The 1938 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 1 January 1938.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 Richard, Baron Nuffield For public and philanthropic services.
Baron Field-Marshal Sir William Riddell Birdwood Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India 1925–30. Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. For public services. Sir (Henry) Leonard Campbell Brassey Member of Parliament for Northamptonshire, Northern division, 1910–18, and for the Peterborough division 1918–29. For political and public services in the Midlands. Sir (Francis) John Childs Ganzoni Member of Parliament for Ipswich, 1914 to 1923 and since 1924. For political and public services. Sir Henry Yarde Buller Lopes Chairman of Devon County Council. Deputy President of the University College of the South West of England, Exeter. For public services. Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry For political and public services.
Privy Counsellor The Right Honourable Sir John Anderson lately Governor of Bengal. Robert Spear Hudson Brigadier-General George Charles, Earl of Lucan
Baronet Sir Stephen Harry Aitchison For political and public services in Newcastle upon Tyne. Captain Derrick Wellesley Gunston For political and public services. John Auld MacTaggart For political and public services. Richard Alfred Pinsent Senior Member of the council, and Chairman of the Statutory Discipline Committee of The Law Society. Sir (Francis) Vernon Thomson Chairman of the Tramp Shipping Subsidy Committee, and of the Tramp Shipping Administrative Committee.
Knight Bachelor
Henry Alexander Chairman, Scottish Housing Advisory Committee. Charles Robert Bignold For political and public services in Norwich. James Edward Cecil Bigwood Chairman of the Joint Standing Committee of London Quarter Sessions. Chairman of the Finsbury Bench of Magistrates. Professor Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender First Director of the National Maritime Museum. For services relating to the institution of the Museum. Colonel Philip Carlebach Commandant of the City of London Cadet Brigade. For services to the Cadet movement. John Smedley Crooke For political and public services. Alderman David Davies For political and public services in St. Pancras. The Reverend Herbert Dunnico For political and public services. William Palin Elderton Chairman of the British Insurance Association. Actuary and Manager of The Equitable Life Assurance Society. Charles Bruce-Gardner Director of the Bankers' Industrial Development Company Limited. Alderman Ernest Hadfield For political and public services in Southport, Lancashire. William Albert Jenkins, Member of Parliament for Brecon and Radnor, 1922–24. For political and public services. Professor Robert James Johnstone For services to public health in Northern Ireland. Sidney Law For political and public services in Stourbridge, Worcestershire. Joseph William Leech For political and public services. Frederick Mander, General Secretary, National Union of Teachers. Henry Tindal Methold Master in Lunacy, Supreme Court of Judicature. Edward William Meyerstein, For benefactions to hospital and health services. James Wallace Peck Secretary, Scottish Education Department. Alexander Ramsay Director of the Engineering and Allied National Employers' Federation. William Reavell lately President of the British Engineers' Association. ' Charles Robertshaw, For political and public services in the Sowerby division of Yorkshire. Robert Simon Rolo For services to the British community in Egypt. William Henry Rowland For political and public services in Southampton. Admiral Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds For political and public services in Surrey. William George Savage County Medical Officer of Health, Somerset. Percival Sharp Secretary, Association of Education Committees, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. William James Oliver Sheat For political and public services in Ilford, Essex. Thomas Franklin Sibly Vice-Chancellor, Reading University. George Reeves-Smith, Chairman of the Coronation Accommodation Committee. Joshua Paterson Ross-Taylor, chairman, Highland and Agricultural Society. For services to Scottish Agriculture. Captain Ivor Broadbent Thomas For political and public services in South Wales. Charles McMoran Wilson Dean of St. Mary's Hospital Medical School. Duncan Randolph Wilson H.M. Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office. Colonel William Fitzthomas Wyley For political and public services in Coventry and Warwickshire.
Dominions Australia Alderman the Honourable Archibald Howie, Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney, State of New South Wales. George Dalziel Kelly a prominent grazier in the Commonwealth of Australia; for public services. Charles Francis Gerald McCann, Agent-General and Trade Commissioner in London for the State of South Australia. Charles Norman Paul For public and philanthropic services in the Commonwealth of Australia. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Fernand Rey lately Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate.
India Alfred Henry Lionel Leach, Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras. M.R. Ry. Rao Bahadur Arogyaswami Thamaraiselvam Pannirselvam Avargal, lately Member of the Executive Council of the Governor, and Minister, Madras. Cecil Patrick Blackwell Puisne Judee of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay. John Coldstream, Indian Civil Service, lately Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, Punjab. Bisheshwar Nath Srivastava Chief Judge, Chief Court of Oudh, United Provinces. Frederic Alexander Sachse Indian Civil Service, lately Member, Board of Revenue, Bengal. Zia-Uddin Ahmad Vice-Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University, United Provinces. Harold Nugent Colam Agent, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, Madras. Alexander Brebner Imperial Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Central Public Works Department. Sayyid Aqeel Bilgrami, Nawab Aqeel Jung Bahadur, Member of Council in the Military, Medical and Allied Departments, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government, Hyderabad, Deccan. Maharaja Rao Jogendra Narayan Ray of Lalgola (Murshidabad), Zamindar, District Murshidabad, Bengal. Sardar Nawab Naharsinhji Ishwarsinhji, Thakor of Amod, Bombay. Henry D'Arcy Cornelius Reilly, Indian Civil Service (Retired), Chief Justice in Mysore State.
