The 1950 New Years Honours 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. They were announced on 2 January 1950 for the United Kingdom,United Kingdom : New Zealand,New Zealand : India,India : and Ceylon.Ceylon :
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
Viscounts The Right Honourable Albert Victor Alexander, , Minister of Defence. First Lord of the Admiralty, 1929–1931; 1940–1945; 1945–1948. Member of Parliament for the Hillsborough Division of Sheffield, 1922–1931; and since 1935.
Barons Sir (Alexander) Steven Bilsland, . For public services in Scotland. Thomas William Burden, , Member of Parliament for the Park Division of Sheffield since 1942. Second Church Estates Commissioner since 1945. For political and public services. Leslie Haden-Guest, , Member of Parliament for Southwark North, 1923 and 1924, and for Islington North since 1927. For political and public services. Joseph Henderson, , Member of Parliament for the Ardwick Division of Manchester, June–October, 1931, and since 1935. A Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury since 1945. The Right Honourable John Wilmot, , Member of Parliament for East Fulham, 1931–1935; for Kennington, 1935–1945; and for Deptford since 1945. Minister of Supply, 1945–1947. For political and public services.
Privy Counsellors Sir Ronald Ian Campbell, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Cairo. The Honourable Edward James Holloway, lately Minister for Labour and National Service in the Commonwealth of Australia. The Honourable Don Stephen Senanayake, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence and External Affairs of Ceylon.
Knights Bachelor Robert Henry Adcock, , Clerk of the Lancashire County Council. Colin Skelton Anderson, President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom. Harold Esmond Arnison Boldero, , Dean of the Medical School, Middlesex Hospital. Registrar, Royal College of Physicians. Professor Arthur Lyon Bowley, . For services to the study of statistics and economics. Leslie Stuart Brass, , Legal Adviser, Home Office. Andrew Meikle Bryan, , HM Chief Inspector of Mines, Ministry of Fuel and Power. Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge, , deputy chairman, Public School Governing Bodies Association. For services to education. Colonel Robert Chapman, , chairman, Finchale Abbey Training Centre for the Disabled, County Durham. John Alexander Charles, , Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. Henry Laurence Urling Clark, lately Chairman of the Council of the Stock Exchange. Cuthbert Barwick Clegg, vice-president, British Employers' Confederation. John Ninian Comper, Architect. John Albert Godfrey, Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise. Philip Hendy, Director of the National Gallery. John Dunlop Imrie, , City Chamberlain of Edinburgh. Charles George Maby, , Chief Constable of Bristol. William McGilvray, , National Coal Supplies Officer. Edward Bertram Monkhouse, , Timber Controller, Board of Trade. Horace Alvarez De Courcy Pereira, Senior Registrar, Principal Probate Registry. Judge John Seymour Blake-Reed, , lately Senior British Judge of the Egyptian Mixed Court of Appeal. Arthur Sims. For services to medicine and education in the British Commonwealth. Professor Arthur George Tansley, , Chairman of the Nature Conservancy. Harold Vincent Tewson, , General Secretary, Trades Union Congress. William Willis Dalziel Thomson, , Professor of Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast. Ralph Lilley Turner, , Director, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams, Chairman of Courtaulds, Ltd. For public services. Richard Ernest Yeabsley, , Accountant Adviser to the Board of Trade and the Central Price Regulation Committee.
State of South Australia Eric Millhouse, . For public services in the State of South Australia. Thomas George Wilson, ., Director of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, State of South Australia. For public and philanthropic services.
State of Victoria The Honourable James Arthur Kennedy, Member of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria. For public services.
Colonies, Protectorates, Etc. Robert Beacroft Barker, . For public services in Jamaica. Theo Chandos Hoskyns-Abrahall, , Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner, Western Provinces, Nigeria. Charles Edward Mortimer, , Member for Health and Local Government, Kenya. Sidney John Saint, , Colonial Agricultural Service, Director of Agriculture, Barbados. Newnham Arthur Worley Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, British Guiana.
Order of the Bath
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir Arthur John Power, . Field Marshal Sir William Joseph Slim, , (8709), Special List (ex-Indian Army).
Civil Division Sir William Scott Douglas, , Secretary, Ministry of Health.
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral The Honourable Cyril Eustace Douglas-Pennant, . Vice-Admiral Edward Desmond Bewley McCarthy, .
Army General Sir Evelyn Hugh Barker, , (8095), late Infantry. Lieutenant-General John Francis Martin Whiteley, , (10235), late Corps of Royal Engineers.
Royal Air Force Air Marshal Sir Alec Coryton, . Air Marshal Sir Hugh William Lumsden Saunders, .
Civil Division Frank Godbould Lee, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Food. Sir Frank Aubrey Newsam, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department. Robert Leslie Overbury, , Clerk of the Parliaments. Sir George Wilfred Turner, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, War Office.
