The 1949 King's Birthday Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made "on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty's Birthday", and were published in supplements to the London Gazette of 3 June 1949 for the British Empire,British Empire list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: IndiaIndia list: and Ceylon.Ceylon list:
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.
British Empire
Baron George Archibald, JP. For political and public services. Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, KCB, CBE, lately Clerk of the Parliaments.
Privy Counsellor John Dugdale, MP, Financial Secretary, Admiralty, since 1945. Member of Parliament for West Bromwich since 1941. Sir Oliver Shewell Franks, KCB, CBE, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington. The Right Honourable Robert Craigmyle, Baron Morrison, JP, DL, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Works, since 1948; a Lord-in-Waiting, 1947–1948. Member of Parliament for North Tottenham, 1922–1931, and 1935–1945. William Donald, the Honourable Lord Patrick, a Senator of His Majesty's College of Justice in Scotland.
Knight Bachelor Reginald Greenwood Bailey, CBE, Adviser to the Board of Trade on wool exports. President, British Wool Federation. Giovanni Battista (John) Barbirolli, FRAM. For services to Music. James Barr, FRICS, Senior Partner, James Barr and Sons, Surveyors, Glasgow. Henry Vaughan Berry. For services as Regional Commissioner, Hansestadt-Hamburg, Control Commission for Germany, British Element. Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley, MC, Portrait Painter. David Brunt, ScD, FRS, Professor of Meteorology, Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Arthur Strettell Comyns Carr, KC, Chief British Prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. John Charrington, Chairman, Charrington, Gardner, Locket and Company, Ltd. James Fitzjames Duff, LLD, Warden of the Durham Colleges in the University of Durham. John Maxwell Erskine, CBE, JP, DL, Chairman, Scottish Savings Committee. Robert Brown Fraser, OBE, Director-General, Central Office of Information. John Green, JP, Director, Thos. Firth and John Brown, Ltd., Chairman of the Central Conference of the Engineering and Allied Employers' National Federation. Ronald George Hatton, CBE, DSc, FRS, lately Director of the East Malling Agricultural Research Station, and Consultant Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Horticulture and Plantation Crops. Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, lately Commodore Master, Cunard White Star Line, Ltd. John Ernest James, Chairman, Lancashire Steel Corporation Ltd. Charles Hilary Jenkinson, CBE, LLD, FSA, Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. William Jones, CBE. For public services in North Wales. Albert Edward MacColl, MIEE, Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chairman, North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. Laurence Pierce Brooke Merriam, MC, Examiner of Controls, Board of Trade. Frederick Lucius O'Brien, Chairman of the Northern Ireland Housing Trust. Leslie Arthur Plummer, Chairman, Overseas Food Corporation. Joseph Francis Engledue Prideaux, CBE, MRCS, LRCP, Director General of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions. James Reginald Howard Roberts, CBE, JP, DL, Clerk of the London County Council. Ambrose James Sherwill, CBE, MC, Bailiff of Guernsey. Henry Sessions Souttar, CBE, DM, MCh, FRCS, Consulting Surgeon, London Hospital. Kenneth Raydon Swan, OBE, KC, lately Chairman of the Committee set up to consider the Patents and Designs Act. Godfrey Hilton Thomson, DCL, DSc, Bell Professor of Education, University of Edinburgh. Arthur Egerton Watson, CB, CBE., Chairman, Civil Service Sports Council. Professor James Anderson Scott Watson, CBE, MC, LLD, DSc, Chief Scientific and Agricultural Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Percy Henry Winfield, KC, LLD, FBA, JP, Emeritus Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge.
State of Victoria The Honourable Thomas Karran Maltby, Speaker of Legislative Assembly, State of Victoria. Gordon Keith Snow, Chief Confidential Adviser to Premier, State of Victoria.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Gerard Lewis Howe, Colonial Legal Service, Attorney-General, Nigeria. John Alfred Lucie-Smith, OBE, VD, Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of Sierra Leone. Thorleif Rattray Orde Mangin, CMG, Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Commissioner, Gold Coast. Arthur Morse, CBE. For public services in Hong Kong. Frederick Jacob Seaford, CBE. For public services in British Guiana.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) General Sir Richard Loudon McCreery, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, late Cavalry, Colonel, 14/20th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. Sir John Harold Edmund Woods, KCB, MVO, Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Acting Vice-Admiral (S) George Harold Bankart, CBE. Vice-Admiral Charles Henry Lawrence Woodhouse, CB. Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KBE, CB, DSO, MC, late Infantry (retired). General Sir Sidney Chevalier Kirkman, KBE, CB, MC, late Royal Regiment of Artillery, Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery. Air Chief Marshal Sir James Milne Robb, KBE, CB, DSO, DFC, AFC, Royal Air Force. Sir Eric St John Bamford, KBE, CB, CMG, Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue. Colonel Thomas Blatherwick, CB, DSO, MC, TD, JP, DL, ADC, Chairman, East Lancashire Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association. Sir Harold Parker, KBE, CB, MC, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence. Thomas Leslie Rowan, CB, CVO, Second Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Rear-Admiral William Gerrard Andrewes, C.B.E., D.S.O. Rear-Admiral William York La Roche Beverley, C.B.E. Rear-Admiral Basil Charles Barrington Brooke, C.B.E. The Venerable Archdeacon Leonard Coulshaw, M.C., A.K.C., K.H.Ch. Rear-Admiral (E) Clement Ellis. Rear-Admiral Horace Geoffrey Norman, C.B.E. Rear-Admiral Brian Betham Schofield, C.B.E. Acting Rear-Admiral (S) Aubrey John Wheeler. Rear-Admiral Peveril Barton Reiby Wallop William-Powlett, C.B.E., D.S.O. Brigadier (temporary) Ivan Pringle Brickman, C.B.E. (30777), Royal Army Pay Corps. Major-General Edward Hadrill Clayton, C.B.E. (15934), late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Gilbert Minto Elliot, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General (local) (now Colonel) Ian David Erskine, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Foot Guards. Major-General Julian Alvery Gascoigne, D.S.O., late Foot Guards. Brigadier Charles de Lisle Gaussen, M.C., late Corps of Royal Engineers. Major-General Gerald Tom Warlters Horne, C.B.E., Royal Army Ordnance Corps. The Reverend Canon Frederick Llewelyn Hughes, C.