The 1936 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 31 December 1935.
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
Viscount The Right Honourable Ernest Murray, Baron Hanworth Lately Master of the Rolls. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague, Baron Trenchard Lately Commissioner of Metropolitan Police.
Baron Sir Arthur Shirley Benn Member of Parliament for the Drake Division of Plymouth, 1910–29, and for the Park Division of Sheffield, 1931-35. For political and public services. Sir James Gomer Berry For political and public services. Sir Thomas Sivewright Catto For public services. The Right Honourable Sir Ian Macpherson Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty since 1911. Under-Secretary of State for War 1916-19. Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1918-20. Minister of Pensions, 1920-22. For political and public services.
Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: Nawab Sir Muhammad Akbar Nazar Ali Hydari Finance and Railway Member of the Executive Council of Hyderabad State. Delegate of His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad at the Indian Round Table Conferences and at the Joint Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. The Honourable Sir George Edward Rich Senior Puisne Judge of the High Court of Australia.
Baronetcies Sir Park Goff Member of Parliament for the Cleveland Division, 1918–23 and 1924–29; and for the Chatham Division, 1931-35. For political and public services. Captain Sir Connop Thirlwall Robert Guthrie For political and public services. Francis Norie-Miller For political and public services in the County of Perth. David Douglas Reid Member of Parliament for East Down, 1918–22, and for County Down since 1922. For political and public services.
Knight Bachelor Alderman Robert Noton Barclay For public and philanthropic services in Manchester. Thomas Biggart, Formerly Secretary of the Shipbuilding and of the Engineering Employers Federations. James Blindell Member of Parliament for Holland-with-Boston, since 1929. A Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, since 1932. Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Seddon-Brown For political and public services in Lancashire. Percy Carter Buck King Edward Professor of Music in the University of London. Musical Adviser to the London Council. Howard Stransom Button Chairman of the Middlesex County Council. Reginald George Clarry Member of Parliament for Newport, 1922 to 1929 and since 1931. For political and public services. Ralph Cope, Chief Accountant, Great Western Railway Company. On the occasion of the centenary of the Railway. James Fraser Cunningham For political and public services in Scotland. Colonel Bertram Joseph Tottey Ford For public and philanthropic services in Birmingham. Ioan Gwilym Gibbon Director of the Local Government Division, Ministry of Health. Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon Member of Parliament for the Moseley division of Birmingham since 1921. For political and public services. Professor Arthur Harden Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry, London University. Walter Ernest Hargreaves. For services in advising Government Departments, especially in connection with marine insurance. Hector James Wright Hetherington Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University. Walter St. David Jenkins Director of Contracts, Admiralty. Alderman Ernest Henry Kemp For political and public services in Woolwich. Alderman Charles William Melhuish For political and public services in Cardiff. Frank Mellor, Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy, Supreme Court of Judicature. Humphrey Sumner Milford Publisher to the University of Oxford. George Gibson Mitcheson Member of Parliament for St. Pancras, S.W., since 1931. For political and public services. James Norval Chairman of the Scottish National Housing Company, Limited, and of the Scottish National Housing and Town Planning Council. Charles John Pain. For political and public services in Nottingham. Ernest Sanger For political and public services in St. Marylebone. Edward John Scarles Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise. Lieutenant Colonel Francis Claude Shelmerdine Director-General of Civil Aviation, Air Ministry. Alderman William Joseph Pearman-Smith For public services in the Borough of Walsall. Alderman Francis William Terry. For political and public services in York. George Tilley. For political and public services. John Train Member of Parliament for the Cathcart Division of Glasgow since 1929. For political and public services. Lionel Ashton Piers Warner General Manager and Secretary, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. Owen William Wightman For political and public services in Hertfordshire. David Percival Dalbreck Wilkie Professor of Surgery at Edinburgh University, Member of the Medical Research Council. Professor Alfred E. Zimmern. For political and public services.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Sidney Solomon Abrahams, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Tanganyika Territory. Walter Randolph Carpenter. For philanthropic services in the Commonwealth of Australia. Edward Sheldon Cunningham For public services in the Commonwealth of Australia. Hugh Berchmans Devine For services to surgery in the State of Victoria. James Hutchison. For public services in the Dominion of New Zealand. Major Francis Walter Fitton Jackson Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner, Ashanti, Gold Coast. George Johnson. For public services in Southern Rhodesia. James Peter Obeyesekere. For public services in Ceylon. Lennox Arthur Patrick O'Reilly. For public services in Trinidad. Herbert Angas Parsons Puisne judge, Supreme Court, State of South Australia. Philip Bertie Petrides, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of MauritiusChief Judge, Mauritius. The Honourable Arthur King Trethowan. For public services in the State of New South Wales.
