The King's Birthday Honours 1929 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 3 June 1929.
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 James Lyle, Viscount Inchcape, . For public services.
Viscount The Right Honourable William Clive Bridgeman, , First Lord of the Admiralty. Member of Parliament for the Oswestry Division 1906–29. For many years of public and political services. The Right Honourable Douglas McGarel, Baron Hailsham, , Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Field-Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow, Baron Plumer, . For long and distinguished public services.
Baron Sir William Ewart Berry, , Chairman of Allied Newspapers Ltd. For political and public services. Colonel Sir Edward Allen Brotherton, , Member of Parliament for Wakefield 1902-10 and 1918–22. For political, public and charitable services. The Right Honourable Sir Robert Arthur Sanders, , Member of Parliament for Bridgewater Division 1910-23) and for the Wells Division 1924–29. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries 1922–24. For political and public services. The Right Honourable Sir William George Tyrrell, , His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Paris.
Privy Councillor Bertrand Edward, Baron Dawson of Penn, , Physician in Ordinary to His Majesty The King. Major John Waller Hills, , Member of Parliament for Durham 1906–18, for the Durham Division 1918–22, and for Ripon, December 1925 to May 1929. Financial Secretary to the Treasury 1922–23. For political and public services. Sir Ellis William Hume-Williams, , Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw, January 1910 to May 1929. Recorder of Bury St Edmunds 1901–5, and of Norwich since 1905. For political and public services. The Honourable Earle Christmas Grafton Page, , Treasurer, Commonwealth of Australia. Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Henry Spender-Clay, , Member of Parliament for Tonbridge, January 1910 to May 1929. Temporary Chairman of Committees. Parliamentary Charity Commissioner 1923 to January 1924, and since December 1924. For political and public services.
Baronet Sir Arthur Balfour, , Chairman of the Committee on Industry and Trade. Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, , Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty The King. Honorary Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force). Captain Fitzroy Hamilton Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe. Has given generous gifts of land to Birmingham City and University. Benjamin Dawson, , Chairman of the Central Division, Bradford Conservative Association. For political and public services. John Wells Wainwright Hopkins, Member of Parliament for South East St. Pancras 1918–23, and October 1924 to May 1929. For political and public services. Sir Philip Edward Pilditch, , Member of Parliament for Spelthorne Division, December 1918 to May 1929. For political and public services. Frederick Henry Richmond, Chairman of Debenham Limited. Governor of Middlesex Hospital. Colonel Sir Hugh Mallinson Rigby, , Sergeant Surgeon to His Majesty The King. Alexander Nairne Stewart Sandeman, Member of Parliament for Middleton and Prestwich 1923–29. For political services. Sir Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, , Member of Parliament for the Monmouth Division 1918–29. Forestry Commissioner (unpaid) 1920 to January 1929. For political and public services. Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Lambert Ward, , Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull North West, December 1918 to May 1929. For political services.
Knight Bachelor Major John Dearman Birchall, , Member of Parliament for North East Leeds, December 1918 to May 1929. Second Church Estates Commissioner (unpaid) 1923, and since 1924. For political and public services. Alderman Charles Hayward Bird, , Chairman, Cardiff Local Employment Committee. Captain William Brass, Member of Parliament for Clitheroe, November 1922 to May 1929. For political services. Professor Henry Cort Harold Carpenter, , Professor of Metallurgy in the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science and Technology. Benjamin Arthur Cohen, , Senior Referee under the Contributory Pensions Act. Ernest Gordon Craig, Chairman and Managing Director of the New Era National Pictures Limited, Portable Talking Pictures Limited, etc. Matthew Pollock Fraser, . For political services in Scotland. Joseph Crosland Graham, . For public, political and charitable services in Denbighshire. (Philip Barling) Ben Greet, Actor and Producer of Shakespearean plays. William High, , Lord Provost of Dundee 1923–29. For public services. John Plowright Houfton, . For public and political services. Alexander Wilson Hungerford. For political services in Northern Ireland. James Ralph Jackson, , Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. William Smith Jarratt, Comptroller-General of the Patent Office. Walter George Kent, , Chairman of the Luton Division Conservative Association. For political services. William Oliver Evelyn Meade-King, , President of the Taunton Division Conservative Association. For political services. Joseph Quinton Lamb, , Member of Parliament for the Stone Division, November 1922 to May 1929. For political and public services. Andrew Jopp Williams Lewis, , Lord Provost of Aberdeen since 1925. For public services. Thomas Wallace McMullan, lately Member of Parliament for County Down, Northern Ireland Parliament. For political and public services. John Edwin Mitchell, , late President of Smethwick Unionist Association. For public and political services. Peter Chalmers Mitchell, , Secretary of the Zoological Society. William Foot Mitchell, , Member of Parliament for Dartford, January to December 1910, and for Saffron Walden 1922–29. For political and public services. James Wycliffe Headlam-Morley, , lately Historical Adviser, Foreign Office. Roland Thomas Nugent, Director of the Federation of British Industries. Alexander Pengilly, Chairman of the South Dorset Conservative Association. Chairman of the South Western Area of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations. For political and public services. William Ray, , Chairman of the Central Hackney Conservative Association. For political and public services. Henry Sutcliffe Smith, a director of the Bradford Dyers' Association. Major Charles Wentworth Stanley, , Chairman of the Cambridgeshire Conservative and Unionist Association. For public and political services. Robert Mills Welsford, , President of the Law Society. Roderick Roy Wilson, Member of Parliament for Lichfield, October 1924 to May 1929. Chairman of the British Guiana Parliamentary Commission 1926. For political and public services. Robert Stanton Woods, , Honorary Physician and Honorary Surgeon, London Hospital. For services during His Majesty's illness. Francis James Wylie, , Oxford Secretary to the Rhodes Trust.
