The 1926 Birthday Honours 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 citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the
official birthday
A birthday is the anniversary of the birth of a person, or figuratively of an institution. Birthdays of people are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with birthday gifts, birthday cards, a birthday party, or a rite of passage.
Many reli ...
of The King on 3 June, but it was announced on 20 May that due to the
national strike, the King had approved the Prime Minister's recommendation to delay the publication of the list until 3 July 1926. The honours were effective to 5 June 1926. Per standard practice, Sir
Paul Chater
Sir Catchick Paul Chater ( hy, Փոլ Չաթեր; ; 8 September 1846 – 27 May 1926) was a prominent British businessman of Armenian descent in colonial Hong Kong, whose family roots were in Calcutta, India.
Biography
Early life
Chater was ...
, who died 27 May 1926, still received the honour of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire as he would have received the honour if he had survived.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, ''etc.'') and then divisions (Military, Civil, ''etc.'') as appropriate.
United Kingdom and British Empire
Viscount
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In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...
*Captain
Courtenay Charles Evan, Baron Tredegar For public and political services.
Baron
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*
Henry Seymour Berry by the name, title and style of ''Baron Buckland, of Bwlch in the County of Brecon''. For public, political and philanthropic services.
Privy Councillor
A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The word "privy" means "private" or "secret"; thus, a privy council was originally a committee of the mon ...
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
*Colonel
John Gretton
John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, (1 September 1867 – 2 June 1947) was a British businessman and Conservative politician. Gretton won two gold medals in the 1900 Olympic Games.
Life and career
Gretton was the eldest son of John Gretton of St ...
Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire.1895-1906; for Rutland, 1907-1918; for Burton since December 1918. For political and public services.
*Sir
Halford John Mackinder
Sir Halford John Mackinder (15 February 1861 – 6 March 1947) was an English geographer, academic and politician, who is regarded as one of the founding fathers of both geopolitics and geostrategy. He was the first Principal of University Ext ...
, Chairman of the Imperial Shipping and Imperial Economic Committees. First Principal of University College, Reading, now the
University of Reading
The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...
*
Richard William Alan, Earl of Onslow Under Secretary for War. For public services.
Baronet
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cies
*Sir
Arthur Shirley Benn
Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel, (20 December 1858 – 13 June 1937), known as Sir Arthur Benn, Bt, between 1926 and 1936, was a British people, British businessman and politician.
Early life
He was born on 20 December 1858, in Cork (c ...
Member of Parliament for Plymouth, Drake Division, since December 1910. President, Association of British Chambers of Commerce 1921-22 and 1922-23. For political and public services.
*Colonel
Henry Ferryman Bowles
Colonel Sir Henry Ferryman Bowles, 1st Baronet (19 December 1858 – 14 October 1943) was a British Army officer and Conservative politician.
Early life and family
He was the eldest son of Henry Carrington Bowles Bowles of Myddelton House, Bulls ...
Chairman or President, Enfield Conservative Association 1885-1926; Member of Parliament for the Enfield Division, 1889-1906 and 1918-22. For public and political services.
*Brigadier General
Robert Gordon Gordon-Gilmour of Liberton and Craigmillar. President of the Scottish Unionist Association. Convener of the Eastern Divisional Council of the Scottish Unionist Association. For political and public services.
*
James Augustus Grant
Lieutenant-Colonel James Augustus Grant (11 April 1827 – 11 February 1892) was a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa. He made contributions to the journals of various learned societies, the most notable being the "Botany of the Sp ...
Member of Parliament, Egremont Division 1910-18; Whitehaven Division 1918-22; Derby South since October 1924. For political and public services.
*Colonel
John Wakefield Weston Member of Parliament for South Westmorland, 1913–18, and Westmorland, 1918-24. Chairman of County Council from 1908 till present time. For political and public services.
*Lieutenant-Colonel
Godfrey Dalrymple White Member of Parliament for Southport 1910-23 and since 1924. For political and public services.
Knight Bachelor
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*
Edward Tindal Atkinson
Major Sir Edward Hale Tindal Atkinson, Order of the Bath, KCB, Order of the British Empire, CBE (19 September 1878 – 26 December 1957) was a British barrister and judge who served as the Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales), Dire ...
Railway and Canal Commissioner since 1919
*
Herbert Baker
Sir Herbert Baker (9 June 1862 – 4 February 1946) was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures. He wa ...
In recognition of his services to art
*Alderman John Bickerstaffe Was Chairman and Leader of the Conservative Party in Blackpool for over 20 years. Member of the Borough Council for 46 years. For political and public services.
*Major
Archibald Boyd Boyd-Carpenter Member of Parliament for North Bradford 1918-23 and for Coventry since 1924. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour 1922-23; Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General 1923 Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty, July 1923 till January 1924. For political and public services.
*Alexander Keith Carlyon President, Harrow Conservative Association, 1919-25. Chairman of the Hendon Bench. For political and public services.
*Brigadier General
George Kynaston Cockerill Member of Parliament for the Reigate Division since 1918. For political and public services.
*
Henry Coward
Sir Henry Coward (26 November 184910 June 1944) was a British conductor and composer.
Born in Liverpool to parents in the entertainment industry, Coward took an apprenticeship to a cutler in Sheffield. Educating himself, he became a teacher an ...
Conductor of the
Sheffield Musical Union
*James Inglis Davidson, Director of the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture. For public services.
*Edwin Dodd, In recognition of his long services to the Shaftesbury Society and
Ragged School
Ragged schools were charitable organisations dedicated to the free education of destitute children in 19th century Britain. The schools were developed in working-class districts. Ragged schools were intended for society's most destitute children ...
Union
*
William Edward Dudley
Sir William Edward Dudley (29 May 1868 – 7 May 1938) was an administrator in the British co-operative movement and a local politician. He lived in Runcorn, Cheshire, throughout his life and, after working with Bridgewater Navigation, he join ...
For public services. Director of the
Co-operative Wholesale Society
A co-operative wholesale society, or CWS, is a form of co-operative federation (that is, a co-operative in which all the members are co-operatives), in this case, the members are usually consumer cooperatives. According to co-operative economi ...
of Manchester. President of the Co-operative Congress 1925-6
*Alfred Henry Evans Member of the Unionist Association of the Tamworth Division since 1895 and President and Chairman since 1920. For political and public services.
*Lieutenant Colonel Charles Henry Brabazon Heaton-Ellis Chairman of the Hitchin Division Conservative Association for about 20 years. Member of Herts County Council 1903-19. For political and public services.
*Captain
Houston French Lieutenant,
Yeomen of the Guard
The King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard is a Sovereign's Bodyguard, bodyguard of the British monarch. The List of oldest military units and formations in continuous operation, oldest British military corps still in existence, it was ...
*
George Rowland Hill
Sir George Rowland Hill (21 January 1855 – 25 April 1928) was an English sporting administrator, official and referee, who is most notable for his role as the Secretary and later President of the Rugby Football Union (RFU). Hill gave 49 years ...
, for over 37 years Chairman of the Greenwich Conservative Association.
London County Council
London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today kno ...
(LCC) Member for Greenwich 1922-25. For political and public services.
*
Francis Eden Lacey, Secretary to
Marylebone Cricket Club
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since 1898
*Colonel
Henry George Lyons
Colonel Sir Henry George Lyons FRS (11 October 1864 – 10 August 1944) was a British geologist and director of the Science Museum in London.
Henry Lyons was born in London, the son of General Thomas Lyons. Lyons was educated at Wellingto ...
Director and Secretary of the
Science Museum
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*Stanley Machin President of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce. For public services.
*Lawrence Margerison Secretary to the National Savings Committee
*Lieutenant-Colonel
Francis Kennedy McClean. In recognition of his services to aviation
*Christopher George Musgrave Chairman of the
Metropolitan Water Board
The Metropolitan Water Board was a municipal body formed in 1903 to manage the water supply in London, UK. The members of the board were nominated by the local authorities within its area of supply. In 1904 it took over the water supply functi ...
. For public services.
*
William Haldane Porter Chief Inspector, Aliens Branch, Home Office
*Lieutenant-Colonel
Assheton Pownall
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Assheton Pownall (3 October 1877 – 29 October 1953) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Lewisham East from 1918 to 1945.
Pownall was born in Warwick, Warwickshire, the so ...
Member of Parliament for East Lewisham since 1918. For political and public services.
*Ernest Victor Buckley Rutherford For public services.
*George Shedden President, Isle of Wight Conservative and Unionist Association since 1922. For political and public services.
*
Andrew Thomas Taylor
Sir Andrew Thomas Taylor, JP, RCA, FSA, FRIBA (13 October 1850 – 5 December 1937) was a British architect and councillor. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and practised architecture in Scotland and London before emigrating to Montre ...
