1937 Coronation Honours

Summary

The 1937 Coronation Honours were awarded in honour of the coronation of George VI.[1]

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Dominions.
India.
  • M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Subbarayalu Kumaraswami Reddiyar Avargal, lately Minister for Education and Public Health to the Governor of Madras, Madras.
  • Rao Bahadur Chaudhuri Chhotu Ram, Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, Minister for Development to the Governor of the Punjab.
  • Idwal Geoffrey Lloyd, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service (retired), lately Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma.
  • Robert Ernest Jack, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal.
  • Kenneth William Barlee, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay,
  • John Gibb Thorn, Esq., D.S.O., M.C., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, United Provinces.
  • Frederick Louis Grille, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Nagpur, Central Provinces.
  • George Richard Frederick Tottenham, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Secretary to the Government of India in the Defence Department.
  • Theodore James Tasker, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Revenue and Police Member, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad, Deccan.
  • Kenneth Mclntyre Kemp, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, J.P., Advocate-General, Bombay.
  • Brigadier Harold John Couchman, D.S.O., M.C., R.E., Surveyor-General of India.
  • John Nesbitt Gordon Johnson, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Chief Commissioner of Delhi.
  • Seth Haji Abdoola Haroon, Member of the Central Legislative Assembly, Merchant, Sind.
  • Colonel Arthur Olver, C.B., C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.N.L, Royal Army Veterinary Corps (retired), Expert Adviser in Animal Husbandry to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research.
  • Colonel Edward Hearle Cole, C.B., C.M.G., Indian Army (retired), Landlord, Okara Punjab.
  • Thomas Howard Elderton, Esq., chairman, Calcutta Port Trust, Bengal.
  • Frank Birley, Esq., Member of the Madras Legislative Council, Director, Messrs. Best & Co., Ltd., Madras.
  • David Burnett Meek, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Educational Service, Indian Trade Commissioner in London.
  • Frank Herbert Brown, Esq., C.I.E., Honorary Secretary, East India Association, London.
  • Vivian Everard Donne Jarrad, Esq., Agent, Bengal-Nagpur Railway.
  • Narayan Vishvanath Mandlik, Esq., Advocate, Bombay.
Colonies, Protectorates, &c.
  • Waithilingam Duraiswamy, Esq., Speaker of the State Council, Ceylon.
  • Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn, Esq. For public services in Hong Kong.
  • Arthur Edwin Horn, Esq., C.M.G., M.D., M.R.C.P., Consulting Physician to the Colonial Office.
  • George Frederick Huggins, Esq., O.B.E. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Charles Ewan Law, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Zanzibar.
  • George William Arthur Trimmer, Esq., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., M.Inst.T., chairman and General Manager of the Singapore and Penang Harbour Boards, Straits Settlements.
  • Armigel de Vins Wade, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Kenya.

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  • Charles Seymour Wright, OBE, MC
  • Major-General Henry Augustus Lewis, C.B.E. (late Royal Artillery), Director of Artillery, the War Office.
  • Honorary Colonel George, Baron Rochdale, President, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Middlesex.
  • Honorary Colonel Sir Henry William Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, Bt., chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Warwick.
  • Colonel Leonard Green, M.C., T.D., Territorial Army, Commander, 125th (Lancashire Fusiliers) Infantry Brigade.
  • David Randall Pye, Esq., M.A., Sc.D., M.I.Mech.E., F.R.Ae.S., Director of Scientific Research, Air Ministry.
  • Walter Raymond Birchall, Esq., Deputy Director-General, General Post Office.
  • William John Braithwaite, Esq., Commissioner for the Special Purposes of the Income Tax Acts.
  • John Ainsworth Dale, Esq., C.B.E., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour.
  • John Harry Hebb, Esq., C.B.E., M.B., B.Ch.; Director-General of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions.
  • Algar Henry Stafford Howard, Esq., C.V.O., Norroy King of Arms and Principal Herald of the North Part of England.
  • Alan Frederick Lascelles, Esq., C.M.G., M.V.O., M.C., Assistant Private Secretary to His Majesty The King.
  • Francis William Lascelles, Esq., M.C., Principal Clerk of Public Bills, House of Lords.
  • Cecil Winton Maudslay, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Education.
  • Bernard Rackham, Esq., F.S.A., Keeper, Department of Ceramics, Victoria and Albert Museum.
  • George Thomas Reid, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Unemployment Assistance Board.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frederic Newell Westbury, O.B.E., M.C., Regional Director, Scottish Region, General Post Office.

