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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 9,' 1938.

Sir Josiah Stamp

KING'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Barony Awarded To Two Viscounts, Six Baronets And 35 Knights

London, To-day.

The King's Birthday honours list includes: Two Viscounts, Lord Stonehaven and Lord Weir, Two Barons, Mr. Vivian Hugh Smith and Sir Josiah

Stamp,

One Privy Councillor, the Attorney-General, Sir

Donald Somervell,

the G.C.M.G. for Sir Howard Ken-astronomer and physicist, who has nard, British Ambassador at War- added to his distinguished work in saw and the K.C.M.G. for the Hon-these fields successful authorship fourable C. C. Farquharson Dundas, as a populariser of science.

Governor of Bahamas, and Mr. H. Noteworthy among the large B. Popham, Governor of the Wind-number of appointments and pro- ward Islands.

motions in the divisions of the

Mr. C. M. Palairet, until recently Order of the British Empire are British Minister at Vienna is pro- G.C.B.E. for Lord Anslow, Chair- moted K.C.M.G. and Mr. E. Milling-man of Committees in the House ton Drake, British Minister at Mon- of Lords since 1931, a K.B.E for tevideo, becomes C.M.G..

Mr. C. M. C. Alpine Weir, convenor Mr. E. L. Hall Patch, who is Fin- and the chairman of Administra- ancial Adviser to the British Em-tive Committee of the Empire Ex- bassies both at Tokyo and in China hibition at Glasgow and a D.B.E. is awarded the C.M.G.

for Lady Elgin, Chairman of the Women's Section of the Exhibition. Russell Pasha, Commandant of the Cairo City Police and famous

Mr. Ralph Stevenson, acting Counsellor in the Foreign Office and Adviser оп League of Nations

Affairs also becomes C.M.G., while for his work in the suppression of in the Royal Victorian Order, Mr. Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, and his predecessor, is made a Commander.

Six Baronets, Sir William Alfred Churchman, Mr. Douglas Hacking, Sir William Prescott, Sir A. J. S. Ramsden, Major S. S. Steel and Sir Archi-Hoyer Millar, bald Weigall. THIRTY-FIVE KNIGHTS BACHELOR INCLUDE MR. ARTHUR JACKSON, WHO CARRIED OUT THE MAIN CONTRACT WORK ON THE SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE, THE ROYAL ACADEMICAN, MR. JOHN ALFRED ARNESBY BROWN AND DR. CYRIL NORWOOD, PRESIDENT OF ST. JOHN'S,

OXFORD.

THREE LOCAL RESIDENTS HONOURED

The congratulations of all Hong Kong residents will go to Sir Robert Kotewall, Dr. R. B. Jackson and Mr. J. H. Taggart on the honours that His Majesty has been pleased to bestow upon them.

The Grand Cross of the Bath has been awarded to General Sir William Ironside, Sir Cosmo Parkinson, the Permanent Undersecretary of State for the Colonies, becomes a Knight Commander of the Bath, and Lord Harlech, former Secretary of State for the Colonies, is awarded the G.C.M.G.

The scientist, Sir Arthur Stanley Addington is awarded the Order of Merit.

Marchioness Carisbrooke becomes

the drug traffic as Director of the Central Narcotics Intelligence Lady Muriel Paget is Bureau at Cairo, is promoted K.B.E. C.B.E. for welfare and charitable given the

NEW VISCOUNTS

work in various foreign countries. Lord Weir, was until recently Sultan Abdul Jahil al

Yang Amah Mulia Raja Yusuf ibn acting as Special Industrial Ad-Rathi Sultan Raja Benhahara of Marhum viser to the Air Council and re- Perak becomes Honorary Officer of signed at the same time as Lord the Civil Division of the Order. Swinton. Lord Stonehaven is for- mer Governor-General of Australia and was Chairman of the Conser- vative Party organisation from 1931 to 1986.

KNIGHTHOOD FOR MR.