Mayor of Hampstead 1922-23. LCC Member for Hampstead since 1908. Vice-Chairman of the LCC 1919-20. For public and political services.
;;British India
*Lallubhai Shamaldas Mehta lately temporary Member of the Executive Council, Bombay
*Justice Philip Lindsay Buckland, Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Calcutta
*Justice Cecil Walsh Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Allahabad
*Ganendro Prosad Roy, Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs
*Colonel Gordon Risley Hearn Agent, Eastern Bengal Railway
*Robert McLean, Agent, Great Indian Peninsula Railway
*Lieutenant-Colonel
Bradford Leslie
Sir Bradford Leslie KCIE (1831-1926) was an English civil engineer who specialised in bridges and was a pupil of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. His most notable achievement was the 1887 Jubilee Bridge.
Early life
Leslie was born in London on 18 Au ...
Royal Engineers, Chairman, Madras Port Trust
*
Phiroze Cursetjee Sethna Manager, Sun Life Assurance Company A Canada, Bombay
*Raj Bahadur Purohit Gopi Nath Member of the Jaipur Council of State
*Brajendranath Seal Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University
*Walter Stuart James Willson, Member of the Legislative Assembly
*Khan Bahadur Ebrahim Haroon Jaffer, Member of the Council of State
*John Walter Hose Indian Civil Service (retired), attached Public and Judicial Department, India Office
;;Dominions
*George Mason Allard, Representative of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia on, and Chairman of, the
Amalgamated Wireless Company Ltd., in recognition also of his services to the Commonwealth Government in connection with banking and financial matters.
*
George Fairbairn, Agent-General in London for the State of Victoria
*Frank Fox Secretary of the Fellowship of the British Empire Exhibition; in recognition of his services to the Empire
*Charles Holdsworth, Managing Director Of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd., recognition of his services in the development of New Zealand
*The Hon.
Charles Ernest Statham, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dominion of New Zealand
;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
*
Fiennes Cecil Arthur Barrett-Lennard, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Jamaica
*
Henry Hessey Johnston Gompertz, Chief Justice, Federated Malay States
*Edward Allan Grannum Colonial Secretary, Mauritius
*William Henry Himbury, General Manager, British Cotton Growing Association
*William Morrison, Member of the Privy Council of, and Nominated Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica; in recognition of his public services.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
=Military Division
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;;Army
*General Sir
Claud William Jacob Indian Army, Military Secretary, India Office, late General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India
=Civil Division
=
*The Rt. Hon. Sir
Herbert Louis Samuel
Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, (6 November 1870 – 5 February 1963) was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935.
He was the first nominally-practising Jew to serve as a Cabinet minister and to beco ...
For public services.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
=Military Division
=
;;Royal Navy
*Vice-Admiral Sir
Rudolf Walter Bentinck
*Vice-Admiral
Herbert William Richmond
Herbert William Richmond (born on the 17 July 1863 in Tottenham, England) was a mathematician who studied the Cremona–Richmond configuration. One of his most popular works is an exact construction of the regular heptadecagon in 1893 (which was c ...
;;Army
*Lieutenant-General Sir
John Sharman Fowler Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Signals
*Major-General Henry Leycester Croker
*Major-General Pomeroy Holland-Pryor Indian Army, Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Southern Command, India
*Major-General Harrington Owen Parr Indian Army, late Military Secretary, Army Headquarters, India
=Civil Division
=
*William John Berry Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty
*
William Montagu Graham-Harrison Secondary Parliamentary Counsel
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
=Military Division
=
;;Royal Navy
*Engineer Rear Admiral George William Baldwin
*Captain
Thomas Erskine Wardle
*Captain
Alister Francis Beal
*Surgeon Captain
Reginald St. George Smallridge Bond
*Lieutenant-Colonel George Leonard Raikes Royal Marines
;;Army
*Major-General Robert Strickland Hannay Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command
*Major-General
Charles Bonham-Carter
General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, (25 February 1876 – 21 October 1955) was a British Army officer and later Governor of Malta.
Early life
Bonham-Carter was born on 25 February 1876 in Kensington, London, the ninth of eleven children of Henr ...
General Staff, Eastern-Command
*Colonel Henry Richardson Peck Commanding Royal Artillery, 2nd Division, Aldershot
*Colonel
Cuthbert Graham Fuller Brigade Commander, Canal Brigade, Egypt
*Colonel
George Hanbury Noble Jackson Brigade Commander, 7th Infantry Brigade
*Colonel Frank Walter Wilson Assistant Director of Veterinary Services, Eastern Command
*Major-General Ernest Frederick Orton, Indian Army, Officiating Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Southern Command, India
*Colonel Dennis Deane Indian Army, Commander, Ambala Brigade Area, India
*Colonel Frederick Stewart Keen Indian Army, Commandant, Small Arms School, India
;;Royal Air Force
*Air Commodore
Thomas Charles Reginald Higgins
=Civil Division
=
*Rear-Admiral
John Ernest Troyte Harper
*
Frank Edward Smith
Sir Frank Edward Smith (14 October 1876 – 1 July 1970) was a British physicist and Acting Director of the National Physical Laboratory between 1936 and 1937.
Biography
Smith was born in Aston Manor, Birmingham on 14 October 1876, the four ...
Director of Scientific Research, Admiralty
*Colonel
Richard Edgar Sugden Territorial Army, Brigade Commander, 147th (2nd West Riding) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army
*
George Clarke Simpson
Sir George Clarke Simpson KCB CBE FRS HFRSE (2 September 1878 – 1 January 1965) was a British meteorologist. He was President of the Royal Meteorological Society 1940/41.
Life
George Clarke Simpson was born in Derby, England, the son of Art ...
Director of the Meteorological Office
*John Wentworth Garneys Bond, Head of the Journal Office in the House of Commons
*William Cecil Bottomley Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office
*William Richard Codling Controller, H.M. Stationery Office
*Bernard Montagu Draper, Director of Finance, War Office
*
Rupert Beswicke Howorth, Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Office
*John Stewart Stewart-Wallace, Chief Land Registrar, H.M. Land Registry
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander (KCSI)
*Sir
Alexander Phillips Muddiman Indian Civil Service, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council
Companion (CSI)
*Arthur William Botham Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council, Assam
*
George Gall Sim Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner of Railways
*Leonard Birley Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal
*Neil Macmichael, Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Revenue, Madras
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
*Colonel Sir Alexander MacCormick a leading Surgeon in Australia; in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
*Sir
Donald Charles Cameron Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Tanganyika Territory
*Brigadier-General Sir
Gilbert Falkingham Clayton For services rendered in concluding agreements with the Sultan of Nejd and for the conduct of a mission to the Imam of the Yemen
*Charles Strachey Assistant Undersecretary of State, Colonial Office
*His Excellency the Rt. Hon. Sir
Ronald William Graham
Sir Ronald William Graham (24 July 1870 – 26 January 1949) was a British diplomat and the British Ambassador to Italy from 1921 to 1933.
Early life
Graham was born in London 24 July 1870 the eldest son of Sir Henry John Lowndes Graham and was ...
His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome
*His Excellency the Rt. Hon. Sir
Ronald Charles Lindsay His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Turkey
*Sir
Charles Murray Marling
Sir Charles Murray Marling (3 December 1862 – 17 February 1933) was a British diplomat.
Early life
Marling was born on 3 December 1862 in the village of King's Stanley near Stroud, Gloucestershire, the second son of Sir William Marling, 2nd B ...
His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague
*The Hon.
Francis Oswald Lindley
Sir Francis Oswald Lindley (12 June 1872 – 17 August 1950) was a British diplomat who was HM Consul-General in Russia in 1919, British High Commissioner in Vienna 1919–1920, Ambassador to Austria 1920–1921, Ambassador to Gre ...
His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Oslo
*The Hon. Sir
Odo William Theophilus Villiers Russell His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See
*Victor Alexander Augustus Henry Wellesley Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office
;Honorary Knight Commander
*
Abdul Mushin Beg Al-Sa'dun, Prime Minister of Iraq
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
*
Lawrence Arthur Adamson Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Member of the Council of Melbourne University; in recognition of his services to Education in the State of Victoria
*The Reverend Ronald George MacIntyre Professor of Systematic Theology, St. Andrew's College, Sydney University; in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
*
John Sutherland Ross, of the City of Dunedin, Chairman of Directors of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dominion of New Zealand
*
Harold Livingstone Tapley
Harold Livingstone Tapley (25 January 1875 – 21 December 1932) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party.
Born in Semaphore, South Australia in 1875, Tapley emigrated to Dunedin in 1893.
He represented Dunedin North in Parliament ...