Order of Merit (OM) edit

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Knights Grand Commander (GCSI) edit

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Companions (CSI) edit

  • Claude Henry Gidney, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Officiating Resident at Hyderabad.
  • Vice-Admiral Arthur Edward Frederick Bedford, C.B., Flag Officer Commanding, The Royal Indian Navy.
  • Hugh Dow, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Commerce Department.
  • Arthur Cunningham Lothian, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Additional Secretary to the Crown Representative.
  • Henry Joseph Twynam, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal.
  • Major-General Edward Merivale Steward, C.B., O.B.E., Indian Army, Director of Supplies and Transport, Army Headquarters, India.
  • Major-General Hugh Francis Edward MacMahon, C.B., C.B.E., M.C., Indian Army, Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Northern Command.
  • M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Narsimha Ayyangar Gopalaswami Ayyangar Avargal, C.I.E., lately Member, Board of Revenue, Madras.
  • William Bailie Brett, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bihar.
  • Clement Wansbrough Gwynne, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces.
  • Charles Francis Waterfall, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of the Central Provinces.
  • John William Smyth, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Central Division, Bombay.
  • Charles Frederick Grant, Esq., Indian Civil Service (retired), lately Commissioner, Burma

Order of St Michael and St George edit

Knights Grand Cross (GCMG) edit

  • Sir William Henry Clark, KCSI, KCMG – His Majesty's High Commissioner for Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland.
  • Sir Robert Randolph Garran, KCMG, KC. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • The Right Honourable Sir Michael Myers, KCMG – Chief Justice, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria.
  • The Right Honourable Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, Bt., K.C.M.G., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Angora.
  • Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Chief Economic Adviser to His Majesty's Government.

Knights Commander (KCMG) edit

  • Sir David Thomas Chadwick, CSI, CIE – Secretary of the Imperial Economic Committee and of the Executive Council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux.
  • The Honourable Sir Frederick Wollaston Mann, LLM – Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of the State of Victoria.
  • Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas – Emeritus Professor, Auckland University College, Dominion of New Zealand. For services to education.
  • Sir John Caulcutt. For services to the Colonial Office and to the Colonies in regard to currency and banking problems.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Fortnom Cox, C.M.G., D.S.O., R.A., British Resident, Trans-Jordan.
  • Sir Arthur Salisbury Lawrance, K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Somaliland Protectorate.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Francis George Montagu-Douglas-Scott, D.S.O. For public services in Kenya.
  • William Barrowclough Brown, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Second Secretary to the Board of Trade.
  • Cecil Francis Joseph Dormer, Esq., M.V.O., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Oslo.
  • Norman King, Esq., C.M.G., His Majesty's Consul-General at Barcelona.
  • George Arthur Drostan Ogilvie-Forbes, Esq., C.M.G., Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Berlin, until recently His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Valencia.
  • William Henry Robinson, Esq., C.B.E., Assistant to the Principal Establishment Officer, Foreign Office.

