===
Baron=== •
George Archibald, JP. For political and public services. •
Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, KCB, CBE, lately Clerk of the Parliaments. ===
Privy Counsellor=== •
John Dugdale, MP, Financial Secretary, Admiralty, since 1945. Member of Parliament for West Bromwich since 1941. •
Sir Oliver Shewell Franks, KCB, CBE, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington. • The Right Honourable
Robert Craigmyle, Baron Morrison, JP, DL, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Works, since 1948; a Lord-in-Waiting, 1947–1948. Member of Parliament for North Tottenham, 1922–1931, and 1935–1945. •
William Donald, the Honourable Lord Patrick, a Senator of His Majesty's College of Justice in Scotland. ===
Knight Bachelor=== •
Reginald Greenwood Bailey, CBE, Adviser to the Board of Trade on wool exports. President,
British Wool Federation. •
Giovanni Battista (John) Barbirolli, FRAM. For services to Music. •
James Barr, FRICS, Senior Partner,
James Barr and Sons, Surveyors, Glasgow. •
Henry Vaughan Berry. For services as Regional Commissioner, Hansestadt-Hamburg, Control Commission for Germany, British Element. •
Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley, MC, Portrait Painter. •
David Brunt, ScD, FRS, Professor of Meteorology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. •
Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr, KC, Chief British Prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. •
John Charrington, Chairman,
Charrington, Gardner, Locket and Company, Ltd. •
James Fitzjames Duff, LLD, Warden of the Durham Colleges in the University of Durham. •
John Maxwell Erskine, CBE, JP, DL, Chairman, Scottish Savings Committee. •
Robert Brown Fraser, OBE, Director-General,
Central Office of Information. •
John Green, JP, Director,
Thos. Firth and John Brown, Ltd., Chairman of the Central Conference of the
Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation. •
Ronald George Hatton, CBE, DSc, FRS, lately Director of the
East Malling Agricultural Research Station, and Consultant Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops. • Captain
Cyril Gordon Illingworth, lately Commodore Master,
Cunard White Star Line, Ltd. •
John Ernest James, Chairman,
Lancashire Steel Corporation Ltd. •
Charles Hilary Jenkinson, CBE, LLD, FSA, Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. •
William Jones, CBE. For public services in North Wales. •
Albert Edward MacColl, MIEE, Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chairman,
North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. •
Laurence Pierce Brooke Merriam, MC, Examiner of Controls, Board of Trade. •
Frederick Lucius O'Brien, Chairman of the
Northern Ireland Housing Trust. •
Leslie Arthur Plummer, Chairman, Overseas Food Corporation. •
Joseph Francis Engledue Prideaux, CBE, MRCS, LRCP, Director General of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions. •
James Reginald Howard Roberts, CBE, JP, DL, Clerk of the
London County Council. •
Ambrose James Sherwill, CBE, MC, Bailiff of Guernsey. •
Henry Sessions Souttar, CBE, DM, MCh, FRCS, Consulting Surgeon,
London Hospital. •
Kenneth Raydon Swan, OBE, KC, lately Chairman of the Committee set up to consider the Patents and Designs Act. •
Godfrey Hilton Thomson, DCL, DSc, Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh. •
Arthur Egerton Watson, CB, CBE., Chairman,
Civil Service Sports Council. • Professor
James Anderson Scott Watson, CBE, MC, LLD, DSc, Chief Scientific and Agricultural Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. •
Percy Henry Winfield, KC, LLD, FBA, JP, Emeritus Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge.
