KING’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25517, 10 June 1948, Page 5

KING’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Three New Peers MR C. B. COCHRAN KNIGHTED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. The following King’s Birthday honours are announced:— BARONS Sir Alfred Webb-Johnson, surgeon to Queen Mary and president of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, since 1941. Sir William Francis Kvffin Taylor, late Presiding Judge of tne Liverpool Court of Passage, aged 93, one of the oldest members of the English Bar. Thomas Edward Williams, a member of the National Council of Labour, for political and public services. PRIVY COUNCILLORS Sir Frank Soskice, M.P. r SolicitorGeneral since 1945. ORDER OF BATH: KNIGHT GRAND CROSS Sir Gilbert Francis Montriou Campion, Clerk of the House of Commons. ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE: KNIGHT GRAND CROSS General Sir Alan Cunningham, till recently High Commissioner in Palestine. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE: KNIGHT GRAND CROSS Sir Reginald Wildig Allen Leeper, British Ambassador to Argentina. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE: KNIGHT COMMANDER Acting Air Commodore Frank Whittle, R.A.F., inventor of the jet engine. KNIGHTS BACHELOR Arthur Leigh Ashton, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. James Raitt Brown, secretary of the Church Commissioners for England.

Charles Blake Cochran, theatrical producer and manager. William Gilliatt, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians, and the gynaecologist who will attend Princess Elizabeth. Geoffrey Heyworth, chairman of Lever Bros, and Unilever, Ltd.* Ellis Hunter, deputy-chairman and managing director of Dorman Long arid Company, and president of the Iron and Steel Federation. COMPANIONS OF HONOUR Walter De La Mare, the poet.

William Whiteley, M.P., ’Parliamentary Secretary of the Treasury. ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE: COMPANION Christopher Chancellor, general manager of Reuter’s.