, Member of the House of Representatives, Dominion of New Zealand, Mayor of the City of Dunedin, and a Director of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition
*Edgar Wrigley Cozens-Hardy, General Manager of the Government Railways, Gold Coast
*
Herbert Layard Dowbiggin, Inspector-General of Police, Ceylon
*
Arthur William Hill
Sir Arthur William Hill (11 October 1875, in Watford – 3 November 1941, in Richmond) was Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and a noted botanist and taxonomist.
The only son of Daniel Hill, he attended Marlborough College where hi ...
Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
*Richard Nosworthy, Collector-General, Jamaica
*Major
Henry Cecil Prescott Inspector-General of Police, Iraq
*John Owen Shircore Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, Tanganyika Territory
*
Richard Olaf Winstedt
Sir Richard Olaf Winstedt (2 August 1878 – 2 June 1966), or more commonly R. O. Winstedt, was an English Orientalist and colonial administrator with expertise in British Malaya.
Life and career
Winstedt was born in Oxford and educated a ...
Director of Education, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States
*The Hon.
Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, a First Secretary in the Foreign Office
*
Reginald Hervey Hoare, Counsellor of Embassy in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service, Constantinople
*Harold Porter, Acting British Consul-General at Hankow
*Oswald Longstaff Prowde, Resident Engineer, Sennar Dam
The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire
Knight Commander (KCIE)
*Raja Panaganti Ramarayaningar,
Raja of Panagal
Raja Sir Panaganti Ramarayaningar KCIE (9 July 1866 – 16 December 1928), also known as the Raja of Panagal, was a ''zamindar'' of Kalahasti, a Justice Party leader and the Chief Minister or Premier of Madras Presidency from 11 July 19 ...
, Minister for Local Self-Government, Madras
*
John Perronet Thompson
Sir John Perronet Thompson, KCSI, KCIE (8 March 1873 – 8 August 1935) was a British administrator in India. A member of the Indian Civil Service, he was Political Secretary to the Government of India from 1922 to 1927 and Chief Commissioner of ...
Indian Civil Service, Political Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department
*Sir
Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency
Sir Geoffrey Fitzhervey de Montmorency (23 August 1876 – 25 February 1955) was an Anglo-Irish colonial administrator. He was Governor of the Punjab.
Work
He was born in the townland of Castlemorris, near Knocktopher, in County Kilkenny, to ...
Indian Civil Service, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy
Companion (CIE)
*Edward Herbert Kealy, Indian Civil Service, Resident, Baroda
*M. R. Ry. Tiruvalangadu Raja Sastri Venkatarama Sastriyar Avargal, Advocate-General, Madras
*Miles Irving Indian Civil Service, Financial Secretary to Government, Punjab
*Harry Oliver Baron Shoubridge, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Bombay
*Colonel Krishnaji Vishnoo Kukday, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Central Provinces
*Samuel Walter Goode, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Chairman of the Calcutta Improvement Trust
*Arthur Harold Walter Bentinck, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet, Assam
*Harry Llewellyn Lyons Allanson, Indian Civil Service, District and Sessions Judge, Bihar and Orissa
*Khan Bahadur Pirzada Muhammad Hosain, late District and Sessions Judge, Delhi
*William Henry Albert Webster, Commissioner of Police, Kangoon
*Raj Bahadur Hementa Kumar Raha, Deputy Director-General of Post Offices, India
*John Collard Bernard Drake Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the High Commissioner for India
*Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Harley, Indian Medical Service, District Medical and Sanitary Officer and Superintendent, Medical School, Madura, Madras
*George Clark, Director of Agriculture, United Provinces
*Major Donald George Sandeman, Indian Army, North-West Frontier Intelligence Bureau
*Hormasji Jehangir Bhabha, late Inspector-General of Education, Mysore State
*Sardar Mir Masud Alum Khan, Nawab of Belha, Bombay
*Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din, Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, Chairman of Dacca Municipality
*Alfred Cooper Woollier, Dean of University Instruction, Lahore
*Alfred Lawrence Covernton, Principal and Professor of English Literature, Elphinstone College, Bombay
*Percy Saville Burrell, Professor of Philosophy, Allahabad University
*Girja Shankar Bajpai Indian Civil Service, Secretary of recent Deputation from the Government of India to South Africa
The Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
*Admiral The Hon. Sir
Edmund Robert Fremantle (dated 31 May 1926)
*Major-General Sir
John Hanbury-Williams
Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams, (19 October 1859 – 19 October 1946) was a British Army officer, who served as Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War and later Brigadier-General in charge of Administration (Scotland). He ...
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
*The Hon.
John William Fortescue
The Honourable Sir John William Fortescue (28 December 1859 – 22 October 1933) was a British military historian. He was a historian of the British Army and served as Royal Librarian and Archivist at Windsor Castle from 1905 until 1926.
E ...
(dated 16 June 1926)
*Victor George Seymour Corkran
*John Murray
*Herbert Edward Mitchell
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
*Major The Hon. Arthur Hay
*Brigadier-General
Gerald Frederic Trotter
*
William John Hocking
*Lieutenant-Colonel Granville Cecil Douglas-Gordon
*The Reverend Canon Arthur Rowland Harry Grant
*
Noel Curtis-Bennett
Sir Francis Noel Curtis-Bennett, KCVO (14 May 1882 – 2 December 1950) was a British civil servant and sports administrator. In the Civil Service, he reached the rank of Assistant Secretary in HM Treasury, whilst in sports he was involved with num ...
*Ernest Clarke
*John Berkeley Monck
*John Weir
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)
*
Edwin Charles Cox
*Major Frank Melvin Matthews
*Robert Burns Robertson (Fifth Class)
*Thomas Francis Vaughan Prickard
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO)
*George Herbert Smith
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)
*
Christina Allen Massey for services to the Dominion of New Zealand
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)
=Military Division
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;;Royal Navy
*Admiral Sir
Frederic Edward Errington Brock
Admiral Sir Frederic Edward Errington Brock, (15 October 1854 – 1 November 1929) was a Royal Navy officer.
Naval career
Brock was promoted to lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 8 December 1879. Promoted to captain on 30 June 1898, he was given ...
(Retired)
=Civil Division
=
*The Rt. Hon.
John Poynder, Baron Islington Retiring Chairman of the National Savings Committee
*Sir
William Warrender Mackenzie late President of the Industrial Court
*
Almeric Hugh, Baron Queenborough. For public services.
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
*
Madge Kendal-Grimston. For services to the drama.
*
Agnes Gwendoline Hunt Founder and supporter of the
Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital
*The Hon. Maude Agnes Lawrence, Director of Women Establishments, H.M. Treasury
*Jessie Percy Butler Wilton Phipps For services to Education
*
Mary Ann Dacomb Scharlieb Consulting Gynaecologist,
Royal Free Hospital
The Royal Free Hospital (also known simply as the Royal Free) is a major teaching hospital in the Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden. The hospital is part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs services at Barn ...
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
=Military Division
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;;Royal Navy
*Vice-Admiral Edward Buxton Kiddle (Retired)
;;Army
*Major General
Cyril John Deverell British Service, late General Officer Commanding, United Provinces District, India
;;Royal Air Force
*Air Vice-Marshal
John Miles Steel
Air Chief Marshal Sir John Miles Steel, (11 September 1877 – 2 December 1965) was a senior Royal Air Force commander.
Military career
Steel attended the training ship ''Britannia'' from 1892 to 1894. and subsequently served in the Royal Navy. ...
=Civil Division
=
*Walter MacArthur Allen Commandant-in-Chief, Metropolitan
Special Constabulary
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Every United Kingdom territorial police force has a specia ...
*Max Julius Bonn Chairman of the London Advisory Committee for Juvenile Employment. For public services.
*Sir
Frank Watson Dyson
Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE (8 January 1868 – 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and the ninth Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role ...
Astronomer Royal
Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675; the junior is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834.
The post ...
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Ernest Arthur Gowers Permanent Under Secretary for Mines
*Charles Hipwood Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade
*Mark Webster Jenkinson For services to the War Office in connection with Army Accounting
*Captain
Arthur Henry Rostron Captain of the
*Professor William Somerville late-Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy, University of Oxford. For services to Agricultural Education and Research
*Sir Percy Woodhouse Chairman, Manchester Conservative and Unionist Association. For political and public services.
*Alexander Kemp Wright Vice-Chairman, Scottish National Savings Committee
;;British India
*Nasarvanji Navroji Wadia Mill-owner, Bombay
*George Frederick Paddison Indian Civil Service, Chairman of recent Deputation from the Government of India to South Africa
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
*
Sidney Barton
Sir Sidney Barton (26 November 1876 – 20 January 1946) was a British barrister and diplomat, serving as consul-general in Shanghai and as minister to Ethiopia.
Early life
Sidney Barton was born in Exeter, Devonshire, England on 26 November ...
