BRITISH NEW YEAR HONOURS

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1933, Page 9

BRITISH NEW YEAR HONOURS

CAREERS OF RECIPIENTS.

ELEVATION TO PEERAGE.

Among the newly-created British peers, Sir Thomas Herder, who was created a knight in 1918 and first baronet of Shaston in 1923, is famous for his medical services ■ to Royalty and distinguished, people. Since 1923, he has been physician in ordinary to the Prince of Wales. Bom in 1871, he studied at the University of London and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Among the. positions he. holds .on medical organisations are those of chairman of the National Committee against Rheumatism/ president of the Harveian Society of London, and member of the Executive and Advisory Scientific Committee and the British Empire Cancer Campaign. Sir (now Lord) Joseph .Duveen. was created a knight in 1919 and a baronet in 1926. A director of Duveen Brothers, Limited; London,' and president of Duveen Brothers, Inc. New York, and Paris, he is prominent as a collector of art. He holds the position of a trustee of the National Gallery, the Imperial Gallery and the Wallace Collection, and is a member of the Council of the British School at Rome and the Council ,of the National Art Collections Fund. He is a founder of the British Artists’ Exhibitions Organisation, formed to encourage lesser-known British artists. Sir Rennell Rodd (now a baron) was British Ambassador to Italy, 1908-19, and British delegate to the League of Nations in 1921 and 1923. He was bom in November, .. 1858. Educated at. Haileybury and at Balliol College, Oxford, he joined the Diplomatic Service in 1883. He sprved at Berlin, 1884; Athens, 1888; Rome, 1891, and Paris, 1892. He was in charge of the British Agency at Zanzibar, 1893, transferred to Cairo, 1894, was act-ing-Agent and Consul-General on various occasions, special Envoy to King Menelik, 1897, missioner to Abyssinia, secretary of the Legation at Cairo, 1894, Counsellor of Embassy at Rome, 1901-04, and Envoy to Sweden, 1904-08. Sir Walter Runciman, has risen from cabin boy to shipping magnate and now to the peerage. He was born at Dunbar, Scotland, in July, 1847. He is the grandson, on his mother’s side, of an owner of sea-going vessels and was put to sea as a' lad to work his way up. In. 1906 .the Government made use of his intimate knowledge of life at sea by appointing him to the Committee of Seamen. In the same year he was made a baronet. In 1910 he was president of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom. Elected Liberal M.P. for Hartlepool in 1914, he retained the seat till 1918. He was made chairman of the northern Liberal Federation, but resigned in November, 1926. Field-Marshal Sir George Francis Milne, who was knighted in 1918, has had distinguished military service. He entered the Army in 1885 and became a major in 1900. He saw service in the Sudan and South African campaigns and in the Great War. A brigadier-general commanding the 4th divisional artillery in 1913 and 1914, he rose to chief staff officer, headquarters, of the 2nd Army and commanded the 27th Division and the 16th Army Corps, and the British Salonica Force and Army of the Black Sea. He received the decorations, of many countries. A general in 1920 and a fieldmarshal in 1928, he was A.D.C. to the King in 1923 and G.0.C., Eastern Command, from 1923 to 1926. Sir Charles Nall-Cain, who has been created a baron, was made a baronet in 1921. He is trustee of the Liverpool Blue Coat Hospital and president of the Liverpool and Samaritan Hospital for Women. He was bom on May 29, 1866. Sir O\ven Seamann, who was created a knight in 1914 and now receives a baronetcy, retired on October 22 from the editorship of Punch, which he had held for 26 years. He was born in 1861 and educated at Shrewsbury School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a first-class in the classical tripos in 1883. After a period as a schoolmaster and as professor of literature at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle, he was calld to the Bar in 1897. Meanwhile, he had begun his connection with Punch by contributing a parody of Kipling’s “Rhyme of the Three Sealers.” While still a professor, he also published a volume of parodies which is regarded as a classic of its kind. He joined the staff of Punch in 1897. Shortly afterwards he was made assistant-editor and in 1906 he succeeded Sir F. C., Bumand in the editorial chair.