1943 New Year Honours

• Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, Bt., G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O.
• The Right Honourable Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, G.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O., H.M. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Cairo and High Commissioner for the Sudan.
• Sir Charles McMoran Wilson, M.C., M.D., President of the Royal College of Physicians.

• Richard Kidston Law, Esq, M.P., Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office; Member of Parliament for South-West Hull since 1931.
• Osbert Peake, Esq., M.P., Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Member of Parliament for North Leeds since 1929.
• William Whiteley, Esq., M.P., Joint Parliamentary Secretary, H.M. Treasury. Member of Parliament for the Blaydon Division of Durham, 1922-1931, and since 1935.

• Arthur Malcolm Trustram Eve, Esq., M.C., T.D., K.C., Chairman, War Damage Commission. (Colonel, T.A.).
• William Macnamara Goodenough, Esq., J.P., D.L., Chairman, Nuffield Trust for the University Medical School, Oxford.

• Thomas Baxter, Esq., Chairman of the Milk Marketing Board for England and Wales.
• Gerald Francis Carter, O.B.E., Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of H.M. Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor.
• Professor John Harold Clapham, C.B.E., Litt.D., F.B.A., Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge, President of the British Academy.
• Fred Clarke, M.A., Litt.D., Professor of Education, University of London.
• Walter Palmer Cobbett, C.B.E. For public services in Manchester.
• Major Jack Benn Brunel Cohen, Honorary Treasurer of the British Legion.
• Alderman John Edward Daw, J.P., Chairman of the Devon County Council. For services to Civil Defence.
• Alexander Dunbar, Controller General, Ministry of Aircraft Production.
• Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, F.R.S., Professor of Chemical Technology, Imperial College of Science and Technology. Joint Secretary of the Royal Society.
• Frank Minshull Elgood, C.B.E., F.R.I.B.A., Chairman of the Executive Board and Honorary Treasurer of the Church Army.
• Clifford Henry Figg, Business Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
• Archibald Finlayson Forbes, Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production.
• William Kenrick Gibbons, C.B., Principal Clerk, Public Bill Office, and Clerk of the Fees, House of Commons.
• Edwin Savory Herbert, Director, Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department, Ministry of Information.
• Summers Hunter, Managing Director of the North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company (1938) Limited. Regional Director (Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs), North-East of England.
• Alderman George Kenning, J.P. For public services in Derbyshire.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Hoël Llewellyn, D.S.O., D.L., Chief Constable of Wiltshire.
• Professor Stanley Robert Marchant, C.V.O., D.Mus., F.R.A.M., F.R.C.M., F.R.C.O., Principal of the Royal Academy of Music.
• Ralph Ismay Metcalfe, Esq., Director, Tanker Division, Ministry of War Transport.
• William Murray Morrison, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E., Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, British Aluminium Company Limited.
• George Horatio Nelson, Esq., M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E., Chairman and Managing Director, English Electric Company Limited. For services to the Ministry of Aircraft Production and to the Ministry of Supply.
• Frank Nicholson, C.B.E., D.L., Chairman of Sunderland Local Employment Committee.
• Cecil Oakes, C.B.E., Clerk of the East Suffolk County Council.
• Captain Arthur Lewis Owens, R.D., R.N.R. (Retd.), Master, Merchant Navy.
• Frank Platt, Esq., Cotton Controller, Ministry of Supply.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Murray Reddie, C.B., J.P., D.L., Secretary, Council of County Territorial Associations. Vice-Chairman and Secretary of the Council of Voluntary War Work.
• Henry Ridpath, General Trade Adviser, Ministry of Food.
• Frederick James Sparks, Town Clerk and Air Raid Precautions Controller, Portsmouth.
• William Arthur Stanier, M.I.Mech.E., Chief Mechanical Engineer, London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company.
• Arthur Stiebel, Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy, High Court of Justice.
• William Miles Webster Thomas, D.F.C., Vice-Chairman, Morris Motors Limited.
• Captain Thomas Watt, J.P., D.L., lately Convener of Lanark County Council.
• Arthur Benedict Winder, J.P., Director and General Manager, the English Steel Corporation Limited.
• Johnstone Wright, M.Inst.C.E., M.I.E.E., Chief Engineer, Central Electricity Board.

