The 1931 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 30 December 1930.
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 Colonies
Baron Sir John Scott Hindley Commercial Adviser, Mines Department since 1918. For public services. Sir Ernest Henry Lamb Member of Parliament for Rochester 1906-1910 arid 1910–18. Member of the City of London Corporation since 1903. For public and political services. Sir William Plender Senior Partner of Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co. A past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. High Sheriff of Kent, 1928–29. For public services. Sir Ernest Rutherford Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, late President of the Royal Society. For public services.
Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: Thomas Kennedy Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury since 1929. Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy 1921-22 and since 1923. Herbert Stanley Morrison Minister of Transport since 1929. Member of Parliament for South Hackney 1923-24 and since 1929. The Honourable Sir George Halsey Perley Minister without Portfolio, Dominion of Canada.
Baronetcies Sir John Rose Bradford President of the Royal College of Physicians, Consulting Physician to University College Hospital. Ernest Ridley Debenham, A Director of Lloyds Bank and of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation. For services to agriculture. Sir Richard Arman Gregory Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, Queen's College, London. Editor of Nature. Sir George Ernest May Secretary to the Prudential Assurance Company. Member of the Council of the Institute of Actuaries. George Roberts (Audax). A generous contributor to charity.
Knight Bachelor Ralph Norman Angell Member of Parliament for North Bradford since May, 1929. For public and political services. Professor Charles Raymond Beazley Professor of Mediaeval and Modern History in the University of Birmingham. Henry James Buckland, General Manager of the Crystal Palace. John Caulcutt, deputy chairman, Export Credits Guarantee Advisory Committee. (Edward) Percival Clarke, Senior Prosecuting Counsel to the Crown at the Central Criminal Court. Alfred Thomas Davies Member of Parliament for the City of Lincoln 1918–24. For public and political services. Arthur James Dawson Lately Director of Education to the Durham County Education Authority. William Alfred Cecil Goodchild Assistant Delegate and General Secretary to the British Delegation, Reparations Commission. Alderman Fred Hayward For eight years Chairman of Central and United Boards of the Co-operative Union. For three years Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative Congress. For public and political services. Alfred Howarth. For many years Town Clerk of Preston. Albert Edward Humphries Chairman of the National Joint Industrial Council for the Flour Mailing Industry. John Joseph Hunt Member of the East Riding County Council. For public services and benefactions in the East Riding. Alderman William Jenkins Member of Parliament for the Neath Division since 1922. For public and political services. His Honour Judge Thomas Artemus Jones Formerly British Commissioner on the Mexican Claims Commission. Ernest Gordon Graham Little Member of Senate, University of London, since 1906. Richard Winn Livingstone Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University, Belfast. John Blackwood McEwen Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. John David Morgan For public and political services in Cardiff. Conrad James Naef Accountant-General of the Navy. David John Owen, General Manager, Port of London Authority. Henry Howard Piggott Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Founder and Conductor of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. Professor William Rothenstein Principal, Royal College of Art. For several years Professor of Civic Art, Sheffield University. James Sexton Member of Parliament for St. Helens since 1918. Member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress since 1923. For public and political services. Major Robert Inigo Tasker Chairman of the London County Council. Daniel Lleufer Thomas For many years Stipendiary Magistrate for Pontypridd and Rhondda. James Smith Whitaker Senior Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. Herbert William Wrangham Wilberforce, deputy chairman, County of London Sessions. Chairman and past President of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. Ambrose Edgar Woodall Medical Superintendent of the Manor House Hospital, Golders Green. Robert Young Chairman of Committees, House of Commons, since 1929. Member of Parliament for the Newton Division of Lancashire since 1918. For public and political services.
Dominions The Honourable Tasker Keech Cook. Member of the Executive Council and of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland. Arthur Dudley Dobson For services in the Dominion of New Zealand. Colonel Alexander Weston Jarvis Chairman of the Council of the Royal Empire Society. Cecil Leys, of the City of Auckland. For services in the Dominion of New Zealand.
British India Justice John William Fisher Beaumont Barrister-at-Law, Chief Justice in the High Court of Judicature, Bombay. Rai Bahadur Lala Sita Ram President, Legislative Council, United Provinces. Ali Muhammad Khan Dehlavi, Barrister-at-Law, President of the recently prorogued Legislative Council, Bombay. Justice Hubert Grayhurst Pearson, Barrister-at-Law, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal. Khan Bahadur Mirza Zaffar Ali, Punjab Civil Service (retired), lately Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, Punjab. Alexander Robert Loftus Tottenham Indian Civil Service, Senior Member, Central Board of Revenue, Government of India. Ralph Oakden Indian Civil Service, Senior Member, Board of Revenue, United Provinces. Francis Charles Griffith Indian Police Service, Inspector-General of Police, Bombay. Charles Stead Indian Police Service, Inspector-General of Police, Punjab. Percy Rothera Agent, South Indian Railway, Madras. Maurice George Simpson Director-in-Chief, Indo-European Telegraph Department. Khan Bahadur Qazi Aziz-ud-din Ahmad Dewan, Datia State, Central India. Oscar de Glanville Barrister-at-Law, Burma. Kikabhai Premchand, Banker, Bombay. Charles Edgar Wood, Senior Partner of Messrs. Parry and Company, Madras. Thomas Dugald Edelston, lately Senior Partner of Messrs. Begg, Dunlop and Company Ltd., Calcutta.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Herbert Layard Dowbiggin Inspector-General of Police, Ceylon. Lancelot Henry Elphinstone, Chief Justice of the Federated Malay States. William Woodward Hornell Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong University. Sidney Orme Rowan-Hamilton, Chief Justice of Bermuda.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division
Army General Sir Robert Dundas Whigham Colonel, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Aide-de-Camp General to The King, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command.
