The 1941 New Year Honours were appointments by King
George VI to
various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 31 December 1940.[1]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.
Alderman James Henry Sutherland Aitken, Chairman, Lancashire Education Committee.
Peter Frederick Blaker Bennett, Esq., O.B.E., J.P., Past President of the Federation of British Industries. Lately Director-General of Tanks and Transport in the Ministry of Supply.
William Lawrence Bragg, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., F.R.S., Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge.
Brigadier-General Julian Mayne Young, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief Divisional Food Officer for London and the Home Counties.
Dominions
Colonel
Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny, D.S.O., V.D., M.D., F.R.C.P., a leading Australian physician. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
George Francis Davis, Esq. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Robert Benson Ewbank, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., lately Commissioner for Natural Resources, Newfoundland.
Professor
Robert Strachan Wallace, LL.D., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, State of New South Wales. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
India
Manohar Lal, Esq., Finance Minister of His Excellency the Governor of the Punjab.
Alec Aikman, Esq., C.I.E., lately Leader of the European Group in the Central Legislative Assembly.
Brevet Colonel
Ram Nath Chopra, C.I.E., Indian Medical Service (retired), Professor of Pharmacology and Director, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, Bengal.
Edmund Lancaster Ball, Esq., Auditor of Indian Home Accounts, India Office, London.
Shanti Sarup Bhatnagar, Esq., O.B.E., D.Sc., Director of Industrial Development, Advisory Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, and lately Director, University Chemical Laboratories, Lahore, Punjab.
Robert Charles Bristow, Esq., C.I.E., Administrative Officer and Harbour Engineer-in-Chief, Port of Cochin.
Harry Harrison Burn, Esq., Senior Director and Chairman, Board of Directors, Messrs McLeod & Co., Ltd., Bengal.
General
Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., retired pay, Colonel, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, Aide-de-Camp General to The King.
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)
Major His Highness Rukn-ud-Daula Nusrat-i-Jang, Saif-ud-Daula Hafiz-ul-Mulk Mukhlis-ud-Daula wa Muin-ud-Daula Nawab al Haj
Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan, Abbasi, Bahadur, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., LL.D, Nawab of Bahawalpur.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)
Lieutenant His Highness Raja Har Indar Singh Bahadur, Raja of Faridkot.
Robert Edwin Russell, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service,. Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bihar.
Henry Challen Greenfield, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the CentraI Provinces and Berar.
Charles MacIvor Grant Ogilvie, Esq., C.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Defence Department.
Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department.
Evan Meredith Jenkins, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Supply, and lately Chief Commissioner, Delhi.
John Bartley, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Additional Secretary and Draftsman to the Government of India in the Legislative Department.
Godfrey Ferdinando Stratford Collins, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, and lately Revenue Commissioner and Revenue Secretary, Sind.
Major-General
Hugh Clive Buckley, M.D., F.R.C.S., K.H.P., Indian Medical Service, lately Surgeon-General with the Government of Bombay.
Frank Lugard Brayne, Esq., C.I.E., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Development, Punjab.
Robert Francis Mudie, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces.
Philip Theodore Mansfield, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Orissa (on leave).
Cyril Walter Gurner, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chairman, Calcutta Improvement Trust, Bengal.
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for Palestine and High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan.
The Right Honourable
Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, K.C.M.G., C.B., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Tokyo.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
The Honourable
Owen Dixon, Judge of the High Court of the Commonwealth of Australia.
The Honourable
Godfrey Martin Huggins, F.R.C.S., Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia since 1933. On the occasion of the Jubilee celebrations of the Colony.
Lieutenant-Colonel
John Henry Maitland Greenly, C.B.E., M.I.Mech.E., formerly Controller General, British Supply Board in Canada, and Chairman of the Prime Minister's Panel of Industrialists, 1938–39.
Frank Horsfall Nixon, Esq., C.B., General Manager and Chief Underwriter, Export Credits Guarantee Department, and Joint Managing Director, United Kingdom Commercial Corporation, Limited.