State of Victoria • The Honourable
Thomas Karran Maltby, Speaker of Legislative Assembly, State of Victoria. • Gordon Keith Snow, Chief Confidential Adviser to Premier, State of Victoria.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. •
Gerard Lewis Howe, Colonial Legal Service, Attorney-General, Nigeria. •
John Alfred Lucie-Smith, OBE, VD, Colonial Legal Service,
Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. •
Thorleif Rattray Orde Mangin, CMG, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner, Gold Coast. •
Arthur Morse, CBE. For public services in Hong Kong. •
Frederick Jacob Seaford, CBE. For public services in British Guiana. ===
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath===
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) • General
Sir Richard Loudon McCreery, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, late Cavalry, Colonel, 14/20th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. • Sir
John Harold Edmund Woods, KCB, MVO, Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) • Acting Vice-Admiral (S)
George Harold Bankart, CBE. • Vice-Admiral
Charles Henry Lawrence Woodhouse, CB. • Lieutenant-General
Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, late Infantry (retired). • General
Sir Sidney Chevalier Kirkman, KBE, CB, MC, late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Air Chief Marshal
Sir James Milne Robb, KBE, CB, DSO, DFC, AFC, Royal Air Force. • Sir
Eric St John Bamford, KBE, CB, CMG, Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue. • Colonel
Thomas Blatherwick, CB, DSO, MC, TD, JP, DL, ADC, Chairman, East Lancashire
Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. • Sir
Harold Parker, KBE, CB, MC, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence. •
Thomas Leslie Rowan, CB, CVO, Second Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division • Rear-Admiral
William Gerrard Andrewes, C.B.E., D.S.O. • Rear-Admiral
William York La Roche Beverley, C.B.E. • Rear-Admiral
Basil Charles Barrington Brooke, C.B.E. • The Venerable Archdeacon
Leonard Coulshaw, M.C., A.K.C., K.H.Ch. • Rear-Admiral (E)
Clement Ellis. • Rear-Admiral
Horace Geoffrey Norman, C.B.E. • Rear-Admiral
Brian Betham Schofield, C.B.E. • Acting Rear-Admiral (S)
Aubrey John Wheeler. • Rear-Admiral
Peveril Barton Reiby Wallop William-Powlett, C.B.E., D.S.O. • Brigadier (temporary) Ivan Pringle Brickman, C.B.E. (30777), Royal Army Pay Corps. • Major-General
Edward Hadrill Clayton, C.B.E. (15934), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major-General
Gilbert Minto Elliot, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major-General (local) (now Colonel)
Ian David Erskine, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Foot Guards. • Major-General
Julian Alvery Gascoigne, D.S.O., late Foot Guards. • Brigadier Charles de Lisle Gaussen, M.C., late Corps of Royal Engineers. • Major-General
Gerald Tom Warlters Horne, C.B.E., Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • The Reverend Canon
Frederick Llewelyn Hughes, C.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A., K.H.C., Chaplain-General to the Forces, Royal Army Chaplains' Department. • Major-General
Leslie Keith Lockhart, C.B.E., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major-General
Charles Douglas Packard, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Brigadier (temporary) Thomas Rigby, D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Brigadier (temporary)
Nelson Russell, D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry. • Major-General
Kenneth Alexander MacDonald Tomory, O.B.E., M.B., K.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps. • Air Vice-Marshal
Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman, C.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. • Air Vice-Marshal
Frederick John Murphy, C.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., K.H.S., Royal Air Force. • Air Vice-Marshal
Robert Linton Ragg, C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. • Air Vice-Marshal
Frank Noel Trinder, C.B.E., Royal Air Force. • Acting Air Vice-Marshal
Kenneth Buchanan Lloyd, C.B.E., A.F.C, Royal Air Force. • Acting Air Vice-Marshal
Andrew MacGregor, C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force. • Air Commodore John William Frederick Merer, Royal Air Force. • Air Commodore
Reginald Newnham Waite, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
Civil Division • Harry Beer, Esq., Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. • Frederick Bray, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education. •
Harry Campion, Esq., C.B.E., Director of the Central Statistical Office, Cabinet Office. • Group-Captain Alan Sidney Whitehorn Dore, D.S.O., T.D., D.L., Chairman,
Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Middlesex. • Robert James Paterson Harvey, Esq., Regional Director, Home Counties Region,
General Post Office. • Hubert Kendrew, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Works. • Gerald Bernard McCormick, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Armament Supply,
Admiralty. • Thomas Craig Woodgate Mitchell, Esq., Under-Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland. • Sidney John Page, Esq., M.C., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport. • William George Arthur Perring, Esq., F.R.Ae.S., Director, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. • Henry Austin Strutt, Esq., C.V.O., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. • Harold Symon, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health, • William Dale Wilkinson, Esq., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply. • Alfred Harold Wilson, Esq., C.B.E., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation. • Samuel Wright, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power. ===
Order of Merit (OM)=== •
Sir Robert Robinson, M.A, LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. • The Right Honourable
Bertrand Arthur William, Earl Russell, M.A., F.R.S. ===
Order of St Michael and St George===
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) • Sir
(Richard Henry) Archibald Carter, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., lately Permanent Under-Secretary of State,
Commonwealth Relations Office. • Sir
John Huggins, K.C.M.G., M.C.,
Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief, Jamaica.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) •
Cyril Augustin Birtchnell, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary,
Ministry of Transport. •
Ernest Rowe-Dutton, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., Third Secretary,
H.M. Treasury. •
Arthur Rundell Guinness, Esq. For services to overseas trade. • Lieutenant General the Honourable
Sir Edmund Francis Herring, K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., E.D., K.C.,
Lieutenant Governor of the State of Victoria. •
Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, Esq., C.M.G.,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nyasaland. •
Arthur Hilton Poynton, Esq., C.M.G., Deputy Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office. •
William Evelyn Houstoun-Boswall, Esq., C.M.G., M.C.,
His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Beirut. •
Alexander Knox Helm, Esq., C.M.G., C.B.E., until recently
His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Budapest, now serving in a similar capacity at
Tel Aviv. •
Sir Alec Seath Kirkbride, C.M.G., O.B.E., M.C.,
His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Amman. •
John Hurleston Leche, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E.,
His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Santiago. •
Roger Mellor Makins, Esq., C.M.G., a Deputy Under-Secretary of State in the
Foreign Office.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) • Major-General
Alexander Vass Anderson, C.B., M.B.E., Director of Civil Affairs, War Office. • Major-General
Nevil Charles Dowell Brownjohn, C.B., O.B.E., M.C. For services as Chief of Staff and Deputy Military Governor, Control Commission for Germany, British Element. • Harry Faulkner, Esq., M.I.E.E., Deputy Engineer-in-Chief, General Post Office. • Alexander Thomas Kingdom Grant, Esq., Assistant Secretary, H.M. Treasury. • Charles Herbert Hampshire, Esq., M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.R.I.C., Secretary, British Pharmacopoeia Commission. •
Reginald Keith Jopson, Esq., O.B.E.. United Kingdom Senior Trade Commissioner in Canada. • John Atkins Peacock, Esq., Director of Eggs, Ministry of Food. • James Richard Smyth, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry. • Wilfred Bethridge Topp, Esq. For services in the control of the import and export of diamonds. •
Charles Norman Atkins, Esq., E.D., M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., City Health Officer for Hobart, State of Tasmania. • George Herbert Baxter, Esq., C.I.E., an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Commonwealth Relations Office. • Kenneth Mackenzie Goodenough, Esq., M.C., High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia in London. • Lieutenant Colonel
Norman Charles Harris, D.S.O., M.C., M.Sc., Chairman, Railways Commission, State of Victoria. • The Honourable
Arthur Frederick Watts, Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Industrial Development and Local Government, State of Western Australia. • Harold Cecil James Barker, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Nyasaland. • Charles Brian Auckinleck Darling, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant Chief Secretary, East Africa High Commission. •
Frank Dixey, Esq., O.B;E., D.Sc., Geological Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Director of Colonial Geological Survey. • James Robert McDowell Elliot, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service,. Provincial Commissioner, Uganda. • Andrew Gilmour, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for Economic Affairs, Singapore. •
Walter Douglas Godsall, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Federation of Malaya. • John Geoffrey Hibbert, Esq., M.C., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. • Alexander McDonald Bruce Hutt, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy Chairman, Development Commission, Tanganyika. • Donald Charles MacGillivray, Esq., M.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Jamaica. • Duncan William MacIntosh, Esq., O.B.E.,
Colonial Police Service, Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong. • James Grant Smith Turner, Esq., M.B., Ch.B., Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Gold Coast. • Harold Alexander Watmore, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Provincial Commissioner, Northern Rhodesia. • John Basil Williams, Esq., Superintending Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. • Denys Cuthbert Woodward, Esq., General Manager, Nigerian Railway. • Frederick Victor Cross, Esq., Shipping Attaché at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington. • Berkeley Everard Foley Gage, Esq., Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at The Hague. •
Frank Stannard Gibbs, Esq., O.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at Saigon. • Colonel (Retired) Walter Hugh Jeffery, C.S.I., C.I.E., attached to a Department of the Foreign Office. • Kenneth Roy Johnstone, Esq., Controller, European Division, British Council. • Major-General
Arthur Guy Salisbury-Jones, C.B.E., M.C., lately Military Attache at His Majesty's Embassy in Paris. •
Oscar Charles Morland, Esq., Head of the Economic Relations Department of the Foreign Office. • Herbert Moore Phillips, Esq., lately Counseller for Economic and Social Affairs, United Kingdom Delegation to the United Nations, New York. • Robin Haskew Robertson, Esq., General Manager, Sudan Railways. •
Charles Arthur Evelyn Shuckburgh, Esq., Head of the Western Department of the Foreign Office. • Christopher Henry Summerhayes, Esq., M.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at Alexandria.
Honorary Companion • Yahaya, C.B.E., Emir of Gwandu, Nigeria. ===
Royal Victorian Order===
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) • Captain
Lord Claud Nigel Hamilton, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O.
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) • Sir
John Herbert McCutcheon Craig, C.B., LL.D. • Major
Arthur Horace Penn, C.V.O., M.C. • Lieutenant-Colonel
Edward Daymonde Stevenson, C.V.O., M.C.
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) • Gilbert Matthews, Esq., C.B.E.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) ;Fourth Class • Frederick Joseph Bone, Esq., M.V.O., Mus. Bac., F.R.C.O. • Gwendolen Florence Davies, O.B.E. • Magdalene Glass Stenhouse, O.B.E. • Josiah Wedgwood, Esq. • Major (Director of Music) George Henry Willcocks, M.B.E., A.R.C.M., Irish Guards (retired). ===
Order of the British Empire===
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) • General
Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, Bt., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Corps of Royal Engineers. •
Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly, K.C.B., D.S.O., D.Litt., Chairman,
University Grants Committee. •
Sir Robert George Howe, K.C.M.G., Governor-General of the Sudan.
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) • Senior Controller (temporary)
Mary Joan Caroline Tyrwhitt, O.B.E., Women's Royal Army Corps. • Air Commandant
Felicity Hyde Hanbury, M.B.E., A.D.C., Women's Royal Air Force. •
Harriette Chick, C.B.E., D.Sc. For services to the study of nutrition. •
Dehra, Mrs Parker, O.B.E., J.P., Member of Parliament for Londonderry County and City, 1921–1929, and for South Londonderry since 1933, in the Northern Ireland Parliament. For public services. •
Mary Guillan Smieton, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) • Vice-Admiral
Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan, C.B., C.B.E., M.V.O., D.S.C. • Vice-Admiral
Arthur Guy Norris Wyatt, C.B. • Lieutenant-General
Neil Cantlie, C.B., M.C., M.B., F.R.C.S., K.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps. • Lieutenant-General
Alexander Galloway, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry. •
Harold Fieldhouse, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., Secretary,
National Assistance Board. • The Reverend
Robert Robertson Hyde, M.V.O., Founder and Director,
Industrial Welfare Society. •
Folliott Herbert Sandford, Esq., C.M.G., Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry. •
Arthur Edgar Sylvester, Esq., F.C.A., Chairman,
Gas Council. •
George Lawrence Watkinson, Esq., C.B., M.C., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power. •
Alexander Byres Hutcheon, Esq., C.M.G., M.B.E., Senior Inspector of His Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments. •
Arthur Henry William King, Esq., C.B.E., Minister (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy at Rio de Janeiro. •
Geoffrey Miles Clifford, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., E.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Falkland Islands. •
George Joy, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, St Helena.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) • Captain (E) Geoffrey Francis Chandler, Royal Navy (Retired). • Surgeon Captain James Hamilton, M.B., Ch.B., Royal Navy. • Captain (L) Gerald Edward Armitage Jackson, A.M.I.E.E., Royal Navy. • Colonel Wilfrid Ivan Nonweiler, Royal Marines. • Captain Frederick Robertson Parham, D.S.O., Royal Navy. • Acting Rear-Admiral (S)
Richard Roy Wallace. • Brevet Colonel Reginald Womack Brooks, O.B.E., T.D. (22349), General List, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Suffolk Army Cadet Force. • Brigadier (local) (now Colonel (temporary)) John Denys Percival Chapman, B.A. (34656), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Brigadier (temporary) Thomas Bell Lindsay Churchill, M.C. (38512), The Manchester Regiment. • Brigadier (temporary) Lancelot Eric Cutforth, O.B.E. (641), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Brigadier David Fettes, O.B.E., M.B. F.R.C.S.