List of members of the Order of the Companions of Honour

Below is a list of members of the Order of the Companions of Honour from the order's creation in 1917 until the present day.

Members

Date Portrait or photo Name Birth–Death Area of achievement4 June 1917Jan Smuts1870–1950Statesman4 June 1917Harry Gosling1861–1930Politician and trade unionist4 June 1917The Marchioness of Lansdowne1850–1932Courtier and humanitarian4 June 1917Elizabeth Haldane1862–1937Suffragist, writer4 June 1917K. B. Quinan1878–1948Chemical engineer4 June 1917Sir Henry Smith1863–1923Civil servant4 June 1917The Lord Burnham1862–1933Newspaper proprietor and politician4 June 1917Sir Frank Swettenham1850–1946Colonial administrator4 June 1917Edward Strutt1854–1930Agriculturalist4 June 1917The Lord Faringdon1850–1934Financier and politician4 June 1917The Viscount Chetwynd1863–1936Industrialist4 June 1917William Ripper1853–1937Educationalist4 June 1917May Tennant1869–1946Civil servant and social reformer4 June 1917Violet Markham1872–1959Social reformer4 June 1917William John Davis1848–1934Trade unionist4 June 1917George Wardle1865–1947Politician4 June 1917Alexander Wilkie1850–1928Politician1 January 1918Sir John Furley1836–1919Humanitarian1 January 1918James Andrew Seddon1868–1939Politician and trade unionist1 January 1918James Parker1863–1948Politician25 February 1918Sir Alfred Keogh1857–1936Doctor, head of Army Medical Service3 June 1918Sir Herbert Perrott, Bt1849–1922Humanitarian3 June 1918Sir Frederick Treves, Bt1853-1923SurgeonRemoved at own request 3 June 1918Sir Samuel Provis1845–1926Civil servant29 April 1919Walter Layton1884–1966Economist and newspaper proprietor29 April 1919Sir Thomas Royden, Bt1871–1950Businessman and politician1 January 1920George Nicoll Barnes1859–1940Politician1 January 1920Philip Kerr1882–1940Diplomat1 January 1921Sir John Ellerman, Bt1862–1933Entrepreneur and shipping magnate1 January 1921John Clifford1836–1923Nonconformist minister4 June 1921The Viscount Dillon1844–1932Antiquary and heraldist4 June 1921Arthur Headlam1862–1947Bishop of Gloucester4 June 1921Sir William Robertson Nicoll1851–1923Church minister and journalist2 January 1922Sir Henry Jones1852–1922Philosopher2 January 1922Sir Henry Newbolt1862–1938Poet2 January 1922Joseph Havelock Wilson1859–1929Trade unionist19 October 1922Sir Hall Caine1853–1931Novelist19 October 1922Winston Churchill1874–1965Statesman19 October 1922Sir Vincent Evans1851–1934Journalist and promoter of the Welsh national revival19 October 1922John Henry Jowett1863–1923Congregationalist minister25 May 1923J. C. C. Davidson1889–1970Conservative politician1 January 1926Wilson Carlile1847–1942Church Army founder5 June 1926Herbert Armitage James1844–1931Cleric and school administrator1 January 1927Hugh Sheppard1880–1937Anglican priest9 May 1927Stanley Bruce1883–1967Prime Minister of Australia3 June 1927John Jones1865–1942Congregational minister4 June 1928John Scott Haldane1860–1936Physiologist1 March 1929Florence, Lady Barrett1867–1945Gynaecologist1 March 1929John Carlile1862–1941Baptist minister, social reformer1 March 1929Lilian Baylis1874–1937Theatre producer1 March 1929Frederick Delius1862–1934Composer30 April 1929Bramwell Booth1856–1929Leader of The Salvation Army3 June 1929Thomas Jones1870–1955Civil servant and educationalist1 January 1930Maude Royden1876–1956Suffragist1 January 1930V. S. Srinivasa Sastri1869–1946Indian politician1 January 1930Gertrude Tuckwell1861–1951Trade unionist and social worker3 June 1930Margaret McMillan1860–1931Trade unionist1 January 1931Helena Swanwick1864–1939Feminist and pacifist1 January 1931Jane Harriett Walker1859–1938Medical doctor3 June 1931Albert Mansbridge1876–1952Educator3 June 1931Seebohm Rowntree1871–1954Industrialist and philanthropist1 January 1932John Buchan1875–1940Scottish author and Governor General of Canada3 June 1932E. V. Lucas1868–1938Writer3 June 1932Laurence Binyon1869–1943Poet2 January 1933Tubby Clayton1885–1972Priest and philanthropist2 January 1933John Scott Lidgett1854–1953Methodist priest and educationist3 June 1933Annie Horniman1860–1937Theatre manager1 January 1934Thomas Page1850–1936Classicist3 June 1935William Bruce1858–1936Lawyer, politician, educationalist3 June 1935John White1867–1951Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland1 January 1936J. Dover Wilson1881–1969Shakespeare scholar23 June 1936Joseph Lyons1879–1939Prime Minister of Australia23 June 1936Janet Trevelyan1879–1956Writer23 June 1936Hugh MacDowell Pollock1852–1937Businessman and Ulster Unionist politician23 June 1936George Adams1874–1966Political scientist and academic11 May 1937Melbourn Aubrey1885–1957Baptist Union of Great Britain General Secretary11 May 1937John Alfred Spender1862–1942Journalist and editor11 May 1937Charles Thomson Rees Wilson1869–1959Physicist11 May 1937The Viscountess Astor1879–1964Pioneering woman politician11 May 1937Gwendoline Davies1882–1951Philanthropist and patron of the arts1 January 1938Howell Arthur Gwynne1865–1950Newspaper editor and author8 June 1939James Mallon1875–1961Social reformer8 June 1939George Peabody Gooch1873–1968Historian1 January 1941James Louis Garvin1868–1947Journalist and author1 January 1941Arthur Henry Mann1876–1972Journalist1 January 1941Billy Hughes1862–1952Prime Minister of Australia12 June 1941A. V. Alexander1885–1965Labour politician11 June 1942The Lord Woolton1883–1964Businessman turned-politician23 June 1942Sir Earle Page1880–1961Prime Minister of Australia1 January 1943Joseph Hertz1872–1946Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth1 January 1943The Lord Leathers1883–1965Industrialist turned-politician21 May 1943J. M. Andrews1871–1956Prime Minister of Northern Ireland2 June 1943Ernest Hives1886–1965Industrialist2 June 1943The Lord Snell1865–1944Labour politician9 August 1943The Viscount Swinton1884–1972Conservative politician24 September 1943Essington Lewis1881–1961Industrialist1 January 1944Richard Casey1890–1976Australian politician and British colonial administrator1 January 1944Edmund Fellowes1870–1951Theologian and musicologist1 January 1944Robert Hudson1886–1957Conservative politician8 June 1944Sir Henry Wood1869–1944Conductor, founded the Proms4 August 1944Sir Godfrey Huggins1883–1971Prime Minister of Rhodesia1 January 1945The Earl of Selborne1887–1971Conservative politician8 June 1945Clement Attlee1883–1967Labour politician8 June 1945Arthur Greenwood1880–1954Labour politician14 June 1945Henry Williams1872–1961Bishop of Carlisle5 July 1945Harry Crerar1888–1965Canadian general17 August 1945Leo Amery1873–1955Conservative politician17 August 1945Ernest Brown1881–1962Liberal politician17 August 1945Hastings Ismay1887–1965Soldier1 January 1946Archibald Hill1886–1977Physiologist4 January 1946Peter Fraser1884–1950Prime Minister of New Zealand22 May 1946Vincent Massey1887–1967Governor General of Canada13 June 1946George Gibson1885–1953Trade unionist13 June 1946Andrew McNaughton1887–1966Canadian general and diplomat12 June 1947James Bone1872–1962Journalist12 June 1947J. W. Robertson Scott1866–1962Writer, campaigner on rural issues1 January 1948Margaret Bondfield1873–1953Pioneering woman politician1 January 1948Vita Sackville-West1892–1962Writer10 June 1948Walter de la Mare1873–1956Writer10 June 1948Howell Elvet Lewis1860–1953Bard, Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales10 June 1948William Whiteley1882–1955Labour politician1 January 1949Lord David Cecil1902–1986Biographer, historian and academic1 January 1949Arthur Deakin1890–1955Trade unionist9 June 1949Lionel George Curtis1872–1955Soldier and author1 January 1951Sir Stafford Cripps1889–1952Politician1 January 1951Robert Menzies1894–1978Prime Minister of Australia7 June 1951Sidney Holland1893–1961Prime Minister of New Zealand30 November 1951Herbert Morrison1888–1965Politician5 June 1952Walter Elliot1888–1958Scottish Unionist politician1 January 1953E. M. Forster1879–1970Novelist1 June 1953Benjamin Britten1913–1976Composer1 June 1953James Chuter Ede1882–1965Labour politician1 June 1953Ian Fraser1897–1974Conservative politician1 June 1953Tom Johnston1881–1965Labour