Sir Ashley Sparks, K.B.E., Ministry of Shipping Representative in the United States.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Hugh Traill Armitage, Esq., Deputy Governor of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Charles Bullock, Esq., Secretary for Native Affairs, Chief Native Commissioner and Director of Native Development, Southern Rhodesia.
Charles Noble Arden Clarke, Esq., Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
Edward Parkes, Esq., M.V.O., I.S.O., Under-secretary, Chief Electoral Officer, Chief Secretary's Department, and Clerk to the Executive Council, State of Tasmania.
Victor Courtenay Walter Forbes, Esq., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Lima.
John Henry Jones, Esq., O.B.E., a Director in the Department of Overseas Trade.
Gordon Thompson Maclean, Esq., one of His Majesty's Inspectors-General of Consulates.
Eric Denholm Pridie, Esq., D.S.O., O.B.E., Director of the Sudan Medical Service.
James William Stafford, Esq., O.B.E., Director of the Passport and Permit Office.
Robert Thomson Leiper, Esq., D.Sc., M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P., Professor of Helminthology in the University of London and a Director of the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
David John Lidbury, Esq., D.S.O., lately Chairman of the First Commission of the Buenos Aires International Postal Congress, 1939. Regional Director, London Postal Region.
George Townsend Boag, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Madras.
John Gilbert Laithwaite, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Secretary to the Governor-General (Personal), and Private Secretary to the Viceroy.
Kenneth Samuel Fitze, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Secretary to His Excellency the Crown Representative, and lately Resident for Central India.
Major-General
Ernest William Charles Bradfield, C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Medical Service, Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for India, and lately Director-General, Indian Medical Service.
Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)
Sardar Bahadur Sardar Mohan Singh, lately Adviser to the Secretary of State for India.
Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Fendall Campbell, Indian Political Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of the North-West Frontier Province.
Arthur Vivian Askwith, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Commissioner, Delhi, and lately Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Home Department.
Brigadier Ernest Wood, M.C., Director-General, Department of Supply, Government of India.
Major-General William Henry McNeile Verschoyle-Campbell, O.B.E., M.C., Director of Ordnance Services, Army Headquarters, India.
Denys Pilditch, Esq., Indian Police, Director, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India.
George Milne Harper, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Senior Member, Board of Revenue, United Provinces.
Charles Alexander Muirhead, Esq., Agent and General Manager, South Indian Railway.
John David Westwood, Esq., Agent and General Manager, Bengal and North-Western Railway, Gorakhpur.
John Whitcombe Hearn, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Lahore Division, Punjab.
William Robert Tennant, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Auditor-General of India.
Thomas Cooke Samuel Jayaratnam, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner (officiating), Jubbulpore Division, Central Provinces and Berar.
Sidney Lionel Marwood, Esq., Indian Civil Service Commissioner (officiating) Patna Division, Bihar.
Yeshwant Anant Godbole, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bihar.
Major Thomas Faulkner Borwick, D.S.O., Director of Ordnance Factories, India.
David Alexander Smyth, Esq., C.B.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police (officiating), Central Provinces and Berar.
Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) George Adrien Pirn, Commandant, Officers' Training School, Belgaum.
Alakh Kumar Sinha, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Bihar (retired).
Ivon Hope Taunton, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Revenue Commissioner and Revenue Secretary, Sind, and lately Chief Secretary to the Government of Sind.
Nilakanta Mahadeva Ayyar, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chairman, Coal Mines Stowing Board, Government of India.
James Philip Mills, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Assam.
Haravu Venkatamarasimh Varada Raj Iengar, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Finance Department.
Benjamin George Holdsworth, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Madras in the Revenue Department.
William Christie, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces in the Finamce Department.
Francis Archibald Farquharson, Esq., M.C., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch.
Noel Victor Housman Symons, Esq., M.C., Indian, Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal in the Revenue Department.
Frederick Chalmers Bourne, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Home Department, and lately Deputy Commissioner, Lahore, Punjab.
