The 1928 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 1927.
Unusually, only women were named as recipients of the Order of the British Empire in the 1928 New Year Honours.
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 Lieutenant-Colonel the Right Honourable George Abraham Gibbs Member of Parliament for Bristol West since 1906; a Government Whip in the House of Commons. 1917; Treasurer of His Majesty's Household 1921 to January, 1924, and since November, 1924. The Right Honourable Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard Former Governor General of Nigeria. British Member of Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations since 1922. Sir Gerald Strickland Member of Parliament for Lancaster since 1924. Prime Minister of Malta.
Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: John Colin Campbell Davidson Member of Parliament for Hemel Hempstead, Nov. 1920–1923, and since 1924; Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party since Nov. 1926; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1923–24; Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, Nov. 1924. Sir Kingsley Wood Member of Parliament Woolwich West Division since Dec. 1918; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health since Nov. 1924.
Baronetcies James Gomer Berry Chairman, St. Clements Press Ltd., Deputy Chairman Allied Newspapers Ltd. James Caird. For public and philanthropic services. Major-General Sir Richard Havelock Charles Serjeant Surgeon to H.M. The King. Late President, Medical Board, India Office. Colonel William Edward Carne Curre For political and public services in Monmouthshire. Sir Arthur Worley General Manager of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, and of the Railway Passengers Assurance Company.
Aide-de-Camp Captain, the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava has been appointed a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Aide-de-Camp to the King, in succession to Captain Viscount Curzon 2 January 1928.
Knight Bachelor
Stephen Harry Aitchison For political and public services in Northumberland. President of the Central Division Conservative Association, Newcastle upon Tyne. George Washington Badgerow Dean and Surgeon to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Ear, Golden Square, W. 1, Consulting Surgeon to various Dominion Hospitals in England. Edmund Broughton Barnard Chairman of the Hertfordshire County Council and Lee Conservancy Board. For valuable services to local government. Alderman John Bayley. Founder and Builder of Wellington College, now Wrekin College, Salop. Has been on the Shropshire County Council since 1889. Reginald Bennett. For political and public services. Secretary of the Primrose League. Frederick Charles Bowring Lord Mayor of Liverpool 1925–27. For public services. John Reeve Brooke Formerly Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport. Secretary, Central Electricity Board. Arthur William Faire For political and public services in Leicestershire. Chairman of the Melton Division Conservative and Unionist Association. Montagu Richard William Foster For political and public services in Hampshire. County Alderman, County of Southampton. Edward German, Composer His Honour Judge Peter Grain, Judge of the Supreme Court for China. His Honour Judge Francis John Greenwell County Court Judge. Frederic Greville Hallett Secretary, Joint Examining Board, Royal College of Physicians of London, and Royal College of Surgeons of England. Brigadier-General Harold Brewer Hartley Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford. Member of Chemical Warfare Committee. For services to the Army in connection with training Army candidates at Oxford. Alderman Marshall Hays. For political and public services in Hammersmith. Charles Igglesden President of the Institute of Journalists, 1927. George William Henry Jones Member of Parliament for Stoke Newington, 1918–23, and since 1924. For political and public services. Arthur Belmore Lowry Chief General Inspector, Ministry of Health. David McCowan For political and public services in Glasgow. Mortimer Reginald Margesson For political and public services in Worcestershire. Chairman of the Kidderminster Division Conservative and Unionist Association. David Mason Lord Provost of Glasgow. William Maxwell. For political and public services in the North East of Scotland. Major Robert Spencer Nairn For political and public services in the East of Scotland. Charles Grant Robertson Vice Chancellor and Principal of Birmingham University. Alderman James Robinson For public and political services in Cardiff. Percy William George Sargent Honorary Consultant Surgeon, Ministry of Pensions. Specialist in cases of injury to brain and spinal cord. Meyer Adam Spielman, Chairman of Managers of Hayes Industrial School and of Park House Reformatory School. Thomas Ernest Stanton Superintendent, Engineering Department, National Physical Laboratory. Alexander Stevenson Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Walter Wooll West For political and public services in the Isle of Ely.
Dominions John Longstaff, President of Society of Australian Artists. The Honourable Alfred Bishop Morine Minister without Portfolio, Newfoundland. Charles Samuel Nathan Vice-Chairman of the Development and Migration Commission, Commonwealth of Australia. The Honourable Thomas Walter Stringer, lately Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
British India Saw Hke Sawbwa of Hsipaw, Burma. Justice Louis Charles Crump, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature, Bombay. Justice Arthur Herbert Cuming, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature, Calcutta. Albert Ashley Biggs, Agent, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway. Brojendra Lai Mitter, Advocate-General, Bengal. Edwin Hall Pascoe, Director, Geological Survey of India. Byramjee Jeejeebhoy, Sheriff of Bombay. Jehangir Cooverjee Coyajee, Professor of Political Economy and Philosophy in the Presidency College at Calcutta, lately Member of the Royal Commission on the Indian Tariff and Indian Currency. Shapurji Bomanji Billimoria lately Member of the Bombay Back Bay Committee. Doctor William James Wanless, American Presbyterian Mission Hospital, Miraj, Bombay.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Algernon Edward Aspinall Secretary to the West India Committee. Frank Morrish Baddeley Chief Secretary to Government, Nigeria. Clement Everitt, Unofficial Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, Straits Settlements. Richard Allmond Jeffrey Goode lately Chief Secretary to Government, Northern Rhodesia. William Alison Russell, Chief Justice, Tanganyika Territory. Henry Milne Scott Acting Attorney-General, Fiji. Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, formerly Mayor of Suva.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division
Army General Sir Archibald James Murray Retired pay. General Sir Alexander John Godley General to The King, Colonel The Royal Ulster Rifles, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command. General Sir Havelock Hudson Retired pay, late. Indian Army, Colonel The Northamptonshire Regiment. General Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe Indian Army, Colonel The South Wales Borderers, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India.
Civil Division The Right Honourable Sir John Eldon Bankes, Lord Justice of Appeal.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Hugh Dudley Richards Watson
Army Major-General John Duncan General Officer Commanding North China Command. Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Ridley Vaughan Unemployed List, Indian Army.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Roger Roland Charles Backhouse Engineer Rear-Admiral Frederick William Sydenham Captain the Honourable Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax
Army Major-General James Stuart Gallie late Royal Army Medical Corps, Deputy Director of Medical Services, Aldershot Command. Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Frederick William Henry Walshe Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, Eastern and Western Commands, India. Colonel Ladislaus Herbert Richard Pope-Hennessy Military Attache, Washington. Colonel Claude Bussell-Brown Chief Engineer, South China Command. Colonel John Greer Dill Instructor Imperial Defence College. Colonel Walter Mansel Parker Deputy Director of Transport, Army Headquarters, India. Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Patrick Barclay Sangster Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 9th (Jhansi) Infantry Brigade, India. Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Edward Currie Alexander Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 4th (Quetta) Infantry Brigade, India. Colonel (temporary Colonel Commandant) Richard Gardiner Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 3rd (Jhelum) Infantry Brigade, India. Colonel Charles Henry Kemble Chauncy Indian Army, Deputy Director of Movements and Quartering, Army Headquarters, India.
Royal Air Force Air Commodore Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding
Civil Division Captain Llewellyn Evan Hugh Llewellyn (Retired). Commander Thomas Joseph Croker (Retired). James Alan Noel Barlow Principal Assistant Secretary, Industrial Relations Department, Ministry of Labour. Arthur Stretton Gaye Commissioner of Crown Lands. William Thomas Leech, Director of Telegraphs and Telephones, General Post Office. Henry Aufrere Leggett Director of Establishments, Ministry of Health. Lewis McQuibban Permanent Secretary, Ministry. of Education, Northern Ireland.
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander (KCSI) Sir Bhupendra Nath Mitra Member of the Governor-General's Executive Council. Sir Samuel Perry O'Donnell Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of the United Provinces. Sir Chunilal Vijbhukhandas Mehta, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Bombay.
Companion (CSI) Charles Cunningham Watson Indian Civil Service, Political Secretary to the Government of India. Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Humphrey Keyes Political Department. Robert John Sherwood Dodd. Inspector-General of Police, United Provinces. Major Henry George Vaux Military Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Bombay.
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Graeme Thomson Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward William Macleay Grigg Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Kenya Colony. Edward John Harding Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office. Major Charles William James Orr Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands. The Honourable Philip Whistler Street, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, State of New South Wales.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Major Robert George Archibald Director of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Khartoum. Henry Sinclair Campbell Budge, Official Secretary to the Governor and Clerk to the Executive Council, State of New South Wales. George Craig, Comptroller of Customs, Dominion of New Zealand. Albert Fuller Ellis, New Zealand Member of the British Phosphate Commission. Odin Tom Faulkner, Director of Agriculture, Nigeria. Alexander Flint Principal Assistant Secretary, Admiralty. William Alfred Cecil Goodchild, Assistant Delegate and General Secretary of the British Delegation to the Reparation Commission. Alexander William Keown-Boyd Director-General of the European Department of the Ministry of the Interior, Cairo.