The 1934 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 29 December 1933.
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 British Empire
Baron The Right Honourable Sir Evelyn Cecil Member of Parliament for East Hertfordshire, 1898–1900; for Aston Manor, 1900-1918 and for the Aston Division, 1918–1929. Chairman or Member of many Committees and Commissions. For political and public services. Godfrey Elton Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford. Member of the Executive of the National Labour Committee. For political and public services. Sir Bertram Godfray Falle Member of Parliament for Portsmouth, 1910–1918, and for Portsmouth North since 1918. For political and public services. Sir William Richard Morris Chairman of Morris Motors, Ltd., and other Companies. For public and philanthropic services. Sir (George) Douglas Cochrane Newton Member of Parliament for Cambridge Borough since March, 1922. Chairman since 1929 of the Agricultural Committee in the House of Commons. For political and public services.
Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
His Highness Aga Sultan Sir Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan Head of the Ismaili Mahomedans. Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru Advocate of the High Court, Allahabad. Edward Montagu Cavendish, Lord Stanley Member of Parliament for the Abercromby Division, 1917–18, and for the Fylde Division since 1922. A Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1924–27. Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty since 1931.
Baronetcies Major Ralph George Campbell Glyn Member of Parliament for the Clackmannan and Eastern Division, 1918–22, and for the Abingdon Division since 1924. For political and public services. Osmond Elim d'Avigdor Goldsmid For political and public services in the County of Kent. Sir William McLintock Senior Partner, Thomson McLintock & Co., Chartered Accountants. For valuable services to Government Departments. Percy John Pybus Member of Parliament for the Harwich Division since 1929. Minister of Transport, 1931–33. For political and public services.
Knight Bachelor John Stanhope Arkwright Chief Steward of the City of Hereford. Author of the hymn "O Valiant Hearts." Commander Edgar Theophilus Britten (retd.). Master of the R.M.S. Berengaria. Sydney Carlyle Cockerell Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Harry Cousins Registrar of the County Court of Cardiff and Barry and of the District Registry of the High Court at Cardiff. Ernest Arthur Eborall Chief Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue. Charles Edward FitzRoy, Solicitor to the Board of Customs and Excise. Cedric Webster Hardwicke, Actor. David Allan Hay President of the Scottish Unionist Association, 1932–33. For political and public services in Scotland. Robert Ernest Herdman Chairman of the Belfast Harbour Commissioners. William Campbell Johnston Deputy-Keeper of the Signet. Alderman Thomas Keens Member of Parliament for the Aylesbury Division, 1923–24. For political and public services. Lieutenant-Colonel Russell James Kerr Chairman, Gloucester Quarter Sessions and a former chairman, Gloucestershire County Council. For public services. Kenneth Lee Chairman of Tootal Broadhurst Lee, Co., Ltd., of Manchester, Chairman of the Industrial Grants Committee, Department of (Scientific and Industrial Research. A member of many Government Committees. William Kidston McClure Press Officer, British Embassy, Rome. Frederic Rowland Mallett For political and public services in Bolton, Lancashire. Alec Martin, Honorary Secretary of the National Art Collections Fund. Miles Ewart Mitchell, Alderman and ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester. Chairman of the Housing Committee of the Association of Municipal Corporations. An active supporter of the present slum clearance campaign. Ralph George Elphinstone Mortimer Chairman of Wansbeck Conservative Association since 1920. For political and public services in Northumberland. Robert Muir Professor of Pathology, University of Glasgow. William Nicholson. For political and public services in Leeds. Colonel John Ernest Perring For political and public services in London. Alderman John Sykes Quarmby Traffic Commissioner, Yorkshire Area. Alderman Sydney Walter Robinson Member of Parliament for Chelmsford, 1923–24. For political and public services in Essex. Reginald Percy Pfeiffer Rowe, chairman, since 1900, of the Improved Tenements Association. Founder and Honorary Treasurer of the Sadlers Wells Fund. Rear-Admiral Murray Fraser Sueter Member of Parliament for Hertford since 1921. A pioneer of British aviation. For political and public services. Luke Thompson Member of Parliament for Sunderland, 1932–29, and since 1931. For political and public services. Robert John Webber For political and public services in Cardiff. Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright Secretary and Librarian of the London Library.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Captain Gilbert Joseph Cullen Dyett Federal President of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia. For services to the Commonwealth of Australia. Geoffrey Evans Principal, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. Robert William Lyall Grant Chief Justice, Jamaica. Selwyn MacGregor Grier Colonial Secretary, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago. James Trevilly Grose, General Manager of the National Bank of New Zealand. For public services in the Dominion of New Zealand. George Henry Johnson, President of the Legislative Council and Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of the Bahama Islands. Frederick Duncan McMaster. For public services to the Commonwealth of Australia. Colonel Charles Edward Merrett President and Trustee of the Royal Agricultural Society, State of Victoria. The Honourable Langer Meade Loftus Owen formerly Justice of the Supreme Court, New South Wales, lately Royal Commissioner in Enquiry into Performing Rights in the Commonwealth of Australia. Philip Pullicino Treasury Counsel and Public Prosecutor, Malta. Major-General William Livingstone Hatchwell Sinclair-Burgess General Officer Commanding Military Forces, Dominion of New Zealand. The Honourable Joseph-Mathias Tellier, Chief Justice of the province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada.
