The 1920 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 on 4 June 1920.
Prince Albert, the future King George VI, led the honours list as the only new peer, being invested as the Duke of York, while more than 60 men were knighted.
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
Duke, Earl, Baron His Royal Highness Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George as Baron Killarney, Earl of Inverness and Duke of York
Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council of the United Kingdom:
Stanley Baldwin Financial Secretary to the Treasury since 1917 Frederick George Kellaway one of the Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Munitions, December, 1916. Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to Ministry, 1918. Parliamentary Secretary and Deputy Minister, 1919. Member of Parliament for Bedford, 1910, and for Bedford Division, 1918. For Parliamentary Services The Hon. François Stephanus Malan, Minister of Agriculture, Mines, Industries and Education, Union of South Africa. Acted as prime minister for eight months during General Botha's absence.
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council of Ireland:
Hugh Thom Barrie Vice-president, Irish Department of Agriculture The Hon. Justice John Blake Powell Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland. Former Solicitor-General for Ireland.
Baronetcies John Anderson, managing director of Messrs. P. & W. A. Anderson, Ltd. For Public Services William Henry Aykroyd Partner in the Firm of Messrs. T. F. Firth & Sons, Brighouse. For Public and Local Services Capt. Ion Hamilton Benn Member of Parliament for Greenwich since 1910. Member of Port of London Authority John Wyndham Beynon, Chairman South Wales Coal Owners Association. For Public Services. Sir Ernest William Glover, Director of the Ship Management Branch of the Ministry of Shipping The Rt. Hon. Thomas Frederick Halsey Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire, 1874–1906 Sir Howard George Frank Director-General of Lands, War Office, Air Ministry, and Ministry of Munitions. Chairman of Disposals Board Peter Jeffrey Mackie Deputy Lieutenant for Argyll, Ayr and Lanark. Has travelled extensively and written on Tariff Reform, Imperial Federation, and other political subjects. In 1918 made a gift of Pedigree Cattle to Rhodesia in order to encourage ranching and cattle breeding. Financed the Mackie Anthropological Expedition to Uganda Archibald Mitchelson, Chairman of Messrs. D. Davies & Sons, the Admiralty Collieries, Wharncliffe Collieries and Yorkshire Collieries. For Public and Local Services Arthur Francis Pease late Second Civil Lord of the Admiralty Frank Bernard Sanderson, Controller of Trench Warfare, National Filling Factories and Stores during the War. For Public Services. Milton Sheridan Sharp, Chairman of Bradford Dyers Association. For Public and Local Services. Sir George Frederick Sleight, largest Trawler Owner in the World. At the commencement of the War practically all his ships were commandeered by the Government for Mine Sweeping and Patrol purposes Herbert Smith, Member of Board of Control of Wool and Textile Industries. Chairman of Carpet Trade Rationing Committee. Chairman of Man Power and Protection Committee. For Public Services William Reardon Smith, Principal of St. Just Steamship Co., Leeds Shipping Co., and the Cornborough Shipping Line. For Public and Local Services John Henderson Stewart Partner of Messrs. Alexander Stewart & Son, of Dundee, Deputy Chairman of Sheffield Steel Products. Freeman of the City of London. For Public Services Philip Sidney Stott, Prominent in Lancashire business life. President of the Oldham Lyceum (a non-political institution) Sir George Alexander Touche, Member of Parliament for North Islington, 1910–1918 General Sir Reginald Wingate For long and Distinguished Public Services
Knight Bachelor
Sidney Robert Alexander Mayor of Faversham 1908–1919. Public and municipal services Hugh Percy Allen Director of the Royal College of Music Professor Frederick William Andrewes Pathologist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. For valuable work in medical research. Capt. David Wilson Barker, Captain Superintendent of the Training Ship Worcester Sydney Beauchamp, Resident Medical Officer to British Delegation during nearly the whole of the Peace Conference in Paris William Barrett Montfort Bird, Founder of the Salters' Institute of Industrial Chemistry for providing scholarships for graduates in chemical science to enable them to continue research work John Brown Member of Aberdeen Town Council and of Aberdeen Harbour Board. Chairman of Aberdeen Steam Trawling and Fishing Company and Steam Herring Fleet. For public and local services. Francis Morgan Bryant Secretary of His Majesty's Private Secretary's Office, Buckingham Palace Arthur Benjamin Bryceson, Town Clerk of Woolwich for over 18 years. For public and municipal services. Major Gerald Arthur Fowler Burton. Raised considerable sums for Devonport War Hospital Supply Department and the Red Cross, and financed the Garrison Needlework Association during the War. Robert Burton Chadwick Director of Overseas Transport, Ministry of Munitions Ernest Clark Secretary of the Royal Commission on the Income Tax His Honour Judge John Walker Craig former Recorder of Belfast and County Court Judge of Antrim Philip Dawson, Member of the Disposal Board, Ministry of Munitions Joseph Dobbie, For public and local services in Edinburgh. Major George Alexander Dolby, Mayor of Poole 1917–20, Chairman of Harbour Commissioners. For public and municipal services Robert Henry Glanfield, President of Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers Federation. For public services in connection with the supply and manufacture of clothing for H.M. Forces. Honorary