1937 Coronation Honours
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The 1937 Coronation Honours were awarded in honour of the coronation of George VI
George VI of the United Kingdom
George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death...

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Royal Victorian Chain

  • HM The Queen
  • HM Queen Mary
    Mary of Teck
    Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....


Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

  • HM The Queen of Norway
    Maud of Wales
    Princess Maud of Wales was Queen of Norway as spouse of King Haakon VII. She was a member of the British Royal Family as the youngest daughter of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark and granddaughter of Queen Victoria and also of Christian IX of Denmark. She was the younger sister of George V...

  • HRH The Princess Royal
    Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
    The Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood was a member of the British Royal Family; she was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. She was the sixth holder of the title of Princess Royal...

  • HRH The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
    Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
    The Princess Louise was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert, Prince Consort.Louise's early life was spent moving between the various royal residences in the...

  • HRH The Princess Beatrice
    Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
    The Princess Beatrice was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Juan Carlos, King of Spain, is her great-grandson...


Order of the British Empire (GBE)

  • HRH The Duchess of Gloucester
    Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester
    Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester was a member of the British Royal Family, the wife and then widow of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the third son of George V and Queen Mary.The daughter of the 7th Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry, Scotland’s largest landowner, her brothers Walter and...

  • HRH The Duchess of Kent
    Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent
    Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, née Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark was a member of the British Royal Family; the wife of Prince George, Duke of Kent, the fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck....

  • HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
    Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
    Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone was a member of the British Royal Family. She was the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria...


Earldoms

  • The Rt. Hon. Vere Brabazon
    Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough
    Captain Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough was a British businessman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 14th since Canadian Confederation....

    , Earl of Bessborough
    Earl of Bessborough
    Earl of Bessborough is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1739 for Brabazon Ponsonby, 2nd Viscount Duncannon, who had previously represented Newtownards and County Kildare in the Irish House of Commons...

    , GCMG
    Order of St Michael and St George
    The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....

  • The Rt. Hon. Claude George
    Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
    Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD, was a landowner and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II....

    , Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
    Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
    The title Earl of Kinghorne was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1606 for Patrick Lyon. In 1677, the designation of the earldom changed to "Strathmore and Kinghorne". A second Earldom was bestowed on the fourteenth Earl in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1937, the title being Strathmore...

    , KT
    Order of the Thistle
    The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order...

    , GCVO, TD
    Territorial Decoration
    The Territorial Decoration was a medal of the United Kingdom awarded for long service in the Territorial Force and its successor, the Territorial Army...


Viscountcies

  • The Rt. Hon. Sir
    Sir
    Sir is an honorific used as a title , or as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given or family name in many English speaking cultures...

     Robert Stevenson Horne, GBE
    Order of the British Empire
    The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

    , KC
    Queen's Counsel
    Queen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...

    , MP
    Member of Parliament
    A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

  • The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Louis Samuel, GCB
    Order of the Bath
    The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

    , GBE, MP

Baronies

  • The Rt. Hon. Dr. Christopher Addison
    Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison
    Sir Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison KG, PC was a British medical doctor and politician. By turns a liberal and a socialist, he served as Minister of Munitions during the first World War, and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under...

    , MD
    Doctor of Medicine
    Doctor of Medicine is a doctoral degree for physicians. The degree is granted by medical schools...

    , FRCS, MP
  • Sir George Bowyer
    George Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham
    Captain George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, 1st Baron Denham, MC, DL was a British Conservative Party politician.Bowyer was educated at Eton and Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1910...

    , Bt.
    Baronet
    A baronet or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess , is the holder of a hereditary baronetcy awarded by the British Crown...

    , MC
    Military Cross
    The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and other ranks of the British Armed Forces; and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries....

    , DL
    Deputy Lieutenant
    In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....

    , MP
  • Sir John Cadman
    John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman
    John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman FRS, GCMG was a British mining engineer, petroleum technologist and public servant.-Early life:...

    , GCMG
  • Admiral of the Fleet
    Admiral of the Fleet
    An admiral of the fleet is a military naval officer of the highest rank. In many nations the rank is reserved for wartime or ceremonial appointments...

     Sir Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield
    Ernle Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield
    Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon. Sir Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield, GCB, OM, KCMG, CVO, PC was a Royal Navy officer and held the position of First Sea Lord from 1933 to 1939...

    , GCB, KCMG, CVO
    Royal Victorian Order
    The Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of her family, or any of her viceroys...

  • Julius Salter Elias
    Viscount Southwood
    Viscount Southwood, of Fernhurst in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 February 1946 for Julius Elias, 1st Baron Southwood. He had already been created Baron Southwood, of Fernhurst in the County of Sussex, on 11 June 1937, also in the...

  • Colonel
    Colonel
    Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...

     John Cuthbert Denison-Pender
    John Denison-Pender, 1st Baron Pender
    John Cuthbert Denison-Pender, 1st Baron Pender GBE, KCMG , was a British Conservative politician. He retired from Politics in 1922. In 1925 he was Vice-Chairman and Joint Managing Director Cable & Wireless Ltd. Governor Cable & Wireless Holdings 1929-1945...

    , MP
  • Sir Frederick George Penny
    Frederick Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood
    Frederick George Penny, 1st Viscount Marchwood KCVO, JP was a British Conservative Party politician.The second son of Frederick James Penny of Bitterne in Hampshire, Penny was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Southampton.He was a senior partner Fraser & Co., Government brokers,...

    , Bt., JP
    Justice of the Peace
    A justice of the peace is a puisne judicial officer elected or appointed by means of a commission to keep the peace. Depending on the jurisdiction, they might dispense summary justice or merely deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions...

    , MP
  • Sir Walter Russell Rea
    Walter Rea, 1st Baron Rea
    Walter Russell Rea, 1st Baron Rea , was a British merchant banker and Liberal politician.Rea was the son of Russell Rea. He was elected to the House of Commons for Scarborough in 1906, a seat he held until 1918, and served under H. H. Asquith as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1915 to 1916...

    , Bt.
  • Sir John Davenport Siddeley, CBE

Knights/Ladies of the Order of the Garter (KG/LG)

  • Captain His Grace Bernard Marmaduke
    Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk
    Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, , styled Earl of Arundel and Surrey until 1917, was the eldest surviving son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, who died when Bernard was only 9 years old...

    , Duke of Norfolk
    Duke of Norfolk
    The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England, and also, as Earl of Arundel, the premier earl. The Duke of Norfolk is, moreover, the Earl Marshal and hereditary Marshal of England. The seat of the Duke of Norfolk is Arundel Castle in Sussex, although the title refers to the...

  • His Grace Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy
    Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort
    Henry Hugh Arthur FitzRoy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort KG GCVO KStJ PC was a British peer, the son of Henry Somerset, 9th Duke of Beaufort....

    , Duke of Beaufort
    Duke of Beaufort
    Duke of Beaufort is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by Charles II in 1682 for Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of Worcester, a descendant of Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, illegitimate son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, a Lancastrian leader in the Wars of the...

    , GCVO
  • The Most Honourable
    The Most Honourable
    The prefix The Most Honourable is a title of quality attached to the names of marquesses in the United Kingdom. Dukes are The Most Noble or His Grace and peers under the rank of marquess are The Right Honourable. Scottish Feudal Barons and Lairds are The Much Honoured.Certain corporate entities...

     William Thomas Brownlow
    William Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter
    William Thomas Brownlow Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter KG CMG TD , known as Lord Burghley from 1895 to 1898, was a British peer....

    , Marquess of Exeter
    Marquess of Exeter
    Marquess of Exeter is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1525 for Henry Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon...

    , CMG, TD
  • Claude George
    Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
    Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD, was a landowner and the maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II....

    , Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KT, GCVO, TD

Knights/Ladies of the Order of the Thistle (KT/LT)

  • Lieutenant-Colonel John James Hamilton
    John Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair
    John James Hamilton Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair, KT, DSO, DL was the son of the 11th Earl of Stair.He fought in the Boer War, and World War I, was captured by the Germans....

    , Earl of Stair
    Earl of Stair
    Earl of Stair is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1703 for the lawyer and statesman John Dalrymple, 2nd Viscount of Stair. He actively supported William III's claim to the throne and served as Secretary of State for Scotland. However, he was forced to resign after he authorised...

    , DSO
    Distinguished Service Order
    The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...

  • Sir Iain Colquhoun, Bt., DSO

Privy Counsellors

  • Edward Leslie Burgin
    Leslie Burgin
    Edward Leslie Burgin was a British Liberal and later Liberal National politician in the 1930s.Burgin trained as a solicitor specialising in international law and served as principal and director of legal studies to the Law Society...

