The 1947 King's Birthday Honours were appointments by many of the Dominions of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made "on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty's Birthday." They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 6 June 1947.Order of the Crown of India: United Kingdom list: New Zealand list: For services in operational minesweeping:
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 Commonwealth
Order of the Crown of India Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary. Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose.
Baron Reginald Douglas Crook. For political and public services. Frederick Montague, , Member of Parliament for West Islington, 1923–31, and since 1935. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air, 1929–31. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport, 1940–41, and Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1941–42. For political and public services. Sir Arthur Frederick Richards, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nigeria. For services to the Colonial Empire. Sir Roy Lister Robinson, , Chairman, Forestry Commission.
Privy Councillor Sir (William) Norman Birkett, (The Hon. Mr. Justice Birkett), a Justice of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division. The Right Honourable Thomas Sivewright, Baron Catto, , Governor of the Bank of England. Ness Edwards, , Member of Parliament for Caerphilly since 1939. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service since 1945. The Honourable Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins, , Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia since 1934. George Mathers, , Member of Parliament for West Edinburgh, 1929–31, and for Linlithgow since 1935. Comptroller of HM Household, 1944–45, and Treasurer, 1945–46. Deputy Chief Whip, 1945–46. Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1946 and 1947. For political and public services.
Knight Bachelor John Smith Boyd, Permanent Vice-President of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation. Captain Sidney William Clift. For public services in Birmingham and the Midlands. John Samuel Dodd, Past President of the Associated British Chambers of Commerce. William Norwood East, . For services to the study of criminal psychology. Ifan ab Owen Edwards, Founder of the Welsh League of Youth. Ralph Roscoe Enfield, , Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. William Russell Flint, , President of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours. Ralph Freeman, , Partner in Freeman Fox and Partners, Consulting Civil Engineers. Douglas Thornbury Garrett, President of The Law Society. Alexander Greig, Director of Retail Co-ordination and Retail Trade Adviser, Ministry of Food. David Kennedy Henderson, , Professor of Psychiatry, Edinburgh University. Professor Ernest Laurence Kennaway, , lately Director, Chester Beatty Research Institute of the Royal Cancer Hospital, London. Russell Kettle, Senior Partner, Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths and Company. Major Hew Ross Kilner, , Deputy Chairman and Managing Director (Aviation), Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. Alexander McCall, . For public services. Andrew McCance, , Member, Advisory Council to the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Andrew Simpson Macharg, Senior Partner, McClelland Ker and Company, Glasgow. Archibald Hector McIndoe, , Civilian Consultant in Plastic Surgery to the Royal Air Force. Greville Simpson Maginness, President of the British Employers' Confederation. Charles Johns Mole, , Director-General of Works, Ministry of Works. Laurence Kerr Olivier, Actor. For services to the stage and to films. William Peters, , HM Senior Trade Commissioner in the Union of South Africa. Professor Arnold Plant. For services to Government Departments. Reginald Kaye Rowell, Controller of Death Duties, Board of Inland Revenue. Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent, , Conductor. For services to music. Alderman Walter Thompson, . For public services in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Robert Hill Tolerton, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Ifor Williams, , Professor of Welsh Language and Literature, University College of North Wales, Bangor. Robert Arthur Young, , Consulting Physician, Middlesex and Brompton Hospitals.
Dominions James Hay Gosse. For public services in the State of South Australia. Thomas William Meagher, , Lord Mayor of the City of Perth, State of Western Australia, 1939–45. For public services.
India The Honourable Mr. Justice Frederick William Gentle, Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras. The Honourable Mr. Justice Ronald Evelyn Pollock, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar. Alfred Charles Turner, , Indian Civil Service, Principal Secretary to the Government of India, Finance Department. Marmaduke Robert Coburn, , Additional Financial Adviser, Military Finance, Government of India. The Honourable Mr. Harry Douglas Townend, Member of the Council of State, President, Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Associated Chambers of Commerce. Jeffery Fellowes Crofts Reynolds, , General Manager, South Indian Railway, Trichinopoly. Brigadier Henry Lawrence Scott, , Major-General in and Chief of the Military Staff, Jammu and Kashmir State Forces. Percival Joseph Griffiths, , Member of the Central Legislative Assembly. Colonel George Reid McRobert, , Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bihar. Trevor Joselyne Matthews, Senior Director of the firm of Grindlays and Company Limited, Bankers and Agents.
Burma The Honourable Mr. Justice Reginald Taafe Sharpe, Barrister-at-Law, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Rangoon.
