1949 Birthday Honours

• George Archibald, JP. For political and public services.
• Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, KCB, CBE, lately Clerk of the Parliaments.

• John Dugdale, MP, Financial Secretary, Admiralty, since 1945. Member of Parliament for West Bromwich since 1941.
• Sir Oliver Shewell Franks, KCB, CBE, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington.
• The Right Honourable Robert Craigmyle, Baron Morrison, JP, DL, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Works, since 1948; a Lord-in-Waiting, 1947–1948. Member of Parliament for North Tottenham, 1922–1931, and 1935–1945.
• William Donald, the Honourable Lord Patrick, a Senator of His Majesty's College of Justice in Scotland.

• Reginald Greenwood Bailey, CBE, Adviser to the Board of Trade on wool exports. President, British Wool Federation.
• Giovanni Battista (John) Barbirolli, FRAM. For services to Music.
• James Barr, FRICS, Senior Partner, James Barr and Sons, Surveyors, Glasgow.
• Henry Vaughan Berry. For services as Regional Commissioner, Hansestadt-Hamburg, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley, MC, Portrait Painter.
• David Brunt, ScD, FRS, Professor of Meteorology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London.
• Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr, KC, Chief British Prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
• John Charrington, Chairman, Charrington, Gardner, Locket and Company, Ltd.
• James Fitzjames Duff, LLD, Warden of the Durham Colleges in the University of Durham.
• John Maxwell Erskine, CBE, JP, DL, Chairman, Scottish Savings Committee.
• Robert Brown Fraser, OBE, Director-General, Central Office of Information.
• John Green, JP, Director, Thos. Firth and John Brown, Ltd., Chairman of the Central Conference of the Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation.
• Ronald George Hatton, CBE, DSc, FRS, lately Director of the East Malling Agricultural Research Station, and Consultant Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops.
• Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, lately Commodore Master, Cunard White Star Line, Ltd.
• John Ernest James, Chairman, Lancashire Steel Corporation Ltd.
• Charles Hilary Jenkinson, CBE, LLD, FSA, Deputy Keeper of the Public Records.
• William Jones, CBE. For public services in North Wales.
• Albert Edward MacColl, MIEE, Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chairman, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board.
• Laurence Pierce Brooke Merriam, MC, Examiner of Controls, Board of Trade.
• Frederick Lucius O'Brien, Chairman of the Northern Ireland Housing Trust.
• Leslie Arthur Plummer, Chairman, Overseas Food Corporation.
• Joseph Francis Engledue Prideaux, CBE, MRCS, LRCP, Director General of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions.
• James Reginald Howard Roberts, CBE, JP, DL, Clerk of the London County Council.
• Ambrose James Sherwill, CBE, MC, Bailiff of Guernsey.
• Henry Sessions Souttar, CBE, DM, MCh, FRCS, Consulting Surgeon, London Hospital.
• Kenneth Raydon Swan, OBE, KC, lately Chairman of the Committee set up to consider the Patents and Designs Act.
• Godfrey Hilton Thomson, DCL, DSc, Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh.
• Arthur Egerton Watson, CB, CBE., Chairman, Civil Service Sports Council.
• Professor James Anderson Scott Watson, CBE, MC, LLD, DSc, Chief Scientific and Agricultural Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Percy Henry Winfield, KC, LLD, FBA, JP, Emeritus Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge.

State of Victoria

• The Honourable Thomas Karran Maltby, Speaker of Legislative Assembly, State of Victoria.
• Gordon Keith Snow, Chief Confidential Adviser to Premier, State of Victoria.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

• Gerard Lewis Howe, Colonial Legal Service, Attorney-General, Nigeria.
• John Alfred Lucie-Smith, OBE, VD, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of Sierra Leone.
• Thorleif Rattray Orde Mangin, CMG, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner, Gold Coast.
• Arthur Morse, CBE. For public services in Hong Kong.
• Frederick Jacob Seaford, CBE. For public services in British Guiana.

• General Sir Richard Loudon McCreery, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, late Cavalry, Colonel, 14/20th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps.
• Sir John Harold Edmund Woods, KCB, MVO, Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade.