Treasurer of Borstal Association Wemyss Grant-Wilson Hon. Director of the Borstal Association and Director of the Central Association for the aid of convicts on discharge from Penal Servitude and Preventive Detention Henry Gregg, Mayor of Tynemouth 1913–18; Member of Central Organisation for the county; chairman of all local Organisations and Committees during the War. For public and municipal services. Alderman Charles O'Brien Harding Mayor of Eastbourne in 1903 and from 1916 to 1919 Edgar Josiah Harper Chief Valuer, Inland Revenue Department Professor James Blacklock Henderson Professor of Applied Mechanics, Royal Naval College, Greenwich Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell Hicks For personal work in organising the Devonshire House War Work. Alderman James Peace Hinchliffe Chairman of West Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Chiefly responsible for formation of British Research Association for Woollen and Worsted Industries. Harry Hope, Member of Parliament for Stirling and Clackmannan, and formerly for Bute. President of Scottish Chamber of Agriculture 1908; Honorary President of National Farmers Union of Scotland; Member of Scottish Agricultural Commission, and of Departmental Committee appointed by the Secretary for Scotland to inquire into the poultry industry in Scotland. Louis Stanley Johnson, Member of Parliament for East Walthamstow from 1918; Mayor of Hackney for the whole five years of the War. For invaluable public work. Henry S. Keith Provost of Hamilton Walter Guy Coffin Kirkwood, late Secretary of Post Office, Edinburgh Major Charles McIver. For public services in Cheshire. Major George Espec John Manners Founder of the Boys Messenger Service Samuel Meeson Morris, Mayor of Shrewsbury 1901-2 and 1916–18. Chairman of local Food Control Committee. For public and municipal services. William Noble, Chief Engineer, General Post Office William Payne Perry Director of Finance, War Office Ernest Roney, Solicitor. For public services. George Royle, Mayor of Bedford 1903. Member of Town Council. For public and municipal services. James Simpson For public and local services in Edinburgh. Albert Frederick Stephenson For eminent public and local services in South Lancashire for over forty years. Henry William Verey, late Official Referee of Supreme Court William Henry Veno, President of Manchester Column Press Club. For public and local services. William Howell Walters, For public and local services. Alderman Zachariah Wheatley, Mayor of Abergavenny James Lawton Wingate, President of the Royal Scottish Academy
British India Colonel Hormasjee Eduljee Banatvala Indian Medical Service (retired), late Inspector-General, Civil Hospitals, Assam Diwan Bahadur Pitta Thyagaraya Chetti Garu, President of the corporation, Madras Walter Erskine Crum Partner of Messrs. Graham and Company, Calcutta, Bengal Henry Hubert Hayden Director, Geological Survey of India Abdul Karim Abdul Shakur Jamal Merchant, Burma Lallubhai Asharan Shah, Judge of the High Court, Bombay Thomas Robert John Ward Inspector-General of Irrigation, Punjab
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. John Carruthers Beattie Principal of the University of the Cape of Good Hope, Union of South Africa The Hon. James Daniel Connolly, Agent-General for the State of Western Australia Colin Rees Davies, Chief Justice of Bermuda Lieutenant-Colonel Herman Melville Heyman, Member of the Legislative Council, Southern Rhodesia The Hon. Joseph Henry Wood, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria Major Edward Humphrey Manisty Leggett Royal Engineers, Chairman East African Section, London Chamber of Commerce Thomas Joseph Lennard, vice-president of the Royal Colonial Institute John Roberts of the City of Dunedin, New Zealand Henry Alexander Wickham, For services in connection with the rubber plantation industry in the Far East. Jeremiah Wilson lately Postmaster-General of the Union of South Africa
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Civil Division The Rt. Hon. John Andrew, Baron Sumner. For work in connection with the Peace Treaty, and as Chairman of the London Reparation Committee
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral the Hon. Edward Stafford Fitzherbert Rear-Admiral Michael Culme-Seymour
Army Lieutenant-General Sir George Mark Watson Macdonogh Adjutant-General to the Forces Lieutenant-General Sir Travers Edwards Clarke Quartermaster-General to the Forces
Royal Air Force Rear-Admiral Cecil Foley Lambert, Director of Personnel, Air Ministry, and a Member of the Air Council Air Vice-Marshal Edward Leonard Ellington Director-General of Supply and Research Air Ministry, and a Member of the Air Council
Civil Division Cecil James Barrington Hurst Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office Sir Alfred William Watson, Government Actuary and President of the Institute of Actuaries
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Cecil Spencer Hickley Rear-Admiral Henry Lancelot Mawbey Surgeon Rear-Admiral George Albert Dreaper Captain John Roderick Segrave Paymaster Captain Frederick Wilkin Iago Airey
Army Major-General Charles William Grant Richardson Deputy Quartermaster-General, India Colonel Frederick James Moberley Director of Military Operations, India Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Harry Simonds de Brett Assistant Adjutant-General Lieutenant-Colonel Denis Paul Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Royal Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel James Grimwood
Civil Division Alfred William Cope, Second Secretary, Ministry of Pensions John Whelan Dulanty Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Munitions Alexander Flint, Assistant Secretary, Admiralty Alfred William Flux, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade