“JIX” CREATED A PEER
VISCOUNT PEEL GIVEN EARLDOM KING CONFERS HONOURS (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Friday. Among a list of honours conferred by the King are: Earldom.—Viscount Peel. Viscountcy. —Sir William JoynsonHicks, former Home Secretary. Baronies. —Sir Hamer Greenwood, Sir Gilbert Wills, Major Yerburgh. Privy Councillors. —Mr. Douglas Hacking, Earl Howe, Mr, Douglas King, Lord Plymouth, Sir Phillip Sassoon, Viscount Wolmer, Sir Francis Lowe. Baronetcies.—Mr. Henry Bucknall Betterton, late Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour; Sir Alfred Butt, the theatrical producer; Mr. Geoffrey Fry, private secretary to the ex-Prime Minister. A dozen knighthoods have also been conferred for public, political or philanthropic services. An M.B.E. is conferred on Miss Aileen Feilding, personal secretary to Mr. L. S. Amery, formerly Secretary of State for the Dominions. The list of honours conferred by tbe King when the Government resigned included a barony for. Sir George Lawson Johnston, chairman of the executive of the British Charities’ Association. Royal approval of the peerage to Major R. D. Yerhurgh’s father had been signified in 1916, but be died before the patent was issued.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 703, 1 July 1929, Page 9
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