• Acting Vice-Admiral (S) George Harold Bankart, CBE.
• Vice-Admiral Charles Henry Lawrence Woodhouse, CB.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, late Infantry (retired).
• General Sir Sidney Chevalier Kirkman, KBE, CB, MC, late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir James Milne Robb, KBE, CB, DSO, DFC, AFC, Royal Air Force.
• Sir Eric St John Bamford, KBE, CB, CMG, Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Colonel Thomas Blatherwick, CB, DSO, MC, TD, JP, DL, ADC, Chairman, East Lancashire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association.
• Sir Harold Parker, KBE, CB, MC, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
• Thomas Leslie Rowan, CB, CVO, Second Secretary, H.M. Treasury.

Military Division

• Rear-Admiral William Gerrard Andrewes, C.B.E., D.S.O.
• Rear-Admiral William York La Roche Beverley, C.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral Basil Charles Barrington Brooke, C.B.E.
• The Venerable Archdeacon Leonard Coulshaw, M.C., A.K.C., K.H.Ch.
• Rear-Admiral (E) Clement Ellis.
• Rear-Admiral Horace Geoffrey Norman, C.B.E.
• Rear-Admkal Brian Betham Schofield, C.B.E.
• Acting Rear-Admiral (S) Aubrey John Wheeler.
• Rear-Admiral Peveril Barton Reiby Wallop William-Powlett, C.B.E., D.S.O.
• Brigadier (temporary) Ivan Pringle Brickman, C.B.E. (30777), Royal Army Pay Corps.
• Major-General Edward Hadrill Clayton, C.B.E. (15934), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Gilbert Minto Elliot, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General (local) (now Colonel) Ian David Erskine, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Foot Guards.
• Major-General Julian Alvery Gascoigne, D.S.O., late Foot Guards.
• Brigadier Charles de Lisle Gaussen, M.C., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General Gerald Tom Warlters Horne, C.B.E., Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• The Reverend Canon Frederick Llewelyn Hughes, C.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A., K.H.C., Chaplain-General to the Forces, Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
• Major-General Leslie Keith Lockhart, C.B.E., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Major-General Charles Douglas Packard, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Brigadier (temporary) Thomas Rigby, D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Brigadier (temporary) Nelson Russell, D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry.
• Major-General Kenneth Alexander MacDonald Tomory, O.B.E., M.B., K.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman, C.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Frederick John Murphy, C.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., K.H.S., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Robert Linton Ragg, C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Frank Noel Trinder, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Kenneth Buchanan Lloyd, C.B.E., A.F.C, Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Andrew MacGregor, C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore John William Frederick Merer, Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Reginald Newnham Waite, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Harry Beer, Esq., Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Frederick Bray, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education.
• Harry Campion, Esq., C.B.E., Director of the Central Statistical Office, Cabinet Office.
• Group-Captain Alan Sidney Whitehorn Dore, D.S.O., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Middlesex.
• Robert James Paterson Harvey, Esq., Regional Director, Home Counties Region, General Post Office.
• Hubert Kendrew, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Works.
• Gerald Bernard McCormick, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Armament Supply, Admiralty.
• Thomas Craig Woodgate Mitchell, Esq., Under-Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland.
• Sidney John Page, Esq., M.C., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• William George Arthur Perring, Esq., F.R.Ae.S., Director, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough.
• Henry Austin Strutt, Esq., C.V.O., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
• Harold Symon, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health,
• William Dale Wilkinson, Esq., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• Alfred Harold Wilson, Esq., C.B.E., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
• Samuel Wright, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power.

• Sir Robert Robinson, M.A, LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.
• The Right Honourable Bertrand Arthur William, Earl Russell, M.A., F.R.S.

• Sir (Richard Henry) Archibald Carter, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., lately Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office.
• Sir John Huggins, K.C.M.G., M.C., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief, Jamaica.

• Cyril Augustin Birtchnell, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• Ernest Rowe-Dutton, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., Third Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• Arthur Rundell Guinness, Esq. For services to overseas trade.
• Lieutenant General the Honourable Sir Edmund Francis Herring, K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., E.D., K.C., Lieutenant Governor of the State of Victoria.
• Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nyasaland.
• Arthur Hilton Poynton, Esq., C.M.G., Deputy Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
• William Evelyn Houstoun-Boswall, Esq., C.M.G., M.C., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Beirut.
• Alexander Knox Helm, Esq., C.M.G., C.B.E., until recently His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Budapest, now serving in a similar capacity at Tel Aviv.
• Sir Alec Seath Kirkbride, C.M.G., O.B.E., M.C., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Amman.
• John Hurleston Leche, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Santiago.
• Roger Mellor Makins, Esq., C.M.G., a Deputy Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office.

