NEW YEAR HONOURS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1928, Page 7

NEW YEAR HONOURS

THREE PEERAGES TRIBUTES TO MUSICIANS DISTINGUISHED WOMEN (From "Tho Post's" Representative.) ; LONDON, 10th January. In addition to the New Zeulitmlers whoso names appeared in the New Year Honours List, there ;ire a number more whose names will bo well known in the Dominion. There are three new Barons, two Privy Councillors, /ive Baronets, and thirty Knights. One o£ Ihc/'iicw Barons is the Right Hon. Sir Frederick J. D. D. Lugard, G.C.M.G., C.8., D.5.0., former Governor-General of Nigeria and British Member of Pcrtnauent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations since 11)22. Sir Frederick is perhaps best known foe the services he has rendered to the Empire, especially in 'Afrieu. Born in 1858, the sou o£ the Rev. F. C. Lugard, he was educated at Rossall and Sandhurst. He served in the Afghan War, the Sudan campaign, and the Burma campaign, and in ISSB was in command of an expedition against the slave traders in Lake Nyassa, where he was. severely wounded. Tho British East African Company employed him in the exploration of the Sabakhi, and after three years as Administrator of Uganda, he took command, for the Royal Niger Company, of the expedition to Borgu to negotiate British treaties. He is the author of "Our East African Empire" and "The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa," for the second of which he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Colonial Institute. He married, in 11)02, Miss Flora Shaw, the famous author and special correspondent. Well known, too, is Sir Gerald Strickland, G.C.M.G., M.P., Prime Minister of Malta. He has sat for. Lancaster for three years, and has been a member of the Malta Legislative Assembly since 1921, and last year he became. Prime Minister. He was born in. the Island and bears the local title of' Count Delia Catena. ,He owns a newspaper in Malta, and has been Gqvernr of the Leeward Islands, Tasmania, Western Australia, and Norfolk Island, and New South Wales, and is the owner of considerable property in Westmorland. Among the five new Baronets is Mr. James Gomer Berry, chairman of the St. Clement's Press, Ltd., deputy-chairman ,of the Allied Newspapers, Ltd. He is one of the new proprietors of the "Daily Telegraph." His brothers are Lord Bueklaud and Sir William Berry. : EMINENT MUSICIANS. " Music has been recognised, Sir Edward Elgar being one of the new G.C.V.O.'s, and Mr. Edward German one of the new Knights. ' , Sir Edward Elgar, the eminent composer, was in 1924 appointed Master of the King's Musick. His first notable musical composition was "King Olaf," which appeared in 1896, ■ and lie secured wide recognition with the "Dream of Gerontius" (1900) and the "Apostles" (1903). To the public he is best known, perhaps, as the composer of "Land of Hope and Glory." He has received honours and decorations from many countries besides our own. He received the O.M. in 1911.J Mr. Edward German,' who is 65 years of age and a native of Shropshire, is a musician of great versatility. In 1880 he entered the Koyal Academy of Music as organ student, but afterwards studied the violin. While at the Academy he wrote several important works, some of which were performed in London. In 1889 he was appointed musical-director of the. Globe Theatre, and entered on his long connection with the stage. He was specially commissioned by Sir Henry Irving to write the "incidental music" for his production of "King Henry VIII." at the, Lyceum in 1892, the three dances from which have proved enormously popular. With Sir Arthur Sullivan he collaborated in. "The Emerald Isle," and with Sir W. S. Gilbert in "Fallen Fairies." Other'popular musical works of his include "Merrie lingland" and "The Princess of Kensington." He has also written a number of purely orchestral works. ',',-' Mr. Algernon Edward Aspinall, another Knight, has, since 1898, been secretary to the West India Committee, and of the Imperial College of. Tropical Agriculture since 1921. Ho is an authority on the affairs of the West Indies and has served on many public bodies connected therewith. Ho was called to the Bar in 1897 by tho Inner Temple. In the same category, too, is Mr. James Caird, a partner of Turnbull, Martin, and Co., shipowners, a director of the British Overseas Bank, chairman-of the Smithh'eld and Argentine Meat Company, a director of William Cory and Son, Ltd., coal exporters, an extraordinary director of tho Union Bank of Scotland, and on the board of several other shipping and industrial companies. Journalists are represented by Mr. William Maxwell, who has just resigned the editorship of the "Aberdeen Press and Journal," and Mr. Charles Igglesden, the retiring president of tho Institute of Journalists. The medical profession is well represented. Sir 11. Havelock Charles is created a Baronet, and Dr. George W. Badgerow and Mr. Percy Sargent become Knights. , FOUR GENERALS HONOURED. Four generals honoured arc General Sir A. j; Murray, G.C.M.G., X.C.8., C.V.0., D.5.0.; General Sir A. J. Godley, X.C.8., K.C.M.G., A.D.C., General to the King, Colonel the Royal Ulster Rifles, General Officer Commandinjj-in-Chief, Southern Command; General Sir Havelock Hudson, X.C.8., K.C.1.E., late Indian Army; General Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe, V.C., X.C.8., X.C.5.1., D.S.O, Indian Army, Colonel the South Wales Borderers, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India. General Sir A. Murray will bo remembered by members of the N.Z.E.F. as G.O.C. in Egypt and Palestine. K.C.M.G.—Lieut.-Colonel Sir Edward William Macleay Grigg, X.C.V.0., C.M.G., D.5.0., M.C., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya Colony, son-in-kw of Lord and Lady Islington. Sir Edward was military secretary to the Prince of Wales during visits to Canada, Australia, _ and New Zealand. He afterwards was,, private secretary to Mr. Lloyd George and eat in the House of Commons for three years as member for Oldham. He also has been secretary to the Rhodes Trustees. HONOURS FOR WOMEN. Kaisar-I-Hind Medal.-r-Viscountess Goschen, whose .public services in India have now been recognised, was formerly Lady Margaret Evelyn Gathorne-Hardy, daughter of the first Earl of Cranbrook. Her husband has been Governor of Madras since 1924. New C.B.E.'s.—The Duchess of Bedford has for many years taken a deep and practical interest in nursing and ambulance work, and is a Lady of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem She is also interested in scientific matters, being a member of the Rontgeu Society, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and a member of the Society of Radiographers. Last spring she made a tour by air of 0500 miles, flying from Woburn to Paris, Madrid, Tangiers, Lyons, and back to London. Miss Jane Frances Dove, M.A., J.P., is a noted educationist who was chosen to become second headmistress of St Leonard's High School for Girls, St. Andrews. She ruled there from 18S3 to 1896, leaving to become the first head of Wycomb'e High School, an institution she practically founded. She has been one of the pioneers of the higher and better education of women, and is well known to New Zealanders, a number of pupils from the Dominion having been to Wycombe Abbey during her regime. _0.8. E. (Civil).—Eleanor Martha, Mrs. Barker, honorary secretary and treasurer ot the St. Barnabas Hostels and Pilgrimage Fund. ■. Edith, Mrs. Broadbent, member of East and Mid-Sussex War Pensions Committee —ior valuable public1 services as voluntary

worker in administration of war pensions. Isabel, Mrs. Brogden Carter, member of the Cheshire Mental Deficiency Committee. JUss Jeannette Halford, founder and honorary secretary of the National League for Health, Maternity, and Child Welfare. Essie Margaret, Mrs. Harris, J.P.— for public and political services in Swansea. Miss Hosalic Alice Jane Henderson, vicechairman, East Cumberland War Pensions Committee—for valuable public services as voluntary worlcer in administration of war pensions. Miss Mary Mitchell Thorburn, R.H.C., matron of the London County Mental Hospital, Horton. A number, too, (ret the M.8.1?,. A remarkabb feature of the Honours List in that the^ recipients of the Order of the British Empire are all women. One of the features of the Itoyul Air Force list is the nword to Fliftht-Lieutim-unt C. it. Can-, D.F.C., of tho Air l'oreo Cross. He waa the nirriwn who made throe gallant but uiisuececsful attempts to make a non-stop flight to India. Ih is oflicer is v New Zcnlamlcr.