SIX VISCOUNTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26040, 2 January 1946, Page 5

SIX VISCOUNTS

NEW YEAR HONOURS THE BRITISH LIST “ARCHITECTS OF VICTORY” (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON. Jan. 1. Honours for the architects of Britain’s victory, both service and civilian, are announced in the King’s New Year honours list. It is the nineteenth honours list of the reign, and the biggest in living memory, occupying 165 pages of the London Gazette. Mr Churchill, the chief architect, is awarded the Order of Merit. An official announcement from Buckingham Palate last July stated that on Mr Churchill’s resignation the King asked him to accept the Order of the Garter, the highest British order of chivalry, but Mr Churchill begged to be allowed to decline. It was then understood that he would be offered the Order of Merit, which, as it carries no precedence or rank, he would be prepared to accept. Paired with Mr Churchill as a recipient of the Order of Merit is Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal, of Hungerford, who received a double honour in that he was also elevated from a baron lo a viscount.

Among the civilians who played a vital part in the victory is Mr D. C. Bailey, the inventor of the now famous Bailey bridge, who received a knighthood. Three awards go *to scientists associated with the development of atomic energy—Mr Wallace J. Akers, director of atomic bomb becomes a knight, and the C.B.E. is awarded Dr Rudolf Ernst Peierls, the sccientific consultant on atomic bomb

research, and Dr Franz Eugen Simon, reader in thermodynamics at Oxford University. Lady Louis Mountbatten, who heads a long list of awards to Red Cross workers, has been created a Dame Commander of the Royal ' Victorian Order, a rare distinction. New Dames of the Order of the British Empire include the actress Edith Evans, and the chief controller of the A.T.S., Mrs Whateley. The famous pianist. Benno Moiseiwitsch, who was awarded the C.8.E., has already raised nearly £15,000 for Mrs Churchill’s Red Cross Aid to Russia Fund. V The principal awards are as follows: VISCOUNTS Field-marshal Lord Alenbrook. Field-marshal Sir Harold Alexander. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham of Handhope. Field-marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery. Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord Portal of Hungerford. Lord Southwood, newspaper proprietor. BARONS Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Arthur Tedder. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Tovey. Field-marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. Mr Colin Frederick Campbell, the banker. Mr John Percival Davies, Lancashire cotton manufacturer and member of the Independent Labour Party. Mr Philip Albert Inman, chairman of Charing Cross Hospital. ORDER OF MERIT Mr Winston Churchill and Lord Portal of Hungerford. COMPANION OF HONOUR Professor Archibald Vivian Hill, secretary of the Royal Society for Scientific Services. PRIVY COUNSELLORS Mr J. A. Beasley, the Australian Minister of Defence. Sir Travers Humphreys, judge of the King’s Bench Division. Mr James Lorimer Ilsley, Canadian Minister of Finance. Mr Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Canadian Minister of Justice and Attor-ney-general. KNIGHTS Major-general Ralph Ainsworth, director of medical services of the joint war organisation of the British Red Cross and the Order of St. John. Mr Wallace John Akers, director of the Atomic Bomb Research Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr Donald Coleman Bailey, inventor of the Bailey bridge. Mr William Thomas Bailey, president of the Newspaper Society. Mr William George Verdon Smith, chairman Bristol Aeroplane Company. Mr Stanley Unwin, publisher. ORDER OF THE BATH Knights Grand Cross (G.C.8.) Admiral Sir John Henry Deeres Cunningham. Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore. General Sir Donald Forbes Adam. General Sir Bernard Charles Paget. General Sir Thomas Riddell Webster. Air Chief Marshal Sir William Sholto Douglas. Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Ludlow Hewitt. Sir Cyril William Hurcomb, Directorgeneral of the Ministry of War Transport. The Maharaja of Mysore, Sir Sri Jaya Bahadur. Sir Arthur William Street, Permanent Under-secretary of State for Air, who is now acting permanent secretary of the office of the Control Commission in Germany and Austria. Knights Commander (K.C.8.) Vice-admiral Harold Thomas Courtland Walker. Lieutenant-general Sir Archibald Nye. THE ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE Knights Commander (K.C.M.G.) Mr William John Haley, director of the 8.8. C. Mr Peter Alexander Clutterbuck, Assistant Under-secretary of State in the Colonial Office. Professor Charles Kingsley Webster, Foreign Office adviser on United Nations’ affairs. ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER Dame Command^ Lady Louis Mountbatten. ' Knight Commander Sir Stewart Dukeleder. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Knights Grand Cross (G.8.E.) Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Somerville. General Sir William Joseph Slim. Sir Edward Appleton, Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Dames Commander (D.8.E.) Miss Edith Mary Evans (Mrs George Booth), the actress. Miss Leslie Violet Whateley, controller of the A.T.S.