The 1921 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 on 3 and 4 June 1921.
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
Marquess The Rt. Hon. Sir George Nathaniel, Earl Curzon of Kedleston
Viscount The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Edwin, Baron Birkenhead
Baron The Rt. Hon. Sir James Henry Dalziel by the name, style and title of Baron Dalziel of Kirkcaldy, of Marylebone in the county of London. The Rt. Hon. Sir Ailwyn Edward Fellowes by the name, style and title of Baron Ailwyn, of Honingham, in the County of Norfolk. Member of Parliament for Hants (Ramsey), 1887–1908; Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1900-1905. Chairman of Norfolk County Council. Chairman of Agricultural Wages Board; Sir Marcus Samuel by the name, style and title of Baron Bearsted, of Maidstone, in the County of Kent. For eminent public and national services. A generous benefactor to charitable and scientific objects.
Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council of the United Kingdom: Sir Edwin Andrew Cornwall Member of Parliament for N.E. Bethnal Green since 1906. Chairman of National Insurance Joint Commission, and Insurance Minister in the House of Commons, December, 1916, to February, 1919
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council of Ireland: The Hon. William Moore One of the Judges of the King's Bench. Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland Sir Geoffrey Henry Browne, Baron Oranmore and Brownie Member of Irish Convention George Francis Stewart Represented Southern Unionists on the Irish Convention, where he took a leading part in the effort to effect a settlement. He was Chairman of the Surveyors Institute in Great Britain, and also of the Land Agents Association. Has been Governor of the Bank of Ireland for two years, Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Dublin
Baronetcies
Douglas Alexander, President of the Singer Manufacturing Company. Has performed important work in the development of welfare schemes for industrial workers. For public and national services. The Hon. William Gervase Beckett Member of Parliament for Whitby since 1906 William Swart Berry, Editor-in-Chief, Sunday Times Charles Alexander Cain For public services. Has devoted large sums of money to hospital work in addition to other charities. Trustee and Governor of Blue Coat Hospital, Liverpool; the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool; and Chairman of Samaritan Hospital. Thomas Sivewright Catto, for public services, particularly in connection with the transport of food and munitions from the United States to Great Britain and allied countries. Sir William Dingwall Mitchell Cotts in recognition of services rendered, to the Union of South Africa John Bryn Edwards, for social and philanthropic work in East Glamorgan Capt. Sir John Malcolm Fraser For public services. Rendered valuable assistance in the Queen's Devonshire House Fund and in the Royal Naval Air Service during the war. Joseph William Isherwood, Inventor of Isherwood System of Longitudinal Construction of Ships. Member of Institute of Naval Architects. For public services. Pierce Lacy, Founder and Chairman of Advisory Committee of British Shareholders Trust, Limited, which Company has financed many of the most important Industrial Companies in England. William Arthur Mount Member of Parliament for Newbury Division of Berkshire, 1900 to 1906, and since 1910 Sir Percy Wilson Newson, President of Bank of Bengal, 1920. Governor of Imperial Bank of India, 1921. For public services. William Joseph Noble President of Chamber of Shipping, 1920, and of the Baltic and White Sea Conference, 1913-21. For services rendered to the Ministry of Shipping. George Renwick Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne, 1900–1906, 1908–10, and since 1918. Sir Arthur Munro Sutherland Chairman of the Sutherland and a number of other Steamship Companies. Director of the Blyth Shipbuilding Company, and Mercantile Dry Docks. Sheriff of Newcastle, 1917; Lord Mayor of Newcastle during 1919. For public and national services. Sir Charles Sykes Member of Parliament for Huddersfield since 1918; director of Wool Textile Production and Chairman of the Board of Control of the Worsted Woollen Trades. Edmund Hoyle Vestey, for public services. Rendered great assistance in feeding the troops during the war.
Knight Bachelor
Wilfred Atlay, Chairman, Stock Exchange, London Jeffrey Browning Chief-Inspector Board of Customs and Excise William Henry Butlin, Ex Vice-Consul for Spain. For public services. James Charles Calder Ex-director of timber control. For public and national services. Robert Clough Member of Parliament for Keighley Division of Yorkshire. Mayor of Keighley 1907-1908 Thomas Henry Fleming, Mayor of Harrogate 1915–16, 1916–17, 1918-19. Rendered conspicuous services during the war in the-promotion of every local effort, giving his whole time to national work Thomas Mansel Franklen, Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan for 40 years. Clerk to the Glamorgan County Council since its formation in 1888. For public services. Francis Gore-Browne Chairman of Rates Advisory Committee. Chairman Civil Service Arbitration Board, 1918–20 His Honour Judge Thomas Colpitts Granger Senior County Court Judge John Roger Burrow Gregory, Senior partner in the firm of Rawle, Johnstone & Co., Treasurer of the Foundling Hospital. Past Master of the Grocers Company; Member of the Council of The Law Society. Has given very great assistance to successive holders of the office of Lord Chancellor Colonel James William Greig Member of Parliament for West Renfrewshire since January, 1910 Alderman Lieutenant-Colonel Harry George Handover Mayor of Paddington for eight years John Henry Harrowing, for public services. Twenty-eight years County Councillor of the North Riding County Council and afterwards elected County Alderman. William Henderson Town Councillor Dundee, 1896-1904. Chairman of Technical College. Chairman of YMCA and of City of Dundee Territorial Association. 1907-1919. For public and local services. Francis Hugh George Hercy For valuable voluntary services rendered for five years to the Ministry of National Service and War Office. John Scott Hindley, Commercial Adviser to the Coal Mines Dept. since 1918 Henry Hollingdrake for public and local services. Charles John Holmes Director National Gallery Councillor Sidney Richard White Humphries, for public services. Councillor of Bristol for many years. President of Bristol Chamber of Commerce Samuel Instone, Founder of Askern Garden City. For public services. Arthur Keith Hunterian Professor and Conservator of the Royal College of Surgeons Duncan Mackenzie Kerly Member of the Commission on Income Tax and Chairman of the Board of Referees for Excess Profits Duty Leonard William Kershaw, King's Coroner, Master of the Crown Office and Registrar of the Court of Criminal Appeal William Lane-Mitchell for Streatham since 1918. Twice Mayor of Camberwell Alfred Edward Lewis, Managing Director of the National Provincial and Union Bank of England, Ltd Thomas Lewis Honorary consulting physician to the Ministry of Pensions since April, 1919 Dyson Mallinson. For public services. Has rendered valuable services in connection with various colleges and institutions Brigadier-General Charles Philip Martel Chief Superintendent of Ordnance Factories, Woolwich Richard Martin Ex-Mayor of Swansea George Mellor For public and national services, particularly in connection with the King's Lancashire Military Convalescent Hospital Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock, City Chamberlain and Treasurer since 1912 Walter Renton Preston, Member of Parliament for Stepney (Mile End Division) William Henry Purchase, For valuable services rendered since the armistice to the Appointments Department of the Ministry of Labour Professor John Rankine Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh Francis Jubal Reynolds For public services. Edward Rhodes, Chairman of Lancashire and Cheshire Coalition Liberal Committee Fredierick Gill Rice Past President of London Master Builders Association and of the Institute of Public Builders. For public services. Colonel Philip Wigham Richardson . For services rendered throughout the Empire for 40 years in connection with rifle shooting Alderman, Alfred Read Sargeant Mayor of Hove throughout the war Henry White Smith Chairman of Bristol Aircraft Factory. For services to Civil Aviation William Henry Thomas Member of City of London Corporation. Deputy of the Ward of Cheap. John Turner Ex High Sheriff of Leicestershire. For public services. Francis Minchin Voules Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. For services rendered to British Prisoners of War. Robert Woolley Walden, For public services. Member of the Metropolitan Asylums Board for 20 years and its Chairman for the past six years; 21 years Guardian of the Poor; 20 years a Member of the Council and Alderman of the City of Westminster, and Mayor, 1908-1909 Sydney Russell-Wells Vice Chancellor, University of London. Representative of the University of London on the General Medical Council. For public services. Howell James Williams Deputy Chairman, London County Council Robert Wilson, Provost of Pollokshaws Alfred Woodgarbe Proprietor-General of Establishments in the Ministry of Health since its formation Bernard Swanwick Wright, Alderman of City of Nottingham. For public services.
Ireland George Beresford Butler, Senior Resident Magistrate in Ireland. Was appointed in 1889, and is still serving Frederick Conway Dwyer Ex-President, College of Surgeons in Ireland. Lieutenant-Col (temporary), Royal Army Medical Corps, and Operating Surgeon to King George V. Military Hospital in Dublin. Honorary Surgeon to Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Chairman of House of Industry Hospitals. H.M. Inspector of Anatomy in Ireland. James Campbell Percy Honorary Lieutenant, Royal Navy, during war. Proprietor of Motor News, Irish Builder, Irish Cyclist and Motor Cyclist. Chairman of Sackville Pines Henry James Forde For services in connection with the Grain Trade in Ireland and as member of Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies
British India Justice Theagaraja Ayyar Sadasiva Ayyar, Diwam Bahadur, Puisne Judge of the High Court, Madras Justice William Teunon, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court, Calcutta, Bengal Justice William Tudball, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court, Allahabad, United Provinces Khan Bahadur Muhammad Israr Hasan Khan Judicial Minister, Bhopal State, Central India Alfred Domald Pickford, Senior Partner, Messrs. Begg, Dunlop & Co., Calcutta, Bengal Edgar Joseph Holberton Manager, Bombay-Burma Trading Corporation, and lately President of the Chamber of Commerce, Burma Jehangir Hormasji Kothari Landlord, Sind, Bombay Raj Bahadur Seth Bishesihar Das, Banker, Nagpur, Central Provinces
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Lieutenant-Colonel Wyndham Henry Deedes Civil Secretary to the Administration, Palestine Hugh Dixson, in recognition of services rendered to the Commonwealth of I Australia Benjamin John Fuller, of Sydney, New South Wales, in recognition of services rendered to educational and charitable causes John Burchmore Harrison Director and Government Analyst, Department of Science and Agriculture, Colony of British Guiana Sidney Kidman, in recognition of services rendered to the Commonwealth of Australia John Pearce Luke member of the House of Representatives of the Dominion of New Zealand, Mayor of the City of Wellington, for the past eight years