1941 New Year Honours

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The 1941 New Year Honours were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 31 December 1940. [1]

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The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

United Kingdom and British Empire

Viscount

Baron

Privy Counsellor

Baronet

Knight Bachelor

Dominions

India

Burma

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

Order of the Garter (KG)

Order of the Bath

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

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

Civil Division

  • James Scott Pringle, Esq., O.B.E., A.C.G.I., M.I.E.E.
  • Alfred Baikie, Esq., President and Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Orkney, and Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Zetland.
  • Major John Telfer Dunbar, D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of the City of Edinburgh.
  • Major Delaval Graham L'Estrange Astley, D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Norfolk.
  • Ernest Holloway, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Works, Air Ministry.
  • Eric Norman de Normann, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Works and Buildings.
  • Ralph George Hawtrey, Esq., F.B.A., Assistant Secretary and Director of Financial Enquiries, H.M. Treasury.
  • Godfrey Herbert Ince, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
  • Thomas Gilmour Jenkins, Esq., M.C., Second Secretary, Ministry of Shipping.
  • William Thomas Matthews, Esq., O.B.E., Principal Assistant Secretary, Assistance Board.
  • Robert Leslie Overbury, Esq., Assistant Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords.
  • Sidney Hill Phillips, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Admiralty.
  • Frederick Percival Robinson, Esq., Financial Secretary to H.M. The King.
  • Arthur Nevil Rucker, Esq., C.B.E. Lately Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (the late Right Honourable Neville Chamberlain, M.P.).
  • Thomas Herbert Sheepshanks, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Home Security.
  • Robert Hill Tolenton, Esq., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
  • Robert Alexander Watson Watt, Esq., Scientific Adviser on Telecommunications, Ministry of Aircraft Production.
  • John Joseph Wills, Esq., C.B.E., Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
  • John Crompton Wrigley, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.

Order of Merit (OM)

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)

  • Major His Highness Rukn-ud-Daula Nusrat-i-Jang, Saif-ud-Daula Hafiz-ul-Mulk Mukhlis-ud-Daula wa Muin-ud-Daula Nawab al Haj Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan, Abbasi, Bahadur, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., LL.D, Nawab of Bahawalpur.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

  • Robert Edwin Russell, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service,. Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bihar.
  • Henry Challen Greenfield, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar.
  • Charles MacIvor Grant Ogilvie, Esq., C.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Defence Department.
  • Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department.
  • Evan Meredith Jenkins, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Supply, and lately Chief Commissioner, Delhi.
  • John Bartley, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Additional Secretary and Draftsman to the Government of India in the Legislative Department.
  • Godfrey Ferdinando Stratford Collins, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, and lately Revenue Commissioner and Revenue Secretary, Sind.
  • Major-General Hugh Clive Buckley, M.D., F.R.C.S., K.H.P., Indian Medical Service, lately Surgeon-General with the Government of Bombay.
  • Frank Lugard Brayne, Esq., C.I.E., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Development, Punjab.
  • Robert Francis Mudie, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces.
  • Philip Theodore Mansfield, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Orissa (on leave).
  • Cyril Walter Gurner, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chairman, Calcutta Improvement Trust, Bengal.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

  • Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for Palestine and High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan.
  • The Right Honourable Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, K.C.M.G., C.B., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Tokyo.

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

  • The Honourable Owen Dixon, Judge of the High Court of the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • The Honourable Godfrey Martin Huggins, F.R.C.S., Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia since 1933. On the occasion of the Jubilee celebrations of the Colony.
  • The Honourable Bertram Sydney Barnsdale Stevens, M.L.A., formerly Premier of the State of New South Wales.
  • William Denis Battershill, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Cyprus.
  • John Hathorn Hall, Esq., C.M.G., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., British Resident, Zanzibar Protectorate.
  • Major Sir William Chollerton Lead, M.C. For public services in the Tanganyika Territory.
  • Angus Somerville Fletcher, Esq., C.B.E., Director of the British Library of Information, New York.
  • David John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Esq., C.M.G., an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Maitland Greenly, C.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., formerly Controller General, British Supply Board in Canada, and Chairman of the Prime Minister's Panel of Industrialists, 1938–39.
  • Frank Horsfall Nixon, Esq., C.B., General Manager and Chief Underwriter, Export Credits Guarantee Department, and Joint Managing Director, United Kingdom Commercial Corporation, Limited.
  • Sir Ashley Sparks, K.B.E., Ministry of Shipping Representative in the United States.

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

  • Hugh Traill Armitage, Esq., Deputy Governor of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Charles Bullock, Esq., Secretary for Native Affairs, Chief Native Commissioner and Director of Native Development, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Charles Noble Arden Clarke, Esq., Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
  • Edward Parkes, Esq., M.V.O., I.S.O., Under-secretary, Chief Electoral Officer, Chief Secretary's Department, and Clerk to the Executive Council, State of Tasmania.
  • Frederick Geoffrey Shedden, Esq., O.B.E., Secretary, Department of Defence, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • John Everard Stephenson, Esq., C.V.O., O.B.E., Assistant Undersecretary of State, Dominions Office.
  • Arthur Maurice Wiseman, Esq., M.C., His Majesty's Senior Trade Commissioner in the Dominion of Canada.
  • Wallace Charles Wurth, Esq., Chairman of the Public Service Board, State of New South Wales.
  • Bernard Traugott Zwar, Esq., M.D., M.S., F.R.A.C.S., President, Royal Melbourne Hospital, State of Victoria. For public services.
  • Ralph Clarence Morris, Esq., Inspector-General of Police, Burma.
  • Major Ferdinand William Cavendish-Bentinck, D.S.O. For public services in Kenya.
  • Sze Jen Chan, Esq. For public services in the Straits Settlements.
  • William Henry Flinn, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Barbados.
  • Leslie Brian Freeston, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Gerard Edward James Gent, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
  • Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke, Esq., Auditor-General, Ceylon.
  • Alexander William George Herder Grantham, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Jamaica.
  • Joseph Welsh Park Harkness, Esq., O.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Gold Coast.
  • Walter Harragin, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Attorney-General, Kenya.
  • James Richard Mackie, Esq., Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Nigeria.
  • James Scott Neill, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Administrator, Dominica, Windward Islands.
  • Edgar Stanley Pembleton, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, Nigeria.
  • Marcus Rex, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, British Resident, Perak, Federated Malay States.
  • Major Alan Saunders, O.B.E., M.C., Colonial Police Service, Inspector-General of Police and Prisons, Palestine.
  • Archibald Guelph Holdsworth Smart, Esq., M.B.E., M.D., D.P.H., Assistant Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
  • Charles Robert Smith, Esq., Principal Representative in North Borneo of the British North Borneo (Chartered) Company.
  • Hugh Whitelegge Thomas, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for Native Affairs, Gold Coast.
  • Algernon Edward Vere Walwyn, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, Nigeria.
  • John Balfour, Esq., a Counsellor in the Foreign Office.
  • Ernest Francis Withers Besley, Esq., Legal Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy in Cairo.
  • Cecil John Edmonds, Esq., C.B.E., Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Iraq.
  • Godfrey Arthur Fisher, Esq., formerly His Majesty's Consul-General at Antwerp.
  • Captain Francis Edward Foley. For services rendered to the Foreign Office.
  • Victor Courtenay Walter Forbes, Esq., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Lima.
  • John Henry Jones, Esq., O.B.E., a Director in the Department of Overseas Trade.
  • Gordon Thompson Maclean, Esq., one of His Majesty's Inspectors-General of Consulates.
  • Eric Denholm Pridie, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., Director of the Sudan Medical Service.
  • James William Stafford, Esq., O.B.E., Director of the Passport and Permit Office.
  • Robert Thomson Leiper, Esq., D.Sc., M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., Professor of Helminthology in the University of London and a Director of the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • David John Lidbury, Esq., D.S.O., lately Chairman of the First Commission of the Buenos Aires International Postal Congress, 1939. Regional Director, London Postal Region.
  • Charles Brinsley Pemberton Peake, Esq., M.C., Chief Press Adviser to the Minister of Information.
  • Robert Jones Shackle, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
  • Charles Norman Stirling, Esq., Head of the Neutral Trade Department, Ministry of Economic Warfare.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)

  • Sir Henry Duffield Craik, Bt., K.C.S.I., Governor of the Punjab.
  • His Highness Maharaja Mukhtar-ul-Mulk, Azim-ul-Iqtidar, Rafi-ush-Shan, Wala Shikoh, Mohtasham-i-Dauran, Umdat-ul-Umara, Maharajadhiraja Alijah Hisam-us-Saltanat George Jivaji Rao Scindia Bahadur, Shrinath Mansur-i-Zaman, Fidwi-i-Hazrat-i-Malik-i-Muazzam-i-Rafi-ud-Darjat-i-Inglistan, Maharaja of Gwalior.
  • His Highness Farzand-i-Khas-i-Daulat-i-Inglishia Maharaja Pratap Singh Gaekwar Sena Khas Khel Shamsher Bahadur, Maharaja of Baroda.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

