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The 1925 Birthday Honours were appointments by King
George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936. George w ...
to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the
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of The King, and were published in ''
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'' on 3 June 1925. The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, ''etc.'') and then divisions (Military, Civil, ''etc.'') as appropriate,


United Kingdom and British Empire


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* Marcus Samuel, Baron Bearsted


Privy Councillor

The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: *Colonel William Graham Nicholson Member of Parliament for the Petersfield Division since 1897. Chairman of the Selection Committee of the House of Commons and of the Chairman's Panel


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*Lieutenant-Colonel George Loyd Courthope Member of Parliament for the Rye Division of Sussex since 1906. For political and public services. *Sir
John Ritchie Findlay John Ritchie Findlay (21 October 1824 – 16 October 1898) was a Scottish newspaper owner and philanthropist. Life John Ritchie Findlay was born at Arbroath, Angus, son of Peter Findlay and was educated at Edinburgh University. In 1842, follow ...
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, for the National Gallery in Scotland. Former Master of the
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. Chairman of Sick Children's Hospital, Edinburgh. For political and public services in Scotland. *
Hugo Hirst Hugo Hirst, 1st Baron Hirst (26 November 1863 – 22 January 1943), known as Sir Hugo Hirst, Bt, between 1925 and 1934, was a German-born British industrialist. Born near Munich, Hugo Hirsch became a naturalized British subject in 1883 and chang ...
, Chairman of General Electric Company Limited. Member of Board of Trade Advisory Council *Lieutenant-Colonel James Lithgow President of the National Confederation of Employers Organisations. British-Employers Delegate at the International Labour Conference at Geneva 1922-25 *Major Sir David Hughes-Morgan High Sheriff of Breconshire 1898–99. Has been several times Mayor of Tenby. For political and public services in Wales. *Sir John Bland-Sutton President of the
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*Wilfrid Forbes Home Thomson, For political and public services in Yorkshire. *Major Granville Charles Hastings Wheler Member of Parliament for Faversham Division since 1910. For political and public services.


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*Major-General
Llewellyn William Atcherley Major-General Sir Llewellyn William Atcherley, (1 March 1871 – 17 February 1954) was a Canadian-born officer in the British Army and Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Constabulary. He was born in Elizabethtown, now Brockville, Ontario to Li ...
H.M. Inspector of Constabulary His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), formerly Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), has statutory responsibility for the inspection of the police forces of England and Wales, and since ...
*Major Richard Whieldon Barnett Member of Parliament for West St. Pancras, October 1916–18, and for S.W. St. Pancras since 1918. For political and public services. * James Berry Consulting Surgeon to the
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. Member of the Council of the
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. Chief authority on goitre in this country. * Herbert Edwin Blain Principal Agent of the Conservative and Unionist Party since 1924. Late Assistant Managing Director of the
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Railways and the
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Group For political and public services. *William James Miller Burton. For public, services in connection with the new site and building of Lloyds. Managing Director of the City of London Real Property Co. Ltd. *John Byford For political and public services in West Ham. Former Mayor of West Ham *Harry Edward Dixey Chairman and Honorary Secretary of the Bewdley and West Worcestershire Unionist Association for 25 years. For political and public services. * David William Evans, Director and Legal Adviser of the Welsh National Memorial Association. For public services. *in Wales *Alderman John William Forrest Member of Blackburn Town Council since 1913. Alderman 1921. Leader of the Council since 1916. Chairman of the Finance Committee and of the Education Committee. For political and public services. *Major
Ernest Gray Sir Ernest Gray (27 August 1856 – 6 May 1932) was a British educational reformer and Conservative politician. Early life and educational work The son of William Gray, he attended primary school and St John's Training College, Battersea. On c ...
Member of Parliament for West Ham (North) 1895-1906 for Accrington 1918–1922, Member of the
London County Council The London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today ...
since 1907, of which he was Vice-Chairman in 1915. Formerly President of the
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. For political and public services. * Herbert Hamilton Harty, Composer; Conductor of the Hallé Orchestra *Herbert James Hope, Senior Registrar, Bankruptcy and Companies Winding-up Department *
Travers Humphreys Sir Richard Somers Travers Christmas Humphreys (4 August 1867 – 20 February 1956) was a noted British barrister who, during a sixty-year legal career, was involved in the cases of Oscar Wilde and the murderers Hawley Harvey Crippen, George Jo ...
, Senior Prosecuting Counsel for the Treasury *John Herbert Hunter Chairman of the
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, of which he has been a member since 1907. Chairman of the North Paddington Conservative Association since 1907. For political and public services. * Barry Vincent Jackson, Manager of the
Birmingham Repertory Theatre Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England. Founded by Barry Jackson, it is the longest-established of Britain's building-based theatre ...
*Alderman Percy Richard Jackson, Chairman of Education Committee of West Riding of Yorkshire. For honorary services to education. *John William Lorden Member of Parliament for North St. Pancras 1918–23. Member of
Wandsworth Borough Council Wandsworth London Borough Council, also known as Wandsworth Council, is the local authority for the London Borough of Wandsworth in Greater London, England. It is a London borough council, one of 32 in London. The council has been under Labour m ...
for 21 years, Mayor 1903-4 and 1907–8. Chairman of Committees on Stone, Brick and Clay Ware Trades and on Timber set up in 1920-21 under the Profiteering Act. For political and public services. *William John Morcom For political and public services in Surrey * George Herbert Oatley, Architect of
Bristol University The University of Bristol is a public research university in Bristol, England. It received its royal charter in 1909, although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College, Bristol, which had ...
. For public services. *
Bernard Partridge Sir John Bernard Partridge (11 October 1861– 9 August 1945) was an English illustrator. Born in London, he was the son of Professor Richard Partridge, F.R.S., president of the Royal College of Surgeons, and nephew of John Partridge, portra ...
, Artist *John Robertson Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham. Professor of Public Health in
Birmingham University The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university in Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as ...
* Jonah Walker-Smith, Director of Housing, Ministry of Health *Philip Colville Smith Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of English Freemasons *Thomas Taylor, For political and public services in Macclesfield. *Alderman Illtyd Thomas Former Lord Mayor of Cardiff. Original Member of the Court of Governors and of the Council of the
National Museum of Wales National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...
. Honorary Treasurer since 1917. For political and public services in Wales. ;British India * Clement Daniel Maggs Hindley Chief Commissioner for Railways *Chunilal Vijbhukhandas Mehta, Member of the Executive Council, Bombay *Major-General William Bernard James Director of Remounts * Selwyn Howe Fremantle Member, Board of Revenue, United Provinces *James MacKenna Indian Civil Service, Additional Financial Commissioner, Burma *
John Hope Simpson Sir John Hope Simpson OBJ (23 July 1868 – 10 April 1961) was a British Liberal politician who served as a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom and later in the Government of the Dominion of Newfoundland. Hope Simpson was born in ...
Indian Civil Service (retired), late Chairman, Colonies Committee *Rajamantra Dhurina Albion Rajkumar Banerji Indian Civil Service (retired), Dewan and President in Council, Mysore *Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Travers O'Connor late British Envoy at the Court of Nepal *Lieutenant-Colonel Robert William Layard Dunlop Solicitor to the Government of India *Diwan Bahadur Rajasabhabhusana Krishnarajapuram Pallegondai Puttanna Chetty Member of the Legislative Council, Mysore, Mysore Civil Service (retired) *Raja Venganad Vasudeva Raja Avargal, Valiya Nambidi of Kollengode, Landholder, Malabar, Madras *Leslie Sewell Hudson, Member of the Legislative Council, Bombay, Partner in firm of Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co., President, Bombay Chamber of Commerce, and Member of Bombay Port Trust *Hubert Winch Carr, Partner, Balmer, Lawrie & Co., President, European Association, Bengal *Charles Ross Alston, Barrister-at-Law, Allahabad, United Provinces *Vasantrao Anandrao Dabholkar Member of the Legislative Council, Bombay, Landowner, Bombay *D'Arcy Lindsay Member, Legislative Assembly *John Campbell Indian Civil Service (retired), Representative of the Government of India on the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee ;Colonies, Protectorates, etc. *Aaron Turner Banks, President of the Melbourne Hospital, State of Victoria *The Hon. John Henry Hosking lately Judge of the
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*Joseph Clifton Love, lately President of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, Commonwealth of Australia, in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth *Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Claude Moorhouse Lieutenant-Governor of the Southern Provinces of Nigeria *
James Peiris Sir James Peiris (20 December 1856 – 5 May 1930) was a prominent leader in the Sri Lankan independence movement, the first elected Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon and the first native Governor of Ceylon (Acting).
, Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon * Archibald Thomas Strong, formerly Professor of Classics and Lecturer in English at Melbourne University, and Chief Government Censor of Cinematograph Films, Commonwealth of Australia *George O'Donnell Walton, Chief Justice of Grenada


