The New Year Honours 1920 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 1 January 1920 and 30 March 1920 (referred to as the 1920 civilian war honours).
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
Earl The Right Honourable Sir William St. John Fremantle Brodrick, Viscount Midleton, .
Barons Sir Bertrand Edward Dawson, , Physician-in-Ordinary to The King; Physician, London Hospital; Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Member of Senate, University of London; Chairman of Consultative Council, Ministry of Health. For public services in connection with health matters. Sir George Allardice Riddell, ., Vice-chairman of Newspaper Proprietors' Association, Ltd.; in charge of all the British Press and Colonial Press throughout the Peace Conference in Paris. For public services. The Right Honourable Sir Albert Henry Stanley, , late President of the Board of Trade.
Privy Counsellors The Honourable Charles Joseph Doherty, , Canadian Representative at the Peace Conference. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen, , Parliamentary-Secretary to Ministry of Pensions, 1916–1919, and since to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Captain the Honourable Frederick Edward Guest, , Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since 1917. Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, , late Governor-General of Nigeria. The Honourable Arthur Lewis Sifton, , Canadian Representative at Peace Conference. The Honourable William Alexander Watt, Acting Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia during absence of the Prime Minister at the Peace Conference. The Honourable Sir William Thomas White, , Acting Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada during absence of the Prime Minister at the Peace Conference.
Ireland Samuel Cunningham, Member of recent Housing Committee on Finance. Martin Henry Fitzpatrick Morris, Baron Killanin, late Chairman of the Committee on Irish Primary Education. James Macmahon, Under-Secretary for Ireland.
Baronets Sir Henry Birchenough, . For valuable services rendered to the Ministry of Reconstruction and the Board of Trade. James Buchanan, JP for the Counties of Sussex and Ross-shire; High Sheriff in 1910 of the County of Sussex. For public and local services. Sir William Ernest Cain. Most generous supporter of Hospitals and War Charities in Liverpool. John Traill Cargill, Chairman, Burmah Oil Company; Director Anglo-Persian Oil Company. For public services. Felix Cassel, , Judge Advocate-General. Hugo Cunliffe-Owen. Vice-chairman of the British-American Tobacco Company. For valuable war service in connection with propaganda work in the Far East. Commander Sir Arthur Trevor Dawson, , Royal Navy. For public services in connection with the Home Office, War Office, and Admiralty. Edward Mackay Edgar, head of firm of Sperling & Co., Merchant Bankers, Moorgate Street, London. For public services, particularly in connection with British and Canadian Trade. Walter Harry Evans. For services in connection with the War Savings Committee. Sir Thomas William Holderness, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India. John Latta. For public services in connection with Ministry of Shipping during the war. Sir Samuel Hardman Lever, , Treasury Representative at Ministry of Transport. Frederick Orr Lewis, President of Lewis Bros. Ltd., Montreal. Undertook important work for British Admiralty during war. For public services. Sir Erik Olaf Ohlson, Sheriff of Hull, 1913–1915. For public services undertaken at the request of the Foreign Office in connection with Propaganda during the war. The Right Honourable Sir Henry Augustus Robinson, , Vice-President of Irish Local Government Board. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Arthur Sanders, , Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1919; Vice-chairman of the National War Aims Committee. For public and parliamentary services. Arthur Wheeler. For work in connection with War Loans. For public and local services. David Wilson, . For public services to Agriculture in Scotland for 35 years. Colonel John Roper Wright, , Glamorganshire.
Knights Bachelor Alderman Andrew Beattie, Deputy Lieutenant for the City of Dublin. Alfred Frederick Bird, . For services rendered during the War in re-organisation of Overseas Officers' Clubs; also in connection with Discharged Sailors and Soldiers and Old Age Pensioners. Arthur Cecil Tyrrell Beck, . JP for Huntingdonshire and Bedfordshire, Parliamentary Secretary and Controller of Finance to the Ministry of National Service, 1917–19. For public and parliamentary services. Ernest A. Wallis Budge, , Oriental Professor, Head of Egyptian and Assyrian Departments of the British Museum. William Carter, Mayor of Windsor during the War. For public and local services. Harry Cartmell, Mayor of Preston, 1913–19. For public and local services. Samuel Chapman. For valuable war work, especially in connection with Perth and Perthshire Prisoners of War Fund. For public and local services. Colonel William Alfred Churchman. For public services in connection with the Ministry of Munitions Explosives Department. Josiah Court, . JP for Derbyshire; Consulting Surgeon to the Derbyshire Miners' Union in Compensation cases; Surgeon to the Staveley Great Central Railwaymen. Edwin Wood Thorpe Farley, Mayor of Dover, 1913–19. For public and local services. Alderman John Fitzgerald, Lord Mayor of Newcastle, 1914–15. For public and local services. Norris Tildesley Foster. For services in connection with the Prince of Wales's Fund; Member of Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Member of Local Appeal Tribunal. George Jefford Fowler. For 30 years Chief Magistrate for Kingston. For public and local services. Dr. Henry John Gauvain. For services rendered to the Cripples' Hospital at Alton. Francis Nugent Greer, , Irish Parliamentary Draughtsman. Philip Herbert Hanson, , Director-General of Contracts; Head