The King's Birthday Honours 1941 were appointments in the British Empire of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of various countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published on 6 June 1941.
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.
British Empire
Viscount The Right Honourable Richard Bedford Bennett, .
Baron The Right Honourable Sir Wilfrid Arthur Greene, , Master of the Rolls. Professor Frederick Alexander Lindemann, , Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister. Professor of Experimental Philosophy, Oxford. The Right Honourable Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, , lately Chief Diplomatic Adviser, Foreign Office.
Privy Councillor Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, , HM Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Cairo and High Commissioner for the Sudan. The Honourable Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for the Dominion of Canada in the United Kingdom.
Baronet Francis D'Arcy Cooper, Chairman of Lever Bros., and Unilever Ltd. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Export Council, Board of Trade. The Right Honourable Ronald Hibbert Cross, , High Commissioner Designate in the Commonwealth of Australia for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.
Knight Bachelor Colonel Arthur Stanley Angwin, , Engineer-in-Chief, General Post Office. Frederick George Binney, Export Manager of the United Steel Co. Ltd. Seconded for service with the Iron and Steel Control, Ministry of Supply. For special services in the supply of valuable war material. William Norman Birkett, , Chairman of the Advisory Committee appointed for the purposes of Defence Regulation 18B. Archibald Vyvyan Board, , Director of Economy, Ministry of Supply; lately Controller of Molasses and Industrial Alcohol and of Plastics. John Francis Bodinnar, , Commercial Secretary, Ministry of Food. James Callander, Director, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., General Manager of the Works at Barrow-in-Furness and of the shipyard at Walker-on-Tyne. Dennis Leo Daley, Lord Mayor of Portsmouth. For services to Civil Defence. William Ewart Diggines, Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. Ernest Basil Gibson, Town Clerk of Sheffield. Patrick Hennessy, a Member of the Advisory Council to the Minister of Aircraft Production. Edward Highton Hodgson, , Second Secretary, Board of Trade. Colonel Edward Philip Le Breton, . For public services in Dorset. Chairman of the Dorset Education Committee. Percy Macdonald, Vice-Chairman of the Lancashire County Council. Alexander Stuart Murray Macgregor, , Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Arthur Matthews, , Chairman, Alloy & Special Steels Committee, Ministry of Aircraft Production. George Parker Morris, Air Raid Precautions Controller and Town Clerk, City of Westminster. Thomas David King Murray, , lately Chairman of the Scottish Land Court. John Phin, , lately Lord Provost of Dundee. District Commissioner for the Eastern District, Scotland. His Honour Judge William Procter, Judge of the County Courts. Frederick Ernest Rebbeck, , Chairman and Managing Director, Harland & Wolff Ltd. John Douglas Ritchie, , General Manager, Port of London Authority. Professor John Sebastian Bach Stopford, , Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester. Reginald March Kesterson Turnbull, Adviser on Foreign Shipping, Ministry of War Transport. Colonel John Fisher Turner, , lately Director of Works, Air Ministry. William Tweedley Wilson, Chief Officer of Supplies, London County Council; seconded to the Ministry of Supply as Director General of Equipment & Stores.
Dominions The Honourable Albert Louis Bussau, Agent-General in London for the State of Victoria. The Honourable Frederic William Eggleston, Chairman of the Grants Commission, Commonwealth of Australia. Arthur Stretton Gaye, , United Kingdom Representative on the British Phosphate Commission. Robert Winton Gillespie, one of the founders of the Fairbridge Farm Schools in the Commonwealth of Australia. For public services. Claude Ernest Weymouth James, Agent-General in London for the State of Tasmania. Professor John Percival Vissing Madsen, , Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, and Chairman of the Radio Research Board, Commonwealth of Australia.
India Iqbal Ahmad, Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, United Provinces. Leonard Wilson, Chief Commissioner of Railways. Torick Ameer Ali, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. Mahamahopadhyaya Ganganath Jha, , Indian Educational Service (Ret'd), lately Vice-Chancellor, Allahabad University. Basil John Gould, , Indian Political Service, Political Officer in Sikkim. Frederick Tymms, , Director of Civil Aviation in India. Kenneth Grant Mitchell, , Indian Service of Engineers, Consulting Engineer (Roads) to the Government of India. Frederick Stones, , Member of the Legislative Council, Director, Messrs. E. D. Sassoon & Co. Ltd., Bombay. George Adolph Bambridge, Director, Messrs. Binny & Co. (Madras), Ltd., Madras. Vithal Narayan Chandavarkar, Barrister-at-Law, Managing Director, Messrs. N. Sirur & Co., Mill Agents, Bombay. Henry Guy Cooper, , General Manager, Burmah-Shell Oil Storage & Distributing Co. of India, Ltd. Rai Bahadur Lala Gujjar Mal, Banker, Amritsar, Punjab. Khan Bahadur Haji Abdul Latif Haji Hajrat Khan, Sholapur City, Bombay. Kumararaja Muthiah Annamalai Muthiah Chettiar, of Chettinad, Madras. Manilal Balabhai Nanavati, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India. Maharaja Pateshri Prasad Singh, of Balrampur, Taluqdar, Gonda District, United Provinces. Edward Bernard Pratt, Managing Director, Imperial Chemical Industries (India) Ltd. John Henry Swain Richardson, Director, Messrs. Andrew Yule & Co., Calcutta, Bengal.
