

  • 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)

    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.
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • 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.
  • Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

  • 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.
  • Bar to the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal

  • 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

  • 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.
  • References

    1941 New Year Honours Wikipedia


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