NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20704, 30 April 1929, Page 8

NEW YEAR HONOURS LIST.

MANY WOMEN INCLUDED. INTERESTING NAMES. NOTABLE BUSINESS MEN. (From Ouh Own Correspondent.) LONDON, March 1. There are no fewer than 61 women in the New Year Honors List, which has been issued after a delay of two months owing to the King’s illness. The list includes 3 barons, 1 privy councillor, 0 baronets, and 30 knights. The new peers are Sir Jesse Boot, Bt. founder of the widely-known firm of cash chemists, which bears his name, and a notable benefactor to Nottingham; Mr Urban Broughton, in consideration of the public, political, aud philanthropic services of his father, the donor of Ashridge Park to the Conservative Party, who died Jn January; and Sir Berkeley Moynihan, Nt., president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Sir Jesse Boot’s gifts to Nottingham have exceeded £1,000,000. 'He and Lady Boot met the entire cost of building the University of Nottingham (believed to be about £250,000), in addition to which Sir Jesse devoted a further £50,000 to the foundation of a Chair of Chemistry. Altogether his gifts to the university have amounted v to some £400,000. In 1925 he bnilt a new boulevard for Nottingham, in the construction of which 35 working-class dwellings had to_ be demolished. To compensate for this he built 35 new houses on adjacent land at a cost of £25,000. Sir Berkeley Moynihan did important service during the war, and was mentioned in despatches. He holds the honorary rank nf major-general in the Army Medical Service. His medical works are acknowledged as authoritative contributions to various branches surgery. He is the second of the great surgeons to receive a peerage, the first having been Lord Lister, in 1897, and he joins in the House of Lords Lord Dawson of Penn, the King’s IPhysician, who was the first doctor to be so honoured f6r his professional eminence, BARONETCY FOR MOTOR MANUFACTURER. Among the nine new baronets are Mr F. A. Aykroyd (member of the council of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, a well-known authority on wool), and Mr "William R. Morris (director of the Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd,, diair man and managing director of Morris Motors (1926), Ltd. The motor correspondent of the Daily Express writes of Mr Morris as “a romantic figure in Britain’s industrial history. 1 Behind a shy, nervous, almost unimpressive manner is hidden a keen business brain combined with mechanical and inventive genius. He was born at Worcester 52 • years ago, the son of a man who for years drove a .mail coach in Canada, His school days were spent in Cowley Village School, a stone’s throw from the spot where at the age of 17 he struck out on his own with a capital of £6 to make 'push bikes.’ In six years he had saved £2OOO, and worked up a email garage business, and in 1900 he built his first motor cycle. Eleven years later his first motor car had passed a satisfactory test, he had bought a small factory, and in 1913 he turned out 400 motor cars. “ From that time he went oh steadily manufacturing motor carVuntil in 1026 he was able to float Morris Motors' Ltd., with a capital of £5,000,000. Last year he gave back to the firm for its develop, ment his £725,00b profit due to him as the only ordinary shareholder His workpeople have always benefited by the firm’s successes, and his known gifts to charity are not much' short of £250,000, Some- time ago Mr Morris bought Huntercombe Golf Club as a birthday present for his wife,,ahd he and Mrs Morris are now living there in a wing of the club house.specially reserved for them.” ' The companies he controls employ some 15,000 persons. Among Mr Morris’s gifts for public and charitable purposes are £25,000 to the hospitals of Biminghr i, £IOO,OOO to St. Thomas’s Hospital, : London, and £IO,OOO to complete the endowment of the chair of Spanish studies .at Oxford ‘TJfiiversity, SOME NEW KNIGHTS. New knights include Mr J. A. Fleming, emeritus professor of electrical engineering, Unhjersity College; Mr G. B. Hurst, M.P. for the Hogs Side Division of Manchester; Lieutenantcolonel Levita, chairman of the London County Council; Mr L. Lougher, M.P. for Cardiff Central; Lieutenant-colonel Kenyon Vaughan Morgan, M.P. for East Fulham; Mr Gervais Rentoul, M.P. for Lowestoft; Dr Arthur Somervell, lately principar inspector of music to the Board of Education; Mr William Thompson, president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce; Mr Robert C. Evans, proprietor of The ; Teachers’ World; Mr A. V. Roe, the aeroplane builder. , - COMPANIONS OF HONOUR. Lady (Florence Elizabeth) Barrett, dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, president, Medical Women’s International Association.’ Miss Lilian Mary Baylis, lessee and manager Old- Vic Theatre, which she •transformed from a music hall into the hone of Shakespearean productions and grand opera in English. The Rev. John Charles Carlile, editor of the Baptist Times. Mr Frederick Delius, the blind composer. He is Bradford-born, ■ and now lives at Fontainebleau, France, When 21 he went to Florida, U.S.A., as an orange planter, but two years later he returned and went to Leipzig to studv music. . ■ - , , “This has made me the happiest man in the world. It is wonderful.” Thus the composer, who is now a blind, bedridden man. “It is good to know they still remember me in England. It is too wonderful, wonderful. Is it possible T” 1 K.B. „ . Au^ sto Bartolo, LL.D., Hint.,, Minister for Public Instruction, Migration, and Labour, and member of the Senate, Island of Malta. K.B.E. _ Mr 6, A. Julius, chairman of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Commonwealth of Australia. C.B.E. (CIVIL DIVISION. Mr L, B. 6. S. Beale, H.M. Trade Commissioner m New Zealand. SOME EMINENT WOMEN. In tbs, Order of the British Empire Dame Edith Lyttelton, ,D.8.E., is advanced to be Dame Grand Cross i and among the Dames Commanders are Lady Alida, Luisa Brittain (wife of Sir H. Brittain, M.P.), for political and public services} Mrs Laura Knight, A.R.A., the painter; Miss Bertha PMUpotts, formerly, head mistress of Girton College Cambridge; and Professor Annie M‘lh roy, an eminent gynaecologist Among the Commanders are Miss Marta Cunningham, founder of the “ Not Forgotten ’’ Association} Mrs Cuthbert Headlam, who has done valuable work for unemployed women and girls in Durham; and Miss Mary Ivens, another distinguished gynaecologist. • 0.8.E.’s (Civil Division) w the Hon. Margaret Best, hon, secretary, School Empire Tour Committee. Dame Edith Lyttelton has been British substitute delegate to the League of Nations Assembly, 1923, 102 Q, and 1937; vice-chairman. Waste Reclamation Trade Board; deputy director of women’s branch of Ministers of Agriculture which organised the Land Army; member of Central Committee on Women’* Employment. * -