The New Year Honours 1915 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were announced on 1 January 1915.
Order of the Bath
Knight Commander (KCB) Civil Division Edmund Ernest Nott-Bower, Esq., C.B., Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue. Lionel Abrahams, Esq., C.B., Assistant Under Secretary of State, India Office.
Companion (CB) Military Division Captain Noel Grant, R.N., (H.M.S. "Carmania"). Captain John Collings Taswell Glossop, R.N. (H.M.A.S. "Sydney"). Commander James Barr, R.N.R. (H.M.S. "Carmania").
Civil Division Captain Richard Webb, R.N. Fleet-Paymaster Charles John Ehrhardt Rotter, R.N. Basil Phillott Blackett, Esq., First Class Clerk, The Treasury. George Russell Clerk, Esq., C.M.G., Senior Clerk, Foreign Office. James Edward Masterton Smith, Esq., Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty.
Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander (KCSI) Major-General William Riddell Birdwood, C.B., C.S.I., C.I.E., D.S.O., late Secretary in the Army Department to the Government of India.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) The Right Honourable Sir Louis Mallet, K.C.M.G., C.B., lately His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Constantinople.
Knight Commander (KCMG) Wilfred Collet, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Honduras. George Basil Haddon-Smith, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Windward Islands. The Honourable George Halsey Perley, Minister of the Dominion of Canada; at present in charge of the office of the High Commissioner in London for the Dominion. The Honourable Robert Philp, formerly Premier of the State of Queensland. The Honourable Clifford Sifton, K.C., Member of the King's Privy Council for Canada, and formerly Minister of the Interior of the Dominion.
Companion (CMG) Frederic Chapple, Esq., Head Master of Prince Alfred College, Adelaide. Charles Thomas Davis, Esq., of the Colonial Office. George Joseph Desbarats, Esq., Deputy Minister and Comptroller of the Naval Service of the Dominion of Canada. Laurence Stirling Eliot, Esq., I.S.O., lately Under Treasurer of the State of Western Australia. Surgeon-Major-General Eugène Fiset, M.D., D.S.O., Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence of the Dominion of Canada. Edward Allan Grannum, Esq., Receiver-General of the Colony of Mauritius. George Hogben, Esq., Inspector-General of Schools, Dominion of New Zealand. Loke Yew, Esq., of Selangor, Federated Malay States. Thomas Slingsby Nightingale, Esq., Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner in London for the Union of South Africa. John Houston Sinclair, Esq., Chief Secretary, Zanzibar. Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson, Esq., Legal Assistant, Colonial Office. Captain Charles Walter Barton, D.S.O., The King's African Rifles. (Nyasaland. Additional Member, in connection with military operations.) Brigadier-General Charles Macpherson Dobell, D.S.O., A.D.C., Inspector-General of the West African Frontier Force.(West Africa. Additional Member, in connection with military operations.) Captain Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, of His Majesty's Cruiser "Cumberland."(West Africa. Additional Member, in connection with military operations.) Charles Alfred Bell, Esq., of the Indian Civil Service, for services in connection with the Tibet Conference, 1913. Richard William Brant, Esq., lately Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office.
Order of the Indian Empire
Knight Grand Commander (GCIE) Maharaja Sir Velugoti Sri Rajagopala Krishna Yachendralavarti Bahadur, K.C.I.E., Panchhazari Mansabdar, of Venkatagiri. Sir Sri Kantirava Narasinharaja Wadiyar Bahadur, K.C.I.E., Yuvaraja of Mysore.
Companion (CIE) Abdulla bin Esa, son of Sheikh Esa bin Ali al Khalifa, the Chief of Bahrein. (Honorary) The Reverend James Caruthers Rhea Ewing, D.D., LL.D., M.A., Principal of the Forman Christian College, Lahore, Punjab. (Honorary) Claude Dundas James Carmichael, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Madras. Meherali Fazulbhoy Chinoy, Sheriff of Bombay, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor for making Laws and Regulations. Kiran Chandra De, Esq., B.A., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Bengal. Frank Willington Carter, Esq. Charles Montague King, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar, Punjab. Khan Bahadur Sheikh Riaz Hussein, Honorary Extra Assistant Commissioner and Magistrate of Multan, Punjab. Edward Rawson Gardiner, Esq., Indian Public Works Department, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of Bihar and Orissa, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations. George Thomas Barlow, Esq., Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Branch, Public Works Department, United Provinces. Frederick Samuel Philip Swann, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Banda, United Provinces. Berkeley John Byng Stephens, Esq., a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Burma for making Laws and Regulations. Mir Kamal Khan, Jam of Las Bela, Kalat, Baluchistan. Captain Walter Lumsden, C.V.O., R.N. (retired), Director of the Royal Indian Marine. Colonel Dewan Bishan Das, Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Jammu and Kashmir State. Mager Frederic Gauntlett, Esq., Indian Civil Service, lately Comptroller and Auditor-General. Major Samuel Richard Christophers, M.B., Indian Medical Service, Officer in Charge of the Malarial Bureau at the Central Research Institute, Kasauli. Colonel George William Patrick Dennys, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Central Provinces, and a Member of the Council of the Chief Commissioner for making Laws and Regulations. William Peter Sangster, Esq., Indian Public Works Department, Executive Engineer, Malakand Division, Upper Swat River Canal, North-West Frontier Province. Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Indian Army, Political Department, lately Political Agent, Koweit, Persian Gulf. Montague Hill, Esq., Indian Forest Department, Chief Conservator of Forests, Central Provinces, and lately Officiating Inspector-General of Forests. Captain Frederick Marshman Bailey, Indian Army, Political Department. Sahibzada Abdus Samad Khan, Chief Secretary to His Highness the Nawab of Rampur, United Provinces.
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) His Highness Prince Leopold Arthur Louis of Battenberg, K.C.V.O.
Commander (CVO) Major Clive Wigram, C.S.I., M.V.O., Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry in Waiting to His Majesty. John Marnoch, Esq., Regius Professor of Surgery, Aberdeen University.
Member, 4th Class
Member, 5th Class Carpenter Lieutenant John William Sheldrake, Royal Navy. On promotion from His Majesty's yacht "Victoria and Albert." (Dated 1 October 1914.)
Imperial Service Order (ISO)
Home Civil Service Walter Matthew Gibson, Esq., M.V.O., Secretary of His Majesty's Privy Purse.
Edward Medal James Kennedy, of the Earnoch Colliery, Lanark. Joseph Cook, of the Blackhouse Colliery, Durham.
King's Police Medal (KPM)
England and Wales Police Forces Major Otway Mayne, Chief Constable of Buckinghamshire. Lieutenant-Colonel Llewellyn William Atcherley, M.V.O., Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Dr. J. B. Wright, Chief Constable of the Newcastle upon Tyne City Police and Director of the Fire Brigade. John Stirling, Head Constable of the Great Grimsby Borough Police. James A. P. Powell, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police. William Harrison, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Gloucestershire Constabulary. John Gleed, Superintendent and Chief Clerk, Warwickshire Constabulary. Horace Ellis, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, West Sussex Constabulary. John Thomas Pearman, Superintendent, 1 Buckinghamshire Constabulary. Robert Faulkner, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Derbyshire Constabulary. Henry Warner, Superintendent, Ipswich Borough Police. William Gabriel Hooper, Superintendent, Northamptonshire Constabulary. James Barnes, Chief Superintendent and Chief Clerk, Lancashire Constabulary. Henry Wakeford, Superintendent, Hampshire Constabulary. Sidney Burfield, Sergeant, Metropolitan Police. Frederick Brown, George Roberts, Thomas Wright, Henry Brown, John Walker, Frederick West, Constables, Metropolitan Police. Joseph Greedy, Constable, Somersetshire Constabulary. Edwin Lawty, Constable, Guildford Borough Police. William Wiltshire, Constable, Wolverhampton Borough Police.
Fire Brigades Alexander Wall Weir, Chief Superintendent, Liverpool City Police. J. Franklin, Station Officer, London Fire Brigade. Harry Darkins, Fireman, London Fire Brigade.
Scotland James Tennant Gordon, Chief Constable of Fifeshire and Kinross-shire. John Millar, Chief Constable, Hamilton Burgh Police. John Morrison, Superintendent and Deputy Chief Constable, Lanarkshire Constabulary. David Pennie, Superintendent, Lanarkshire Constabulary. George Macaulay, ex-Superintendent, Edinburgh City Police. Alexander Harper, Superintendent, Glasgow City Police.
Ireland Colonel Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., Inspector-General, Royal Irish Constabulary. Thomas James Smith, Commissioner of Police, Belfast. John Patrick Fogarty, Head Constable Major, Royal Irish Constabulary Depot, Dublin.
India Claude Dundas James Carmichael, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, first grade, Madras Police. Daniel Reilly, Sergeant, first grade, Madras Police. Lawrence Edward Saunders, Assistant Superintendent of Police, second grade, Madras Police. Murid Ismail, Sowar, Palanpur Agency Police, Bombay Police. Ernest Edward Morris, Inspector, Criminal Investigation Department, Bombay City Police. Harry Officer Moore, Assistant Superintendent, second grade, Bombay Police. Hector Ratanji Kothawalla, Deputy Superintendent, second grade, Bombay District Police. Thomas Charles Greenop, Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade of the Bombay Municipality. Khan Saheb Kamruddin Abdul Rehman, Inspector, second grade, Bombay District Police. Robert Pryde, Inspector in the mounted branch of the Kathiawar Agency Police, Bombay Police. Cecil Ward Chichele Plowden, C.I.E., officiating Inspector-General of Police, Bengal. Elahi Bux, Inspector, Constables' Training School, Rajshahi, Bengal Police. Thomas Boyles, Inspector, second grade, Bengal Police. Rai Sahib Jogesh Chandra Bhowmik, officiating Deputy Superintendent of Police, Murshidabad, Bengal Police. Babu Basanta Kumar Chatarji, officiating Deputy Superintendent, Criminal Investigation Department, Bengal Police. Montague Lewis Oakes, Superintendent, second grade, United Provinces Police. Bhikam Singh, Constable, Civil Police, Lucknow district. United Provinces Police. Ramzan Ali, Sub-Inspector, United Provinces Police. Charles Stead, M.V.O., Superintendent and Personal Assistant to the Inspector-General of Police, Punjab Police. Godfrey Hugh Prickard, Superintendent, Punjab Police. Miran Baksh, Sub-Inspector, Punjab Police. Feroze Khan, Sub-Inspector, Punjab Police. Percy Frederic de la Feuillade Sherman, District Superintendent, third grade, Burma Police. Kenneth Campbell Macdonald, District Superintendent, third grade, Burma Police. William Wentworth Forbes, District Superintendent, second grade, Burma Police. Dhandraj, Constable, Rangoon Town Police. Robert Thomas Dundas, officiating Inspector-General of Police, Bihar and Orissa Police. Rai Bahadur Janki Prasad Tiwari, District Superintendent (retired), Bihar and Orissa Police. Jeodhari Singh, Constable, Bihar and Orissa Police. Herbert Spence, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Eastern Kange, Central Provinces Police. Abbas Ali, Constable, Seoni District Police, Central Provinces Police. Jarnaluddin, Subadar-Major, Naga Hills Battalion, Assam Military Police. Hari Ram, Jemadar, Naga Hills Battalion, Assam Military Police.