New Year Honours List

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1939, Page 5

New Year Honours List

LONDON, January 1. Four new Peerages .are created in the New Year honours list, which is as follows.— BARONS. Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey, who was Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence from 1912 and to the Cabinet from 1919 until May last, when he resigned both positions to become ,a Director of the Suez Canal Company. He was also Secretary to the War Cabinet in 1916 and the Imperial War Cabinet in 1917, and Secretary to the General Imperial Conferences of 1921, 1923, 1926. 1930 and 1937.

He visited New Zealand in the

j course of an Empire tour in 1934. Mr Cecil B. Harinswortli. a younger Brother of the late Lord Northcliffe and of Lord Rothermere. Born in 1863, Mr Harmsworth, entered politics In 1906. He was Under-Secretary for Home Affairs in 1915 a member of the Prime Minister’s Secretariat 1917-19, I Under-Secretary for Foreign’ j Affairs, 1919-22, and acting Minister of Blockade,' 1919. Lord Justice Greer, Kt., who has been | Lord Justice of Appeal since 1927. He was born in 1863, and became a Justice of the High Court in 1919. , Sir Laurence Philipps, Bt„ a member of Lloyds and chairman of several companies. He is also a member of Tattersalls Committee and of the Jockey Club, and of the Air Registration Board under the Air Ministry. P.O. (Privy Counsellor). Mr R. A. Butler, Parliamentary Un-der-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Captain H. P. C. Crookshank, Parliamentary Secretary for Mines. BARONET. Sir Peter Bylands, president of the Iron and Steel Wire Manufacturers’ Association since 1930, and a former president of the Federation of British Industries, the Iron and Steel Institute, and the National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers.

G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath). Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Com-mander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet. G.C.M.G. (Knight Grand Cross, St. Michael and St. George). The Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary ' for Foreign, Affairs. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador to Berlin. G.C.V.O. (Knight Grand Cross of the Victorian Order). Sir John Reith, former Director-Gen-eral of the British Broadbasting Corporation, and now full-time phairman of Imperial Airways Limited, • K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath). Vice-Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, deputy-Chief of the Naval staff. Sir Edward E. Bridges, secretary to the Cabinet and the Committee of Imperial Defence. K.CJM.G.

(Knight Commander St. Michael and St. George). Mr Eric Gustav Machtig, assistant Under-Secreary of State, Dominions Office, vice-chairman of. the Overseas Settlement Committee, and a member of the Overseas Settlement Board. Captain Cecil George Graves, deputy Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Mr Basil Cochrane Newton, British minister to Czechoslovakia. K.B. (Knight Bachelor).

Mr J. G, Hay, a member of the International Rubber Regulation Com-

mittee. Mr Adam Maitland, Conservative member of the House of Commons for the Faversham Division of Kent since 1928, and chairman of several important companies. Mr F. J. Pearce a past president of the British Dental Association. Mr S. J. Pigott, manging director of the shipbuilding firm of John Brown and Co., builders of the Queen Mary .and Queen Elizabeth. Lieut.-Col. Heaton Forbes Robertson, Director of Works, Imperial War Graves Commission, j Mr J, B, F. Watson, Director of the I National Federation of Employ- ' ers’ Organisations and ,a member 1 of the governing body of the InI ternational Labour Office. 1 C.B. j (Companion of the Order of the ! Bath). Mr F. T, A. Asbton-Gwatkln, Counsellor at the Foreign Office and a member of Lord R unciman’s staff on his visit to Czechoslovakia last year. Mi’ William Strang, Counsellor at the Foreign Office and also a member ! of Lord Runciman’s staff. O.M. (Order of Merit). , Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield, i until recently First Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet. , Sir James Jeans, the noted scientist 1 and astronomer. ,