• Major-General Alexander Vass Anderson, C.B., M.B.E., Director of Civil Affairs, War Office.
• Major-General Nevil Charles Dowell Brownjohn, C.B., O.B.E., M.C. For services as Chief of Staff and Deputy Military Governor, Control Commission for Germany, British Element.
• Harry Faulkner, Esq., M.I.E.E., Deputy Engineer-in-Chief, General Post Office.
• Alexander Thomas Kingdom Grant, Esq., Assistant Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• Charles Herbert Hampshire, Esq., M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.R.I.C., Secretary, British Pharmacopoeia Commission.
• Reginald Keith Jopson, Esq., O.B.E.. United Kingdom Senior Trade Commissioner in Canada.
• John Atkins Peacock, Esq., Director of Eggs, Ministry of Food.
• James Richard Smyth, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry.
• Wilfred Bethridge Topp, Esq. For services in the control of the import and export of diamonds.
• Charles Norman Atkins, Esq., E.D., M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., City Health Officer for Hobart, State of Tasmania.
• George Herbert Baxter, Esq., C.I.E., an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Commonwealth Relations Office.
• Kenneth Mackenzie Goodenough, Esq., M.C., High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia in London.
• Lieutenant Colonel Norman Charles Harris, D.S.O., M.C., M.Sc., Chairman, Railways Commission, State of Victoria.
• The Honourable Arthur Frederick Watts, Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Industrial Development and Local Government, State of Western Australia.
• Harold Cecil James Barker, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Provincial Commissioner, Nyasaland.
• Charles Brian Auckinleck Darling, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Assistant Chief Secretary, East Africa High Commission.
• Frank Dixey, Esq., O.B;E., D.Sc., Geological Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and Director of Colonial Geological Survey.
• James Robert McDowell Elliot, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service,. Provincial Commissioner, Uganda.
• Andrew Gilmour, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for Economic Affairs, Singapore.
• Walter Douglas Godsall, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Federation of Malaya.
• John Geoffrey Hibbert, Esq., M.C., Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Alexander McDonald Bruce Hutt, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy Chairman, Development Commission, Tanganyika.
• Donald Charles MacGillivray, Esq., M.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Jamaica.
• Duncan William MacIntosh, Esq., O.B.E., Colonial Police Service, Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong.
• James Grant Smith Turner, Esq., M.B., Ch.B., Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Gold Coast.
• Harold Alexander Watmore, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Senior Provincial Commissioner, Northern Rhodesia.
• John Basil Williams, Esq., Superintending Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.
• Denys Cuthbert Woodward, Esq., General Manager, Nigerian Railway.
• Frederick Victor Cross, Esq., Shipping Attaché at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
• Berkeley Everard Foley Gage, Esq., Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at The Hague.
• Frank Stannard Gibbs, Esq., O.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at Saigon.
• Colonel (Retired) Walter Hugh Jeffery, C.S.I., C.I.E., attached to a Department of the Foreign Office.
• Kenneth Roy Johnstone, Esq., Controller, European Division, British Council.
• Major-General Arthur Guy Salisbury-Jones, C.B.E., M.C., lately Military Attache at His Majesty's Embassy in Paris.
• Oscar Charles Morland, Esq., Head of the Economic Relations Department of the Foreign Office.
• Herbert Moore Phillips, Esq., lately Counseller for Economic and Social Affairs, United Kingdom Delegation to the United Nations, New York.
• Robin Haskew Robertson, Esq., General Manager, Sudan Railways.
• Charles Arthur Evelyn Shuckburgh, Esq., Head of the Western Department of the Foreign Office.
• Christopher Henry Summerhayes, Esq., M.B.E., His Majesty's Consul-General at Alexandria.

Honorary Companion

• Yahaya, C.B.E., Emir of Gwandu, Nigeria.

• Captain Lord Claud Nigel Hamilton, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O.

• Sir John Herbert McCutcheon Craig, C.B., LL.D.
• Major Arthur Horace Penn, C.V.O., M.C.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Daymonde Stevenson, C.V.O., M.C.