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Edmund Walter Anstice. Rear-Admiral (L) Stuart Latham Bateson, . Instructor Captain William Alfred Bishop, . Rear-Admiral Charles Philip Clarke, . Rear-Admiral (E) William Godfrey Cowland. Rear-Admiral Eric William Longley Longley-Cook, . Rear-Admiral Cecil Aubrey Lawson Mansergh, . Surgeon Rear-Admiral Joseph Archibald Maxwell, , (Retired). Rear-Admiral Angus Dacres Nicholl, .
Army Brigadier Edward Gordon Audland, , (17850), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General William Maurice Broomhall, , (13364), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Reginald Llewellyn Brown, , (12055), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Archibald James Halkett Cassels, , (36316), late Infantry. Major-General Ronald Basil Bowen Bancroft Cooke, , (403), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Maurice Nelson Dewing, , (13421), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Harold John Higgins, , (15754), late Royal Army Dental Corps. Brigadier Cecil Edward Ronald Ince, , (35158), late Royal Army Service Corps. Major-General Albert Percy Lambooy, , (12085), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General (temporary) Francis Robert Henry Mollan, , (5666), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Brigadier William Carden-Roe, , (8228), late Infantry. Major-General William Arthur Scott, , (11948), late Royal Corps of Signals. Brigadier Charles Roger Alan Swynnerton, , (438), late Infantry.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal David Vaughan Carnegie, . Air Vice-Marshal Edgar James Kingston-McCloughry, . Air Vice-Marshal Terence Charles St Clessie Morton, . Air Vice-Marshal Claude Bernard Raymond Pelly, . Air Vice-Marshal Charles Basil Slater Spackman, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Leslie John Vernon Bates, . Air Commodore John Francis Titmas, . Group Captain John Oliver William Oliver, .
Civil Division Colonel Douglas Stephenson Branson, , chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association, West Riding of Yorkshire. Reuben Kelf-Cohen, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power. Francis Alfred Enever, , Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of HM Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor. George Herbert Fretwell, , Director-General of Works, Air Ministry. Alexander Glen, , Deputy Secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. Arthur Hulin Gosling, Director-General, Forestry Commission. William Graham, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Robert Lowe Hall, Director, Economic Section, Cabinet Office. Stewart Scott Hall, , Director-General of Technical Development (Air), Ministry of Supply. Laurence Norman Helsby, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. Owen Haddon Wansbrough-Jones, , Scientific Adviser to the Army Council. Eric Denyer Marris, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education. Edward Francis Muir, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Works. Alfred John Newling, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence. Victor George Shepheard, , deputy director of Naval Construction, Admiralty. Stephen Shipley Wilson, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply. Alfred John Digby Winnifrith, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury. John Ernest Yates, , Director of Postal Services, General Post Office.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir John Hathorn Hall, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Uganda. Sir David Victor Kelly, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Moscow.
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) George Lewis French Bolton, executive director, International Monetary Fund. Stephen Lewis Holmes, , Second Secretary, Board of Trade. The Honourable Sir Robert James Hudson, , Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia, and Acting Governor of the Colony on several occasions. Charles Roy Price, , High Commissioner in New Zealand for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Christopher William Machell Cox, , Adviser on Education to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Harold Anthony Caccia, , until recently a Deputy Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office, now His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Vienna. Pierson John Dixon, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Prague. James Leishman Dodds, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Lima. Harold Lister Farquhar, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Stockholm.
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Brigadier John Ashworth Barraclough, , Deputy Regional Commissioner, Land North Rhine, Westphalia, Control Commission for Germany, British Element. Robert Birley, lately Educational Adviser to the Military Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Control Commission for Germany, British Element. Victor Spencer Butler, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power. Alexander Kirkland Cairncross, , lately Economic Adviser, Board of Trade. Allan Christelow, Under-Secretary, HM Treasury Delegation to Washington. Major John Ronald McGrindle, , Member of the Board of British Overseas Airways Corporation. Philip Eric Millbourn, , Adviser on Shipping in Port, Ministry of Transport. Alec Stephen Warren, Director of Canned Fish, Fruit and Vegetables, and Wholesale Trade Adviser, Ministry of Food. Edward Betham Beetham, Resident Commissioner of Swaziland. Russell John Dumas, , Director of Works, State of Western Australia. William Aitken Brown Hamilton, an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Commonwealth Relations Office. Alderman Richard Olver Harris, , Lord Mayor of the City of Hobart, State of Tasmania. Arthur Vincent Aston, , Colonial Administrative Service, Resident Commissioner, Penang, Federation of Malaya. Kenneth William Blaxter, Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office. Emanuel Camilleri, , Secretary to the Maltese Imperial Government.