1937 Coronation Honours

The 1937 Coronation Honours were awarded in honour of the coronation of George VI.

Royal Honours

Order of the Thistle

• The Queen

Royal Victorian Chain

• The Queen
• Queen Mary

Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

• The Queen of Norway
• Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
• Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
• Princess Beatrice

Order of the British Empire (GBE)

• The Duchess of Gloucester
• The Duchess of Kent
• Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

Privy Council

• The Duke of Kent

Peerages

Earldoms

• Vere Brabazon, Earl of Bessborough, GCMG
• Claude George, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KT, GCVO, TD

Viscountcies

• Sir Robert Stevenson Horne, GBE, KC, MP
• Sir Herbert Louis Samuel, GCB, GBE, MP

Baronies

• Christopher Addison, MD, FRCS, MP
• Sir George Bowyer, Bt., MC, DL, MP
• Sir John Cadman, GCMG
• Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, GCB, KCMG, CVO
• Julius Salter Elias
• Colonel John Cuthbert Denison-Pender, MP
• Sir Frederick George Penny, Bt., JP, MP
• Sir Walter Russell Rea, Bt.
• Sir John Davenport Siddeley, CBE

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

• Captain His Grace Bernard Marmaduke, Duke of Norfolk
• Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy, Duke of Beaufort, GCVO (additional Knight)
• William Thomas Brownlow, Marquess of Exeter, CMG, TD
• Claude George, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KT, GCVO, TD (additional Knight)

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

• Lieutenant-Colonel John James Hamilton, Earl of Stair, DSO
• Sir Iain Colquhoun, Bt., DSO

Privy Counsellors

• Edward Leslie Burgin, MP
• Sir Felix Cassel, Bt., KC
• Colonel Sir George Loyd Courthope, Bt., MC, JP, DL, MP
• Sir Patrick Duncan, GCMG, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
• Isaac Foot, MP
• Viscount Galway, GCMG, DSO, OBE Governor-General of New Zealand
• Brigadier Baron Gowrie, GCMG, CB, DSO, Governor-General of Australia
• Ernest Lapointe, KC
• Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, MP
• Sir Robert William Hugh O'Neill, Bt., MP
• Lord Snell, CBE, JP, MP
• Lord Tweedsmuir, GCMG, CH, Governor-General of Canada

Baronetcies

• Sir Richard Dawson Bates, OBE, DL, MP
• Captain Sir William Edge, JP, MP
• Major Sir Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet, JP, MP
• Commander Archibald Richard James Southby, JP, DL, MP
• Sir Cuthbert Sidney Wallace, KCMG, CB, FRCS, LRCP
• Sir David Milne-Watson, DL
• Sir Robert Eaton White, VD, DL

