The 1941 New Year Honours were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 31 December 1940.United Kingdom and British Empire:
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.
United Kingdom and British Empire
Viscount William Ewart, Baron Camrose, Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Telegraph.
Baron The Right Honourable Lord Hugh Richard Heathcote Cecil. For public services. Field-Marshal Sir (William) Edmund Ironside, G.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1939–40. Sir Robert Molesworth Kindersley, G.B.E., President of the National Savings Committee. The Right Honourable Sir (Frank) Boyd Merriman, O.B.E., President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice.
Privy Counsellor Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown, J.P., D.L., M.P., Deputy Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons. Sir Walter James Womersley, J.P., M.P., Minister of Pensions.
Baronet Sir William George Coxen, lately Lord Mayor of London. Sir Kenneth Lee. For public services. Hugh Lett, Esq., C.B.E., M.B., Ch.B., President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Knight Bachelor George Abbiss, Esq., O.B.E., Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police. Alderman James Henry Sutherland Aitken, Chairman, Lancashire Education Committee. Peter Frederick Blaker Bennett, Esq., O.B.E., J.P., Past President of the Federation of British Industries. Lately Director-General of Tanks and Transport in the Ministry of Supply. William Lawrence Bragg, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., F.R.S., Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge. Frank Brangwyn, Esq., R.A., LL.D. For services to Art. Alfred William Brown, Esq., LL.D., Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of H.M. Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor. Arthur Lewis Dixon, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Patrick Joseph Dollan, Esq., Lord Provost of Glasgow. Charles Doughty, Esq., K.C. For services to the Ministry of Labour and National Service and to the Ministry of Pensions. George Dyson, Esq., Mus.D., F.R.C.M., Director of the Royal College of Music. James Weir French, Esq., D.Sc., Chairman of Messrs Barr and Stroud. William John Gick, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Adviser to the Fourth Sea Lord on Supplies, and lately Director of Stores, Admiralty. Hugh Steuart Gladstone, Esq., J.P., D.L., Convener of Dumfriesshire. Allan John Grant, Esq., J.P., Managing Director, Messrs Thomas Firth and John Brown, Limited, Sheffield. John Harry Hebb, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., Director-General, Emergency Medical Services, Ministry of Health. Randle Fynes Wilson Holme, Esq., President of the Law Society, 1939–40. Captain Elias Wynne Cemlyn Jones, Alderman, Anglesey County Council. For public services in Anglesey. Patrick Ramsay Laird, Esq., C.B., F.R.S.E., Secretary, Department of Agriculture for Scotland. Frederick William Leggett, Esq., C.B., Chief Industrial Commissioner, Ministry of Labour and National Service. Ernest John Hutchings Lemon, Esq., O.B.E., M.I.Mech.E. For services to the Air Ministry. A Vice-President of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company. Charles Lidbury, Esq., Chief General Manager and a Director of the Westminster Bank. John Maxwell, Esq., C.B.E., Chief Constable, Manchester. Samuel Osborn, Esq., LL.D., J.P., Chairman of the Sheffield Juvenile Advisory Committee. Alderman Frank Edwin Newson-Smith, lately Sheriff of London. Frank Spencer Spriggs, Esq., Managing Director of the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company. President, Society of British Aircraft Constructors, Limited. Henry Steele, Esq., Lord Provost of Edinburgh. William Bruce Thomas, Esq., K.C., President of the Railway Rates Tribunal. John Sealy Edward Townsend, Esq., F.R.S., Wykeham Professor of Physics in the University of Oxford. Brigadier-General Julian Mayne Young, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Chief Divisional Food Officer for London and the Home Counties.
Dominions Colonel Constantine Trent Champion de Crespigny, D.S.O., V.D., M.D., F.R.C.P., a leading Australian physician. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia. George Francis Davis, Esq. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia. Robert Benson Ewbank, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., lately Commissioner for Natural Resources, Newfoundland. Lionel Arthur Lindsay, Esq., an eminent artist in the Commonwealth of Australia. Fergus McMaster, Esq., Chairman of the Board of Directors of Qantas Empire Airways, Limited. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia. Clive McPherson, Esq., C.B.E., Representative of His Majesty's Government in the Commonwealth of Australia on the British Phosphate Commission. The Honourable Robert Dove Nicholls, Speaker of the House of Assembly, State of South Australia. Edmund Charles Richards, Esq., C.M.G., Resident Commissioner, Basutoland. Professor Robert Strachan Wallace, LL.D., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney, State of New South Wales. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia.