Burma Archie Gerard Mosely, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Rangoon. John Edward Maurice Rowland, lately Chief Railway Commissioner, Burma.
Colonies, Protectorates, Etc. William Tait Bowie, . For public services in the Nyasaland Protectorate. Maurice Vivian Camacho, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, British Guiana. Philip Henry Manson-Bahr, . For services to tropical medicine and as Consulting Physician to the Colonial Office. Major Kenneth Elliston Poyser, , Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Federated Malay States. Major Hubert Craddock Stevenson, , Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner, Ashanti, Gold Coast.
Knights of the Thistle The Right Honourable Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair, , Secretary of State for Air.
Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Civil Division Lieutenant-Colonel (Honorary Colonel) Francis Henry Douglas Charlton Whitmore, , President, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Essex. Sir George Henry Gater, , Secretary, Ministry of Home Security. Henry Vaughan Markham, , Permanent Secretary, Admiralty. Sir (Evelyn) John Maude, , Secretary, Ministry of Health.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Civil Division Herbert Brittain, Principal Assistant Secretary, HM Treasury. James Temple Cotton, , Director of Contracts, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Alan Edward Ellis, Parliamentary Counsel. Henry Stanley Gregory, Director of Establishments, Ministry of Supply. Lancelot Vernon Meadowcroft, Director of Contracts, Air Ministry. Major Desmond John Falkiner Morton, , Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister. Eric Arthur Seal, lately Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. Charles Allison Taylor, , Regional Director, London Telecommunications Region, General Post Office. John Mackay Thomson, Secretary, Scottish Education Department. Orlando Cyprian Williams, , Principal Clerk in the Committee and Private Bill Office, House of Commons. Frederick Arthur Whitaker, , Civil Engineer in Chief, Admiralty. Lieutenant-Colonel Clervaux Alexander Chaytor, , Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the North Riding of the County of York. Lieutenant-Colonel John Robert Sloan Leslie, , Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the City of Glasgow. Lieutenant-Colonel (Honorary Colonel) Thomas William Pearson, , Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Monmouth.
Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander (KCSI) His Highness Maharaja Vikramsinha Rao Puar, Maharaja of Dewas, Senior Branch, Central India. Sir Andrew Gourlay Clow, , Indian Civil Service, Member of the Governor General's Executive Council. Sir Abraham Jeremy Raisman, , Indian Civil Service, Member of the Governor General's Executive Council.
Companion (CSI) Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari, , Indian Civil Service, Representative of the Government of India on the Eastern Group Supply Council and lately Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Labour. Lieutenant-Colonel John de la Hay Gordon, , Indian Political Service, resident in Mysore. Henry Foley Knight, , Indian Civil Service, Adviser to the Governor of Bombay. Cyril Edgar Jones, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department. Eric Thomas Coates, , Indian Civil Service, Financial Adviser, Military Finance, Government of India. Frederick Wynne Robertson, , Indian Civil Service (Ret'd), Chairman, Public Service Commission, Bengal. Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi, , Indian Civil Service, Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of the Central Provinces and Berar. Thomas McElderby Lyle, , Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Eastern Canals, United Provinces.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Andrew Caldecott, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Ceylon. Sir Esmond Ovey, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Buenos Aires.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Frank Gill, OBE. For services rendered in the development of the telephone industry and of international telephony. Honorary Colonel George John Bell, , formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives, Commonwealth of Australia. Rear-Admiral Arthur Bromley, , Ceremonial and Reception Secretary, Dominions and Colonial Offices. Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, , Director of Recruitment (Colonial Service), Colonial Office. Henry Guy Pilling, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Saint Helena. Henry Harold Scott, , Director of the Bureau of Hygiene & Tropical Diseases, London. Ronald Ian Campbell, , until recently His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgrade. Godfrey Thomas Havard, , until recently His Majesty's Consul-General at Beirut.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Commander Alexander Guthrie Denniston, , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Ret'd). Head of a Department of the Foreign Office. Sheffield Airey Neave, , Assistant Director, Imperial Institute of Entomology. Geoffrey Frank Braddock, , United Kingdom Trade Commissioner (Grade I) in Eire. Walter Crossfield Hankinson, , Principal Secretary in the Office of the High Commissioner in Canada for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Captain the Honourable Frank Ernest Harris, , Minister of Agriculture & Lands, Minister of Supply, Industry and Post-War Development, Southern Rhodesia. Frank Sandland Hone, . For public services in the State of South Australia. The Honourable James Hume Cook. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia. The Honourable David John O'Keefe, Speaker, House of Assembly, State of Tasmania. Harold Beckett, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office.