Companions (CMG) edit

  • Edgar Layton Bean, Esq., LL.B., Parliamentary Draftsman, State of South Australia.
  • Kingsley Anketell Henderson, Esq., F.R.I.B.A., F.R.V.I.A. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Higginson, Chief Administrative Officer for Central Europe, Imperial War Graves Commission.
  • Robert Henry Hogg, Esq., O.B.E., M.B., President of the Branch in the Dominion of New Zealand of the British Medical Association.
  • Thomas Dwyer Kelly, Esq., Under-Secretary and Comptroller of Accounts, Treasury, State of New South Wales.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable George Victor Lansell, V.D., Member of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria. For public and social welfare services.
  • Arthur Edgar Leighton, Esq., F.I.C., Controller-General of Munitions Supply, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Moir Mackenzie, Esq., O.B.E., Manager of the Empire Division, Federation of British Industries.
  • James Francis Murphy, Esq., Secretary, Department of Commerce, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Harold Eddey Priestman, Esq., Administrative Secretary to the High Commissioner for Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland.
  • John Rigg, Esq. For services in connection with the Workers' Educational Association in the Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Captain the Honourable William Sidney Senior, M.C., Minister of Mines and Public Works, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Hugh Nimmo Tait, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Dominions Office.
  • Harrie Dalrymple Wood, Esq., LL.B., Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, State of New South Wales.
  • John Conrad Abraham, Esq., M.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Provincial Commissioner, Nyasaland Protectorate.
  • Francis Noel Ashley, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Resident Commissioner, British Solomon Islands Protectorate.
  • Francis John Bagshawe, Esq., M.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Provincial Commissioner, Tanganyika Territory.
  • William Bartley, Esq., M.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, President, Municipal Commissioners, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
  • Cecil James Juxon Talbot Barton, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Fiji.
  • Alexander John Findlay, Esq., M.A., B.Sc. Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Zanzibar.
  • Charles Joseph Jeffries, Esq., O.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
  • John Edward Siegfried Merrick, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Uganda Protectorate.
  • John William Moir, Esq. An early pioneer in the Nyasaland Protectorate.
  • Hubert Ernest Newnham, Esq., V.D., Colonial Administrative Service, Principal Collector of Customs, and chairman, Colombo Port Commission, Ceylon.
  • Frederick John Salmon, Esq., M.C., Commissioner of Lands and Surveys, Palestine.
  • Norman Lockhart Smith, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong.
  • Arthur Hudson Stocks, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Sierra Leone.
  • Charles Francis Massy Swynnerton, Esq., Director of Tsetse Research, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Gerald Charles Whiteley, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy Chief Secretary, Nigeria.
  • Charles Campbell Woolley, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Jamaica.
  • Arthur Francis Aveling, Esq., C.B.E., Acting Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Warsaw.
  • Sir Noel Hughes Havelock Charles, Bt., M.C., Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Brussels.
  • Colonel The Honourable Bertram Aloysius Forbes, O.B.E., until recently Assistant Inspector-General, Egyptian Army.
  • Donald St. Clair Gainer, Esq., O.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at Munich.
  • Oliver Charles Harvey, Esq., a Counsellor in the Foreign Office.
  • Robert George Howe, Esq., Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Peking.
  • Walter St. Clair Howland Roberts, Esq., M.C.. an Acting Counsellor in the Foreign Office.
  • Patrick Stratford Scrivener, Esq., First Secretary at His Majesty's Embassy at Angora.
  • Frederick Watson, Esq., O.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at Philadelphia.

Royal Victorian Order edit

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Knights Grand Cross (GCVO) edit

Dames Commanders (DCVO) edit

Knights Commanders (KCVO) edit

Commanders (CVO) edit

Members of the Fourth Class (LVO) edit

  • Charles Lambert Bayne, Esq.
  • Miss Catherine Black, M.B.E., R.R.C.
  • Lieutenant the Honourable Thomas William Edward Coke.
  • Miss Rosina Davies, M.B.E., A.R.R.C.
  • Cyril Frederick Gamon, Esq.
  • Major Norman Wilmhurst Gwatkin.
  • Major George Frederick Thomas Hopkins, M.V.O., M.C.
  • Miss Cicely Howland, O.B.E.
  • Lionel Logue, Esq.
  • John Lowther, Esq.
  • Ivison Stevenson Macadam, Esq., C.B.E.
  • Charles Johns Mole, Esq., M.B.E.
  • Captain Hugh Donald Ross, M.C.
  • Captain Roy Dugdale Salmon, M.C.
  • Major Christopher Ronald Spear, M.C.
  • Henry Austin Strutt, Esq.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Edward John Patteson Travis Walker, O.B.E.

