The1926 Birthday Honours were appointments by KingGeorge V tovarious orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate theofficial birthday of The King on 3 June, but it was announced on 20 May that due to thenational strike, the King had approved the Prime Minister's recommendation to delay the publication of the list until 3 July 1926.[1] The honours were effective to 5 June 1926. Per standard practice, SirPaul Chater, who died 27 May 1926, still received the honour of Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire as he would have received the honour if he had survived.[2]
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.
Henry Seymour BerryDL by the name, title and style ofBaron Buckland, of Bwlch in the County of Brecon. For public, political and philanthropic services.
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
ColonelJohn GrettonCBEJPMP Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire. 1895–1906; for Rutland, 1907–1918; for Burton since December 1918. For political and public services.
SirArthur Shirley BennKBEMP Member of Parliament for Plymouth, Drake Division, since December 1910. President, Association of British Chambers of Commerce 1921–22 and 1922–23. For political and public services.
ColonelHenry Ferryman BowlesTDJPDL Chairman or President, Enfield Conservative Association 1885–1926; Member of Parliament for the Enfield Division, 1889–1906 and 1918–22. For public and political services.
Brigadier GeneralRobert Gordon Gordon-GilmourCBCVODSOJPDL of Liberton and Craigmillar. President of the Scottish Unionist Association. Convener of the Eastern Divisional Council of the Scottish Unionist Association. For political and public services.
James Augustus GrantJPDLMP Member of Parliament, Egremont Division 1910–18; Whitehaven Division 1918–22; Derby South since October 1924. For political and public services.
ColonelJohn Wakefield WestonJPDL Member of Parliament for South Westmorland, 1913–18, and Westmorland, 1918–24. Chairman of County Council from 1908 till present time. For political and public services.
Lieutenant-ColonelGodfrey Dalrymple WhiteMP Member of Parliament for Southport 1910–1923 and since 1924. For political and public services.
Alderman John BickerstaffeDL Was Chairman and Leader of the Conservative Party in Blackpool for over 20 years. Member of the Borough Council for 46 years. For political and public services.
MajorArchibald Boyd Boyd-CarpenterJPMP Member of Parliament for North Bradford 1918–1923 and for Coventry since 1924. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour 1922–23; Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General 1923 Parliamentary and Financial Secretary, Admiralty, July 1923 till January 1924. For political and public services.
Alexander Keith CarlyonJPDL President, Harrow Conservative Association, 1919–25. Chairman of the Hendon Bench. For political and public services.
Brigadier GeneralGeorge Kynaston CockerillCBMP Member of Parliament for the Reigate Division since 1918. For political and public services.
Alfred Henry EvansMRCSJP Member of the Unionist Association of the Tamworth Division since 1895 and President and Chairman since 1920. For political and public services.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Henry Brabazon Heaton-EllisCBEDL Chairman of the Hitchin Division Conservative Association for about 20 years. Member of Herts County Council 1903–19. For political and public services.
George Rowland Hill, for over 37 years Chairman of the Greenwich Conservative Association.London County Council (LCC) Member for Greenwich 1922–25. For political and public services.
Lieutenant-ColonelAssheton PownallOBETDMP Member of Parliament for East Lewisham since 1918. For political and public services.
Ernest Victor Buckley RutherfordOBE For public services.
George SheddenJPPresident, Isle of Wight Conservative and Unionist Association since 1922. For political and public services.
Andrew Thomas TaylorJP Mayor of Hampstead 1922–23. LCC Member for Hampstead since 1908. Vice-Chairman of the LCC 1919–20. For public and political services.
