KING'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 10

KING'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS

SILVER JUBILEE COMMEMORATED

LORD BLEDISLOE A VISCOUNT

SIX NEW BARONS CREATED

(British Official Wireless)

(Received June 3, 1.15 p.m.)

RUGBY, June 2. The- Silver Jubilee year of the King's reign also holds his Majesty's 70th birthday, and on this occasion the list of Birthday Honours conferred is more comprehensive than usual. It contains the names of persons who have rendered eminent service in Britain and throughout the Empire in politics, industry, professions, arts, sciences, fighting, and Civil Service, and in social work.

Leading members of the Lab our and Liberal Opposition and of the Trade Union movement figure in the list. Lord Bledisloe becomes a vi scount, and six barons are created, namely, Sir Arthur Balfour, Mr. E. C. Grenfell, Sir William Peake Mason, Sir George May (chairman of the Import Duties and Advisory Committee), and Sir Frederick Ponsonby and Sir Clive Wigram (treasurer and private secretary, respectively, to the King).

Uultcd Fres3 Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. I (Received June 3, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, June '2. The Birthday Honours List includes the following:— Viscount. Lord Bledisloe, late Governor-Gene-ral of New Zealand. Baron. Sir Arthur Balfour, member of the Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, Deputy Governor of Windsor Castle and Constable of the Round Tower, and Keeper of the Privy Purse.. Sir Clive Wigram, Private Secretary and Extra Equerry to H.M. the King. Privy Councillor. Major Clement Richard Attlee, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in the House of Commons. Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha, Minister of Transport. Captain Robert Croft Bourne, Deputy Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Knights. Harold Cecil Aubrey Harms worth, director and part proprietor of "The Field," "The Western Morning News," "The Western Evening Mail," etc. Edward Seymour Hicks, actor manager and author. Arthur Pugh, C.8.E., general secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades' Federation. Bruce Lyttelton Richmond, editor of "The Times" Literary Supplement Charles Leonard Woolley, M.A., Director of the Joint Expedition of the , British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania to Mesopotamia.

Order of Merit. John Masefield, Poet Laureate.