BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 235, 27 June 1908, Page 5

BIRTHDAY HONOURS.

FOUfi NEW LOfiDS. A LENCTHY LIST OF DECORATIONS. SOME COLONIAL NAMES. Bir TELEGRAPH —rRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTBIOHI (Rec. Juno 27, 0.5 a.m.) s London, June 26. The Birthday Honours list has now been published. The following are included in it: Poors. Sir Antony MacDonnell. lit. Hon. Geo. Whiteley. Sir Angus Holden. Mr. John W. Philips. Privy Councillors. Sis Privy Councillors are appointed. They include: Mr. Alfred Emmott, who has represented Oldham in the House of Commons as a Liberal since 1899, and who was appointed in 1900 Deputy-Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means.

Sir Thos. P. Whittaker, formerly hardware merchant and newspaper editor. He is an authority on tho licensing question, and writes to the magazines on other social and economic problems. Ho has represented Bpen Valley (Yorkshire) in the Liberal interest since 1892. Baronots. Eleven Baronets are created. They, include : Mr. Hudson E. Kearley, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade, who has held Devonport for the Liberals since 1892. Sir Joseph F. Leeso, who has represented Accrington division of Lancashire sinco 1892 (described-as an advanced Liberal, advocating Home Rule, Disestablishment, and tho eight hours' day for miners). He was knighted in 1905. Sir Francis Layland-Barratt, Liberal member for Torquay division of Devonshire since 1900. Mr. John Herbert Roberts, Liberal member for Denbighshire West sinco 1892. Mr. Robertson, South African mine-owner. Knights. There are twenty-five Knights, and the list includes:

Mr. P. W. Bunting, editor of the "Contemporary Review." Col. David Bruce, the noted investigator of sleeping sickness.

St. Michael and St. George. Tho Knights of St. Michael and St. Georgo include: His Honour Sir Pope A. Cooper, Chief Justice of Queensland. Mr. Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria. Mr. J. H. Carruthers, lato Premier of New South' Wales. ■ ■ • The Companions of St. Michael and St. Georgo include : • Mr. Newton Moore, Premier of West Australia. Knights Baoholor. Among the new Knights Bachelor are:— ■ His Honour S. H. Parker, Chief Justice of West Australia. Mr. Weedon, Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Mr. John Hay, of Now South Wales. Order of Merit. . The Order of Merit has been conferred on Mr. Henry Jackson, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge. Univorsity. . THE NEW PEERS. SIR ANTONY MACDONNELL. Sir Antony MaoDonnell, who retires from tho position of Under-Soeretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, had a brilliant career, in tho Indian Civil Servico before ho bceamo tho masterful man at Dublin Castle,' in fact, his stafcuo stands, at Lucknow, Ho is a lloman Catholic and a Homo Rulor, and he is credited With having been behind the devolution movement, and with having induced Mr. G, Wyndham (Secretary for Iroland) and tho A r iceroy Lord Dudley (now Governor-General of Australia) to take it up. This was in the days of the Unionist Government, and, aB a result, of tho Unionist outburst, Mr. Wyndham resigned and Lord Dudley was much criticised. It' is said that, but for the influonco of Lord Lansdowne, Sir Antony would also have been forced to resign. The Under-Secretary was also supposed to be behind Mr. Bir roll's Irish Councils Bill, which represented the fruit of Liberal devolutionism, and which the Nationalists rejected. Mr. Birrell is said to havo cut asunder from his Undor-Secretary on tho Irish University question, and to havo produced a Bill which is more Birrell than MacDonnell. Sir Antony certainly, for a permanent official, wielded a great influonco. He was largely instrumental in passing Mr! Wyndham's Land Act. Sir Antony is the son of a small landlord in County Mayo, and is described as " short, fair, blue-eyed, with all hiS' heart in his work." •,

I Sir James B. Dougherty, the Assistant UnderSecretary, will fill Sir Antony's former position. He was Professor of Logic and English at Magee College, Londonderry, from 1879 to 1895. He was Commissioner for Education from 1890 to 1895. He has won honours in metaphysical and economic science. | A LIBERAL WHIP. The Eight Hon. Geo. Whiteley is a Conservative who turned Liberal. As a Conservative he was elected to Parliament in 1893, representing StOckport from that year until 1900. The Agricultural Rates Aot of the Unionist Government caused him to go over to the Liberals, and in 1900 ho was elected by 549 votes as Radical member for Pudeir. The by-election caused by hi« elevation to the Peerage resulted in the Conservatives wresting tho seat from the Liberals, Mr. Oddy being returned. . Tho "Pall Mall Gazette" somewhat bitterly comments: "The Right Hon. Geo. Whiteley, as is hot unusual in the ca«o of those who havo changed sides in polities, has exhibited Buch an enthusiastic devotion to the' new faith which was in hira that he was chosen to succeed Mr. Herbert Gladstone as First Government Whip. . • Ho has good manners and plenty of determination, but he does not conceal his distrust of the Socialistic Labour members, and does not trouble about bringing them '■ into the Government Lobby. Ho wa9 born in 1855, and married, in 1881, a daughter of Mr. William Tattersall, of Blackburn. Ho was edueatad at Zurieh. In 1907 ho was made a P.C." 111-health is stated to bo the canso of Mr. Whitoloy's retirement from the House of Commons to join Messrs. Morley and Robertson and Sir Henry Fowler in tho Lords. It also seems to be a fact, as stated above, that his relations as whip with tho Labour-Socialist wing of the Liberals wero .not tho pleasantesf. The occasion of tho rejection of the Labour party's Unemployed Bill—when sixty Liberals voted for tho Bill and against tho Government—is cited as a notable clashing between Liberal independents and whip traditions. A GIANT COMMONER FROM WALES. Mr. J. Wynford Philippe has been Liberal momber of the Houso of Commons for Pembrokeshire since 1898. A "Pall Mall Gaiotto" writor, who can hardly bo oxpected to enthuso over a Liboral momber, writes of tho Welsh giant as follows:—"Mr. John Wynford Philipps, born in 1861, was educated at Folstead and Keblo, learnt to talk at tho Oxford Union, and was called to tho Bar. But, having married a rich wife (Miss Nora Gorstenberg),- and being .the heir to a baronetcy as oldest son of Canon Sir James Erasmus Phillips, ho determined to dovoto himself to polities. Ho returned hurriedly from his honeymoon to hold Mid Lanarkshire for his party at a by-election in 1838, and represented that eonstituoncy until 1894, when ho made room for the redoubtablo Mr. Jamis Caldwell. Mr. Philipps is one of three brothers in tho present Houso of Commons, and they are tho throe tallest, men in it. Their height colleotivoly is 19ft. Sin." Sir Angus Holdon (second Baronet) is a manufacturer. From 1892 to 1900 he represented ' Buokrose (East Riding of Yorkshire) as' a Glad6tonlan Liboral. Ho was Mayor of Bradford in 1878, 1879, 1880, and 1888.