BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 18, 21 July 1932, Page 12

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

HIS MAJESTY'S SONS

THE SCOTT BARONETCY

NEW BRITISH PEERS

, (From "The Post's" Representative.) . ' LONDON, 10th June.

Among the honours conferred by the King on his 67th birthday are one viscounty, six baronies, two Privy Councillorships, six. baronetcies, ancl'twcntyeight knighthoods. : ;

The Air Ministry announced on the evo of, the birthday that the Prince of Wales had been appointed Honorary Air Coinmodore-ih-Chief. of' the squadrons comprising the Auxiliaiy Air Force, and that the. Duke of York had' been promoted Air Vice-Marshal in the E.A.F.

The Admiralty announced that the Duke of York had been-promoted RearAdmiral in His' Majesty's Fleet, while a further official announcement stated that' the King had ordered his appointment as Major-General in the Army. The Eoyal Victorian' Chain is bestowed upon'the-Duke of Gloucester.

Conspicuous among the awards is the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire for Lady Baden-Powell in recognition of her work on behalf, of the Girl Guide Movement.

Lord Buckmaster, "who is promoted to. a viscounty, became Solicitor-General in 1913. Two years later'he was appointed Lord Chancellor (1915-16).' He is well known' for his interest' in social questions, and has attempted for many years to reform the laws relating to divorce. He is in his 72nd year. Mr. Henry Neville Gladstone, who lias been made a baron, is the third son of the famous statesman, and married a daughter of his : close friend, Lord Eendal." He entered ■ the East India house of his uncle "when only 18, and oil returning to England; in 1889. was for some time private' secretary to his father. Mr. Gladstone.sat on the Boyal Commission on Indian' Finance and Currency, and he was also a member of the Irish Finance Committee and the Treasury "Committee which considered the question of' a national for war risks in shipping. Under the will of, his nephew, Lieut. Gladstone, who was Trillei in the war, he is.the Squire of -Hawarden. / V' ' ' ' ' '. ■ ■ WELsk COAL BARON. Mr.- David- paries, a" Welsh, millionaire, who represented^ Montgomeryshire from 1909 .to 1929, is another baron. He is chairman of Ocean; Coal and Wilsons, United' National Collieries, and Cambrian and General Securities, and a director of many .other industrial undertakings. During the war he was on active service; in France. ' He inspired and has generously financed the Welsh National .Memorial Association,- which has ■ established sanatoria and hospitals fov-i' tuberculous; patients, ■throughout Wales. : The vast fortune of the family springs from the enterprise:, of his grandfather-whoj. from a working sawyeiy became a coal' and magnate; ' ;.. ■:-. ■v .. -.■.-■- •.-,,■.,; ...:".,■ -

Of more 'than' ordinary interest, is ,tlic baronetcy, awarded to'Major-Gen-eral. Walter Joseph ..Maxwell Scott, great-great-grandson Jof ' Sir Walter Scott, the - centenary of whose . deathwill be commemorated: this year. . -.; ■' Dr. '.Henry Britten Brackenbury, ■.a new knight, ; is •chairman •of the:. council and a past-president of the British Medical Association, ;which is, celebrating its centenary this year. Ho was Mayor of Hoviisoyiiii■ 1905-06,' andds: a freeman of:the borough.'■ ■ . Mr. Robert Davis,; another knight, inventor' of the> Davis, submarine rescue device,.is an.:eminent: r'authbrify-.' on^ deep-sea. diving; and; submarine-salvage' operations, i The :Davis '-' f artificial lung "proved its efficiency when H.M. Submarine Poseidon sank /in' Chinese; waters .after-being : in'■' eojlision. Sis men, headed by : Petty Officer Willis, who were^trapped in tho.conning.tower,: donned the Davis apparatus'■,and reached the surface, though two subsequently died from exposure. ; .'..-.; ~'■_: :- ■■• :

■ Aviation isirepresentedb^AAirrr Com: modore' Kingsford Smith,. who'becomes a.knight. Of late years he. has occupied an outstanding position among Empire flying pioneers,,and'has done much to ■ advance the -cause of aviation in Australia and New Zealand. He has been awarded the .Segrave'- Memorial Trophy and holds the record of ten days for the flight, which, hehas performed several times. Among his other remarkable achievements were the first;Tasman Sea flight and the San Francisco-Australia flight; 1928. KNTOHTTS OF JOURNAIISM. .fournalism. is recognised in the knighthood of Mr. Alexander ; Mackintosh. Ho been in the Pross Gal: lery at the House' of Commons since January, 1881, as lobby correspondent of the "Liverpool Post." He is the aiuthor of a biography of Joseph Chamberlain and Pr.o'm ■ Gladstone to Lloyd George," and assisted the t Ea?l of Oxford i and Asquith with his books.

A second journalist receives a knighthood in the person of Mr. Alfred Henry Watson, editor of tho " Statesman, J) Calcutta. Mr. Watson was at one time managing. editor of the "Westminster Gazette.." '~-■•!.' .'■ • ■ • ■ .

Dr. Eaymond.tJnwin, president of the Eoyal; Institute of Britisli Architects,

another of the new knights, is one of the pioneers of town-planning. fSince 1929 he has.been chief adviser of the Greater London Begional Town Planning Committee, and was formerly chief technical officer for building and town-planning under the Ministry of Health. He laid out the garden city at Letchworth and the Hampstead garden suburb. '

Of the -private members chosen for the same distinction, Colonel Freemantle is an indefatigable worker on all questions affecting the health and-housirg of the community, and MrJ Percy Hurd is no less assiduous on matters of agricultural policy. '■■;■'..■

Mr. E. V. Lucas, the well-known essayist, man of letters,and publisher, receives tho Companion.of Honour. He has achieved widespread fame for his travel studies and his whimsical, halffantastic commentaries on books and people. . ' .-. v .'..-.' '

Literature is also recognised in Mr. B. L. Binyon, the poet and art critic, who is another Companion of Honour. Bear-Admiral the Hon. A. E. Maulo Banisay, husband of Lady Patricia Bamsay,, and Dr. Afmitage Bobinson. Dean of Wells, become K.C.V.O. The K.B.E. has been bastowed on Wing-Commander Louis Greig.'' In addition to his services in the Eoyal Household, the now knight has greatly assisted the National Federation of Working Boys' Clubs, and the National Playing Fields movement. He played international Eugby football for Scotland. '■■;.' ."'. ' NOTABLE WOMEK.-' ■ Lady Ali Sbar, mother of H.H. the Aga Khan, receives the Imperial Order of the Crown o:l India; and Lady Jackson, wife of Sir- Stanley Jackson, lately ] Governor of Bengal, who displayed such ! cool courage whenher husbandwas shot at by a woman student, is given the Kaisar-i-Hind ;Medal of the first class..!

Order of the Bath.—The Navy: K.C.B. (Military, Division), -Vice-Ad-mir'a.l Frederick ' Charles Dreyer, C.8., C.B,E. The Army: G.C.B.^ (Military Division), General Sir Charles Fergusson, Bt., G.C.M.G., X.C.8., D.5.0., M.y.0., LL.D. (late Grenadier; Guards), retired pay. , ' . • . > ... ~''-. ,

Order of ..the . ; British Empire.— C.B.E. (Civil Division), Eeginald George Stapledon," Esq., M.8.E., M.A;, professor of Agricultural Botany, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Director of the Welsh Plant Breeding Association; Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Tweedalc, A.E:E.C, J;P., Dame of Grace of the Order of Sf. John, Lady District intendent of No. 4 district of the St. John Ambulance Brigade;