The King's Birthday Honours 1930 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King. They were published on 30 May 1930.
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
Baron The Right Honourable Noel Edward Buxton, , Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. Henry Sanderson Furniss, , Principal of Ruskin College, Oxford, 1916–25. For services to education. The Right Honourable Sir Esme William Howard, . Lately His Majesty's Ambassador to the United States of America.
Baronet Sir Leonard Dunning, one of HM Inspectors of Constabulary. Basil Mott, , Consulting Engineer. A past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Frederick Henry Royce, . Founder, Director and Chief Engineer of Rolls-Royce Ltd.
Knight Bachelor Harry John Barclay, , Honorary Secretary of the Amateur Athletic Association. Captain Ernest Nathaniel Bennett, . Member of Parliament for Central Cardiff since 1929. For political and public services. Norman Godfrey Bennett, . President of the British Dental Association. Edward Brown, . Secretary, National Poultry Council of England and Wales. John Charles Couper, . Purse Bearer to the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Valentine George Crittall, . Member of Parliament for Maldon (Essex) 1923–24. For political and public services. Major Thomas Henry Crozier. Chief Inspector of Explosives, Home Office. Henry Augustus Ferguson-Davie, . Principal Clerk, Public Bill Office, and Clerk of the Fees, House of Commons. Arthur Denman, . Clerk of Assize, South Eastern Circuit. Eliot Arthur de Pass, Chairman, West India Committee. Arthur Stanley Eddington, . Plumian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge. Alderman George Edwards, . Member of Parliament for South Norfolk, 1920–22 and 1923–24. Member of Norfolk County Council since 1906. For services to Agricultural workers. Percy Winn Everett, . For services in connection with the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movements. Alfred Edward Faulkner, . Permanent Under Secretary, Mines Department. Harold Delf Gillies, , Major Royal Army Medical Corps (Retd.) Chief Plastic Surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions. For valuable services in the treatment of facial disfigurement. Alexander Glegg, . Sometime Chairman of the Council of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, and for a number of years Treasurer of the London Congregational Union. Francis William Goodenough, , Controller of Gas Sales to the Gas, Light & Coke Company. Chairman of the British Commercial Gas Association. President of the Incorporated Sales Managers Association. Chairman of the Government Committee on Education for Salesmanship. Andrew Grierson, . For eminent services to local government. Town Clerk of the City of Edinburgh. Professor Leonard Erskine Hill, . Director, Department of Applied Physiology, National Institute for Medical Research. Thomas Eustace Hill, . Lately Medical Officer of Health in the County of Durham. Councillor Arthur William Lambert, . Late Chairman of the Executive Committee of the North East Coast Exhibition and for services in connection with schemes for the migration of labour and for miners' welfare. Henry Alfred Lytton. A member of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Henry William Watson McAnally, . Principal Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry. Norman Macgregor Macpherson, . Law Agent in Scotland to the Treasury. Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall, . Director of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. William Cecil Owen, Chief Assistant Solicitor to the Treasury. Henry Maunsell Richards, . Senior Chief Inspector, Board of Education. John Arthur Thomson, . Regius Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen. William Richard Williams. For services in connection with the Coalfields Distress Fund. Lately Lord Mayor of Cardiff. Herbert Wright. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Governing Body, Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Kensington. For long and valuable services to the College.
Dominions Alfred Seymour Bankart, , Chairman of the Auckland War Memorial Committee. For public and charitable services in the Dominion of New Zealand. The Honourable Alexander Gordon, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court, State of New South Wales. The Honourable John Waters Kirwan, President of the Legislative Council, State of Western Australia. Edward Henry Macartney, Agent-General in London for the State of Queensland.
India Mr. Justice Howard Owen Compton Beasley, , Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Madras. Mr. Justice Arthur Page, . Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Rangoon, Burma. Raja Manmatha Nath Ray Chaudhuri, of Santosh, President, Legislative Council, Bengal. Mr. Justice Cecil Fforde, . lately Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, Punjab. Henry Hewey Francis Macdonald Tyler, , Indian Civil Service, lately Secretary of the Indian Central Committee, Indian Statutory Commission. Rai Bahadur Moti Sagar, Vice-Chancellor, Delhi University, Delhi. Hugh Wesley Allan Watson, Indian Forest Service, lately Chief Conservator of Forests, Burma. Walter Thomas Layton, , Financial Assessor to the Indian Statutory Commission. Raja Moti Chand, , of Benares, Member of the Council of State. Nawab Say ad Muhammad Mehr Shah, Member of the Council of State, of Jalalpur, Punjab. Shams-ul-Ulama Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, , Bombay. Khan Bahadur Behramji Hormasji Nanavati, , Medical Practitioner, Bombay.
Colonies, Protectorates, &c. Steuart Spencer Davis, . Treasurer, Palestine. George Campbell Deane, Chief Justice, Gold Coast. John Randall Phillips, , President of the Legislative Council, Barbados.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, . Admiral Sir Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair, , First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to The King.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral David Murray Anderson, . Surgeon Vice-Admiral Arthur Gaskell, .
Army Lieutenant-General Alexander Ernest Wardrop, , Colonel 2/9th Jat Regiment, Indian Army. Half-pay list. Major-General Henry Fleetwood Thuillier, , (Retired pay), late Commander 52nd (Lowland) Division, Territorial Army, Scottish Command. Lieutenant-General Charles Alexander Campbell Godwin, , Indian Army, Commander, Peshawar District, India.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal David Munro, , (Retd.)
Civil Division Colonel William Coates, , (Retd.) Territorial Army.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, . Rear-Admiral George Thomas Carlisle Parker Swabey, , (Retd.) Engineer Rear-Admiral Robert Walter Benjamin Andrews. Captain Roger Mowbray Bellairs, . Colonel George Mathew, Royal Marines.
Army Colonel (temporary Brigadier) John Frederick Charles Fuller, , (late The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry), Commander, 14th Infantry Brigade, Northern Command. Colonel Gladwyn Dundas Jebb, , (late The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment), Commander, 126th (East Lancashire and Border) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army, Western Command. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Francis Douglas Logan, , (late Royal Artillery), Brigadier in charge of Administration, The British Troops in Egypt. Colonel Arthur Stedman Cotton, , (late Royal Artillery), late Brigadier, Royal Artillery, Northern Command, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Cyril Mosley Wagstaff, , (late Royal Engineers), Commander, Nowshera Brigade, Northern Command, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) William Alan Blake, , (late The King's Regiment (Liverpool)), Commander, 13th Infantry Brigade, Northern Command. Major-General Sydney Frederick Muspratt, , Indian Army, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, and Director of Staff Duties, General Staff Branch, Headquarters, India. Major-General Roger Cochrane Wilson, , Indian Army, late Commander, Wana Brigade, Northern Command, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Sydney Buxton Pope, , Indian Army, Commander, Razmak Brigade, Northern Command, India. Colonel Frank Alexander Finnis, , Indian Army, Deputy Director of Ordnance Services, Master-General of the Ordnance Branch, Headquarters, India.
Civil Division Colonel Gerald Beach, , Territorial Army. Colonel Anthony Wood Martyn, , (Retd.) Charles Herbert Bressey, , Chief Engineer, Roads Department, Ministry of Transport. Colonel Lord Arthur Howe Browne, , Principal Assistant Secretary, Imperial War Graves Commission. Richard Henry Archibald Carter, Assistant Secretary, India Office. Robert Leslie Craigie, . For services in connection with the Naval Conference, (Counsellor, Foreign Office). George Chester Duggan, , Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland.
Order of Merit (OM) Samuel Alexander, , in recognition of his eminent position as a British Philosopher and for his services as a writer and teacher. Montague Rhodes James, . In recognition of his scholarship and of his eminent contributions to Mediaeval Learning. George Macaulay Trevelyan, , Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge. In recognition of his eminent position as an Historian and of his services to Literature.
Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI) The Right Honourable Sir John Allsebrook Simon, , Chairman, Indian Statutory Commission. Field-Marshal Sir Claud William Jacob, , lately Secretary, Military Department, India Office.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) Sir George Rainy, , Indian Civil Service, Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council. Sir Denys de Saumarez Bray, , Indian Civil Service (Retd.), lately Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. John Ernest Buttery Hotson, , Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Bombay.
Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) John Edwin Clapham Jukes, , Indian Civil Service, lately Controller of Civil Accounts. Harold Anselm Bellamy Vernon, , Indian Civil Service, Member of the Board of Revenue, Madras.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Alexander Wood Renton, , lately Chairman of the Irish Grants Committee. Sir Herbert James Stanley, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Ceylon. The Honourable Sir William Augustus Forbes Erskine, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Warsaw.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Sir William Henry Clark, , High Commissioner in Canada for His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Thomas Mason Wilford, . High Commissioner in London for the Dominion of New Zealand. Sir Arthur George Murchison Fletcher, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Fiji, and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. Reginald Fleming Johnston, , Commissioner of Wei-hai-Wei. Colonel Frederick Palmer, , of the firm of Messrs. Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, Consulting Engineers to the Crown Agents for the Colonies. Henry Getty Chilton, , His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See. Herbert William Malkin, , Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office. Claud Frederick William Russell. His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)