Dominions Henry Buckleton, General Manager, Bank of New Zealand. The Honourable Alexander Lawrence Herdman, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Kelso King. For public services to the State of New South Wales. James Gordon McDonald, , President of the Rhodesia Chamber of Mines, for services to Southern Rhodesia. Professor Colin MacKenzie, , Director of the National Museum of Australian Zoology. William Herbert Phillipps, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Savings Bank of South Australia. For public services to the State of South Australia.
India Mr Justice Shah Muhammad Sulaiman, , Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Allahabad. Mr Justice Leonard Christian Adami, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Patna. Mr Justice Norman Wright Kemp, Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature, Bombay. Phillip Cahill Sheridan, , Member, Railway Board, Government of India (retired). Arthur Cecil McWatters, , Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Industries and Labour. Charles Stewart Findlay, Indian Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner, Central Provinces. Jadu Nath Sarkar, , late Vice-Chancellor, Calcutta University. Brigadier Edward Aldborough Tandy, Royal Engineers, Surveyor General of India (retired). David Petrie, , Director, Intelligence Bureau, Government of India. Sydney Charles Stuart-Williams, Chairman, Calcutta Port Commissioners. Frank Noyce, , Indian Civil Service, lately Financial Adviser to the Royal Commission on Agriculture. William Searle Holdsworth, , Vinerian Professor of English Law, in the University of Oxford, lately Member of the Indian States Enquiry Committee. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Professor of Physics, Calcutta University. Edward John Buck, , Special Correspondent of Reuter's Press Agency.
Colonies, Protectorates, &c. Colonel Kinahan Cornwallis, , Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Iraq. Robert Howard Furness, Chief Justice of Barbados. Nene Emmanuel Mate Kole, Konor of Manya Krobo, Gold Coast, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony. Michael Francis Joseph McDonnell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Palestine. Michael Henry Whitley, Attorney General, Straits Settlements.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, , (Retd). Admiral Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore, .
Army General Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode, , Colonel, The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons), Aide-de-Camp General to The King, Chief of the General Staff, Headquarters of the Army in India.
Civil Division The Right Honourable Arthur Hamilton, Viscount Lee of Fareham, , Chairman of the Police Commission.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Arthur Kipling Waistell, . Vice-Admiral John Donald Kelly, . Vice-Admiral William Wordsworth Fisher, . Paymaster Rear-Admiral Bertram Cowles Allen, .
Army Lieutenant-General Sir Cyril John Deverell, , Quarter-Master-General, India. Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Fothergill Cooke, , Indian Army, late General Officer Commanding, Lahore District, India.
Civil Division The Right Honourable Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Robert Gilbert Vansittart, , Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Additional Knight Commander Sir Frederick Stanley Hewett, , Surgeon to His Majesty The King and Surgeon Apothecary to His Majesty's Household.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral William Munro Kerr, . Rear-Admiral Henry Karslake Kitson. Rear-Admiral Charles Morton Forbes, . Engineer Rear-Admiral Edward Piercy St. John Benn. Surgeon Rear-Admiral Henry Cadman Whiteside, .
Army Major-General Harold Percy Waller Barrow, (Late Royal Army Medical Corps), Director of Hygiene, the War Office. Major-General Charles Richard Newman, , Half-pay List. Colonel William Harry Verelst Darell, , Half-pay List, late Commanding, Irish Guards and Regimental District, and 140th (4th London) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army. Colonel Henry Frederick Elliott Lewin, , Colonel, Royal Artillery, Northern Command. Colonel Winston Joseph Dugan, , Assistant Adjutant General, Southern Command. Colonel Jonathan William Shirley Sewell, (late Royal Engineers), Chief Engineer, Malta. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Bertrand Richard Moberly, , Indian Army, Commander 11th (Ahmednagar) Infantry Brigade, India. Colonel John Cavendish Freeland, , Indian Army, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, India Office. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Patrick Houston Keen, Indian Army, Commander Multan Brigade, India.