HONOURED BY THE KING

Evening Star, Issue 20990, 2 January 1932, Page 10

HONOURED BY THE KING

■ THE HEWi YEAR LIST VISCOUNTY FOR LORD SANREY (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph Copydghi RUGBY, January 1. Ono viscounty, live baronies, three Privy Councillor-ships, three baronetcies, twenty-eight knighthoods, and a largo number of appointments and promotions in the various Orders of Chivalry are announced in the New Year Honours List. ■ . The principal honours arc as follow : VISCOUNTY. Baron SANKEY, Lord Chancellor. [Lord Sankey, G. 8.8., who has been Lord Chancellor since 1929, was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in 1892. He became a judge of the King’s Bench Division in 1914, and held this appointment until 1928, when he became a Lord Justice of Appeal. Pie was chairman of the commission which inquired into the condition of the coal industry in 1919, and in 1930 he acted as ono of the British members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. He was awarded a knighthood in 1914, appointed a Privy Councillor in 1928, and elevated to the peerage in 1928. He is sixty-six years of age and unmarried. He took n leading part in the Indian Round Table Conferences.] BARONIES. Mr CLIFFORD ALLEN, formerly chairman of the Independent Labour Party. Colonel WILFRID ASHLEY, M.P. Minister of Transport in the last Conservative Government. ■ Mr WALTER GUINESS, M.P., Minister of Agriculture in the last Conservative Government. Mr STRATTON JONES, Liberal M.P. for Camborne, Cornwall., Sir WILLIAM MITCHELL-THOM-SON. M.P., Postmaster-General in the last Conservative Government. PRIVY CQUNCILLORSHIPS. Major WALTER ELLIOT, Financial Secretary to the Treasury. Sir THOMAS INSKIP, SolicitorGeneral, Colonel Sir CLIVE WIGRAM, Private Secretary to His Majesty. BARONETCIES. Mr PERCY HARRIS, Liberal M.P. and formerly chairman of the London County Council. [Mr Harris, who has been member for Bethnal Green since 1922, is a son of the late Mr Wolf Harris, of the firm of Bing, Harris, and Co.] 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 (surgeon), who endowed the house where Charles Darwin lived and gave it to the nation. He'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 Royal Society. _ , Professor , PATRICK ' GEDDES, Emeritus Professor of Botany at St. Andrews University, for services to education. Mr RICHARD. HOYLE JACKSON, chairman of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation. slr THOMAS M'ARA, secretary of tho Newspaper Proprietors’ Association. Mr ERNEST SIMON, formerly Liberal M.P. and a member of the first National Government. Mr HENRY WELLCOME, founder of tho Wellcome Research Institution and Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories at Khartum. Mr HENRY WILKINS, president of the Co-operative Wholesale Society. Major MACKENZIE WOOD, Liberal M.P., Assistant Whip. ■ COMPANION OF HONOUF!. Mr JOHN BUCHAN. M.P., the novelist, is appointed a Companion of Honour for public, educational, and literary, services. ORDER OF.BRITISH EMPIRE.

Promotions and appointments in the Order of the British Empire include the following:— The Dowager Viscountess Cowdray to bo a Dame of the Grand Cross in recognition, of numerous benefactions, particularly in connection with hospitals and the nursing profession. Miss Margaret Tube, late principal of Bedford College for Women; Dr Edith Brown, principal of the Women’s Hospital at Ludhiana, Punjab; and Saloto Tubou, Queen of Tonga, to be Dame Commanders. Mr Frederick Maze, InspectorGeneral of the Chinese Maritime Customs, to be Knight Commander. Among those appointed Commanders in this order are Miss Marriette Chick, a distinguished scientific worker in. bacteriology and bio-chemistry; and Mr Reginald Mitchell, chief designer of the Supermarine Aviation Works, for services in connection with the Schneider Trophy contest. OTHER DISTINCTIONS. Lord Peel becomes a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India. In the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Sir Francis Humphreys, High Commissioner of Iraq, becomes a Knight Grand Cross. Mr Neville Henderson, British Minister at Belgrade, and Mr Stephen Tallents, secretary of the British Marketing Board, become Knight Commanders. Appointments in the Royal Victorian Order include Sir Walford Davies, Mus. Doc., who becomes a Commander. (i< Among those awarded the Kaisar-i----hind medal is a former Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr J. H. Whitley, late chairman of the > Royal Commission on labour in India. A’ large number of officers in India and the colonial services also receive honours. The promotions in the Air Force include Air Vico-max*shal Sir John !steel, to be Air Marshal, and Air-commodore Macewau to be Air Vice-marshal,

THE PRINCESS ROYAL. - (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 1. The New Year’s, honours list announces that the King’s daughter, Princess Mary Countess Harewood, will henceforth bear the title of Princess Royal,

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HONOURS. 1 v ADELAIDE, January 1. The New Year honours include: — Knight of the British. Empire.—Mr ,V. J.. Young, managing director of the Tlcler, Dempster Company. Knight Bachelor.—Mr W. G. T. Goodman, who has been chief engineer md general manager of the Adelaida municipal tramways for twenty-five years. [Mr Goodman supervised the .retaliation of Dunedin’s tramway ser- • vice for Noyes Bros., tho contractors.] Tho Labour Premier (Mr Hill) said, that politics should not enter into the questions of recognition of citizens’ services. QUEENSLANDERS HONOURED. BRISBANE, January 1.- , The honours list includes the follow-* ing:— Companion of St. Michael and St. George.—M. J. W. Davidson, commissioner of railways. . . . Companion ot the British Empire—• Mr W. B. Slade, a pastoralist, who has ■ for many years been prominent in tho development of Darling Downs. _ Order of the British Empire.—Miss Florence Chatfield, superintendent o£ Diamantina Hospital for chroniq diseases. King’s police medal.—Sergeant Fahey (Brisbane), for bravery in disarming a man during a shooting affrajr. HOBART LADY HONOURED. HOBART, December 31.Mrs Rose Stephens, the widow of m Hobart solicitor, has received the * 0.8. E. for humanitarian and philanthropic work. Mrs Stejihens served as a nurse during tho South African war. TWO BY-ELECTIONS NECESSARY. (British Official .Wireless.) ■ RUGBY, January 1. (Received January 2, at peon.) Two of the five new barons are members of tho present House of Commons—namely Lord Ashley, who represents Christchurch; and Lord Mitchell-Thomson, South Croydon and by-elections will be. necessary fog both seats, held at the General Election by large Conservative majorities. It has been customary for dominiftni Governments to forward ; lists for recomme.ndatoin twice a year, but. nq compulsion exists. The question is efttirely one for tho Government concerned, and it is understood that tho New Zealand Government came to tho conclusion that the times did not call for the conferring of honours.