1935 Birthday Honours

The 1935 Birthday Honours for the British Empire were announced on 3 June 1935 to celebrate the Birthday and Silver Jubilee of King George V.^[1]

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

United Kingdom

Viscounts

• The Right Honourable Charles, Baron Bledisloe, G.C.M.G., K.B.E. Lately Governor-General of New Zealand.

Barons

• Sir Arthur Balfour, Bt., K.B.E., LL.D., J.P. For public services.
• Edward Charles Grenfell, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for the City of London since 1922. For political and public services.
• Sir William James Peake Mason, Bt., J.P. For political and public services in the County of Somerset.
• Sir George Ernest May, Bt., K.B.E., Chairman, Import Duties Advisory Committee.
• The Right Honourable Sir Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., Treasurer to His Majesty The King and Keeper of the Privy Purse.
• Colonel the Right Honourable Sir Clive Wigram, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.S.I., Private Secretary to His Majesty The King.

Privy Councillors

• Clement Richard Attlee, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for the Limehouse Division since 1922. Deputy leader of the Labour Party in the House of Commons.
• Leslie Hore-Belisha, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Devonport since 1923. Minister of Transport since 1934.
• Captain Robert Croft Bourne, M.P., Member of Parliament for Oxford since 1924. Deputy Chairman of the House of Commons since 1931.

Baronets

• Sir (Robert) Burton Chadwick, Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness, 1918–22, and for Wallasey, 1922–31. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, 1924–28. Founder and first Deputy Master of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners. For political and public services.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert Morley Headlam, D.S.Q., O.B.E., T.D., J.P., D.L., M.P., Member of Parliament for Barnard Castle, 1924–29, and since 1931. Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1926–29. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions, 1931–32, and to the Ministry of Transport, 1932–34. For political and public services.
• Sir Henry Jackson, M.A., M.B., M.P. For services in connection with transport questions.
• Councillor Sir Crawford McCullagh, J.P., D.L., Lord Mayor of Belfast.
• William Mallinson, Esq., J.P. For political and public services, especially in Walthamstow.
• Walter Russell Rea, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Dewsbury. Chief Whip of the Opposition Liberal Party.
• Sir (Hugh) Arthur Rose, D.S.O., LL.D., J.P., D.L. For public services.
• John Ralph Starkey, Esq., J.P., D.L., President of the Newark Conservative Association, Member of Parliament for the Newark Division, 1906–22. For political and public services in Nottinghamshire.

Knights Bachelor

• Noel Ashbridge, Esq., Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Professor Joseph Barcroft, O.B.E., M.A., F.R.S., Professor of Physiology, Cambridge University.
• Alderman William Gurney Benham, J.P. For political and public services in Essex.
• William John Board, Esq., O.B.E., Town Clerk of Nottingham. President of the Society of Town Clerks. On the occasion of the centenary of local government.
• Laurence George Brock, Esq., C.B., Chairman of the Board of Control.
• William Richard Codling, Esq., C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., Controller, H.M. Stationery Office.
• Francis Nicholas Cowlin, Esq. For public services in Bristol.
• Charles Edwards, Esq., C.B.E., J.P., M.P., Member of Parliament for the Bedwellty Division. Chief Whip of the Labour Party.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Gadie, T.D., J.P., Member of Parliament for Bradford Central, 1924–29. For political and public services in Bradford.
• John Howarth Grey, Esq., J.P. For distinguished service to the Cotton industry.
• Professor Arthur John Hall, M.A., M.D., D.Sc., F.E.C.P., Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Sheffield. For distinguished service to medicine and medical science, with special reference to problems of the health of industrial workers.
• Cecil Hanbury, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for North Dorset since 1924. For political and public services.
• Harold Cecil Aubrey Harmsworth, Esq. For political and public services in the West of England.
• Seymour Hicks, Esq., Actor-Manager.
• Alderman William Hodgson, J.P., Vice-Chairman, Lancashire County Council. For public services in Lancashire.
• Henry Nicholas Holmes, Esq., J.P. For political and public services in Norwich.
• John Hepburn Milne Home, Esq., Vice-Chairman, Advisory Council to Department of Agriculture for Scotland. For services to agriculture.
• Herbert Henry Humphries, Esq., C.B.E., M.Inst.C.E., City Engineer of Birmingham, President of the Town Planning Institute. On the occasion of the centenary of local government.
• His Honour Judge Arthur Gwynne James, County Court Judge.
• Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, Esq., M.A., B.Ch., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Pathologist to the Medical Research Council. For distinguished service to medical science.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Glen MacAndrew, M.P., Member of Parliament for the Partick Division of Glasgow since 1931, and for the Kilmarnock Division of Ayr and Bute, 1924–29. For political and public services.
• Alfred Newton Macaulay, Esq., T.D., J.P. For public services, especially in Sutherland.
• Frederick James Marquis, Esq., J.P., Chairman of the Incorporated Association of Retail Distributors.
• George Middleton, Esq., J.P., First Church Estates Commissioner, and Chairman of Committees of Queen Anne's Bounty.
• George Arthur Mitchell, Esq., M.I.M.E., J.P. For services to Commerce and Industry.
• William Luscombe Munday, Esq. For political and public services in Plymouth.
• Clement Henry Newsum, Esq., J.P., D.L. For political and public services in Lincolnshire.
• Arthur Maule Oliver, Esq., O.B.E., Town Clerk of Newcastle. On the occasion of the centenary of local government.
• Standen Leonard Pearce, Esq., C.B.E., D.Sc., Engineer-in-Chief, London Power Company, Limited.
• Arthur Pugh, Esq., C.B.E., J.P., General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation and the British Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Association.
• Bruce Lyttelton Richmond, Esq., Editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
• Colonel George Fossett Roberts, O.B.E., T.D., J.P. For political and public services in Cardiganshire.
• Alderman Arthur Douglas Robinson, For political and public services in the Borough of Wandsworth.
• Evan Williams, Esq., LL.D., D.L., President of the Mining Association of Great Britain. For public services.
• William Gardner Thomson, Esq., J.P. For political and public services in Linlithgowshire.
• Charles Leonard Woolley, Esq., M.A., D.Litt. For services to Archaeology.
• John Vigers Worthington, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., M.P., Member of Parliament for the Forest of Dean Division of Gloucestershire since 1931. Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.
• Percy Scott Worthington, Esq.. M.A., F.S.A., F.R.I.B.A. For services to Architecture.
• Charles Arthur Wrench, Esq., Honorary Secretary of the London Federation of Boys' Clubs.
• John Lavington Bonython, Esq. For public and philanthropic services in the State of South Australia.
• Thomas Buckland, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of New South Wales.
