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1918 New Year Honours (OBE)
The 1918 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were published in ''The London Gazette'' and ''The Times'' in January, February and March 1918. Military Division *Col. Augustus Mervyn Owen Anwyl Anwyl-Passingham, Recruiting Region Cmdr. *Lt.-Col. Francis Logie Armstrong, in charge of Canadian Records *Maj. Edward George Graham Talbot Baines, York and Lancaster Reg.; Sec., Nottingham Territorial Force Association *Lt.-Col. Richard Bell-Irving, Instructor, Royal Flying Corps *Maj. Lionel Oxborrow Betts, Australian Army Medical Corps *Lt.-Col. Gerald Walker Birks, Ofc. in Charge of Canadian Y.M.C.A. Services *Capt. Archibald Campbell Black, 7th Battalion, Royal Scots; Ministry of National Service *Maj. Frederick Blakemore, Army Pay Dept. *Maj. William Henry Booth East Kent Reg.; Deputy Assistant Director of Railway Transport, Scottish Command *Capt. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Queen Victoria, George was the second son of Edward VII, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and was third in the line of succession to the British throne behind his father and his elder brother, Prince Albert Victor. From 1877 to 1892, George served in the Royal Navy, until the unexpected death of his elder brother in early 1892 put him directly in line for the throne. On Victoria's death in 1901, George's father ascended the throne as Edward VII, and George was created Prince of Wales. He became King-Emperor, king-emperor on his father's death in 1910. George's reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josiah Crosby
Sir Josiah Crosby (25 May 1880 – 4 December 1958) was a British diplomat. He was British Minister to Panama and Costa Rica from 1931 to 1934 and British Minister to Siam from 1934 to 1941. Born in Falmouth, the son of a master mariner, Crosby was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle Upon Tyne and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar and took first-class honours in the modern languages tripos in 1902. He joined the Consular Service in 1904 and served in Siam in various capacities until 1917, when he was appointed consul at Saigon. After serving as acting consul-general at Bangkok in 1919–20, he was consul-general at Saigon in 1920, and consul-general at Batavia from 1921 to 1931. In 1931, Crosby was appointed British minister to Panama, and in 1934 he returned to Siam as British minister there. He retired in 1941, and was imprisoned in Siam for a time during the Second World War. In 1944, he published ''Siam: The Crossroads'', a book a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Petrie
Sir David Petrie (9 September 1879 – 7 August 1961) was Director General (DG) of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1941 to 1946.The Times, ''Obituary'', 8 August 1961 Biography Petrie worked in the Indian Imperial Police between 1900 and 1936. His highest level in British India was to chair the Union Public Service Commission. In April 1941, he was appointed Director General of MI5. His task was to reorganise the service so that it could improve its efficiency. In the spring of 1946, Petrie retired. He was awarded Order of the Yugoslav Crown The Royal Order of the Yugoslav Crown was instituted by King Alexander I of Yugoslavia on 5 April 1930, to commemorate his changing of the name of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separa ... and other decorations. References Notes Sources * R. Popplewell, ''Intelligence and imperial defence: British intelligence and the defence of the Indian empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Woolcock
William James Uglow Woolcock (1878 – 13 November 1947) was a Liberal Party politician in England. During the First World War, he was Assistant Director of Army Contracts, followed by Chairman of Medical Stores Committee for the War Office. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours and a Commander of the Order in the 1920 New Year Honours. At the 1918 general election, he was elected unopposed as Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney Central. He stood down at the 1922 general election, and did not stand for Parliament again. He later served as Chairman of the Committee of Non-official Advisers associated with the Industrial Advisers of the United Kingdom Delegation at the Ottawa Conference. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1933 New Year Honours The 1933 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Wimperis
Harry Egerton Wimperis The Whitworth Society, Wh.Sch (27 August 1876 – 16 July 1960) was a British aeronautical engineer who acted as the Director of Scientific Research at the UK's Air Ministry prior to World War II. He is best known for his role in setting up the Committee for the Scientific Survey of Air Defence under Henry Tizard, which led directly to the development and introduction of radar in the UK. He is also known for the development of the Drift Sight and Course Setting Bomb Sight during World War I, devices that revolutionised the art of bomber aircraft, bombing. Biography Wimperis was born on 27 August 1876 to Joseph Price Wimperis, an Australian merchant, and Jemima Samuel in Edmonton, London. He started his studies at Royal College of Science (part of Imperial College London, Imperial College) and then moved to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge as an advanced student in 1898. During this period he became a The Whitworth Society, Whitworth Scholar, wrote a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Wilkinson (artist)
Norman Wilkinson (24 November 1878 – 30 May 1971) was a British artist who usually worked in oils, watercolours and drypoint. He was primarily a marine painter, but also an illustrator, poster artist, and wartime camoufleur. Wilkinson invented dazzle painting to protect merchant shipping during the First World War. Background Wilkinson was born in Cambridge, England, and attended Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire and St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School in London. His early artistic training occurred in the vicinity of Portsmouth and Cornwall, and at Southsea School of Art, where he was later a teacher as well. He also studied with seascape painter Louis Grier. While aged 21, he studied academic figure painting in Paris, but by then he was already interested in maritime subjects. Illustration career Wilkinson's career in illustration began in 1898, when his work was first accepted by ''The Illustrated London News'', for which he then continued to work for many years, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Squire
