The King's Birthday Honours 1939 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the King. They were announced on 6 June 1939 for the United Kingdom and Colonies.
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.
United Kingdom and Colonies
Baron Sir Arthur Richard de Capell Brooke, . For political and public services in Northamptonshire. Major Sir Herbert Robin Cayzer, , Member of Parliament for Portsmouth South, December 1918 to 1922 and since August 1923. For political and public services. Captain the Right Honourable Herbert Dixon, , Member of Parliament for the Pottinger Division of Belfast, December 1918, and for East Belfast since 1922; and Member of the Northern Ireland Parliament for East Belfast, 1921–29, and for the Bloomfield Division since 1929. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Finance and Chief Whip in Northern Ireland since 1921. Major Sir Henry Edward Lyons, . For political and public services. Sir Frederick James Marquis, Chairman of Lewis's Ltd. For public services.
Privy Councillor The Honourable James Gray Stuart, , Member of Parliament for Moray and Nairn since December 1923. A Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury and Scottish Unionist Whip since May 1935. Herwald Ramsbotham, , Member of Parliament for Lancaster since May 1929. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, November 1931 to June 1935, and to the Ministry of Agriculture, November 1935 to 1936. Minister of Pensions since September 1936.
Baronet Sir Edward Taswell Campbell, , Member of Parliament for North-West Camberwell, 1923 to May 1929, and for Bromley since September 1930. For political and public services. Major William Philip Colfox, , Member of Parliament for North Dorset 1918–1922 and for West Dorset since 1922. For political and public services. William Julien Courtauld, . For public services and benefactions in Essex. Robert Hutchison, , President of the Royal College of Physicians. Harry Oakes. For public and philanthropic services.
Knight Bachelor William Fawell Ascroft, . For public services in Preston. Stanley James Aubrey, Chairman of the Committee of Lloyd's. Clarence Edward Bartholomew, , Chairman and Managing Director of Bryant & May Ltd. For public and social services. Max Beerbohm, . Writer and Caricaturist. Edwin John Butler, , Secretary to the Committee of the Privy Council for Agricultural Research and Secretary to the Agricultural Research Council. Francis Carnegie, , Chief Superintendent of Ordnance Factories, War Office. Cecil Thomas Carr, , Editor of Revised Statutes and Statutory Rules and Orders. John Forster, Deputy Umpire under the Unemployment Insurance Acts. William Fraser, , Deputy Chairman of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Frederic Bertram Galer, . For political and public services in Streatham. William Waymouth Gibson, President of the Council of the Law Society. John Wilson Gleed, . For political and public services in Lincolnshire. Philip Edward Haldin. For political and public services. Alderman Arthur Harbord, , Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth, 1922–24; and since 1929. For political and public services. Robert Ernest Kelly, , Professor of Surgery, University of Liverpool, Senior Honorary Surgeon, Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Professor John Graham Kerr, , Member of Parliament for the Scottish Universities since June, 1935. For political and public services in Scotland. Alderman Hubert Aloysius Leicester, . For political and public services in Worcester. Douglas McCraith, . For political and public services in Nottingham. Alexander Campbell Maclean. For public and philanthropic services. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Edmund Martin, , Chairman of the Leicestershire County Council. George Morton, , Chairman of the General Board of Control for Scotland, and Sheriff of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff. Professor Owen Willans Richardson, , Yarrow Research Professor of the Royal Society, University of London. James Martin Ritchie, , Chairman of the Bridgeton Employment Committee. Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Royds, , Member of Parliament for Grantham, 1910–22. For political and public services in Lincolnshire. Councillor Frank Leyden Sargent. For political and public services in East Islington. Thomas Drummond Shiels, , Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee for Educational work of the Non-political Empire Societies in London. Allan Gordon Smith, . For political and public services. Bernard Sugden, . For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Professor Jocelyn Field Thorpe, , Chairman of the Smoke Sub-Committee, Chemical Defence Committee, War Office. Major James Clifford Tozer, . For political and public services in Plymouth. Wynn Powell Wheldon, , Permanent Secretary, Welsh Department, Board of Education. Albert Scholick Wilkin, . For political and public services in Newcastle-upon Tyne. Herbert Geraint Williams, , Member of Parliament for Reading, 1924–29, and for Croydon South since 1932, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, 1928–29. For political and public services. Isaac Henry Wilson, . For political and public services in Mitcham, Surrey.
Dominions The Honourable William Charles Angliss, . For public services in the State of Victoria. Norman Everard Brookes. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia. Robert McIlwaine, , formerly a Judge of the High Court of Southern Rhodesia. For public services. Gerald Mussen. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia. Alderman Norman Lindfield Nock, Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney, State of New South Wales. The Honourable John Charles Puddester, Commissioner for Public Health and Welfare, Newfoundland. Professor Ernest Scott, an eminent historian in the Commonwealth of Australia.
