ROYAL HONOURS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 174, 24 June 1936, Page 2

ROYAL HONOURS

FOR FAMOUS BRITONS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received June 23, 1.15 p.m.) RUGBY, June 23. In celebration of the King’s Birthday a Viscountcy has been conferred upon Baron Dawson of Penn, the eminent physician who, as Physician-in-Ordinary to the King, attended King George during his last illness. Baronies are conferred upon Sir Herbert Austin, chairman of the Austin Motors Manufacturing Company; and the well-known philanthropist, Sir Henry Cautley, M.P., for political and public services; Sir Malcolm Hailey, lately Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudli. and Mr William Beaumont Pease, chairman of Lloyds Bank. Colonel D. J. Colville, Parliamentary Under-Secretarv for Scotland : Earle De La Warr, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education; and Captain Euan Wallace M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade, become Privy Councillors. Five new Baronetcies are conferred and the new Knights Bachelors number 29. The latter include several honours conferred for local political and public services in various parts of the country. Among the new Knights are: Major George Davies. M.P.. Vice-Chamberlain to His Majesty’s Household; Edward Guy Dauber, architect and chairman of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England ; George Gater, clerk of the London County Council; Herbert Grierson, lately Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University; Colonel Webb .Johnson, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital : Gilbert Morgan, Director of Chemical Research in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: William Nicholson, the painter, and trustee of the Tate Gallery at Milibank; and Albert Seward, Professor'of Botany at Cambridge University. The following appointment is made to the Order of the Companion of Honour: —William Adams, Warden of All Souls’ College. Oxford, and chairman of the National Council of Social Service.

William Bullard, His Majesty’s Minister-designate to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and R. L. Craigie, As-sistant-Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, become Knights Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Viscount Wakefield. LieutenantColonel Sir Malcolm Murray, Controller of the Household of the Duke of Connaught, and Sir Richard Cruisa, Surgeon-Oculist to the King, become Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. The honour of Knight Bachelor is also conferred upon the Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram, the captain of the All-India cricket team.