His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai
*Reginald Stewart Patterson Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government
;;Dominions
*The Honourable John Robert Bennett, Colonial Secretary, Newfoundland
*The Hon. Francis Grenville Clarke President of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria
*James Oswald Fairfax of the City of Sydney, Chairman of the Australian Section of the Empire Press Union; in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
*Captain
Cecil Hamilton Armitage
Sir Cecil Hamilton Armitage (8 October 1869 – 10 March 1933) was a British colonial officer who served as Governor of the Gambia from 1920 to 1927. He established the Armitage School and the Gambia Department of Agriculture.
Military ca ...
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of the Gambia
*
Thomas Alexander Vans Best
Sir Thomas Alexander Vans Best, (8 October 1870 – 24 November 1941) was a British colonial administrator.
He was born the son of Dr Alexander Vans Best of Aberdeen, previously a Staff Surgeon in the Bengal Army.
Thomas Vans Best joined the C ...
Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Malta, lately Colonial Secretary, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago
*Sir
Catchick Paul Chater
Sir Catchick Paul Chater ( hy, Փոլ Չաթեր; ; 8 September 1846 – 27 May 1926) was a prominent British businessman of Armenian descent in colonial Hong Kong, whose family roots were in Calcutta, India.
Biography
Early life
Chater was ...
In recognition of his public services in the Colony of Hong Kong ''(posthumous)''
;Honorary Knight Commander
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Elly Silas Kadoorie, in recognition of his services in the cause of charity and education in Iraq and Palestine
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
=Military Division
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;;Royal Navy
*Head Sister Margaret Helen Keenan Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
*Paymaster-Captain Frederick George Motton
*Captain Charles Mahon Readhead
*Captain George-Francis Hyde
;;Army
*Colonel Jacob Waley-Cohen Territorial Army
*Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Conway Dobbs The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) and Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 1st (Nyasaland) Battalion, The King's African Rifles
*Colonel
John Frederic Charles Fuller Military Assistant (General Staff Officer), Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
*Chief Lady Superintendent Marion Domville Knapp Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India
*Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Richard Henry Palmer Landon Commandant 10/20th Burma Rifles, Indian Army
*Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Charles Broughton Mackinnon, 2/2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), Indian Army
*Colonel George Colleymore Sturrock, Director of Ordnance Factories and Manufacture Master General of Supply Branch, Army Headquarters, India
*Colonel
Walter King Venning Assistant Adjutant General, War Office
*The Reverend Francis Joseph Walker Royal Army Chaplains' Department, Assistant Chaplain General, Eastern Command
*Colonel Richard Stephen Murray-White Brigade Commander, 156th (West Scottish) Infantry Brigade, Territorial
*Colonel Maurice Lean Wilkinson, Commandant Artillery College
;;Royal Air Force
*Wing Commander
Frank Howard Kirby
Group Captain Frank Howard Kirby, (12 November 1871 – 8 July 1956) was a British military officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonweal ...
=Civil Division
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*Albert Abbott, Chief Inspector of Technical and Continuation Schools, Board of Education
*James Barrie, Chairman of the Glasgow Savings Committee
*John Joseph Bickersteth late Clerk of the Peace and Clerk of the County Council, East Riding of Yorkshire
*Christopher Llewellyn Bullock Principal Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air
*Hamilton Conacher, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour, Northern Ireland
*James Vincent Coyle, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland
*Colonel Edward William Crawford late Colonel, Corps of Military Accountants
*
Ernest Tristram Crutchley
Ernest Tristram Crutchley (10 February 1878 – 5 October 1940) was a British civil servant who was the predecessor of the first British High Commissioner to Australia.
Career
Crutchley was educated at Emanuel School and joined the Post Office a ...
Acting Finance Officer, Oversea Settlement Department of the Dominions Office
*Arthur Edwin Cutforth, Member of the firm of
Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co., Chartered Accountants. For public services.
*George Selby Washington Epps, Principal Actuary, Government Actuary's Department
*Lilian Mary Faithfull Principal of
Cheltenham Ladies College
Cheltenham Ladies' College is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 11 to 18 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Consistently ranked as one of the top all-girls' schools nationally, the school was established in 1853 to pr ...
, 1907-1922
*William John Gibson, Rector of the
Nicolson Institute
The Nicolson Institute ( Gaelic: ''Àrd-sgoil MhicNeacail'') in Stornoway, is the largest school in the Western Isles, Scotland.
The Nicolson is the only six-year secondary school in Lewis. With the Sir E. Scott School in Harris, they provide ...
, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
*Edythe Mary Glanville The first woman to be elected Vice-Chairman of the Metropolitan Division of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. In 1920 elected to the N.U.A Executive and re-elected annually. For political and public services.
*Haywood Temple Holmes Accountant, H.M. Treasury
*William George Hunter, Deputy Accountant-General, Ministry of Health
*Captain Fullarton James Chief Constable of Northumberland
*George Henry Kingston Assistant Director of Army Contracts
*John Lindsay Mackie, Assistant Secretary, Board of Customs and Excise
*William Owen Owen, Divisional Controller, Wales, Ministry of Labour
*Philip Palmer Manager, Constructive Department, Chatham Dockyard
*James Martin Ritchie, Chairman of the Bridge ton Local Employment Committee
*Sir George Royle For voluntary services in connection with the National Savings Committee
*Benjamin James Saunders Chairman of Brighton, Horsham and District War Pensions Committee
*Andrew Donnan Smith, Chief Constable of Glasgow
*William Alexander Valentine, Controller, London Telephone Service
*Hilda Frances Zigomala. For services in connection with Lord Roberts Workshops
;;British India
*Sir Deva Prasad Sarvadhikary Member of recent Deputation from the Government of India to South Africa
*Saiyid Raza Ah, Member oi the Council of State Member of recent Deputation from the Government of India to South Africa
*Harry Tonkinson Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department
*Lieutenant-Colonel Edmond Henry Salt James Revenue and Judicial Commissioner, Baluchistan
*Lieutenant-Colonel Wingate Wemyss Muir Indian Army, Comptroller, Viceregal Household
*Captain Victor Felix Gamble lately Private Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Burma
*Victor Bayley Superintendent of Works, Khyber Railway
*Henry Joseph Trivess Smith, Engineer, Tansa Completion Works, Bombay Municipality
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
*Henry Montesquieu Anthony, Director-General of the State Domains Administration, Egyptian Government
*Robert Allason Furnes, late Oriental Secretary at Cairo
*Edgar George Jamieson, Acting British Consul at Shanghai
*Claude Cecil Augustus Kirke, His Majesty's Consul at
Swatow
Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative ...
*Francis Alfred Oliver, His Majesty's Consul-General at Hamburg
;;Dominions
*Gertrude Drayton Secretary of the Victoria League
*Charles Samuel Nathan, of the City of Perth, Western Australia, in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
*Colonel Percy Thomas Owen Director-General of Works, Commonwealth of Australia, Chief Engineer under the-Federal Capital Commission
*The Hon. John Warburton Pennington, Member of the Legislative Assembly, State of Victoria, formerly Member of the Ministry of that State
*
Samuel Hurst Seager
Samuel Hurst Seager (26 June 1855 – 5 October 1933) was a notable New Zealand builder, draftsman, architect and town planner. He was born in London, England, in 1855, and as a boy emigrated to Christchurch, New Zealand, with his parents i ...