Knighthood

• Captain Thomas Noel Arkell. For political and public services in Swindon, Wiltshire.
• The Right Honourable Anthony Brutus Babington, K.C., M.P., Attorney-General, Northern Ireland.
• Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Esq., D.Mus. For services to music.
• John Bennett, Esq., Vice-Chancellor of the Court of the County Palatine of Lancaster.
• Henry Berney, Esq., J.P., D.L. For political and public services in Croydon.
• Archibald Campbell Black, Esq., O.B.E., K.C., Procurator of the Church of Scotland since 1935.
• Maurice Bloch, Esq., J.P. For political and public services in Glasgow.
• Muirhead Bone, Esq., LL.D. For services to art.
• Paul Malone Booth, Esq., Chairman of the Management Committee of the National Liberal Club. For political and public services.
• William Bradshaw, Esq., J.P., President of the Co-operative Wholesale Society.
• Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for the Fairfield division of Liverpool since 1931 and for East Nottingham 1924 to 1929. For political and public services.
• George Frederick Clucas, Esq., C.B.E., Speaker of the House of Keys, Isle of Man.
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Thomas Cox, D.S.O. For public and philanthropic services.
• Robert William Dalton, Esq., C.M.G., His Majesty's Senior Trade Commissioner in Australia.
• Hubert Arthur Dowson, Esq., Solicitor of Nottingham. President of the Law Society.
• Oscar Follett Dowson, Esq., C.B.E., Legal Adviser, Home Office.
• David Rowland Evans, Esq., General Secretary of the Liberal National Organisation. For political and public services.
• Frank Fletcher, Esq., formerly Master of Marlborough College and Headmaster of Charterhouse School.
• Colonel Edmund Vivian Gabriel, C.S.I., C.M.G., C.V.O., C.B.E. Gentleman Usher to His Majesty The King.
• Charles Granville Gibson, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Pudsey and Otley since 1929. For political and public services.
• Major Francis William Crewe Fetherston-Godley, O.B.E., D.L., Chairman, National Executive Council of the British Legion.
• Arthur Frederick Hurst, Esq., D.M., F.R.C.P., Senior Physician to Guy's Hospital.
• Ernest James Johnson, Esq. For political and public services in Staffordshire.
• Sidney Midlane Johnson, Esq., Secretary of the County Councils Association.
• Charles Sydney Jones, Esq., Pro-Chancellor of Liverpool University. For public services.
• Henry Haydn Jones, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Merioneth since 1910. For political and public services.
• Colonel John James Jones, V.D., J.P., D.L. For public and philanthropic services in Wales.
• Thomas William Miller-Jones, Esq. For political and public services in the East End of London.
• Percy John Luxton Kelland, Esq., M.R.C.V.S., Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Alderman Harold Vaughan Kenyon, M.B.E., J.P. For political and public services in West London.
• Robert McDougall, Esq., J.P. For public and philanthropic services, especially to the National Trust.
• Gilbert McIlquham, Esq., J.P. For political and public services in Gloucestershire.
• William Marchbank Marshall, Esq. For political and public services in Scotland.
• Commodore Charles George Matheson, D.S.O., R.D., R.N.R. (Retired), Commodore, Orient Steam Navigation Company.
• Allen Mawer, Esq., Litt.D., F.B.A., Provost of University College, London. Director of Survey of English Place Names.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Cecil Russell Moore, C.B.E., M.P., Member of Parliament for the Ayr Burghs since June, 1925. For political and public services.
• George Morley, Esq., C.B.E., Chief Constable of Durham.
• Judge Allan George Mossop, Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China.
• John Niven, Esq., Chairman of the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange.
• Robert Howson Pickard, Esq., D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., Director of the British Cotton Industry Research Association.
• Alexander West Russell, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Tynemouth since November, 1922. For political and public services.
• Joshua Scholefield, Esq., K.C., Chairman of the Railway Assessment Authority. President, London Passenger Transport Arbitration Tribunal.
• Harry Bertram Shackleton, Esq., Chairman of the Wool Textile Delegation. President of the Wool and Worsted Trades Federation.
• Major Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, J.P., M.P., President of the National Farmers' Union.
• Major Thomas Gabriel Lumley Lumley-Smith, D.S.O., F.S.A., Grand Secretary of Mark Master Masons.
• Louis Saul Sterling, Esq. For political and public services.
• John Taylor, Esq. For political and public services in Blackburn.
• Professor D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, C.B.,D.Litt., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History, University of St. Andrews.
• Sylvanus Percival Vivian, Esq., C.B., Registrar-General in England and Wales.
• Hugh Seymour Walpole, Esq., C.B.E. For services to literature.
• Pelham Francis Warner, Esq., M.B.E. For services to sport.
• Harold Beckwith Whitehouse, Esq., M.B., M.S., F.R.C.S., Professor of Midwifery and Diseases of Women, University of Birmingham.
• William Valentine Wood, Esq., Senior Vice-President of the Executive of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company.
• Captain William Henry Laycock Wordsworth, J.P. For political and public services in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

DOMINIONS.