Members of the Fifth Class (MVO) edit

  • William Arthur Chadwick, Esq.
  • Alfred William Evans, Esq.
  • Miss Helen Louisa Gardiner.
  • Henry William Francis Godley, Esq.
  • William Rose Jarvis, Esq.
  • Joseph Walter Jones, Esq.
  • John Thomas Lincoln Kendle, Esq.
  • Herbert William Kirk, Esq.
  • Charles Philip Waters, Esq.

Order of the Indian Empire edit

Knights Grand Commander (GCIE) edit

Knights Commander (KCIE) edit

  • Sir Charles Augustus Tegart, C.S.I., C.I.E., M.V.O., lately Member of the Council of India.
  • Sir Thomas Guthrie Russell, Chief Commissioner of Railways.
  • Raja Rao Bahadur Durjan Sal Singh, Raja of Khilchipur, Central India.
  • Maharawal Shri Indrasinghji Pratapsinghji, Raja of Bansda, Gujarat States.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle, C.B.E., Indian Political Service, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
  • Geoffrey Pownall Burton, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of the Central Provinces.
  • Major-General Bertrand Richard Moberley, C.B., D.S.O., Indian Army, Commander, Lahore District.
  • Major-General Clement Arthur Milward, C.B., C.I.E., C.B.E., D.S.Q., Indian Army, Commander, Lucknow District.
  • Raja Sir Muhammad Ejaz Rasul Khan, C.S.I., of Jahangirabad, Bara Banki District, United Provinces.
  • Malik Sir Firoz Khan Noon, Barrister-at-Law, High Commissioner for India in London.

Companion (CIE) edit

  • Rai Bahadur Kanak Lal Barua, lately Minister for Local Self-Government to the Governor of Assam.
  • Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Reginald Stuart Abbott, M.C., A.D.C., Indian Army, Commander, Kohat Brigade, India
  • Colonel (Honorary Brigadier) Philip William Lilian Broke-Smith, D.S.O., O.B.E., British Service (Retired List), lately Chief Engineer, Eastern Command, India.
  • Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Hollis Martin Burrows, Indian Army, Commander, Ferozepore Brigade Area.
  • Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) William Elworthy Kidner, M.C., Chief Engineer, Eastern Command, lately Deputy Engineer-in-Chief (Works), Army Headquarters, India.
  • John Francis Blakiston, Esq., Director-General of Archaeology in India.
  • Eric Cecil Ansorge, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of the Tirhut Division, Bihar.
  • James Downing Penny, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Officiating Commissioner, Rawalpindi Division, Punjab.
  • Donald Macfarlane Esq., M.Inst. C.E., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Buildings and Roads Branch.
  • George Mabyn Ross, Esq., B.A.I., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the North-West Frontier Province in the Public Works Department.
  • Arthur Allen Waugh, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces in the Revenue Department.
  • James Richard Blair, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Additional Secretary to the Government of Bengal in the Political Department.
  • Colonel John Taylor, D.S.O., M.D., V.H.S., Indian Medical Service, Director, Central Research Institute, Kasauli.
  • Group Captain Norman Howard Bottomley, A.F.C., Officer Commanding No. 1 (Indian) Group, Royal Air Force, India
  • Colonel Cecil Alexander Boyle, D.S.O., Indian Army, Adviser in Languages and Secretary, Board of Examiners, General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India.
  • John Mellor Bottomley, Esq., Indian Educational Service, Director of Public Instruction, Bengal.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Frederick Joseph Paterson, O.B.E., M.C., Indian Army (Supernumerary List), Director of Military Lands and Cantonments, Defence Department.
  • Frank Ware, (Esq., F.R.C.V.S., Officiating Expert Adviser in Animal Husbandry to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arnort Edward Joseph Connell McDowell, Indian Police, Inspector General of Police, Bihar.
  • Emil Athol Owen Perkin, Esq., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Orissa.
  • Daniel Healy, Esq., Indian Police, InspectorGeneral of Police, Sind.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John de la Hay Gordon, O.B.E., M.C., Indian Political Service.
  • Walter Robert George Smith, Esq., Barristerat-Law, Indian Police, Commissioner of Police, Bombay.
  • Vyakarana Narahari Rao, Esq., Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Additional Deputy Secretary to the Crown Representative.
  • Frederick Sayers, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Madras.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Clive Newcomb, B.Ch., D.M. (Oxpn.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S., Indian Medical Service, Chemical Examiner to the Government of Madras, and Principal, Medical College, Madras.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald Herbert Candy, M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), Indian Medical Service, Civil Surgeon, Poona, Bombay.
  • Khan Bahadur Maulvi Abdul Aziz, Indian Service of Engineers, Superintending Engineer, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch, United Provinces.
  • Charles Holditch Bristow, Esq., J.P., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay.
  • Samuel Harrison Yardley Oulsnam, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Reforms Officer to the Government of the Central Provinces.
  • Major Alfred Edward Cartmel, M.M.. Indian Army, Commandant, Northern Shan States Battalion, Burma Frontier Force, Lashio, Northern Shan States, Burma.
  • Basil Martin Sullivan, Esq., O.B.E., Specialist Officer in the Public Works Department, Superintending Architect, Architectural Circle, Punjab.
  • Charles William Ayers, Esq., Principal Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London.
  • Ernest Muir, Esq, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Edin.), LL.D., General and Medical Secretary, British Empire Leprosy Relief Association.
  • John James Crosbie Paterson, Esq., Locomotive and Carriage Superintendent, Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Bombay.
  • Maung Set, Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Commissioner, Rangoon Corporation, Burma.