a prominent Architect in the Dominion of New Zealand
*
Charles Speight, Vice-Chairman of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dominion of New Zealand
*William Charles Frederick Thomas, President of the Flour Millers Association, Victoria, Chairman of the Commonwealth Dried Fruits Control Board; in recognition, of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
*Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard Wrey Chief Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia at the British Empire Exhibition 1924-25
;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
*Captain James Davidson, lately Senior Resident, Southern Provinces, Nigeria
*Charles Cuthbert Harward Divisional Irrigation Engineer, Ceylon
*Colonel George Wykeham Heron Royal Army Medical Corps, (Retired), Director of the Department of Health, Palestine
*Captain (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Frederick Gerald Peake Officer Commanding the Arab Legion, Trans-Jordan
*John Henry Matthews Robson, Unofficial Member of the Federal Council, Federated Malay States
*Frédéric Melchior Louis Rouillard Unofficial Member of the Council of Government, Mauritius
*Stanley Rivers-Smith Director of Education, Tanganyika Territory
*Lionel Maynard Swan, Chief Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, Iraq
*Henry Barclay Walcott Treasurer, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago; represented to the Colony at the Trade Conference at Ottawa, 1925
*The Reverend Arthur West Wilkie, Head of the Scottish Mission, Gold Coast; in recognition of his services to education
;;Honorary Commanders
*Dato Abdullah bin Jaafar, the Dato Mentri Besar of Johore, Malay States
*Dato Klana Petra, Mamor, Undang of Sungei Ujong, Negri Sembilan, Federated Malay States
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
=Military Division
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;;Royal Navy
*Commander Guy Onslow Lydekker
*Lieutenant-Commander Napier Robert Peploe
*Engineer-Commander Edgar William Riley
*Major
Arthur Charles Barnby
*Commander Norman Ffolliott Wells
;;Army
*Captain and Brevet Major Philip Alexander Arden, Royal Army Service Corps, Adjutant, Royal Army Service Corps Training College, Aldershot
*Major Walter Richard Barker, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (attached Sudan Defence Force)
*Captain
Alan Bruce Blaxland, 1/7th Rajput Regiment, Indian Army
*Temp. Captain William Bligh Royal Army Medical Corps
*Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. Stuart Pleydell-Bouverie 52nd (London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
*Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Robert Brown, Indian Medical Service
*Major William Egan Royal Army Medical Corps (Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, Scottish Command)
*Captain Rowland Eustace, 1/18th Royal Garhwal Bines, Indian Army
*Captain Richard James Rolleston Freeth Royal Artillery, attached Iraq Levies
*Lieutenant Francis Gordon Griffith North Western Railway Regiment, Auxiliary Force, India
*Lieutenant-Colonel Frederic Snowden Hammond 11th London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles), Territorial Army
*Major Archibald Gordon Rainsford-Hannay Royal Engineers
*Major Charles Henry Hasler Harold Royal Army Medical Corps, Assistant Instructor, graded as Deputy Assistant Director of Hygiene, Aldershot
*Quartermaster and Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Arthur Heath Deputy Assistant Director of Remounts, War Office
*Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Lancelot Wall Henslow Commandant, Army School of Physical Training, Aldershot
*The Reverend Walter Bertram Hughes Royal Army Chaplains' Department
*Lieutenant-Colonel William David Kenny, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, attached Sudan Defence Force
*Major Charles James Seward le Cornu 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army (Commandant, Army Signal School, Poona)
*Captain Arthur John Rupert Marshall Leslie, Royal Artillery, late Commandant, Malay States Volunteer Regiment
*Major
John Jestyn Llewellin Dorsetshire Heavy Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
*Lieutenant-Colonel John Pemberton Heywood Heywood-Lonsdale The Shropshire Yeomanry, Territorial Army
*Major William Cecil Lowe Royal Army Veterinary Corps
*Captain Hubert Francis Lucas, Royal Engineers
*Lieutenant William Gunn Mackay Royal Artillery, lately serving with the local rank of Major in the Somaliland Camel Corps, The King's Africa n Rifles
*Captain John Wright Malcolm Royal Army Medical Corps, attached Iraq Levies
*Major Bernard Culmer Page Territorial Army, attached Royal Engineers, London District
*Major George Frederick Joseph Paterson Indian Army
*Quartermaster and Major Walter Thomas Price Extra Regimentally Employed List
*Major Edward Johnson Ross 1/8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army
*Captain Matthew Sheppard Yorkshire Dragoons (Queen's Own) Yeomanry, Territorial Army
*Lieutenant-Colonel William Simpkins 44th (Home Counties) Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army
*Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Steel, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, lately Deputy Assistant Director of Veterinary Services, Northern Command, India
*Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Joseph Tucker Stewart, Supernumerary List, Indian Army
*Captain and Brevet Major Ernest John Bocart Tagg The Durham Light Infantry, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, The British Army of the Rhine
*Major John Brereton Owst Trimble The East Yorkshire Regiment, lately Commandant, Machine Gun School, India
*Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Price Warlters 54th (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
;;Royal Air Force
*Flight Lieutenant Albert Wombwell
=Civil Division
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*James Henry Avison, Chief Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise
*William Archibald Basham, Principal, Ministry of Labour
*George Albert Baxandall, Divisional Inspector of Technical and Continuation Schools, Board of Education Cadet
*Lieutenant-Colonel Lancelot William Bennett Late Commanding Officer 1st Cadet Battalion, London Regiment (The Queen's). For valuable services to the Cadet Force.
*Jabez Berry, Retired Principal, Board of Inland Revenue
*Robert Thomson Birnie, Chief Constable of Forfarshire
*Felix John Blakemore, Chairman of Wolverhampton and District War Pensions Committee
*Harold Boughey, Deputy Divisional Controller, Midlands Division, Ministry of Labour
*Beatrice Rachael Stirling Boyd, Founder and Honorary Secretary, Edinburgh Children's Holiday Fund
*George Bryan, Senior Inspector of Audits, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland
*Frederick Vango Burridge Principal, LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts
*James Christie, Chief Constable of Greenock
*James Temple Cotton Principal, Air Ministry
*John Philip Cross, Collector, Board of Customs and Excise
*Captain Rupert John Goodman Crouch, Head of Airworthiness Section, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Air Ministry
*Beatrice Mary Cumington, Woman Staff Inspector of Technical and Continuation Schools, Board of Education
*Edith Ellen Drysdale, Private Secretary to Commissioner of Metropolitan Police
*Alfred William Edwards, Deputy Controller, Central Telegraph Office
*Florence Dorothy Garner, Chief Superintendent of Women's Staff, Public Trustee Office
*James Simpson Godden, Principal Officer, Ministry of Labour, Northern Ireland
*Frances Ralph Gray High Mistress of St. Paul's Girls School
*Walter John Haines, Superintending Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise
*William Hayden, Principal (Acting), War Grace
*Thomas St. Quintin Hill, Principal Clerk, Food Section, Board of Trade
*James Jackson Superintendent, Salvage Department, Birmingham
*Frederick James, Chief Constable of Hastings
*William Hughes-Jones Chairman of the Anglesey Employment Committee
*Mary Elizabeth King, Member of the London Advisory Council for Juvenile Employment
*James Kirkwood Provost of Rutherglen. For public services.
*John Corbet McBride Accident Manager, Commercial Union Assurance Company. For public services.
*Eric Machtig Principal, Colonial Office
*George Frederick Mansbridge, Vice-Controller, Stores Department, General Post Office
*Arthur Killick Mayall, Chief Constable of Oldham
*Captain Charles Leonard Miskin, Registrar, Imperial War Graves Commission
*Henry Daniel Morgan, Chief Constable, 3 District, Metropolitan Police
*William Jackson Morton Group Commandant, L and M Divisions, Special Constabulary
*William Suffield Felix Mylius, Assistant Secretary, Traffic Department, Metropolitan Police
*William Newman Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
*Hedley Peters, Chief Officer of the Sittingbourne Fire Brigade. For public services.