British India
Lallubhai Shamaldas MehtaCIE lately temporary Member of the Executive Council, Bombay
Justice Philip Lindsay Buckland, Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Calcutta
Justice Cecil WalshKC Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Allahabad
Ganendro Prosad Roy, Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs
Colonel Gordon Risley HearnCIEDSO Agent, Eastern Bengal Railway
Robert McLean, Agent, Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Lieutenant-ColonelBradford LeslieOBE Royal Engineers, Chairman, Madras Port Trust
Raj Bahadur Purohit Gopi NathCIE Member of the Jaipur Council of State
Brajendranath Seal Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University
Walter Stuart James Willson, Member of the Legislative Assembly
Khan Bahadur Ebrahim Haroon Jaffer, Member of the Council of State
John Walter HoseCSI Indian Civil Service (retired), attached Public and Judicial Department, India Office
Dominions
George Mason Allard, Representative of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia on, and Chairman of, theAmalgamated Wireless Company, in recognition also of his services to the Commonwealth Government in connection with banking and financial matters.
George Fairbairn, Agent-General in London for the State of Victoria
Frank FoxOBE Secretary of the Fellowship of the British Empire Exhibition; in recognition of his services to the Empire
Charles Holdsworth, Managing Director Of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd., recognition of his services in the development of New Zealand
The Hon.Charles Ernest Statham, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dominion of New Zealand
General SirClaud William JacobKCBKCSIKCMG Indian Army, Military Secretary, India Office, late General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India
Brigadier-General SirGilbert Falkingham ClaytonKBECBCMG For services rendered in concluding agreements with the Sultan of Nejd and for the conduct of a mission to the Imam of the Yemen
Charles StracheyCB Assistant Undersecretary of State, Colonial Office
His Excellency the Rt. Hon. SirRonald William GrahamGCVOKCMGCB His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome
His Excellency the Rt. Hon. SirRonald Charles LindsayKCMGCBCVO His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Turkey
Lawrence Arthur AdamsonFRGS Headmaster of Wesley College, Melbourne, Member of the Council of Melbourne University; in recognition of his services to Education in the State of Victoria
The Reverend Ronald George MacIntyreOBE Professor of Systematic Theology, St. Andrew's College, Sydney University; in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
John Sutherland Ross, of the City of Dunedin, Chairman of Directors of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dominion of New Zealand
Harold Livingstone Tapley, Member of the House of Representatives, Dominion of New Zealand, Mayor of the City of Dunedin, and a Director of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition
Edgar Wrigley Cozens-Hardy, General Manager of the Government Railways, Gold Coast
Edward Herbert Kealy, Indian Civil Service, Resident, Baroda
M. R. Ry. Tiruvalangadu Raja Sastri Venkatarama Sastriyar Avargal, Advocate-General, Madras
Miles IrvingOBE Indian Civil Service, Financial Secretary to Government, Punjab
Harry Oliver Baron Shoubridge, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, Bombay
Colonel Krishnaji Vishnoo Kukday, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Central Provinces
Samuel Walter Goode, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Chairman of the Calcutta Improvement Trust
Arthur Harold Walter Bentinck, Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet, Assam
Harry Llewellyn Lyons Allanson, Indian Civil Service, District and Sessions Judge, Bihar and Orissa
Khan Bahadur Pirzada Muhammad Hosain, late District and Sessions Judge, Delhi
William Henry Albert Webster, Commissioner of Police, Kangoon
Raj Bahadur Hementa Kumar Raha, Deputy Director-General of Post Offices, India
John Collard Bernard DrakeOBE Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the High Commissioner for India
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas William Harley, Indian Medical Service, District Medical and Sanitary Officer and Superintendent, Medical School, Madura, Madras
George Clark, Director of Agriculture, United Provinces
Major Donald George Sandeman, Indian Army, North-West Frontier Intelligence Bureau
Hormasji Jehangir Bhabha, late Inspector-General of Education, Mysore State
Sardar Mir Masud Alum Khan, Nawab of Belha, Bombay
Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din, Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, Chairman of Dacca Municipality
Alfred Cooper Woollier, Dean of University Instruction, Lahore
Alfred Lawrence Covernton, Principal and Professor of English Literature, Elphinstone College, Bombay
Percy Saville Burrell, Professor of Philosophy, Allahabad University
Girja Shankar BajpaiCBE Indian Civil Service, Secretary of recent Deputation from the Government of India to South Africa
Professor William SomervilleFLSFRSEFSS late-Sibthorpian Professor of Rural Economy, University of Oxford. For services to Agricultural Education and Research
Sir Percy WoodhouseJPDL Chairman, Manchester Conservative and Unionist Association. For political and public services.
Alexander Kemp WrightCBE Vice-Chairman, Scottish National Savings Committee
Reginald Stewart PattersonCBE Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government
Dominions
The Honourable John Robert Bennett, Colonial Secretary, Newfoundland
The Hon. Francis Grenville Clarke President of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria
James Oswald FairfaxCBE of the City of Sydney, Chairman of the Australian Section of the Empire Press Union; in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
Colonel Jacob Waley-CohenCMGDSOTD Territorial Army
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Conway DobbsDSO The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's) and Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 1st (Nyasaland) Battalion, The King's African Rifles
ColonelJohn Frederic Charles FullerDSO Military Assistant (General Staff Officer), Department of the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office
Chief Lady Superintendent Marion Domville KnappRRC Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Richard Henry Palmer LandonDSO Commandant 10/20th Burma Rifles, Indian Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Charles Broughton Mackinnon, 2/2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), Indian Army
Colonel George Colleymore Sturrock, Director of Ordnance Factories and Manufacture Master General of Supply Branch, Army Headquarters, India
William John Gibson, Rector of theNicolson Institute, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
Edythe Mary Glanville The first woman to be elected Vice-Chairman of the Metropolitan Division of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. In 1920 elected to the N.U.A Executive and re-elected annually. For political and public services.
Charles Speight, Vice-Chairman of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dominion of New Zealand
William Charles Frederick Thomas, President of the Flour Millers Association, Victoria, Chairman of the Commonwealth Dried Fruits Control Board; in recognition, of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia
Sir Philip Bourchier Sherard WreyBt Chief Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia at the British Empire Exhibition 1924–25
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Captain James Davidson, lately Senior Resident, Southern Provinces, Nigeria
Charles Cuthbert HarwardAMICE Divisional Irrigation Engineer, Ceylon
Colonel George Wykeham HeronDSOOBEMRCSLRCP Royal Army Medical Corps, (Retired), Director of the Department of Health, Palestine
Captain (local Lieutenant-Colonel) Frederick Gerald PeakeOBE Officer Commanding the Arab Legion, Trans-Jordan
Lieutenant-Colonel John Pemberton Heywood Heywood-LonsdaleDSOTD The Shropshire Yeomanry, Territorial Army
Major William Cecil LoweFRCVS Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Captain Hubert Francis Lucas, Royal Engineers
Lieutenant William Gunn MackayMC Royal Artillery, lately serving with the local rank of Major in the Somaliland Camel Corps, The King's Africa n Rifles
Captain John Wright MalcolmMC Royal Army Medical Corps, attached Iraq Levies
Major Bernard Culmer PageTD Territorial Army, attached Royal Engineers, London District
Major George Frederick Joseph PatersonMC Indian Army
Quartermaster and Major Walter Thomas PriceMC Extra Regimentally Employed List
Major Edward Johnson RossMC 1/8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army
Captain Matthew SheppardMCTD Yorkshire Dragoons (Queen's Own) Yeomanry, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel William SimpkinsTD 44th (Home Counties) Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Steel, Royal Army Veterinary Corps, lately Deputy Assistant Director of Veterinary Services, Northern Command, India
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Joseph Tucker Stewart, Supernumerary List, Indian Army
Captain and Brevet Major Ernest John Bocart TaggDSO The Durham Light Infantry, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, The British Army of the Rhine
Major John Brereton Owst TrimbleDSOMC The East Yorkshire Regiment, lately Commandant, Machine Gun School, India
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Price WarltersMC 54th (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
James Henry Avison, Chief Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise
William Archibald Basham, Principal, Ministry of Labour
George Albert Baxandall, Divisional Inspector of Technical and Continuation Schools, Board of Education Cadet
Lieutenant-Colonel Lancelot William BennettVD Late Commanding Officer 1st Cadet Battalion, London Regiment (The Queen's). For valuable services to the Cadet Force.
Jabez Berry, Retired Principal, Board of Inland Revenue
Robert Thomson Birnie, Chief Constable of Forfarshire
Felix John Blakemore, Chairman of Wolverhampton and District War Pensions Committee
Harold Boughey, Deputy Divisional Controller, Midlands Division, Ministry of Labour
Beatrice Rachael Stirling Boyd, Founder and Honorary Secretary, Edinburgh Children's Holiday Fund
George Bryan, Senior Inspector of Audits, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland
Frederick Vango BurridgeFRS Principal, LCC Central School of Arts and Crafts
William Thomas Towler, Chairman of the Stratford Local Employment Committee
Edward White Wallis, Secretary of the Royal Sanitary Institute
Archibald Ure Wotherspoon, Chairman of the Perth and Kinross War Pensions Committee
British India
Sarclar Bahadur Sardar Haji Mahomed Khan, Sardar of the Shahwani tribe, Kalat State, Baluchistan
M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Saravana Bhavanandam Pillai AvargalISO ex-Sheriff of Madras
Sardar Saiyid Ali El Edrus, Sardar of Gujarat, Bombay
Arthur Clement Sells, Principal, Robertson College, Jubbulpore, Central Provinces
Anandrai Keshavlal DalaiFRCSLRCP Professor of Clinical and Operative Surgery, Grant Medical College, Bombay, and Surgeon, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital, Bombay
Babu Bisheshwar Nam Srivastava, Vakil, High Court, and Chairman, Improvement Trust, Luck now
Captain Archibald Douglas George Staunton BattyMVO Army in India Reserve of Officers, latelyAide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor of Burma
Captain Ralph Burton, latelyAide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Viceroy
Babu Alakh Kumar Sinha, Superintendent of Police, Bihar and Orissa
Cecil William KirkpatrickMBE Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department
Jessie Parsons, Principal of the Badshah Nawab Razvi Training College for Women Teachers, Patna
The Reverend Robert McCheyne Paterson, Church of Scotland Mission, Gujrat, Punjab
Lucy Angela White, lately Lady Superintendent, Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Minas Stephen Peter Aganoor, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Ispahan
Alexander Mann Alcock, Deputy Director-General of the Tanzim Department, Ministry of Public Works, Egyptian Government
Colonel Julius Guthlac Birch, Rhineland High Commission
John Wallace Ord Davidson, Acting British Consul at Kiu Kiang
Captain Archibald Edward McDonald, Ordnance Executive Officer 3rd Class, Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Captain Walter Henry Organ, 43rd (Wessex) Divisional Engineers, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army
Regimental Sergeant-Major Charles Thomas Pearson, Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Lieutenant George Hamilton Charles Penny-cook, The Middlesex Regiment (The Duke of Cambridge's Own)
Staff Sergeant-Major Frederick Walter Price, Royal Army Service Corps
Captain Edward Cecil RoscoeAMIMechE Royal Army Service Corps
CaptainEric Bertram RowcroftAMIMechE Royal Army Service Corps, Instructor Royal Army Service Corps Training College, Aldershot
Quartermaster Sergeant Frederick Albert Smith, 167th (City of London) Field Ambulance, Territorial Army
Regimental Sergeant-Major Arthur Patrick Spackman, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached Sudan Defence Force
Lieutenant William George TibbiesMC 5th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Army
Conductor Frederick William Tolley, Indian Miscellaneous List
Quartermaster and Captain George John William Townsend, 17th London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), Territorial Army
Captain Bernard Henry George Tucker, 1/10th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army
Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant Alexander Turner, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Regimental Sergeant-Major Alexander Twohey, Depot, The East Surrey Regiment