Order of the British Empire edit

Knight Grand Cross (GBE) edit

Military Division
Civil Division

Dame Grand Cross (GBE) edit

Civil Division

Dames Commanders (DBE) edit

Civil Division

Knights Commanders (KBE) edit

Military Division
  • Vice-Admiral Henry John Studholme Brownrigg, C.B., D.S.O.
  • Vice-Admiral James Pipon, C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O., O.B.E. (Retired).
  • Major-General Horace de Courcy Martelli, C.B., D.S.O., late Royal Artillery, Lieutenant-Governor and Commanding The Troops, Jersey District.
  • Major-General Edward Nicholson Broadbent, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., late The King's Own Scottish Borderers, Lieutenant-Governor-and Commanding The Troops, Guernsey and Alderney District.
  • Major-General William James Norman Cooke-Collis, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., late The Royal Ulster Rifles, General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.
  • Major-General Andrew Jameson McCulloch, C.B., D.S.O., D.C.M., Colonel, The Highland Light Infantry - (City of Glasgow Regiment), Commander, 52nd (Lowland) Division, Scottish Command, late General Officer Commanding the Troops, Malta.
  • Air Vice-Marshal Alfred William Iredell, C.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., K.H.P., Royal Air Force.
Civil Division
  • James Sidney Barnes, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Admiralty.
  • Gerald Bain Canny, Esq., C.B., deputy chairman, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Evelyn John Maude, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Health.
  • James Stirling Ross, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Air Ministry.
  • Robert Vaughan, Esq. For political and public services in Merionethshire.
  • George Bernard Lomas-Walker, Esq. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Henry Herbert Couzens, Esq., a British subject, until recently resident in Rio de Janeiro.
  • Colonel John Chappell Ward, C.M.G., C.I.E., D.S.O., M.B.E., Director of the Port of Basra and Director of Navigation, Iraqi Government.
  • The Honourable John Richards Harris, M.D., Minister of Public Instruction and Minister of Public Health, State of Victoria.
  • Sir James Gordon McDonald, O.B.E. For services to Southern Rhodesia.
  • John Sanderson, Esq. For services to the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Sir Navroji Bapuji Saklatvala, C.I.E., Director, Messrs. Tata Sons, Ltd., Bombay.
  • Rao Bahadur Madhorao Ganesh Deshpande, C.B.E., chairman and managing director of the Central Provinces and Berar Provincial Co-operative Bank, Ltd., Nagpur, Central Provinces.
  • Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, Asantehene, Gold Coast.
  • Raja Abdul Aziz ibni al-marhum Raja Musa, Raja Muda of Perak, Federated Malay States. (Honorary)
  • His Highness Daudi Chwa, K.C.M.G., Kabaka of Buganda, Uganda Protectorate. (Honorary)
  • His Highness Tengku Ismail, Tengku Mahkpta of Johore, Malay States. (Honorary)