Dominions

• The Honourable John Demetrius Morris, Chief Justice of Tasmania.
• The Honourable John Mellis Napier, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of the State of South Australia.

India

• Diwan Bahadur Samuel Ebenezer Ranganathan, Adviser to the Secretary of State for India.
• The Honourable Mr Justice Dalip Singh, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, Punjab.
• The Honourable Mr Justice George Douglas McNair, M.B.E., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal.
• The Honourable Mr Justice Vere Mockett, Barrister-at-Law, M.B.E., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St George, Madras.
• John Francis Sheehy, C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, Senior Member, Central Board of Revenue, and Additional Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department.
• Rustom Pestonji Masani, J.P., Provincial Leader, National War Front, Bombay and lately Vice-Chancellor, University of Bombay.
• Robert Ecklin Marriott, General Manager, East Indian Railway, Calcutta.
• Arthur Cecil Griffin, O.B.E., General Manager, North-Western Railway, Lahore.
• Gerald Snowdon Butler, C.I.E., Deputy Director-General (Armaments Production), Directorate-General, Munitions Production, Department of Supply, Government of India.
• James Rennie Izat, V.D., Agent and General Manager, Bengal and North-Western Railway and Rohilkhand and Kumaon Railway, Gorakhpur, United Provinces.
• Archibald Douglas Gordon, C.I.E., Indian Police, Civil Security Adviser to General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Army, and lately Inspector-General of Police, Bengal.
• Stanley Herbert Howard, Indian Forest Service, Inspector-General of Forests and President, Forest Research. Institute, Dehra Dun.
• Brigadier Edward Oliver Wheeler, M.C., R.E., Surveyor-General of India.
• Maharaj Shri Ajit Singhji, Councillor to His Highness the Maharaja of Jodhpur, Rajputana.
• Jnanendra Chandra Ghosh, D.Sc., Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
• Gerald Hassall Hodgson, Member of the Legislative, Council, Managing Director, Messrs Parry & Company Limited, Madras.
• Francis Low, Editor, Times of India, Bombay.
• Lala Padampat Singhania, Industrialist, Cawnpore, United Provinces.

Burma

• The Honourable Mr Justice Herbert Francis Dunkley, Barrister-at-Law, Judge, High Court of Judicature and Legal Adviser to the Governor of Burma.
• U Htoon Aung Gyaw, Barrister-at-Law, Minister of Finance to the Governor of Burma.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

• Ernest Allan Collymore, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of Barbados.
• Justin Louis Devaux, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Judge, Mauritius.
• Ratnajoti Saravanamuttu, M.B., C.M., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. For public services in Ceylon.
• John Verity, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of British Guiana.

• Vice-Admiral Lionel Victor Wells, C.B., D.S.O.
• Vice-Admiral William Eric Campbell Tait, C.B., M.V.O.
• Vice-Admiral William Frederick Wake-Walker, C.B., C.B.E.
• Vice-Admiral Stuart Sumner Bonham-Carter, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O.
• Lieutenant-General Harold Edmund Franklyn, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Colonel, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment).
• Lieutenant-General Thomas Ralph Eastwood, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own).
• Lieutenant-General Sir George Norton Cory, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., late The Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
• Colonel (Honorary Brigadier-General) Sir Edward Thomas Le Marchant, Bt., C.B., C.B.E., D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Nottingham.
• Air Marshal Philip Babington, C.B., M.C., A.F.C.
• Air Marshal Douglas Claude Strathern Evill, C.B., D.S.C., A.F.C.
• Air Marshal Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory, C.B., D.S.O.
• Sir (William) Wilson Jameson, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.H., Chief Medical Officer of the. Ministry of Health and Board of Education.
• Sir Eric Gustav Machtig, K.C.M.G., O.B.E., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office.
• Sir Arnold Edersheim Overton, K.G.M.G., M.C., Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade.

