HONOUR’S LIST

Southland Times, Issue 25302, 4 June 1935, Page 7

HONOUR’S LIST

BRITISH RECIPIENTS VISCOUNTCY FOR LORD BLEDISLOE SIX NEW BARONS (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, June 2. The Silver Jubilee year of the King’s reign also holds his Majesty’s seventieth birthday and on this occasion the list of birthday honours conferred is more comprehensive than usual. It contains the names of persons who have rendered eminent service in Britain and throughout the Empire in politics and industry, in the professions, in art and science, in the fighting and civil services, and in social work. Leading members of the Labour and Liberal Opposition and of the Trade Union movement figure in the list. VISCOUNT. Lord Bledisloe. BARONS. Sir Arthur Balfour, Mr E. C. Grenfell, Sir William Peake Mason, Sir George May, chairman of the Import Duties and Advisory Committee. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, Treasurer to H.M. the King, and, Sir Clive Wigram, Private Secretary to H.M. the King. PRIVY COUNCILLORS. Major C. R. Attlee, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in the House of Commons. Mr L. Hore-Belisha, Minister of Transport. Captain R. C. Bourne, deputy chairman of the Commons Way and Means. BARONETS. Sir Burton Chadwick, founder of the Company of Master Mariners. Colonel Morley Headlam. Sir Henry Jackson. Sir Crawford McCullagh, Lord Mayor of Belfast. Mr William Mollison, the aurist and laryngologist to Guy’s Hospital. Mr Walter Russell Rea, Chief Whip of the Opposition Liberal Party. Sir Arthur Rose. Mr J. R. Starkey. Mr Evan Williams, president of the Mining Association. KNIGHTS BACHELOR. Noel Ashbridge, chief engineer to the Broadcasting Corporation. Charles Edwards, chief Labour Whip. Seymour Hicks, the well-known actor-manager. Arthur Pugh. Harold Harmsworth. Professor Laidlaw, pathologist. Bruce Richmond, editor of The Times literary supplement. W. Russell, keeper of the Royal Academy. Charles Leonard Woolley, the distinguished Archaeologist. ORDER OF THE BATH. Admiral. Sir J. D. Kelly. Sir William Fisher. General Sir J. Gathor Hardy. Air Chief Marshal Sir E. Ellington. KNIGHT COMMANDER. Sir Edward Harding, Permanent Under-Secretary for the Dominions Office. Stephen Jaselee, Librarian at the Foreign Office. Hugh Gurney, British Minister at Copenhagen. S. P. Waterlow, British Minister at Athens. H. E. Fass, Public Trustee for the Sudan Government. G. B. Sansom, Commercial Counsel for the British Embassy at Tokio. ORDER OF MERIT. John Masefield, the Poet Laureate. Doctor Vaughan Williams, the distinguished British composer. Sir F. Gowland Hopkins, discoverer of vitamins. ORDER OF ST MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE. Knights Grand Cross. Sir Henry Birchenough, of South Sir W. T. White, of Canada. Sir John Malley, Permanent Undersecretary for the Colonies. Sir J. H. Reed. Viscount Chilston, British Ambassador at Moscow. ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER. Earl of Cromer, chain conferred. Knights Grand Cross. Marquess of Cambridge. J. C. C. Davidson. Sir Hugh Allen, the musician. Sir Arthur Erskine. Sir Cooper Perry. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Grand Cross. Sir George Newman, lately Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health. General Sir F. Ready, lately Quar-termaster-General. E. W. Beatty, Chancellor of Mac Gill University (Canada). K.B.E. • Walter M. Citrine, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress. D.B.E. Mrs Ogilvie Gordon, vice-president of the International Council of Women. Miss Rosalind Paget, for service to Nursing. Duchess of Portland. COMPANIONS OF HONOUR. W. N. Bruce, Pro-Chancellor of the University of Wales. The Reverend Doctor John White, first Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Church of Scotland. COMPANION OF THE BATH. Mr E. T. Crutchley, British Government representative at Canberra. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Dr. Dafoe, the quintuplets’ doctor. First Viscount Bledisloe, the son of Charles Bathurst, of Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, was born on Septem*ber 21, 1867. He was educated at Sherborne, Eton,. University College, Oxford, and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. He was a gold medallist ’of the last-mentioned institution and at one time was chairman of governors. He was Chancery barrister and conveyancer from 1894 to 1910. He was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the South Wiltshire division in 1910 and occupied a seat m the House of Commons until 1918. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food from 1916 to 1917, chairman of the Royal Commission of Sugar Supply and director of Sugar Distribution from 1917 to 1919, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry _ of Agriculture from 1924 to 1928, chairman of the Royal Commission on Land Drainage in England and Wales m 1927, president of the Imperial Agri-