(Edin.), K.H.S. (15746), late Royal Army Medical Corps. • Brigadier (temporary) Richard Marie Joachim Goldie, O.B.E. (15396), late Infantry, • Colonel (temporary) Cecil Everard Montague Grenville-Grey(552), The King's Royal Rifle Corps. • Brigadier (temporary) Harold Francis Sylvester King, M.B.E. (24780), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Brevet Colonel Frank Hamer Lawrence, O.B.E., M.C., T.D. (20093), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. • Brigadier (temporary) Denis Stuart Scott O'Connor, O.B.E. (38415), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Brigadier (temporary) William Robert Fiddes Osmond, O.B.E. (13405), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • The Reverend Alexander Ross, M.A. (39076), Chaplain to the Forces, First Class, Royal Army Chaplains' Department. • Group Captain Geoffrey Augustus Graydon Johnston, Royal Air Force. • Group Captain Glynn Silyn-Roberts, A.F.C., Royal Air Force. • Group Captain Geoffrey Dalton Stephenson, A.D.C, Royal Air Force. • Acting Group Captain Charles Edward Loveridge, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. • Acting Group Captain (now Wing Commander) George Percy Scott Pollard, O.B.E., Royal Air Force. • Acting Group Captain Frederick Fitzpatrick Rainsford, D.F.C., Royal Air Force. • Acting Group Captain Henry Seidenberg-Seymour, Royal Air Force. • Acting Group Officer Alice Ida, Lady Seton, Women's Royal Air Force. • Ralph Bower Ainsworth, Esq., M.C., Director of Statistics, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Arthur George Algeo, Esq., J.P. For services to agriculture in Northern Ireland • The Honourable Hester Margaret, Mrs. Alington. For public services in the County of Durham. • Percy Astins, Esq., J.P. For political and public services in Essex. •
Alexander Robert Atkins, Esq., Actor-Manager • George Ayton Aynsley, Esq., Assistant Secretary. Foreign Office, German Section. • John Barton Baber, Esq., M.C., T.D, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. • Jack Croft Baker, Esq., President, British Trawlers' Federation. • Donald Barner, Esq., O:B.E., Secretary, Retail Distributors Association. • Reginald Haynes Barrow, Esq., H.M. Inspector of Schools. • William Beck Baxter, Esq., Chairman of the Executive Committee, Scunthorpe Youth Centre. • William Bayliss, Esq., J.P., President, Nottinghamshire Area, National Union of Mineworkers. • John Beavan, Esq., Chairman, Liverpool Port Area Grain Committee • Travers Robert Blackley, Esq., O.B.E., Chief Administrator, British Military Administration in Tripolitana. •
Charles Wortham Brook, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. For political and public services. • Robert Sidney Brown, Esq.,. O.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Commonwealth Relations Office. •
Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, Esq., LL.D., Historian and Author. • James Cecil Carr, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply. • John Frederick Carr, Esq, M.B.E., J.P., Director of Education, Stoke-on-Trent. • Colonel Harry Carter, T.D., M.I.E.E., Regional Director, Welsh and Border Counties Region, General Post Office. • Robert Sidney Chapman, Esq., General Secretary, Working Men's Club and Institute Union. •
Thomas Fife Clark, Esq., Public Relations and Principal Press Officer, Ministry of Health. • William Crane, Esq., J.P., Chairman of Housing Committee, Nottingham City Council. •
Edric Cundell, Esq., Principal, Guildhall School of Music and Drama. • Andrew Dalgleish, Esq., Member, Colonial Labour Advisory Committee. • Alfred Horace Davis, Esq., D.Sc., Senior Superintendent, Armament Research Department, Ministry of Supply. • George le Boutillier Diamond, Esq., M.I.Mech.E., lately Regional Controller, South Eastern Region, Ministry of Fuel and Power. •
Edward James Dodd, Esq., Chief Constable, Birmingham City Police Force. • Arthur James Edmunds, Esq., O.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Home Office. • Miss Kathleen Winifred Elliott, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education. •
Edward Evans, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Lowestoft since 1945. For political and public services. • James Henry Ewing, Esq., O.B.E.; Head of Board of Trade Supply Mission in Tokyo. • Brian Walter Fagan, Esq., M.C., Senior Partner, Edward Arnold and Company. Member of the Publishers' Advisory Committee, Board of Trade. • Gordon Harvey Attwell Field, Esq., Director of Research, Aluminium Laboratories, Ltd. • Henry Lael Oswald Flecker, Esq., M.A., Headmaster of
Christ's Hospital. • John Fletcher, Esq., Joint Secretary, (Employees' Side), Joint Industrial Council of the Printing and Allied Trades. • Raymond Hatherell Fooks, Esq., Chief Constable, Lincolnshire Constabulary. • Charles Samuel Franklin, Esq., M.LE.E., Consultant, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd. • Miss Elizabeth Smith Fraser, O.B.E., Regional Controller, Eastern Region, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Allan Gibb, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Contracts, Ministry of Supply. • Thomas George Gibson, Esq., Assistant Solicitor, Board of Customs and Excise. • Miss Mary Cecilia Glasgow, M.B.E., Secretary-General of the Arts Council of Great Britain. • Captain Malcolm Bruce Glasier, Marine Superintendent, Blue Funnel Line and Associated Companies in London. • Lieutenant-Colonel
Alexander Robert Gisborne Gordon, D.S.O., J.P., D.L., Member of Parliament for East Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament, 1929–1949. For public services. • Francis Henry Knethell Green, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P., Assistant Secretary, Medical Research Council. •
Walter Henry Green, Esq., J.P. For political and public services • Bertram Charles Hammond, Esq., M.I.C.E., County Surveyor, Worcestershire. • Arthur Montague Holbein, Esq., Director and Chief Engineer, Demolition and Construction Company, Ltd. • James Reaney Hood, Esq., Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of H.M. Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor, and Legal Adviser, Ministry of Food. • Charles James William Hopkins, Esq., M.B.E., M.I.N.A., Deputy Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty. • Richard John Frederick Howgill, Esq., Controller of Entertainment, British Broadcasting Corporation. • Alfred Ernest Hughes, Esq., J.P. For public services in Merionethshire. • William Ernest Jenkins, Esq., Controller of Finance and Accounts Division, Petroleum Board. • Albert Joyce, Esq., J.P. For services to the Co-operative Movement. • William John Killingback, Esq., O.B.E., lately Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport. • Charles Henry Lewis, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, Ministry of Food. • Reginald James Lloyd, Esq., Accountant and Comptroller-General, Board of Customs and Excise. • Thomas Keith Lyle, Esq., M.D., M.Chir., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Civil Consultant in Ophthalmology to the Royal Air Force. • James Albert McKeown, Esq., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland. • Eric Donald Mackintosh, Esq., J.P., Vice-President, Cocoa, Chocolate and Confectionery Alliance, Ltd. • Frederick August Andrew Menzler, Esq., Chief Development and Research Officer, London Transport Executive. • Malcolm Messer, Esq., Editor of "The Farmers Weekly". • Alexander Fleming Wilkie Millar, Esq., M.D., Ch.B., Chairman, Scottish Medical Practices Committee. • Major Edwin George Monro, O.B.E., T.D, Chairman, National Rifle Association. • Air Commodore John Gordon Murray, Scottish Divisional Controller, Ministry of Civil Aviation. • John Ralph Nicholls, Esq., D.Sc., F.R.I.C., Deputy Government Chemist. • John Maurice Ormston, Esq., M.B.E., Director, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd. • Hugh Parry, Esq., Chairman of the Planning Committee, Caernarvonshire County Council. •
Arthur Pearson, Esq., J.P., M.P., Comptroller of H.M. Household, 1945–1946 ; Treasurer since 1946. Member of Parliament for Pontypridd since 1938. • Ralph Montgomary Fullarton Picken, Esq., M.B., Ch.B., Provost and Mansel Talbot Professor of Preventive Medicine, Welsh National School of Medicine. • Major John Chichester Poole, M.C., Member, National Advisory Council on the Employment of the Disabled. •
Joseph Davidson Qualtrough, Esq., J.P., Speaker of the House of Keys, Isle of Man. • John Rennie, Esq., Member, Lothians Agricultural Executive Committee. • William Arthur Rutter, Esq., O.B.E., F.R.I.B.A., Chief Architect, Ministry of Works. • John Ryan, Esq., M.C., Member, Central Price Regulation Committee. • Harry Harpham Sellar, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service. • Rex Beaumont Shepheard, Esq., M.I.N.A., Chief Surveyor to Lloyds' Register of Shipping. • George James Sherriff, Esq., J.P., County Clerk and Treasurer, Stirling. • Robert Minshull Shone, Esq., Secretary, British Iron and Steel Federation. • Ernest William Short, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry. • Frank Gerald Simpson, Esq., Archaeologist. • Cuthbert Ernest Sledmere, Esq., lately Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. • Douglas Bevington Smith, Esq., A.R.I.C.S., J.P., Chairman, Essex Rivers Catchment Board. • Major Frank Walker Smith, M.I.Mech.E., T.D., J.P., Chairman and Managing Director, Enfield Cycle Company, Ltd. • George Frederick Herbert Smith, Esq., D.Sc. For services to the preservation of the Flora and Fauna of the British Isles. • Stanley Graham Smith, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Admiralty. •
Tom Snowden, Esq., J.P. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire. • Henry Watson Stockman, Esq., M.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of National Insurance. • The Reverend
Robert Wright Stopford. For services to Education in the Colonies. • John Storrar, Esq., M.C., Town Clerk, Edinburgh. • Thomas Edmund Alexander Stowell, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S. For services to Industrial Medicine. • Miss Mary Elizabeth Sutherland, J.P, Member, Women's Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labour. • Cecil Victor Tapp, Esq., lately Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions • Robert John Taylor, Esq., M.P., a Lord Commissioner of H.M. Treasury since 1945. Deputy Chief Whip. Member of Parliament for Morpeth since 1935. • Colonel Frederick Charles Temple, C.I.E., V.D., M.I.C.E.. M.I.Mech.E., director of Opencast Coal Production, Ministry of Fuel and Power. • Joseph Pitches Terry, Esq., Chairman, Gloucestershire Agricultural Executive Committee. • William Bernard Vince, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., T.D., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning. • Major Arnold Horace Santo Waters, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., M.I.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., J.P., Chairman, Advisory Committee on Sand and Gravel Workings. • Miss
Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel, Mrs. Andrews), Writer and Literary Critic. • Leslie Gordon White, Esq., Deputy Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. • Robert George White, Esq., M.B.E., M.Sc., Director, Animal Breeding and Genetics Research Organisation, Agricultural Research Council. • Colonel Mark Whitwill, D.S.O., M.C., T.D., Chairman, South Western Regional Board for Industry. • Andrew Sutherland Williams, Esq., F.R.I.C.S., Chief Valuer (Scotland), Board of Inland Revenue. • George David Wilson, Esq., O.B.E., Finance Controller, Ministry of Food. • George Hamilton Bracher Wilson, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., A.F.C., J.P., Deputy President, Nottingham Savings Committee. • Edward Grigg Wylie, Esq., M.C., F.R.I.B.A., Principal Consulting Architect to Scottish Industrial Estates Ltd. • William Ernest Yorke, Esq., J.P., Lord Mayor of Sheffield.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Cecil Allen, T.D. (40139), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Patrick Michael Alpin (96182), The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel) (temporary) James Orme Morini Ashton (40658), Welsh Guards. • Major Gordon Francis Bayliss, M.B.E., M.C. (72095), Royal Corps of Signals. • Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Boggis, M.B.E., T .D. (17515), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel William Arthur Bromley (332548) (Territorial Army Reserve of Officers) (Special List, Army Cadet Force). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Harold Cantrell (38679), Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. • Major John Robert Stephenson Clarke, M.C. (85598), Scots Guards. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Thomas Harold Downes (378263), Royal Army Service Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Makins Ford (135712), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel (now Colonel (temporary)) Oliver George Freeman (13501), late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Employed List. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Leonard George Carpenter-Garnier (50893), The Devonshire Regiment. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) James Murray Grant, D.S.O. (18695), The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) William Hamilton Grant (15987), The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). • Lieutenant-Colonel Dennis Robert GUINNESS (27919), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (Quartermaster) Harold George Hancox (87766), The King's Royal Rifle Corps, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel (Quartermaster) Frank Harris (57115), late The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) (Extra Regimentally Employed List). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Lewis John Harris, M.B.E., B.A. (47557), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Gordon Mackenzie-Kennedy, D.S.O. (30892), The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) George Charles Albert Lavell (188143), General List. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) James Henry Magill (68476), Coldstream Guards (Regular Army Reserve of Officers). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Geoffrey Marnham, M.C. (44111), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Clement McGregor (67582), Royal Corps of Signals. • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Alan John McKibbin (298367) (Territorial Army Re- serve of Officers) (Special List, Army Cadet Force). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Richard Capel Hanmer MIERS, D.S.O. (58123), The South Wales Borderers. • Lieutenant-Colonel Stanley Osborne, T.D. (26524), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. • Lieutenant-Colonel David Illtyd Owen (14234), The Royal Welch Fusiliers. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary)
Arthur George Peart, B.A. (64546), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Donald Ian Robertson, M.C. (44147), Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Lieutenant-Colonel (local Brigadier) James Alexander Rowland Robertson, D.S.O., M.B.E. (384323), The Brigade of Gurkhas. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Geoffrey Vincent Seymour, M.B.E. (171332), Corps of Royal Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (Quartermaster) James Somervell, M.B.E. (87105), The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (Extra Regimentally Employed List). • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) Kenneth Gordon Thrift (185395), The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. • Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary) (Quartermaster) Henry Tottle (86362), Royal Army Medical Corps. • Lieutenant-Colonel William James Kennedy Viney (56755), Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • Lieutenant-Colonel (acting) Alfred Campbell Whyte (286224) (Territorial Army Reserve of Officers) (Special List, Army Cadet Force). • Group Captain John Joseph Murphy, Royal Air Force. • Acting Group Captain Eustace Fellowes Hawkins, D.S.O., Royal Air Force. • Wing Commander Gerald Keeble Buckingham, D.F.C. (37463), Royal Air Force. • Wing Commander John Leslie Crosbie (33134), Royal Air Force. • Wing Commander. Cyril James Giles (26221), Royal Air Force. • Wing Commander Leonard Edgar Giles, D.F.C., A.F.C..(42213), Royal Air Force. • Wing Commander Christopher Harold Hartley, D.F.C., A.F.C. (72439), Royal Air Force. • Wing Commander. James Andrew Hickey (43393), Royal Air Force. • Wing Commander Thomas Strong Kennedy (31193), Royal Air Force. • Wing Commander Stanley Jackson Marchbank, D.F.C. (33007), Royal Air Force. • Wing Commander David Anthony Reddick, D.F.C., A.F.C. (43522), Royal.Air Force. • Wing Commander Edward Alexander Rice, MB., B.Ch. (23031), Royal Air Force. • Wing Commander Donald Leslie Rundle (73380), Royal Air Force. • Acting Wing Officer Eleanor Merible Fitter (708), Women's Royal Air Force. • Acting Wing Commander Harry Vatcher, M.B.E. (35286), Royal Air Force. • Acting Wing Commander Charles Victor Douglas Willis, D.S.O., D.F.C: (33354), Royal Air Force. ===
Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)=== •
Lionel George Curtis, Esq., President,
Royal Institute of International Affairs. ==New Zealand==