*Zoe Lavallier Puxley, Principal, Ministry of Health
*Florence Quick, Member of Oxford and District War Pensions Committee
*Gilbert Scott Ram Senior Electrical Inspector of Factories, Home Office
*Percy Christopher Rice Chief Establishment and Finance Officer, Department of Overseas Trade
*Mary Ritchie Voluntary Worker under the National Savings Committee
*John Scott Voluntary Worker under the National Savings Committee
*James Applegate Simes, Principal, Ministry of Pensions
*James Andrew Short, Collector, Board of Customs and Excise
*Robert John Smith, Head of Branch (Acting), Ministry of Health
*Ethel Mary Spiller. For voluntary services in connection with the Victoria and Albert Museum
*Edith Felicia Seymour Taylor, Private Secretary to the Attorney General
*Major
Maurice Hilliard Tomlin, Chief Constable, Metropolitan Police
*William Thomas Towler, Chairman of the Stratford Local Employment Committee
*Edward White Wallis, Secretary of the Royal Sanitary Institute
*Archibald Ure Wotherspoon, Chairman of the Perth and Kinross War Pensions Committee
;;British India
*Sarclar Bahadur Sardar Haji Mahomed Khan, Sardar of the Shahwani tribe, Kalat State, Baluchistan
*M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Saravana Bhavanandam Pillai Avargal ex-Sheriff of Madras
*Sardar Saiyid Ali El Edrus, Sardar of Gujarat, Bombay
*Arthur Clement Sells, Principal, Robertson College, Jubbulpore, Central Provinces
*Anandrai Keshavlal Dalai Professor of Clinical and Operative Surgery, Grant Medical College, Bombay, and Surgeon, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital, Bombay
*Babu Bisheshwar Nam Srivastava, Vakil, High Court, and Chairman, Improvement Trust, Luck now
*Captain Archibald Douglas George Staunton Batty Army in India Reserve of Officers, lately ''Aide-de-Camp'' to His Excellency the Governor of Burma
*Captain Ralph Burton, lately ''Aide-de-Camp'' to His Excellency the Viceroy
*Babu Alakh Kumar Sinha, Superintendent of Police, Bihar and Orissa
*Cecil William Kirkpatrick Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department
*Jessie Parsons, Principal of the Badshah Nawab Razvi Training College for Women Teachers, Patna
*The Reverend Robert McCheyne Paterson, Church of Scotland Mission, Gujrat, Punjab
*Lucy Angela White, lately Lady Superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
*Minas Stephen Peter Aganoor, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Ispahan
*Alexander Mann Alcock, Deputy Director-General of the Tanzim Department, Ministry of Public Works, Egyptian Government
*Colonel Julius Guthlac Birch, Rhineland High Commission
*John Wallace Ord Davidson, Acting British Consul at Kiu Kiang
*William Gray His Majesty's Consul at Oruro
*The Reverend John Holman Taylor Holman Acting Chaplain at His Majesty's Legation at Peking
*Harmood Victor Carruthers Johnstone, Resident Engineer, Gezira Canalisation
*Reginald Marquand, Controller of European Administration of the Ministry of Education, Egyptian Government
;;Dominions
*Edith Mary Cumings, for many years-Honorary Secretary of the Bulawayo Branch Of the Guild of Loyal Women; for her services in Southern Rhodesia
*Mary Hewison, of St. Kilda, City of Melbourne; in recognition of her public and charitable services in the State of Victoria
*Rebecca Mills, of Maffra, Gippsland; in recognition of her charitable services in the State of Victoria
;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
*Robert Boyd, Chairman, Native Lands Commission, Fiji
*Herbert Spanton Brain, Auditor, Palestine
*The Reverend Canon George Burns, of the Church Missionary Society, in recognition of his services for many years in Kenya Colony
*Hubert Michael Cones, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Iraq
*The Reverend Alexander Cruickshank, of the United Free Church of Scotland; in recognition of his services to education in Nigeria
*The Reverend Canon Edward Seabrooke Daniell, Principal of the Bishop Tucker Memorial College, Uganda Protectorate
*Lionel Douglas Galton Fenzi, Honorary Secretary of the Royal East African Automobile Association, Kenya Colony
*Albert Arthur Magnall Isherwood, Deputy Director of Education, Tanganyika Territory
*Robert Frier Jardine, Administrative Inspector, Ministry of the Interior, Iraq
*Alan Logan Kirkbride, Second Assistant to the Chief British Representative, Trans-Jordan
*Stephen Hemsley Longrigg, Administrative Inspector, Ministry of the Interior, Iraq
*Digby Mackenzie Macphail Medical Officer, District, St. Lucia, Windward Islands
*William Maclachlan McDonald Medical Officer, District 2, Antigua, Leeward Islands
*John Dewar McKay, Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast
*Norman Nairn, for services in connection with the organisation of the Trans-Desert Motor Route between Iraq and the Mediterranean
*Percy Wilbraliam Perryman Deputy Chief Secretary, Uganda Protectorate
*Major Norman Arthur Ralph Songest, lately Quartermaster, British Section, Palestine Gendarmerie
*John Edwin Tessensohn, Member of the Legislative Council, Straits Settlements
*Donald Francis Watson, Treasurer, Seychelles
*Cecil Richard Webb General Manager, Government Railways, Sierra Leone
*Herbert Richmond Wells, of the London Missionary Society, in recognition of his services in the cause of Education in Hong Kong
*Frank Edred Whitehead Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, Nyasaland Protectorate
:Honorary Officers
*Surma Khaneem d'Bailt Mar Shimun, in recognition of her services in connection with the operations in Iraq, September–November, 1924
*Moses Doukhan, Lands Officer, Department of Lands, Palestine
*Suleiman Bey Toukan, Mayor of Nablus, Palestine
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
=Military Division
=
;;Royal Navy
*Lieutenant Herbert John Harvey (Retired)
*Lieutenant George Lewin
*Commissioned Engineer Arthur Brown
*Commissioned Engineer William Murray Calder
*Paymaster-Lieutenant Alfred Thomas May
*Captain John Charles James Hoby
;;Army
*Company Sergeant-Major Clarence FitzGeorge Andrews, Royal Corps of Signals, attached 51st Divisional Signals
*Captain William Daniel Arthur, Royal Army Medical Corps
*Captain Leslie Edwin Barnes, 4th Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment, Territorial Army
*Staff Sergeant-Major Arthur Wellesley Baxter, Royal Army Service Corps, attached Sudan Defence Force
*Lieutenant Thomas William Bell, 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards, Station Staff Officer, Rawalpindi
*Quartermaster and Captain George Thomas Bray, Royal Army Medical Corps
*Captain Noel Joseph Chamberlain, Army Educational Corps
*Company Sergeant-Major James Chambers, Tyne Electrical Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army
*Conductor Henry Joseph Cheetham, Indian Army Ordnance Corps
*Captain William Maurice Clapp, 1/19th Hyderabad Regiment, Indian Army, attached Indian Signal Corps
*Quartermaster and Captain Thomas Cook, Depot, the Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
*Staff Sergeant-Major William Douglas, Royal Army Service-Corps
*Superintending Clerk John Edington, Royal Engineers
*Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Andrew Forde, Indian Miscellaneous List
*Captain Eric Herbert Cokayne Frith, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's), Adjutant, 5th Battalion
*Regimental Sergeant-Major Richard George Fry, Depot The Highland Light Infantry
*Captain Albert Fulcher, Ordnance Executive Officer, Royal Army-Ordnance Corps
*Temp. Lieutenant Herbert George Gates, Royal Engineers (Supplementary)
*Captain Francis Marion Saunders Gibson, The Devonshire Regiment, Instructor Machine Gun School, India
*Lieutenant Jack Ross Gifford Royal Artillery, Staff Captain (Movements) Inter-Allied Railway Commission, The British Army of the Rhine
*Staff Sergeant-Major Frederick Gill, Indian-Corps of Clerks
*Quartermaster and Captain John Grieve, Royal Army Service Corps
*Captain Frank Gowland Harvey Army Educational Corps, Instructor Army School, of Education, Belgium
*Regimental Sergeant Major Frank Hedges 2nd Battalion Royal Tank Corps
*Quartermaster and Lieutenant George Henniker, Royal Engineers
*Lieutenant Richard Henry Hooper, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Adjutant and Quartermaster Army Signal School, Poona
*The-Reverend James Allen James Royal Army Chaplains' Department
*Quartermaster and Captain Frederick William Langley, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
*Captain George James Leathern The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Adjutant, 2nd Battalion
*Lieutenant Walter Thomas Lunt, Army Educational Corps, Instructor Army School of Education, Belgaum
*Captain James Mahoney, Royal Tank Corps, Adjutant and Quartermaster, Royal Tank Corps School, Ahmednagar
*Sergeant-Major Albert Edward Malley, Royal Army Medical Corps
*Captain
Richard Loudon McCreery 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
*Captain Archibald Edward McDonald, Ordnance Executive Officer 3rd Class, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
*Captain Walter Henry Organ, 43rd (Wessex) Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army
*Regimental Sergeant-Major Charles Thomas Pearson, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
*Lieutenant George Hamilton Charles Penny-cook, The Middlesex Regiment (The Duke of Cambridge's Own)
*Staff Sergeant-Major Frederick Walter Price, Royal Army Service Corps
*Captain Edward Cecil Roscoe Royal Army Service Corps
*Captain
Eric Bertram Rowcroft
Major General Sir Eric Bertram Rowcroft (28 January 1891 – 27 December 1963), was a British Army officer. His military career started in 1908 as a TA Officer in the Royal Engineers and retired at the rank of Major General in 1946. He is noted ...
