Queen Awards Honours To 2000 Subjects

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29228, 11 June 1960, Page 13

Queen Awards Honours To 2000 Subjects

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

LONDON, June 11. Queen Elizabeth II today gave honours to more than 2000 of her subjects including the soldier who defeated the Japanese in Burma, a npted actress, and a woman mission* ary in the Pacific Islands. The biggest award in the birthday honours list is a viscountcy for Field-Marshal Sir William Slim, aged 68, who retired last February as GovernorGeneral of Australia. He was Commander of the 14th Army in Burma in World War 11. The actress is Miss Flora Robson, who first stepped on the stage at the age of five. She becomes a Dame of the British Empire, the female equivalent of knighthood.

The missionary is Miss Nellie Fagan, who has devoted her life to humanitarian work among the 5-*,OOO people of the New Hebrides, 80 isolated islands in the Pacific covering an area of 5700 square miles.

The Queen created one new baron, four baronets and two new members of the Privy Council, the highest body of constitutional .advisers. The baron is Mr Basil Sanderson, chairman of the Shaw Savill Line. Baronets are Major Thomas Barber, for public services in Nottinghamshire; Sit Herbert Butcher, National Liberal and Conservative member of Parliament; Major Sir Guy Lloyd, a former Conservative member of Parliament; and 'Sir Kenneth Steward. chairman of the Trustee Savings Banks Association. The Privy Councillors are Mr Cuthbert Alport, Minister of State for Commrnwealth Relations, and Mr Frederick Erroll, Minister of State a* the Board ot Trade.

Knights bachelor range from a Western Nigerian ruler, Olagbegi 11, the Olowo of Owo, to Mr Samuel Salmon, managing director of the Lyons chain of . tea shops, which daily feed hundreds of thousands of Londoners.

Sport is prominent in the list, with the 0.8. E. (officer of the Order of the British Empire) for Everton Weekes,*the noted West Indian cricketer who has played in 48 tests, and for Tommy Walker, the former Scottish international soccer player who was noted for his scrupulous conduct on the playing field. Other awards were:— Malcolm McCulloch (knight) rose from policeman on the beat to be Chief Constable of Glasgow for 16 years. Professor Basil Schonland (knight) is the South African-born director of Britain’s Atomic Energy Research Establishment Basil Spence (knight) is the architect who- designed the new Coventry Cathedral, replacing the ancient shrine blitzed by Hitler's bombs.

Major Legge Bourke (knight commander of the British Empire) is a Conservative member of Parliament who resigned from the Parliamentary Conservative Party during the Suez crisis, calling the withdrawal from the canal “a scuttle.” Dr. Robert Cockburn (K.8.E.) I- the chief Ministry of Supply scientist. He bamboozled the Nazis during the World War II Normandy landings by faking a “gigantic battle fleet” by means of a squadron of planes, some air-sea rescue launches and large quantities of silver paper. Dr. Thomas Allibone (Commander of the British Empire), a member of the war-time BritishAmerican team which perfected the atom bomb, is now director of

the Associated Electrical Industries research laboratory. Jack Beresford (C.8.E.) is a noted oarsman who won three gold and two silver Olympic medals. Dr. Ludwig Guttman (C.8.E.), once a refugee from Hitler, is known in Britain for his aid .to people suffering from paralysis. Professor Max Mallowan (C.8.E.) is a noted'archaeologist but has never matched the fame of his wife—Agatha Christie, the detective story writer. Dr. Robert A. Smith (C.8.E.), is chief scientific officer at the Royal Radar Defence Establishment from where, last August, radar signals were transmitted to Texas by way of the moon—a Journey of 500,000 miles. Geoffrey White, (0.8. E. is editor of “The Complete Peerage,’* a maisive 14-volume history of Britain’s aristocracy. He spent 20 years completing the history after five other editors had died since work began in 1884. Dr. Ludwig Koch (Member of the Order of the British Empire) is a naturalist who has provided the British Broadcasting Corporation with the world's finest collection of bird song recordings. Chief Superintendent Albert Perkins (Member of the Victorian Order, fourth class) is the Queen’s (personal detective. '»