India Andrew Gourlay Clow, , Indian Civil Service, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council. Abraham Jeremy Raisman, , Indian Civil Service, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council. Alfred William Ewart Wort, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Patna, Bihar. Hugh Rahere Panckridge, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. Sidney Burn, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras. George Hemming Spence, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative Department. Gurunath Venkatesh Bewoor, , Indian Civil Service, Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs. Benegal Rama Rao, , Indian Civil Service, Agent-General for India in the Union of South Africa. Thomas Lamb, Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, and Senior Director of Messrs. Begg Dunlop & Co., Calcutta, Bengal. Major Sardar Muhammad Nawaz Khan, , Member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, and Proprietor of the Kot Estates, Kot Fateh Khan, Attock District, Punjab. Apji Onkar Singh, , Major-General in the Kotah State Forces, Senior Member, Mahakma Khas, Kotah State, Rajputana. Charles William Charteris Carson, , Finance Minister, Gwalior. Sultan Meherally Chinoy, , Managing Director, Messrs. F. M. Chinoy & Co., Ltd., Bombay. Chirravoori Yajneswara Chintamani, , Chief Editor, The Leader, Allahabad, United Provinces. Sardar Bahadur Datar Singh, Agriculturist, Montgomery, Punjab.
Burma John William Darwood, Managing Director, J. W. Darwood & Co., Ltd., and of the Rangoon Electric Tramway and Supply Co. Ltd.
Colonies, Protectorates, &c. Rupert Briercliffe, , Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical Services, Nigeria. Owen Corrie, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Fiji, and Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific. Charles Cyril Gerahty, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Trinidad. George Laurie Pile, . For public services in Barbados.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division General Sir William Henry Bartholomew, , Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, Aide-de-Camp General to The King, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command.
Civil Division The Right Honourable Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington. Sir (Samuel) Findlater Stewart, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, India Office.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis, . Vice-Admiral James Fownes Somerville, . Surgeon Vice-Admiral Percival Thomas Nicholls, .
Army Lieutenant-General Guy Charles Williams, , late Royal Engineers, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command. Lieutenant-General Wellesley Douglas Studholme Brownrigg, , late The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), Military Secretary to the Secretary of State for War, The War Office (Director-General of the Territorial Army, designate). Lieutenant-General William Porter MacArthur, , late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Physician to The King, Director-General, Army Medical Services, The War Office.
Royal Air Force Air Marshal Christopher Lloyd Courtney, .
Civil Division Athol Lancelot Anderson, . Sir Gerald Bain Canny, , Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, . Rear-Admiral Henry Ruthven Moore, . Rear-Admiral Richard Bell-Davies, . Engineer Rear-Admiral Henry Stafford Brockman. Captain Harold Martin Burrough, . Instructor Captain Arthur Edward Hall, . Paymaster Captain David Sidney Lambert, .
Army Major-General Henry Horace Andrews Emerson, , retired pay, late Royal Army Medical Corps, late Director of Hygiene, The War Office. Major-General Thomas Sheridan Riddell-Webster, , late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Director of Movements and Quartering, The War Office. Major-General Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne, , late Grenadier Guards, General Officer Commanding, London District. Major-General Edward Felix Norton, , late Royal Artillery, Commander, Madras District, India. Major-General Dudley Graham Johnson, , late The South Wales Borderers and The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's), Commander, 4th Division. Major-GeneralWilliam Platt, , late The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, and The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's), Major-General Commanding the Troops in the Sudan and Commandant, Sudan Defence Force. Major-General John Hedley Thornton Priestman, , Colonel, The Lincolnshire Regiment, Commander, 54th (East Anglian) Division, Territorial Army. Major-General Laurence Carr, , late The Gordon Highlanders, Director of Staff Duties, The War Office. Colonel (honorary Brigadier) John Shann Wilkinson, , retired pay, late The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Colonel Alan Parry Garnier, , late The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Assistant Adjutant-General, The War Office. Major-General Ian Macpherson Macrae, , Indian Medical Service, Honorary Physician to The King, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Eastern Command, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Roland Debenham Inskip, , Indian Army, Commander, 1st (Abbottabad) Infantry Brigade, Northern Command, India. Major-General Sir Carl Herman Jess, , Australian Staff Corps, Adjutant General, Australian Military Forces.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, . Air Vice-Marshal Bertine Entwisle Sutton, .
Civil Division Honorary Colonel Sir Frank Robert Simpson, , Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Durham.