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A., K.H.C., Chaplain-General to the Forces, Royal Army Chaplains' Department. Major-General Leslie Keith Lockhart, C.B.E., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Major-General Charles Douglas Packard, C.B.E., D.S.O., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Brigadier (temporary) Thomas Rigby, D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery. Brigadier (temporary) Nelson Russell, D.S.O., M.C., late Infantry. Major-General Kenneth Alexander MacDonald Tomory, O.B.E., M.B., K.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps. Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman, C.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Frederick John Murphy, C.B.E., M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H., K.H.S., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Robert Linton Ragg, C.B.E., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Vice-Marshal Frank Noel Trinder, C.B.E., Royal Air Force. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Kenneth Buchanan Lloyd, C.B.E., A.F.C, Royal Air Force. Acting Air Vice-Marshal Andrew MacGregor, C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force. Air Commodore John William Frederick Merer, Royal Air Force. Air Commodore Reginald Newnham Waite, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
Civil Division Harry Beer, Esq., Under-Secretary, Board of Trade. Frederick Bray, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Education. Harry Campion, Esq., C.B.E., Director of the Central Statistical Office, Cabinet Office. Group-Captain Alan Sidney Whitehorn Dore, D.S.O., T.D., D.L., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association of the County of Middlesex. Robert James Paterson Harvey, Esq., Regional Director, Home Counties Region, General Post Office. Hubert Kendrew, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Works. Gerald Bernard McCormick, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Armament Supply, Admiralty. Thomas Craig Woodgate Mitchell, Esq., Under-Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland. Sidney John Page, Esq., M.C., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport. William George Arthur Perring, Esq., F.R.Ae.S., Director, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. Henry Austin Strutt, Esq., C.V.O., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office. Harold Symon, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Health, William Dale Wilkinson, Esq., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply. Alfred Harold Wilson, Esq., C.B.E., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation. Samuel Wright, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
Order of Merit (OM) Sir Robert Robinson, M.A, LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. The Right Honourable Bertrand Arthur William, Earl Russell, M.A., F.R.S.
Order of St Michael and St George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir (Richard Henry) Archibald Carter, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., lately Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office. Sir John Huggins, K.C.M.G., M.C., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief, Jamaica.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Cyril Augustin Birtchnell, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Ernest Rowe-Dutton, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., Third Secretary, H.M. Treasury. Arthur Rundell Guinness, Esq. For services to overseas trade. Lieutenant General the Honourable Sir Edmund Francis Herring, K.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., E.D., K.C., Lieutenant Governor of the State of Victoria. Geoffrey Francis Taylor Colby, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nyasaland. Arthur Hilton Poynton, Esq., C.M.G., Deputy Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office. William Evelyn Houstoun-Boswall, Esq., C.M.G., M.C., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Beirut. Alexander Knox Helm, Esq., C.M.G., C.B.E., until recently His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Budapest, now serving in a similar capacity at Tel Aviv. Sir Alec Seath Kirkbride, C.M.G., O.B.E., M.C., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Amman. John Hurleston Leche, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Santiago. Roger Mellor Makins, Esq., C.M.G., a Deputy Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Major-General Alexander Vass Anderson, C.B., M.B.E., Director of Civil Affairs, War Office. Major-General Nevil Charles Dowell Brownjohn, C.B., O.B.E., M.C. For services as Chief of Staff and Deputy Military Governor, Control Commission for Germany, British Element. Harry Faulkner, Esq., M.I.E.E., Deputy Engineer-in-Chief, General Post Office. Alexander Thomas Kingdom Grant, Esq., Assistant Secretary, H.M. Treasury. Charles Herbert Hampshire, Esq., M.B., B.S., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.R.I.C., Secretary, British Pharmacopoeia Commission. Reginald Keith Jopson, Esq., O.B.E.. United Kingdom Senior Trade Commissioner in Canada. John Atkins Peacock, Esq., Director of Eggs, Ministry of Food. James Richard Smyth, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Air Ministry. Wilfred Bethridge Topp, Esq. For services in the control of the import and export of diamonds. Charles Norman Atkins, Esq., E.D., M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H., City Health Officer for Hobart, State of Tasmania.