BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 212, 4 June 1929, Page 11

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

A LONG LIST EARLDOM FOR VISCOUNT INCHCAPE MR. BRIDGEMAN A VISCOUNT (British Official Wireless,) Rugby, June 8. The King’s Birthday honours list is issued as follows: — An Earldom is conferred on Viscount Inchcape. The following are to be Viscounts:— Mr. William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty; Baron Hailsham, Lord Chancellor; Field-Marshal Baron Plumer. Baronies are conferred on Bir William Berry, chairman of Allied Newspapers, Limited; Colonel Sir Edward Brotherton, formerly member of Parliament for Wakefield; Sir Robert Sanders, formerly Minister of Agriculture; Sir William Tyrrell, British Ambassador at Paris. The following are to be Privy Councillors: —Baron Dawson of Penn, Phy-sician-in-Ordinary to the King; Major Hills, M.P.; Sir Ellis Hume-Williams, K.C.; Dr. Earle Page, Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia; Colonel Spender Clay, M.P. Eleven baronetcies are conferred. Thost honoured include Sir Arthur Balfour, chairman of the Committee on Industry and Trade; Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, Physician Extraordinary to the King; Colonel Sir Hugh Rigby, Sergeant Surgeon to the King. Those on whom Knighthoods are conferred include Mr. Gordon Craig, chairman of the New Era National Pictures, Limited, and Portable Talking Pictures, Limited; Mr. Ben Greet, actor and producer of Shakespearean plays; Mr. Peter Chalmers Mitchell, secretary of the Zoological Society; Mr. James Headlam Morley, lately Historical Adviser to the Foreign Office; Mr. Roland Nugent, director of the Federation of British Industries; Mr. Robert Welsford, president of the Law Society; Mr. Robert Stanton Woods, physician, for services during the King’s illness. Several knighthoods are conferred for public and political services. They include Mr. Kelso King, for public services to the State of New South Wales; Mr. James McDonald, president of the Rhodesia Chamber of Mines; Professor Colin McKenzie, director of the National Museum of Australian Zoology, Sydney; Mr. William Herbert Phillipps, chairman of the Savings Bank, South Australia. The India list includes fourteen Knighthoods. For services in the colonies and protectorates the following are to be knighted:—Colonel Cornwallis, Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Iraq; Mr. Robert Furness, Chief Justice of Barbados; Mr. Nine Mate Kole, unofficial member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast Colony; Mr. Michael McDonnell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Palestine; Mr. Michael Whifley, Attorney-General, Straits Settlements.

In the Order of the Bath a number of promotions and appointments of naval and military officers are recorded. Lord Lee of Fareham, who gave Chequers to the nation for the use of the Prime Ministers as a country seat, is promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of this Order. New KnightsCommanders of the Order are Sir Ronald Lindsay, Permanent Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Robert Vanslttart, principal private secretary to the Prime Minister, and Sir Stanley Hewett, Surgeon to the King. The Order of Merit is conferred on Dr. Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate, in recognition of his eminent position in the world of literature, and on Mr. John Galsworthy for his services to literature and the drama.

Mr. Alscount Moschen, Governor of Madras, becomes a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India.

Appointments to the Order of St. Michael and St George include Sir John Cadman, chairman of the Anglo-Per-sian Oil Company; Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to Cabinet and Clerk of the Privy Council; and Sir George Grahame, British Ambassador at Madrid. Australian Press Association. London, June 2. . The list of Birthday Honours includes the following:— K.C.M.G. —Mr. Justice Powers, of the Australian High Court. G.C.V.O.—Sir Humphrey Rolleston. Physician in Ordinary to the King; Sir Edward 'Wallington, Groom-in-Waiting to the King. K.C.V.O.—Dr. Francis Edward Shipway, a leading anaethest, who rendered valuable service to the King during his illness. K.B.E.—Dr. Richard R. Stawell, consulting physician at Melbourne Hospital. ADDITIONAL HONOURS FOR THE KING’S DOCTORS Australian Press Assn.—United Service. (Rec. June 3, 7.30 p.m.) London, June 3. Four additional honours have been given to His Majesty’s doctors, which consist of C.V.O. to Dr. Lionel Whitby, bacteriologist; Dr. H. Graham Hodgson, radiologist; Dr. Howitt, raytherapist; and a Fourth Class of the Victorian Order to Dr. Dodds, Professor of Biochemistry.