The 1924 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published in The London Gazette on 3 June 1924.
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 British Empire Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: Thomas Power O'Connor For political services
Baronetcies Alexander Grant, Chairman of the firm of McVittie and Price. For public services. Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston President of the Royal College of Physicians
Knight Bachelor Gerald Bellhouse Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office David Young Cameron In recognition of his contributions to Art Richard Davies Deputy, Alderman and Chief Commoner, Corporation, of London William Galloway For public services Benjamin Hawkins, Solicitor to the Board of Customs and Excise Fred Hiam, For public services George Anthony King Chief Master, Supreme Court Taxing Office Charles Mendl, For services to His Majesty's Embassy, Paris Harold George Parlett Japanese Counsellor of His Majesty's Embassy, Tokyo The Rt. Hon. William Lowrie Sleigh Lord Provost of Edinburgh Alderman John Utting Chairman of Finance Committee, Liverpool Corporation. Lord Mayor of Liverpool, 1917–18 Ralph Lewis Wedgwood General Manager, London and North Eastern Railway Arthur Smith Woodward lately Keeper of Geology in the British Museum
British India Provash Chandra Mitter Vakil, High Court, Calcutta, Bengal, late Minister, Government of Bengal Justice Victor Murray Coutts-Trotter, Chief Justice, Madras High Court, Justice Babington Bennett Newbould, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge, High Court, Calcutta, Bengal Justice Henry Scott-Smith, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge, High Court, Lahore, Punjab Justice Theodore Garo Piggott, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge, High Court, Allahabad, United Provinces Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Education, Health and Lands Peter Henry Clutterbuck Inspector-General of Forests Gilbert Thomas Walker Director-General of Observatories in India Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas John Carey-Evans Indian Medical Service, Surgeon to His Excellency The Viceroy Alexander James Anderson President, Chamber of Commerce, Rangoon, Burma Sardar Khan Bahadur Rustomji Jehangirji Vakil, Partner in several Spinning and Weaving Companies, and Member of the Board of Directors of other business concerns in Ahmedabad, Bombay Alfred Percival Symonds, Director, Messrs. Binny and Company Limited, Madras Mahamadbhai Currimbhai Ebrahim, Mill-owner and Philanthropist, Bombay M. R. Ry. Diwan Bahadur Raghupathi Venkataratnam Naidu Garu, Principal (retired) of the Raja's College, Pithapuram, Madras
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. John Ernest Adamson Director of Education for the Province of Transvaal, Union of South Africa; in recognition of his services to Education Charles Ernest St. John Branch, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Jamaica Thomas Melrose Coombe, of the City of Perth, State of Western Australia, President of the Theatre Managers, Proprietors and Theatrical Association; in recognition of his public services Thomas Edward de Sampayo, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon James Henry Gunson Mayor of the City of Auckland, New Zealand; in recognition of his public services Henry Edward Pollock Member of the Executive Council and Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong The Hon. William Alexander Sim, Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand John Sulman of the City of Sydney, Chairman of the Canberra Advisory Committee; in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth of Australia Malcolm Watson of Klang, Selangor, Federated Malay States; in recognition of his services in connection with the prevention of Malaria
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir Montague Edward Browning Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas
Royal Air Force Air Vice Marshal Philip Woolcott Game
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Allen Thomas Hunt
Army Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Alan Richard Montagu Stuart Wortley Quartermaster-General, Headquarters Staff of the Army in India Major-General the Hon. Sir Francis Richard Bingham late of the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control, Berlin, now Lieutenant-Governor and Commanding the Troops, Jersey District
Civil Division Sir Archibald Henry Bodkin, Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ernest Clark Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland Otto Ernst Niemeyer Controller of Finance, His Majesty's Treasury. Horace John Wilson Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Albert Percy Addison Surgeon Rear-Admiral Charles Marsh Beadnell Captain Francis Herbert Mitchell Captain Cecil Minet Staveley
Army Colonel William Bernard Lauder Royal Army Pay Corps, Chief Paymaster, The War Office, and Officer in charge of Royal Army Pay Corps Records Colonel Claud Edward Charles Graham Charlton Military Attaché, Washington Colonel Charles William Singer Chief Engineer, Egypt Colonel Stuart William Hughes Rawlins Commandant, Chemical Warfare Experimental Station, Porton Colonel Charles John Steavenson late Brigade Commander, 1st Rhine Brigade Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Hugh Clifford Fernyhough Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Ordnance Officer, 2nd Class, Assistant Director of Ordnance Services, Northern Command Colonel Henry Arthur Peyton Lindsay Indian Army, Inspector of Supplies and Transport, India Colonel Philip Frederick Pocock Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 15th Indian Infantry Brigade Colonel John Patrick Villiers-Stuart Indian Army, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, Staff College, Camberley Colonel Bernard Underwood Nicolay, Indian Army, Deputy Military Secretary, Headquarters Staff of the Army, India