Military Division

• Vice-Admiral Percy W. Nelles, Royal Canadian Navy
• Rear-Admiral Charles Edward Barrington Simeon.
• Rear-Admiral Frank Henderson Pegram, D.S.O.
• Rear-Admiral Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton, D.S.O.
• Acting Rear-Admiral George Hector Creswell, D.S.O., D.S.C.
• Engineer Rear-Admiral Gerald George Percy Burt.
• Paymaster Rear-Admiral William Evelyn Hatten Jolly.
• Colonel Second Commandant (Brevet Colonel) (Acting Major General) Robin Hasluck Campbell, M.C.
• Lieutenaht-General Sir Noel Monson de la Poer Beresford-Peirse, K.B.E., D.S.O., late Royal Artillery.
• Major-General Robert Cotton Money, M.C., late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
• Major-General Eric Grant Miles, D.S.O., M.C., late The King's Own Scottish Borderers.
• Major-General Charles John Stuart King, C.B.E., late Royal Engineers.
• Major-General John Alexander Manifold, D.S.O., M.B., K.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Reginald Henry Lorie, C.B.E., late The Royal Ulster Rifles.
• Major-General Ian Stanley Ord Playfair, D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Engineers.
• Major-General John Ledlie Inglis Hawkesworth, C.B.E., late The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own).
• Major-General John Edward Utterson-Kelso, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., late The Royal Scots Fusiliers.
• Major-General Leslie Hamlyn Williams, M.C., late Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Alexander Frank Philip Christison, M.C., late The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
• Major-General Harry Willans, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., T.D., Territorial Army.
• Qolonel (temporary Major-General) Leslie Gordon Phillips, C.B.E., M.C., late Royal Corps of Signals.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Frederick Arthur Montague Browning, D.S.O., late Grenadier Guards.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Robert Frederick Edward Whittaker, O.B.E., T.D., late Royal Artillery.
• Major-General George Ledsam Seymour Hawkins, M.C., Indian Army.
• Major-General Charles Reginald Cambridge Lane, M.C., Indian Army.
• Major-General Gerald Michael Fitzgerald, M.C., Indian Army.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Frederick Cromie de Butts, D.S.O., M.C., Indian Army.
• Lieutenant-General Vernon Ashton Hobart Sturdee, C.B.E., D.S.O., Australian Military Forces.
• Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Vivian Champion de Crespigny, M.C., D.F.C.
• Air Vice-Marshal the Hon. Ralph Alexander Cochrane, C.B.E., A.F.C.
• Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Graham, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.S.C., D.F.C.
• Air Vice-Marshal Alfred Samuel Morris, O.B.E.
• Air Vice-Marshal George Clark Pirie, C.B.E., M.C., D.F.C.
• Air Vice-Marshal Robert Peel Willock.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet, C.B.E., D.S.O.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Arthur John Capel, D.S.O., D.F.C.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Matthew Brown Frew, D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Harries, A.F.C.
• Air Commodore John Walter Cordingley, C.B.E.
• Air Commodore John Charles Quinnell, D.F.C.

Civil Division

• Honorary Colonel Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho, D.S.O., President, Territorial Army Association of the County of Cornwall.
• Honorary Colonel Francis John Carruthers, President, Territorial Army Association of the County of Dumfries.
• Brevet-Colonel Henry Morris Pryce-Jones, D.S.O., M.V.O., M.C., D.L., Secretary, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of London.
• Air Commodore Alfred Drummond Warrington-Morris, C.M.G., O.B.E. (Retd.), Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps from 1 March 1936, to 24 June 1942.
• Cyril Augustine Birtchnell, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of War Transport.
• Richard Basil Cross, Esq., O.B.E., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.
• George Henry Henderson, Esq., Deputy Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland.
• Herbert John Hutchinson, Esq., C.B.E., Under-Secretary, Raw Materials Department, Ministry of Supply.
• Henry Dashwood Stucley Leake, Esq., Chief Charity Commissioner.
• Harold Parker, Esq., M.C., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Pensions.
• Louis George Stanley Reynolds, Esq., C.B.E., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry.
• William George Stevens, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production.
• Edward Stephen Wood, Esq., Director of Stores, Admiralty. ,
• John Harold Edmund Woods, Esq., M.V.O., Principal Assistant Secretary, H.M. Treasury.

• Sir William Searle Holdsworth, K.C., M.A., D.C.L.

• Sir Thomas Guthrie Russell, K.C.I.E., Director-General, Munitions Production, Department of Supply, Government of India.
• Lieutenant-General Cyril Dupre Noyes, C.B., C.I.E., M.C., Indian Army, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, North-Western Army.

• Major-General Heeraji Jehangir Manookjee Cursetjee, D.S.O., K.H.S., Indian Medical Service, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Headquarters, North-Western Army.
• James Birch Brown, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Revenue, Madras.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Clive Kirkpatrick Daly, C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Resident for Baroda and the Gujarat States.
• Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Revenue and Judicial Commissioner, Baluchistan, and lately Officiating Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
• Anthony St George Lyster, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of-the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch.
• Arthur Allen Waugh, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, War Production Commissioner and Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces in the Industries and Excise Departments.

• Sir Wilfrid Edward Francis Jackson, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Tanganyika Territory.
• Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, K.G.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Bagdad.

• Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, Esq., Director-General, Political Warfare Executive.
• Colonel (local Brigadier) Stewart Graham Menzies, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late The Life Guards. For official services.
• Sigismund David Waley, Esq., C.B., M.C., Under Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• John Humphrey Wise, Esq., C.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Counsellor to the Governor of Burma.
• Sir Edward St John Jackson, K.B.E., lately Lieutenant-Governor, Malta.
• Charles Joseph Jeffries, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., an Assistant Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
• Charles Campbell Woolley, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., M.C., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Cyprus.
• Godfrey Digby Napier Haggard, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at New York.
• George William Rendel, Esq., C.M.G., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Yugoslav Government in London.

• William Boyd, Esq., C.B.E., Deputy Representative of the Ministry of War Transport in the United States of America.
• The Honourable Thomas Henry Brand, Chief Executive Officer on the British side of the Combined Production and Resources Board in Washington.
• Henry Albert Jones, Esq., M.C., Senior Administrative Officer, United Kingdom Air Liaison Mission, Ottawa.
• John Ashwell Stirling, Esq., O.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. Representative of the Department in Washington.
• Colonel Frank Charles George Twinn, lately Director of Postal Services (now Regional Director, South Western Region), General Post Office.
• Richard Gordon Bathgate Prescott, Esq., O.B.E., Officiating Inspector-General of Police, Burma.
• Peter Alexander Clutterbuck, Esq., M.C., Acting Assistant Under Secretary of State, Dominions Office.
• The Honourable Thomas Murdoch, President of the Legislative Council, State of Tasmania.
• The Honourable Robert Clarkson Tredgold, K.C., Minister of Justice and Defence, Southern Rhodesia.
• Donald Yates, Esq., M.C., a leading metallurgist in the State of South Australia.
• John Vionee Alexander, Esq., Chairman of Aden Settlement and Chairman of Aden Port Trust.
• Commander John Hinton Carrow, D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, Nigeria.
• Gerald Hallen Creasy, Esq., O.B.E., an Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Robert Edward Harold Crosbie, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, District Commissioner, Palestine.
• Edward Trevor Dyson, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Officer of Class I, Grade I, Ceylon Civil Service.
• Stanley Alfred Andrew Hammond, Esq., Educational Adviser to the Comptroller for Development and Welfare in the West Indies.
• John Edward Stewart Lamb, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Tanganyika Territory.
• Edgar Laurent, Esq., M.D. For public services in Mauritius.
• John Walker Macgillivray, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Survey Service, lately Director of Surveys and Sub-Intendant of Crown Lands, Trinidad.
• Paymaster Lieutenant George Beresford Stooke, R.N. (Retd.), Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Northern Rhodesia.
• Hugh Fortescue Moresby White, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Resident, Nigeria.
• Mustafa Fuad Ziai Bey, Colonial Legal Service, Puisne Judge, Gold Coast.
• William John Davies, Esq., O.B.E., formerly His Majesty's Consul-General at Kobe.
• William Alfred Milner Doll, Esq., formerly Adviser to the Siamese Ministry of Finance.
• Hugh Alexander Ford, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Boston.
• Captain Alan Hillgarth, O.B.E., R.N. (retired), Naval Attaché at His Majesty's Embassy at Madrid.
• Alfred Dilwyn Knox, Esq. For services to the Foreign Office.
• John Helier Le Rougetel, Esq., M.C., Counsellor in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service.
• Edgar William Light, Esq., M.V.O., O.B.E., Assistant in the Treaty Department, Foreign Office.
• Terence Allen Shone, Esq., Minister Plenipotentiary at His Majesty's Embassy at Cairo.
• Brigadier George Thexton Wards, O.B.E., until recently Military Attaché at His Majesty's Embassy at Tokyo.

