The 1946 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946. They were announced on 1 January 1946.
As part of the New Year Honours it is customary to award
peerages and
knighthoods to important public figures who have made a great service to Britain or the British people. The peerages and knighthoods awarded to citizens of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms in 1946 as part of the New Year Honours are listed.
Peerages and Privy Council
Peerages were only awarded in the
United Kingdom, and were the peerages of
Viscount (higher) and
Baron (lower), at the time being promoted to the peerage automatically gave the right to sit in the
House of Lords and vote on legislation. Included are appointments to the
Privy Council which is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
The Right Honourable
Julius Salter, Baron Southwood, Chairman, Odhams Press Ltd. Chairman of the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Committee of HRH The Duke of Gloucester's Fund. For political and public services.
Field-Marshal Sir
Henry Maitland Wilson, GCB, GBE, DSO, Aide-de-Camp General to the King.
Colin Frederick Campbell, JP, President of the British Bankers' Association. Chairman of the Committee of the London Clearing Bank, and of the National Provincial Bank, Ltd.
Major-General
Ralph Bignell Ainsworth, CB, DSO, OBE, MRCS, LRCP, Director of Medical Services, Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John.
Wallace Alan Akers, CBE, Director of Atomic Bomb Research, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Donald Coleman Bailey, OBE, AMInstCE, Acting Superintendent, Experimental Bridging Establishment, Ministry of Supply.
William Thomas Bailey, President of the Newspaper Society.
William Valentine Ball, OBE, Senior Master and King's Remembrancer, Supreme Court of Judicature.
Harold Idris Bell, CB, OBE, For services to Classical and Welsh scholarship.
The Honourable
Edward Wheewall Holden, MIE (Aust.), a Member of the Legislative Council, State of South Australia. For services to industry.
India
The Honourable Mr. Justice
Sidney Wadsworth, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras.
The Honourable Mr. Justice Rupendra Coomar Mitter, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal.
Robert Edwin Russell, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bihar.
Ivon Hope Taunton, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay.
Eric Cecil Ansorge, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor of Bihar.
John Sargent, CIE, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Education.
Major Thomas Faulkner Borwick, CIE, DSO, Director-General, Ordnance Factories, Munitions Production Branch, Government of India.
Herbert Ray Stewart, CIE, Indian Agricultural Service, Vice-Chairman, Imperial Council of Agricultural Research.
Charles Francis Waterfall, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service, lately Chief Commissioner, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Major-General
Charles Offley Harvey, CB, CVO, CBE, MC, Military Adviser-in-Chief, Indian States Forces.
George Eustace Cuffe, General Manager, Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway, and lately Director-General of Railways (Calcutta Area), Calcutta.
Percy William Marsh, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service (Retd.), Chairman, Punjab and North-West Frontier Province Joint Public Service Commission, Lahore, Punjab.
John Thorne Masey Bennett, CIE, CBE, MC, Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Punjab, and Joint Secretary to Government, Home (Police) Department, Punjab.
Clarmont Percival Skrine, OBE, Indian Political Service, His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General for Khorasan, Meshed.
Harold George Dennehy, CSI, CIE, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alistair John Ransford, CIE, Royal Engineers, Mint Master, His Majesty's Mint, Bombay.
Lieutenant-Colonel Desmond Fitz-John Fitzmaurice, CIE, Royal Engineers, Master, Security Printing, Government of India.
Percy James Edmunds, CIE, Chief Engineer, Posts and Telegraphs, New Delhi.
Lieutenant-Colonel Nilkanth Shriram Jatar, CIE, DSO, MRCS, LRCP, LMS, Indian Medical Service (Retd.), Inspector-General of Prisons, Central Provinces and Berar.
John Brownson Greaves, CBE, lately member of the Bombay Legislative Assembly, Chairman, Greaves Cotton & Company, Sheriff of Bombay.
Behram Naorosji Karanjia, lately member of the Bombay Legislative. Council, Businessman, Bombay.
Frank Ware, CIE, FRCVS, Director of Animal Husbandry, United Provinces.
Major Nawab Muhammad Jamshed Ali Khan, MBE, lately member of the United Provinces Legislative Assembly, Zamindar of Baghpat, Meerut District, United Provinces.
Lieutenant-Colonel
Sahib Singh Sokhey, Indian Medical Service, Director, Haffkine Institute, Bombay.