THE ORDERS OF CHIVALRY

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22424, 10 June 1938, Page 13

THE ORDERS OF CHIVALRY

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS

THIRTY-FIVE KNIGHTHOODS CREATED (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) (Received June 9, 2 p.m.) RUGBY, June 8. Among the 35 Knights Bachelor appointed in the King’s Birthday honours are Dr. Cyril Norwood, headmaster of Harrow from 1926 to 1934, and now president of St. John’s College, Oxford; also Dr. S. H. Nicholson, for his services to church music. ' The awards are made mostly for loyal political and public services. In the orders of chivalry, appointments and promotions in the Military and Civil Divisions of the Order of the Bath include the G.C.B. for General Edmund Ironside and Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, and the K.C.B. for Sir Cosmo Parkinson, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office.

Among the appointments and promotions in the Order of St. Michael and St. George are the G.C.M.G. for Sir Howard Kennard, the British Ambassador to Warsaw; and the K.C.M.G. for the Hon. C. C. Farquharson Dundas, Governor of the Bahamas; Mr D. J. Jardine, Governor of Sierra Leone; and Mr H. B. Popham, Governor of the Windward Islands. His Highness the Sultan Hisamund Din Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor, is appointed an honorary member of the second class, or a Knight Commander of this Order. Diplomatic Services Among other appointments and promotions in this Order of members of the diplomatic and Consular services are several which recall the arduous and difficult work which conditions in the Far East have involved for their recipients. Mr C. M. Palairet, until recently British Minister in Vienna, has been promoted to K.C.M.G; and Mr E. Millington Drake, the British Minister to Montevideo, becomes C.M.G. Mr A. D. Blackburn, Chinese Counsellor at the British Embassy in China, and Mr Herbert Phillips, British Consul-General in Shanghai, become K.C.M.G.; while the C.M.G. is conferred on Mr A. H. George, Commercial Secretary at the British Embassy in China; Mr E. L. Hall Patch, financial adviser to the British Embassies both at Tokyo and China; Major W. A. Lovat-Fraser, Military Attache in China; Mr H. I. PrideauxBrune, a British Consul in China; and Mr John Bailey, British ConsulGeneral at Bangkok. Mr Ralph Stevenson, Acting-Coun-sellor at the Foreign Office, and Adviser on League of Nations Affairs, also becomes C.M.G.; while in the Royal Victorian Order, Mr F. R. Hoyer-Millar, Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax) and his predecessor, Mr R. A. Eden, is made Commander. Among the large number of appointments and promotions in the divisions of the Order of the British Empire are the G.C.B.E. for Lord Onslow, Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords; the K.B.E. for Mr C. McAlpine Weir, convener and chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Empire Exhibition, Glasgow; and the D.B.E. for Lady Elgin, chairwoman of the women’s section of the exhibition. British Subjects Abroad Mr R. Calder-Marshall, chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai, has been appointed K.B.E. The C.B.E. has been conferred on Mr J. L. Maxwell, general secretary to the International Red Cross Committee for Central China. Several other officers in the Consular services in China receive the 0.8. E. and M.B.E.* Miss M. Josephine de Juan, a clerk in the British Embassy at Barcelona, receives the M.B.E. Mr Leslie' Mead, director of the Argentine Association •of English Culture in Buenos Aires, receives the 0.8. E., and the Rev. T. W. Hall, Chaplain to the Mission for Seamen in the same city; and Mr A. H. Norris, British Vice-Consul at Sao Paulo, the M.8.E., an honour which is also conferred on\ Mrs Emily Collins, a British subject resident in Siam.

Lady Muriel Paget has been given the C.B.E. for her welfare and charitable work in various foreign countries.