CALDER MARSHALL

Interna-

In the Order of the British Em- Sir Josiah Stamp is the famous pire a number of appointments re- call the disturbed conditions in Far statistic lecturer and writer on economic and social sciences and a

East. Mr. R. Calder Marshall, Chairman of the British Chamber distinguished administrator as a Director of many Companies in-pointed K.B.E. A. C.B.E. is con- Civil Servant till 1919 and since as of Commerce at Shanghai is ap-

cluding the London, Midland and ferred upon Mr. J. L. Maxwell, Scottish Railway Company of,General Secretary of the which he is President, and a Directional Red Cross Committee for Dame of the Grand Cross of the tor of the Bank of England. Central China. Several other of- Countess British Empire, Countess Elgin,

Kincardine and Lady Chairman

Mr. Douglas Hacking has been ficers in the Consular Services in

of the

the Muriel Paget, are created Command-Party organisation since 1986, and M.B.E.

Conservative China receive the, O.B.E. or Sir Robert has been one of the ers.

Sir Archibald Weigall is Chairman

Mr. Leslie Mead, Director of the most prominent public figures in Mr. Cecil McAlpine Weir, con of the Royal Empire Society. The Argentine Association of English the Colony for more than 20 years, venor of the British Empire Ex- King has also appointed him to be Culture at Buenos Aires receives He was first appointed to the Legis-hibition at Glasgow, is created a King of Arms of the Order of St. the O.B.E. and the Reverend T. W lative Council, as an acting mem- Knight Commander of the British Michael and St. George.

Hall, Chaplain to the Mission to ber in March 1923, receiving sub- Empire.

Seamen in the same city and Mr. stantive appointment a few months

A. H. Norris, British Vice-Consul later.

Since that date he has served three terms on the Council, a re- cord unique in the annals of Hong Kong.

His activities in various public organisations are too numerous to itemise but special mention should be made of his efforts on behalf of all sections of the community to obtain some relief from profiteering landlords in the recent Rents Crisis.

No more deserving honour been awarded.

DR. JACKSON

has

Mr. John Beard, former president

ORDER OF MERIT The Order of Merit is conferred

of the Trade Union Congress, is upon Sir Arthur Eddington, the at Sao Paulo the M.B.E. created a Commander of the British Empire-as-is-Mrs. M. E. Birley, Chief Commissioner of English Girl Guides.

FAR EAST HONOURS Knighthoods have been awarded to the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, for public services to Hong Kong, Com- mander Michael Jardinezv, Governor of Sierra Leone, Mr. A. D. Black- burn, Counsellor of H. M. Embassy in China and Mr. Herbert Phillips, Consul-General, Shanghai..

C. M. G's have been awarded to Dr. R. B. Jackson first arrived in Mr. John Bailey, Bangkok, Mr. A. the Colony in 1980 on appointment H. George, Secretary of H. M. Em- as Malariologist of the Medical De-bassy in China, Mr. W. A. Lovat partment. He was born in 1879 Fraser, attache of H. M. Embassy and graduated at the Rotunda Hos-in China and Mr. H. I. Prideaux pital, Dublin and also holds a cer- Brune, member of the Consular ser- tificate of the London School of vice in China. Tropical Medicine.

M. B. E's are awarded to Capt. From 1908 to 1914 he was chief J. V. Davidson Houston, Staff Off- medical officer of the Indian Min- cer, Headquarters, China Command, ing Association and during the war Capt: J. D. Shotter, of the Shang- served with the R.A.M.C. till 1917. hai Volunteers and O. B. E's to Dr. He has served as Medical officer of R. B. Jackson, Medical Department, the General Military Hospital at Hong Kong, and Mr. J, H. Taggart, Edmonton and also of the Federat-of Hong Kong-Reuter ed Malay States. He has served in similar capacities in Seremban and Negri Sembilan.

ADDITIONAL LIST

In the Orders of Chivalry, ap- pointments include a G. C. B. for Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall,

EMR. TAGGART'S SERVICE

Mr. J. H. Taggart, whose' O.B.E. comes as an acknowledgment of signal service in catering for the many valuable services in times of foreign population and last year emergency in Hong Kong, has been he played a prominent part in or- a resident of the Colony for the ganising services for the care and 'past 80 years, as managing direc- comfort of the refugees from

tor of the Hong Kong and Shang- Shanghai.

hai Hotels. During the 1925 strike] : Mr. Taggart is a director of he was responsible for rendering'many local companies.

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