• Gilbert Matthews, Esq., C.B.E.

At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.

Fourth Class

• Frederick Joseph Bone, Esq., M.V.O., Mus. Bac., F.R.C.O.
• Miss Gwendolen Florence Davies, O.B.E.
• Miss Magdalene Glass Stenhouse, O.B.E.
• Josiah Wedgwood, Esq.
• Major (Director of Music) George Henry Willcocks, M.B.E., A.R.C.M., Irish Guards (retired).

• General Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, Bt., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Sir Walter Hamilton Moberly, K.C.B., D.S.O., D.Litt., Chairman, University Grants Committee.
• Sir Robert George Howe, K.C.M.G., Governor-General of the Sudan.

• Senior Controller (temporary) Mary Joan Caroline Tyrwhitt, O.B.E., Women's Royal Army Corps.
• Air Commandant Felicity Hyde Hanbury, M.B.E., A.D.C., Women's Royal Air Force.
• Miss Harriette Chick, C.B.E., D.Sc. For services to the study of nutrition.
• Dehra, Mrs Parker, O.B.E., J.P., Member of Parliament for Londonderry County and City, 1921–1929, and for South Londonderry since 1933, in the Northern Ireland Parliament. For public services.
• Miss Mary Guillan Smieton, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.

• Vice-Admiral Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan, C.B., C.B.E., M.V.O., D.S.C.
• Vice-Admiral Arthur Guy Norris Wyatt, C.B.
• Lieutenant-General Neil Cantlie, C.B., M.C., M.B., F.R.C.S., K.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Lieutenant-General Alexander Galloway, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry.
• Harold Fieldhouse, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., Secretary, National Assistance Board.
• The Reverend Robert Robertson Hyde, M.V.O., Founder and Director, Industrial Welfare Society.
• Folliott Herbert Sandford, Esq., C.M.G., Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry.
• Arthur Edgar Sylvester, Esq., F.C.A., Chairman, British Gas Council.
• George Lawrence Watkinson, Esq., C.B., M.C., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Alexander Byres Hutcheon, Esq., C.M.G., M.B.E., Senior Inspector of His Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments.
• Arthur Henry William King, Esq., C.B.E., Minister (Commercial) at His Majesty's Embassy at Rio de Janeiro.
• Geoffrey Miles Clifford, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., E.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Falkland Islands.
• George Joy, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, St Helena.

• Captain (E) Geoffrey Francis Chandler, Royal Navy (Retired).
• Surgeon Captain James Hamilton, M.B., Ch.B., Royal Navy.
• Captain (L) Gerald Edward Armitage Jackson, A.M.I.E.E., Royal Navy.
• Colonel Wilfrid Ivan Nonweiler, Royal Marines.
• Captain Frederick Robertson Parham, D.S.O., Royal Navy.
• Acting Rear-Admiral (S) Richard Roy Wallace.
• Brevet Colonel Reginald Womack Brooks, O.B.E., T.D. (22349), General List, Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, Suffolk Army Cadet Force.
• Brigadier (local) (now Colonel (temporary)) John Denys Percival Chapman, B.A. (34656), Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Brigadier (temporary) Thomas Bell Lindsay Churchill, M.C. (38512), The Manchester Regiment.
• Brigadier (temporary) Lancelot Eric Cutforth, O.B.E. (641), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Brigadier David Fettes, O.B.E., M.B. F.R.C.S.(Edin.), K.H.S. (15746), late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Brigadier (temporary) Richard Marie Joachim Goldie, O.B.E. (15396), late Infantry,
• Colonel (temporary) Cecil Everard Montague Grenville-Grey(552), The King's Royal Rifle Corps.
• Brigadier (temporary) Harold Francis Sylvester King, M.B.E. (24780), Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Brevet Colonel Frank Hamer Lawrence, O.B.E., M.C., T.D. (20093), Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
• Brigadier (temporary) Denis Stuart Scott O'Connor, O.B.E. (38415), Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Brigadier (temporary) William Robert Fiddes Osmond, O.B.E. (13405), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• The Reverend Alexander Ross, M.A. (39076), Chaplain to the Forces, First Class, Royal Army Chaplains' Department.
• Group Captain Geoffrey Augustus Graydon Johnston, Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain Glynn Silyn-Roberts, A.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain Geoffrey Dalton Stephenson, A.D.C, Royal Air Force.
• Acting Group Captain Charles Edward Loveridge, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
• Acting Group Captain (now Wing Commander) George Percy Scott Pollard, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Group Captain Frederick Fitzpatrick Rainsford, D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Group Captain Henry Seidenberg-Seymour, Royal Air Force.
• Acting Group Officer Alice Ida, Lady Seton, Women's Royal Air Force.

