BRITISH HONOURS LIST

Press, Issue 22599, 3 January 1939, Page 9

BRITISH HONOURS LIST

Peers Created

ORDER OF MERIT

FOR SCIENTIST

gir Maurice Hankey

A Baron

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(Received January 2, 9.30 p.m.)

LONDON, January 1.

Two appointments to the Order of Merit and the creation of four new Barons are announced in the New year Honours List. Among the remaining honours some have been conferred on persons who served in official capacities for Britain during Ithe Czechoslovakian crisis. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield and the famous scientist and scier.Ofic author. Sir James Jeans, have been appointed to the Order of Merit. Sir Maurice Hankey, until recently Secretary to the Cabinet and to the Committee of Imperial (Defence, is one of the four new Barons.

The chief names in the list are:—

r ORDER OF MERIT (0.M.) Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield, G.C.8., K.C.M.G., C.V.0., First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff since 1933. Lord Chatfield, who was created a Baron in 1937, entered the Royal Navy in 1886. He was made a rear-admiral in 1920, vice-admiral in 1926, and Admiral of the Fleet in 1935. He served as flag-captain to Sir David Beatty (later Earl Beatty) in the Heligoland action in 1914; also in the Dogger Bank and Jutland battles. Among other appointments he has held those of Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (1920-22), Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy >. (1925-28); Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet (1929-30), and Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean (1930-32). Sir James Hopwood Jeans, Kt., E.S., Professor of Astronomy in Royal Institution ana member of Advisory Council of the Departii of Scientific and Industrial Research. He is a. physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. He is one of the most distinguished living scientists, an exponent of aspects of the relativity and quantum theories, the theory of radiatior and of the mathematical physicist’s view of the universe. In his more popular published writings, such as “The Universe Around Us,” “The Mysterious Universe,” and “The -New Background of Science,” he has gone beyond the purely scientific field and . has endeavoured to relate the new “mathematical” world of the physicist with more familiar conceptions of the world and the universe. He has held many high scientific, appointments in the United States and Britain. He has been president of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. He was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 191&; the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1922; and the Franklin Medal in 1931. BARONS ,

Colonel Sir Maurice Paschal Alers Hankey, G.C.8., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.0., resigned in May last year from the posts of Secretary to the Cabinet (held since 1919), Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence (held since 1912), and Clerk to the IPrivy Council (held since 1923). At [the same time hie accepted appointment as one of the three British

Goyernment directors of the international company managing the Suez Canal, which necessitated the resignation of all other Government ■ Kjsts. He is credited with having b~gp djaring his long career—he is a ® e — more closely connec \M with vitally important affairs of Srare than any other civil servant He was appointed Secretary to the War Cabinet in 1916 and to the Imperial War Cabinet in 1917. After serving as British Secretary at the Peace Conference in 1919 he re- • ceived the G.C.B. and a grant of £25,000 in recognition of his services. He also acted as British Secretary at the Washington Conference (1921), Genoa Conference (1922). Reparations Conference (1924), and at the Imperial Conferences from 1921 to 1937. He was Secretary- ' General at the Hague Conference ( 1929-30). the London Naval Conference (1930), and the Lausanne Conference (1932). . During the war he was sent on important missions, as when he went to Gallipoli to report personally on the situation; and he attended at all important conferences and conversations. Mr Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, who held junior Ministerial posts in '*ne years immediately after the Great War and was Acting-Minister for Blockade in 1919. He was a member of the Superior Council of . the Blockade and of the Supreme Economic Council. In 1922 he was British member of the Council of the League of Nations. Lord Northcliffe was his elder brother, and another brother is Lord Rothermere.

The Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Greer, Lord Chief Justice of Appeal, P.C., K.C., who has held his present office since 1927. A London barrister from 1907 to 1919, he was appointed in the latter year a Justice of the High Court.

Sir Laurence Philipps, who is a member of the Air Registration Board under the Air Ministry. He is prominent as a company director and sportsman. He is also a member of the council of the University College of Wales and founded the National Welsh Plant Breeding Institute.

ORDER OF THE BATH Knight Grand Cross (G.C.8.)

