NEW YEAR

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16721, 2 January 1920, Page 6

NEW YEAR

HONOURS.

.ADDITIONAL AWARDS. I (Br Cnhlf.—Prc s .< A*sor:\»ii*» -Copyrght.) N.Z. v'all* Ajs<\:a;ioa.i 1 I.OXDON. December HO. ! Tho followir.' additional New Year I honours are announced: — j BARON. General- Sir William Riddel Bird- : wood. K.C.8., K.C.5.1.. K.C.M.G., formerly General Otliror commanding tho Australian and Now Zealand Army • Corps, and from April, 191?, till after the conclusion of hostilities, the Fifth Army. j Lord Birdwood takes the title of Baron flirdwood. of Ansae and Toincs. j K.B.E. j n. H. Maharaja Jam Sahib, of Nawanagar, Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, : K. C.S.I. ! KNIGHTS BACHELOR. I Right lion. Richard Watkins Rich.-! r.riis, Lord Mayor of Sydney. ; lion. W. H. Leo, Premier of Tasmania. The honour that has been bestowed on Lord Birdwood has been weli earned, : and it is it !.e should take 11.0 ' title of Baron Bird-.vood. of Anniiu and 'lotncs. His n:\tne will be aiwr.vs associated witli tie gallant doings of the Australian and New Zealand soldiers at An;:ac, Galiipoli IVnirsula. Lord Birdwood was born in and educated at Ciiltcri College and the Roval Military College. Sandhurst. As 'a j lieutenant he .joined the Rovnl Scots ' Fusdsers in ISB3, the l'Jth Lancers in | and tho lltli Bengal Lancers in I 1S?(3. He was pre mo tc-d captain in | lSfHi, and thereafter rose steadily ! until lie was promoted Genernl in 1917. I Hi' served at llazara i:i ISi'l (medal and clasp); Isazai. ]. c 9'2: North-AVest Frontier, India, 1F97-f'S (medal and two clasps); Tirah, 1597-9S (despatches, clasp); South Africa. JS99-02 (severely wounded, despatches live times, brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel. Queen's Medal, six ciasps. King's Medal, two I clasps); Chief Staff OJir-cr Mohmand Expedition, IS9B (despatches, medal and clasp, D.5.0.). lie was secretary to the Government of India in the ' Army Department, and member of the I Governor-General's Legislative Count-7i, i 1912-1-1. In 1914 he was appointed General Oflicer Commanding the Aus- ; tralian and New Zealand Army Corps, : and ho directed the landing and subse- , qtient operations at Anr.ac with signal j success. Subsequently he commanded i tho Anzac Corps in Franco until 191S, ! when ho wns appointed Commander of the Fifth Army m succession to General Gough. Under his leadership the Fifth Army Retrieved its fortunes and played a distinguished part in the final oflensivo in Flanders. For his services in tho war (ho was wounded At Anzac), Lord Birdwood received numerous mentions in despatches. and was mado K.C.M.G., Grand Officer of tho Legion of Honour, Croix de Guerre (French and Belgian), Grand Officer of tho Crown (Belgium). Lord Birdwood arrived in Australia a few days ago, and expocts to visit New Zealand next June.

Earl Midleton, P.C., K.P., was tho ninth viscount of the lire, the viscountcy having been created in 1717. As the Right Hon. St. John Brodrick, he wa? Financial Secretary to the War Office from ISSG to 1592 ; Under-Secre-tary of State for War from 1593 to 1893; Under-Sccretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1693 to 1900; Secretary of State for "War from 1900 to 1903}' and Secretary of State for India from 1903 to i 905. lie succeeded to tho titlo on the death of his father in 1907. He served on tho Irish Convention in 1917-18.

Lord Riddell was knighted in 1909, and mado a baronet in 1918. lie is a solicitor and a prominent newspaper proprietor, being connected with the Pearson, Newncs, and other publications.

Lord Dawson, G.C.V.0., C.8., has bepn Physician-in-Ordinary to His Majesty tho King since 1907. Formerly ho was Physician-Extraordinary to tho lato King Edward VII. Lord Stanley, who was M.P. for Ash-ton-under-Lyne, wns President of the Board of Trado from 1916 till a few months ago. 110 wa3 born at Derby in 1875, and for twelve years was general manager of electric railways in tho United States.

Sir James Buchanan is chnirman of James Buchannn and Co., Ltd., London, and of W. P. Lowrio and Co., Ltd., Glasgow. Sir Arthur Schuster was born at Frankfort-on-Main, Prussia, although his father was a Londoner. He is a Ph.D. of Heidelberg; D.Sc. of Manchester ; D.S:;. (Hon.) of Oxford and Calcutta; Sc.D. (Hon.) of Cambridge; D. cs Sc. of Geneva; LL.D. of St. Andrews. Ho is secretary of the Royal Socicty and an authority on seismology and solar research, lie is the author of "Britain's Heritage of Sciencc" and other works.

iiJI. Maharaja Jam Sahib, of Nawanagnr (Kumar Khri Jtarjitsinhji) is tlio well-known cricketer of Indian Royal birth. Ho completed his oducntioii at Cambridge. and was one of England's lending batsmen in the closing years of last centnrv. Tli'o Tl.i£»ht Hon. William Alexander Watt,, P.C., is a Victorian jiroduco merchant. ITe entered the Legislative Assembly in 1897, and was PostmastcrGenernlof Victoria in 1F99-1900. In the latter year he resigned. From 190!) to 1014 ho was Treasurer of Victoria and IVemier from 1912 to 191-1. lie resigned the Premiershin in 1014 and entered the Commonwealth Parliament as member far Balaclava. During tho absence of the Right TTon. W. M. Hughes in Europe. Mr Watt acted as Prime Minister of Australia.

Sir Ttirhnrd Wn thins Richards is the n«wly appointed Lord Mayor of Sydney. Ho was horn at Pembroke, South Wales, in 18(53. and is a civil and ennsnltinc engineer by profession nnd a M. Inst. C.F. From 1902 to 1911 lie w;'s Town Clerk and City F.ngincer of Dunedin. after hiving h*en Citv Surveyor of Sydney from 1887 to 1901. He wric formerly Lord Mayor of Sydnev in 1913-15.