• Henry Chapman, Esq., C.B.E., Resident Director and General Manager of the Rhodesian Railway Companies.
• Robert William Chapman, Esq., C.M.G., Professor of Engineering, University of Adelaide, State of South Australia. For public services.
• William James Clemens, Esq., C.M.G., I.S.O., Commissioner, Public Service Board, Commonwealth of Australia.
• Samuel Sydney Cohen, Esq. For public services in the State of New South Wales.
• Major the Honourable Henry Alan Currie, M.C., Member of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria. For public services.
• Ernest Davis, Esq., Mayor of the City of Auckland, Dominion of New Zealand.
• Ernest Thomas Fisk, Esq., A.M.I.E. (Aust.). For public services in the State of New South Wales.
• Charles John Boyd Norwood, Esq. For public services in the Dominion of New Zealand.
• James Wallace Sandford, Esq. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• The Honourable Alexander George Wales, J.P., Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria.

INDIA.

• M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Subbarayalu Kumaraswami Reddiyar Avargal, lately Minister for Education and Public Health to the Governor of Madras, Madras.
• Rao Bahadur Chaudhuri Chhotu Ram, Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, Minister for Development to the Governor of the Punjab.
• Idwal Geoffrey Lloyd, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service (retired), lately Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma.
• Robert Ernest Jack, Esq., Indian Civil Service,Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal.
• Kenneth William Barlee, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay,
• John Gibb Thorn, Esq., D.S.O., M.C., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, United Provinces.
• Frederick Louis Grille, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Nagpur, Central Provinces.
• George Richard Frederick Tottenham, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Secretary to the Government of India in the Defence Department.
• Theodore James Tasker, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Revenue and Police Member, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad, Deccan.
• Kenneth Mclntyre Kemp, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, J.P., Advocate-General, Bombay.
• Brigadier Harold John Couchman, D.S.O., M.C., R.E., Surveyor-General of India.
• John Nesbitt Gordon Johnson, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Chief Commissioner of Delhi.
• Seth Haji Abdoola Haroon, Member of the Central Legislative Assembly, Merchant, Sind.

• Colonel Arthur Olver, C.B., C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.N.L, Royal Army Veterinary Corps (retired), Expert Adviser in Animal Husbandry to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research.
• Colonel Edward Hearle Cole, C.B., C.M.G., Indian Army (retired), Landlord, Okara Punjab.
• Thomas Howard Elderton, Esq., Chairman, Calcutta Port Trust, Bengal.
• Frank Birley, Esq., Member of the Madras Legislative Council, Director, Messrs. Best & Co., Ltd., Madras.
• David Burnett Meek, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Educational Service, Indian Trade Commissioner in London.
• Frank Herbert Brown, Esq., C.I.E., Honorary Secretary, East India Association, London.
• Vivian Everard Donne Jarrad, Esq., Agent, Bengal-Nagpur Railway.
• Narayan Vishvanath Mandlik, Esq., Advocate, Bombay.

COLONIES, PROTECTORATES, &c.

• Wytialingam Duraiswamy, Esq., Speaker of the State Council, Ceylon.
• Vandeleur Molyneux Grayburn, Esq. For public services in Hong Kong.
• Arthur Edwin Horn, Esq., C.M.G., M.D., M.R.C.P., Consulting Physician to the Colonial Office.
• George Frederick Huggins, Esq., O.B.E. For public services in Trinidad.
• Charles Ewan Law, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Zanzibar.
• George William Arthur Trimmer, Esq., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., M.Inst.T., Chairman and General Manager of the Singapore and Penang Harbour Boards, Straits Settlements.
• Armigel de Vins Wade, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Kenya.

