1922 Birthday Honours

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The 1922 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published in The London Gazette on 2 June 1922. [1]

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Controversy from the 1922 Birthday Honours list eventually led to the passage of the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925 and creation of the Honours Committee to formally review nominations. Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, chairman of the Robinson South African Banking Company and generous contributor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George's Liberal Party, was listed for a barony "for national and imperial services." Robinson quickly declined the honour within weeks after arguments erupted in the House of Lords over the circumstances of his nomination, particularly his residency in South Africa rather than in Great Britain, and that he was not recommended for the honour directly by the South African colonial government as required. "Feeling in the House of Lords ran high," reported The Times on 30 June. [2] The Times praised Robinson's letter to the King asking for permission to decline the honour, and pushed for further questioning into the matter: "..by his action Sir Joseph Robinson has placed himself in the right and has left the Government to explain, if they can, how and why they placed themselves in the wrong. It seems clear from the letter that Sir Joseph Robinson did not in any way seek the honour. Therefore, some person or persons unknown must have sought to induce him to accept it. Who are those persons, what are their functions, and what were their motives?" [3]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

United Kingdom and British Empire

Baron

Privy Councillor

The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:

Baronetcies

Knight Bachelor

British India
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

Military Division
Royal Navy

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army
  • Colonel Gilbert Robertson Frith CMG DSO Colonel on the Staff in charge of Administration, Iraq
  • Colonel Charles Henry Dudley Ryder CIE DSO late Royal Engineers
  • Colonel Graham Henry Whalley Nicholson CMG Commanding Royal Artillery, Divisional Troops, Southern Command
  • Colonel Robert Sidney Hamilton CMG DSO Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, Southern Command
  • Colonel Harry McMicking DSO Embarkation Commandant, Southampton
  • Colonel Bertie Coore Dent CMG DSO Commander, Baghdad District, Iraq
  • Major-General Harington Owen Parr CMG Indian Army, Deputy Adjutant-General, Headquarters, India
  • Major-General Sir Andrew Skeen KCIE CMG Indian Army, General Officer Commanding, Kohat District, Northern Command, India
  • Colonel Alexander Leigh Tarver CIE DSO ADC Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 14th Indian Infantry Brigade
Royal Air Force
Civil Division
  • Captain Edmund Moore Cooper Cooper-Key MVO RN (retd.)
  • Engineer Commander Sydney Undercliffe Hardcastle RN
  • Instructor Captain Horace Herbert Holland RN
  • Captain Charles Edward Irving RD RNR
  • Brigadier-General William Bromley-Davenport CMG CBE DSO TD late Territorial Army Reserve
  • Frank Ashley Barrett, Commissioner and Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue
  • George Alexander Calder Ex-Secretary, Public Works Loan Board
  • Sir Frederick William Alfred Clarke. Accountant-General, Board of Customs and Excise
  • Joseph Beardsell Crosland Senior Director of Finance, War Office
  • Arthur Lewis Dixon CBE Assistant Secretary, Home Office
  • William James Evans CBE Director of Establishments, Admiralty
  • Egerton Spencer Grey, Senior Official Receiver in Bankruptcy and Controller of the Enemy Debts Clearing Office in 1919
  • The Hon. Ronald Charles Lindsay CVO
  • Minister Plenipotentiary in the Diplomatio Service. Assistant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs since January 1921
  • John Rowland CBE Commissioner, Welsh Board of Health
  • Oswald Richard Arthur Simpkin CBE Public Trustee
  • Brigadier-General Frederic Herbert Williamson CBE Assistant Secretary, General Post Office

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

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Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

Knight Commander (KCSI)

Companion (CSI)

  • Major-General Walter Clarence Black CIE Indian Army, Military Secretary to His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief
  • Leslie Harry Saunders, Indian Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner, Upper Burma
  • George Bancroft Lambert, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to Government, United Provinces
  • Basil Copleston Allen, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Assam Valley Division
  • John Edward Webster CIE Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Surma Valley and Hill Districts, Assam
  • Thomas Eyebron Moir CIE Indian Civil Service, Secretary to Government, Finance Department, Madras
  • M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Raghunatha Rao Ramachandra Rao Avargal, Secretary to Government, Law Department, Madras
  • Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett CIE Bombay Political Service, First Assistant Resident, Aden
  • Sir dar Bahadur Nawab Mehrab Khan, Chief of the Bugti tribe, Baluchistan

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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Star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