Honorary CMG

• Adesoji Aderemi, The Oni of Ife, Nigeria.

• Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett, K.C.S.I, C.I.E., Governor of the United Provinces.

• Maharana Shri Jorawarsinhji Pratapsinjhi, Raja of Sant.
• Lieutenant-General Clarence August Bird, C.B., D.S.O., British Service, Master-General of the Ordnance in India.
• Sir Bijoy Prasad Singh Roy, Bengal.

• Malcolm Ogilvie Carter, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Civil Liaison Officer, Eastern Army, and lately Secretary to the Governor of Bengal.
• Santdas Khushiram Kirpalani, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Supply.
• Colonel (Acting Major-General) Douglas Stuart, O.B.E., Indian Army, lately Brigadier, General Staff, Eastern Army.
• Archibald Corrie Macnabb MacLeod, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Jullundur Division, Punjab.
• Pendyala Satyanarayana Rau, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner (Officiating), Nagpur Division, Central Provinces and Berar.
• Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) William Horatio Happell, Indian Army, Judge Advocate-General in India.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Cotter, M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., Indian Medical Service, Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India.
• Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Edward McGuinness, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Director of Mechanization, Master-General of the Ordnance Branch, General Headquarters, India.
• Eric Ingoldby, Esq., Chief Controller of Standardisation, Railway Board, Government of India.
• Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) James Dunbar MacKenzie, Indian Army, Commander, Quetta Area.
• Commodore Arthur Rullion Rattray, Royal Indian Navy.
• Joseph Maurice Sladen, Esq., J.P., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Home Department.
• John Augustus Samuel, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Secretary to the Government of Bihar in the Legislative Department.
• Reginald Trevor Jones, Esq., M.C., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Buildings and Roads Branch.
• Ernest Clement Wood, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Madras in the Education and Public Health Department.
• Arthur Finch Perrott, Esq., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, North-West Frontier Province.
• Richard Percyvale Ward, Esq., M.C., D.F.C., Indian Civil Service, Civil Liaison Officer for Orissa at Eastern Army Headquarters.
• Percival Vincent Chance, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Central Provinces and Berar.
• John Herbert Thomas, Esq., F.I.A., Superintendent of Insurance with the Government of India.
• Sorab Nanabhoy Moos, Esq., Indian Educational Service, Director of Public Instruction, Bombay.
• Frederic William Kidd, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Director, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India.
• Chikballapur Venkata Srinivasa Rao, Esq., Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Director of Audit, Defence Services, India.
• Percy James Edmunds, Esq., Chief Engineer, Posts and Telegraphs, Government of India.
• Arthur Mitford Sims, Esq., Chief Engineer, North-Western Railway, Lahore.
• Rao Bahadur Bhagavathulu Viswanath, Officiating Director, Imperial Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi.
• Colonel Kendal Ferguson Franks, D.S.O., Indian Army (retired), Assistant Director of Recruiting, Southern Area.
• Colonel Reginald Hugh Penrose-Welstead, Indian Army (retired), lately Director of Farms, General Headquarters, India.
• Thomas Blandford Jameson, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Chittagong, Bengal.
• Christopher Gimson, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Political Agent in Manipur, Assam.
• Eric de Vere Moss, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Gorakhpur, United Provinces.
• Krishna Prasada, Esq., J.P., Indian Civil Service, Postmaster-General, Bengal and Assam Circle, Calcutta.
• Nagendra Bhusan Baksi, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Monghyr, Bihar.
• Major Arthur John Dring, Indian Political Service, Political Agent, South Waziristan, North-West Frontier Province.
• Hugh Tufnell-Barrett, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Labour.
• Kumar Padma Sivasankara Menon, Esq., Indian Political Service, Dewan of Bharatpur State, Rajputana.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Edleston Wheeler, Indian Army, Publicity Officer (Foreign), Government of India.
• Robert Anderson MacGregor, Esq., Chief Metallurgist, Department of Supply, Calcutta.
• Herbert James Thom, Esq., M.C., Indian Police, Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, United Provinces.
• James Taylor Alexander, Esq., Secretary and Treasurer, Imperial Bank of India, Madras.
• Geoffrey Steele Henderson, Esq., Landholder, Thar Parkar District, Sind.
• Alec Houghton Joyce, Esq., O.B.E., Adviser on Publicity Questions, India Office.
• Nyapathi Madhava Rau, Esq., Dewan and ex-officio President of the Council, Mysore State.

• Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, C.V.O. , classical lecturer, author and translator

• Lieutenant-Colonel Humphrey Butler, M.V.O., M.C.
• The Reverend Arthur Rose Fuller, M.V.O., M.A.
• Colonel Dermot McMorrough Kavanagh.
• Major Louis William Howard Kerr, C.M.G., M.V.O., O.B.E.
• Charles Sculthorpe Morris, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.D.S.
• Edgar Stanley Roper, Esq., M.V.O.
• Henry Austin Strutt, Esq., M.V.O.

• David Ovens Drummond, Esq., J.P.
• Ronald Montague Joseph Harris, Esq.
• Captain James John William Herbertson, O.B.E.
• John Robert Kennedy, Esq., M.B., C.M.
• Superintendent Hugh Joseph Ross Cameron, Metropolitan Police.
• Reginald Norman Tyrrell, Esq.

• Lieutenant-General Sir William Platt, K.C.B., D.S.O., Colonel, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's).
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C.
• Sir Henry Hallett Dale, C.B.E., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P., lately Director of the National Institute for Medical Research. President of the Royal Society.
• Colonel Sir (William) Charles Wright, Bt., K.B.E., C.B., lately Controller of Iron and Steel, Ministry of'Supply.
• Major His Highness Mir Himayat Ali Khan, Walashan Nawab Azam Jah Bahadur, Prince of Berar.

• Miss Lilian Braithwaite. For services to the stage.

• Admiral Arthur John Davies, C.B. (Retired).
• Vice-Admiral Malcolm Lennon Goldsmith, D.S.O. (Retired).
• Vice-Admiral James Andrew Gardiner Troup, C.B. (Retired).
• Lieutenant-General Desmond Francis Anderson, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Colonel, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own).
• Honorary Major-General Henry Letheby Tidy, F.R.C.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Acting Air Marshal John Eustace Arthur Baldwin, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O.
• Sir Amos Lowrey Ayre, O.B.E., Director of Merchant Shipbuilding, Admiralty.
• William Leitch, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Works and Planning.
• Frank Aubrey Newsam, Esq., C.V.O., M.C., Deputy Under Secretary of State, Home Office.
• Eric Bourne Bentinck Speed, Esq., M.C., Joint Permanent Under Secretary of State, War Office.
• Sir Frederick Joseph West, C.B.E., M.Inst.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., J.P., Chairman, North Western Training Committee, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• Clifford Edward Heathcote-Smith, Esq., C.M.G., C.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at Alexandria.
• The Honourable Sir Alexander Fraser Russell, Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia.
• Arthur Atkinson Bruce, Esq., M.C., General Manager, Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Ltd., Burma.
• Allan Wolsey Cardinall, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Falkland Islands and its Dependencies.

• The Very Reverend Joseph Herman Hertz, LL.D., Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire.
• The Right Honourable Frederick James, Baron Leathers, Minister of War Transport.

• Philippa, Lady Hartley (wife of General Sir Alan Hartley, K.C.S.I., C.B, D.S.O., A.D.C., Deputy Commander-in-Chief in India).
• Helen, Mrs Martin (wife of Mr O.M. Martin, C.I.E., I.C.S., Commissioner, Chittagong Division), Bengal.
• Miss Kathleen Mabel Myers, Principal, Queen Mary's College for Women, Madras.
• Shrimati Sitabaisaheb Bhalchandrarao alias Maisaheb Patwardhan, Dowager Rani Saheb of Kurundwad (Senior) State.
• Meher Fardunji, Mrs Talyarkhan (wife of Mr F.S. Talyarkhan), Bombay.
• Edmund Willoughby Legh, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service (retired), Madras.
• Charles Stanley Garland Mylrea, Esq., O.B.E., lately Member of the Arabian Mission of the Dutch Reformed Church of America at Kuwait, Persian Gulf.