Order of the Bath

Knights/Dames Grand Cross (GCB)

Military

• General Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO
• General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough, GCMG, KCB, KCVO
• Air Chief Marshal Sir John Miles Steel, KCB, KBE, CMG

Civil

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

Knights/Dames Commander (KCB/DCB)

Military

• Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake, CB, DSO
• Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Ramsay, KCVO, CB, DSO
• Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson, CB, CMG, DSO
• Lieutenant-General Sir John Dill, CB, CMG, DSO
• Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Karslake, KCSI, CB, CMG, DSO
• Major-General (Indian Army) Sir Roger Wilson, CB, DSO, MC
• Air Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman, CB, DSO, MC

Civil

• Lieutenant-Colonel George Augustus Anson, CBE, MVO
• John Donald Balfour Furgusson, CB
• Edgar John Forsdyke, FSA
• Sir Thomas Robert Gardiner, KBE
• Edward Mellanby, FRCP, FRS
• Sir James Rae
• Sir Godfrey John Vignoles Thomas, Bt., KCVO, CSI
• Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, KCVO

Companions (CB)

Military

• Rear-Admiral Francis Thomas Butler Tower, OBE
• Rear-Admiral Alfred Englefield Evans, OBE
• Rear-Admiral John Henry Dacres Cunningham, MVO
• Rear-Admiral Edward Rupert Drummond, MVO
• Rear-Admiral Herbert Fitzherbert, CMG
• Engineer Rear-Admiral Augustus George Crousaz
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Guy Leslie Buckeridge, OBE, MRCS, LRCP, KHS
• Paymaster Rear-Admiral Arthur Foster Strickland, OBE
• Archdeacon Arthur Deane Gilbertson, OBE
• Colonel-Commandant Alan George Barwys Bourne, DSO, MVO
• Captain Arthur Goodall Maundrell, CIE, 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, DSO, MC
• Major-General Ernest Cyril Gepp, DSO
• Major General Viscount Gort, VC, CBE, DSO, MVO, MC
• Major-General Ernest Ker Squires, DSO, MC
• Major-General Basil Alexander Hill, 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
• Air Vice-Marshal Arthur Sheridan Barratt, C.M.G., M.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Ernest Leslie Gossage, D.S.O., M.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Albert Victor John Richardson, O.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., K.H.S., Royal Air Force.

Civil

• Charles Seymour Wright, OBE, MC
• Major-General Henry Augustus Lewis, C.B.E. (late Royal Artillery), Director of Artillery, the War Office.
• Honorary Colonel George, Baron Rochdale, President, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Middlesex.
• Honorary Colonel Sir Henry William Cameron-Ramsay-Fairfax-Lucy, Bt., Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Warwick.
• Colonel Leonard Green, M.C., T.D., Territorial Army, Commander, 125th (Lancashire Fusiliers) Infantry Brigade.
• David Randall Pye, Esq., M.A., Sc.D., M.I.Mech.E., F.R.Ae.S., Director of Scientific Research, Air Ministry.

Order of Merit (OM)

• Lieutenant-General the Lord Baden-Powell, GCMG, GCVO, KCB

Order of the Star of India

Knights Grand Commander (GCSI)

• the Maharaja of Jind, GCIE, KCSI

Knights Commander (KCSI)

• Kanwar Sir Jagdish Prasad, CSI, CIE, OBE
• Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan
• Mir Sir Muhammad Nazim Khan, the Mir of Hunza, KCIE

Order of St Michael and St George

Knights Grand Cross (GCMG)

• Sir William Henry Clark, KCSI, KCMG – His Majesty's High Commissioner for Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland.
• Sir Robert Randolph Garran, KCMG, KC. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
• The Right Honourable Sir Michael Myers, KCMG – Chief Justice, Dominion of New Zealand.

Knights Commander (KCMG)

• Sir David Thomas Chadwick, CSI, CIE – Secretary of the Imperial Economic Committee and of the Executive Council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux.
• The Honourable Sir Frederick Wollaston Mann, LLM – Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of the State of Victoria.
• Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas – Emeritus Professor, Auckland University College, Dominion of New Zealand. For services to education.

Royal Victorian Order

Dames Grand Cross (GCVO)

• Evelyn Emily Mary, Duchess of Devonshire.
• Nina Cecilia, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

Knights Grand Cross (GCVO)

• Gilbert, Earl of Ancaster.
• Field-Marshal Sir William Riddell Birdwood, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.S.L, G.C.M.G., C.I.E., D.S.O.
• Lieutenant-General Sir George Sidney Clive, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
• Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game, G.B.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.S.O.
• Major The Right Honourable Sir Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, K.C.B., C.V.O., M.C.
• The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Cosmo Gordon Lang, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury.
• The Right Honourable Sir John Allsebrook Simon, G.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., O.B.E., K.C., M.P.

