New Year Honours Awards

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 2, 3 January 1941, Page 8

New Year Honours Awards

SERVICES TO THE EMPIRE RECOGNISED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Dec. 31. The New Year’s Honours List includes one viscountcy, four baronies, two privy councillorships, three baronetcies, 29 knights bachelor, and one Order of Merit. Viscount Camrose is the new viscount. He is editor-in-chief of the London Daily Telegraph. Before being created a baron in 1929, he was William Ewart Berry. With his brother, he is the principal owner of a group of newspapers. Baronies Baronies are to be conferred upon die following:— Lord Hugh Cecil, who is the fifth son of the third Marquess of Salisbury, and is thus a member of the famous Cecil family, who have been associated English politics since the days of Elizabeth. He is an uncle of Lord Cranboume. Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs. Field-Marshal Sir Edmund Ironside, who entered the Royal Artillery in 1899 and served through South African and Great Wars. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Allied ■forces in Archangel in 1920. He held various high commands in England, and later was for a time governor of Gibraltar. Until recently he was Chief of the Imperial General Staff. 'Sir Robert Kindersley, who is president of the National Savings committee and is also a director of the Bank of England and a Governor of the Hudson Bay Co. Sir Frank Boyd-Merriman, who is president of the Probate Division of the High Court. Prtry Councillors and Baronetcies* New Privy ouneillors are: Mr Clifton Brown, M.P.; deputy or the Committees of the House of Com mono. Sir Walton Womersly, Minister of] (Pensions. Baronetcies were conferred upon: Sir William Coxen, lately Lord Mayor of London. Sir Kenneth Lee, for some time (Director-General of the Ministry oi, Information. j Mr Hugh Lett, president of the Royal College of Surgeons. - > Knighthoods Among those upon whom knighthoods) are conferred are: Mr Peter Bennett, past president of the Federation of British Industries and lately Director-General of Tanks and Transport in the Ministry of Supply.. Mr William Lawrence Bragg, Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge, who is a son of the eminent physicist, Sir William Bragg, with whom, In 1915, he received th« Joint Nobel Prize for work on thi ( X-ray and crystal structure. Mr Fank Brangwyn, R.A., for services to art. Mr George Byson, musical Directoi of the Royal College of Music. Mr Allan Grant, managing director of Thomas Firth and John Brown Ltd.. Sheffie’d. Dr John Webb, Director-General of Emergency Medical Services in the Ministry of Health. Mr Frederick IK. Leggett, Chief of the Industrial Commission. Mr Frank Spraggs, president of the Society of British Aircraft Construction Ltd. Mr John Townsend, who is Kykeham Professor of Physics, Oxford. Brigadier-General Young, Chief Divisional Food Officer for the London Counties. The Duke of Devonshire becomes Knight of the Order of the Garter. Companions of Honour. Two well-known* journalists, Mr John Louis Garvin, editor of the “Observer” and Mr Arthur Henry Mann, lately editor of the “Yorkshire Post,” are appointed Companions of Honour. The only Order of Merit conferred is upon Professor Gilbert Murray, the eminent Classical scholar, who is well known all over the “world for this interest in the League of Nations International Committee for Intellectual Co-operation. Order of the Bath. Appointments and promotions in the Order of the Bath include: Grand Knights Commanders Sir Richard Hopkins, second secretary of the Treasury. Sir Eric Phipps, formerly Ambassador to Paris. Knight Commander Mr Edward Appleton, secretary to the Department of Scientific and Industrial research. Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office. Mr Charles McLaren, DirectorGeneral of Ordnance Factories. Mr Archibald Rowlands, Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Aircraft Production. - Sir Arthur Street, Permanent Undersecretary to the Air Ministry. Colonel Greenly, formerly ControllerGeneral of the British Supply Board in Canada. Sir Ashley Sparks, the Ministry of Shipping representative in the United States. Sir Thomas Gardiner, DirectorGeneral of the Post Office, and Sir William Robinson, formerly Secretary to the Ministry of Supply receive the C.B.E. Dames ®f the British Empire. Three appointments as Dames of the British Empire are announced as follow: Viscountess Craigavon, the Dowager Marshioness of Reading, who is chairman of Women's Voluntary Services for civil defence. Miss Irene Vanbrugh, the well-known actress. Captain Arthur Morrell, Deputy Master of the Corporation of Trinity House, is among the recipients of the K.B.E. Those upon whom the honour of

Commander of the British Empire Order is conferred include: Lady Ruth Balfour, chairman of Women’s Voluntary Services in Scotland. Mr William Holmes, General Secretary of the Agricultural Workers’ Union and lately chairman of the T.U.C. Mr Douglas Bowie, President of the Scotland Football Association.