politician10 November 1953The Lord Cherwell1886–1957Physicist1 January 1954John Christie1882–1962Founder of Glyndebourne Festival Opera8 January 1954Rab Butler1902–1982Politician10 June 1954W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Writer21 December 1954René Massigli1888–1988French diplomat1 January 1955Harry Crookshank1893–1961Conservative politician1 January 1955Hugh Martin1890–1964Christian activist9 June 1955Henry Moore1898–1986Sculptor2 January 1956The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood1864–1958Conservative politician2 January 1956Sir John Kotelawala1897–1980Prime Minister of Ceylon2 January 1956Arthur Waley1889–1966Orientalist and sinologist31 May 1956Edward Gordon Craig1872–1966Theatre practitioner31 May 1956Arnold J. Toynbee1889–1975Historian16 July 1956Nuri al-Said1888–1958Prime Minister of Iraq1 January 1957John Baillie1886–1960Theologian14 January 1957James Stuart1897–1971Scottish Unionist politician13 June 1957Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt1879–1961Conductor and musical impresario13 June 1957John Gregg1873–1961Clergyman, theologian1 January 1958The Viscount Nuffield1877–1963Industrialist12 June 1958Sir Osbert Sitwell, Bt1892–1969Writer1 January 1959Sir John Beazley1885–1970Archaeologist and art historian1 January 1959Sir Kenneth Clark1903–1983Art historian13 June 1959Walter Nash1882–1968Prime Minister of New Zealand1 January 1960Alan Lennox-Boyd1904–1983Politician31 December 1960The Earl of Limerick1888–1967Soldier31 December 1960Tunku Abdul Rahman1903–1990Prime Minister of Malaysia10 June 1961C. H. Dodd1884–1973Theologian1 January 1962Walter Matthews1881–1973Church of England priest2 June 1962The Lord Hailes1901–1974Politician20 July 1962Selwyn Lloyd1904–1978Politician20 July 1962John Maclay1905–1992Politician20 July 1962Harold Watkinson1910–1995Politician1 January 1963 Keith Holyoake1904–1983Prime Minister of New Zealand14 May 1963Paul-Henri Spaak1899–1972Belgian politician and statesman1 January 1964I. A. Richards1893–1979Literary critic1 December 1964Henry Brooke1903–1984Politician1 January 1965The Lord Silkin1889–1972Politician12 June 1965Patrick Blackett1897–1974Physicist12 June 1965Manny Shinwell1884–1986Politician1 January 1966Graham Greene1904–1991Writer1 January 1966The Baroness Summerskill1901–1980Physician, politician, writer19 May 1966Jim Griffiths1890–1975Politician19 May 1966Lady Megan Lloyd George1902–1966Politician1 January 1967Sir William Lawrence Bragg1890–1971Physicist1 January 1967Sir Mortimer Wheeler1890–1976Archaeologist5 January 1967Douglas Houghton1898–1996Politician10 June 1967Sir Arthur Bryant1899–1985Historian and writer10 June 1967Sir Harold Hartley1878–1972Chemist10 June 1967The Lord Reid1890–1975Judge and politician14 June 1967Harold Holt1908–1967Prime Minister of Australia1 January 1968The Lord Boyd-Orr1880–1971Biologist, head of FAO1 January 1968Ernest Alexander Payne1902–1980Baptist administrator1 January 1968The Lord Robbins1898–1994Economist, academic8 June 1968Patrick Gordon Walker1907–1980Politician1 January 1969Sir Adrian Boult1889–1983Conductor1 January 1969Sir John McEwen1900–1980Prime Minister of Australia1 January 1969Michael Stewart1906–1990Politician14 June 1969Sir John Barbirolli1899–1970Conductor14 June 1969Sir Allen Lane1902–1970Publisher14 June 1969Eric Williams1911–1981Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago1 January 1970Sir James Chadwick1891–1974Physicist, discovered the neutron1 January 1970Sir A. P. Herbert1890–1971Writer and advocate of law reform1 January 1970Lee Kuan Yew1923–2015Singaporean politician14 June 1970Sir Frederick Ashton1904–1988Dancer and choreographer14 June 1970Dame Sybil Thorndike1882–1976Actress1 January 1971Sir Maurice Bowra1898–1971Classicist12 June 1971Charles Best1899–1978Medical researcher12 June 1971Sir Arthur Bliss1891–1975Composer12 June 1971John Gorton1911–2002Prime Minister of Australia14 June 1971Joseph Luns1911–2002Dutch politician1 January 1972William McMahon1908–1988Prime Minister of Australia1 January 1972Sir Pe