• The Honourable Joseph Amable Thomas Chapais, LL.D., F.R.S.C. For contributions to literature and culture in the Dominion of Canada.
• Francis Vernon Frazer, Esq., Deputy Chairman of Executive, Commission of Agriculture, Dominion of New Zealand.
• The Honourable Percival Donald Leslie Fynn, C.M.G., Minister without Portfolio, Southern Rhodesia.
• Edmund Wyly Grier, Esq., R.C.A., President, Royal Academy of Arts, Dominion of Canada.
• Henry Horton, Esq. For public services in the Dominion of New Zealand.
• The Honourable William Gilbert Stewart McArthur, lately Judge of the Supreme Court, State of Victoria.
• John Gilbert McLaren, Esq., C.M.G., Official Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner in London for the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Ernest Campbell MacMillan, Esq., Mus. Doc., F.R.C.M., F.R.C.O., Principal, Toronto Conservatory of Music, Dominion of Canada.
• Harry Cuthbertson Moxham, Esq., D.D.S., Federal President of the Dental Association, Commonwealth of Australia.
• Alderman Alfred Livingston Parker, Lord Mayor of Sydney, State of New South Wales.
• Charles George Douglas Roberts, Esq., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S.C., poet, author and historian. For contributions to literature in the Dominion of Canada.
• The Honourable Frederick Harold Stewart, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Employment, Commonwealth of Australia.
• The Honourable Frederick Henry Tout, Member of the Legislative Council, State of New South Wales. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Ernest Henry Wreford, Esq., Chief Manager, National Bank of Australasia Limited, Melbourne. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Thomas Couper, Esq., C.S.I., Acting Governor of Burma.
• Kunwar Jagdish Prasad, C.S.I., C.I.E., O.B.E., Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.
• Chaudhury Zafrullah Khan, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council.
• John Tarlton Whitty, Esq., C.S.I, C.I.E., Indian Civil Service (retired), lately Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Governor of Bihar and Orissa.
• Mr. Justice James Addison, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, Punjab.
• Mr. Justice Leonard Wilfred James Costello, Barrister-at-Law, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, Calcutta, Bengal.
• Mr. Justice Stephen James Murphy, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay.
• Mr. Justice Carleton Moss King, C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Judge of the Chief Court of Oudh, United Provinces.
• Clement Preston Colvin, Esq., O.B.E., V.D., lately Member of the Railway Board, Government of India, at present Honorary Secretary of the King's Silver Jubilee Fund.
• James Braid Taylor, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Additional Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department, now Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
• Ernest Miller, Esq., General Manager for India of the Burmah-Shell Oil Storage and Distributing Company of India, Limited, Bombay, and Member of the Council of State.
• John Charles Weir, Esq., K.C., Member of the Public Service Commission, Government of India.
• Bertram Maitland Crosthwaite, Esq., V.D., Agent, Burma Railways, Burma.
• Lewis Leigh Fermor, Esq., O.B.E., Director, Geological Survey of India.
• Abdul Halim Khan Ghuznavi, Esq., M.L.A., Landholder, Mymensingh, and Sheriff of Calcutta, Bengal.
• Alan Michael Green, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Deputy High Commissioner for India, London.
• William Edward Preston, Esq., lately Chief Manager, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, London.
• Saiyid Raza Ali, Esq., C.B.E., Agent to the Government of India in South Africa.
• M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Mocherla Ramachandra Rao Pantulu Garu, President, Madras Co-operative Central Land Mortgage Bank, Ltd., Madras.
• Rao Bahadur Thakur Sadul Singh, C.I.E., of Bagseu, Colonel in the Bikaner Army, Tazimi Sardar and Vice-President of the State Executive Council and Public Works Minister, Bikaner State, Rajputana.
• Dr. Shafa'at Ahmad Khan, Professor of Modern Indian History at the University of Allahabad.
• Harold Bruce Gardiner Austin, Esq., O.B.E., Speaker of the House of Assembly, Barbados.
• Thomas Forrest Garvin, Esq., lately Senior Puisne Judge, Ceylon.
• Walter Burford Johnson, Esq., C.M.G., M.B., Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, Nigeria.
• Alasdair Duncan Atholl MacGregor, Esq., Chief Justice, Hong Kong.
• Alan Rae Smith, Esq., O.B.E., Member of the Colonial Development Advisory Committee.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross (GCB)

• Admiral Sir John Donald Kelly, G.C.V.O., K.C.B.
• Admiral Sir William Wordsworth Fisher, K.C.B., C.V.O.
• General Sir Cyril John Deverell, K.C.B., K.B.E., Colonel, The West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own), Aide-de-Camp General to The King, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command.
• General the Honourable Sir John Francis Gathorne-Hardy, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., late Grenadier Guards, Aide-de-Camp General to The King, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Aldershot Command.
• General Sir Kenneth Wigram, K.C.B., C.S.I., C.B.E., D.S.O., Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp General to The King, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, K.C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.

Knight Commander (KCB)

• Admiral Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair, C.B. (Retired).
• Vice-Admiral George Knightley Chetwode, C.B., C.B.E.
• Vice-Admiral Charles Morton Forbes, C.B., D.S.O.
• Vice-Admiral Charles James Colebrooke Little, C.B.
• Lieutenant-General Richard Foster Carter Foster, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Royal Marines.
• Lieutenant-General Charles Parker Deedes, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Colonel, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Ivo Lucius Beresford Vesey, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., halfpay, late The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, India, designate.
• Lieutenant-General James Andrew Hartigan, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.B., D.Ch., late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Physician to The King, Director-General, Army Medical Services, The War Office
• Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Jamieson Elles, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B., D.S.O., late Royal Engineers, Colonel Commandant, Royal Tank Corps, Master-General of the Ordnance, The War Office.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Seaburne May, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., late The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Quartermaster-General to the Forces, The War Office.
• Major-General Arthur William Hamilton May Moens, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Colonel, 2nd Battalion (Sikhs), 12th Frontier Force Regiment, Indian Army, Commander, Lahore District, Northern Command, India.
• Major-General Julius Henry Bruche, C.B., C.M.G., lately Chief of the General Staff, Commonwealth of Australia.
• Major-General James Howden MacBrien, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Commissioner, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, formerly Chief of Staff, Canadian Militia.
• Cecil Fane De Salis, Esq., C.B., D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County, of Middlesex.
• Air Marshal Arthur Murray Longmore, C.B., D.S.O., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Cyril Louis Norton Newall, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., A.M. Royal Air Force.
• George Clarke Simpson, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., Director of the Meteorological Office.
• Sir Edward John Harding, K.C.M.G., C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

Companions (CB)

• Ralph Bignell Ainsworth

Order of the Star of India

Knights Commander (KCSI)

• His Highness Rai-i-Rayan Maharawal Sri Lakshman Singh Bahadur, Maharawal of Dungarpur.
• His Highness Maharaja Manikya Bir Bikram Kishore Deb Barman Bahadur, Maharaja of Tripura.
• Captain His Highness Maharaja Shri Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar.
• Robert Duncan Bell, Esq., C.S.I, C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Bombay.
• Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer, K.C.B., K.C., First Parliamentary Counsel.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knights Grand Cross (GCMG)

• Sir Henry Birchenough, Baronet, K.C.M.G., President of the British South Africa Company and Chairman of the Beit Trustees. For public services.
• The Right Honourable John Greig Latham, C.M.G., K.C., lately Attorney General and Minister for External Affairs, Commonwealth of Australia.
• The Honourable Sir Christopher James Parr, K.C.M.G., High Commissioner in London for the Dominion of New Zealand.
• The Right Honourable Sir William Thomas White, K.C.M.G. For public services in the Dominion of Canada.
• Sir John Loader Maffey, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.S.I., C.I.E., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Sir Herbert James Read, K.C.M.G., C.B. For services to the Colonial Empire.
• His Highness Abdullah Ibn Hussein, G.B.E, K.C.M.G., Amir of Trans-Jordan. (Honorary)
• The Right Honourable Aretas Viscount Chilston, K.C.M.G., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Moscow.

Knights Commander (KCMG)

• The Honourable Sir James William Blair, Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Queensland.
• Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., lately Governor of the State of New South Wales.
• The Honourable Herbert Meredith Marler, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan for the Dominion of Canada.
• The Honourable Ethelbert Alfred Ransom, Minister of Lands, Dominion of New Zealand.
• The Honourable George Ritchie, Minister of Mines and Minister of Afforestation, State of South Australia.
• Percy Hubert Ezechiel, Esq., C.M.G., Third Crown Agent for the Colonies.
• Alfred John Harding, Esq., C.M.G., C.B.E., Director of Colonial Audit.
• Henry Monck-Mason Moore, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Sierra Leone.
• Geoffry Alexander Stafford Northcote, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Guiana.
• Arthur Frederick Richards, Esq., C.M,G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of the Gambia.
• His Highness Abu Bakar, C.M.G., ibni almerhum Sultan Abdullah, Sultan of Pahang, Federated Malay States. (Honorary)
• Herbert Ernest Fass, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., Public Trustee, lately Financial Secretary to the Sudan Government.
• Stephen Gaselee, Esq., C.B.E., Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office.
• Hugh Gurney, Esq., C.M.G., M.V.O., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Copenhagen.
• George Bailey Sansom, Esq., C.M.G., Commercial Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Tokio.
• Sydney Philip Perigal Waterlow, Esq., C.B.E., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Athens.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

• His Highness Sri Padmanabha Dasa Vanchi Pala Rama Varma Kulasekhara Kiritapati Manney Sultan Maharaja Raja Ramaraja Bahadur Shamsher Jang, Maharaja of Travancore.
• Captain His Highness Saramad-i-Rajaha-i-Hindustan Raj Rajindra Sri Maharajadhiraja Sawai Man Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Jaipur.
• Sir Samuel Findlater Stewart, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India.