of American Department and representative of Ministry of Munitions in Paris. Thomas Jaffrey. JP for Aberdeenshire; Actuary to Aberdeen Savings Bank since 1892. For public and local services. Robert Newbald Kay, Sheriff of York, 1914–15; Chairman of Recruiting Committee. For public and local services. James Kemnal, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. For public services in connection with the manufacture of Munitions. Halford John Mackinder, . For public and parliamentary services. James Macklin, Mayor of Salisbury for five years. For public and local services. Major David Hughes Morgan, Six times Mayor of Tenby. For public and local services. George William Needham, President of Oldham Royal Infirmary and Oldham Branch of St. John's Ambulance Association. For public and local services. Thomas Neill, , Chairman of the Ministry of Health Consultative Council on Health Insurance Approved Societies. Francis Grant Ogilvie, , Assistant Controller in Trench Warfare Research Department, Chemical Warfare Department. For public services. Alderman Herbert John Ormond, , Mayor of Stoke Newington, 1914–19. For public and local services. Colonel James Philip Reynolds, , Deputy Lieutenant and JP for Lancashire. For public and local services. Hugh Malcolm Robinson, , Chief Inspector of Factories. Thomas Robinson, . For public and parliamentary services. Leonard Bromfield Rowland, , Mayor of Wrexham, 1915–19. For public and local services. Professor Arthur Schuster, , late Secretary of the Royal Society. Alderman Charles Stone. Nine times Mayor of Greenwich. For public and local services. James Richard Thursfield, . Author; Fellow and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford; prominent Member of Navy Records Society. Alfred George Temple, , Director of Guildhall Gallery for 32 years. Lieutenant-Colonel William Abraham Wayland, , Mayor of Deptford, 1914–19. For public and local services. Major Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, , Ulster King of Arms.
India Mr. Justice Nalini Ranjan Chatterji, Judge, High Court, Calcutta, Bengal. Mr. Justice Basanta Kumar Mullick, Indian Civil Service, Judge, Patna High Court, Bihar and Orissa. Charles Henry Kesteven, Solicitor to the Government of India, Calcutta. Malcolm Nicholson Hogg, Partner in Forbes, Forbes, Campbell & Co., Bombay. Thomas Joseph Strangman, Advocate General, Bombay. Robert Stanes, Merchant, Madras. Percy Wilson Newson, Senior Partner, Jardine, Skimier & Co., Calcutta, Bengal. Robert Taylor, Senior Partner in the firm of John Taylor & Sons, London, and Director of the Mysore Gold Mining Company Limited, London.
Order of the Bath
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Civil Division Sir John Swanwick Bradbury, , Principal Reparations Commissioner for British Government. The Right Honourable Sir David Harrel, , Chairman of Interim Court of Arbitration, 1918–1919; in connection with Industrial questions. The Right Honourable Sir James Rennell Rodd, , until recently British Ambassador at Rome.
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Robert John Prendergast, . Rear-Admiral Henry Harvey Bruce, .
Civil Division George Lewis Barstow, , Controller of Supply Services, Treasury. Sydney John Chapman, , Joint Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade.
James Henry Brooks, Esq., , Director of Victualling, Admiralty. Henry Noel Bunbury, Esq., , Accountant General and Financial Adviser to Ministry of Shipping. Bertram Blakiston Cubitt, Esq., , Assistant Secretary, War Office. Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook, , late Director, National Physical Laboratory. Sir Claud Schuster, , Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor.
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Captain Eric John Arthur Fullerton, .
Army Colonel Thomas Francis Bruce Renny-Tailyour, , late Royal Engineers. Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Francis William Hallowes, , Indian Army.
Civil Division Captain Edgar Abraham, Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat. Charles Reginald Brigstocke, Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry. George William Chrystal, Secretary to Ministry of Pensions. Frank Lewis Dumbell Elliott, an Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Sir William Gallagher, , a Commissioner of Customs and Excise. Walter George Gates, Assistant Secretary, General Post Office. William Montagu Graham-Harrison, Second Parliamentary Counsel. George Frederick Howe, Presiding Special Commissioner of Income Tax.
Charles Knight, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health. Ernest Philip Alphonso Law, Esq., Historian at Hampton Court Palace. Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee, Esq., York Herald, College of Arms. Thomas Lodge, Esq., Secretary, Ministry of Shipping. Charles Hubert Montgomery, Esq., , Chief Clerk, Foreign Office. James Wallace Peck, Esq., Senior Assistant Secretary to Ministry of Food. Arthur Charles Pedley, Esq., , Principal, War Office. William Samuel Sarel, Esq., , an Assistant Accountant-General of the Navy. Wilfred Maurice Short, Esq., Secretary to the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, O.M., M.P. Herbert John Simmonds, Esq., , an Assistant Secretary to the Board of Education. Samuel Watt, Esq., Private Secretary to successive Chief Secretaries for Ireland
Order of the Star of India
Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) The Right Honourable Sir Francis John Stephens Hopwood, Baron Southborough, . Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Maharaja Daolat Singhji, Maharaja of Idar, Bombay. Diwan Bahadur Penungavur Rajagopala Achariyar Avargal, , Member of the Council of His Excellency the Governor, Madras.
Companions of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) Charles George Todhunter, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Council of His Excellency the Governor, Madras.