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HONOURS LIST

Three New Peers in Great Britain FIVE BARONETCIES Twenty-seven Knighthoods Conferred LIST OF RECIPIENTS (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 1, 9 p.m.) Rugby, January 1. Following is the list of New Year honours for Britain:— To Be Peers. Sir Henry Betterton, formerly Minister of Labour, now chairman of the Unemployment Assistance Board. Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, who has taken a prominent part in the political and public life of Northamptonshire. Colonel Sir Wyndham Portal, who was one of. the four commissioners who recently investigated conditions in de-

pressed, areas. To Be Privy Councillor. The Marquess of Linlithgow. To Be Baronets. Colonel Edward Rugglosbrise, M.P. Mr. Richard Burning Holt, the wellknown shipowner. Sir Harold Mackintosh, a prominent Yorkshire businessman and philanthropist, and president of the World’s Sunday School Association, Colonel Frank Simpson, for political and public services/ in Durham and Northumberland. Sir Holburt Waring, president of the' Royal College of Surgeons. To Be K.G. The Earl of Yarborough. To Be G.C.B. Sir Josiah Stamp. To Be K.C.B. ’ Mr. Henry Badeley, Clerk of Parliaments and Colonel Banks, DirectorGeneral of the Post Office. To Be G. C.M.G. ’ . Sir Edward Denham. Governor of Jamaica. To Be K.C.M.G. Lieutenant-General Sir William Furse and Mr. Archibald Clark Kerr, British Minister at Stockholm. / To Be G.C.V.O. Admiral Sir Herbert Fetherstouhaugh, Viscount Hampden and Baron Leconfleld. To Be K.C.V.O. " The Very Reverend Fox ley Norris, .Dean of Westminster, his award being dated November 29, which was the day of the Duke of Kent’s wedding; Mr. William Reid Dick, Royal Academician, and Mr. Edmund Spriggs, M.P. Order of Merit. Professor John Mackall. Royal Victorian Chain. A - The Earl of Derby and the Earl of Athlone. , To Be Knights. in the general honours list twentyseven knighthoods are conferred for services in widely different fields. Among the recipients are three members of Parliament and others prominent in public affairs. These include Mr. Charles Bressey, chief engineer -of the Roads Department of the Ministry of Transport; Professor Walter Langdon Brown, professor of physics at Cambridge University; Mr. Edward Deller, principal of London University ; Mr. Cyril Fox, director of the National Museum; Mr. Wilfred King, chairman of the Exchanges Telegraph Company; Mr. John Orr, director of the Rowett Institute for research In animal nutrition; Professor Edward Poulton, honorary life president of the Royal Entomological Society of London ; Mr. John Sutherland, a member of the Forestry Commission; and Dr. Francis Tovey, professor of music at Edinburgh University. Air Force and Navy. Royal Air Force promotions include Air Marshal Sir Robert Brooke Popham to be Air Chief Marshal, and Air Vice-Marshal Longmore to be Air Marshal. * A C.M.G. is awarded Mr. Allen Leeper, counsellor to the Foreign Office, who is at, present seriously ill after several operations. Knight commanders of the Bath include Vice-Admiral Evans.’ The Air Foree Cross is awarded to the Marquis of Clydesdale, who led the Everest air expedition. NEW PEERS AND OTHERS The Right Hon, Sir Henry Bucknall Betterton was until a short time ago Minister of Labour in the British National Government. He is 63 years of age. He was educated at Rugby and’ Christ Church, Oxford. He was called to the Bar in the Inner Temple in 1896. He entered polities in December, 1918, as a Unionist M.P. for the Rushclilfe division of Nottinghamshire and bus represented that electorate continuously ever since. His first administrative experience was gained as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour in 1923, holding the same position also from 1924 to 1929. His list of honours are these: 0.8. E. 1918, C.B.E. 1920, first Baronet 1929, and Privy Councillor 1931. He married in 1912 and has a family of two daughters. Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, eighth Baronet, was born in 18S1 and educated at Eton, Sandhurst and Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree. From 1900 tc 1903 he was a second lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, while for seven years from 1910 he ,was a captain in the Lancashire Hussars Yeomanry. He entered the House of Commons as Unionist member for the Enfield division of Middlesex in 1922. In 1932 he was High Sherriff for North Hants. He owns about 10,000 acres. His heir is a lieutenant in the Scots Guards. Colonel Sir Wyndham, Raymond Portal, who also has been raised to the peerage, is 50 years of age. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and thereafter took a Commission- in the IJfe Guards. He served in the European War for four years and won the D.S.O. In 1909 he married Lady Louise Cairns, M.B.E. His heir is Sir Spencer John Portal.