• Ralph Bower Ainsworth, Esq., M.C., Director of Statistics, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• Arthur George Algeo, Esq., J.P. For services to agriculture in Northern Ireland
• The Honourable Hester Margaret, Mrs. Alington. For public services in the County of Durham.
• Percy Astins, Esq., J.P. For political and public services in Essex.
• Alexander Robert Atkins, Esq., Actor-Manager
• George Ayton Aynsley, Esq., Assistant Secretary. Foreign Office, German Section.
• John Barton Baber, Esq., M.C., T.D, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Jack Croft Baker, Esq., President, British Trawlers' Federation.
• Donald Barner, Esq., O:B.E., Secretary, Retail Distributors Association.
• Reginald Haynes Barrow, Esq., H.M. Inspector of Schools.
• William Beck Baxter, Esq., Chairman of the Executive Committee, Scunthorpe Youth Centre.
• William Bayliss, Esq., J.P., President, Nottinghamshire Area, National Union of Mineworkers.
• John Beavan, Esq., Chairman, Liverpool Port Area Grain Committee
• Travers Robert Blackley, Esq., O.B.E., Chief Administrator, British Military Administration in Tripolitana.
• Charles Wortham Brook, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. For political and public services.
• Robert Sidney Brown, Esq.,. O.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Commonwealth Relations Office.
• Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, Esq., LL.D., Historian and Author.
• James Cecil Carr, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• John Frederick Carr, Esq, M.B.E., J.P., Director of Education, Stoke-on-Trent.
• Colonel Harry Carter, T.D., M.I.E.E., Regional Director, Welsh and Border Counties Region, General Post Office.
• Robert Sidney Chapman, Esq., General Secretary, Working Men's Club and Institute Union.
• Thomas Fife Clark, Esq., Public Relations and Principal Press Officer, Ministry of Health.
• William Crane, Esq., J.P., Chairman of Housing Committee, Nottingham City Council.
• Edric Cundell, Esq., Principal, Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
• Andrew Dalgleish, Esq., Member, Colonial Labour Advisory Committee.
• Alfred Horace Davis, Esq., D.Sc., Senior Superintendent, Armament Research Department, Ministry of Supply.
• George le Boutillier Diamond, Esq., M.I.Mech.E., lately Regional Controller, South Eastern Region, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Edward James Dodd, Esq., Chief Constable, Birmingham City Police Force.
• Arthur James Edmunds, Esq., O.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Home Office.
• Miss Kathleen Winifred Elliott, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Education.
• Edward Evans, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Lowestoft since 1945. For political and public services.
• James Henry Ewing, Esq., O.B.E.; Head of Board of Trade Supply Mission in Tokyo.
• Brian Walter Fagan, Esq., M.C., Senior Partner, Edward Arnold and Company. Member of the Publishers' Advisory Committee, Board of Trade.
• Gordon Harvey Attwell Field, Esq., Director of Research, Aluminium Laboratories, Ltd.
• Henry Lael Oswald Flecker, Esq., M.A., Headmaster of Christ's Hospital.
• John Fletcher, Esq., Joint Secretary, (Employees' Side), Joint Industrial Council of the Printing and Allied Trades.
• Raymond Hatherell Fooks, Esq., Chief Constable, Lincolnshire Constabulary.
• Charles Samuel Franklin, Esq., M.LE.E., Consultant, Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd.
• Miss Elizabeth Smith Fraser, O.B.E., Regional Controller, Eastern Region, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• Allan Gibb, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Contracts, Ministry of Supply.
• Thomas George Gibson, Esq., Assistant Solicitor, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Miss Mary Cecilia Glasgow, M.B.E., Secretary-General of the Arts Council of Great Britain.
• Captain Malcolm Bruce Glasier, Marine Superintendent, Blue Funnel Line and Associated Companies in London.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Robert Gisborne Gordon, D.S.O., J.P., D.L., Member of Parliament for East Down in the Northern Ireland Parliament, 1929–1949. For public services.
• Francis Henry Knethell Green, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P., Assistant Secretary, Medical Research Council.
• Walter Henry Green, Esq., J.P. For political and public services
• Bertram Charles Hammond, Esq., M.I.C.E., County Surveyor, Worcestershire.
• Arthur Montague Holbein, Esq., Director and Chief Engineer, Demolition and Construction Company, Ltd.
• James Reaney Hood, Esq., Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of H.M. Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor, and Legal Adviser, Ministry of Food.
• Charles James William Hopkins, Esq., M.B.E., M.I.N.A., Deputy Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty.
• Richard John Frederick Howgill, Esq., Controller of Entertainment, British Broadcasting Corporation.
• Alfred Ernest Hughes, Esq., J.P. For public services in Merionethshire.
• William Ernest Jenkins, Esq., Controller of Finance and Accounts Division, Petroleum Board.
• Albert Joyce, Esq., J.P. For services to the Co-operative Movement.