Commanders (CBE) edit

Civil division
  • Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche, Alderman Mrs. Adeane, J.P. For public services in Cambridgeshire.
  • George Andrew, M.A., F.R.S.E., H.M. Senior Chief Inspector of Schools, Scottish Education Department.
  • Samuel Armstrong, J.P., a Member of the Wheat Commission, Past President of the Council of the National Association of British and Irish Millers.
  • Robert Claude Ashby, Chairman of the Southampton Juvenile Organisations Committee.
  • George Percival Best, Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands.
  • William Blackwood, J.P. For political and public services.
  • William Guy Nott-Bower, Assistant Under-Secretary for Mines.
  • Arthur Lyon Bowley, M.A.,Sc.D., D.Sc., F.B.A., Emeritus Professor of Statistics in the University of London.
  • Walter Carter, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
  • Professor Edgar Leigh Collis, M.D., M.R.C.P.,M.R.C.S., J.P., Emeritus Professor of Preventive Medicine in the University of Wales.
  • George Carter Cossar, M.C., L.R.C.P.E.,L.R.C.S.E., L.R.F.P.S., Founder of the Todhills Farm Colony and the Craigielinn Training Farm for the training of boys in agriculture.
  • Alwyn Douglas Crow, O.B.E., Sc.D., F.Inst.P., Director of Ballistics Research, Research Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
  • Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin, For services to literature and sport.
  • Britannia Margaret, Lady Davies. For political and public services in Cardiff.
  • Milner Gray, M.P. for Mid-Beds, 1929–31. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, 1931. For political and public services.
  • Oswald Allen Harker, Administrative Assistant, Foreign Office.
  • Walter Fred Harris, F.C.A., Chairman of the Fishing Vessels War Risks Compensation Committee.
  • Albert Edward Holmes, Secretary, Printing and Kindred Trades Federation. Joint Secretary of the Joint Industrial Council of the Printing and Allied Trades of Great Britain and Ireland
  • John Hutcheson, For political and public services in Roxburgh and Selkirk.
  • Professor Thomas Gwynn Jones, M.A.,.Professor of Welsh Literature, University College of Wales, Aberystwyih.
  • Alexander Boyne King, J.P. For political and public services in Glasgow.
  • Alderman Ernest Lambert. For political and public services in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Walter Sydney Liddall, J.P, M.P., M.P. for Lincoln. For political and public services.
  • Thomas Lochhead, C.A., Chief Accountant, British Broadcasting Corporation.
  • Hugh Latimer McCready, D.L., Chairman of the Loans Advisory Committee, Northern Ireland.
  • Commander (Acting Captain) Frederick William Mace, O.B.E., R.N.R. (Retired), Marine Surveyor and Water Bailiff to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
  • Walter Alexander Magill, I.S.O., Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland.
  • George Gillies Mennell, Secretary and Assistant Commissioner, Civil Service Commission.
  • Miss Mary Clara Sophia Neal, J.P. For services in connection with the revival of folk songs and dances.
  • Alderman Frank Nicholson, J.P., Chairman of the Sunderland Local Employment Committee.
  • John Reginald Jutsum Passmore, Chief Inspector of Training, Ministry of Labour.
  • John Ronald Peddie, M.B.E., D.Litt., Executive Officer, National Committee for the Training of Teachers in Scotland.
  • Charles William Reeve, chairman and managing director of the Associated Equipment Company. For services to the Air Ministry.
  • George Riddle, President of the Co-operative Congress.
  • Llewellyn Roberts, M.I.Mar.E., a Chief Engineer, Cunard White Star Steamship Company.
  • William Robert Locke Spence, General Secretary of the National Union of Seamen.
  • Robert Hill Tolerton, D.S.O., M.C., Assistant Secretary, Roads Department, Ministry of Transport.
  • Brigadier James Whitehead, C.M.G., D.S.O., Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police.
  • Archibald Kennedy Wilson, Chief Constable of Liverpool.
Overseas