Sir Harold Mackintosh is the chairman and managing director of John Mackintosh and Sons, Ltd., of Halifax. He is president of the National Sunday School Union, and of the World’s Sunday School Association, council member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, was president of the Yorkshire Agriculture Society (1928-29), is director of numerous companies, and honorary secretary of the Yorkshire Council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. He is also chairman of the Halifax Y.M.C.A., and vice-presi-dent of the national YAI.C.A. Sir Holburt Jacob Waring has been

the president of the Royal College of Surgeons since 1032. He is a former ViceChancellor and Denn o£ the Faculty o£ Medicine at, the University of London. He is vice-president of the Grand Council o£ the British Empire Cancer Campaign, and a former president of the Medical Society of London. Professor John Mackail, M.A., LL.D., on whom the Order of Merit has Seen bestowed, is Professor of Ancient Literature in the Royal Academy. During a distinguished academic career he has occupied the chair of Poetry at Oxford University, has been, president of the Classical Association and of the British Academy since 1932. and has published numerous works on classical literature. The Marquis of Clydesdale is 32 years .of age, and was educated at Eton and Bnlliol (Oxford). He is noted as an amateur boxer, and was chief pilot of the Mount Everest Air Expedition. “EVANS OF THE BROKE” Colourful Career .Vice-Admiral Sir Edward R. G. R. Evans, K.C.8., D. 5.0., -famous as an Antarctic explorer and as ‘-Evans of the Broke,” has many friends in New Zealand. Born in 1881, he entered the Royal Navy in 18971 As a sub-lieutenant he served in the Morning, relief ship to the National Antarctic Expedition commanded by the late Captain R. H. Scott, R.N., in the Discovery. 1901-04. In 1904 Lieutenant Evans married Hilda, daughter of Mr. T; G. Russell, of Christchurch. In 1909 Lieutenant Evans joined the British Antarctic Expedition as second in command to Captain Scott. He was in command of the Terra Nova for .the voyage from England to the Antarctic, and he accompanied his leader to within 150 miles of the South Pole. Stricken with scurvy on the return journey, his lite was saved by the devotion of his companions, Lashly and Cream Visiting England in 1912, he was received by the King, who specially promoted him to .the rank of commander.'' He returned to the Antarctic at the end of 1912 and assumed command of the expedition after the death of Captain Scott. On his way back to England in 1913 his wife died at Toulon. For his services in the Antarctic he was awarded a C.B. At the outbreak of the war in 1914 Commander Evans was in command of the destroyer" Mohawk during the bombardment of the German army on the Belgian coast, and was mentioned in dispatches. He served for more than three years in dcsti'oyers of the Dover Patrol, and gained the D.S.O. In 1917 he was in command of H.M.S. Broke when that ship with H.M.S. Swift engaged and defeated six German destroyers in the Strait of Dover. The Brolfe torpedoed one enemy destroyer and cut au-other-in two by ramming her, a hand-to-hand fight on the Broke’s forecastle following. For his services in this action Evans was specially promoted to the rank of captain. ’Subsequently he served on the staff of the admiral commanding the Dover Patrol, and of Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly at Queenstown. and afterward in command of H.M.S, Attentive on the Gibraltar convoy service. After the war he was senior naval officer on the Belgian 'coast, and from 1921 to 1923 In command of H.M.S. Carlisle on the China Station.

In 1921 Captain Evans greatly distinguished himself by taking H.M.S. Carlisle to the rescue of the steamer Hong Moh, which, crowded with Chinese passengers, had gone ashore on a reef in a heavy gale. The Carlisle’s boats rescued many of the Hong Mob’s company. Captain Evans himself plunging into the boiling sea and swimming with a line to part of the ship and getting a number of Chinamen to safety. For thts deed Captain Evans was awarded the Board of Trade medal for saving life at sea, and also a special gold medal awarded by Lloyd’s. From 1923 to 1926 Captain Evans was in command of the mine-sweeping and fishery protection flotilla in the North Sea, and from 1926 to 1927 k in command of the battle-cruiser Repulse. Promoted rear-admiral on February 24, 1928. he was in command of the Royal Australian Navy from 1929 to 1931. In 1932 ho was promoted vice-admiral, and since the beginning of 1033 has been com-mander-in-chief of the South African Station. ’ Sir Edward Evans married, in 1916, Elsa, daughter of Mr. Richard Andvora, of Oslo, Norway, and there are two sons of this marriage.- . '

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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 9

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HONOURS LIST Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 9

HONOURS LIST Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 9

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