NEW YEAR HONORS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 23, 3 January 1916, Page 4

NEW YEAR HONORS.

MANY WELL-KNOWN PERSONAGES. United Peesp Association. I i V ; London, January 1. The New Year Honors have been published. Many honors have been, granted to civilians in recognition of their efforts in connection with the or- j ganisation of the production of war materials and for raising war funds, j Admiral Guepratte has been promoted to Knight Commander of the Bath in recognition of his services while commanding the French squadron cooperating at the Dardanelles. > PEERS. Lord Mersey created a Viscount. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford. Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Mr William Waldorf Astor, the wellknown American millionaire, who became a naturalised British subject in 1899. - Sir Griffiths Thomas, colliery pro-' prietor of Glamorgan. Sir Alexander Henderson, Chairman of the Railway Companies’ Association since 1909. Mr Cecil W. Norton. Liberal M.P. for West Newington (London) since 1892. KNIGHTS OF THE GARTER. Viscount Cnrzon. Duke of Devonshire. PRIVY COUNCILLORS. Mr G. N. Barnes, Labor M.P. for' the Blackfriars division of Glasgow. | Mr William Crooks, Labor M.P. lor Woolwich since 1903. BARONETS. Admiral Frederick C. D. Sturdee, 1 C.M.G., C.V.0., the hero of tiie Falkland Islands naval battle last year. | Sir William Edward Goschen, British Ambassador at Berlin since 1908. K.C.M.G. The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie } High Commissioner in Loudon for New Zwi«, land. 1 KNIGHTHOOD. , Mr Henry Griggs, of Melbourne,! Legislative Councillor. I C.M.G, j Mr C. Wray Palliser, Secretary to New Zealand’s High Commissioner. | Vice-Admiral Patey, Commander of. the Australian Navy. Sir Charles McKellar, of Sydney. Mr Nelson Hood, of Melbourne. Mr Loose, of the Colonial Institute.