AWARDS IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 129, 3 June 1933, Page 11

AWARDS IN BRITAIN

RECOGNITION OF THE ARTS (British Official Wireless.) (Received June 3, 11 a.m.) BUGBY, June 2. Tho Birthday, honours to be conferred by the King arc announced as follows: — Tho King's third son, the Duke of Gloucester, is appointed Knight of tho Thistle. Peerages are to be conferred on Mr. George Lane-Fox, Sir Edward Tlliffe, Sir Ernest Palmer, Chairman of the Council of the Koyal College of Music, and Major-General John Seely, chairman of the National Savings Committee. Sir Dennis Herbert, Deputy-Speaker of the House of Commons, becomes a member of the Privy^Council. Baronetcies are conferred on Si" Martin Melvin and Sir George Penny, M;P., Controller of his Majesty's Household. Among the twenty-six new Knights are Dr. William Duke-Elder, the opthaltnic surgeon, who was in attendance on the Prime Minister when he was under treatment) for cyo trouble, Mr. Angus Scott, chairman of the London County Council, Mr.' Harry Preston, for services to sport and philanthropy, and Mr. John Collings Squire,, for services to literature. The Earl of Lytton, who was chairman of the League of Nations mission to Manchuria, becomes a Knight of the Order of the Garter, and the Earl of Elgin, Knight of the Thistle. Miss Honiiman, for services to the drama, receives the Companionship of Honour. _ j Promotions and appointments in, tho Order of the Bath include:—Admiral of the Fleet Sir Frederick Field, Sir Herbert Creedy, Permanent Undersecretary for War; Colonel Clivo Wigram, Private Secretary to the King, and General Sir Robert Casselsj Indian Army, to be Knights. of the Grand Cross. In the Order of St. Michael and St,< George, Sir Alexander Slater, Governor of Jamaica, and Lieutenant-Geno-ral Wauehope, High Commissioner for Palestine, to be Knights of the Grand Cross. Mr. Joseph Addison, C.M.G., British Minister at Prague; Reginald Hoare, British Minister at 'Teheran; arid Ge'orgo Mounscy, Assistant Undersecretary in the-Foreign'Office, to be Knights Commander. 'In the Roj'al Victorian Order . tho new Knights of the Grand Cross include* Sir Edward Elgar, the eminent composer, for his services to music. " In the Order of the British Empire, Baroness Dcnman, chairman of the National Federation of Women's. . Institutes, and Kathleen Lady Simon, wife of the Foreign Secretary, in recognition of her work in connection with the international campaign' for the Anti-Slavery Convention, arc appointed Dames Commander. The Rt. Hon. George Richard LaneFox, P.C., became chairman of the Reorganisation Commission for Pig Products .last year. He is a barrister, an Alderman of West Riding, and a Colonel in the Yorks Hussars. From. 1922 to 1924, and again from 1924 to 1928, he was Secretary for Mines, and he was a member of the Indian Statutory Commission of 1928-29. He saw four years' service in; the European AVar- and was wounded. From 1906 to 1931 ho was a Conservative member of Parliament. Sir Edward M. Iliffe, chairman of Iliffe and Sons, Ltd.; and of the Guildhall Insurance Co., is a joint proprietor of the London "Daily Telegraph" and the "Midland Daily Telegraph." He is a director of Allied Newspapers, Ltd., and of the Amalgamated Press. Ho is also president of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce. Ho was a Conservative member of Parliament from 1923 to 1929, and during the war was Controller of the Machine Tool Department at the Ministry of Munitions. ' \ . ■. Sir (Samuel) Ernest Palmer is one of the-Lieutenants of the City of London, and one of the founders of the firm of Huritley and Palmers. He is deputychairman of the Great Western Railway, a trustee of the King Edward Hospital, and first Fellow of the Royal Colv lege of Music. He is the founder of the Royal College of Opera Patrons' Fund and of the Ernest Palmer Fund for opera study, and has established numerous musical scholarships at different institutions. Major-General John Seoly, Chairman of the National Savings Committee and Lord Lieutenant of Hants, began his career at the Bar, but entered politics, being elected to Parliament as a Liberal member in 1900. He continued in the Houso of Commons until 1924, and held the posts of TJnder-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Under-Seeretary for War, and Under-Secretary for Air. He held similar office with tho Ministry of Munitions, and was Deputy Minister of Munitions at the end of the war after four years' service in France which" won him mention in dispatches five times, the C.8., and C.M.G. Ho has published a number of books. Sir Martin John Melvin is chairman of Ingall, Parsons, Clive, and Co., Ltd., and chairman and governing director of Associated Catholic Newspapers, Ltd. He has had a long career iv public service, and is connected with many important religious organisations. lit 1923 he acted as chairman of the National Catholic Congress. He is a Knight Grand Cross of "the Order of • tho^Holy Sepulchre and Privy Chamberlain of tho Cape and Sword to his Holiness the Pope. . Sir George Penny was previously senior partner iv the firm Of Eraser and Co., Government brokers, Singapore, and to.dk an active part in affairs relating to the Federated Malay States, representing the Government on more than one occasion. Ho entered polities, and became a junior Treasury Lord and Government Whip. In 1931 he was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household. Mr. J. C. Squire, the editor of the "London Mercury," is the well-known literary critic and a man of letters. His earlier publications were humorous, but ho turned towards sorious verse, and later made some excursions into fiction. His short literary essays, published in the "New Statesman." under thfi pen-nnme "Solomon Eagle," won him a wide following, and when ho established tho "London Mercury" a decade ago ho was already famous. . Miss liorniman, almost forgotten

now, is a philanthropist whoso interest in the English drama was in no small part responsible for its renaissance. She provided the funds for the Irish National Theatre Society from 190-1, onabling the Abbey Theatre to produce a series of plays dealing with Irish life that focused tho attention of the world on Ireland. In 1907 she transferred her interest to Manchester, acquiring the Gaiety Theatro there, and i converting it into a repertory. house I which played its part hi the creation of the famous Manchester group of playwrights. In 1921 she relinquished coutrol of this enterprise after four-1 teen years of unbroken success. Sho was also financially interested in some of the early Shaw plays. She is now 72 years of age. Sir Edward Elgar, the famous composer, was knighted in 1928, and created a baronet two years ago, and his compositions arc known throughout the world, ilis chief works.are "The| Apostles," the "Dream of Gerontious," "Falstaff," concertos for violin and violoncello, the "Enigma Variations," and a number of symphonies and chamber works.