Royal Army Service Corps, Instructor Royal Army Service Corps Training College, Aldershot
*Quartermaster Sergeant Frederick Albert Smith, 167th (City of London) Field Ambulance, Territorial Army
*Regimental Sergeant-Major Arthur Patrick Spackman, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached Sudan Defence Force
*Lieutenant William George Tibbies 5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Army
*Conductor Frederick William Tolley, Indian Miscellaneous List
*Quartermaster and Captain George John William Townsend, 17th London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), Territorial Army
*Captain Bernard Henry George Tucker, 1/10th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army
*Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant Alexander Turner, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
*Regimental Sergeant-Major Alexander Twohey, Depot, The East Surrey Regiment
*Captain Vereker Willoughby Hamilton Venour, The King's Regiment (Liverpool), Staff Captain (Movements) Inter-Allied Railway Commission, The British Army of the Rhine
*Regimental Sergeant-Major Edward George Walker, Iraq Levies
*Quartermaster and Captain George Henry Wall 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
*Quartermaster and Captain Alexander Watt, Lieutenant, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, and 7th Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) Territorial Army
*Conductor Tom Harris Webb, Indian Army Service Corps
*Quartermaster and Captain Samuel Whan, County Recruiting Officer, Durham
;;Royal Air Force
*Flying Officer John Henry Amers
*Flying Officer Charles Dollery
*Flying Officer Robert Ritchie Greenlaw
*Flying Officer William Henry Jinman
=Civil Division
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*James Anderson, Accountant, General Post Office, Edinburgh
*James William Anderson, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
*Joseph William Ansell, Ex-Superintendent, London Fire Brigade
*Elizabeth Apps, Member of the Baling, Acton and District War Pensions Committee
*Ernest Bacchus, Superintendent, B Division, Metropolitan Police
*Harold Eustace Baker, Commandant, Special Constabulary
*John Joseph Septimus Barker, Clerk to-the Lanchester Board of Guardians
*John Patrick Barrett, Clerk, Office of Assistant Director of Military Transport, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
*William Henry Boucher, Acting First-Class Clerk, Ministry of Health
*William Stanley Brown, Assessor and Collector of Income Tax
*Joseph Browne, a founder of the United Kingdom Pilots Association
*James Kennedy Bryson, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise
*William Henry Bushill, Assistant Accountant, War Office
*Hugh James Campbell, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland
*Olive Campbell, of Inverneill Member of the Argyll, Renfrew and Bute War Pensions Committee
*Annie Bindon Geoffrey Carter, Founder of Painted Fabrics Disabled Soldiers and Sailors Mutual Association
*Ethel Catherine Mary Gates, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Health
*Albert Henry Coates, Clerk of Accounts, H.M. Land Registry
*Arthur Richard Cotton, Clerk to the Epsom Rural District Council
*Bertie Gibson Crewe, Principal Staff Officer, Industrial Property Department, Board of Trade
*Elizabeth Winifred Cronin, Deputy Governor, Hollow ay Prison
*Thomas James Dale, Accountant
*Finance Department, Ministry of Labour
*Gwendolen Florence Davies, Member of the Prime Minister's Clerical Staff
*William Michael Reuben Davis, Superintendent, Odiham Division, Aldershot, Hampshire County Police
*Alfred Ernest Dean, Honorary Secretary, Swindon Savings Committee
*James Elphinstone For voluntary services to the Scottish Savings Committee
*Alfred Vincent Elsden Deputy War Department Chemist
*Thomas William Faulkner, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
*John Laird Fitzhenry, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland
*Arthur Folkarde For voluntary services to the Scottish Savings Committee
*Joseph Gould, Surveyor, Board of, Customs and Excise
*Arthur Powell Guest Honorary Secretary, Taunton Savings Committee
*John Milbanke Hamilton, Manager, Tavistock Street (Building Trades) Employment Exchange
*Louisa Mildred Bateson Peter Hammond, Honorary Secretary, Leyburn Savings Committee, Yorkshire
*Hobert William Hatswell, Senior Staff Officer, Secretary's Office, General Post Office
*James Patrick Hausey, Waterguard Superintendent, Board of Customs and Excise
*Alfred Hayden, Commander, P Division, Special Constabulary
*Horace William Woodress Henderson, Civil Engineer, Acting Superintending Civil Engineer, Iraq Air Ministry
*John Holcroft, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise
*Ernest Harry Holmwood, Honorary Secretary, Maidstone Savings Committee
*John Frederick Houghton, Honorary Secretary, Gateshead Savings Committee
*Henry Humphrey, Honorary Secretary, Bolton Savings Committee
*Major Reginald Edmund Hutchins, Area Superintendent, France, and Registration Officer, France, under the Imperial War Graves Commission
*James Rae Anderson Irving, Superintendent, Gosforth Division, Northumberland Police
*Captain James Andrew Johnston, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary
*John David Jones Member of the North West Wales War Pensions Committee
*David Kerr, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland
*Frances King, Honorary Secretary, Dawlish Savings Committee
*James Arthur Trotman Langton, Higher Clerical Officer, Ministry of Health
*Arthur Arnold Lewis, Superintendent, Manchester City Police
*Arthur Claud Linecar, Headmaster, LCC Acland Central School
*James Mark, Deputy City Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary
*Beatrice Mellors, Staff Clerk, Employment and Insurance Department, Ministry of Labour
*John Menzies, Collector of Taxes, Glasgow
*Thomas Mitchell Chairman, Stoke-on-Trent Savings Committee
*Maude Victoria Moore, Higher Executive Officer, Foreign Office
*Walter Henry Norman, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions
*Daniel Joseph O'Callaghan, Accountant; Department of Overseas Trade
*Edgar Nix Pentelow, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise
*Doris Winifred Perken, Member of the Camberwell and District War Pensions Committee
*Leonard Perkins, Headmaster of Newton Road Council School, Rushden
*Sydney Richard Pughe, Staff Officer, Colonial Office
*Leslie Newby Punter Tax Officer, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue
*Edward Albert Rix, Registrar, Commissioner's Office, Metropolitan Police
*Lewis Findlay Robertson, CA For voluntary services to the Scottish Savings Committee
*Edward William Roe, Commandant, T Division, Special Constabulary
*Hugh Alexander Ross, Commander E Division, Special Constabulary
*Gertrude Sanson, Headmistress, The Moberley Infants School, Harrow Road
*
Amy Sayle, Chairman of
Women Sanitary Inspectors' and Health Visitors' Association
*Alfred Younger Smellie, Staff Clerk and Accounts Officer, Air Ministry
*Margaret Stafford Smith Honorary Secretary, Bromley Savings Committee
*Charles Alonzo Stone, Superintendent
*Chesterfield Division, Derbyshire Police
*Stanley Cecil Strong, Supervising Clerk, War Office
*Alfred Egerton Maynard Taylor, Commander, "A" Division, Special Constabulary
*Frederick Tyler, Assistant Commander, Special Constabulary (H.Q. Staff)
*John Holland Walker, Honorary Secretary, Nottingham Savings Committee
*Walter John Walker Chief Auditor, Bankruptcy Department, Board of Trade
*Joseph Adams White, Headmaster, LCC School, Bow
*Captain David Evan Williams Education Officer, Air Ministry
*William Winter, Deputy Chief Constable and Superintendent (Newmarket Division), Cambridgeshire Police
;;British India
*Alexander George Butt, Supervisor, Officer of the Director, Medical Services in India
*Shamrao Venkatrao Haldipur, Office of the Judge Advocate-General in India
*Arthur George Hall, Assistant Executive Engineer, Khyber Railway
*Major Joseph Henry Arnold Donnelland, Indian Medical Department, House Surgeon, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital, Bombay
*Major Henry Clement Craggs, Indian Medical Department, Military Assistant Surgeon, Madras
*Lieutenant Nawab Jamshed Ali Khan, Member of Legislative Council, United Provinces
*Khan Bahadur Ghias-ul-din Saiyid Abdul Karim Sahib Bahadur, Acting Deputy Superintendent of Police, Madras
*Thomas Bertram, Superintendent, Viceregal Estates
*Captain Albert Ignatius Patrick Browne, Postmaster, Peshawar
*Patrick Ambrose McCormack, District Engineer and Secretary, Quetta Municipality
*Alexander William Halkett, Indo-European Telegraph Department Office, Duzdap, East Persia
*George Herbert Cave, late Curator, Lloyd Botanic Garden, Darjeeling
*John Creffield, Inspector in charge of Government House, Calcutta
*Alakli Beliari Arora, Medical Officer of Health, Lahore
*Rao Bahadur Kesho Waman Brahma, Pleader, Amraoti, Berar
*George Winstanley Price, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Punjab
*William Golaknath, Secretary Municipal Committee and District Board, Jullundur, Punjab
*Gerald Potenger, Superintendent, Office of the Military Adviser-in-Chief, Indian State Forces, Punjab
*Agnes Smith, Sambha Nath Pandit Hospital, Calcutta
;;Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
*Leonard Bennett Bayley, Divisional Traffic Superintendent, Sudan Government Railways
*John Preston Beecher, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Havre
*Mulla Muhammad Aln Sharaf AH Harravala, His Majesty's Legation, Addis Ababa
*Robert Knight Hartley, Rhineland High Commission
*Philip Ingleson Assistant District Commissioner, Sudan Government
*Robert Carl Thorburn Jobson, His Majesty's Ex Vice-Consul at Warberg
*Georgina Loinaz, British Library of Information, New York
*William Studart, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Ceara
*Edmund David Watt, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Port-au-Prince
*William Calderwood Young Inspector of Agriculture, Sudan Government
;;Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
*Alfreda Louisa Allen, Principal of the Gayaza School for Girls, Uganda Protectorate
*Katherine Ross Cameron, Matron of the Zomba Hospital, Nyasaland Protectorate
*The Reverend James Denton Principal of the Pourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone
*Major Joseph Turner Dew formerly Officer Commanding the Defence Force, Antigua, Leeward Islands
*Charles Peter Dias, Headmaster of Wesley College and Member of the Municipal Council of Colombo, Ceylon
*Henry David Grant lately Head-Constable-Major, Palestine Gendarmerie
*The Reverend William Edward Horley, Headmaster of the Anglo-Chinese School, Ipoh, Perak, Federated Malay States
*The Reverend Mother Superior Joseph, of the Catholic Mission of the Congregation of St. Joseph of Cluny; in recognition of her long services in the Gambia.
*Alexander Menzies Macfarlane Government Veterinary Surgeon, Malta
*Kenneth Mackenzie, late Superintendent of Stores and Government Bookshop, Ministry of Education, Iraq
*Donald Kirton Macwilliam, Revenue Officer and Harbour Master, St. Kitts, Leeward Islands
*Jane McCotter, Senior Nursing Sister, Nigeria
*Elizabeth McKey, Senior Nursing Sister, Civil Nursing Service, Iraq
*The Reverend Father John Meehan, of the Catholic Mission of the Holy Ghost Fathers; in recognition of his services in the Gambia
*The Reverend Father
Joseph Georges Edouard Michaud, Principal of the Kisube Boys School, Uganda Protectorate
*Ahmode Hajee Ahlanian Suhawon, in recognition of his services to Education in the Savanne District, Mauritius
*Foonyee Catherine Woo, Headmistress of St. Paul's Girls School, Hong Kong
;;Honorary Members
*Abdin Effendi Husheimi, Assistant Superintendent Of Police, Palestine
*Abdullah Effendi Kardus, Administrative Officer, Palestine
*Ahmed Seif Ed Bin Effendi Husseini, Mayor of Lydda, Palestine
*Asher Ben-David, Instructional Officer, Police Training School, Palestine
*Halim Abu Rahmeh, Medical Officer, Department of Health, Palestine
*Rank Bey Beydun, Administrative Officer, Palestine
*Sheikh Suleiman bin Nasur el-Lemki, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, Zanzibar, in recognition of his public and charitable services.
Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour
Member may refer to:
* Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon
* Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set
* In object-oriented programming, a member of a class
** Field (computer science), entries in ...
(CH)
![Companion of Honour](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Companion_of_Honour.jpg)
*The Reverend
Herbert Armitage James
Herbert Armitage James, CH (3 August 1844 – 15 November 1931) was a Welsh cleric and headmaster of three leading public schools, who ended his "remarkable scholastic career", as it was later described by Austen Chamberlain, by becoming ...
President of St. John's College, Oxford
Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
The Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India was a medal awarded by the Emperor/Empress of India between 1900 and 1947, to "any person without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex ... who shall have distinguished himself (o ...
;First Class
*Mary Langharne Symons, Madras
*Florence Amy Hodgson, Chief Lady-Superintendent, Lady Minto's Indian Nursing Association
*Agnes Scott Chief Medical Officer, Women's Medical Service, and Secretary, Countess of Dufferin's Fund
*John David O'Donnell Chief Medical and Sanitary Officer, Kolar Gold Fields, Mysore
*The Reverend Charles Walker Posnett, Chairman and General Superintendent of the Wesleyan Mission in His Exalted Highness the Nizams Dominions, Medak, Hyderabad (Deccan)
*Major Joseph Alexander Hercules Holmes, Indian Medical Department, Senior Assistant Surgeon, British Station Hospital, Quetta
*Rose Greenfield, Murree, Punjab
*The Reverend Edward Sherman Oakley, London Mission, Almora, United Provinces
*The Reverend James Alexander Drysdale, Minister, Scots Church, Rangoon
British Empire Medal
The British Empire Medal (BEM; formerly British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service) is a British and Commonwealth award for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the Crown. The current honour was created in 1922 to ...
(BEM)
![Medaille B](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Medaille_B.E.M._met_Brittania.jpg)
;For Gallantry
*Staff Sergeant Reginald Harry Maltby, 11th Armoured Car Company, Lahore, in recognition of the heroism he displayed in saving a child from drowning in a disused well.
;For Meritorious Service
*Corporal William Watson Denton British Section of the Palestine Gendarmie. For consistently good work during his service.
*William James Ferguson, Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. For long and meritorious service of an exceptionally high standard.
*Staff Sergeant Harold Player, British Section of the Palestine Gendarmie. For loyal and devoted service as Orderly Room Staff Sergeant and Chief Clerk.
Air Force Cross (AFC)
*Flight Lieutenant
John Stanley Chick
Air Commodore John Stanley Chick, (22 December 1897 – 21 January 1960), was a Welsh officer of the Royal Air Force, who began his aviation career as a World War I flying ace credited with 16 aerial victories.
World War I service
John Stanley ...
*Flight Lieutenant Archibald James Rankin
Air Force Medal
The Air Force Medal (AFM) was a military decoration, awarded to personnel of the Royal Air Force and other British Armed Forces, and formerly to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for "an act or acts of valour ...
(AFM)
*Sergeant Frederick Gilders Hammond
*Leading Aircraftman Ernest Arthur Dobbs
Imperial Service Order
The Imperial Service Order was established by King Edward VII in August 1902. It was awarded on retirement to the administration and clerical staff of the Civil Service throughout the British Empire for long and meritorious service. Normally a pe ...
(ISO)
;;Home Civil Service
*Owen Vincent Blake Chief Accountant, Foreign Office
*Ernest George Haygarth Brown, Superintending Inspector, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
*James Latham Brown, Assistant Inspector of Elementary Schools, Board of Education
*Frank Richardson Chappell Chief Examining Surveyor, H.M. Office of Works
*Charles Alexander Comber, Chief Inspector, Postal Traffic, General Post Office
*John Cuthbert, Chief Clerk, Accountant-General's Department, Supreme Court of Judicature, Northern Ireland
*Matthew John Drayson, Staff Officer, Assistant Accountant, Colonial Office
*Frank Finch, Assistant Registrar-General, General Register Office
*Charles Henry James Garland, Divisional Inspector, Outdoor Staff, Ministry of Health
*Colvin Blacklock Gibson, Chief Assistant Keeper,
Sasines Office, Edinburgh
*Horace John Macartney, Principal Staff Officer, Scottish Education Department
*Charles Richard Malcolm, Assistant Inspector of Explosives, Home Office
*Arthur Darling Nicholson, Divisional Inspector of Mines, Mines Department
*Henry Charles Souter, Head of Returns and Statistics Branch, Friendly Societies Registry
*Arthur Robinson Wright, Assistant Comptroller, Patent Office
;Dominions
*Herbert William Ely, Secretary to the Agent-General in London for the State of Tasmania
*Robert Edward Hayes, Secretary to the Treasury, Dominion of New Zealand
*Francis Joseph Ross, President of the Superannuation Fund Management Board, Commonwealth of Australia
*Charles Henry Wickens, Statistician, Commonwealth of Australia
;;Colonial Civil Service
*Benjamin Belleth, Office Assistant to the Colonial Secretary, Ceylon
*Edward D'Urban Blyth, Assistant Commissioner, Basutoland
*Edgar Bonavia Permanent Secretary to the Head of the Ministry, Malta
*
Donald d'Emmerez de Charmoy, Assistant Director and Entomologist, Agricultural Department, Mauritius
*Henry James Hobbs, Provincial Commissioner, Gold Coast
*Henry Peter Marius McLaughlan Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office and Clerk to the Executive Council, Cyprus
*Dato Khatib Haji Mohamed Said, the Dato Sri Diraja, of Kelantan, Judge of the Land Court at Kota Bharu, Malay States
;;Indian Civil Service
*James Rideout Belletty, Registrar, Political and Appointment Departments, Government of Bengal
*Major Herbert William Valentine Cox, Indian Medical Department, Civil Surgeon, Punjab
*Ernest Henry James Eames, Distillery Expert to Government, Central Provinces
*Martin Thomas Echlin, Personal Assistant to the Chief Commissioner, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
*Thomas Edward McCullagh, Telegraph Check Office, Calcutta
*Khan Bahadur
Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara
Khan Bahadur Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara ( gu, કાવસજી જમશેદજી પેટીગરા) (24 November 1877 – 28 March 1941) was the first Indian to become the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Mumbai Police in 1928. ...
, Superintendent of Police, Bombay
Imperial Service Medal
The Imperial Service Medal (ISM) is a medal affiliated with the Imperial Service Order. The medal was established under the statutes of the Imperial Service Order, on 8 August 1902, by King Edward VII, with the first awards appearing in the Londo ...
(ISM)
*Venkatachellum Ramasawamy Mudaliyar, Tent Foreman, Central Jail, Coimbatore, Madras
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Birthday Honours 1926
Birthday Honours
1926 awards
1926 in Australia
1926 in India
1926 in the United Kingdom