• William John Killingback, Esq., O.B.E., lately Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• Charles Henry Lewis, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, Ministry of Food.
• Reginald James Lloyd, Esq., Accountant and Comptroller-General, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Thomas Keith Lyle, Esq., M.D., M.Chir., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Civil Consultant in Ophthalmology to the Royal Air Force.
• James Albert McKeown, Esq., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland.
• Eric Donald Mackintosh, Esq., J.P., Vice-President, Cocoa, Chocolate and Confectionery Alliance, Ltd.
• Frederick August Andrew Menzler, Esq., Chief Development and Research Officer, London Transport Executive.
• Malcolm Messer, Esq., Editor of "The Farmers Weekly".
• Alexander Fleming Wilkie Millar, Esq., M.D., Ch.B., Chairman, Scottish Medical Practices Committee.
• Major Edwin George Monro, O.B.E., T.D, Chairman, National Rifle Association.
• Air Commodore John Gordon Murray, Scottish Divisional Controller, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
• John Ralph Nicholls, Esq., D.Sc., F.R.I.C., Deputy Government Chemist.
• John Maurice Ormston, Esq., M.B.E., Director, Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd.
• Hugh Parry, Esq., Chairman of the Planning Committee, Caernarvonshire County Council.
• Arthur Pearson, Esq., J.P., M.P., Comptroller of H.M. Household, 1945-1946 ; Treasurer since 1946. Member of Parliament for Pontypridd since 1938.
• Ralph Montgomary Fullarton Picken, Esq., M.B., Ch.B., Provost and Mansel Talbot Professor of Preventive Medicine, Welsh National School of Medicine.
• Major John Chichester Poole, M.C., Member, National Advisory Council on the Employment of the Disabled.
• Joseph Davidson Qualtrough, Esq., J.P., Speaker of the House of Keys, Isle of Man.
• John Rennie, Esq., Member, Lothians Agricultural Executive Committee.
• William Arthur Rutter, Esq., O.B.E., F.R.I.B.A., Chief Architect, Ministry of Works.
• John Ryan, Esq., M.C., Member, Central Price Regulation Committee.
• Harry Harpham Sellar, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• Rex Beaumont Shepheard, Esq., M.I.N.A., Chief Surveyor to Lloyds' Register of Shipping.
• George James Sherriff, Esq., J.P., County Clerk and Treasurer, Stirling.
• Robert Minshull Shone, Esq., Secretary, British Iron and Steel Federation.
• Ernest William Short, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry.
• Frank Gerald Simpson, Esq., Archaeologist.
• Cuthbert Ernest Sledmere, Esq., lately Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Douglas Bevington Smith, Esq., A.R.I.C.S., J.P., Chairman, Essex Rivers Catchment Board.
• Major Frank Walker Smith, M.I.Mech.E., T.D., J.P., Chairman and Managing Director, Enfield Cycle Company, Ltd.
• George Frederick Herbert Smith, Esq., D.Sc. For services to the preservation of the Flora and Fauna of the British Isles.
• Stanley Graham Smith, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Admiralty.
• Tom Snowden, Esq., J.P. For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
• Henry Watson Stockman, Esq., M.B.E., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of National Insurance.
• The Reverend Robert Wright Stopford. For services to Education in the Colonies.
• John Storrar, Esq., M.C., Town Clerk, Edinburgh.
• Thomas Edmund Alexander Stowell, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S. For services to Industrial Medicine.
• Miss Mary Elizabeth Sutherland, J.P, Member, Women's Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labour.
• Cecil Victor Tapp, Esq., lately Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Pensions
• Robert John Taylor, Esq., M.P., a Lord Commissioner of H.M. Treasury since 1945. Deputy Chief Whip. Member of Parliament for Morpeth since 1935.
• Colonel Frederick Charles Temple, C.I.E., V.D., M.I.C.E.. M.I.Mech.E., director of Opencast Coal Production, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Joseph Pitches Terry, Esq., Chairman, Gloucestershire Agricultural Executive Committee.
• William Bernard Vince, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., T.D., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
• Major Arnold Horace Santo Waters, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., M.I.C.E., M.I.Mech.E., J.P., Chairman, Advisory Committee on Sand and Gravel Workings.
• Miss Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel, Mrs. Andrews), Writer and Literary Critic.
• Leslie Gordon White, Esq., Deputy Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Robert George White, Esq., M.B.E., M.Sc., Director, Animal Breeding and Genetics Research Organisation, Agricultural Research Council.
• Colonel Mark Whitwill, D.S.O., M.C., T.D., Chairman, South Western Regional Board for Industry.
• Andrew Sutherland Williams, Esq., F.R.I.C.S., Chief Valuer (Scotland), Board of Inland Revenue.
• George David Wilson, Esq., O.B.E., Finance Controller, Ministry of Food.
• George Hamilton Bracher Wilson, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., A.F.C., J.P., Deputy President, Nottingham Savings Committee.
• Edward Grigg Wylie, Esq., M.C., F.R.I.B.A., Principal Consulting Architect to Scottish Industrial Estates Ltd.
• William Ernest Yorke, Esq., J.P., Lord Mayor of Sheffield.