Dames Commanders (DCVO)

• Lady Helen Cynthia Colville.
• Lady Helen Violet Graham.

Knights Commanders (KCVO)

• Major James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander, C.M.G., C.V.O., O.B.E.
• Colonel Sir John Atkins, K.C.M.G., M.B., F.R.C.S.
• George Nevile Maltby Bland, Esq., C.M.G.
• Major-General Bertram Norman Sergison-Brooke, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
• The Honourable Gerald Henry Crofton Chichester, C.V.O.
• Brigadier-General Sir Smith Hill Child, Bt., C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O., D.S.O.
• Arthur William Steuart Cochrane, Esq., C.V.O.
• Sir Henry Walford Davies, C.V.O., O.B.E., Mus.Doc.
• Major-General Alan John Hunter, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C.
• Robert Uchtred Eyre Knox, Esq., C.V.O., D.S.O.
• Edward Howard Marsh, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O. (dated 11th February, 1937).
• George Frederic Still, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Hugh Stephenson Turnbull, K.B.E.

Commanders (CVO)

• Colin Mackenzie Black, Esq., W.S.
• The Honourable Lettice, Mrs. Geoffrey Bowlby.
• Ernest Bullock, Esq., Mus.Doc., F.R.C.O.
• Osmund Somers Cleverly, Esq.
• James Eggar, Esq., C.B.E.
• Colonel Lancelot Merivale Gibbs, D.S.O., M.C.
• The Honourable Arthur Jared Palmer Howard.
• Eric Cyril Egerton Leadbitter, Esq.
• Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Piers Walter Legh, C.M.G., C.I.E., M.V.O., O.B.E.
• Brigadier-General Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont, D.S.O.
• Percy Metcalfe, Esq.
• Colonel William Kenyon Mitford, C.M.G.
• Owen Frederick Morshead, Esq., D.S.O., M.V.O., M.C.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Gordon Neale, C.I.E.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Edmund Gascoigne Nugent, M.V.O., M.C.
• Major Ronald Thomas Stanyforth, M.V.O., M.C.
• John Everard Stephenson, Esq., O.B.E.
• Norman Richard Coombe Warwick, Esq., M.V.O., O.B.E.
• Miss Edith Margaret Watson, C.B.E.
• Miss Dorothy Yorke.

Members of the Fourth Class (LVO)

• Charles Lambert Bayne, Esq.
• Miss Catherine Black, M.B.E., R.R.C.
• Lieutenant the Honourable Thomas William Edward Coke.
• Miss Rosina Davies, M.B.E., A.R.R.C.
• Cyril Frederick Gamon, Esq.
• Major Norman Wilmhurst Gwatkin.
• Major George Frederick Thomas Hopkins, M.V.O., M.C.
• Miss Cicely Howland, O.B.E.
• Lionel Logue, Esq.
• John Lowther, Esq.
• Ivison Stevenson Macadam, Esq., C.B.E.
• Charles Johns Mole, Esq., M.B.E.
• Captain Hugh Donald Ross, M.C.
• Captain Roy Dugdale Salmon, M.C.
• Major Christopher Ronald Spear, M.C.
• Henry Austin Strutt, Esq.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edward John Patteson Travis Walker, O.B.E.

Members of the Fifth Class (MVO)

• William Arthur Chadwick, Esq.
• Alfred William Evans, Esq.
• Miss Helen Louisa Gardiner.
• Henry William Francis Godley, Esq.
• William Rose Jarvis, Esq.
• Joseph Walter Jones, Esq.
• John Thomas Lincoln Kendle, Esq.
• Herbert William Kirk, Esq.
• Charles Philip Waters, Esq.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross (GBE)

Military Division

• Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, K.C.B.,C.B.E.
• General Sir Archibald Rice Cameron, K.C.B., C.M.G., Retired Pay, Colonel, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), late General Officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Scottish Command, and Governor of Edinburgh Castle.

