The 1939 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 30 December 1938.United Kingdom and British Empire:
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.
United Kingdom and Colonies
Barons The Right Honourable Sir (Frederick) Arthur Greer, Lately a Lord Justice of Appeal. Colonel Sir Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Lately Secretary to the Cabinet and to the Committee of Imperial Defence. Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, For political and public services. Sir Laurence Richard Philipps, For political and public services.
Privy Counsellors Richard Austen Butler, Member of Parliament for the Saffron Walden Division of Essex since May 1929. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs since February 1938. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour, May 1937 to February 1938. Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for India, September 1932 – 1937. Captain Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, Member of Parliament for the Gainsborough division of Lincolnshire since October 1924. Parliamentary Secretary, Mines Department since June 1935. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, June 1934 to June 1935.
Baronets John Donald Pollock, For benefactions and services to education. Sir (William) Peter Rylands, For political and public services in Lancashire and Cheshire.
Knights Bachelor Adolphe Abrahams, Consulting Physician. Dean of the Medical School, Westminster Hospital. Francis Adams Beane. For political and public services. Captain Thomas Andrews Bradford, For political and public services in the County of Durham. Councillor Ernest Robert Canning, For political and public services in Birmingham. Alderman Charles Henry Cartwright, For political and public services in Bournemouth. William Chamberlain, Chairman of Traffic Commissioners, North-Western Area, Ministry of Transport. Alfred Rowland Clegg, For political and public services in Shropshire. Alderman Gilfrid Gordon Craig, For political and public services in Middlesex. Councillor William Henry Crosthwaite, For political and public services in Middlesbrough. Reginald Charles Davies. For political and public services in Leeds. Gerald Dodson, Recorder of the City of London. William Lindsay Everard, Member of Parliament for the Melton Division of Leicestershire since October, 1924. For political and public services. Major John St. Vigor Fox, For political and public services in the Counties of Lincoln and Lindsey. Edward James George, Director and General Manager, the Consett Iron Company, Ltd. Alderman Henry Tom Hancock, For political and public services in the Waterloo Division of Lancashire. John George Hay. For public services as a member of the International Rubber Regulation Committee. Ernest Arthur Jelf. King's Remembrancer and Senior Master of the Supreme Court. John Wheen Kynoch, For political and public services in the East of Scotland. Adam Maitland, Member of Parliament for the Faversham Division of Kent since 1928. For political and public services. Frederick Masters, For political and public services in the East End of London. Robert Mayer, For services to music, especially in the organisation of concerts for young people. Frank James Pearce, Past President of the British Dental Association. Consulting Dental Surgeon to Guy's Hospital. John Pierce. For political and public services. Stephen Joseph Pigott, Managing Director of Messrs. John Brown and Company, Clydebank. Lieutenant-Colonel Heaton Forbes Robinson, Lately Director of Works, Imperial War Graves Commission. Robert Robinson, Waynflete Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford. Will Spens, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. For public services. Reginald George Stapledon, Professor of Agricultural Botany, University College of Wales and Director of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth. Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Augustus Douglas Stevens, Chief Constable of Bedfordshire. Edgar William Thew. Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise. Harry Sheil Elster Vanderpant, Chairman, London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee. Harry Vincent, For public and philanthropic services in Birmingham. John Ballingall Forbes Watson, Director of the National Confederation of Employers' Organisations. Hugh Calthrop Webster, Official Arbitrator under the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919. Stanley Charles Wyatt, Representative of the Council of Foreign Bondholders on the Council of the Repartitioned Debt of the former Ottoman Empire.
Dominions William Dixson, a well-known collector of Australiana. For public and philanthropic services in the State of New South Wales. The Honourable Walter Gordon Duncan, President of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society, State of South Australia. The Honourable George Louis Goudie, Commissioner of Public Works, Minister in charge of Immigration, and Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works, State of Victoria. George Shaw Knowles, Solicitor-General, Secretary to the Attorney General's Department and Parliamentary Draftsman, Commonwealth of Australia. Charles Manley Luke. For public services in the Dominion of New Zealand. The Honourable Henry Hubert Ostler, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, Dominion of New Zealand. John Ramsay, For services to surgery in the Commonwealth of Australia.