cultural Research Conference in 1927, president of the Central Chamber of Agriculture in 1915; president of the British Dairy Farmers’ Association from 1919 to 1921, president of the Buth and Wort of England Agricultural Society from 1920 to 1921, president of the Central Landowners Association from 1921 to 1922, president of the Agricultural section of the British Association in 1922, and chairman of the Farmers’ Club from 1923 to 1924. Viscount Bledisloe has also been chairman of the committee of, the Lawes Agricultural Trust (Rothamsted) and the Agricultural Research Committee of Bristol University. Formerly he was a captain in the Royal Monmouthshire Engineers and military secretary of the Salisbury Training Centre and Southern Command. He was also Verderer of the Forest of Dean. Lord Bledisloe has always taken a keen interest in agricultural and educational questions, having published several papers and pamphlets, and his appointment as Governor-General of New Zealand m 1930, when the producers of the Dominion were facing something in the nature of a crisis, was considered peculiarly appropriate. When his term expireu in March and he sailed for England, all sections of the community joined in praise of one whom it was considered had played a vital part in the affairs of the Dominion over which he had governed. , „ „ Mr Edward Charles Grenfell, Conservative M.P. for the City of London since 1922, is a Lieutenant of the City of London, a director of the Bank of England, and a partner in'the firm of Morgan, Grenfell and Company. He was educated at Harrow, of which he is a governor, and at Cambridge University. TT . , Sir William James Peake Mason, High Sheriff of Somersetshire, is a barrister of the Middle Temple and practises on the North-Eastern Circuit and at the Hull Sessions. He has contested several seats in the Conservative interest. Colonel the Rt. Hon. Sir Clive Wigram, K.C.8., G.C.V.0., is private secretary to his Majesty the King. Educated at Winchester, he joined the Royal Artillery in 1893, was A.D.C. to the Viceroy of India, 1895, and in India and South Africa. He was assistant to the Chief of Staff during the visit of the Prince of Wales to India in 1905-6, and from 1910 to 1931 was assistant private secretary to his Majesty the King. He succeeded the late Lord Stamforham as private secretary in April, 1931. K.C.8., June, 1931, Privy Councillor, 1932, G.C.V.0., June, 1932. Sir George May, K.8.E., has been Chairman of the Import Duties Committee since March, 1932, and . was chairman of the Committee on National Finance, which in August, 1931, advo-

cated immediate economy. He is a former secretary to the Prudential Assurance Company and a former manager of the American Dollar Securities Committee in the war. He is a member of the Council of the Institute of Actuaries.

Sir Arthur Balfour, Bart., K.8.E., has been a notable member of many commissions. He is managing director of Messrs Arthur Balfour and Company, and was Master Cutler-of Sheffield in 1911 and 1912. He holds many directorates, yet finds time for incessant public service. He was chairman of the Committee on Industry and Trade, which presented a voluminous report. He did most valuable work in the Great War and was knighted in 1923, receiving a baronetcy in June, 1929. The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, G.C.V.0., G.C.8., was appointed Keeper of the King’s Privy Purse in October, 1914. He was a favourite and constant attendant upon King Edward and also served Queen Victoria. His father was long in the Royal service as private secretary to QuOen Victoria. He was appointed Deputy-Constable at Windsor Castle, January, 1928. His daughter Loelia married the Duke of Westminster on February 20, 1930, and his son (Lord Ponsonby) is a labour representative in the House of Lords. Major Clement R. Attlee, M.P., was Chancellor of the of Lancaster in 1930 and 1931, and Postmaster-Gen-eral from March to August, 1931. He was educated at Haileybury and University College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar. He served in the war and has been Labour M.P. for Limehouse since 1922. He was Under-Secretary for War in the Labour Government, 1924. He served on the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs (1929-30) and succeeded Sir Oswald Mosley as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Mr Lee-Smith as Postmaster-General. He was one of the few Labour Ministers re-elected in October, 1931.

Mr Leshe Hore-Belisha, M.P., is Minister of Transport. Educated at Clifton College, Heidelberg University, and St. John’s, Oxford, where he was President of the Union, he is only 35 years of age. A barrister, he entered the House of Commons in 1923 as Liberal M.P. for Devonport and has held the offices of Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Parliamentary Secretary of the. Board of Trade. He served in the Great War as a major. Captain Robert Croft Bourne has been Conservative M.P. for Oxford City since 1924 and has been deputy chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Commons since 1935. He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford, graduating as an M.A. and later taking his LL.B. He served in the War and later took up county council work. SPECIALLY WELCOME LORD BLEDISLOE’S APPOINTMENT. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 8.5 p.m.) London, June 3. The newspapers specially welcome the inclusion of Lord Bledisloe in the honour’s list.

The Daily Express adds’ that apart from his distinguished governorship of

New Zealand, he has a fine reputation as a progressive landlord-farmer. AUSTRALIAN LIST FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Sydney, June 3. Further birthday honours conferred are.: QUEENSLAND. K.C.M.G. Sir James Blair, Lieutenant-Gover-nor and Chief Justice of Queensland. This is the first occasion since Labour assumed office in 1915 that such a high honour has been conferred in Queensland.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA. C.M.G. Louis Edward Shapcott, Secretary of the Premier’s Department. ' TASMANIA. C.M.G. Mr Allan L. Wardlaw. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. K.C.M.G. The Hon. George Ritchie, Acting Premier. K.B. Mr Lavington Bonython, director of the Adelaide Advertiser. He has been twice Lord Mayor of Adelaide. C.M.G. W. J. Adley, Director of Education.