  • Sardar Bahadur Sardar Mohan Singh, lately Adviser to the Secretary of State for India.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Fendall Campbell, Indian Political Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province.
  • Arthur Vivian Askwith, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Commissioner, Delhi, and lately Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Home Department.
  • Brigadier Ernest Wood, M.C., Director-General, Department of Supply, Government of India.
  • Major-General William Henry McNeile Verschoyle-Campbell, O.B.E., M.C., Director of Ordnance Services, Army Headquarters, India.
  • Denys Pilditch, Esq., Indian Police, Director, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India.
  • George Milne Harper, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Senior Member, Board of Revenue, United Provinces.
  • Charles Alexander Muirhead, Esq., Agent and General Manager, South Indian Railway.
  • John David Westwood, Esq., Agent and General Manager, Bengal and North-Western Railway, Gorakhpur.
  • John Whitcombe Hearn, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Lahore Division, Punjab.
  • William Robert Tennant, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Auditor-General of India.
  • Thomas Cooke Samuel Jayaratnam, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner (officiating), Jubbulpore Division, Central Provinces and Berar.
  • Sidney Lionel Marwood, Esq., Indian Civil Service Commissioner (officiating) Patna Division, Bihar.
  • Yeshwant Anant Godbole, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bihar.
  • Major Thomas Faulkner Borwick, D.S.O., Director of Ordnance Factories, India.
  • David Alexander Smyth, Esq., C.B.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police (officiating), Central Provinces and Berar.
  • Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) George Adrien Pirn, Commandant, Officers' Training School, Belgaum.
  • Alakh Kumar Sinha, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Bihar (retired).
  • Ivon Hope Taunton, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Revenue Commissioner and Revenue Secretary, Sind, and lately Chief Secretary to the Government of Sind.
  • Nilakanta Mahadeva Ayyar, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chairman, Coal Mines Stowing Board, Government of India.
  • James Philip Mills, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Assam.
  • Haravu Venkatamarasimh Varada Raj Iengar, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Finance Department.
  • Benjamin George Holdsworth, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Madras in the Revenue Department.
  • William Christie, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces in the Finamce Department.
  • Francis Archibald Farquharson, Esq., M.C., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch.
  • Noel Victor Housman Symons, Esq., M.C., Indian, Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal in the Revenue Department.
  • Frederick Chalmers Bourne, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Home Department, and lately Deputy Commissioner, Lahore, Punjab.
  • Archibald Macdonald Livingstone, Esq., M.C., Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India.
  • Francis Michael Dowley, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Public Works Department, Madras (on leave).
  • Arthur Oram, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, North-West Frontier Province.
  • Douglas John Blomfield, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Communications and Works Department (Communications and Buildings Branch), Bengal.
  • Lionel Fielden, Esq., lately Controller of Broadcasting, Government of India.
  • Cecil Claude Wilson, Esq., V.D., Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests (retired), Madras.
  • Shamaldhari Lall, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy High Commissioner for India, London.
  • Basil John Knight Hallowes, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Ajmer-Merwara.
  • Stanley Paul Chambers, Esq., lately Income Tax Adviser to the Central Board of Revenue, Government of India.
  • Shavax Ardeshir Lal, Esq., Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative Department, and Secretary of the Council of State.
  • Henry James Frampton, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department.
  • Major Cyril Percy Hancock, O.B.E., M.C., Indian Political Service, Deputy Secretary, Political Department.
  • Reginald Edwin Anthony Ray, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General, Intelligence Branch, Bengal.
  • Hugh Weightman, Esq., Indian Political Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department, and lately Political Agent, Bahrain.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Short, Indian Medical Service, Director, King Institute, Guindy, Madras.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hawes Elliot, M.B.E., M.C., M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., F.R.C.S., D.M.R.E., Indian Medical Service, Surgeon to His Excellency the Viceroy.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel David Clyde, M.D., D.P.H., Indian Medical Service, Civil Surgeon, Lucknow, United Provinces.
  • Cuthbert George Milford Mackarness, Esq., Indian Forest Service, Conservator of Forests, Assam.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Hugh Crichton, Indian Medical Service, Chief Health Officer, Delhi.
  • John Aldhelm Raikes Bromage, Esq., lately Superintending Engineer, Health Services, Delhi.
  • Harry George Champion, Esq., Indian Forest Service, lately Conservator of Forests, United Provinces.
  • Surendra Nath Das Gupta, Esq., PhD, D.Litt., Indian Educational Service, Principal, Government Sanskrit College, Calcutta, Bengal.
  • Rao Bahadur Ranchhodbhai Bhaibabbai Patel, Barrister-at-Law, Prothonotary and Senior Master, High Court of Judicature, Bombay.
  • Richard Marsh Crofton, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Director-General and Secretary, Revenue Department, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad, Deccan.
  • Percy Stuart Macdonald, Esq., General Manager, Thomas Duff & Co., Calcutta.
  • Arthur Stanley Trollip, Esq., General Manager, Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Co., Ltd., Bombay.
  • Bashir Husain Zaidi, Esq., Chief Minister, Rampur State.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

