BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 9 June 1939, Page 7

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

PROMINENT ENGLISHMEN. (British Official Wireless) Rugby, Juno 7. Included in the King’s birthday honours list are Colonel Sir Henry George Lyons, created a baron, who is treasurer of the Royal Society. He is a former Director-General of tho Geological Survey, Egypt. During the war lie was commandant of the Army Meteorological Services. He has been a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery since 1934,. and was'secretary of the International Council of Unions in 1929. He is chairman of the Inland Water Survey Committee. Mr Her wold Ramsbothnin, who becomes a Privy Councillor, became Minister of Pensions in 1936, and has just been appointed First Commissioner of Works. Ho has been Conservative member of Parliament for the Lancashire Division since 1929. Previously he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education and to the Ministry of Agriculture. Mr James Grav Stuart, who becomes a Privy Councillor, is Scottish Conservative Whip in the House of Commons and lias been Unionist member for Moray and Nairn since 1923. Ho has been a Lord Commissioncr of the Treasury since 1935. lie won the M G’, and liar in fhe war, and was equerry to the Duke of York in 1920 and 1921. Professor Owen Williams Richardson, who is knighted, is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is Yarrow Research Professor of the Royal Society and has been Director of Research in Physics at King’s College. London, since 1924. lie has made valuable contributions to the progress of radio and television. Dr George Peabody Gooch, who lieconies a Companion of Honour, is a Follow of the British Association, a former president of the Historical Association, and was president of the National Peace Council. 1933-1936. Mi- James Joseph Million, who becomes a Companion of Honour. was a member of the Whitley Committee and of numerous other reconstruction committees. He is a member of the executive of the League of Nations Union. Rt. Hon. Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay, appointed G.C.8., is retiring shortly from the position of United Kingdom Ambassador at Washington, a post lie lias occupied since 1930. He was Ambasnsdor at Berlin from 1926 to 1928. and Permanent Undcr-Peerc-tary of Stato at the Foreign Office form 1928 to 1930. Sir Samuel Findluter Stewart, appointed G.C.8., has been Permanent Under-Secretarv of State at the India Office since 1930. He was secretary to the Indian Statutory Commission (the Simon Commission) from 1927 to 1930. Sir Edward John Harding, who liepomes G.C.M.G., lips been Permanent Undcr-Scoi'ctai-v of State at the Dominions Office since 1930. He was Secretary to the Dominions Royal Commission, 1912-17, and deputy secretary of the Imperial Conference of 1923 and 1926. r , „ , Major Eric Norman Spencer Crankshaw, promoted K.C.M.G., has been Secretary of the Government Hospitality Fund since 1929. He had a distinguished war record, and was assistant private secretary to the Secretary of State for War in 1920 and 1921 Sir Robert Maclcod Hodgson, who becomes a. K.C.M.G., has served Riiiaju in many places overseas. He was British A cent in Russia from 1921 to 192-1, Charge d’AfFairos at Moscow lrom 1924 to 1927, and Minister to Albania from 1928 to’ 1936. Mr Horace James Seymour, who lioeonics a K.C.M.CL, has been British Minister at Tehran since 1936. Mr Edward Henry Gerald Shepherd, appointed a C.M.G., has been in the consular service in many parts of too world and became lI.M. Consul at Now York in 1929. Mr Seton Gordon, who becomes a C.8.E., studied forestry in Russia, Germany and France. He was photographer" with the Oxford University Spitsbergen Expedition m 1921 Mr Henry Fitzmaurice, K.8.E., has been Consul-General at Batavia since 2931. Mr James Angus Gillan, K.8.E., has been civil secretary to the Sudan Government since 1931. He rowed lor Oxford in 1907 and 1909. He entered the Sudan Political Service m 1909. PENNILESS PROSPECTOR. NOW A BARON. LONDON, June .8. On tho eve of last night’s announcement of a baronetcy for Sir Harry Oakes, a one-time penniless gold prospector, it was revealed that lie ha A given £IO,OOO sterling to St. George’s Hospital. He had • already given the hospital £BOOO. Sir Harry Oakes is one of the richest men in the world. His income h estimated at more than £1,000,000 a year from Canadian mines.