BRITISH AWARDS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 3 January 1927, Page 9

BRITISH AWARDS

SIR JAMES CRAIG MADE A PEER,

! LONDON, 31st December. The New Year honours announced include the following::— Grand Cross of St. Michael and St.

George.-~Lord Burnham, president of the Empire Press Union. ' K.C.M.G.—-Mr. Miles .. Wedderburn Lampson, recently-appointed British Minister at Pekin. " : C.8.-^Rear-Admiral William R. Napier, superintendent s of the.- Mining School, .Portsmouth. Viscount.—Sir James Craig, Premier of Northern Ireland since 1921. Baron.—; Sir Charles Greenway, chairman of the AnglorPersian Oil Company. Privy Councillor.—Mr. W. G. .Orrns-by-Gpre, tfnder-Secretary of State for the Colonies. - :. Baronet.—Sir Edward Eavson, chair-

man of the British Imperial Council^ of Commerce. ■ : Knight.—Mr. John Eeith, ex-chair-man of the British Company. : !i '■■■■:■■■■. .•■.■•,.-■■.■ ■•"'■■:■ . K.V.O.—Captain E. B. B. Towe, V.C., chairman of the National Institude for the Blind I—he is himself blind. Dame of the British Empire.—The Dowager Countess of Jersey, president of the Victoria League, president of the grand council of the Primrose League. ■ Companion of ■■'■.Honour.; —The Rev. Hugh 'Sheppard,- ex-vicar" -cf ,■ St.' Martin-in-the-rields, London.