Civil Division

• Sir Ernest John Strohmenger, K.B.E., C.B., lately Deputy Chairman, Unemployment Assistance Board.
• Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Fakhr-ud-Daulah Nawab Sir-Muhammad Iftikhar Ali Khan Bahadur, Saulat Jang, K.C.I.E., Nawab of Jaora, Central India.

Dame Grand Cross (GBE)

Civil Division

• Enid Muriel, Mrs. Lyons. For public services rendered in the Commonwealth of Australia.

Dames Commanders (DBE)

Civil Division

• Mary, Mrs. Graham Browne, (Miss Marie Tempest). For services to the stage.
• Geraldine Southall, Mrs. Cadbury, J.P. For public and philanthropic services in Birmingham.
• Ellen Frances, Mrs. Pinsent, C.B.E., late Senior Commissioner, Board of Control.
• Miss Violet Edith Wills. For public and philanthropic services.
• Edith Muriel, Lady Anderson. For public and social welfare services in Newfoundland and the State of New South Wales.
• Margaret, Baroness Strickland. For philanthropic services in Malta.

Knights Commanders (KBE)

Military Division

• Vice-Admiral Henry John Studholme Brownrigg, C.B., D.S.O.
• Vice-Admiral James Murray Pipon, C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O., O.B.E. (Retired).
• Major-General Horace de Courcy Martelli, C.B., D.S.O., late Royal Artillery, Lieutenant-Governor and Commanding The Troops, Jersey District.
• Major-General Edward Nicholson Broadbent, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., late The King's Own Scottish Borderers, Lieutenant-Governor-and Commanding The Troops, Guernsey and Alderney District.
• Major-General William James Norman Cooke-Collis, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., late The Royal Ulster Rifles, General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.
• Major-General Andrew Jameson McCulloch, C.B., D.S.O., D.C.M., Colonel, The Highland Light Infantry - (City of Glasgow Regiment), Commander, 52nd (Lowland) Division, Scottish Command, late General Officer Commanding the Troops, Malta.
• Air Vice-Marshal Alfred William Iredell, C.B., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., K.H.P., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• James Sidney Barnes, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Admiralty.
• Gerald Bain Canny, Esq., C.B., Deputy Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Evelyn John Maude, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Health.
• James Stirling Ross, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Air Ministry.
• Robert Vaughan, Esq. For political and public services in Merionethshire.
• George Bernard Lomas-Walker, Esq. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

• Henry Herbert Couzens, Esq., a British subject, until recently resident in Rio de Janeiro.
• Colonel John Chappell Ward, C.M.G., C.I.E., D.S.O., M.B.E., Director of the Port of Basra and Director of Navigation, Iraqi Government.

• The Honourable John Richards Harris, M.D., Minister of Public Instruction and Minister of Public Health, State of Victoria.
• Sir James Gordon McDonald, O.B.E. For services to Southern Rhodesia.
• John Sanderson, Esq. For services to the Commonwealth of Australia.
• Sir Navroji Bapuji Saklatvala, C.I.E., Director, Messrs. Tata Sons, Ltd., Bombay.
• Rao Bahadur Madhorao Ganesh Deshpande, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director of the Central Provinces and Berar Provincial Co-operative Bank, Ltd., Nagpur, Central Provinces.
• Nana Osei Agyeman Prempeh II, Asantehene, Gold Coast.
• Raja Abdul Aziz ibni al-marhum Raja Musa, Raja Muda of Perak, Federated Malay States. (Honorary)
• His Highness Daudi Chwa, K.C.M.G., Kabaka of Buganda, Uganda Protectorate. (Honorary)
• His Highness Tengku Ismail, Tengku Mahkpta of Johore, Malay States. (Honorary)