The 1928 New Year Honours were appointments by King
George V to
various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 30 December 1927.[1]
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.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable
George Abraham GibbsTDJPDLMP Member of Parliament for Bristol West since 1906; a Government Whip in the House of Commons. 1917; Treasurer of His Majesty's Household 1921 to January, 1924, and since November, 1924.
The Right Honourable Sir
Frederick John Dealtry LugardGCMGDSO Former Governor General of Nigeria. British Member of Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations since 1922.
Sir
Gerald StricklandGCMGMP Member of Parliament for Lancaster since 1924. Prime Minister of Malta.
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
John Colin Campbell DavidsonCHCBMP Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead, Nov. 1920–1923, and since 1924; Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party since Nov. 1926; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1923–24; Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, Nov. 1924.
Sir
Kingsley WoodMP Member of Parliament Woolwich West Division since Dec. 1918; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health since Nov. 1924.
Stephen Harry AitchisonJP For political and public services in Northumberland. President of the Central Division Conservative Association, Newcastle upon Tyne.
John Reeve Brooke CB Formerly Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Secretary,
Central Electricity Board.
Arthur William Faire CBEJPDL For political and public services in Leicestershire. Chairman of the Melton Division Conservative and Unionist Association.
Montagu Richard William Foster TDJP For political and public services in Hampshire. County Alderman, County of Southampton.
George William Henry JonesMP Member of Parliament for Stoke Newington, 1918–23, and since 1924. For political and public services.
Arthur Belmore Lowry CB Chief General Inspector, Ministry of Health.
David McCowanDL For political and public services in Glasgow.
Mortimer Reginald Margesson JP For political and public services in Worcestershire. Chairman of the Kidderminster Division Conservative and Unionist Association.
Jehangir Cooverjee Coyajee, Professor of Political Economy and Philosophy in the
Presidency College at Calcutta, lately Member of the Royal Commission on the Indian Tariff and Indian Currency.
Shapurji Bomanji Billimoria MBEJP lately Member of the Bombay Back Bay Committee.
Doctor
William James Wanless, American Presbyterian Mission Hospital, Miraj, Bombay.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Algernon Edward Aspinall CMGCBE Secretary to the West India Committee.
Eleanor Martha Barker, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the St. Barnabas Hostels and Pilgrimage Fund.
Edith Broadbent, Member of East and Mid-Sussex War Pensions Committee. For valuable public services as voluntary worker in administration of War Pensions.
Isabel Brogden Carter, Member of the Cheshire Mental Deficiency Committee.
Essie Margaret Harris JP For public and political services in Swansea.
Rosalie Alice Jane Henderson, Vice Chairman, East Cumberland War Pensions Committee. For valuable public services as voluntary worker in administration of War Pensions.
Agnes Jane Chalmers, Member of Bromley, Sevenoaks and District War Pensions Committee. For valuable public services as voluntary worker in administration of War Pensions.
Ada Davies, Lady Superintendent Plaistow Maternity Hospital.
Frances Isabella Hepburn, Secretary and Treasurer of the Edinburgh Branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Margaret Elizabeth Shelton-Jones, Member of Warrington, Widnes and District War Pensions Committee. For valuable public services as voluntary worker in administration of War Pensions.
Jane Mottershead, Senior Assistant Matron, Cheshire County Mental Hospital, Macclesfield.
Florence Elizabeth Pearse, Inspector of Midwives and Superintendent of Health Visitors, Oxford.
Hannah Ada Turner, Member of Bristol and District War Pensions Committee. For valuable public services as voluntary worker in administration of War Pensions.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Margaret Sloan, lately Principal Matron. Government Medical Department, Hong Kong.
Munshi Yusuf Hussain, Sub-Inspector, United Provinces Police.
Geoffrey Bernard Sandeman Prance, Superintendent, Punjab Police.
Ch. Mahmud Khan, Sub-Inspector, Punjab Police.
His Majesty has also graciously consented to a bar to the King's Police Medal being handed to the next-of-kin of the undermentioned officer, who died on the 26th December, 1926, and who would have received the decoration had he survived:
Harry Rivett Cecil Guise MC Superintendent, Bihar and Orissa Police.
England and Wales
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Augustus Douglas Stevens CBE Chief Constable of Bedfordshire.
John William A. Danby, Chief Constable of Hyde Borough Police.
William Jones MBE Chief Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Glamorgan County Police.
Philip Fermer Ambrose MBE Chief Superintendent, Kent County Police.
William Banister, Superintendent, Lancashire County Police.
Thomas Jackson, Superintendent, Warwick County Police.
Thomas William Hill, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Worcester County Police.
Alfred Clay den, Sergeant, Metropolitan Police.
Henry Pegler, Sergeant, Metropolitan Police.
Duncan Dunn, Constable, Metropolitan Police.
George Hainsby, Constable, Metropolitan Police.
William Marshall, Constable, Metropolitan Police.
Percival Roberts, Constable, Metropolitan Police.
Frederick Stone, Constable, Metropolitan Police.
Albert Turpin, Constable, Metropolitan Police.
Charles Young Brown, Constable, Devon County Police.
George Brothwood, Constable, Lancashire County Police.
Thomas Johnson, Constable, Lancashire County Police.
James Edward Dainty, Constable, Nottingham County Police.
George Edwin Beaton, Constable, Somerset County Police.
Edwin John Pollington, Con-stable, Dover Borough Police.
John Harold Clarke, Constable, Liverpool City Police.
William Henry Smith, Constable, Liverpool City Police.
Frank Leech, Constable, Salford Borough Police.
Fire Brigade
Captain Henry John Butler MBE Superintendent and Chief Officer, Wimbledon Fire Brigade.
Scotland
Neil McLennan OBE Chief Constable, Dumbarton County Police.
Charles Cheyne MBE Chief Constable, Hamilton Burgh Police.
William Robb, Chief Constable, Renfrew Burgh Police.
David Happell MBE Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Ayr County Police.
John Syme, Superintendent and Deputy.
Chief Constable, Lanark County Police.
Graham C. Henderson, Constable, Glasgow City Police.
Arthur Williamson, Constable, Glasgow City Police.
Northern Ireland
Henry George Slack, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Australia
Stephen Condon, lately Inspector of Police and Officer in Charge of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the Western Australian Police Department.
Robert Morrison Larsen, Constable, Western Australian Police Force.
Union of South Africa
John Christian Hoehler, First Class Constable, South African Police.
British India
Lionel Bell Gasson, Deputy-Commissioner, Madras Police.
William Lane Kynaston Herapath, Superintendent, Bombay Police.