Royal Air Force Group Captain Lyster Fettiplace Blandy
Civil Division Engineer Rear-Admiral William Matthias Whayman Paymaster Captain Richard Bosustow Hosking Colonel Godfrey Davenport Goodman late Brigade Commander, 139th (Sherwood Foresters), Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Wilfrid Stanyforth late Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry, and Territorial Force Reserve Gerald Bain Canny, Commissioner of Inland Revenue Reginald Alexander Dalzell Director of Telegraphs and Telephones, General Post Office Henry Augustus Ferguson-Davie, Principal Clerk of Public Bill Office and Clerk of the Fees, House of Commons Alfred Edward Faulkner Director of Sea Transport, Board of Trade Ralph Endersby Harwood Deputy Treasurer to H.M. The King Norman Gerald Loughnane, Principal, Ministry of Pensions Alexander Maxwell, Assistant Secretary, Home Office John William Lambton Oliver Director of Naval Stores, Admiralty Rowland Arthur Charles Sperling His Majesty's Minister, Berne Leonard Day Wakely, Secretary, Political Department, India Office Charles Fell Watherston, Assistant Secretary and Actuary, War Office
Order of Merit (OM)
Francis Herbert Bradley, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI) Colonel His Highness Sewai Maharaj Shri Jey Singh Maharaja of Alwar, Rajputana James Lyle, Viscount Inchcape
Knight Commander (KCSI) His Highness Maharajadhiraja Maharao Sarup Ram Singh Bahadur, Maharao of Sirohi, Rajputana
Companion (CSI) Donald Hector Lees, Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Revenue, Bengal Henry Phillips Tollinton Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Punjab Arthur Wyndham McNair Indian Civil Service, Commissioner, Rohilkhand Division, United Provinces Frank Noyce Indian Civil Service, Secretary to Government, Development Department, Madras William Sutherland Chief Engineer, Telegraphs Captain Edward James Headlam Director, Royal Indian Marine, Bombay Samuel Findlater Stewart Secretary, Military Department, India Office, lately Joint Secretary to the Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Service in India
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
The Hon. Austin Chapman, Minister for Trade and Customs, Commonwealth of Australia Arthur Cuninghame Grant Duff, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Chile Maximillian Michaelis, of the City of Cape Town; in recognition of services rendered to the Union of South Africa Herbert James Stanley Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Northern Rhodesia
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Bernard Henry Bourdillon, Secretary to the High Commissioner for Iraq Samuel George Campbell, of the City of Durban, Union of South Africa; in recognition of his public services George Edwin Emery, General Manager of the State Savings Bank, State of Victoria David Sampson Gideon, Member of the Privy Council and Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica The Hon. William Muter Leggate, Minister of Lands and Agriculture of the Colony of Southern Rhodesia Alexander Francis Lowe, Clerk of Parliaments and Clerk of the Legislative-Council of New Zealand Ranald MacDonald Comptroller of Customs, Nyasaland Hayes Marriott, General Adviser, Johore, Malay States George Henry Monahan, Clerk of the-Senate of the Commonwealth of Australia James Watt, lately a Senior Resident the Southern Provinces of Nigeria George Augustus Mounsey Counsellor in the Foreign Office
On the termination of the administrative functions of the British South Africa Company in Northern Rhodesia —
Richard Allmond Jeffrey Goode Chief Secretary to the Government, formerly Deputy Administrator and Secretary to the Administration, Northern Rhodesia Aylmer William May Principal Medical Officer, Northern Rhodesia
Honorary Companion Sanda Kura, the Shehu of Bornu, Nigeria Raja Abdul Aziz, the Raja Muda of Perak, Federated Malay States
The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire
Knight Grand Commander (GCIE) His Highness Shri Rajaram Chhatrapati Maharaj, Maharaja of Kolhapur, Bombay
Knight Commander (KCIE) Sir Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad, ex-Member of Executive Council, Bombay Hugh McPherson Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council, Bihar and Orissa William James Reid Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council, Assam Sir Edward Maynard des Champs Chamier, Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for India, lately President, Indian Bar Committee Khan Bahadur Sayyid Mehdi Shah Honorary Magistrate and President, Municipal Committee, Gojra, Lyallpur District, Punjab Khan Bahadur Sir Muhammad Habibullah, Sahib Bahadur Member of the Executive Council, Madras
Companion (CIE) Wilfred Thomas Mermund Wright, Indian Civil Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative Department Arthur Norman Moberly, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal The Reverend Earle Monteith Macphail Vice-Chancellor, University of Madras Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Risley Hearn Royal Engineers, Agent, Eastern Bengal Railway, Bengal Charles Ervans William Jones, Indian Educational Service, Director of Public Instruction and Secretary to the Government of the Central Provinces Colonel Richard Heard, Indian Medical Service, Honorary Surgeon to His Majesty the King, Surgeon-General with the Government of Bengal Upendralal Majumdar, late Accountant-General