  • Colonel Frank Benson, C.B.E.
  • Charles Craik Cunningham, Esq.
  • Captain Fitzroy Hubert Fyers, M.V.O.
  • Edmund Claud Malden, Esq., M.B., B.Ch., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
  • Cornelius James Selway, Esq., C.B.E., T.D.
  • Cecil George Lewis Syers, Esq.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hyde Villiers, T.D.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominals MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.

Fourth Class
  • Commander (now Captain) the Honourable Edward Pleydell-Bouverie, R.N.
  • Albert Canning, Esq., O.B.E.
  • Major Alfred Francis Custance.
  • Henry Clement Game, Esq., O.B.E.
  • George Proctor Middleton, Esq., M.B., Ch.B.
  • Miss Violet Roberta Stewart-Richardson, O.B.E.
  • Commander Derek Howard Seeker, R.N.
  • Thomas Blundell Turner, Esq.
  • Robert James Wallace, Esq.
Fifth Class
  • Hubert Christopher Randolph Calver, Esq.
  • James Charles Edward Cole, Esq.
  • Frank Vaughan, Esq.
  • Charles Ralph Warren, Esq.

Order of the British Empire

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

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

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

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal for public services in India

Bar to the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal

  • Olive, Mrs Monahan (wife of the Reverend C. H. Monahan of the Wesleyan Mission), Chief Medical Officer (retired), Kalyani Hospital, Madras.

Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal

  • Katharine Isobel, Lady Lumley (wife of Sir Roger Lumley, G.C.I.E., T.D., Governor of Bombay).
  • Gladys, Lady Hallett (wife of Sir Maurice Hallett, K.C.S.I, C.I.E., Governor of the United Provinces).
  • Shrimant Soubhagyavati Lilawatibaisaheb Patwardhan, Ranisaheb of Jamkhandi.
  • Dorothy Kate, Mrs Barne, M.B.E. (wife of the Right Reverend G. D. Barne, C.I.E., O.B.E., Bishop of Lahore), Punjab.
  • Miss Elizabeth Jane Colhoun, Irish Presbyterian Zenana Mission, Rajkot, Western India States Agency.
  • Charlotte, Mrs Cooper, Chief Commissioner, Girl Guides Association, Bengal.
  • Miss Reba Cuthbert Hunsberger, M.D., Lady Doctor-in-Charge, Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, Sialkot City, Punjab.
  • Daisy Elizabeth, Mrs Munro, M.B.E., Lady Superintendent, Civil Hospital, Karachi, Sind.
  • Vidyagauri, Lady Ramambhai Nilkanth, M.B.E. widow of the late Sir Ramanbhai Mahipatram Nilkanth), Ahmedabad, Bombay.
  • Khadija, Mrs Shuffi Cumruddin Tyabji (widow of the late Mr Shuffi Tyabji, Merchant, Bombay), Member of the Legislative Assembly, Bombay.
  • Robert Greenhill Cochrane, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.P., Medical Superintendent, Lady Willingdon Leper Settlement, Chingleput, Madras.
  • The Reverend James John Ellis, Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, Dharapuram, Coimibatore District, Madras.
  • Sardar Bahadur Raja Jeoraj Singh, of Sandwa, C.B.E., O.B.I., Major-General in the Bikaner State Forces, Member, Executive Council, Bikaner State, Rajputana.
  • Lieutenant William Patrick Smythe Mitchell, M.B.E., Indian Medical Department, Chief Medical Officer, Bastar State.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Lockhart Downes Yule, Indian Medical Service, lately Officer Commanding, Indian Military Hospital, Delhi Cantonments.

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References

  1. United Kingdom and British Empire: "No. 35029". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1940. pp. 1–33.