Colonies, Protectorates, Etc. Charles Henry Collins, , Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy Chief Secretary, Ceylon. Gate Mudaliyar Don Henry Kotelawala, . For public services in Ceylon. Mehmet Munir Bey, . For public services in Cyprus. Harold Curwen Willan, , Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Malayan Union. Eustace Gordon Woolford, . For public services in British Guiana.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir Algernon Usborne Willis, , Royal Navy. General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, (936), late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). General Sir Daril Gerard Watson, (9758), late The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
Civil Division Sir Archibald Rowlands, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Surgeon Vice-Admiral Henry St. Clair Colson, . Vice-Admiral Wilfred Rupert Patterson, . Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Ponsonby Talbot, , (Retired).
Army General Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, , (10435), late Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. Lieutenant-General Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie, , (9334), late The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
Royal Air Force Acting Air Marshal Cyril Bertram Cooke, . Acting Air Marshal Robert Victor Goddard, .
Civil Division Sir Cecil Thomas Carr, , Counsel to the Speaker. John Gerald Lang, , Permanent Secretary, Admiralty. Sir Percivale Liesching, , Secretary, Ministry of Food. Sir (Albert) Henry Self, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation. Sir (James) Ulick Francis Canning Alexander, , Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to The King.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame-Graham, . Rear-Admiral Hugh Turnour England, , (Retired). Rear-Admiral Gervase Boswell Middleton, . Rear-Admiral (E) Charles Hepworth Nicholson, . Rear-Admiral Reginald Maxwell Servaes, . Rear-Admiral Guy Langton Warren (Retired). The Venerable Archdeacon John Kenneth Wilson, , Chaplain of the Fleet. Temporary Captain Charles Rodger Noel Winn, , Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
Army Major-General Frederick Sherwood Clover, , (8070), late Royal Army Service Corps. Major-General John Frederick Boyce Combe, , (8669), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General William Alfred Dimoline, , (12284), late Royal Corps of Signals. Major-General (temporary) Bernard Edward Cooke Dixon, , (11443), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General William Foot, , (15373), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Harry Leicester Longden, , (17955), late The Dorsetshire Regiment. Major-General Neil McMicking, , (8269), late The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment). Major-General Harold Redman, , (15389), late The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Brigadier (temporary) Henry Shapcott, , (26224), late Extra Regimentally Employed List. Major-General (temporary) Alexander Wallace Sproull, , (11617), late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General (acting) Bertram Temple, , (5426), late The Gloucestershire Regiment. Major-General (acting) John Dane Woodall, , (1490), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Colonel (Temporary Major-General) Roger Eustace Le Fleming, , Indian Army. Colonel (Acting Major-General) Henry Robinson Swinburn, , Indian Army. Colonel (Temporary Major-General) John Bernard Dalison, , Indian Army. Colonel (Temporary Major-General) Malcolm Glover, , Indian Army.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Anthony Lauderdale Paxton, . Air Vice-Marshal Thomas Arthur Warne-Browne, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Allan Lancelot Addison Perry-Keene, . Air Commodore Frank Beaumont. Air Commodore Richard Bowen Jordan, . Air Commodore John Gerard Willsley Weston, . Group Captain Edgar Noel Lowe, .
Civil Division Colonel Sir James Lithgow, , Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Renfrew. Brevet-Colonel William Dillworth Crewdson, , Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Westmorland. Major Arthur Hardie Hill, , Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Bute. Stanislaus Joseph Baker, Assistant Under-secretary of State, Home Office. Bernard Barnes, , Accountant-General, Ministry of Fuel and Power. Percy Barter, Chairman, Board of Control. Eric Blacklock Bowyer, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply. Geoffrey Ronald Aubert Buckland, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service. George Calder, Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Albert Edgar Feavearyear, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Food. Reginald Hector Franklin, , Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Norman Arthur Guttery, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Benjamin Honour, , Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. Reginald William Luce, , Principal Assistant Secretary, Control Commission for Germany. James Edward Meade, Director, Economic Section, Cabinet Office. John David Morris, , Under-secretary, Admiralty. Thomas Padmore, Third Secretary, HM Treasury. Edward Talbot Paris, , Principal Director, Scientific Research (Defence), Ministry of Supply. Bertram Lamb Pearson, , Accountant-General, Ministry of Education. Harold Vale Rhodes, Under-Secretary, Ministry of National Insurance. Geoffrey William Berkeley Throckmorton, Clerk of the Journals, House of Commons. William Duncan Waterfall, Director of Savings, General Post Office. Major Michael Edward Adeane, , Assistant Private Secretary to The King.
Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI) Colonel His Highness Maharaja Shri Sir Digvijaysinhji, , Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Walter Messervy, , Indian Army, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India.