KING'S BIRTHDAY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 4 June 1930, Page 5

KING'S BIRTHDAY

HONOURS LIST NEW PEERS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 2nd June. The list of honours conte t .>d unon the occasion of the King’s birthday includes the following: PEERAGES• Mr Noel Buxton, Minister of Agriculture. Mr llenry Furniss, formerly Principal of Ruskin College, Oxford, for services to education. Sir Esme Howard, lately Ambassador to the United States. BARONETCIES. Sir Leonard Dunning, Inspector of Constabulary. Mr Basil Mott, past-president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Mr Frederick Royce. founder and director of Rolls Royce, Limited. The recipients of knighthoods include Major Thomas Crozier, Chief Inspector of Explosives at the Home Office; Dr. Harold Delf Gillies, chief plastic surgeon of the Ministry of Pensions, for valuable services in the treatment of facial disfigurement; and Mr Henry Lytlon, famous for his parts in Gilbert and Sullivan opera. Particularly notable are the honours conferred upon Sir John Simon, chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission, who is appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India, and upon Miss Amy Johnson, who is appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Other honours include the following: ORDER OF BRITISH KNIGHTS Grand Gross. —Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keys, who commanded the operations against Zeebrugge in 1.918, and Admiral" Sir'Edwin Alexander Sinclair, principal naval aide-de-camp to the King. . ‘ . Knights Commanders.—-Vice-Admiral David Anderson; Surgeon Vice-Admiral Artliiur Gasket; Lieutenant-General Alexander Wardrop, of the Indian Army; Lieutenant-General Charles Godwin, Commander of the Peshawar District of India; and Air Vice-Marshal Munro. Companion of the said Order.—Mr Robert Craigie, counsellor to the Foreign Office, for services in connection with the Naval Conference. .Among the new Knights Bachelor are Mr Harry John Barclay, secretary to the Athletic Association ; Captain' E. N. L. Bennett, Labour M.P. for Cardiff. , Mr Ben Turner is promoted C.B.E. on his retirement from the Ministry of Mines. Squadron-Leader Orlebar is awarded a bar to his Air Force Cross. ORDER OF MERIT Dr. Samuel Alexander, in recognition of his eminent position as British philosopher; Dr. Montague James,, in recognition of his contributions to mediaeval learning; and Dr. George Trevelyan, Regius Professor of Modern. History at Cambridge University. ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE Knights of Grand Cross.—Sir Herbert Stanley, Governor of Ceylon, and Sir William Erskine, Ambassador at Warsaw. Knights Commanders.—Mr Henry Chilton, Minister to the Holy See; Mr Herbert Malkin, legal adviser to the Foreign Office; and Mr Claud Russell, Minister at Berne. Companion of the said Order. —Mr Reginald Leigh, assistant-private secretary to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. IMPERIAL ORDER OF THE CROWN OF INDIA Lady Birdwood, wife of Field-Mar-shal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief in India.

VICTORIAN ORDER Knights of Grand Cross.—Baron Buckmaster and Lieutenant-General Sir William Pulteney. Knight Commander.—Sir Herbert Montgomery, Assistant Under-Secretary for the Foreign Office.

AUSTRALIANS HONOURED SYDNEY, 3rd June. In the Interstate Honours ' List arc included: — Knights Bachelor: Mr Edward Henry Macartney, Agent-General for Queensland, and Mr John Walters Kirwan, President of the Legislative Council of Western Australia.

C.M.G.: Mr W. J. Gall, Under-Sec-retary to the Home Secretary's Department, Queensland; Mr R. L. Parker, a well-known solicitor of Launceston.

C.8.E.: Mr G. L. Cressy, accountant, Launceston.

1.5.0.: Mr C. A. Bernays, Clerk to the Queensland Parliament.