Civil Division Sir Oswyn Alexander Ruthven Murray Permanent Secretary, Admiralty.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral William Archibald Howard Kelly Engineer Vice-Admiral Reginald William Skelton
Army Lieutenant-General Harold Ben Fawcus (late Royal Army Medical Corps), Director-General, Army Medical Services, The War Office.
Civil Division Sir Edward Hall Alderson Clerk of the Parliaments. Frank Edward Smith Secretary to the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Secretary to the Royal Society. Reginald Townsend Director of Ordnance Factories.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Captain (Commodore 2nd Class) Henry Stockwell (Retired). Instructor Captain John Camp
Army Major-General Lawrence Humphry (late Royal Army Medical Corps), deputy director of Medical Services, Western Command, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Alexander Duncan Macpherson (late The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders), Commander, Canal Brigade, The British Troops in Egypt. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Reginald Francis Arthur Hobbs (late Royal Engineers), Brigadier in charge of Administration, Western Command. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Verney Asser (late Royal Artillery), Commander, Royal Artillery,. 4th Division, Eastern Command. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Arthur Cecil Temperley (late The Norfolk Regiment), deputy director of Military Operations and Intelligence, The War Office. Colonel (Honorary Brigadier) Hamlet Bush Toller Retired pay (late Royal Army Pay Corps), late Chief Paymaster at The War Office, and Officer in Charge of Records, Royal Army Pay Corps. Major General Hugh Francis Edward MacMahon Indian Army, Director of Supplies and Transport, Headquarters Staff of the Army in India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Sidney Bernard Orton, Indian Army, Commander, Allahabad Brigade Area, Lucknow District, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Henry Clare Duncan Indian Army, Commander, Zhob (Independent) Brigade Area, Western Command, India. Colonel Bryan Norman Abbay, Indian Army, late Commandant, 18th King, Edward's Own Cavalry, Indian Army.
Royal Air Force Air Commodore Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair
Civil Division Colonel Cuthbert Buckle Territorial Army. Captain the Honourable Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford Imperial Secretary, South African High Commission, and Representative in the Union of South Africa of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. James William Henry Culling Director of Victualling, Admiralty. Henry Arthur Augustus Ellis, A Senior Clerk in the House of Commons. Ioan Gwilym Gibbon Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health. Rear-Admiral Theodore John Hallett Robert Lockhart Hobson, Keeper of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum. Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Hastings Lionel Ismay Sam Browne's Cavalry (12th Frontier Force), Indian Army. Lately Senior Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence. George Augustus Mounsey Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office. Lucius Abel John Granville Ram Second Parliamentary Counsel. Alfred Edward Stamp Deputy Keeper of the Public Records and Keeper of the Land Revenue Records. Rear-Admiral John Knowles im Thurn
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI) His Highness Maharajadhiraja Maharana Sir Bhupal Singh Bahadur Maharaja. of Udaipur, Rajputana. Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Rajaram Chhatrapati Maharaj Maharaja of Kolhapur, Bombay Presidency.
Honorary Knight Grand Commander Major-General His Highness Projjwal-Nepal Tara-Dhish Sri Sri Sri Maharaja Sir Bhim Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana Prime Minister and Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Nepal.
Knight Commander (KCSI) Lieutenant His Highness Raja Jogindar Sen Bahadur, Raja of Mandi, Punjab States. Thakor Saheb Shri Sir Daulatsinhji Jasvatsinhji Thakor Saheb of Limbdi, Western India States. Sir Norman Edward Marjoribanks Indian Civil Service (retired), chairman, Madras Services Commission, Madras.
Companion (CSI) Hugh Kynaston Briscoe Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bihar and Orissa. Thomas Couper, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma. Charles Banks Cunningham, Indian Police Service, Inspector-General of Police, Madras. Joseph Hugh Garrett, Indian Civil Service, Acting Commissioner, Northern Division, Bombay. Nawab Malik Muhammad Hayat Khan, Nun, Punjab Civil Service Commissioner, Lahore, Punjab.