The 1919 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published in The London Gazette from 3 June to 12 August.;
; The vast majority of the awards were related to the recently ended War, and were divided by military campaigns. A supplementary list of honours, retroactive to the King's birthday, was released in December 1919.
The massive list contained nearly 10,000 names, more than half of which were appointments to the Order of the British Empire. "The lists of awards to the Army are so long that only a part of the first section can be published to-day," reported The Times on 3 June. "This section fills 131 pages of the London Gazette." Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig were both appointed to the Order of Merit. As The Times noted, "The successful leadership of the victorious British Forces by land and sea is happily recognized by the award of the Order of Merit — which is limited in numbers to 24 — to Sir David Beatty and Sir Douglas Haig."
The new peers and baronets were not announced until August.
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
Earl Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, Viscount Iveagh Chancellor of the University of Dublin, 1908.
Baron Sir Edward Richard Russell Member of Parliament for Bridgeton Division of Glasgow, 1885–87; First Chairman of Liverpool Reform Club; Editor of the Liverpool Daily Post since 1869. For public services during a long career. By the name, style and title of Baron Russell of Liverpool, of Liverpool in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Col. William Hall Walker Member of Parliament for Widnes Division of Lancashire since 1900. Donor of a magnificent gift of Racehorses to the nation in 1916 in order to start a National Stud. For public and parliamentary Services. By the name, style, and title of Baron Wavertree of Delamere in the County of Chester.
Baronetcies Col. Harry Gilbert Barling Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham University. For public services. Sir John George Blaker. Three times Mayor of Brighton (1895–98); Chief Military representative for Brighton, area. For public and local services. John Arthur Brooke West Riding, Yorkshire, and County Ross. Very prominent and generous in all-religious and charitable movements in the Riding. For public and local services. Edward Clitherow Brooksbank Deputy-Chairman of Quarter Sessions; Vice-chairman of West Riding County Council; Chairman of Tadcaster Bench. Local Services. Coles Child During the War has been Chairman of West Kent War Pensions Committee, Special Grants Committee, and other War Committees. For public and local services. Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb. Presented Stonehenge to the nation, 1918. For public services. Captain Douglas Bernard Hall Justice of the Peace for Sussex; High Sheriff, Sussex, 1907. Started the first Hospital Barge Flotilla in the War, by which over 6,000 wounded were conveyed on rivers and canals in France. For public services. Sir Arthur Norman Hill. Chairman of the Port and Transit Executive Committee. Special War Services to the Ministry of Shipping. John Henry Holden. Mayor of Leigh for two years. Military representative for whole of Leigh area during the war. For public and local services. William Joynson-Hicks Raised 17th and 23rd Service Battalions, Middlesex Regiment. For public services. Lt.-Col. Alexander Leith Justice of the Peace for County of Northumberland. Food Commissioner for Northumberland and Durham. For public and local services. Laurence Richard Philipps Founder of Paraplegic Hospital in Wales. For public and local services. Sir Samuel Roberts Lord Mayor of Sheffield, 1899–1900. For public and local services. Sir Gerald Hemmington Ryan Justice of the Peace for Norfolk, Suffolk and London; President of Institute of Actuaries (1910–12); Chairman of Reform Club (1916–18). For public and local services. Col. Charles Edward Warde For long continued public services in Kent.
Aide-de-camp To be personal Aides-de-camp to the King: Col. His Royal Highness Edward A.C.G.A.P.D., Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall Colonel-in-Chief, 12th Royal Lancers and Royal Scots Fusiliers Capt. His Royal Highness Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George Royal Air Force
Knight Bachelor
John Baker Superintendent of the Broadmoor Lunatic Asylum Lt.-Col. John George Beharrell Statistical Authority at the Ministry of Munitions and the Admiralty Robert Charles Brown Consulting Medical Officer of Preston Royal Infirmary. Has done much to promote Infant Welfare. Founded Scholarship for Research at Cambridge University. For public and local services. Henry Busby Bird Mayor of Shoreditch. Chairman of Local Appeal Committee and Local Food Committee. For public and local services. Isaac Connell, Secretary to the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture Harry Courthope-Munroe for valuable services at the Board of Trade Henry Capel Cure, Commercial Attaché, HM Embassy, Rome Charles Davidson, Deputy Chairman Establishment Committee, Ministry of Munitions Alderman George Edmund Davies Member of several Committees in connection with local affairs, and during the War served as Chairman of National Registration Act (1915) Committee. For Public and local services. Walter de Frece, for services rendered at the Ministry of Pensions Professor William Boyd Dawkins Honorary Professor of Geology and Palaeontology in Victoria University, Manchester. Geologist on Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1861–69; Curator of the Manchester Museum, 1870; Consulting Geologist in questions of mining and civil engineering from 1870. Joseph Duveen. For public services, more particularly in connection with the extension of the Tate Gallery of British Art. Alderman Knowles Edge Justice of the Peace for County of Lancaster since 1904; Mayor