    , MP
  • Sir Felix Cassel
    Felix Cassel
    Sir Felix Maximilian Schoenbrunn Cassel, 1st Baronet, PC, QC was a British barrister who served as Judge Advocate-General from 1915 to 1934....

    , Bt., KC
  • Colonel Sir George Loyd Courthope
    George Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope
    George Loyd Courthope, 1st Baron Courthope PC, MC , known as Sir George Courthope, Bt, from 1925 to 1945, was a British Conservative Party politician.-Background and education:...

    , Bt., MC, JP, DL, MP
  • The Rt. Hon. Sir Patrick Duncan, GCMG, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
    Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
    The Governor-General of the Union of South Africa was the representative of the British and later South African Crown in the Union of South Africa between 31 May 1910 and 31 May 1961...

  • Isaac Foot
    Isaac Foot
    -Early life:Isaac Foot was born in Plymouth, the son of a carpenter and undertaker, and educated at Plymouth Public School and the Hoe Grammar School, which he left at the age of 14. He then worked at the Admiralty in London, but returned to Plymouth to train as a solicitor...

    , MP
  • The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Galway
    George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway
    -External links:* by the office of the Governor-General...

    , GCMG, DSO, OBE Governor-General of New Zealand
    Governor-General of New Zealand
    The Governor-General of New Zealand is the representative of the monarch of New Zealand . The Governor-General acts as the Queen's vice-regal representative in New Zealand and is often viewed as the de facto head of state....

  • Brigadier
    Brigadier
    Brigadier is a senior military rank, the meaning of which is somewhat different in different military services. The brigadier rank is generally superior to the rank of colonel, and subordinate to major general....

     The Rt. Hon. The Baron Gowrie
    Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
    Brigadier General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie VC, GCMG, CB, DSO & Bar, PC was a British soldier and colonial governor and the tenth Governor-General of Australia. Serving for 9 years and 7 days, he is the longest serving Governor-General in Australia's history...

    , GCMG, CB, DSO, Governor-General of Australia
    Governor-General of Australia
    The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative in Australia at federal/national level of the Australian monarch . He or she exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth...

  • The Hon. Ernest Lapointe
    Ernest Lapointe
    Ernest Lapointe, PC was a Canadian lawyer and politician.-Education, early career:Lapointe earned his law degree from Laval University...

    , KC
  • The Rt. Hon. Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence
    Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence
    Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence PC was a British Labour politician.-Background and education:...

    , MP
  • The Rt. Hon. Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill
    Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan
    Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan PC , known as Sir Hugh O'Neill, Bt, from 1929 to 1953, was an Ulster Unionist member of both the UK Parliament and the Parliament of Northern Ireland....

    , Bt., MP
  • The Rt. Hon. The Lord Snell
    Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell
    Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell CH, PC , was a British socialist politician and campaigner. He served in government under Ramsay MacDonald and Winston Churchill, and as the Labour Party's leader in the House of Lords in the late 1930s.-Background:Born in Sutton-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, the son of...

    , CBE, JP, MP
  • HE
    Excellency
    Excellency is an honorific style given to certain members of an organization or state.Usually, people styled "Excellency" are heads of state, heads of government, governors, ambassadors, certain ecclesiastics, royalty, aristocracy, and military, and others holding equivalent rank .It is...

     The Rt. Hon. The Lord Tweedsmuir
    John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
    John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation....

    , GCMG, CH
    Order of the Companions of Honour
    The Order of the Companions of Honour is an order of the Commonwealth realms. It was founded by King George V in June 1917, as a reward for outstanding achievements in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry or religion....

    , Governor-General of Canada

Baronetcies

  • The Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Dawson Bates
    Dawson Bates
    Sir Richard Dawson Bates, 1st Baronet, OBE, PC, JP, DL , also known as Sir Dawson Bates , was an Ulster Unionist Party member of the Northern Ireland House of Commons....

    , OBE, DL, MP
  • Captain
    Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)
    Captain is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines. It ranks above Lieutenant and below Major and has a NATO ranking code of OF-2. The rank is equivalent to a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and to a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force...

     Sir William Edge, JP, MP
  • Major
    Major
    Major is a rank of commissioned officer, with corresponding ranks existing in almost every military in the world.When used unhyphenated, in conjunction with no other indicator of rank, the term refers to the rank just senior to that of an Army captain and just below the rank of lieutenant colonel. ...

     Sir Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet
    Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet
    Sir George Clements Hamilton, 1st Baronet was an English electrical engineer and Conservative Party politician....