  • Robert Rowland Appleby, a British subject resident in New York.
  • Mary Ethel Winifred, Lady Barton, O.B.E., wife of Sir Sidney Barton, until recently His Majesty's Minister at Addis Ababa.
  • The Reverend Douglas William Bruce, a British subject resident in Buenos Aires.
  • William Sherlock Dupree, a British subject resident in Hankow.
  • Miralai Arthur William Green Bey, until recently Governor of the Western Desert, Egyptian Frontier Districts Administration.
  • Ralph Cornwallis Stevenson, His Majesty's Consul at Bilbao.
Commonwealth
  • William James Carew, Secretary of the Commission of Government and Secretary for Home Affairs, Newfoundland.
  • George Stanley Colman, Member, Pastoral Research Council, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Arthur Malcolm Eedy, President of the Insurance Institute, State of New South Wales.
  • Jessie Isabel, Mrs. Henderson. For social welfare services in the State of Victoria.
  • Te Puea Herangi, a Māori Princess of Ngāruawāhia, Dominion of New Zealand. For social welfare services.
  • Raymond Douglas Huish, For services to ex-servicemen in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Miss Celia Macdonald of the Isles, O.B.E. For services in connection with hospitality for Dominion students in London.
  • James Perrins Major, M.D., B.S., Honorary Secretary of the Branch in the State of Victoria of the British Medical Association.
  • Henry Ernest Moston, Assistant Secretary, Department of Labour, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Miss Gladys Sydney Pott, O.B.E. For services in connection with the settlement overseas of British women.
  • Robert Fitzroy Sanderson, Member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Eastern Trade, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Captain Donald Petrie Simson,O.B.E., Honorary Secretary, British Empire Service League
  • M. R. Ry. Bezwada Ramachandra Reddi Garu, lately President, Legislative Council, Madras.
  • Susil Chandra Sen, Solicitor to the Central Government at Calcutta.
  • Khwaja Shahabuddin, Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly, chairman, Dacca District Board, Bengal.
  • George Herman Raschen, Member of the Sind Legislative Assembly, chairman, Karachi Chamber of Commerce, Sind.
  • Harry Willoughby Oddin Taylor, O.B.E., A.C.G.I., A.M.I.C.E., Indian Service of Engineers, Superintending Engineer (Irrigation) and Joint Secretary to the Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan in the Public Works Department.
  • John Humphrey Blackwell, M.C., Manager of the Delhi Office, The Burma Shell Company of India, Ltd.
  • John Maurice Kilburn, lately chairman, Assam Branch of the Indian Tea Association, Assam.
  • Edgar Percy Stocker, Deputy Managing Director, Imperial Bank of India
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Deane, O.B.E., Colonial Police Service, Inspector-General of Police and Superintendent of Prisons, Mauritius.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Cruickshank Griffiths, C.M.G. For public services in Kenya.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Horace Cyril Benjamin Hickling, D.S.O., M.C. For public services in Trinidad.
  • Peter Sinclair Hunter, M.B., Municipal Health Officer, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
  • James Lochhead, O.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.S., Colonial Medical Service, Senior Medical Officer, Gibraltar.
  • Eric Olawolu Moore, For public services in Nigeria.
  • George Laurie Pile, For public services in Barbados.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Rae. For public services in the Federated Malay States.
  • William Francis Stephens, For public services in Seychelles.
  • William Stewart, For public services in the Tanganyika Territory

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References edit

  1. ^ "No. 34396". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 May 1937. pp. 3073–3106.
  2. ^ "No. 34396". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 May 1937. p. 3080.