• Lionel George Curtis, Esq., President, Royal Institute of International Affairs.

• Arthur Marcelles de Silva, Esq., C.B.E.,F.R.C.S.. L.R.C.P.. Member of the Public Service Commission.
• The Honourable Edwin Arthur Lewis Wijewardena, KC, Chief Justice of Ceylon.

• Louis Lucien Hunter, Esq., Government Agent, Western Province.
• Arthur Godwin Ransinha, Esq., C.B.E., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Lands

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• The Honourable Alexander Francis Molamure, M.P., Speaker, House of Representatives.

Civil Division

• Ralph Henry Bassett, Esq., O.B.E., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industries, Industrial Research and Fisheries.
• Chinnappah Coomaraswamy, Esq., Senator.
• Melvill Keverne Trelawny Sandy, Esq., Government Agent, Province of Uva.

Civil Division

• Samson Felix Amerasinge, Esq., Acting Land Commissioner.
• Kirikankanange Justin De Silva, Esq., L.M.S., J.P. For public services in Moratuwa.
• Joseph Hubert Fernando Jayasuriya, Esq., F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.M.S., Senior Surgeon, General Hospital, Ceylon.
• Arumugam Wisuvalingam Mailvaganam, Esq., Professor of Physics, University of Ceylon.
• Gunapala Piyasena Malalasekera, Esq., Ph.D., D.Litt., Professor of Pali, University of Ceylon.
• Frederick Alfred Earle Price, Esq., Planter, Visiting Agent and Valuator, Matale District.
• Kulatilaka Attanayake Tudor Ranasinghe, Esq., J.P., lately Crown Proctor.
• Walter Gerald Wickremasinghe, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.M.S., Acting Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.

Civil Division

• Alexander Nicholas D'Abrew Abeyesinghe, Esq. For services to the Co-operative Movement.
• Mohamed Shums Cassim, Esq. For public services in Kurunegala.
• Miss Gladys Croft. For educational and social services in Batticaloa.
• Edward Albert Delgoda, Esq. For public services in Kahawatte.
• Major Frederick Cecil de Saram. For services to sport.
• Miss Evangeli-n e ' Mary Moonemalle Goonawardene. For social services in Kurunegala District.
• Captain Ayampillai Charles Kanagasingham. For public services in Trincomalee.
• Arthur Courtney Richards, Esq., Printer to the Government of Ceylon.

• Vincent Leopold Peter Perera, Esq., Office Assistant, Public Works Department.