BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 680, 4 June 1929, Page 9

BIRTHDAY HONOURS

FIVE NEW PEERAGES CONFERRED KING’S DOCTORS HONOURED British Official Wireless RUGBY, Sunday. v ,Th le t u 01 \? U conferred in connection Tl -dr, tvf„ e r , t , hday oE King George inelude, the following:——* earldom Viscount Inchcape. VISCOUNTCY Mr. William Clive Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty , Baron Hailsham, the Lord Chancellor. Field-Marshal Baron Plumer. BARONY Sir William Berry, Bt., chairman of Allied .Newspapers, Limited. Colonel Sir Edward Brotherton, formerly Conservative member of Parliament for 12 years for Wakefield. Sir Robert Sanders, formerly Minister of Agriculture. Sir William Tyrrell, British Ambassador at Paris. PRIVY COUNCILLORS Baron Dawson of Penn, Physician-in-Ordinary to the King. Major J. W. Hills, for some years Conservative member of Parliament for Durham, and in the last Parliament for Ripon. Sir Ellis Hume-Williams, Bt., K.C., Recorder of Norwich, who was Conservative member of Parliament for the Bassetlaw Division of Nottingham since 1910, but who was defeated at the recent election. Dr. Earle Grafton Page, Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Australia since 1923. Colonel H. H. Spender-Clay, Parliamentary Commissioner to the Charity Commissioners, and Conservative member of Parliament for Tonbridge since 1910. BARONETCY Sir Arthur Balfour, Chairman of Committee on Industry and Trade. Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, Physician Extraordinary to the King. Colonel Sir Hugh Rigby, Sergeant Surgeon to the King. Eight further baronetcies have been conferred. ORDER OF THE BATH G.C.B. Viscount Lee of Fareham, who gave Chequers to the nation for the use of the Prime Ministers, as a country seat. K.C.B.

Sir Ronald Lindsay, Permanent Un-der-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Robert Gilbert Vansittart, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. Sir Stanley Hewett, Surgeon to the King. ORDER OF MERIT

Dr. Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate since 1913, in recognition of his eminent position in the world of literature. Mr. John Galsworthy, for his services to literature and the drama. ORDER OF THE STAR OF INDIA G.C.S.I. Viscount Goschen, Governor of Madras. ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE G.C.M.G. Sir John Cadman, K.C.M.G., chairman of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary to the Cabinet and Clerk of Privy Council. Sir George Grahame, British Ambassador at Madrid. K.C.M.G. Mr. Justice Charles Powers, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER G.C.V.O. Sir Edward Walllngton, K.C.V.0., Groom-in-Waiting to his Majesty, formerly Private Secretary to the Queen, and in 1901 Clerk to the Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Australia and Private Secretary to the GovernorGeneral, the Marquess of Linlithgow. The following honours have been given to five of his Majesty’s doctors: K.C.V.O. Dr. F. E. Shipway. C.V.O. Mr.. L. E. Whitby, bacteriologist. Dr. W. Hodgson, radiologist. Dr. F. Howitt, raytherapist. M.V.O. Dr. E. C. Dodds, Professor of Bio- * chemistry in Loudon University. ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE K.B.E. Dr. Richard Stawell, Melbourne. KNIGHTHOOD Mr. Edward Gordon Craig, chairman of New Era National Pictures, Limited, and Portable Talking Pictures, Limited. Mr. Ben Greet, actor and producer of the plays of Shakespeare. Dr. Peter Charmers Mitchell, secretary of the Zoological Society. Mr. James Wycliffe Headlam-Morley, lately Historical Adviser to the Foreign Office. Mr. Roland Thomas Nugent, Director of the Federation of British Industries. Mr. Robert Welsford, President of the Law Society. Dr. Robert Stanton Woods, physician, for services during his Majesty's illness. Mr. Kelso King, manager, and for 50 years in the service of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company, for public services to the State of New South Wales. Mr. James McDonald, president of the Rhodesia Chamber of Mines. Professor Colin MacKenzie, Director of the National Museum of Australian Zoology. Mr. William Herbert Phillipps, chairman of the State Savings Bank of South Australia. The India List includes 14 knighthoods. In the Order of the Bath .a number of promotions and appointments of naval and military officers are recorded.