Admiral Sir Dudley Bound, KX3.8.. G.C.V.0., Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean since 1936. He has held many important Admiralty and Royal Navy appointments, including those of Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (1927-29); RearAdmiral commanding the Battle Cruiser Squadron (1929-31); Admiralty representative on the League of Nations Advisory Commission (1932); and Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel at the Admiralty (1932-35).

Knights Commander (K.C.8.)

Vice-Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, C.8., D.5.0., a former Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King and until 1936 Rear-Admiral commanding Destroyer Flotillas in the Mediterranean.

Mr Edward E, Bridges, M.C., Sir Maurice Hankey’s successor as Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet. He is a son of Robert Bridges, the former Poet Laureate. Until his appointment he was for four years in charge of the division of the Treasury responsible for defence and was recently appointed to the Air Ministry Supply Committee.

Companions (C.8.) Mr Frank Trelawny Arthur Ash-ton-Gwatkin, C.M.G., a Counsellor at the Foreign Office, who was a member oi Lord Runciman’s staff on his mission of mediation to Czechoslovakia. Mr William Strang, C.M.G„ M.8.E., a Counsellor at the Foreign Office, also a member of Lord Runciman’s staff during the Czechoslovakian mission. ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE

Knights Grand Cross (G.C.M.G.) The Hon. Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, K.C.M.G., C.8., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, , - The Rt. Hon. Sic f Nevile Meyrick Henderson, P.C., K.C.M.G., British Ambassador in Berlin since 1937, who played a large part in the negotiations • and diplomatic exchanges during the crisis of last September. He. entered the Diplomatic Service in 1905. He has held embassy posts in Japan, Russia, and France, and wag British Ambassador to Argentina and Paraguay before his appointment to Berlin.

Knights Commander (K.C.M.G.) Mr Eric Gustav C.M.G., 0.8. E., Assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Dominions Office and vice-chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee since 1936.

Captain Cecil George Graves, M.C., Deputy-Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation. - Mr Basil Cochrane Newton, C.M.G., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia, Britain’s representative in that country during the September crisis.

ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER KNIGHT GRAND CROSS (G.C.V.0.) Sir John Charles Walsham Keith, Kt., G.8.E., Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1927 until last year, when. he retired from that post to become chairman of Imperial Airways.

BARONET (Bt.) Sir (William) Peter Rylands, Kt., managing director of Rylands, Brothers, JLid., an d former president of the Federation ol British industries. KNIGHT BACHELOR (Kt.) Mr J. G. Hay, a member of the International Rubber Regulations Committee.

Mr Adam Maitland, M.P., vice-pre-sident of the Association of Munich pal Corporations, and vice-president of the National Association of Building Societies. Mr F. J. Pearce, past president of the British Dental Association. Mr S. J. Pl ggott,’ managing director of the shipbuilding firm of John Brown and Company. Lieutenant Colonel Heaton Forbes Robins on, C.M.G.. Director of Works, Imperial War Graves Commission, since 1926.

Mr J. ,B. F. Watson, a director of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office since 1923, and director of the National Confederation of Employers’ Organisations.

PRIVY COUNSELLOR (P.C.) Mr R. A. Butler, M.P., Under-Sec-retafy for Foreign Affairs. Captain H.*Crookshank, M.P., Secretary for Mines.

AUSTRALIAN LIST

SEVERAL KNI&HTHOODS

(Received January 2, 8.30 p.m.)

SYDNEY, January 2. Among the Australian New Year Honours are the following:—

ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE Knight Commander (K.C.M.G.) Mr Justice Hayden Starke, Justice of the High Court of Australia since 1920.

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Knight Commander (K.8.E.)

Mr Reginald Marcus Clark, chairman and managing director of Marcus Clark and Company, Ltd., Sydney.

Mr l-lenry Manning, Attorney-Gen-eral of New South Walps. KNIGHT BACHELOR (Kt.) Mr George Shaw Knowles, Solici-tor-General of the Commonwealth.

Dr. John Ramsay, chairman of the Board of Management, Launceston Hospital, ' Mr William Dixson, of Sydney, a director of Dixson and Sons, Ltd., and the Australasian Tobacco Trust, and, formerly chairman of directors of the City Bank of Sydney. Mr George Louis Goudie, Victorian Minister for Public Works. Mr Walter Duncan, leader of the Legislative Council of South Australia. .■