BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19985, 21 July 1930, Page 18

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

SOME WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE. THREE NEW PEEKS. tatoat ottb ««> oobm»foxb»ki.) LONDON, June 5. There are three new Peers, three *P" pointments to the Order of Merit, three Baronetcies, a large number of Knighthoods, and many appointments to various Orders in the King's Birthday Honours List. The new Peers are Mr Noel Buxton, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries; Mr H. S. Furniss, Principal of Buskin College, Oxford, from 1916 to 1925; and Sir Esin6 Howard, the former British Ambassador at Washington. Other notable honours are a G.C.S.I. for Sir John Simon, a C.B.E. for Miss Amy Johnson and Knighthoods lor Professor Leonard Hill, Pjofessor Eddington (Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge), Mr W. T. Layton (editor of the "Economist"), Mr F. W. Goodenough (President of tho 'lncorporated Sales Managers' Association), Mr Henry Lytton (the Savoyard), and Mr H. I). Gillies, the eminent plastic surgeon, formerly of New Zealand. The New Baronete. Mr Frederick Henry Eoyce is director and chief engineer of Rolls-Royce. Ltd., and director and consulting engineer of Boyce, Ltd. Born in 1863, he was apprenticed to engineering on the Great Northern Railway, and afterwards worked at gun machinery in Leeds and pioneer electric lighting of the streets of London. In 1907 he became joint founder Hon. C. S. Rolls, of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., the famous motor-car and aero engine builders. The Schneider Cup was won last year by Flying Officer Waghorn in a supermarine Rolls-Royce S6. Sir Leonard Dunning is H.M. Inspector of Constabulary, a position which he has held since 1912, and which he is about to vacate after forty eight years' service in the Police Force. Mr Basil Mott is the consulting engineer who was associated with the construction of the Oity and South London Railway, the Central London Railway and other pnblit works.

Order of Merit. Mr Samuel Alexander, one of the three new recipients of the Order of Merit, was born in Sydney. He was a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, Fellow of Lincoln College, President of the Aristotelian Society, Gifford Lecturer of Glasgow University, and Professor of Philosophy at the Victoria University of Manchester, 1893-1924. Dr. Montague Bhodes James has been Provost of Eton since 1918, and is a trustee of the British Museum. Mr George Macaulay Trevelyan has been Begius Professor of Modern His tory at Cambridge University since 1927. His father, Sir G. O. Trevelyan, was also a holder of the Order of Merit. , Admiral of the Fleet Sir Boger Keyes, who receives the Grand Croes of the Bath, made history on the occasion of his operations against Zeebrugge and Ostend during the War, in 1918. Squadron Leader • Orlebar, who receives a bar to the Air Force Cross, is the holder of the world's air speed record of 357.7 m.p.h., which he won with the Supermarine Bolls-Boyce, S6 at Calshot last summer. He wias captain of the British team in the Schneider Trophy race. : -

Honotixs for Women. ' Lady Birdwood, wife of FieldMarshal Sir W. Birdwood, is appointed to the Order of the Crown of India. Miss Margaret MeMillan, a pioneer of •the Nursery School Movement, is made the only Companion, of Honour. Mrs Burnett Smith, under the pen-name of Annie S. Swan, is a well-known writer of fiction. She receives the C.B.E. for literary, and public services. Miss Agatha Mary Phillips, principal matron, Q.A.1.M.N.5., receives the first class of the Boyal Bed Cross for exceptional devotion to duty in 'military hospitals. Miss Emily MacManus, matron of Guy's Hospital, is made OJB.E. Lady Heald, wife of Sir Benjamin Heald, of Bangoon, Lady Jackson, wife of Sir Ernest Jackson, of Bombay, and Miss A. L. Ernest, M.t)., of Philadelphia, in charge of the Ackerman Hoyt Hospital at Jhansi, are among those who receive the Kaisar-i-Hind medal of the first class.

Story Told by tlie Savoyard, One of the favourite stories related of himself by Henry A. Lytton thus appears in the "Star." Nearly half a century ago, a boy of seventeen played truant frou school, married a young actress with whom, he had fallen in love while watching her on the stage from the gallery of the old Avenue Theatre, spent his entire capital of eighteenpence upon a hansom-cab ride, and returned to-make his peace with his headmaster. The master. had so little sympathy with young Lytton that after a dignified protest, ''Stop it! Do you know what you are doing! You are thrashing a married man!" the truant left school for ever, and joined his wife on tour in "Princess Ida." « At the present time, the "Peter Pan" of comic opera is playing in Belfast. His wife was asked whether, in view of his knighthood, Sir Henry would retire. "Betiref" she echoed, with a smile. "You don't know him! I should think nothing more unlikely. He is devoted to his work, and is as fit and happy in it as ever, I have always said that he would die in harness. The news will be received with great jubilation in the provinces. My husband is regarded with affection by provincial audiences in every part of Great Britain." Henry Lytton, whose favourite role is that of Jack Point in "The Yeomen of the Guard," underwent many hardships and disappointments in his youth. ' His chance came in 1887, when he was understudying George Grossmith in "Kuddigore," at the Savoy. Grossmith was taken ill, and at a moment 's notice Lytton stepped into the breach and played Robin Oakapple with such success that Gilbert presented him with a gold-mounted walking-stick.