  • William Herbert Barrett, an Assistant General Manager of Railways and Harbours, Union of South Africa
  • Albert Ruskin Cook OBE recognition of services to the Uganda Protectorate
  • James Corbett Davis, Treasurer to the Zanzibar Government
  • Carl de Verteuil, lately a Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago, in recognition of services to agriculture
  • Alwin Robinson Dickinson, British Phosphate Commissioner
  • Joseph Firth, in recognition of public services in the Dominion of New Zealand
  • Arthur George Murchison Fletcher CBE Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils, Colony of Hong Kong
  • Colin Campbell Garbett CIE lately Political Secretary to the High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for Iraq
  • Edward Burns Harkness, Under-Secretary, Department of the Chief Secretary, and Undersecretary, Ministry of Public Health, State of New South Wales
  • Howard Hitchcock OBE Mayor of Geelong, in the State of Victoria, in recognition of his public services
  • Emilius Hopkinson DSO Travelling Commissioner in the Gambia Protectorate
  • Arthur Edwin Horn Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States
  • Albert Ernest Kitson CBE Director of Geological Survey, Gold Coast Colony
  • The Hon. Charles William Oakes, Colonial Secretary, State of New South Wales
  • Herbert Richmond Palmer, Senior Resident, Northern Provinces, Nigeria
  • Colonel Robert Francis Peel, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Saint Helena
  • Thomas Alfred Wood MBE in recognition of public services to Kenya
  • Lau Chu Pak, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong (posthumous)

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire

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Riband, badge and star of the Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

  • His Highness Maharaja Sir Ghanshyamsinhji Ajitsinhji KCSI Maharaja of Dhrangadhra, Bombay

Knight Commander (KCIE)

Companion (CIE)

  • Alexander Marr, Indian Civil Service, Financial Secretary to the Government of Bengal (on leave)
  • Lawrence Morley Stubbs, Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Bareillyj United Provinces
  • Colonel Robert St. John Hickman VD ADC Tea Planter and Commandant of the Surma Valley Light Horse, Assam
  • James MacDonald Dunnett, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner in the Punjab
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Lloyd Ferrar OBE Indian Army, Deputy Commissioner in the Punjab
  • Levett Mackenzie Kaye, Inspector-General of Police, United Provinces
  • Jonathan Webster Coryton Mayne, Indian Educational Service, Principal, Rajkumar College, Rajkot, Bombay
  • Walter Swain, Deputy Inspector-General of Police (on leave), Bihar and Orissa
  • Cyril James Irvin, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Nagpur, Central Provinces
  • Lancelot Colin Bradford Glascock MVO Senior Superintendent of Police, Delhi
  • Richard Howard Hitchcock MBE District Superintendent of Police (on military duty), Madras
  • Edwin Lessware Price OBE Merchant, Karachi, Bombay
  • Raj Bahadur Chuni Lai Basu ISO Chemical Examiner to the Government of Bengal (retired), late Sheriff of Calcutta, Bengal
  • Cecil Frank Beadel, Partner, Messrs. Becker, Gray and Co., Calcutta, Bengal
  • Gavin Scott, Indian Civil Service, President, Rangoon Municipality
  • Horace Mason Haywood, Secretary, Bengal Chamber of Commerce

The Royal Victorian Order

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Insignia of a Knight / Dames Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)

  • Captain Kenelm Everard Lane Creighton RN
  • John Henry Girling
  • Surgeon Commander Frank Hutton Nimmo RN
  • Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander Leslie Norman Sampson RN
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Angel Scott

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class (MVO)

  • Superintendent Frederick William Abbott, Metropolitan Police
  • Superintendent William Joseph Hopkins, Metropolitan Police
  • Alfred Vigor Marten Robert Burns Robertson

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, insignia 1917–35

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

Civil Division

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Civil Division
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
  • The Hon. Maui Pomare CMG Member of the Executive Council of the Dominion of New Zealand, representing the Native Race and Minister in Charge of the Cook Islands. For valuable services to the Empire.

Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

First Class

Air Force Cross (AFC)

Awarded a Second Bar to the Air Force Cross (AFC**)

Imperial Service Order (ISO)

Home Civil Service
Colonial Civil Service
Indian Civil Service

Imperial Service Medal (ISM)

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References

  1. "No. 32716". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1922. pp. 4317–4325 0.
  2. "Sir J. B. Robinson's Peerage – Title Declined – Lords' Criticism of Honours System". The Times . 30 June 1922. p. 10.
  3. "A Case for Investigation". The Times . 30 June 1922. p. 17.