British India Justice Gilbert Stone, Chief Justice-designate of the High Court of Judicature at Nagpur, Central Provinces. Khan Bahadur Nawab Kazi Golam Mohiuddin Faroqui, Minister for Agriculture, Industries and Public Works to the Governor of Bengal, Bengal. Justice Mutta Venkatasubba Rao, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras. Bryce Chudleigh Burt Indian Agricultural Service, Agricultural Expert to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research. Jyotsna Nath Ghosal Indian Civil Service (retired), Member and Government Whip, Council of State. Muhammad Yamin Khan Landowner, United Provinces. Colonel Charles Isherwood Brierley Indian Medical Service (retired), lately Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals and Jails, North-West Frontier Province. John Murray Ewart Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Punjab. William Rutton Searle Sharpe, lately Chairman, Bombay Port Trust, Bombay. Sahibji Maharaj Anand Sarup, Founder of Dayalbagh, Agra, United Provinces. George Riddoch Campbell, Partner, Messrs. Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., Calcutta, Bengal. Alwyn Ezra, Director, Messrs, Bassoon J. David & Co., Ltd., Bombay. Kenneth Brand Harper, General Manager, Burma Oil Company, Rangoon, Burma. Tracy Gavin-Jones, Director, Muir Mills Company, Cawnpore, United Provinces. William Lamond, Managing Director, Imperial Bank of India, Bombay. Mangaldas Vijbhukandas Mehta Medical Practitioner, Bombay. Rai Bahadur Seray Mai Bapna Prime Minister to His Highness the Maharaja Holkar of Indore, Central India. Francis Edward Earle Villiers, formerly President of the European Association, India, and Vice-Chairman of the Union of Britain and India.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral William Milbourne James Vice-Admiral Reginald Guy Hannam Henderson Paymaster Rear-Admiral Henry William Woodward
Army Lieutenant General Edward Thomas Humphreys (late The Lancashire Fusiliers, and The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)), Half-pay. Lieutenant-General Walter William Pitt-Taylor (late The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)), General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Command, India (Officiating). Lieutenant-General Reginald John Thoroton Hildyard (late The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment), Half-pay, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bermuda, designate.
Royal Air Force Air-Marshal Frederick William Bowhill Air-Marshal Charles Stuart Burnett
Civil Division Honorary Colonel George Ralph Charles, Baron Harlech Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Salop. Sir Thomas Williams Phillips Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Thomas Hugh Binney Rear-Admiral Thomas Frederick Parker Calvert Rear-Admiral James Andrew Gardiner Troup.
Army Major-General FitzGerald Gabbett FitzGerald (late Royal Army Medical Corps) Honorary Surgeon to The King, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Eastern Command. Major-General William Norman Herbert Colonel, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Commander, 50th (Northumbrian) Division, Northern Command. Major-General Wellesley Douglas Studholme Brownrigg (late The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)), Commander, 51st (Highland) Division, Scottish Command. Major-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg (late The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey), Grenadier Guards, and The Manchester Regiment) Half-pay. Major-General James Murray Robert Harrison (late Royal Artillery) Major-Gerieral, Royal Artillery, Headquarters (Staff of the Army in India. Major-General Reginald Henry Dalrymple Tompson (late Royal Artillery), Commander, Air Defence Formations, Territorial Army. Major-General Frederick Wilmot Barron (late Royal Artillery), inspector of Fixed Defences, The War Office. Major-General George Charles Kelly (late The King's Royal Rifle Corps, and The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)), Commander, 49th (West Riding) Division, Northern Command. Major-General Stephen Seymour Butler (late The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and The South Staffordshire Regiment), Commander, 48th (South Midland) Division, Southern Command. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Arthur Ingram Musson, Royal Army Pay Corps, Chief Paymaster, The War Office, and Officer in charge of Records Royal Army Pay Corps. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) James Charles McKenna Indian Army Commander, Zhob (Independent) Brigade Area, Western Command, India. Colonel (honorary Brigadier) John Cunliffe Gretton, retired, late Indian Army, late Commander, Lahore Brigade Area, Northern Command, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Leonard Sueton Hirsch Smithers, Indian Army, Commander, 11th (Ahmednagar) Infantry Brigade, Southern Command, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Alan Fleming Hartley Indian Army, Director of Military Operations, Headquarters Staff of the Army in India.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Henry Meyrick Cave-Browne-Cave Air Commodore Napier John Gill
Civil Division Rear-Admiral Robert Clutterbuck Davenport. Rear-Admiral George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon. Engineer Rear-Admiral William Jordan Deans. Athol Lancelot Anderson Colonel William Anderson Aid-de-Camp to The King, Territorial Army. Colonel Edward William Home Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Caithness. Colonel James Lewis Sleeman Territorial Army. Albert Humphries , late Chief Mechanical Engineer; and Superintendent, Building Works, Engineering Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. Harold William Cole Deputy Under-Secretary for Mines. Austin Earl Assistant Under-Secretary of State, War Office. Cadwaladr Bryner Jones Welsh Secretary, Ministry, of Agriculture and Fisheries.