The King's Birthday Honours 1936 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King Edward VIII 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 published on 19 June 1936.
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
Viscount Bertrand Edward, Baron Dawson of Penn, .
Baron Sir Herbert Austin, , Chairman of Austin Motor Company Ltd. For public services. Sir Henry Strother Cautley, , Member of Parliament for East Grinstead since January 1910, and for East Leeds, 1900-06. For political and public services. Sir (William) Malcolm Hailey, , lately Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. John William Beaumont Pease, , Chairman of Lloyds Bank Ltd. and of the Bank of London and South America.
Privy Councillor Herbrand Edward Dundonald Brassey, Earl De La Warr, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War, 1929–30, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, and Deputy Minister of Fisheries, 1930–33, Parliamentary Secretary, Board of Education since 1935. Lieutenant-Colonel David John Colville, , Member of Parliament for North Midlothian since 1929. Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade, 1931-35. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland since 1935. Captain David Euan Wallace, , Member of Parliament for Hornsey since 1924, and for Rugby, 1922-23. Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade since November 1935; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 1935; Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1931–35; Assistant Government Whip, 1928–29; Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, 1929 and 1931.
Baronet William Francis Stratford Dugdale, . For public services in Warwickshire. Captain Sidney Herbert, , Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby, 1922–31 and for the Abbey Division of Westminster since July 1932. For political and public services. Colonel Sidney Cornwallis Peel, , Chairman of the Advisory Committee, Export Credits Guarantee Department. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Kenyon Stephenson, . For political and public services in Sheffield. Colonel Sir Albert Edward Whitaker, . For political and public services in Nottinghamshire.
Knight Bachelor Irving James Albery, , Member of Parliament for Gravesend since 1924. For political and public services. William MacDonald Baird, . for political and public services in Scotland. Alderman John Bedford Burman, . For political and public services in Birmingham. Major George Frederick Davies, , Member of Parliament for the Yeovil division since October 1923. Vice-Chamberlain to HM Household since December, 1935. Assistant Government Whip, 1931–32, and a Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury, 1932-35. Edward Guy Dawber, , Architect. Vice-President and Chairman of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. Hugh Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake, . For political and public services in the County of Kent. Alfred Dyer, . for political and public services in Hastings. Ernest Julian Foley, , Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. George Henry Gater, , Clerk of the London County Council. Herbert Nigel Gresley, , Chief Mechanical Engineer, London and North Eastern Railway. Herbert John Clifford Grierson, , lately Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, Edinburgh University. Frederic Howard Hamilton. For political and public services in South-West England. Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, , Member, of Parliament for Kincardine and Western Division, December 1923 to May 1929, and since October 1931. For political and public services. George Harvey, , Member of Parliament for the Kennington division of Lambeth, October 1924 to May 1929, and since October 1931. For political and public services. Colonel Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, , Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. Judge Stanley Anthony Hill Kelly, County Court Judge. Councillor William Edwin Manchester, . For political and public services in Islington. Gilbert Thomas Morgan, , Director of Chemical Research, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. James Morton, . For services to the dye and colour industries. William Newzam Prior Nicholson, Painter. Trustee of the Tate Gallery, Millbank. Charles Phibbs. For political and public services in Merionethshire. David Charles Roberts, . For public services in Wales. David Carter Rutherford, . for public services in Hertfordshire. Albert Charles Seward, , Professor of Botany, Cambridge University, and Master of Downing College. Alderman Harry Speakman, . For political and public services in Leigh, Lancashire. Alfred St. Valery Tebbitt. For services to the Hertford British Hospital in Paris. Lieutenant-Colonel William Thomlinson, . For political and public services in the County of Durham. Frederick Joseph West, , . For public services in Manchester. James Grey West, , Chief Architect, HM Office of Works and Public Buildings.
Dominions Francis Anderson, , Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. For educational and social welfare services in the State of New South Wales. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Bickerton Blackburn, , Australian Army Medical Corps Reserve, Member of the Council of the New South Wales Branch of the British Medical Association. James Sands Elliott, . For public services in the Dominion of New Zealand. Cedric Stanton Hicks, , Professor of Human Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide in the State of South Australia. For services to medical education. Richard Linton, Agent General in London for the State of Victoria. Captain Hibbert Alan Stephen Newton, , Australian Army Medical Corps Reserve, Member of the Council, and Censor in Chief, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. John Ranken Reed, , Senior Judge of the Supreme Court, and Acting Chief Justice, Dominion of New Zealand.