British India U Ba, K.S.M., Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma. William Thomas Webb Baker, Indian Civil Service, lately Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay. Rao Bahadur Mr. Justice Chittoor Vaithilinga Ayyar Anantakrishna Ayyar Avargal, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras. Khan Bahadur Muhammad Abdur Rahman, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi. Hugh Augustus Macnish Hannay Agent, East Indian Railway, Bengal. Horace Williamson Indian Police, Director, Intelligence Bureau, Home Department, Government of India. Sardar Bahadur Sardar Jawahir Singh of Mustafabad, Ambala, Punjab. Raymond Patrick Hadow Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Irrigation Branch, Punjab. Rai Bahadur Badridas Goenka Merchant, Bengal. Sahibzada Abdussamad Khan Chief Minister, Rampur State, United Provinces. Behari Lai Dhingra Chief Minister, Jind State, Punjab States. M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur, Mysore Nanjundiah Krishna Rao, First Member of Council, Mysore State. Jehangir Bomanji Bomon-Behram, Solicitor, Bombay.
The Most Noble Order of the Garter
Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG) The Right Honourable James Richard, Earl Stanhope
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield
Civil Division The Right Honourable Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin, 1928–1933. The Right Honourable William Douglas, Baron Weir Managing Director of Messrs. G. & J. Weir, Limited, Glasgow.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Eric John Arthur Fullerton Vice-Admiral the Honourable Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax Vice-Admiral George Francis Hyde (Royal Australian Navy).
Army Lieutenant-General James Wilton O'Dowda Colonel, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Half-Pay List. Lieutenant-General Walter Mervyn St. George Kirke (late Royal Artillery), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command.
Civil Division Colonel John Brown Territorial Army. Sir Ralph Endersby Harwood Deputy Treasurer to His Majesty The King.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear Admiral Arthur Edward Frederick Bedford. Rear-Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay Rear-Admiral Gerald Charles Dickens Rear-Admiral Cecil Ponsonby Talbot
Army Major-General Henry Charles Rupert Hime (late Royal Army Medical Corps), Honorary Physician to The King, Deputy-Director of Medical Services, Southern Command. The Reverend Ernest Hayford Thorold Honorary Chaplain to The King, Chaplain-General to the Forces, Chaplain, Tower of London. Major-General Kenneth Gray Buchanan (late The Seaforth Highlanders (Rossshire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)). Half-Pay List. Major-General Russell Mortimer Luckock (late The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)). Half-Pay List. Major-General Alan John Hunter (late The King's Royal Rifle Corps). Half-Pay List. Colonel (Honorary Brigadier General) Alexander Brown Robertson (late The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders). Retired pay. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Francis Mackenzie Murray, Indian Army, Director of Ordnance Services, India. Colonel Neil Charles Bannatyne Indian Army, Unemployed List, late Commander, 1st (Abbottabad) Infantry Brigade, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Frederick George Gillies Indian Army, Commander, Ambala Brigade Area, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Robert Heath Anderson Indian Army, Commander, 3rd (Jhelum) Infantry Brigade, India.
Royal Air Force Group Captain Reginald John Bone
Civil Division Rear-Admiral Sidney Julius Meyrick. Paymaster Rear-Admiral Henry William Woodward. Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Strachan Nicoll Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of the City of Dundee. Colonel Harry Olive Territorial Army. Charles John Foulkes Curator of the Tower Armouries since 1913. Until recently Curator and Secretary of the Imperial War Museum. Alan Bruce Maclachlan, Principal Assist. ant Secretary, Ministry of Health. Wilfrid Medd Principal Assistant Secretary, Admiralty. Seward Pearce Lately Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions. Frederic James Edward Raby, FSA Assistant Secretary, His Majesty's Office of Works and Public Buildings.
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI) Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare Secretary of State for India.
Knight Commander (KCSI) His Highness Maharaja Chura Chand Singh Maharaja of Manipur, Assam. Sir Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier lately Legal Adviser and Solicitor to the Secretary of State for India.
Companion (CSI) William Hawthorne Lewis Indian Civil Service, Reforms Commissioner, Government of India. Alan Hubert Lloyd Indian Civil Service, First Member, Central Board of Revenue. Robert Niel Reid Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal. Joseph Miles Clay Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces. Brigadier Robert Henry Thomas lately Surveyor-General of India. Robert Benson Ewbank Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General and Educational Departments, Bombay.
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)