India Manohar Lal, Esq., Finance Minister of His Excellency the Governor of the Punjab. Khan Bahadur Maulvi Azizul Haque, C.I.E., M.L.A., Speaker, Bengal Legislative Assembly and Vice-Chancellor, Calcutta University, Bengal. Saiyid Fazl Ali, Esq., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Patna, Bihar. Robert Stonehouse Broomfield, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay. George Hector Thomas, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Chief Judge, Chief Court of Oudh, United Provinces. Godfrey Davis, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Judge, Chief Court, Sind. Alexander Cameron Badenoch, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Auditor-General of India. James Almond, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Indian Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner, North-West Frontier Province. Hugh Stuart Crosthwaite, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service (retired), lately Member of the Federal Public Service Commission. Colonel Charles Frederick Carson, M.C. (late R.E.), General Manager, Nortih-Western Railway, Lahore, Punjab (on leave). Percy Launcelot Orde, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Punjab. Brigadier Clinton Gresham Lewis, O.B.E., Surveyor-General of India. Frederick Sayers, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police (retired), Madras. Frederick Ernest James, Esq., O.B.E., Member of the Central Legislative Assembly. Alec Aikman, Esq., C.I.E., lately Leader of the European Group in the Central Legislative Assembly. Brevet Colonel Ram Nath Chopra, C.I.E., Indian Medical Service (retired), Professor of Pharmacology and Director, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, Bengal. Edmund Lancaster Ball, Esq., Auditor of Indian Home Accounts, India Office, London. Shanti Sarup Bhatnagar, Esq., O.B.E., D.Sc., Director of Industrial Development, Advisory Board of Scientific and Industrial Research, and lately Director, University Chemical Laboratories, Lahore, Punjab. Robert Charles Bristow, Esq., C.I.E., Administrative Officer and Harbour Engineer-in-Chief, Port of Cochin. Harry Harrison Burn, Esq., Senior Director and Chairman, Board of Directors, Messrs McLeod & Co., Ltd., Bengal. M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Narsimha Ayyangar Gopalaswami Ayyangar Avargal, C.S.I., C.I.E., Prime Minister, Jammu and Kashmir Government. Alexander George Gray, Esq., J.P., Manager, Bank of India, Limited, Bombay. Khan Bahadur Syed Maratib Ali, C.B.E., Director of the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India. Colonel Alan Henry Lawrence Mount, C.B., C.B.E., lately Chairman, Pacific Locomotive Committee. Diwan Bahadur Khanderao Gangadhar Nadkar, Diwan and President of the Council of Administration (retired), Dhar State, Central India. Sorabji Dorabji Saklatvala, Esq., M.L.A., Director, Messrs. Tata Sons, Limited, Bombay. Lala Shri Ram, Mill-owner, Delhi.
Burma U Thwin, Member of the Senate and Chairman of the Burmese Chamber of Commerce, Rangoon.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. George Gaggero, Esq., O.B.E. For public services in Gibraltar. Noel Brooks Livingston, Esq., Custos, Kingston, Jamaica. Hanns Vischer, Esq., C.M.G., C.B.E., lately Joint Secretary, Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies. Ambrose Henry Webb, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Tanganyika Territory. Norman Henry Pownall Whitley, Esq., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Uganda. Wilfrid Murray Wigley, Esq., O.B.E., lately Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Leeward Islands. Abraham Charles Gerard Wijeyekoon, Esq. For public services in Ceylon.
Order of the Garter (KG) Edward William Spencer, Duke of Devonshire, M.B.E.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., retired pay, Colonel, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, Aide-de-Camp General to The King. Sir Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins, K.C.B., Second Secretary, H.M. Treasury. The Right Honourable Sir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. Formerly H.M. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Paris.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Vice-Admiral Guy Charles Cecil Royle, C.B., C.M.G. Vice-Admiral Robert Henry Taunton Raikes, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O. Vioe-Admiral (Acting Admiral) John Cronyn Tovey, C.B., D.S.O. Vice-Admiral Sir George Frederick Basset Edward-Collins, K.C.V.O., C.B. Paymaster Rear-Admiral David Sydney Lambert, C.B., O.B.E. Lieutenant-General George James Giffard, C.B., D.S.O., late The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey). Lieutenant-General Robert Harold Carrington, C.B., D.S.O., Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, Governor of Edinburgh Castle. Colonel Gerald Trevor Bruce, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Glamorgan. Air Marshal Ernest Leslie Gossage, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O., M.C. Edward Victor Appleton, Esq., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The Honourable Sir Alexander Montagu George Cadogan, G.C.M.G., C.B., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office. Charles Northrup McLaren, Esq., Director-General of Ordnance Factories, Ministry of Supply. Archibald Rowlands, Esq., M.B.E., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Sir Arthur William Street, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., C.I.E., M.C., Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Air Ministry.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Rear-Admiral Stuart Sumner Bonham-Carter, C.V.O., D.S.O. Rear-Admiral John Guy Protheroe Vivian. Rear-Admiral Arthur Lumley St George Lyster, C.V.O., D.S.O. Rear-Admiral Eric Ritchie Bent, D.S.C. (Retired). Rear-Admiral Frederick Arthur Buckley (Retired). Engineer Rear-Admiral Macleod Gamul Arthur Edwards, O.B.E. Temporary Surgeon Rear-Admiral Cecil Pembrey Grey Wakeley, D.Sc., F.R.C.S., F.A.C.S., F.R.A.C.S. Major-General Thomas Lionel Hunton, M.V.O., O.B.E., Royal Marines. Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Thomas Jacomb Hutton, M.C., late Royal Artillery. Major-General (acting lieutenant-General) Alan Gordon Cunningham, D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Artillery. Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Maurice Fitzgibbon Grove-White, D.S.O., O.B.E., late Royal Engineers. Major-General (acting Lieutenant-General) Thomas Ralph Eastwood, D.S.O., M.O., late The King's Royal Rifle Corps. Major-General John Walter Lennox Scott, D.S.O., late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Physician to The King. Major-General Robert Walter Dickson Leslie, O.B.E., late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Physician to The King. Major-General Vivian Henry Bruce Majendie, D.S.O., Colonel, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's). Major-General Charles John Wallace, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., late The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment).