NEW YEAR AWARDS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1932, Page 10

NEW YEAR AWARDS

ONE NEW VISCOUNT

FIVE BARONIES

28 KNIGHTHOODS

(British Official Wireless.) BUG-BY, Ist January. One Tiscounty, five Baronies, three Privy Councillors, three Baronetcies, 28 Knights, and a large number of appointments and promotions in various Orders of Chivalry are announced in the New-Year Honours List. The principal honours are as follows:—'. • '-.-■ v': ■' '. . :. .'*■'■. . To be Viscount. Baron Sankey, the Lord Chancellor. To be Barons. y ; Mr. Clifford Allen,, formerly chairman of the-Independent Labour Party. Colonel Wilfrid Ashley, M.P., who was Minister -of Transport in the last Conservative Government. ". Mr. Walter Guinness, M.P., Minister of Agriculture in the last Conservative Government. - .'. ; , Mr. Lief Jones, Liberal M.P. for Amborne, Cornwall. Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, M.P., Postmaster-General in the last Conservative Government. To Be Privy Councillors. Major Walter Elliot, Financial. Secretary to the Treasury. .. . . Sir Thomas Inskip, M.P., SolicitorGeneral. Colonel Sir Clive Wigrain, Private Secrstary to His Majesty the King. To be Baronets. Mr. Percy Harris, Liberal- M.P., and formerly chairman of the London County Council. Sir Harry Hope, M.P. Mr. Arthur Samuel, M.P., Financial Secretary to the Treasury in ■ the last Conservative Government. Knighthoods. Mr. George Buckston Browne, the surgeon who endowed the house where Charles Darwin lived and gave it to the nation. Ho has given generous financial support to medical research work. Dr. Henry Dale, Director-in-Chief of the National Institute for Medical Research and secretary of the Boyal Society. Mr. Patrick Geddes, Emeritus Professor of Botany at St. Andrew's University, for his.services to education. Mr. Richard Hoyle Jackson, chairman of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation. • , , Mr. Thomas McAra, secretary to the Newspaper Proprietors' Association. . Mr. Ernest Simmon, formerly a Liberal M.P., and a member of the first National Government. Mr. Harry Wellcome, founder of the ; WeUcome Research Institution and the Wellcomo Tropical Beeearch Laboratories at Khartum. Mr. Henry Wilkins, president of the Co-operative Wholesale Society. Major MacKenzie Wood, Liberal M.P. and Assistant Whip. Companion of Honour. Mr. John Buchan, M.P., novelist, is appointed , Companion of Honour for his public, educational, and literary services. Order of British Empire. Promotions and appointments in the Order of the British Empire include:— The Dowager Viscountess Cowdray, to be Dame of the Grand Cross in recognition of her numerous benefactions, particularly in connection with hospitals and the nursing profession. Miss Margaret Tuke, late principal of the Bedford College for Women; Dr. Edith Brown, principal of the Women's Hospital; Ludhiana (Punjab), and Salote Tubou, Queen of Tonga, are to be Dame Commanders. Mr. Frederick Maze, Inspector-Gen-eral of. Chinese Maritime Customs, is to be Knight Commander. Among those appointed Commanders' in this Order/ are: Miss Harriette Chick, 8 distinguished scientific worker in bacteriology and bio-chemistry, and Mr. Reginald Mitchell, chief designer at the Super-marine Aviation Works, for services in connection, with the Schneider Trophy contest. Star of India. Lord Peel becomes Knight Grand Commander 'of the Star of India. St. Michael and Bfc George. la the Order of St. Michael and Si. George Sir Francis Humphreys, High Commissioner in Irak, becomes Knight of the Grand Cross. Mr. Neville Henderson, British' Minister at, -Belgrade, and Mr. .Stephen Tallents, secretary of the Empire Marketing Board, become Knight Comman* ders. Royal Victorian Order. The appointments in the Boyal Victorian; Order ■ include'■■; Sir Walford Davies, Doctor of Music, to be Commander. Kaisar-i-Hind Medal. Among those awarded the Kaisar-i----hind Medal is the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. J. H. Whitley, late chairman of the Boyal Commission on Labour in India. A large number of officers in India and the Colonial services also receive Honours. Air force Promotions. Promotions in the Air Force include the Air Vice-Marshal, Sir John Steel, to be Air Marshal, and Air Commodore MacEwan to be Air Vice-Marshal. Princess Msuy Now Princess Royal. The Honours List announces that the King's daughter, Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, -shall henceforth bear the title of Princess Boyal.