    , JP, MP
  • Commander
    Commander
    Commander is a naval rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. Commander is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the armed forces, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Commander as a naval...

     Archibald Richard James Southby
    Sir Archibald Southby, 1st Baronet
    Commander Sir Archibald Richard James Southby, 1st Baronet was an English Conservative Party politician.He served in the Royal Navy and, in the period following the First World War, took part in the demilitarization of Heligoland...

    , JP, DL, MP
  • Sir Cuthbert Sidney Wallace
    Wallace Baronets
    There have been five Wallace Baronetcies; two in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, and three in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. All are now extinct.-Wallace Baronets, of Craigie Wallace, Ayr :Created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia....

    , KCMG, CB, FRCS, LRCP
    Royal College of Physicians
    The Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...

  • Sir David Milne-Watson
    Milne-Watson Baronets
    The Milne-Watson Baronetcy, of Ashley in Longbredy in the County of Dorset, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 June 1937 for David Milne-Watson. He was Governor and Managing Director of the Gas Lighting & Coke Company and Vice-President of the Federation of...

    , DL
  • Sir Robert Eaton White
    White Baronets
    The White Baronets were four baronetcies created for persons with the surname of White. All of these baronets are listed in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom...

    , VD
    Volunteer Decoration
    The Volunteer Officers' Decoration was created by Royal Warrant under command of Queen Victoria on 25 July 1892 to reward 'efficient and capable' officers of the Volunteer Force who had served for twenty years...

    , DL

Military

  • General
    General (United Kingdom)
    General is currently the highest peace-time rank in the British Army and Royal Marines. It is subordinate to the Army rank of Field Marshal, has a NATO-code of OF-9, and is a four-star rank....

     Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart
    John Burnett-Stuart
    General Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart GCB KBE CMG DSO was a British Army General in the 1930s.-Military career:Educated at Repton School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, John Burnett-Stuart was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1895. He saw service on the North West Frontier of...

    , KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO
  • General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough
    Hubert Gough
    General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough GCB, GCMG, KCVO was a senior officer in the British Army, who commanded the British Fifth Army from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.-Family background:...

    , GCMG, KCB, KCVO
  • Air Chief Marshal
    Air Chief Marshal
    Air chief marshal is a senior 4-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...

     Sir John Miles Steel
    John Miles Steel
    Air Chief Marshal Sir John Miles Steel GCB, KBE, CMG, RAF was a senior Royal Air Force commander.-Military career:...

    , KCB, KBE, CMG

Civil

  • The Rt. Hon. Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, GCMG, former Governor-General of Australia
  • Sir Horace John Wilson, GCMG, KCB, CBE

Military

  • Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Blake
    Geoffrey Blake (Royal Navy officer)
    Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, KCB, DSO was an officer in the Royal Navy who went on to be Fourth Sea Lord.-Naval career:...

    , CB, DSO
  • Vice-Admiral The Hon. Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay, KCVO, CB, DSO
  • Lieutenant-General Robert Gordon-Finlayson
    Robert Gordon-Finlayson
    General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson KCB CMG DSO was Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Finlayson entered the British Army from the Suffolk Militia and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery. He served during the First World War initially as a Royal Artillery officer with 7th...

    , CB, CMG, DSO
  • Lieutenant-General John Greer Dill, CB, CMG, DSO
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Karslake, KCSI
    Order of the Star of India
    The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1861. The Order includes members of three classes:# Knight Grand Commander # Knight Commander # Companion...

    , CB, CMG, DSO
  • Major-General Roger Cochrane Wilson, CB, DSO, MC
  • Air Marshal
    Air Marshal
    Air marshal is a three-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...

     Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, CB, DSO, MC

Civil

  • Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. George Augustus Anson, CBE, MVO
  • John Donald Balfour Furgusson, CB
  • Edgar John Forsdyke
    John Forsdyke
    Sir John Forsdyke KCB was Director and Principal Librarian of the British Museum from 1936 to 1950....

    , FSA
    Society of Antiquaries of London
    The Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is...

  • Sir Thomas Robert Gardiner, KBE
  • Dr. Edward Mellanby, FRCP, FRS
  • Sir James Rae, KBE
  • Sir Godfrey John Vignoles Thomas
    Thomas Baronets
    There have been six Baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomas, three in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom...

    , Bt., KCVO, CSI
  • Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston
    Gerald Wollaston
    Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, KCB, KCVO was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Wollaston's family had a firm tradition at the College of Arms. Wollaston's great-grandfather was Sir William Woods, Garter Principal King of Arms from 1838 until his death in 1842...

