The New Year Honours 1920 were appointments by King
George V to
various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the
British Empire. They were published on 1 January 1920[1] and 30 March 1920 (referred to as the 1920 civilian war honours).[2]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
The Honourable
Arthur Lewis Sifton, KC, MA, LLB, DCL, Canadian Representative at Peace Conference.
The Honourable
William Alexander Watt, Acting Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia during absence of the Prime Minister at the Peace Conference.
The Honourable Sir
William Thomas White, KCMG, Acting Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada during absence of the Prime Minister at the Peace Conference.
Commander Sir
Arthur Trevor Dawson, MICE, MIME, Royal Navy. For public services in connection with the Home Office, War Office, and Admiralty.
Edward Mackay Edgar, head of firm of
Sperling & Co., Merchant Bankers, Moorgate Street, London. For public services, particularly in connection with British and Canadian Trade.
Frederick Orr Lewis, President of Lewis Bros. Ltd., Montreal. Undertook important work for British Admiralty during war. For public services.
Sir
Erik Olaf Ohlson,
Sheriff of Hull, 1913–1915. For public services undertaken at the request of the Foreign Office in connection with Propaganda during the war.
Alfred Frederick Bird, MP. For services rendered during the War in re-organisation of Overseas Officers' Clubs; also in connection with Discharged Sailors and Soldiers and Old Age Pensioners.
Josiah Court, MRCS, LRCP. JP for Derbyshire; Consulting Surgeon to the
Derbyshire Miners' Union in Compensation cases; Surgeon to the Staveley Great Central Railwaymen.
Norris Tildesley Foster. For services in connection with the Prince of Wales's Fund; Member of Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Member of Local Appeal Tribunal.
Sir
Harry Livesey, K.B.E. Late Director of Navy Contracts and subsequently Commissioner for Contract Policy, and Admiralty Representative on Lord Colwyn's Inter-departmental Committee.
Sir
Thomas Munro, K.B.E., D.L. Chairman of Provisional Joint Committee of Industrial Conference; Chief Adviser, Labour Regulation Department, Ministry of Munitions
Isabel Charlotte, Baroness Talbot de Malahide. President, County of Dublin Branch of the British Red Cross Society and of the Irish Joint Red Cross and St. John Executive Committee.
Beryl Carnegy, Lady Oliver, C.B.E., R.R.C. Head of the Naval and Military V.A.D. Department, Devonshire House.
Martin Arnold Abrahamson, Vice-President and Chairman of the British Red Cross Society, Copenhagen Bureau; Commissioner for Repatriation of British Prisoners of War.
Patrick Dalreagle Agnew, C.B.E. Vice-Chairman and Managing Director, Central Prisoners of War Committee.
Brigadier-General William Alexander, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., T.D. Director-General of Purchases, Ministry of Munitions, and Controller of Aircraft Supply.
George Henry Ashdown, C.B.E., I.S.O. Director of Stores, Admiralty, and Admiralty Representative on International Petroleum Committee.
Thomas Baker, J.P. Ex-Mayor of Plymouth; for valuable war work.
Isaac Bayley Balfour, LL.D, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. Professor of Botany, University of Edinburgh, Regius Keeper of Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
Captain Walter de Mouchet Baynham, R.D. Master, S.S. Ormonde
Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Henry Egerton Barraclough, C.B.E. In charge of Australian Munition Workers
James Beattie, In charge of Jute Goods Depot and Honorary Director of Flax Office at Dundee, Department of the Surveyor-General of Supply, War Office; Managing Director, Messrs. A.& S. Henry & Co. Limited.
Mayson Moss Beeton, For services in connection with the Newfoundland Forestry Corps.
Walter Wheeler Berry, J.P. Development Commissioner; representative of Board of Agriculture on the Hop Control Committee and on various other Committees; Member of Agricultural Advisory Council, etc.
Arthur Ernest Blake, J.P. For work in connection with War Loan, Savings Banks and services on the Nottingham Parliamentary Recruiting Committee and Tribunal.
William Henry Bragg, C.B.E., DSc., F.R.S. Quain Professor of Physics, University of London; Superintendent of Admiralty Experimental Station at Parkston.
Harry Samuel Bickertom Brindley, Ministry of Munitions.
Herbert Brown, Organiser of the British Farmers' Red Cross Fund.
Joseph Burn, C.B.E. Member of National War Savings Committee.
Cyril Kendall Butler, J.P. Chief British Representative, Inter-Allied Food and Relief Mission, Vienna.
Gordon Huntly Campbell, Chairman, Collections Committee, British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John.
Frederick William Chance, J.P., D.L. Chairman of Committee for State Purchase undertakings in the Carlisle Area.
Captain Benjamin Chave, Master, S.S. Carisbrooke Castle.
Robert Waley Cohen, Petroleum Adviser to the War Office
Henry Arthur Colefax, K.C. For services rendered in connection with the Ministry of Munitions and Admiralty.
James Currie, C.M.G. Director of Training, Ministry of Labour.
Stephen Demetriadi, Partner and Managing Director of Messrs. Ralli Brothers; Assistant Secretary, Special Grants Committee, Ministry of Pensions.
Raymond Herbert Dennis, Services in connection with the supply of motor lorries and fire engines.
James Lyne Devonshire, Managing Director of London United Tramways, Ltd., and London and Suburban Electric Traction Co., Ltd.
John Dewrance, Member of Engineering Employers' Consultative Committee, Ministry of Munitions; Vice-Chairman, Managing Committee, Engineering Employers' Federation; Chairman, Messrs. Babcock & Wilcox, Ltd.