The Most Honourable Order of the Bath


Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)


=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Admiral Sir
William Christopher Pakenham Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenham, (10 July 1861 – 28 July 1933) was a senior Royal Navy officer. He served as a British observer with the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Russo-Japanese War; during the First World War he commanded th ...


=Civil Division

=


Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)


=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Vice-Admiral Sir James Andrew Fergusson *Vice-Admiral Michael Henry Hodges ;;Army *Major-General Sir
Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe Lieutenant General Sir Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe, (30 October 1860 – 24 March 1957) was a British Army general of the First World War, who commanded V Corps on the Western Front and the 18th Indian Division in the Mesopotamian campaign. He was on ...
Colonel, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) *Major-General
Samuel Guise-Moores Major-General Sir Samuel Guise Guise-Moores, (24 December 1863 – 3 October 1942) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War who also served as Honorary Surgeon to George V. Military career Moores commissioned into the Royal Ar ...
late Royal Army Medical Corps, *Major-General Charles William Grant Richardson Indian Army, General Officer Commanding, Poona District, India


=Civil Division

= *The Right Reverend Bishop John Taylor Smith late Chaplain-General to the Forces


Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)


=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Surgeon Rear-Admiral Alexander Maclean *Engineer Rear-Admiral Herbert Brooks Moorshead *Captain the Hon. Herbert Meade *Captain Joseph Charles Walrond Henley *Colonel Joseph Arthur Myles Ariel Clark *Captain William Marshall ;;Army *Major General Claude Douglas Hamilton Moore Half-Pay List *Colonel George Walker Chief Engineer, Eastern Command *Colonel Arthur Mudge Inspector of the West Indian Local Forces, and Officer Commanding the Troops, Jamaica *Colonel Harry George Burrard Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, Egypt *Colonel Barnett Dyer Lempriere Gray Anley Commandant, Senior Officers School, Sheerness *Colonel Philip Lancelot Holbrooke Colonel Royal Artillery, Attached to the Staff, Headquarters, Scottish Command *Colonel Hubert Jervoise Huddleston General Officer Commanding, Sudan *Major-General Henry Edward ap Rhys Pryce Indian Army, Director of Supplies and Transport, India *Colonel Herbert William Jackson Indian Army, Area Commandant, Bangalore Brigade Area, India *Colonel Patrick Henry Dundas Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 18th Indian Infantry Brigade, India


=Civil Division

= *Charles Frederick Munday, Deputy Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty *Colonel Harry Dalton Henderson Territorial Army, Honorary Colonel, 51st (Highland) Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army *Group Captain John Adrian Chamier * Horace Christian Dawkins Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons *Francis Netherwood Dixon, Secretary, Exchequer and Audit Department *Edward Vandermere Fleming, Director of Establishments, War Office *
John Duncan Gregory John Duncan Gregory CB CMG (26 May 1878 – 29 January 1951) was a British diplomat. Gregory was the son of Sir Philip Gregory. He was educated at Eton College and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1902. He was promoted Second Secretary in ...
Assistant Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office *Percy Jesse Gowlett Rose, Assistant Under Secretary for Scotland * Frederick William Leith-Ross, Deputy Controller of Finance, Treasury. Until recently British Member of Finance Board of Reparations Commission *Charles Gordon Spry, Commissioner and Joint Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue * Sylvanus Percival Vivian, Registrar General *
Humbert Wolfe Humbert Wolfe CB CBE (5 January 1885 – 5 January 1940) was an Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant. Biography Humbert Wolfe was born in Milan, Italy, and came from a Jewish family background,"Wolfe, Humbert" in Stanley ...
Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour


The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India


Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

*The Rt. Hon. Victor Alexander George Robert, Earl of Lytton Viceroy and Acting Governor-General of India


Knight Commander (KCSI)

*Major His Highness Raj Rajeshwar Maharajadhiraja
Umaid Singh Lieutenant-General HH Shri Raj Rajeshwar Saramad-e-Raja-e-Hindustan Maharajadhiraja Maharaja Sir Umaid Singh Bahadur, Assoc KStJ (8 July 1903 – 9 June 1947), also spelled Umed Singh, was the Maharaja of Jodhpur State of the historic Ratho ...
Bahadur Maharaja of
Jodhpur Jodhpur () is the second-largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan, after its capital Jaipur. As of 2023, the city has a population of 1.83 million. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Jodhpur district and ...
, Rajputana *Sir Alexander Frederick Whyte, President, Legislative Assembly *Sir Maurice Henry Weston Hayward, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council, Bombay *Sir Abdur Rahim, Member of the Executive Council, Bengal


Companion (CSI)

*Major-General Thomas Henry Symons Indian Medical Service, Honorary Surgeon to His Majesty the King, Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras *Frederick Lewisohn Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Burma *William Peter Sangster Chief Engineer, Irrigation Branch, Public Works Department, Punjab


The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George


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

*The Rt. Hon. Sir John Lawrence Baird Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief designate of the Commonwealth of Australia *Sir William George Tyrrell Permanent Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office


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

*Sir
Charles Calvert Bowring Sir Charles Calvert Bowring (20 November 1872 – 13 June 1945) was a British colonial administrator, mainly in Kenya, who was later Governor and Commander in Chief of the Nyasaland Protectorate from 1923 to 1929. Early life Bowring was born i ...
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nyasaland Protectorate *Sir Henry Robert Conway Dobbs High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Iraq *Colonel Gerald Henry Summers Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Somaliland Protectorate *The Hon. Sir Robert Furse McMillan Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, State of Western Australia *Sir
Alexander Wood Renton Sir Alexander Wood Renton (24 June 1861 – 17 June 1933) was a Scottish lawyer and British colonial judge. He served as the 21st Chief Justice of Ceylon from 1914 to 1918. Biography Renton was born in Fife, the son of Rev. John Renton and Ja ...
formerly Chief Justice of the Island of Ceylon; Chairman, Compensation (Ireland) Commission *
John Charles Tudor Vaughan Sir John Charles Tudor Vaughan (4 February 1870 – 26 April 1929) was a British diplomat who was envoy to several countries. Origins Born at Horsham, he was the second son of Henry Vaughan (1834–1887), a Commander in the Royal Navy, and his ...
His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania *Sir Percy Lyham Loraine His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Shah of Persia


Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

*Edward Bruce Alexander, Controller of Revenue, Ceylon * Frank Morrish Baddeley, Chief Secretary to the Government of Nigeria, lately Under Secretary, Straits Settlements * Albert Cecil Day Official Secretary to the Governor-General, Dominion of New Zealand * Jules Ellenberger Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate *Reginald Clifton Grannum, Treasurer, Colony of Kenya *The Most Reverend Edward Hutson Bishop of Antigua and Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies, Chairman of the Central Relief Committee in the Leeward Islands after the recent hurricane *William McIver, Director of Land Settlement, Secretary for Lands, Chairman of Closer Settlement Board and Member of Board of Land and Works, State of Victoria *
John Henry Starling John Henry Starling, (15 January 1883 – 5 April 1966) was the official secretary to the Governor-General of Australia from 1919 to 1927, serving Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, Lord Forster and Lord Stonehaven. Career Having originally lived i ...
Official Secretary to the Governor-General and Secretary of the Federal Executive Council, Commonwealth of Australia *Oswald Francis Gerard Stonor, British Resident, Selangor, Federated Malay States *Charles John Howell Thomas, Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue; for services as Member of the Compensation (Ireland) Commission *Ernest Frederick Gye, Counsellor in the Foreign Office *John Murray, Counsellor in the Foreign Office *John Joyce Broderick, Commercial Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington *Arthur Andrew Morrison British Delegate on the International Maritime Sanitary and Quarantine Board of Egypt *Godfrey Thomas Havard, Oriental Secretary to his Majesty's Legation at Tehran ;Honorary Companions * Raja Chulan ibni Sultan Abdullah, the Rajadi-Hilir of Perak, Federated Malay States *Khan Bahadur Sayed Hussain bin Hamid al Mehdar, Chief Minister of the Kaiti Sultans of Mokalla, Aden Protectorate


The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire


Knight Commander (KCIE)

*Chetput Pattabhirama Ayyar Ramaswami Ayyar Avargal Member of the Executive Council, Madras *Samuel Perry O'Donnell Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council, United Provinces *Bertram Prior Standen Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council, Central Provinces *Denys de Saumarez Bray Foreign Secretary to the Government of India


Companion (CIE)

*Rao Bahadur Dhau Bakshi Raghubir Singh, President, Bharatpur State Council, Rajputana *Khan Bahadur Kaus Rustomji, Finance and Home Member, State Council, Bikaner, Rajputana *Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Parker Wilson, Indian Medical Service, Officiating Surgeon-General to the Government of Bengal *George Arthur Thomas, Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Revenue Department *Henry Tireman, Chief Conservator of Forests, Madras *Arthur Durham Ashdown, Inspector-General of Police, United Provinces *Thomas Henry Morony, Inspector-General of Police, Central Provinces *Cyril Walter Lloyd Jones, Agent and Chief Engineer, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Guaranteed State Railways Company, Hyderabad, Deccan *Henry Arthur Crouch, Consulting Architect to the Government of Bengal *William Gaskell, Indian Civil Service, Income-Tax Commissioner and Opium Agent, United Provinces *Douglas Gordon Harris, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Industries and Labour *Lieutenant-Colonel Clayton Alexander Francis Hingston Indian Medical Service, Superintendent, Government Hospital for Women and Children, Madras *Raymond Patrick Hadow, Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Branch, Public Works Department, Punjab *Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Dorling Smiles Member of the Legislative Council, Assam, General Manager, Moran Tea Company *Joseph Miles Clay Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, United Provinces *Major John Aloysius Brett, Political Agent, Khyber, North-West Frontier Province *Major Henry Bundle Lawrence, Political Agent, Haraoti and Tonk, Bajputana *Archibald Morven MacMillan, Indian Civil Service, Collector and District Magistrate and Political Agent, Surat, Bombay *Khan Bahadur Qazi Aziz-ud-Din Ahmad late Deputy Collector, United Provinces, Diwan of Datia State, Central India *Oscar de Glanville Member of the Legislative Council, Burma, Governing Director, Rangoon Daily News *Khan Bahadur Nawabzada Sayyid Ashraf-ud-Din Ahmad, Member of the Legislative Council, Bihar and Orissa, Vice-President, Provincial Haj Committee *Khan Bahadur Behramji Hormasji Nanavati, Medical Practitioner, Ahmedabad, Bombay *Surendra Nath Mullick, Pleader, Alipore Court, Bengal


The Royal Victorian Order


Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

* Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale * William Henry, Baron Desborough


Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

*The Right Rev.
Hubert Murray Burge Hubert Murray Burge (9 August 1862 – 11 June 1925) was an Anglican clergyman, headmaster of Winchester College, Anglican Bishop of Southwark, Bishop of Southwark, and Bishop of Oxford. Life He was the son of the Rev. Milward Rodon Burge, s ...
, Lord Bishop of Oxford * Bernard Edward Halsey Bircham * Joseph Henry Greer


Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

*Major the Hon. Richard Frederick Molyneux *Colonel St. John Corbet Gore *Colonel Bernard William Lynedoch McMahon


Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)

*Captain the Hon. Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge *Lieutenant-Commander Ronald George Bowes-Lyon (dated 16 February 1925) *Captain Albert John Robertson *Major Trevor Newall Watson


Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO)

*The Reverend Albert Lee Richard Marsh


The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire


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


=Military Division

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=Civil Division

= *Major-General Herbert Francis Eaton, Baron Cheylesmore Chairman of the
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; President of the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops. Twice Mayor of Westminster and Chairman of
London County Council The London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today ...
1912-13 *Sir
Frederic George Kenyon Sir Frederic George Kenyon (15 January 1863 – 23 August 1952) was an English palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar. He held a series of posts at the British Museum from 1889 to 1931. He was also the president of the British Academy ...
Director and Principal Librarian of the
British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu ...
*Sir
John Francis Cleverton Snell Sir John Francis Cleverton Snell (15 December 1859 – 6 July 1938) was a British electrical engineer and administrator. Life Snell was born in Saltash, Cornwall, the only son of Commander John Skinner Snell, RN and his wife Harriet Cleverton an ...
Chairman of the Electricity Commission ;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc. *Sir Hugh Charles Clifford Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, Governor and Commander-in-Chief designate of the Island of Ceylon


Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

* Marie-Louise Emma Cécile Gye (Madame Albani) * Susan Mary Elizabeth, Lady St. Helier a Member of the
London County Council The London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today ...
for 15 years, has taken an active part in social and philanthropic work. For public services. * Louisa Innes Lumsden late Headmistress of St. Leonards School for Girls and First Warden of University Hall for Women, St. Andrews *
Anne Beadsmore Smith Dame Anne Beadsmore Smith, (1869 – 12 July 1960), also known as Ann or Annie, was a British nurse and British Army officer. She was a military nurse during the Second Boer War and the First World War. She then served as Matron-in-Chief of the ...
Matron-in-Chief,
Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC; known as ''the QAs'') was the nursing branch of the British Army Medical Services. In November 2024, the corps was amalgamated with the Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Army Dental Corps ...
, 1919–24 * Mary Monica Cunliffe Wills, Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. For public services. ;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc. * Mary, Lady Cook. In recognition of her services in connection with visitors to London from the Commonwealth of Australia.


Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)


=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Vice-Admiral Frederick Charles Learmonth ;;Army *Major-General
George Norton Cory Lieutenant-General Sir George Norton Cory, KBE, CB, DSO (26 December 1874 – 17 November 1968) was an American-born Canadian soldier who served with the British Army in India, South Africa and Canada and during the Boer War, World War I and Wo ...
Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India *Major-General Cecil Francis Romer Director of Staff Duties, War Office ;;Royal Air Force *Air Vice-Marshal
John Frederick Andrews Higgins Air Marshal Sir John Frederick Andrews Higgins, (1 September 1875 – 1 June 1948), known as Jack Higgins, was a senior officer in the Royal Flying Corps, serving as a brigade commander from 1915 to 1918. After the First World War he served in ...


=Civil Division

= * Edward Hall Alderson Clerk Assistant of Parliaments *Major Robert Lister Bower Chief Constable of North Riding of Yorkshire *
Edmund Kerchever Chambers Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, (16 March 1866 – 21 January 1954), usually known as E. K. Chambers, was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar. His four-volume work on ''The Elizabethan Stage'', published in 1923, remains a s ...
Second Secretary, Board of Education *Colonel Charles Clifford For political and public services in Sheffield *
John Smith Flett Sir John Smith Flett (26 June 1869 – 26 January 1947) was a Scottish physician and geologist. Early life Born in Kirkwall, Orkney, the son of James Ferguson Flett, a merchant and baillie, and Mary Ann (née Copland). He was educated at Kirkw ...
Director of
Geological Survey of Great Britain The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research. The BGS head ...
and Museum of Practical Geology *
Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker Sir Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, 1st Baronet, (6 May 1866 – 13 May 1934) was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Early life He was a younger son of Sir George Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet ...
, Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. For political and public services. Member of Parliament for Monmouth. since 1918. Chairman of
Monmouthshire County Council Monmouthshire County Council (or simply Monmouthshire Council) () is the governing body for the Monmouthshire principal area – one of the unitary authorities of Wales. The current unitary authority was created in 1996 and covers the eastern ...
1923–24. A Forestry Commissioner (unpaid). A Commissioner of the Board of Control (unpaid). A Welsh Church Commissioner (unpaid) * Frederick Thomas Hopkinson For services in connection with the Nile Dam, Sudan * Charles Fraser Adair Hore Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions * Francis Adolphus Jones Legal Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Solicitor to Commissioners of Crown Lands * Frederick Sydney Parry Deputy Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise * Henry Arthur Payne Second Secretary, Board of Trade *Sir John Reid Director of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, Director of Glasgow Infirmary, Vice-President of the Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers, President of the Glasgow YMCA For political and public services. * John Lloyd Vaughan Seymour Williams , Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineers (T.A.), retired. Clerk to the Rural District Council of Warmley for over 20 years; Chairman of Executive,
Rural District Council A rural district was a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the adm ...
s Association for over 25 years ;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List *Robert MacLeod Hodgson His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Moscow *Thomas Harold Lyle His Majesty's Consul-General at Bangkok *Andrew Ryan His Majesty's Consul-General at Rabat, Morocco ;;British India *John Arnold Wallinger Indian Police ;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc. *Colonel Herbert Bryan Colonial Secretary and Revenue Commissioner, Island of Jamaica *James Alexander Mackenzie Elder, Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Australia in the United States of America * James Crawford Maxwell Colonial Secretary, Gold Coast Colony *Professor
William Harrison Moore Sir William Harrison Moore Order of the British Empire, KBE Order of St Michael and St George, CMG (30 April 1867 – 1 July 1935), usually known as Harrison Moore or W. Harrison Moore, was an Australian lawyer and academic who was a profe ...
Professor of Law, Melbourne University, Commonwealth of Australia *Major-General
George Spafford Richardson Major-General Sir George Spafford Richardson, (14 November 1868 – 11 June 1938) was a senior officer in the New Zealand Military Forces. Born in Northamptonshire, England, Richardson originally served with the British Army's Royal Regi ...
Administrator of Western Samoa


Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)


=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Engineer Captain Cecil Henry Alec Bermingham *Paymaster Captain Edgar Bocquet Swan *Captain Courtenay Charles Evan, Baron Tredegar ;;Army *Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Ernest Robinson Tyne Electrical Engineers, Territorial Army *Major Francis David Alexander, Inspector of Remounts *Colonel William Henniker Anderson, Indian Army *Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Reginald Barke 5th Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment, Territorial Army, Commanding 3rd Battalion, Iraq Levies *Colonel James Molesworth Blair late Military Attache, Belgrade *Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Herbert Thomas Dobbin Brigadier-General Herbert Thomas Dobbin, (27 May 1878 – 9 September 1946) was a British Army officer of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He commanded a number of battalions during the First World War and in 1918 was appointed to comman ...
The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (DCLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1959. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, by the merger of the 32nd (Cornwall Light I ...
, Commandant,
Iraq Levies The Iraq Levies (Commonly known as the Assyrian Levies) was a majority Assyrian force, and the first Iraqi military force established by the British in British controlled Iraq. The Iraq Levies originated in a local armed scout force raised durin ...
*Colonel John Cavendish Freeland, Indian Army *Lieutenant-Colonel Claude Henry Haig 2nd Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment *Florence May Hodgins Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service *Lieutenant-Colonel George Elliot Llewhellin Bihar Light Horse, Auxiliary Force, India *Lieutenant-Colonel William Hew McCowan Regular Army Reserve of Officers, Cameron Highlanders, Officer Commanding Khartoum District *Colonel John Galloway Riddick 42nd Divisional Royal Engineers, Territorial Army ;;Royal Air Force *Wing Commander Augustine ap Ellis


=Civil Division

= * Thomas Martland Ainscough H.M. Senior Trade Commissioner in India and Ceylon *Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. George Augustus Anson Chief Constable of Staffordshire *Thomas James Arnold, Principal Private Secretary to Minister of Pensions *George Edwin Baker, Assistant Secretary, Mercantile Marine Department, Board of Trade *George Paddock Bate For services to the Home Office under the Factory Acts *William Freshfield Burnett, Registrar,
HM Land Registry His Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales. It reports to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Governme ...
*Francis Carnegie Chief Mechanical Engineer and Superintendent, Building Works Department,
Royal Arsenal The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich is an establishment on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, that was used for the manufacture of armaments and ammunition, proof test, proofing, and explosives research for ...
*Lieutenant-Colonel John Fillis Carré Carter, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police *David Mackay Cassidy Medical Superintendent, Lancaster Mental Hospital *The Hon. Stephen Ogle Henn Collins, Legal Adviser to the Admiralty on War Compensation Cases *Essie Ruth Conway Principal, Tiber Street Council School, Liverpool. Member of Consultative Committee of Board of Education *Commissioner Adelaide Cox, Commissioner in the
Salvation Army The Salvation Army (TSA) is a Protestantism, Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation headquartered in London, England. It is aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. The organisation reports a worldwide m ...
*James William Curry late Controller of Supplies, Office of Works *Colonel Ivor Curtis Educational Adviser, Air Ministry *Mary Elizabeth Davies Matron-in-chief, Ministry of Pensions, Nursing Service *William Augustus Bulkeley-Evans For services to the Ministry of Labour *Samuel George Forsythe Postmaster-Surveyor of Glasgow *Henry Genochio, Senior Deputy Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise *Lieutenant Commander Oscar Henderson (retired), Private Secretary to His Grace the Governor of Northern Ireland *Maxwell Hyslop Maxwell Chairman of Watch Committee, Liverpool *Ernest Alfred John Pearce Director of Warship Production, Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, Admiralty *Seward Pearce, Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions *Councillor Margaret Evelyn Pilkington President of St. Helen's Women's Unionist Association, Member of St Helens Council. For political and public services. *Ellen Frances Hume Pinsent, Commissioner, Board of Control *Godfrey Rotter Director of Explosives Research, War Office *William George Verdon Smith, Chairman of Bristol Local Employment Committee * John, Lord Wodehouse For public services. * Andrew Nicholas Bonaparte-Wyse, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland *Francis Watson Young, formerly one of H.M. Inspectors of Schools in Scotland. For public services. ;;British India *Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Beckett Minchin late Agent to the Governor-General, Punjab States *Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Edward Bruce Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Bruce (23 March 1876 – 26 January 1950) was a British Indian Army officer and British colonial administrator. He served as the Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan in the 1920s. Biography Bruce was born in India ...
Deputy Commissioner, Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province * Duncan John Sloss, Principal, University College, Rangoon, Burma *Major Alexander James Hutchison Russell, Indian Medical Service, Director of Public Health, Madras ;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List *Austen Alexander Rodney Boyce, Head of Survey Department, Sudan Government *Charles Edward Hardley Childers, His Majesty's Consul at Pittsburg *John Gadsby, Legal Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy at Tokyo *Lieutenant-Colonel George Douglas Gray, Doctor at His Majesty's Legation at Peking *Thomas Lavington Jacks, Joint Manager of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company *William Kidston McClure ;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc. *George Drysdale Bayley, Commissioner of Lands and Mines, Colony of British Guiana *
Richard Hind Cambage Richard Hind Cambage (7 November 1859 – 28 November 1928) was an Australian surveyor and botanist who made important contributions to the description of the genera ''Acacia'' and ''Eucalyptus''. Early life Cambage, son of John Fisher Cambag ...
, Honorary Secretary to the Australian National Research Council, Commonwealth of Australia *Massimiliano Debono President of the Senate and President of the Chamber of Advocates, Island of Malta *Edgard Lucien de Chazal Superintendent, Victoria Hospital, Mauritius *The Reverend Alexander Hetherwick Head of the Church of Scotland Mission, Nyasaland Protectorate, and Member of the Legislative Council of the Protectorate *John Lisseter Humphreys, British Adviser, Trengganu, Malay States *David Sliman MacGregor, Treasurer and Custodian of Enemy Property, Nigeria *Colonel Angus John McNeill Commandant, British Section, Palestine Gendarmerie *Clive McPherson, has acted as Honorary Adviser to the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia in the organization of primary industries *John Pears Murray, Deputy Resident Commissioner, Basutoland *Victor Richard Ratten Surgeon Superintendent, Hobart Public Hospital, State of Tasmania *
Frank Arthur Stockdale Sir Frank Arthur Stockdale, (24 June 1883 – 3 August 1949) was a British agriculturist and colonial agricultural administrator. Biography Stockdale was born in Honington, Lincolnshire, the son of George Stockdale. His family had been landown ...
, Director of Agriculture, Ceylon *
Allan Wilkie Allan Wilkie CBE (9 February 1878 – 7 January 1970) was an English Shakespearean actor of Scottish descent noted for his career in Australia. Biography Born in Toxteth Park, Lancashire, he was educated at Liverpool High School and went to ...
, Actor-Manager and producer of Shakespeare's Plays in the Commonwealth of Australia ;;Honorary Commanders *Haji Nik Mahmud bin Haji Ismail, the Datok Perdana Meaitri Paduka Raja of Kelantan, Malay States *Plaji Ngah Muhammad bin Yusuf, Datok Sri Amar Diraja, President of the State Council, Trengganu, Malay States


Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)


=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Commander Edward Bernard Cornish Dicken *Commander Robert Lindsay Burnett *Surgeon Commander John Scarbrough Dudding *Paymaster Commander Robert Alfred Jinkin Instructor *Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Edward Hall *Major Frederick William Mattison ;;Army *Temp. Inspector of Works and Captain William Barrie Staff for Royal Engineer Services *Major Darell St. John Baxter, 3/8th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army *Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Beach 9th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment, Territorial Army *Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell Spieker Brander Royal Army Service Corps *Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Bolger Butler 8th King George's Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army *Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Coates, Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Battalion, Auxiliary Force, India *Major Thomas Herbert Darwell Royal Tank Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. John Dewar 6/7th Battalion, The Black Watch, Territorial Army *Major George Melville Duncan 8th Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Territorial Army *Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Ninum Falkner 56th (1st London) Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army *Major D'Arcy John Francis, 23rd (London) Armoured Car Company, Territorial Army *Lieutenant (Temp. Major) Ernest Edward Gawthorn Postal Section, Royal Engineers *Major Cecil Courtney Godwin, The Green Howards *Major Harold James Huxford, 5th/6th Rajputana Rifles (Napiers), Indian Army *Captain Charles Norman Jervelund, The Green Howards *Major Edgar Montague Jones St. Alban's School Contingent, Officers Training Corps, General List, Territorial Army. Ordnance Executive Officer, 1st Class, and Major John Henry Keyes Royal Army Ordnance Corps *Staff Paymaster and Lieutenant-Colonel William Shand Mackenzie, Royal Army Pay Corps *Major Thomas Moss, 16th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army *Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel David Ogilvy Royal Engineers *Accountant Officer, 2nd Class, and Lieutenant-Colonel Vernon Ivor Robins, Corps of Military Accountants *Quartermaster and Major Albert Edward Robinson Senior Officers School, Sheerness *Major John Scott Indian Medical Service *Captain John Teague 1st/10th Baluch Regiment, Indian Army *Quartermaster and Major Jabez Teece 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards *Quartermaster and Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Walker, Recruiting Duties, Edinburgh *Major James Walker 26th (East Riding of Yorkshire) Armoured Car Company, Territorial Army *Major John Percival Ward 2nd, (Cheshire) Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army *Senior Nursing Sister Mary Wardell Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India *Quartermaster and Major Frederick Henry White Recruiting Duties, Wolverhampton ;;Royal Air Force *Squadron Leader Norman Channing Spratt *Flight Lieutenant Albert William Fletcher *Flight Lieutenant Norman Hugh Jenkins