Captain Vereker Willoughby Hamilton Venour, The King's Regiment (Liverpool), Staff Captain (Movements) Inter-Allied Railway Commission, The British Army of the Rhine
Regimental Sergeant-Major Edward George Walker, Iraq Levies
Quartermaster and Captain George Henry WallMC 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Quartermaster and Captain Alexander Watt, Lieutenant, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, and 7th Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) Territorial Army
Conductor Tom Harris Webb, Indian Army Service Corps
Quartermaster and Captain Samuel Whan, County Recruiting Officer, Durham
Leonard Bennett Bayley, Divisional Traffic Superintendent, Sudan Government Railways
John Preston Beecher, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Havre
Mulla Muhammad Aln Sharaf AH Harravala, His Majesty's Legation, Addis Ababa
Robert Knight Hartley, Rhineland High Commission
Philip InglesonMC Assistant District Commissioner, Sudan Government
Robert Carl Thorburn Jobson, His Majesty's Ex Vice-Consul at Warberg
Georgina Loinaz, British Library of Information, New York
William Studart, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Ceara
Edmund David Watt, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Port-au-Prince
William Calderwood YoungMC Inspector of Agriculture, Sudan Government
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Alfreda Louisa Allen, Principal of the Gayaza School for Girls, Uganda Protectorate
Katherine Ross Cameron, Matron of the Zomba Hospital, Nyasaland Protectorate
The Reverend James DentonDCL Principal of the Pourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Major Joseph Turner DewVD formerly Officer Commanding the Defence Force, Antigua, Leeward Islands
Charles Peter Dias, Headmaster of Wesley College and Member of the Municipal Council of Colombo, Ceylon
Henry David GrantMC lately Head-Constable-Major, Palestine Gendarmerie
The ReverendWilliam Edward Horley, Headmaster of the Anglo-Chinese School, Ipoh, Perak, Federated Malay States
The Reverend Mother Superior Joseph, of the Catholic Mission of the Congregation of St. Joseph of Cluny; in recognition of her long services in the Gambia.
Alexander Menzies MacfarlaneMRCVS Government Veterinary Surgeon, Malta
Kenneth Mackenzie, late Superintendent of Stores and Government Bookshop, Ministry of Education, Iraq
Donald Kirton Macwilliam, Revenue Officer and Harbour Master, St. Kitts, Leeward Islands
Jane McCotter, Senior Nursing Sister, Nigeria
Elizabeth McKey, Senior Nursing Sister, Civil Nursing Service, Iraq
The Reverend Father John Meehan, of the Catholic Mission of the Holy Ghost Fathers; in recognition of his services in the Gambia
Florence Amy Hodgson, Chief Lady-Superintendent, Lady Minto's Indian Nursing Association
Agnes Scott Chief Medical Officer, Women's Medical Service, and Secretary, Countess of Dufferin's Fund
John David O'DonnellMBEVDFRCSELRCP Chief Medical and Sanitary Officer, Kolar Gold Fields, Mysore
The Reverend Charles Walker Posnett, Chairman and General Superintendent of the Wesleyan Mission in His Exalted Highness the Nizams Dominions, Medak, Hyderabad (Deccan)
Major Joseph Alexander Hercules Holmes, Indian Medical Department, Senior Assistant Surgeon, British Station Hospital, Quetta
Rose Greenfield, Murree, Punjab
The Reverend Edward Sherman Oakley, London Mission, Almora, United Provinces
The Reverend James Alexander Drysdale, Minister, Scots Church, Rangoon
Staff Sergeant Reginald Harry Maltby, 11th Armoured Car Company, Lahore, in recognition of the heroism he displayed in saving a child from drowning in a disused well.
For Meritorious Service
Corporal William Watson DentonMM British Section of the Palestine Gendarmie. For consistently good work during his service.
William James Ferguson, Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary. For long and meritorious service of an exceptionally high standard.
Staff Sergeant Harold Player, British Section of the Palestine Gendarmie. For loyal and devoted service as Orderly Room Staff Sergeant and Chief Clerk.