William Henry Diamond, Services in South Wales in connection with Recruiting, War Savings, etc.
Lieutenant-Commander
Charles Edward Down, O.B.E., R.N.R. Marine Superintendent, Royal Mail Steam Packet Company.
George Keith Buller Elphinstone, O.B.E. Head of Messrs. Elliott Bros., Westminster; valuable services in the design and manufacture of fire control apparatus for Navy.
Commander Thomas Fisher, C.B.E., R.N. Representative of Ministry of Shipping in the U.S.A.
Cecil Edwin Fitch, Services in connection with recruiting.
Philip Horace Freeman, C.B.E. Honorary Secretary, Officers' Families' Fund.
Major James German, O.B.E, J.P Services in connection with recruiting propaganda and war charities.
Lieutenant-Colonel
Walter Gibbons. Donor of a large number of Red Cross Ambulances to the British and French Authorities; Donor of Willesden Auxiliary Hospital.
William Henry Neville Goschen, O.B.E., Prominent Member and Chairman for 1918 of Joint Stock 'Bankers' Committee; valuable services on many Government Committees.
Major
Philip Lloyd-Greame, M.C, M.P. Conjoint Secretary, Ministry of National Service. (Later Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton)
Arnold Babb Gridley, Services as Electrical Adviser to Government Departments.
Sidney Frederic Harmer, D.Sc., F.R.S. Director of Natural History Departments and Keeper of Zoology, British Museum.
Austin Edward Harris, Late Assistant Surveyor-General of Supply, War Office; Chairman of the Contracts Advisory Committee and Contracts Board.
Ernest Maes Harvey, Treasury Representative with British Commission to Russia.
Arthur Eugene O'Neill, C.B.E. Voluntary services in Requisitioning Branch, Ministry of Shipping.
Edward Hussey Packe, Private Secretary to successive First Lords of the Admiralty.
Alfred Vaughan Paton, President of the Liverpool Cotton Association.
Joseph Ernest Petavel, D.Sc., F.R.S. Chairman of Aero-Dynamics Sub-Committee of the Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.
William Petersen, Chairman of British Committee of the International Shipping Registry.
Percival Phillips, Senior War Correspondent on the Western Front during the War.
George Walter Prothero, Litt.D., LL.D. Head of Historical Section, Foreign Office, and Editor of the series of Handbooks compiled for use at the Peace Conference.
Captain James Robert Rae, O.B.E. Master, S.S.City of Exeter.
Ernest Manifold Raeburn, C.B.E. Head of the Ministry of Shipping in New York.
Harry Benedetto Renwick, Late Director of Feeding Stuffs Department, Ministry of Flood; Chairman and Managing Director of County of London Electric Supply Company Ltd.
Harry Perry Robinson, War Correspondent of "The Times."
Herbert Thomas Robson, President of the Board of Directors of the Wheat Export Co., New York.
Major-General
Richard Matthews Ruck, C.B., C.M.G. Vice-Chairman of Air Inventions Committee.
Herbert William Henry Russell, War Correspondent of Reuter's and the Press Association.
Joseph Turner, J.P. Managing Director, British Dyes, Ltd.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
David Wallace, C.M.G., C.B.E., M.B., F.R.C.S. Organiser and Consulting and Operating Surgeon, Dalmeny House Auxiliary Hospital; Red Cross Commissioner and Military Inspection Officer to Auxiliary Hospitals.
Nicholas Edwin Waterhouse, Director of Costings, War Office; Partner in Messrs. Price, Waterhouse & Co.
Lawrence Weaver, C.B.E. Commercial Secretary to Board of Agriculture.
Brevet Colonel Arthur Lisle Ambrose Webb, C.B., C.M.G. Director-General of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions.
Captain Maynard Francis Colchester-Wemyss, C.B.E. County Director, Auxiliary Hospitals and V.A.D.'s, Gloucestershire Branch, British Red Cross Society; late Head of the Food Control for Auxiliary Hospitals; Deputy Chairman, Red Cross Central Demobilisation Board;
High Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
Frederick James Willis, C.B. Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.
Colonel William Charles Wright, C.B Director of Baldwins, Ltd., and Port Talbot Steel Company, Ltd
For services rendered on behalf of the Dominions, Crown Colonies, Protectorates, etc., and in connection with the War.
Sir
Ernest Frederick George Hatch, Bart., Chairman of Council, "Beyond Seas" Association for the Reception of Officers and Relatives from beyond the seas.
The Honourable
Robert Heaton Rhodes, for services as New Zealand Red Cross Commissioner in England, and in connection with the welfare of the troops of the Dominion.
Honorary Knight Commander
His Excellency
Zulfikar Pasha, Grand Chamberlain to His Highness the
Sultan of Egypt. For services rendered in Egypt.
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
William James Wanless, Principal Medical Officer of the Mission Hospital at
Miraj and Chief Medical Officer of the American Presbyterian Mission, Bombay.
Doctor Kate Platt, Principal of the Lady Hardinge Medical College for Women,
Delhi.
Doctor
Margaret Ida Balfour, Joint Secretary, to the Central Committee of the Countess of Dufferin's Fund.
Ida Sophia Scudder, Doctor in charge of the Mary Taber Schell Hospital,
Vellore, North Arcot District, Madras.
Rani Murari Kumari Debi, of
Bhinga, Bahraich District, United Provinces.
Mary Eliza Annie Fosbrooke, Inspectress of Schools,
Assam.