=Civil Division

= *Walter Abbott, Principal Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland *Albert Edward Adcock, Chairman of Deptford Local Employment Committee *William Anderson, Chief Constable, City of Aberdeen Police Force *Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney Ashley Superintendent Registrar, St. Giles District *Councillor Henrietta Bartleet Member of Birmingham City Council. For public services. *James Billings, Chief Constable, Metropolitan Police *James Gressier Blackledge Chairman of Bootle Advisory Committee since 1918 *John Joseph Bonnett, Chairman, South Middlesex, Slough and District War Pensions Committee *Arthur Brandram, Secretary, United Services Trustee *Captain John Turner Brinkley, Chief Constable of Warwickshire *William Allison Davies, Borough Treasurer of Preston. For valuable services in the work of Local Government *Frederic William Charles Dean Superintendent, Royal Gun and Carriage Factories, Woolwich Arsenal *George Elmhirst Duckering, Inspector of Factories, Home Office. Director of Government Wool Disinfecting Station *Charles John Ffoulkes, Curator of Armouries, H.M. Tower of London, Curator and Secretary, Imperial War Museum *Joseph Wilson Fogarty Temporary Assistant in Shipping Liquidation Department *Frederick William Prosser French, Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue *Major Cedrio Valentine Godfrey, Chief Constable of Salford *Herbert Noah Grundy, Chief Instructions Officer, Employment and Insurance Department, Ministry of Labour *Ivor Blashka Hart Education Officer, Grade I, Air Ministry *Henry Cleverdon Honey, Director of Gas Administration, Board of Trade *Albert Humphries Superintendent, Royal Ammunition Factories, Royal Arsenal *William Aubrey Hurst For services to the Ministry of Labour *David Sinclair Irvine, Chairman of Londonderry Local Employment Committee *The Reverend Canon Thomas Jesse Jones Chairman of Bargoed Local Employment Committee *Edwin Charles Jubb, Assistant Director of Navy Contracts, Admiralty *Zachary Harris Kingdon, Superintending Electrical Engineer, Grade I., Devonport Dockyard *Neil McLennan, Chief Constable, Dumbarton County Force *William Macleod, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue *William James Mair, Chairman of Luton Local Employment Committee *
Cecil Charles Hudson Moriarty Cecil Charles Hudson Moriarty, (1877–1958) was an Irish-born British police officer and Irish rugby international. He won one cap against Wales in 1899. He served as Chief Constable of the Birmingham City Police from 1935 to 1941, and his m ...
, Assistant Chief Constable of Birmingham *Captain Joseph Dallas Nicholl Ulster Special Constabulary *The Reverend Harry Pearson Hon C.F., Secretary of London Police Court Mission since 1915 *Herbert Richard Poole Deputy Accountant General, Board of Customs and Excise *Edwin Potts. For valuable services in connection with National Health Insurance *Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil du Pré Penton Powney Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary *William Alfred Radley, Technical Adviser, Small Arms Ammunition, Royal Arsenal *George Randell-Evans, Chairman, St. Pancras and Hampstead War Pensions Committee *Charles John Ritchie Senior Staff Officer, Metropolitan Special Constabulary *Arthur Francis Rowe, Chief Clerk in the Department of the Director of Public Prosecutions *Arthur William Rowe Senior Principal Clerk, Ministry of Pensions *Mark Scott Chairman of Selby Local Employment Committee *Roland Ingleby Smith Deputy Director of Works and Chief Architect, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland *James Don Stewart, Deputy Director of Accounts, Ministry of Pensions *James Stirling, Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Anderston Registration District, Glasgow *Charles Terry Chairman of Redditch Local Employment Committee *Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Joseph Wiley Chief Insurance Officer, Ministry of Labour *Bruce Murray Wylie, late Assistant Accountant-General, General Post Office ;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List *Cooke Adams *Robert Edward Hartwell Baily Governor of Khartoum *Captain Rudolph Hollocombe, Translator to His Majesty's Legation at Mexico *Gilbert Walter King, Registrar of Supreme Court for China and Korea *Francis Joseph Patron, His Majesty's Consul at Palermo *Julian Piggott, Rhineland High Commission *Johannes Marius Prillevitz, His Majesty's Consul at The Hague *Zoe Tristram *Ernest Troughton, Rhineland High Commission *Ebenezar Thomas Ward *Lieutenant-Colonel John James Whitehead, British Vice-Consul at Lemberg ;;British India *George Connor, Divisional and Sessions Judge, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province *Alexander John Happell, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Madras *Khan Bahadur Sheik Abdul Aziz, Superintendent of Police, Punjab *Reginald Bramley Van Wart, Principal of the Rajput Schools, Jodhpur, Rajputana *Edwin Somerville Murray, Manager of the Aden firm of Messrs. Luke Thomas & Co., Bombay * Ernest Edwin Coombs, Superintendent, Government Printing and Stationery, Bombay *Ronald Wordsworth Fleming Shaw, late Registrar, Patna University, Bihar and Orissa *Frank Wood, Managing Director, Messrs. Foucar & Co., Burma *Janaki Nath Mukerji, Chief Electrician, Posts and Telegraphs Department *Jeanie Morrison Gibb, St. John's Ambulance Association, Bengal *Helen Gordon Stuart, Chief Inspectress of Girls Schools, United Provinces *Thomas George Cuyper, retired Builder and Contractor, Bengal ;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc. *William Bevan, lately Director of Agriculture, Colony of Cyprus *Charles William Joseph Bird, Secretary, to the City Council, Gibraltar *James Marie Brodie, Nominated Member of the Council of Government, Mauritius *James Edward Francis Campbell, Assistant District Governor, Jerusalem-Jaffa District, Palestine *William Henry Chase, Principal Veterinary Officer, Bechuanaland Protectorate *Morley Thomas Dawe, Commissioner of Lands and Forests, Sierra Leone *Cecil John Edmonds, Administrative Inspector, Kirkuk Liwa, Ministry of the Interior, Iraq *William Alexander Elder, Principal Veterinary Officer, Swaziland *Captain Ofcho Lewis Hancock, Commissioner of the Virgin Islands *Edmund Wodehouse Lucie-Smith, Manager of the Colonial Bank in Jamaica, for services to the Government of Jamaica *Allan Graham, Marwick, Assistant Commissioner, Hlatikulu District, Swaziland *Rupert Otway, Inspector of Works and Roads, Montserrat *Major Herbert Walter Peebles Commissioner of Montserrat *Arthur Elliott Goodchild Terry, Valuer, First Class, Board of Inland Revenue; for services as one of the Joint Secretaries, Compensation (Ireland) Commission *Frank Arthur Verney, Principal Veterinary Officer, Basutoland *Frederick Henry Watkins Magistrate of Nevis :Honorary Officers *All Effendi Jarallah Member of the Supreme Court of Palestine *Ruhi Bey Abdel Hadi, District Officer, Jerusalem-Jaffa District, Palestine *Abder Rahman Effendi El Haj, Mayor of Haifa, Palestine


Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)


=Military Division

= ;;Army *Sub-Conductor Lancelot John Addison, Indian Army Service Corps *Quartermaster and Captain Howard Armishaw, 5th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Territorial Army *Lieutenant Philip Taylor Baddiley, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, General List, 3rd Battalion, Iraq Levies *Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Charles Gordon Bartrop, Indian Miscellaneous List *Captain Frank Melville Moyle Bawden, 4th/5th Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Territorial Army *Regimental Sergeant-Major William Black, Royal Engineers *Captain William Maurice Broomhall, Royal Engineers *Quartermaster and Lieutenant Walter John Cook 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards *Staff Sergeant-Major Frederick James Coplin, Royal Army Service Corps *Captain Harry Dawkins, Royal Engineers, Indian Army *Captain George Thomas Dorrell 90th (1st London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army *Lieutenant William George Ide Miers Etherington, Army Educational Corps *Captain Richard Maurice Foskett, Indian Army Service Corps *First-Class Staff Sergeant-Major William James Franks, Royal Army Service Corps *Captain William Henry Godfrey 13th Battalion, The London Regiment, Territorial Army *Lieutenant Cyril Harvey Gowan 13th/18th Hussars, Cavalry Instructor, Iraq Army *Captain James Grassie Record Office, Perth *Sub-Conductor George Sydney Griffin, Indian Army Service Corps *Lieutenant Francis William Hall, Regular Army Reserve of Officers *General List, Ordnance Officer, Iraq Levies *Captain Frank Albert Hilbom Royal Tank Corps *Temp. Lieutenant Harold Douglas Hill, General List *Quartermaster and Captain Daniel Hutton, Royal Engineer's *Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Charles Gowan Jackson, Indian Miscellaneous List *Quartermaster and Captain Thomas Manfield *4th Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Territorial Army *Captain Frederick Mattocks, Royal Engineers, Indian Army *Ordnance Officer, 4th Class, and Captain John Stuart Omond Royal Army Ordnance Corps *Captain Charles Edward Ovington 5th City of London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), Territorial Army *Quartermaster and Lieutenant James Radford, 2nd Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment *Lieutenant James Malcolm Leslie Renton, The Rifle Brigade, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant General, Iraq Levies *Sub-Conductor Benjamin Rigby, Indian Miscellaneous List *Quartermaster and Lieutenant George Frederick William Smith The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) *Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Walter Smith, Indian, Miscellaneous List *Captain Eneas Symonds, 3rd/19th Hyderabad Regiment, Indian Army *Quartermaster and Lieutenant Thomas Stephen Tate 1st Battalion, Soote Guards *Quartermaster and Captain Harry William Thomas Vine, Royal Army Service Corps *Quartermaster and Lieutenant Robert Henderson White, 6th Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders, Territorial Army *Subadar Major Barkat Ram Bahadur, Indian Medical Department ;;Royal Air Force *Flying Officer Ernest Stanford Bullen *Flying Officer Edwin James Newman *Sergeant-Major 1st Class, Albert Edward Harbot *Sergeant-Major 2nd Class, Reuben Charles Pennicott


=Civil Division

= *Frederick Copping Allworth, Staff Clerk, Ministry of Health *John Hernaman Boulton, Chief Superintendent, Birmingham Police *William Bradley, Senior. Costings Investigator, Army Contracts Directorate, War Office *William Reginald Busbridge, Station-Master at Dover *William Arthur Carson Assistant Accountant, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland *Frank Randall Coles, Clerk to the Hackney Board of Guardians *Charles Stockley Collins, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police *William Arthur Dalley, Manager, Birmingham Employment Exchange *Frederick Darlington, late Headmaster of the Dockyard School, Devonport *Herbert Davey, Secretary of the Association of Poor Law Unions *Thomas Davies, Staff Officer, Chief Inspector's Office, Inland Revenue *Joseph William Dobie, Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise *William Donaldson, Waterguard Superintendent, 1st Class, Board of Customs and Excise *Stanley Walter Dowden, Clerk, Higher Clerical Class, H.M. Land Registry *Joseph Dryden, Superintendent, Durham County Police *James Thomson Edwards, Manager, Edinburgh Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour *Edward James Fair, Manager, Tavistock Street, Employment Exchange, London *Mary Caroline Eraser, Voluntary worker among soldiers and their dependants for 30 years *William James Gibbs, Steward at Tooting Bee Asylum under Metropolitan Asylums Board *William Cecil Glover, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland *William Egerton Glover, Chief Superintendent, Liverpool Police *Robert Frederick Goldsack, Member of Plymouth and District War Pensions Committee *James MeDougall Graham, Manager, Govan Employment Exchange *Richard John Halford, Superintendent, London City Police *William Smith Hankins, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary Reserve *Jane Ellen Leslie Harrison, Member of Stoke-on-Trent, Cheadle and District War Pensions Committee *Samuel William Francis Hart, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise *Thomas Hickman, Clerk of the Chamber and Messenger of the Great Seal, House of Lords *Alfred House, Staff Officer, Companies Department, Board of Trade *John Ireland, Senior Superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office, Bristol, Board of Trade *John Ivin, Deputy Chief Constable, Bedfordshire Police *James Alister Kirkpatrick, Assistant Accountant, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland *Margaret Katharine Lea, Woman Inspector, Ministry of Health *Livsey Lees, Manager, Oldham Employment Exchange *Bertram Ralph Leftwich, Librarian, Board of Customs and Excise *Hugh Coffey Love, Superintending Officer, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland *Alexander Marr, Chief Constable, Montrose Burgh Police Force *Walter Marshall, Mate Higher Clerical Officer, Board of Trade *Henry John Martin, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police *Alfred Bertram Melles, Horticultural Officer, France, Imperial War Graves Commission *George Monro, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary *John Morrison, Assistant Chief Constable, Lanark County Police Force *John Burton Newman, Education Officer, Grade II., Air Ministry *John Newson. Senior Staff Officer, Statistical Office, Board of Customs and Excise *Elizabeth Claudia Owen, Chief Woman Officer, Wales Division, Ministry of Labour *Charles William Palmer, Clerk (Higher Grade), Inland Revenue *William Pinder, Ulster Special Constabulary *Henry Gratton Pring, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary *Gerard John Rawes, Staff Officer, Chief Inspector's Office, Inland Revenue *Captain Samuel Ray, Auditor, Sinai Military Railway *Henry Ernest Redfern, Superintendent, West Riding County Police *George Rowley Richardson, Statistical Officer, Air Ministry *Alice Rosa Ridgeway, Chief Woman Officer, N.E. Division, Ministry of Labour *Ellen Phipps Robinson, Honorary Secretary of Northampton Cripple Children's Fund *David Rock District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary *Colonel Henry Charles Savage, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary *Alfred William Scarlett, Waterguard Superintendent 1st Class, Board of Customs and Excise *Harry Shires, Civil Engineer, Works and Buildings Department, Air Ministry *Olive Story, Member of Finsbury, Holborn and City of London War Pensions Committee *Caroline Swindells, Senior Chief Superintendent of Typists, Board of Inland Revenue *Robert Henry Todd, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary *Ernest Arthur Train, Manager, Employment Exchange, Hull *Charles Walker, Superintendent, Derbyshire Police *Lucy Withrington, Lady Superintendent, Pension Issue Office *Herbert Woodmore, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police ;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List *Lazarus Sarkies Arathoon, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Macassar *George Davis Baker, Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington *Frances M. Coleridge, His Majesty's Embassy, Berlin, Germany *James Dalton, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Samarang *Samuel Evans, Head Clerk of the Intelligence Section of the Sudan Agency in Cairo *Egerton Shaw Humber, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Panama *Eve B. Napier, Head of the Commercial Registry, His Majesty's Embassy at Washington *Frank Pattman, Cypher Officer at the Residency, Cairo ;;British India *M. E. Ry. Bao Bahadur Abhiramapuram Krishnamoorthi Sastrigal Rajah Ayyar Avargal, Superintendent of Police, Madras *George Edward Johnston, Deputy Commissioner, Excise Department, Madras *Herbert John Bomer, Deputy Transportation Superintendent, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Bombay *Agnes Dorothea Haskell, St. John's Ambulance Nursing Division, Bengal *Major Henry Mansfield, Deputy Superintendent, Campbell Medical School and Hospital, Calcutta *Helen Stubbs, Fyzabad, United Provinces *Harry Lamacraft, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Hissar, Punjab *Chan Ta Hin, Merchant and Contractor, Burma *Mohamed Ayoob, alias U Shwe Yun, Pleader, Government Prosecutor, Mergui, Burma *Saravaiya Amritaraj, Health Officer, Civil and Military Station, Bangalore, Mysore *George Prior de la Hey, Personal Assistant to the Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy *Epiphanio Mariano Sequeira, Treasury Officer, Bushire Residency, Persian Gulf *Lieutenant James Charlemagne Chalke, Indian Medical Department, Assistant Surgeon to His Excellency the Governor *Henry Martin, Head Clerk, British Trade Agency, Gyantse, Tibet *William Thomas Ottewill, Parliamentary Clerk, India Office, Assistant Secretary to the Fourth and Fifth Assemblies of the League of Nations ;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc. *Samuel Patrick Bland, Assistant Director of Public Works, Zanzibar *Annie Isabel Brizzell, Matron, Maseru Hospital, Basutoland Nursing Service *Lawrence de Martino For services to the Malta Association in London *Giuseppe Despott, Superintendent of Fisheries, Island of Malta *Ludovic Smith Hohenkerk, Superintendent of Forest Surveys, British Guiana *Edward Robert Mifsud, Clerk to the Executive Council and Clerk to the Nominated Council, Island of Malta *Alexander Walker Money, Second Class Valuer, Valuation Department, Inland Revenue (Scotland); for services as Investigator, Compensation (Ireland) Commission *Nicholas Wilfrid Morgappah, Assistant Registrar-General, Registrar-General's Department, Ceylon *Frank Sands, of Singapore, Commissioner for Malaya of the Boy Scouts Association *Ernest Goldfinch Seagoe, Commandant of the British Division, New Hebrides Constabulary *John Howard Sempill, Chief of Police and Provost Marshal General, Bermuda *Glencora Barnes Schneider, of Colombo, Ceylon. In recognition of her public services. *Thomas Walter White, Assistant, Post and Telegraph Department, Ceylon *Margaret Isabel Willdon, Matron, Leper Settlement, Botsabelo, Basutoland ;;Honorary Members *Ibrahim Bey Habeish Stambuli, Assistant Commandant of Police, Jerusalem *Qustandi Effendi Qanaze, Headmaster, Government Secondary Boys School, Nazareth, Palestine *Mikhayel Mani, Member of the District Court of Jaffa, Palestine *Ho Siak Kuan, Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Straits Settlements


