1945 New Year Honours

British Empire

Earl

• The Right Honourable David Lloyd George,

  Viscount

• The Right Honourable Wyndham Raymond, Baron Portal, – Minister of Works, 1942–1944.

  Baron

• Sir Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, – His Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Leicester. For public services.

  Baronet

• Major Thomas Lionel Dugdale, – Member of Parliament for the Richmond division of Yorkshire since May 1929. Chairman of the Conservative Party Organization, March 1942 to October 1944. For political and public services.
• Sir Charles Bruce-Gardner – lately Controller of Labour Allocation and Supply, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Chief Executive for Reconversion, Board of Trade.
• Sir Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, – President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

  Privy Counsellors

• Miss Florence Horsbrugh,, Member of Parliament for Dundee since 1931. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, since 1939.
• Miss Ellen Cicely Wilkinson,, Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough East 1929–1931, and for Jarrow since 1935. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home Security, since 1940.

  Knight Bachelor

• Leslie Patrick Abercrombie, – Professor of Town Planning in the University of London.
• Edward Battersby Bailey, – Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Frederick William Bain, – Chairman, Chemical Control Board, Ministry of Supply.
• Captain Ernest Arthur Bridges – lately Commodore Master, Royal Mail Line Fleet, Royal Mail Lines Ltd.
• Peter Boswell Brown, – Chairman and Managing Director, Hadfields Ltd.
• James Chadwick, – Professor of Physics in the University of Liverpool. For services to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Lawrence Andrew Common, – Director, Ship Management Division, Ministry of War Transport.
• Philip D'Ambrumenil – Deputy Chairman, War Risks Insurance Office.
• Charles Frederick Deslandes – Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Roy Hardy Dobson, – Managing Director, A.V. Roe and Company Ltd.
• Commander Aylmer Newton George Firebrace, – Chief of the Fire Staff and Inspector-in-Chief of the Fire Services, Home Office.
• Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, – Director, Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company, Manchester. For services to education.
• Claude Howard Stanley Frankau, – Director, Emergency Medical Services, London and Home Counties.
• Edward Hardy – Chairman of Kent County Council.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Pelham Heneage, – Member of Parliament for Louth since 1924. For political and public services.
• Roger Gaskell Hetherington, – Adviser on Water and Director of Water Surveys, Ministry of Health.
• William Percival Hildred, – Director-General of Civil Aviation, Air Ministry.
• Mark Hodgson, – General Secretary, United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders.
• Joseph Stanley Holmes – Member of Parliament for North-East Derbyshire, 1918–1922, and for Harwich since November 1935. For political and public services.
• Alfred Bakewell Howitt, – Member of Parliament for Reading since October 1931. For political and public services.
• Robert Dixon Kingham, – Secretary, National Savings Committee.
• Robert Fisher Lancaster, Secretary and Executive Officer of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd.
• Allan Campbell Macdiarmid – Chairman and Managing Director, Stewarts & Lloyds, Ltd.
• Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander, – Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton East since May 1929. For political and public services.
• Ellis Hovell Minns, LittD – Emeritus Professor of Archaeology and President of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.
• Arthur Evan Morgan – General Manager and Director, The London Assurance.
• John Morison – Director General of Finance, Ministry of Supply.
• James Frederick Rees, – Principal of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Gibb Scorgie, – Controller, H.M. Stationery Office.
• Arthur Frederick Sidgreaves, – Managing Director, Rolls-Royce Ltd.
• Frederick James Simmons, – Mayor of Londonderry.
• Alderman Bracewell Smith, – Sheriff of the City of London.
• David Wadsworth Smith, – Director, Halifax Building Society.
• William Samuel Stephenson, – employed in a Department of the Foreign Office.
• Reginald Edward Stradling, – Chief Adviser, Research and Experiments Department; Ministry of Home Security.
• Herbert Alker Tripp, – Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert John Acland Troyte, – Member of Parliament for Tiverton since 1924. For political and public services.
• Alderman William Walker, – For services to Municipal Electricity Supply.
• Angus Watson, – Divisional Food Officer, Northern Division, Ministry of Food.
• Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby, –, lately Bacteriologist at the Middlesex Hospital. For services in the development of the sulphonamide group of drugs.
• Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker, – Professor of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh. Lately President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

• Digby Vere Burnett – Resident Director and General Manager of the London and Rhodesia Mining and Land Company, Limited, and Chairman of the Cold Storage Commission, Southern Rhodesia.
• Colonel Arthur Murray Cudmore, – President of the Medical Board of the State of South Australia. For public services.
• Thomas Sydney Nettlefold, – Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria.