    , KCVO

Military

  • Rear-Admiral Francis Thomas Butler Tower, OBE
  • Rear-Admiral Alfred Englefield Evans
    Alfred Evans (cricketer, born 1884)
    Vice-Admiral Sir Alfred Englefield Evans, KBE, CB was an English cricketer and Royal Navy admiral. Evans was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace....

    , OBE
  • Rear-Admiral John Henry Dacres Cunningham, MVO
  • Rear-Admiral The Hon. Edward Rupert Drummond, MVO
  • Rear-Admiral Herbert Fitzherbert
    Herbert Fitzherbert
    Admiral Sir Herbert Fitzherbert, KCIE, CB, CMG was a Royal Navy admiral who served as the third Flag Officer Commanding, Royal Indian Navy, from 1937 to 1943.-Life and career:...

    , CMG
  • Engineer
    Engineer
    An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

     Rear-Admiral Augustus George Crousaz
  • Surgeon
    Surgeon
    In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

     Rear-Admiral Guy Leslie Buckeridge, OBE, MRCS, LRCP, KHS
    Order of the Holy Sepulchre
    The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem is a Roman Catholic order of knighthood under the protection of the pope. It traces its roots to Duke Godfrey of Bouillon, principal leader of the First Crusade...

  • Paymaster
    Paymaster
    A paymaster often is, but is not required to be, a lawyer . When dealing with commission payments on contracts dealing with large amounts of money , most banks in the United States are very wary of handling such large amounts of money...

     Rear-Admiral Arthur Foster Strickland, OBE
  • The Venerable Archdeacon
    Archdeacon
    An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in Anglicanism, Syrian Malabar Nasrani, Chaldean Catholic, and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Roman Catholic Church...

     Arthur Deane Gilbertson, OBE
  • Colonel-Commandant Alan George Barwys Bourne, DSO, MVO
  • Captain
    Captain (Royal Navy)
    Captain is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy. It ranks above Commander and below Commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a Colonel in the British Army or Royal Marines and to a Group Captain in the Royal Air Force. The rank of Group Captain is based on the...

     Arthur Goodall Maundrell, CIE
    Order of the Indian Empire
    The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1878. The Order includes members of three classes:#Knight Grand Commander #Knight Commander #Companion...

    , RIN
  • Major-General Osburne Ievers, DSO
  • Major-General Francis Stewart Gilderoy Piggott, DSO
  • Major-General Henry Marrian Joseph Perry, OBE
  • Major-General Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne
    Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne
    Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne CB, DSO, MC was a Major-General in the British Army....

    , DSO, MC
  • Major-General Ernest Cyril Gepp, DSO
  • Major General the Viscount Gort
    John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
    Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC , was a British and Anglo-Irish soldier. As a young officer in World War I he won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of the Canal du Nord. During the 1930s he served as Chief of the...

    , VC
    Victoria Cross
    The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

    , CBE, DSO, MVO, MC
  • Major-General Ernest Ker Squires, DSO, MC
  • Major-General Basil Alexander Hill
    Basil Alexander Hill
    Basil Hill was a rugby union international who represented England from 1903 to 1907. He also captained his country.-Rugby union career:Hill made his international debut on Feb 14, 1903 at Lansdowne Road in the Ireland vs England match....

    , DSO
  • Major-General Maxwell Spieker Brander, OBE
  • Major-General Donald Kenneth McLeod, DSO
  • Major-General William Haywood Hamilton, CIE, CBE, DSO, FRCS
  • Major-General John Evelyn Duigan, DSO, MC
  • Major-General Henry Augustus Lewis, CBE
  • Colonel (Temp. Brigadier) Arthur Francis Gore Perry Knox-Gore, DSO
  • Colonel (Local Major-General) Robert Ferguson Lock
  • Colonel (Hon. Brigadier) Christopher George Ling, DSO, MC
  • Colonel James Aubrey Smith, CMG

Knights Commander (KCSI)

  • Kanwar Sir Jagdish Prasad, CSI, CIE, OBE
  • Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
  • Mir Sir Muhammad Nazim Khan, the Mir of Hunza
    Hunza
    Hunza may refer to*Hunza Valley*Former State of Hunza*Hunza River*Hunza Peak*Hunza people*Hunza is the Muisca name of the city of Tunja, Colombia...

    , KCIE
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