of Bolton, 1917–18. For public and local services. George Fenwick Founder and Director of the New Zealand Press Association. For public services. Alderman Robert Vaughan Gower Mayor of Tunbridge Wells, 1917–19. Has done much County work in many capacities. Chairman of Food Control Committee and National Service Representative for East and West Kent during the War. For local services. Cuthbert Cartwright Grundy President, Royal Cambrian Art Society; J.P. for County of Lancaster; Vice-president of Royal West of England Academy, Imperial Arts League, and South Wales Art Society. For public and local services. Thomas Henderson for Roxburghshire; Member of many local Committees during the War. For public and local services. John S. Henry, Voluntary Services in the Ministry of National Service Sydney George Higgins Assistant Accountant-General, Ministry of Shipping Charles James Jackson Well-known antiquarian, Barrister-at-law, author of leading text-books on gold and silver. Has rendered valuable assistance to the Red Cross. Leon Levison. Has rendered valuable work in connection with the Russian Jews' Relief Fund. For public services during the War. John Young Walker MacAlister President of Library Association and Secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine. Formed, and acted as Secretary of, the War Office Surgical Advisory Committee. Organised the R.A.M.C. Bureau; Organised an Emergency Surgical Aid Corps for the Admiralty, War Office, and Metropolitan Police. For public services. William Maxwell. President of the International Co-operative Alliance and ex-President of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society. For public services. John Charles Miles, Solicitor to the Ministry of Labour Henry Francis New, Mayor of St. Marylebone, 1917–19. Vice-president, Marylebone War Supply Hospital. Chairman of many War Committees. For public and local services. Francis George Newbolt for voluntary services in the Treasury Solicitors Department Julian Walter Orde, Secretary of the Royal Automobile Club. Has rendered exceptional services in providing for overseas officers during the War. For public services. James Wallace Paton Mayor of Southport, 1908–9. For public services. Major John Theodore Prestige. Working partner and Director of Messrs. J. Stone & Co.. Ltd., Engineers, Deptford. Founded 16th Battn. (Deptford) County of London Volunteer Regiment. For local services. Lt.-Col. Hugh Arthur Rose Ex-Chairman of the Edinburgh School Board, chairman of the new Scottish Educational Authority, Food Commissioner for the East of Scotland Charles Tamlin Ruthen Deputy Controller of Accommodation in HM Office of Works Douglas Shields, Administrator and Surgeon-in-Chief of Hospital at 17, Park Lane, which he gave free of charge for the use of the War Office. Thomas Sims Director of Works, Admiralty Alfred Waldron Smithers Chairman of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. Joshua Kelley Waddilove. Prominent Wesleyan leader and philanthropist. For public and local services. Francis Watson for Bradford. Member of Bradford City Council. Military representative, 1915–18. For local services. William Henry Wells, Chief Livestock Commission, Ministry of Food William Ireland de Courcy Wheeler Member of the Consultative Committee of the War Office. Surgeon to Household of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. For public services during the War. William Howard Winterbotham, Official Solicitor since 1895 Thomas Williams. General Manager, London and North-Western Railway. Member of Canals Committee and Port and Transport Committee. Col. Augustus Charles Woolley Appointed 1908 Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of 1st Volunteer Battn., Royal Sussex Regiment, which he joined in 1887. For public and local services. Henry Arthur Wynne Chief Crown Solicitor for Ireland
British India Justice Abdur Rahim, Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Madras William Allan Ironside, Additional Member, Imperial Legislative Council Khan Zulfikar Ali Khan of Maler Kotla, Additional Member of the Imperial Legislative Council Frank Willington Carter Additional Member of the Council of His Excellency the Governor of Bengal Col. Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, Royal Engineers, Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey, Dehra Dun, United Provinces Horace Charles Mules Chairman of the Karachi Port Trust, Bombay Alfred Chatterton Indian Educational Service, retired, Member of the Indian Industrial Commission James Allan Home, Controller of Munitions, Bombay
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Civil Division Sir Reginald Herbert Brade Secretary, War Office Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith Secretary, Board of Trade
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division
In recognition of services during the War— Vice-Admiral Ernest Frederic Augustus Gaunt Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore Maj.-Gen. Sir William Babtie Maj.-Gen. Geoffrey Percy Thynne Feilding Maj.-Gen. Sir Arthur Lynden Lynden-Bell
For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in the Balkans — Maj.-Gen. Sir William Henry Rycroft Maj.-Gen. Maurice Percy Cue Holt
For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in Egypt — Maj.-Gen. George de Symons Barrow Maj.-Gen. Arthur Reginald Hoskins
For valuable services rendered in connection with military operations in France and Flanders — Maj.-Gen. Hugh Bruce Williams Maj.-Gen. Richard Philippe Lee Maj.-Gen. Nevill Maskelyne Smyth Maj.-Gen. Reginald Walter Ralph Barnes Maj.-Gen. Sir Richard Harte Keatinge Butler Maj.-Gen. Edward Peter Strickland Maj.-Gen. Philip Rynd Robertson Maj.-Gen. Henry John Milnes Macandrew Maj.-Gen. Cecil Lothian Nicholson Maj.-Gen. Cecil Edward Pereira Temp Maj.-Gen. Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby