BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3101, 4 June 1917, Page 7

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

SOME OF THE .NEW PEERS

(lfec. .Tune 1, 1.30 a.m.) , London, June 3. 'The birthday honours includo:— Knight of St. Patrick—Viscount ■French. ' Viscount,s—Lord Devonporfc (late Food.' Controller), Admiral K. B. Farquhar (Ordnance Board), .Sir Wiliiam Waldorf Astor. Bai'ons—The Hight lion. A. B/ M. Lockivood, M. I\. Colonel It. G. Chaloner,. Sir Frederick Henry Smith (manufacturer). Sir Ivor Herbert, M.P., Sir; William Level'. • Privy Councillors—llr. .Henry WV Forster (Financial Secretary to the War; Office), Captain Pretyman (Secretary to; tho Board of Trade), Lord Claud Hamil-: ton (railway director), Jivelyn . E.; Cecil (Colonial Service), Sir. H. Pike Pease, M.P. (Postal Department), Mr. J-, 11. Thomas, JI.P. (secretary to the rail-; wiiymen's organisation), Jlv. Neil Priin-: rose (Secretary to.tho Jlinistry of Mumi-; Hons), Jlr. Ashton (secretary to the Miners' Federation). _ ; There are twenty-five baronetcies, jn-; eluding Jlr. A. If.' D. It. Steel Alaitland; (Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the ; Colonies), Colonel H. M. Jessel, Jhv; Terry (Vice-Chairman of the Overseas; Forces Beception Committee), ( Sir Thomas Dewar, Sir Ali Innian Sykcs, and Sir W. H. Donn (Lord Mayor of; London). . t , ; Forty-six Knights arc created, includ-; iiiL' Jlr. W. 11. Cowan, M.P.. Mr. Eowlands Barrau, JI.P., Mr. A. W. Barton, JfP., Jlr. Houghton Gastrin, JI.P., Jlr.: Bbeuexer Parks, JI.P., Jlr. Samuel Bobcrbt. Jf.P.. Mr. E. Marshall Hall, M.P./ sculptor, Jlr. W. TI. Thornycroft, 8.A., sculptor. Jlr. Arthur S. Cope, 8.A., Pr»> fessor Thomas .11. Holland (Jlmeral Science). Jlr. William Watson (poet). Jlr. John Foster Fraser, Jrr. Alfred L'--. Bobbins ("Birmingham Post"), and Mr. Grim-wood Meavs (journalists), (the latter secretary to the Dardanelles Commission). —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Beuter.