• The Honourable Mr. Justice Harsidhbhai Vajubhai Divatia – Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay.
• The Honourable Mr. Justice James Joseph Whittlesea Allsop – Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, United Provinces.
• The Honourable Mr. Justice Syed Najim Ali – Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal.
• Robert William Targett, – Director-General, Supply and Disposals, Department of Supply, Government of India.
• Eric Thomas Coates, – Indian Civil Service, Financial Adviser, Military Finance, Government of India.
• Bomanji Jamshedji Wadia – Barrister-at-Law, Vice-Chancellor, University of Bombay.
• Diwan Bahadur Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliyar, – Vice-Chancellor, University of Madras.
• Charles William Blyth Normand, – Officer on Special Duty, India Meteorological Department, and lately Director-General of Observatories, Government of India.
• Claude Cavendish Inglis, – Indian Service of Engineers, Director, Indian Waterways Experiment Station, Poona.
• Khan Bahadur Malik Muhammad Amin Khan, – Landlord, Shamsabad, Attock District, Punjab.
• James McHame Doak – Managing Director and Partner, Messrs. A. & F. Harvey, Madura, Madras.
• Jehangir Jivaji Ghandy, – Agent, Tata Iron & Steel Company, Limited.
• Shrinivas Prasonna Rajagopalachari – Home Minister and Vice-President of the Executive Council of Gwalior State.

• Henry William Butler Blackall – Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Trinidad.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart Gore-Browne, – For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
• Walter Harrangin – Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of the Gold Coast.
• Colonel Percy John Parsons, – For public services in Ceylon.

  Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle (KT)

• Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, – First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff.

  The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

• General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, –, late Royal Tank Corps.
• General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, –, Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp General to The King.

  Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Vice-Admiral Irvine Gordon Glennie,
• Vice-Admiral Arthur Francis Eric Palliser,
• Vice-Admiral Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton,
• Rear-Admiral Cloudesley Varyl Robinson, .
• Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall, –, Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery.
• General Henry Finnis, – Colonel 312th Frontier Force Regiment, Indian Army.

• Frederick Arthur Whitaker,
• Colonel John Bickerton McKaig, – Chairman, Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the County of Lancaster.

  Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

• Rear-Admiral Cedric Swinton Holland.
• Rear-Admiral Charles Eric Morgan,
• Rear-Admiral Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley,.
• Rear-Admiral Oliver Bevir
• Rear-Admiral Douglas Blake Fisher,.
• Rear-Admiral Arthur William La Touche Bisset,.
• Rear-Admiral James Stuart Maclaren Ritchie.
• Rear-Admiral Reginald Burnard Darke, .
• Rear-Admiral Charles Frederick Harris.
• Engineer Rear-Admiral Albert Kingsley Dibley.
• Major-General Hamilton Wilkie Simpson, – Royal Marines.
• Temporary Lieutenant the Right Honourable John Charles Walsham, Baron Reith,
• Colonel Alexander Vass Anderson, –, late Royal Engineers.
• Colonel Gerald Brunskill, –, late The Royal Ulster Rifles.
• Colonel Alexander Maurice Cameron, –, late Royal Engineers.
• Major-General John Scott Crawford, –, late Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Bevan, –. Reserve of Officers, General List, Territorial Army.
• Colonel David Robertson Duguid, –, late -Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
• Colonel Charles Esmond de Wolff, –, late Royal Army Ordnance Corps.
• Colonel Donald Rutherford Dacre Fisher, –, late Royal Artillery.
• Colonel Ian Cameron Grant, –, late The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
• Colonel Reginald Kingscote Hewer, –, late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Colonel John Charles Francis Holland, –, late Royal Engineers.
• Colonel Harold Reginald Kerr, –, late Royal Army Service Corps.
• Colonel Robert Edward Laycock, –, Royal Horse Guards.
• Major-General Herbert Lumsden, –, late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Colonel William Godwin Michelmore, –, Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army, Aide-de-Camp to The King.
• Colonel Arthur Penrice Sayer, –, retired pay, Reserve of Officers, late Royal Engineers.
• Colonel William Ross Stewart, – Indian Medical Service.
• Major-General David Turnbull Richardson, –, Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Colonel Guy St. George Robinson, –, retired pay, Colonel, The Northamptonshire Regiment.
• Colonel Gilbert France Watson, –, late The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Craven Vicary, –, Reserve of Officers, The Gloucestershire Regiment.
• Colonel John Edward Talbot Younger, retired pay, late Royal Artillery.
• Major-General Cyril Maton Periam Durnford, – Indian Army.
• Major-General Robert Harley Wordsworth, – Indian Army.
• Colonel Ernest Wood, – Indian Army.
• Colonel Francis Robert Roy Bucher, – Indian Army.
• Captain Sir Atwell Henry Lake, – Royal Navy.
• Colonel Frescheville Hubert Ballantine-Dykes, – President, Territorial Army Association of the County of Cumberland.
• Brevet Colonel Charles Joseph Edmondstoune-Cranstoun, – Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Lanark.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Clive Atkins, – Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Leicester.

• George Arthur Bassett