The New Year Honours 1911 were appointments by King
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 duri ...
to
various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the
British Empire
The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts esta ...
. They were announced on 3 January 1911.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one ...
Knight Grand Cross (GCB)
;Military Division
*Admiral Sir
Archibald Lucius Douglas
Admiral Sir Archibald Lucius Douglas, (8 February 1842 – 12 March 1913) was a Royal Navy officer of the 19th century.
Naval career
Douglas was born in Quebec City in pre-Confederation Canada in 1842. Educated at the Quebec High School, he joi ...
, G.C.V.O., K.C.B.
Order of the Star of India
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1861. The Order includes members of three classes:
# Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)
# Knight Commander ( KCSI)
# Companion ( CSI)
No appointments ...
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)
*Sir
Steuart Colvin Bayley, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., formerly
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
*Sir
Dennis Fitzpatrick
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, K.C.S.I., formerly
Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab
*Sir
William Lee-Warner, K.C.S.I. Member of the Council of India
Knight Commander (KCSI)
*
John Ontario Miller
Sir John Ontario Miller (7 August 1857 – 19 January 1943) was a British civil servant in India. He was born in Toronto, Canada, the eldest son of Robert Schaw Miller and Eliza Miller. He died at Lavant, Sussex.
Early life
John Ontario Mil ...
, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, lately an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India
*Lionel Montague Jacob, Esq., C.S.I.. M.I.C.E., Secretary to the Government of India, Public Works Department, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations
*
Murray Hammick, Esq.. C.S.I., C.I.E., an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George
Companion (CSI)
*Colonel (temporary Major-General) Reginald Henry Mahon, C.B., Director-General of Ordnance in India
*Michael William Fenton, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of the Punjab, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab for making Laws and Regulations
*Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Fleetwood Pinhey, C.I.E., Indian Army, lately Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor-General of India
*Captain Allen Thomas Hunt, Royal Navy, in command of
*
Henry Walter Badock, Esq., Accountant-General, India Office
*
James Mollison
James Mollison (20 March 1931 – 19 January 2020) was acting director of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) from 1971 to 1977 and director from 1977 to 1989. He was director of the National Gallery of Victoria from 1989 to 1995.
Ea ...
, Esq., Inspector-General of Agriculture with the Government of India
*Pirajiraos Bapu Saheb Ghatge, C.I.E., Chief of Kagal (Senior Branch), Kolhapur
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George IV, Prince of Wales, while he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George III.
It is named in honour ...
Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)
*The Right Honourable
Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Lord Balfour of Burleigh, in the County of Kinross, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1607 for Sir Michael Balfour.
He was succeeded by his daughter, Margaret, his only child. She married Robert Arnot, who assumed the su ...
, P.C., K.T.; in recognition of services in connection with the Royal Commission on trade relations between Canada and the West Indian Colonies
*The Right Honourable
Lord Robson, P.C., in recognition of services in connection with the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration
Knight Commander (KCMG)
*The Right Honourable
Lord Islington
John Poynder Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington, (31 October 1866 – 6 December 1936), born John Poynder Dickson and known as Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder from 1884 to 1910, was a British politician. He was Governor of New Zealand between ...
, D.S.O.,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand
*Reginald Laurence Antrobus, Esq., C.B., a
Crown Agent for the Colonies
*
Ernest Woodford Birch
Sir Ernest Woodford Birch, Wright, Arnold, Twentieth Century Impressions of British Malaya: Its history, ''People'', commerce, industries and resources, 1908 (29 April 1857 – 17 December 1929) was a British colonial administrator who served as ...
, Esq., C.M.G.,
British Resident, Perak
*The Honourable
Allen Bristol Aylesworth
Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth, (27 November 1854 – 13 February 1952) was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian.
Life and career
Born in Newburgh, Canada West, of United Empire Loyalist ancestry, Aylesworth was educated at the University of To ...
, K.C.,
Minister of Justice of the Dominion of Canada; in recognition of services in connection with the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration
*
Henry Paul Harvey, Esq., C.B., Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government
*
Richard Frederick Crawford, Esq., one of His Majesty's Commissioners of Customs; in commemoration of the establishment of the Union of South Africa
*The Right Honourable Frederick Robert Moor, D.C.L., Senator of the Union of South Africa; one of the delegates from Natal to the
South African National Convention
*Sir
James Percy FitzPatrick
Sir James Percy FitzPatrick, (24 July 1862 – 24 January 1931), known as Percy FitzPatrick, was a South African author, politician, mining financier and pioneer of the fruit industry. He authored the classic children's book, ''Jock of the Bus ...
, Kt., Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa; one of the delegates from the Transvaal to the South African National Convention
*The Honourable
Nicolaas Frederic de Waal
Sir Nicolaas Frederic de Waal (8 July 1853 – 5 April 1932) was the first Administrator of the Cape Province in South Africa. He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands and arrived in South Africa in 1880 where he settled in Middelburg and opened a ...
, Administrator of the Province of the Cape of Good Hope
*The Honourable
Edward Philip Solomon, Senator of the Union of South Africa
*The Honourable
Thomas William Smartt, Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa; one of the delegates from the Cape of Good Hope to the South African National Convention
*The Honourable Edgar Harris Walton, Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa; one of the delegates from the Cape of Good Hope to the South African National Convention
*
Abe Bailey
Sir Abraham Bailey, 1st Baronet (6 November 1864 – 10 August 1940), known as Abe Bailey, was a South African gold tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer.
Early years
Bailey's mother, Ann Drummond McEwan, was Scottish by birth while his ...
, Esq., lately Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Transvaal
Companion (CMG)
*Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Robert Smith, I.S.O.,
Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
*
George Handley Knibbs
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was an Australian scientist, the first Commonwea ...
, Esq.,
Commonwealth Statistician, Commonwealth of Australia
*
Frederick Manson Bailey
Frederick Manson Bailey (8 March 1827 – 25 June 1915) was a botanist active in Australia, who made valuable contributions to the characterisation of the flora of Queensland. He was known by his middle name, Manson.
Early life
Bailey was bo ...
, Esq., Colonial Botanist of the State of Queensland
*Lieutenant-Colonel Francis William Panzera,
Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate
*John Penry Lewis, Esq., M.A., late Government Agent for the Central Province of the Island of Ceylon
*
James Crawford Maxwell, Esq., District Commissioner, Sierra Leone
*Major Richard Alfred Poer O'Shee, R.E.; in recognition of services in connection with the Anglo-Portuguese Boundary Commission, East Africa, 1904–1906, and the Anglo-French Boundary Commission, Niger and Lake Chad, 1906–1909
*Major John Arthur Hannyngton; in recognition of services in Somaliland
*Colonel George Samuel Abercrombie Harvey, Pasha, Commandant of the Cairo City Police
*
Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Buda-Pesth
*Philip Alphonso Somers Cocks, Esq., His Majesty's Consul at Lisbon
;in commemoration of the establishment of the Union of South Africa
*Albert Browne, Esq., I.S.O., one of the delegates from the Orange River Colony to the
South African National Convention
Order of the Indian Empire
The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria on 1 January 1878. The Order includes members of three classes:
#Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)
#Knight Commander ( KCIE)
#Companion ( CIE)
No appoi ...
Knight Commander (KCIE)
*Rear-Admiral
Edmond John Warre Slade, M.V.O., Royal Navy, Commander-in-Chief, East Indies
*John Benton, Esq., C.I.E., F.C.H., M.I.C.E., Inspector-General of Irrigation with the Government of India
Companion (CIE)
*
John Barry Wood, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department
*Lieutenant-Colonel George Grant Gordon, V.D., Commandant, Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for making Laws and Regulations
*Colonel Ralph Champneys Broome, Indian Army, Director-General, Army Remount Department
*Colonel Frank Goodwin, V.D., Locomotive Superintendent, Rajputana-Malwa Railway, and Commandant, 2nd Battalion, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Volunteer Rifles
*Lieutenant-Colonel George Frederick Chenevix-Trench, Indian Army, Political Agent in Zhob
*Archibald Young Gipps Campbell, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Private Secretary to the Governor of Madras
*Andrew Bigoe Barnard, Esq., Bengal Police Department, Deputy Director Criminal Intelligence
*James Adolphus Guider, Esq., Superintendent of Police, Bombay
*John Paul Warburton, Esq., Punjab Police Department (retired), lately Inspector-General of Police, Patiala State
*James William Douglas Johnstone, Esq., Director General of Education, Gwalior State
*Fakir Sayad Iftakhar-ud-din, Punjab Provincial Service, and some time British Agent at Kabul
Royal Victorian Order
The Royal Victorian Order (french: Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria. It recognises distinguished personal service to the British monarch, Canadian monarch, Australian monarch, o ...
Member, 5th Class
*Joseph Morris, Esq., Superintendent of the Line, Great Western Railway Company (with effect from December 21, 1910)
*
Robert Turnbull, Esq., Superintendent of the Line, London and North-Western Railway Company (with effect from January 2, 1911)
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