Kaisar-i-Hind Medal The Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India was a medal awarded by the Emperor/Empress of India between 1900 and 1947, to "any person without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex ... who shall have distinguished himself (o ...

;;First Class *The Hon. Florence Mary Macnaghten, in charge Canadian Mission, Kangra, Punjab *Winifred Spicer, Lady Superintendent *Lady Minto's Indian Nursing Association, and Matron of the Railway Hospital, Ajmer, Rajputana *The Reverend Lorrain Barber, Missionary, Faridpur Industrial School, Bengal *The Reverend Cæsar Augustus Rodney Janvier American Presbyterian Mission, Principal, Ewing Christian College, Allahabad, United Provinces *Esther Gimson Bare *Clara Swain Methodist, Episcopal Mission Hospital, Bareilly, United Provinces *Dorothy Cisley de la Hey, Principal, Queen Mary's College for Women, Madras *Mother Henrietta, in charge of the Nurses at the Ranchi Sadar Hospital, Bihar and Orissa *Edith, Louisa Young Palwal Mission Dispensary, Gurgaon District, Punjab


British Empire Medal The British Empire Medal (BEM; formerly British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service) is a British and Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth award for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the Monarchy of the United Ki ...
(BEM)


Military Division

;;For Gallantry *James Burke. In recognition of his action in stopping runaway horses on two occasions at great personal risk. ;;For Meritorious Service *Riza Chaqir, Cavass employed at H.M. Legation, Durazzo *John Gould, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary *Sergeant Hector Gray, Park-keeper at Holyrood Park *John Hayes, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary *Ibrahim Kiatovic, Head Cavass at H.M. Embassy Constantinople *Bertie Wallace Tibbie. For public services in saving life.


Air Force Cross (AFC)

*Flight Lieutenant Richard Burnard Munday *Flight Lieutenant William Edmund Somervell


Air Force Medal The Air Force Medal (AFM) was a military decoration, awarded to personnel of the Royal Air Force and other British Armed Forces, and formerly to personnel of other Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries, below commissioned officer, comm ...
(AFM)

*Sergeant (Pilot) Alfred Percy Reeve


Imperial Service Order The Imperial Service Order was established by King Edward VII in August 1902. It was awarded on retirement to the administration and clerical staff of the Civil Service throughout the British Empire for long and meritorious service. Normally a pe ...
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;Home Civil Service *William L. Calderwood Inspector of Salmon Fisheries for Scotland *William Thomas Chard, Inspector of Rates, Rating of Government Property Department *Arthur Harold Wyld Cleave Deputy Master, Royal Mint, Ottawa, Canada *Edward William Colvill, Principal Ship Surveyor, Board of Trade *William Donaldson, Waterguard Superintendent, H.M. Customs and Excise *Montague Spencer Guiseppi, Superintendent of Legal Literary Research Booms, Public Record Office *Joseph Johnston, First Class Clerk, Central Office, Supreme Court of Judicature *Robert McIlroy, Superintending Engineer, London Engineering District, General Post Office *Arthur James Pearce, Staff Officer, Board of Control *James Ridley Redhead, Principal Clerk, Estate Duty Office, Board of Inland Revenue ;Colonial Civil Service *William James Clemens, Secretary and Chief Inspector of the Public Service Board, Commonwealth of Australia *Henry Edmonds Downie, Commissioner of Taxes, State of Tasmania *Thomas James Greenwood, Commissioner, First Grade, Colony of Cyprus *Eugene Patrick Griffin Chief Assistant Secretary, Office of Colonial Secretary, Gibraltar *Walter Belinfante Isaacs, lately Supervisor, Revenue Department, Island Treasurer and Manager of the Government Savings Bank, Jamaica *William Miller, Surveyor-General, Bahama Islands *Charles Rodway Morrison, Office Assistant to the Provincial Commissioner of the Southern Province, Sierra Leone *Charles Adrien Pollonais, Assistant Treasurer, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago *Bertram Tanner, Headmaster, Queen's College, Hong Kong *Edgar Allen Garvin Vanderstraaten, Third Landing Surveyor, Customs Department, Ceylon ;Indian Civil Service *Hugh Bainbridge Bendle, Assistant Commissioner, Excise Department, and Secretary to the Commissioner of Excise, Madras *Khan Bahadur Fardunji Mancherji Dastur, Registrar of the University of Bombay *Andrew Frank Emmer, Assistant Secretary to Resident and Treasury Officer, Hyderabad (Deccan) *Raj Bahadur Sardar Tirath Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police, United Provinces *Thomas Stephens Farmer, Superintendent, Reformatory School, Delhi *Gerson de Luna, Superintendent, Residency Office, Aden *Sheikh Imam-ud-Dm, Inspector of Police and Head Clerk, Office of Senior Superintendent of Police, Lahore, Punjab


Imperial Service Medal The Imperial Service Medal is a medal affiliated with the Imperial Service Order. The medal was established under the statutes of the Imperial Service Order, on 8 August 1902, by King Edward VII, with the first awards appearing in the ''London G ...
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*Abdul Kadir, late Daftri, Government of India, Foreign and Political Department *Harakh Bam, late Jemadar chaprasi, Deputy Commissioner's Office, Banchi, Bihar and Orissa


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