Archibald Macdonald Livingstone, Esq., M.C., Agricultural Marketing Adviser to the Government of India.
Francis Michael Dowley, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer for Irrigation, Public Works Department, Madras (on leave).
Arthur Oram, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department, North-West Frontier Province.
Douglas John Blomfield, Esq., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Communications and Works Department (Communications and Buildings Branch), Bengal.
Lionel Fielden, Esq., lately Controller of Broadcasting, Government of India.
Cecil Claude Wilson, Esq., V.D., Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests (retired), Madras.
Shamaldhari Lall, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy High Commissioner for India, London.
Basil John Knight Hallowes, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Ajmer-Merwara.
Stanley Paul Chambers, Esq., lately Income Tax Adviser to the Central Board of Revenue, Government of India.
Shavax Ardeshir Lal, Esq., Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative Department, and Secretary of the Council of State.
Henry James Frampton, Esq., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department.
Major
Cyril Percy Hancock, O.B.E., M.C., Indian Political Service, Deputy Secretary, Political Department.
Hugh Weightman, Esq., Indian Political Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department, and lately Political Agent, Bahrain.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Short, Indian Medical Service, Director, King Institute, Guindy, Madras.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hawes Elliot, M.B.E., M.C., M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., F.R.C.S., D.M.R.E., Indian Medical Service, Surgeon to His Excellency the Viceroy.
Lieutenant-Colonel David Clyde, M.D., D.P.H., Indian Medical Service, Civil Surgeon, Lucknow, United Provinces.
Cuthbert George Milford Mackarness, Esq., Indian Forest Service, Conservator of Forests, Assam.
Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Hugh Crichton, Indian Medical Service, Chief Health Officer, Delhi.
Harry George Champion, Esq., Indian Forest Service, lately Conservator of Forests, United Provinces.
Surendra Nath Das Gupta, Esq., PhD, D.Litt., Indian Educational Service, Principal, Government Sanskrit College, Calcutta, Bengal.
Rao Bahadur Ranchhodbhai Bhaibabbai Patel, Barrister-at-Law, Prothonotary and Senior Master, High Court of Judicature, Bombay.
Richard Marsh Crofton, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Director-General and Secretary, Revenue Department, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad, Deccan.
Percy Stuart Macdonald, Esq., General Manager, Thomas Duff & Co., Calcutta.
Arthur Stanley Trollip, Esq., General Manager, Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Co., Ltd., Bombay.
At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with
post-nominals MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.
Fourth Class
Commander (now Captain) the Honourable Edward Pleydell-Bouverie, R.N.
Edwin Mortimer Drower, Esq., C.B.E., Adviser to the Ministry of Justice, Iraq, and Judge of the Iraqi Courts.
Harold Winthrop Clapp, Esq., M.Inst.E.E. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Lieutenant-Colonel
Frank William Frederick Johnson, D.S.O., a pioneer of Southern Rhodesia. For public services to the Colony.
Vincent Strickland Jones, Esq., O.B.E., Vice-President and General Manager of the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company, Limited. For services to Newfoundland.
Geoffrey Syme, Esq. For services to journalism in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Sir Homi Mehta, Director of the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India.
Khadija, Mrs Shuffi Cumruddin Tyabji (widow of the late Mr Shuffi Tyabji, Merchant, Bombay), Member of the Legislative Assembly, Bombay.
Robert Greenhill Cochrane, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.P., Medical Superintendent, Lady Willingdon Leper Settlement, Chingleput, Madras.
The Reverend James John Ellis, Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, Dharapuram, Coimibatore District, Madras.
Sardar Bahadur Raja Jeoraj Singh, of Sandwa, C.B.E., O.B.I., Major-General in the Bikaner State Forces, Member, Executive Council, Bikaner State, Rajputana.
Lieutenant William Patrick Smythe Mitchell, M.B.E., Indian Medical Department, Chief Medical Officer, Bastar State.
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Lockhart Downes Yule, Indian Medical Service, lately Officer Commanding, Indian Military Hospital, Delhi Cantonments.