NEW YEAR HONOURS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19067, 12 January 1924, Page 9

NEW YEAR HONOURS

a FOUR PEERAGES CREATED. LORD INCHCAPE A VISCOUNT. SIR C. DARLING HONOURED. LONDON, January 1 (delayed). The following New Year honours are additional to those which have already been cabled ; t VISCOUNT. Lord Inchcape, chairman of the P. and 0. and British-India Steam Navigation companies. BARONS. Sir Frederick Banbury, Bart., M.P., chairman of the Great Northern Railway. Sir Charles Darling, until recently a Judge of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. Col. Sir Herbert Jessel, Bart., who carried through the House of Commons the Old Age Pensf.ons Act, 1911, among other measures. BARONET. Mr Henry Strother Cautley, K.C., M.F., Recorder of. Sunderland since 1918. P.C. (Members of the Privy Council.) Mr H. Burton, Minister for Railways, South Africa. Mr Ronald M’Neill, Under-Secretary ot Foreign A flairs. Earl of Winterton, Under-Secretary for India. G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath.) Air-chief Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff. KNIGHT BACHELOR. Alderman Ball, father of the late Major Ball, Vj€., the daring airman. Viscount Inc&ape, who was created a baron in 1911, has played a distinguished part not only in the wood’s shipping, but in Imperial affairs generaljy, and particularly in Indift. He is 71 years of age, and a Scotsman by birth. He was a member of the Legislative Council of the Viceroy of India from 1891 to 1893, and of the Council of India some years 'later. He served also on the committee appointed by the Government to inquire into the question of increasing the commercial intelligence provided by the Board of .Trade. As Special Commissioner and Plenipotentiary, he was . despatched to negotiate a new commercial treaty between Britain and China. The treaty was signed in 1902. One next finds him on a committee appointed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to report on the possibility of improving the consular service of Great Britain. In many other capacities Viscount Inchcape has played a leading part. He conferred, as one of the representatives of the British Government, on the question of introducing the gold standard into Mexico and China in ISO 3, and he lifts been a member of quite a number of committees appointed by the British Government to investigate different questions, notably the question of a national indemnity for ships and cargo in time - of war. Viscount Inchcape was chairman of the committee appointed by the Secretary of State for India to inquire into the military family pension, fund, and he was chairman also of the Indian Retrenchment Committee. It is,“ however, in the vast network of interests associated with shipping that Viscount Inchcape is most closely associated. The vast enterprises which bear the impress of his personality reflect the influence that he wields. , Of the newly-created barons, the most notable - is Sir Charles Darling, who only recently resigned his post as a Judge of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. Ho has a vein of humour which frequently illumined the _ cases which ho was hearing, and which, indeed, gave him the reputation of being the wittiest judge in England. This faculty he possessed in such a degree while on the Bench that , he brightened up even the dullest and dryest of cases very often. He is the author of several publications, and has dabbled in verse. There were signal acknowledgments of his fine services as a Judge on his recent retirement.