Rose Elizabeth Squire, OBE (1861–1938) was an English factory inspector at the Home Office. Life Rose Squire was born in London, the daughter of William Squire, a Harley Street surgeon, and his wife Martha Wilkinson. After home education, she needed to earn a livelihood aged 32 and gained a Diploma from the National Health Society in 1893. She was the first woman to gain a Sanitory Inspector's Certificate in 1894. In 1895 she became a lady inspector of factories, and was appointed senior lady inspector in 1903. In 1906-7 she was a special investigator to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws.Papers of Hilda Squire at the From 1908 to 1912 she was based in |
Alliott Verdon Roe
Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE, Hon. FRAeS, FIAS (26 April 1877 – 4 January 1958) was a pioneer English pilot and aircraft manufacturer, and founder in 1910 of the Avro company. After experimenting with model aeroplanes, he made flight trials in 1907–1908 with a full-size aeroplane at Brooklands, near Weybridge in Surrey, and became the first Englishman to fly an all-British machine a year later, with a triplane, on the Walthamstow Marshes. Early life Roe was born in Patricroft, Eccles, Lancashire, the son of Edwin Roe, a doctor, and Annie Verdon. He was the elder brother of Humphrey Verdon Roe. Roe left home when he was 14 to go to Canada where he had been offered training as a surveyor. When he arrived in British Columbia he discovered that a slump in the silver market meant that there was little demand for surveyors, so he spent a year doing odd jobs, then returned to England. There he served as an apprentice with the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. He later tried t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Barlow Ranson
Captain Joseph Barlow Ranson OBE was a commander of White Star Line liners. He was born in 1864. His marine career began at the age of 14, when he joined the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. He joined the White Star Line in 1891 and retired in February 1921. Rescue of RMS ''Republic'' Ranson was the captain of the ship , which rescued 1700 passengers and crew from the stricken liner (sailing from New York to Gibraltar and Mediterranean ports) when it collided with the Italian liner ''Florida'' in fog off the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts on January 23, 1909. Submarine bells, depth sounding, and radio signals were used by Ranson to locate the drifting RMS ''Republic''. Ranson was awarded the Lloyd’s Life Saving Medal "as an honorary acknowledgement of his extraordinary exertions in contributing to the saving of life on the occasion of the steamships ''Republic'' and ''Florida'' being in collision in the vicinity of the Nantucket Lightship on the 23 January 1909". As a joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Phillips (diplomat)
Sir Herbert Phillips Order of the British Empire, OBE, Order of St Michael and St George, KCMG, (1878-1957) was a British diplomat who served in China. His last position before retirement from government service was as British List of Consuls-General of the United Kingdom in Shanghai, Consul-General in Shanghai. Career Phillips was born on 8 July 1878. Phillips joined the British China consular service as a student interpreter in 1898. In 1900, Phillips was appointed a 2nd Class Assistant and in 1903 appointed Acting Vice Consul (representative), Consul in Tianjin. In 1904, he acted as Chief Clerk and Registrar (law), Registrar of the British Supreme Court for China and Corea. He was promoted to First Class Assistant in 1906 and served as Acting Vice Consul in Chongqing from December 1907 to April 1909. He was appointed Acting Chinese Secretary of the British Legation in Peking in 1910. He was promoted to Vice Consul in 1911 and was appointed Consul in Wuzhou. He did not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Lintrup Paus
Christopher "Kiff" Lintrup Paus (; 6 November 1881 in – 28 May 1963) was a British diplomat, who served at the British Embassy in Oslo for several decades, as commercial counsellor and as the British consul in Oslo and head of the British consular service in Norway. He wrote several published reports on industrial and economic affairs in Norway. He attended Bradford Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford (1900–1904), where he graduated with a master's degree in 1904. He became commercial attaché at the British Embassy in Oslo in December 1914, in succession to Sir Francis Oppenheimer, was promoted to commercial secretary for Norway in May 1919 and served as the British consul in Oslo from 1926 to 1931. In 1939 he was promoted to the personal rank of counsellor of embassy. He retired from His Majesty's Diplomatic Service on 27 April 1941. A member of the Norwegian Paus family, he was a son of the Norwegian-born businessman Christopher Paus (1843–1919) of Mancheste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Philip
Janet Thomson Philip (26 November 1876 – 25 April 1959), known as Jessy Philip, Jessy Mair and later Janet Beveridge, was a member of the third cohort of female students to study at the University of St Andrews and was School Secretary at the London School for Economics (LSE) from 1920 to 1939. She took a role in producing and promoting the Beveridge Report that her husband William Beveridge had been commissioned to write by the Churchill war ministry Labour-Conservative coalition government. Early life and education Janet Thomson Philip, known as Jessy during her childhood and first marriage, was born in Dundee on 26 November 1876. She left the High School of Dundee to study mathematics at the University of St Andrews from 1893 to 1897. Career From July 1915, Philips volunteered for the Ministry of Munitions before joining as a staff member. She was appointed to a role at the Ministry of Food as it was inaugurated in 1916, and took on the role of Assistant Director for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