India and Burma John Minty Baguley, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Rangoon. Arthur Trevor Harries, Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Patna, Bihar. Chettur Madhavan Nayar, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras. Edward Bennet, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, United Provinces. Sitaram Sunderrao Patkar, lately Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Bombay. Eyre Gordon, Indian Civil Service, Chairman of the Federal Public Service Commission. Alan Hubert Lloyd, Indian Civil Service, lately Member, Central Board of Revenue, Government of India. Walter Lawrence Scott, Indian Civil Service, Member, Revenue Tribunal, Assam. Colonel Alexander James Hutchinson Russell, , Indian Medical Service, Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India. Major Henry George Howard, Chief Engineer for Electricity, Madras. Captain Ernest Whiteside Huddleston, (retired), Shipping Surveyor and Adviser, Office of the High Commissioner for India. Colonel Krishnaji Vishnoo Kukday, Indian Medical Service (retired), Central Provinces and Berar. Rai Bahadur Pandit Seetla Prasad Bajpai, Judicial Minister and Chief Justice, Jaipur State, Rajputana. Ardeshir Rustamji Dalai, Indian Civil Service (retired), Partner and Director, Messrs. Tata & Sons, and President, Indian Chamber of Commerce, Calcutta. Henry Horsman, Managing Director of the Swadeshi Cotton Mills, Cawnpore, and President of the Upper India Chamber of Commerce, United Provinces. James Reid Kay, Partner, Messrs. James Finlay & Company, Calcutta, Bengal. Nawab Shah Nawaz Khan, Member, Legislative Assembly, Punjab.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Arthur Kirwan Agar, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, British Honduras. Joseph Terence De La Mothe, For public services in Grenada. Professor William Wilson Jameson, Dean and Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Percy Alexander McElwaine, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Straits Settlements. Jayatilaka Cudah Ratwatte. For public services in Ceylon.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound,
Army General Sir Walter Mervyn St. George Kirke, Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, Aide-de-Camp General to The King, Director General of the Territorial Army, The War Office.
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, Vice-Admiral Max Kennedy Horton, Lieutenant-General William Wellington Godfrey,
Army Lieutenant-General Walter King Venning, Colonel, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Quarter-Master-General to the Forces designate. Lieutenant-General Archibald Percival Wavell, late The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command. Lieutenant-General Clive Gerard Liddell, late The Leicestershire Regiment, Adjutant-General to the Forces, The War Office.
Civil Division Honorary Colonel Benjamin Hansford, 54th (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army. Edward Ettingdene Bridges, Secretary of the Cabinet and Permanent Secretary, Offices of the Cabinet, Committee of Imperial Defence, Economic Advisory Council and Minister for Co-ordination of Defence. Sir Alexander Maxwell, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Norman Atherton Wodehouse. Rear-Admiral Bruce Austin Fraser, Rear-Admiral Lancelot Ernest Holland. Engineer Rear-Admiral Thomas Herbert Warde. Surgeon Rear-Admiral Francis Jollie Gowans, Captain John Henry Godfrey,
Army Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, late Royal Artillery, Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff, The War Office. Major-General Frederick Duke Gwynne Howell, late Royal Army Medical Corps, Honorary Surgeon to the King, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Aldershot Command. Major-General Edmund Archibald Osborne, Colonel Commandant, Royal Corps of Signals, Commander, 44th (Home Counties) Division, Territorial Army. Major-General Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart, late Royal Engineers and Royal Tank Corps, Commander, Mobile Division, Egypt. Major-General Philip Neame, late Royal Engineers, Commandant (Major-General, General Staff) Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Major-General George Guy Waterhouse, late Royal Engineers, Inspector-General and Military Adviser, Ministry of Defence, Iraq Army. Major-General James Syme Drew, late The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Commander, 5and (Lowland) Division, Territorial Army. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Harold Cecil Harrison, late Royal Marines, Royal Marine Artillery, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) and The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), Commander, I4th Infantry Brigade. Colonel Frank Noel Mason-MacFarlane, late Royal Artillery, Military Attache (graded as General Staff Officer, 1st grade), Berlin. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) John Fullerton Evetts, late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and The Royal Ulster Rifles, Commander, 16th Infantry Brigade. Major-General Cyril Dupré Noyes, Indian Army, Commander, 2nd (Rawalpindi) Infantry Brigade, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Lewis Macclesfield Heath, Indian Army, Commander, Wana Brigade, India.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal John Tremayne Babington, Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Captain John Rustat Hemsted, Lieutenant-Colonel George Haddon Bower, Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Kincardine. Honorary Colonel Sir Watkin Randle Kynaston Mainwaring, Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Flint. Major John Hayes Simonds, Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Berkshire. Thomas James Cash, Director of Finance and Assistant Under-Secretary of State, War Office. Alban Tabor Austin Dobson, Fisheries Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Harold Eastwood, Principal Assistant Secretary, Admiralty.