Knights Commander (KCIE)

• Sir Campbell Ward Rhodes, C.B.E., lately Member of the Council of India.
• Raja Sri Ravu Swetachalupati Ramakrishna Ranga Rao Bahadur, of Bobbili, Minister for Local Self-Government to the Governor of Madras.
• Raja Brijnath Singh, Raja of Maihar.
• Courtenay Latimer, Esq., O.S.I., C.I.E., of the Political Department, Agent to the Governor-General in the States of Western India.
• Abraham James Laine, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Assam.
• George Cunningham, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., O.B.E., of the Political Department. Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province.
• Major-General Ernest Frederick Orton, C.B., Indian Army, Deputy Quartermaster-General, Army Headquarters, India.
• Major-General Dennis Deane, C.B., D.S.O., Indian Army, Commander, Burma (Independent) District.
• Rao Bahadur Sir Annepu Parasuramadas Patro, Garu, Member of the Madras Legislative Council.
• Leonard Day Wakely, Esq., C.B., Deputy Under Secretary of State for India.

Royal Victorian Chain

• Rowland Thomas, Earl of Cromer, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross (GCVO)

• George Francis Hugh, Marquess of Cambridge, K.C.V.O.
• The Right Honourable John Colin Campbell Davidson, C.H., C.B., M.P.
• Sir Hugh Percy Allen, K.C.V.O., Mus.D.
• Colonel Sir Arthur Edward Erskine, K.C.V.O., D.S.O.
• Sir Edwin Cooper Perry, M.D.

Knight Commander (KCVO)

• Sir Stephen Henry Molyneux Killik.
• Sir Robert Vaughan Gower, O.B.E., M.P.
• Francis James Grant, Esquire, C.V.O.
• The Very Reverend Walter Robert Matthews, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's.
• Rear Admiral Thomas John Spence Lyne, C.B., D.S.O.
• Major The Honourable Richard Frederick Molyneux, C.V.O.
• Frederick Albert Minter, Esquire, C.V.O.
• James Albert Walton, Esquire, M.S.
• Lancelot Edward Barrington-Ward, Esquire, M.B.

Commander (CVO)

• Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Alastair Robert Innes-Ker, D.S.O.
• Rear Admiral Arthur Bromley, C.M.G.
• Colonel Edward Charles Heath, D.S.O.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Gibb Scorgie, C.B.E., M.V.O.
• Commander Harold George Campbell, D.S.O., R.N. (Retired).
• Commander Oscar Henderson, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.N. (Retired)
• Major Colin Lindsay Gordon, M.V.O.
• The Reverend Henry Tower, M.V.O.
• Duncan Randolph Wilson, Esquire, C.B.E.
• Thomas Francis Vaughan Prickard, Esquire, M.V.O.
• Herbert Walter Lloyd Evans, Esquire, O.B.E.
• Stanley Marchant, Esquire, Mus.D.
• Charles Gordon Holland Moore, Esquire, M.B.
• Captain Edward Daymonde Stevenson, M.C.

Member, Fourth Class

• Lieutenant-Colonel Roland Dening, M.C., Indian Army.
• Major John Charles Oakes Marriott, D.S.O., M.C., Scots Guards.
• Captain Humphrey Clifford Lloyd, M.C.
• Captain Howard de Courcy Martelli, M.C.
• Captain FitzRoy Hubert Fyers.
• George Rothe Bellew, Esquire.
• George William Sadler, Esquire.

Member, Fifth Class

• Gerald Cock, Esquire (Dated 6 May 1935).
• James Thomas Carter, Esquire.
• Lieutenant William James Dunn, M.C., Royal Horse Guards.
• Thomas Henry Carter, Esquire.

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