Burma Arthur Eggar, Barrister-at-Law, Advocate-General, Burma.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Henry Isaac Close Brown, For public services in Jamaica. Bernard Arthur Crean, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, British Guiana. Lambert Wilfred Alexander De Soysa, For public services in Ceylon. William Edgar Hunt Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner, Southern Provinces, Nigeria. Harry Herbert Trusted, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Palestine.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
Civil Division Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Engineer Vice-Admiral George Preece General John Standish Surtees Prendergast, Viscount Gort Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office. Lieutenant-General Arthur Edward McNamara Lieutenant-General Geoffrey Weston Howard
Civil Division Stanley Vernon Goodall Honorary Colonel Francis Killigrew Seymour Metford Sir Thomas James Barnes H.M. Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor. Gilbert Francis Montriou Campion Clerk of the House of Commons. Sir (Richard Henry) Archibald Carter Permanent Secretary, Admiralty. Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Director of the National Gallery. Surveyor of the King's Pictures. Maurice Gerald Holmes Permanent Secretary, Board of Education. Lucius Abel John Granville Ram First Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Rear-Admiral Evelyn Claude Ogilvie Thomson Rear-Admiral Lionel Victor Wells Rear-Admiral Ralph Leatham Rear-Admiral Stephen St. Leger Moore Rear-Admiral Wilfred Neville Custance Engineer Rear-Admiral Laurence Turner Major-General William Porter MacArthur Major-General Alexander Elliott Davidson Major-General George James Giffard Major-General Edward Archibald Beck Major-General Robert Harold Carrington Major-General Charles Noel Frank Broad Major-General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile Major-General Lionel Vivian Bond Colonel Alexander Patrick Drummond Telfer-Smollett Colonel Alfred Henry Hopwood Major-General Thomas Arthur Atkinson Wilson Colonel Edward George Hall Colonel Geoffrey Noel Ford Colonel Gerald Charles Balfour Buckland Colonel Albert Cecil Fewtrell Air Marshal William Gore Sutherland Mitchell Air Vice-Marshal John Eustace Arthur Baldwin
Civil Division Brevet Colonel Bruce Atta Campbell Commanding 8th (The Argyllshire) Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's), and chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Argyll. Brigadier-General Sir Edward Thomas Le Marchant Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Nottingham. Thomas Herbert Boyd, Assistant Director General, General Post Office. Alexander Cunnison Principal Assistant Secretary, and Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Pensions William Scott Douglas, Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland. Kenneth Lyon Assistant Under Secretary of State and Director of Finance, War Office. William Palmer, Second Secretary, Board of Trade. Albert Robinson, Controller of Death Duties, Board of Inland Revenue. Albert Henry Self, Second Deputy Secretary, Air Ministry. Frank Newton Tribe Secretary, Department of the Commissioner for Special Areas (Development and Improvement), England and Wales
Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) His Highness Maharawat Ram Singh Bahadur, Maharawat of Pratapgarh, Rajputana
Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) John Gilbert Laithwaite Abraham Jeremy Raisman Frederick Hale Puckle John Anderson Thorne Charles Alexander Henderson William Henry Nelson, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Bengal
Order of St Michael and St George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) The Right Honourable Earle Christmas Grafton Page
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Sir Francis Lewis Castle Floud British High Commissioner to Canada Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock Arthur Francis Grimble Sir Wilfrid Thomas Southorn His Highness Sultan Salih Bin Ghalib Al Qu'aiti, Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla, Aden Protectorate. Herbert Hall Hall one of His Majesty's Inspectors-General of Consular Establishments. Sir Edmund St. John Debonnaire John Monson His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary (Designate) to Sweden.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) The Honourable James Edward Fenton. For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia. Theodore Grant Gray Director-General, Mental Hospitals Department, Dominion of New Zealand Major the Honourable Robert James Hudson Garnet Hercules Mackley, General Manager, Railways Department, Dominion of New Zealand. John Newman Morris George Ross Thomas, Under-Secretary of the Department of Public Instruction, and Director of Education, State of New South Wales. William Denis Battershill, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Palestine. Herbert Laurence Bayles, Colonial Administrative Service, Financial Secretary, Nigeria. Major Claude Henry Dale Commissioner for His Majesty's Eastern African Dependencies Trade and Information Office.