BRITISH HONOURS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17979, 3 January 1922, Page 6

BRITISH HONOURS.

FOUR NEW PEERS. O.M. FOR SIR J. BARRIE. TWO ACTORS KNIGHTED. By Telegraph—Press Awx-i&tion—Copyright. § (Received 6.50 p.m.) A and N.Z. LONDON, Jan. I. The list of New Year honours include four new Peers. A large number of 'r >iwness men and financiers receive kn V hoods for services rendered during the war. The list includes the following BARONIES. SIR ROBERT NIVISQN, Bart. [Lord Nivison is senior partner of the stockbroking firm of It. Nivison and Company. For many years he has been responsible for the management of the loan business of the Dominions and Crovm Colonics. He was made a baronet in 1914.] SIR JAMES BUCHANAN, BaH. [Lord Buchanan is chairman of James Buchanan and Company, Limitsd, distillers, London, and of W. P. Lowrie and Company, Limited, of Ciasgow. He was made a baronet in 1920.] MR. JOSEPH WATSON. [Lord Wat-son is a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.] MR. FRANCIS WILLEY. [Lord Willey is chairman of the firm of Francis Willey and Company, wool merchants, of Bradford and Boston, United States.] THE ORDER OF MERIT. (This Order, designed to include Britisfo subjects who have won conspicuous distinction in the naval and military services or in letters, art., and science, though it carries with it no special title or order of precedence, is intrinsically the highest British decoration. It numbers only 17 members and four foreign honorary members. ) SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE. [Sir James Barrie first won fame as a novelist witfn " Auld Licht Idylls," " A Window in Thrums," " Sentimental Tommy," and "Tommy and Grizel/' which have placed, under the name of Thrums, his birthplace, the Forfarshire village of Kirnemuir, upon the literary atlas of the world. With his reputation as a novelist firmly established, Sir James Barrie next turned to the stage, and he is now the most popular and prolific of English playwrights. His first conspicuous dramatic success wag " Quality Street," and this was followed by " The Admirable Crichton," " Peter Pan," " What Every Woman Knows," " A Kiss for Cinderella," " Dear Brutus," and " Mary Rose," the last produced in 1920. Sir James Barrie is now 61 years of age. His literary colleague in the Order of Merit is Mr. Thomas Hardy, on whom the honour was conferred in 1910.] BARONETCIES. MR. HYDE, proprietor of the Birmingham Daily Post. MR. JARVIS, director of the Financial News. G.B.E. (Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Britisi Empire.) MRS. W. M. HUGHES, wife of the Prime Minister of Australia, for services rendered to Australia during the war. COMPANIONS OF HONOUR. (This Order was created in 1917. Re--1 sti'icted to 50 members, it is conferred for " conspicuous service of national importance," and carries no title. It ranks next to and immediately after the firstaclass of the Order of the British Empire.) SIR HENRY NEWBOLT. [Sir Henry Newbolt is the unofficial poet laureate of the British Navy. His ballads, " Admirals All," published in 1897, created his literary reputation. He has written many volumes of stirring verse, including " The Island Race," "The Sailing of Long-ships," " Songs of the Sea," " The Book of the Blue Sea," and " The Book of the Thin Red Line." In 1920 he published " A Naval History of the War.] MR. JOSEPH HAVELOCE WILSON, M.P. ' [Mr. Havelock Wilson, who was formerly a seaman, is president of the National Sailors and Firemen's Union, and Secretary of the Merchant Seamen's League. He' is Coalition-Liberal M.P. for South Shields. ] \ K.C.M.G. (Knight Commander of the Order of St. 1 Michael and St. George). SIR WALTER HENRY LEE, Premier and Chief Secretary of Tasmania since 1916. KNIGHTS BACHELOR. MR. GERALD DU MAURIER. [Mr. Gerald Du Maurier, who is actormanager of Wyndham's Theatre, London, is ranked by many as the foremost English actor of to-day. He is a son of the late George Du Maurier, the famous author and artist.] MR. CHARLES HAWTREY. [Mr. Charles Hawtrey has been a leading member of the English stage for nearly 40 years. He made an enormous success with " The Private Secretary " in 1883. Among his later successes were: " A Message from Mars," and " The Man From Blankley's."] MR. JAMES JEBUSA SHANNON, R.A. [Mr. Shannon is president of the Society of Portrait Painters. He was born in New York, and at the age of eight was taken by hie parents to Canada. When he was 16 he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after three years won the gold medal for figure painting. He soon became one of the leading portrait painters in London, and was one of the first members of the New English Art Club. He was elected R.A. in 1909.] MR. R. W. JEANS, director of the Bank of Australasia. THE HON. L. F. B. CUSSEN. Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. MR. F. B. MOULDER, of Adelaide. MR. WILLIAM VICARS, of Sydney.