India Ernest Handforth Goodman Roberts, Barrister-at-Law, Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Rangoon, Burma. John Rolleston Lort-Williams, , Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. Raja Raghunandan Prashad Singh, of Monghyr, Member of the Council of State, Zamindar and Banker, Monghyr, Bihar. Major-General Cuthbert Allan Sprawson, , Indian Medical Service, Director-General, Indian Medical Service. Robert Daniel Richmond, , Chairman, Madras Services Commission, Madras. Rajkumar Vijaya Ananda Gajapatiraj, of Vizianagram, Member of the Legislative Assembly. Major Nawab Ahmad Nawaz Khan, , Member of the Legislative Assembly, of Dera Ismail Khan, North-West Frontier Province. Charles Carter Chitham, , Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Central Provinces. Haji Khan Bahadur Nawab Muhammad Jamal Khan, Leghari, Member of the Punjab Legislative Council, Tumandar of the Leghari Tribe, Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab. Henry Tristram Holland, , Church Missionary Society, Quetta, Baluchistan. Ishvardas Lakhmidas, , Merchant, Bombay. Vivian McCaw, Senior Partner of Messrs. Kettlewell, Bullen & Co., Calcutta, Bengal. Rahimtoola Chinoy, Director of Indian Radio and Cable Communications Company, Bombay. R. Srinivasa Sarma, , Editor, The Whip, Calcutta. Geoffrey Leonard Winterbotham, Partner, Messrs. Wallace & Co., Bombay.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. John Bagnall. For public services in the Straits Settlements. Panayiotis Loizou Cacoyannis. For public services in Cyprus. Lieutenant-Colonel John Calderwood Strathearn, , Warden and Chief Surgeon of the St. John of Jerusalem Ophthalmic Hospital, Jerusalem, and Honorary Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Government of Palestine. Edmund Oswald Teale, , Mining Consultant to the Government of the Tanganyika Territory. Arthur Frederick Clarence Webber, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Sierra Leone.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral William Henry Dudley, Earl of Cork and Orrery, . General Sir Alexander Ernest Wardrop, , Colonel Commandant, Royal Horse Artillery, Colonel, 2nd Battalion (Mooltan Battalion) 9th Jat Regiment, Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp General to The King, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Wilfred Frankland French, . Surgeon Vice-Admiral Robert William Basil Hall, . Vice-Admiral Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble, . Vice-Admiral Frank Forrester Rose, .
Army Lieutenant-General Sir John Edward Spencer Brind, (late Royal Artillery), Adjutant-General, Headquarters of the Army in India. Lieutenant-General Henry Cholmondeley Jackson, , Colonel, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command.
Civil Division Brigadier-General Walter Robert Ludlow, , Honorary Colonel, 8th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Arthur Salusbury MacNalty, , Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, and Board of Education.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Engineer Rear-Admiral Francis Edward Dean (Retired). Rear-Admiral John Augustine Edgell, . Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Layton, . Rear-Admiral Lachlan Donald Ian Mackinnon, . Engineer Rear-Admiral Percival Edwin McNeil, Royal Australian Navy. Colonel William Skeffington Poe, , Royal Marines (Retired). Rear-Admiral Bertram Home Ramsay, . Rear-Admiral Guy Charles Cecil Royle, .
Army Major-General John Blakiston-Houston, (late 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) and 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)), Commandant, Equitation School, Weedon, and Inspector of Cavalry. Major-General Thomas Gerald Dalby, (late The King's Royal Rifle Corps), Half Pay. Major-General Victor Morven Fortune, (late The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) and the Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)), Commander, 52nd (Lowland) Division, Scottish Command. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Lord Douglas Malise Graham, (late Royal Artillery), Commandant, School of Artillery, Larkhill. Major-General Robert Hadden Haining, (late Royal Artillery), Commandant, Imperial Defence College. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Edmund Henry Lancaster, Indian Army, Inspector, Royal Indian Army Service Corps Services (Southern Area), India. Major-General George Mackintosh Lindsay, (late The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) and Royal Tank Corps), Commander, Presidency and Assam District, Eastern Command, India. Major-General James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall, (late Royal Artillery), Half-Pay. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Thomas Milne, , Indian Army, Commander, Wana Brigade, Northern Command, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Edward Pellew Quinan, , Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp to The King, Commander, 9th (Jhansi) Infantry Brigade, Eastern Command, India. Major-General Dudley Sheridan Skelton, (late Royal Army Medical Corps), Honorary Surgeon to The King, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command, India. Major-General Hugh Wharton Myddleton Watson, (late The King's Royal Rifle Corps), Half-Pay. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) William Nicholas White, (late Royal Army Service Corps), Inspector of the Royal Army Service Corps.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferté, . Air Vice-Marshal Alfred William Iredell, .
Civil Division Harold Idris Bell, , Keeper of the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum. Frederick Bryant, , Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. Colonel Gerald Trevor Bruce, , Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Glamorgan. William John Gick, , Director of Stores, Admiralty. Patrick Ramsay Laird, Secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland.