The 1925 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 1925.
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
Viscount Marcus Samuel, Baron Bearsted
Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
Colonel William Graham Nicholson Member of Parliament for the Petersfield Division since 1897. Chairman of the Selection Committee of the House of Commons and of the Chairman's Panel
Baronetcies Lieutenant-Colonel George Loyd Courthope Member of Parliament for the Rye Division of Sussex since 1906. For political and public services. Sir John Ritchie Findlay Chairman of the Board of Trustees, for the National Gallery in Scotland. Former Master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. Chairman of Sick Children's Hospital, Edinburgh. For political and public services in Scotland. Hugo Hirst, Chairman of General Electric Company Limited. Member of Board of Trade Advisory Council Lieutenant-Colonel James Lithgow President of the National Confederation of Employers Organisations. British-Employers Delegate at the International Labour Conference at Geneva 1922-25 Major Sir David Hughes-Morgan High Sheriff of Breconshire 1898–99. Has been several times Mayor of Tenby. For political and public services in Wales. Sir John Bland-Sutton President of the Royal College of Surgeons Wilfrid Forbes Home Thomson, For political and public services in Yorkshire. Major Granville Charles Hastings Wheler Member of Parliament for Faversham Division since 1910. For political and public services.
Knight Bachelor
Major-General Llewellyn William Atcherley H.M. Inspector of Constabulary Major Richard Whieldon Barnett Member of Parliament for West St. Pancras, October 1916–18, and for S.W. St. Pancras since 1918. For political and public services. James Berry Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital. Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Chief authority on goitre in this country. Herbert Edwin Blain Principal Agent of the Conservative and Unionist Party since 1924. Late Assistant Managing Director of the London Underground Railways and the London General Omnibus Company Group For political and public services. William James Miller Burton. For public, services in connection with the new site and building of Lloyds. Managing Director of the City of London Real Property Co. Ltd. John Byford For political and public services in West Ham. Former Mayor of West Ham Harry Edward Dixey Chairman and Honorary Secretary of the Bewdley and West Worcestershire Unionist Association for 25 years. For political and public services. David William Evans, Director and Legal Adviser of the Welsh National Memorial Association. For public services. in Wales Alderman John William Forrest Member of Blackburn Town Council since 1913. Alderman 1921. Leader of the Council since 1916. Chairman of the Finance Committee and of the Education Committee. For political and public services. Major Ernest Gray Member of Parliament for West Ham (North) 1895-1906 for Accrington 1918–1922, Member of the London County Council since 1907, of which he was Vice-Chairman in 1915. Formerly President of the National Union of Teachers. For political and public services. Herbert Hamilton Harty, Composer; Conductor of the Hallé Orchestra Herbert James Hope, Senior Registrar, Bankruptcy and Companies Winding-up Department Travers Humphreys, Senior Prosecuting Counsel for the Treasury John Herbert Hunter Chairman of the London County Council, of which he has been a member since 1907. Chairman of the North Paddington Conservative Association since 1907. For political and public services. Barry Vincent Jackson, Manager of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Alderman Percy Richard Jackson, Chairman of Education Committee of West Riding of Yorkshire. For honorary services to education. John William Lorden Member of Parliament for North St. Pancras 1918–23. Member of Wandsworth Borough Council for 21 years, Mayor 1903-4 and 1907–8. Chairman of Committees on Stone, Brick and Clay Ware Trades and on Timber set up in 1920-21 under the Profiteering Act. For political and public services. William John Morcom For political and public services in Surrey George Herbert Oatley, Architect of Bristol University. For public services. Bernard Partridge, Artist John Robertson Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham. Professor of Public Health in Birmingham University Jonah Walker-Smith, Director of Housing, Ministry of Health Philip Colville Smith Grand Secretary of the United Grand Lodge of English Freemasons Thomas Taylor, For political and public services in Macclesfield. Alderman Illtyd Thomas Former Lord Mayor of Cardiff. Original Member of the Court of Governors and of the Council of the National Museum of Wales. Honorary Treasurer since 1917. For political and public services in Wales.
British India Clement Daniel Maggs Hindley Chief Commissioner for Railways Chunilal Vijbhukhandas Mehta, Member of the Executive Council, Bombay Major-General William Bernard James Director of Remounts Selwyn Howe Fremantle Member, Board of Revenue, United Provinces James MacKenna Indian Civil Service, Additional Financial Commissioner, Burma John Hope Simpson Indian Civil Service (retired), late Chairman, Colonies Committee Rajamantra Dhurina Albion Rajkumar Banerji Indian Civil Service (retired), Dewan and President in Council, Mysore Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Travers O'Connor late British Envoy at the Court of Nepal Lieutenant-Colonel Robert William Layard Dunlop Solicitor to the Government of India Diwan Bahadur Rajasabhabhusana Krishnarajapuram Pallegondai Puttanna Chetty Member of the Legislative Council, Mysore, Mysore Civil Service (retired) Raja Venganad Vasudeva Raja Avargal, Valiya Nambidi of Kollengode, Landholder, Malabar, Madras Leslie Sewell Hudson, Member of the Legislative Council, Bombay, Partner in firm of Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co., President, Bombay Chamber of Commerce, and Member of Bombay Port Trust Hubert Winch Carr, Partner, Balmer, Lawrie & Co., President, European Association, Bengal Charles Ross Alston, Barrister-at-Law, Allahabad, United Provinces Vasantrao Anandrao Dabholkar Member of the Legislative Council, Bombay, Landowner, Bombay D'Arcy Lindsay Member, Legislative Assembly John Campbell Indian Civil Service (retired), Representative of the Government of India on the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Aaron Turner Banks, President of the Melbourne Hospital, State of Victoria The Hon. John Henry Hosking lately Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand Joseph Clifton Love, lately President of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, Commonwealth of Australia, in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Claude Moorhouse Lieutenant-Governor of the Southern Provinces of Nigeria James Peiris, Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon Archibald Thomas Strong, formerly Professor of Classics and Lecturer in English at Melbourne University, and Chief Government Censor of Cinematograph Films, Commonwealth of Australia George O'Donnell Walton, Chief Justice of Grenada
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenham
Civil Division
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Sir James Andrew Fergusson Vice-Admiral Michael Henry Hodges
Army Major-General Sir Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe Colonel, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards) Major-General Samuel Guise-Moores late Royal Army Medical Corps, Major-General Charles William Grant Richardson Indian Army, General Officer Commanding, Poona District, India
Civil Division The Right Reverend Bishop John Taylor Smith late Chaplain-General to the Forces
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Military Division Royal Navy Surgeon Rear-Admiral Alexander Maclean Engineer Rear-Admiral Herbert Brooks Moorshead Captain the Hon. Herbert Meade Captain Joseph Charles Walrond Henley Colonel Joseph Arthur Myles Ariel Clark Captain William Marshall
Army Major General Claude Douglas Hamilton Moore Half-Pay List Colonel George Walker Chief Engineer, Eastern Command Colonel Arthur Mudge Inspector of the West Indian Local Forces, and Officer Commanding the Troops, Jamaica Colonel Harry George Burrard Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, Egypt Colonel Barnett Dyer Lempriere Gray Anley Commandant, Senior Officers School, Sheerness Colonel Philip Lancelot Holbrooke Colonel Royal Artillery, Attached to the Staff, Headquarters, Scottish Command Colonel Hubert Jervoise Huddleston General Officer Commanding, Sudan Major-General Henry Edward ap Rhys Pryce Indian Army, Director of Supplies and Transport, India Colonel Herbert William Jackson Indian Army, Area Commandant, Bangalore Brigade Area, India Colonel Patrick Henry Dundas Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 18th Indian Infantry Brigade, India
Civil Division
Charles Frederick Munday, Deputy Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty Colonel Harry Dalton Henderson Territorial Army, Honorary Colonel, 51st (Highland) Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army Group Captain John Adrian Chamier Horace Christian Dawkins Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons Francis Netherwood Dixon, Secretary, Exchequer and Audit Department Edward Vandermere Fleming, Director of Establishments, War Office John Duncan Gregory Assistant Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office Percy Jesse Gowlett Rose, Assistant Under Secretary for Scotland Frederick William Leith-Ross, Deputy Controller of Finance, Treasury. Until recently British Member of Finance Board of Reparations Commission Charles Gordon Spry, Commissioner and Joint Secretary, Board of Inland Revenue Sylvanus Percival Vivian, Registrar General Humbert Wolfe Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)
The Rt. Hon. Victor Alexander George Robert, Earl of Lytton Viceroy and Acting Governor-General of India
Knight Commander (KCSI) Major His Highness Raj Rajeshwar Maharajadhiraja Umaid Singh Bahadur Maharaja of Jodhpur, Rajputana Sir Alexander Frederick Whyte, President, Legislative Assembly Sir Maurice Henry Weston Hayward, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Executive Council, Bombay Sir Abdur Rahim, Member of the Executive Council, Bengal
Companion (CSI) Major-General Thomas Henry Symons Indian Medical Service, Honorary Surgeon to His Majesty the King, Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras Frederick Lewisohn Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Burma William Peter Sangster Chief Engineer, Irrigation Branch, Public Works Department, Punjab
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) The Rt. Hon. Sir John Lawrence Baird Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief designate of the Commonwealth of Australia Sir William George Tyrrell Permanent Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Sir Charles Calvert Bowring Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nyasaland Protectorate Sir Henry Robert Conway Dobbs High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Iraq Colonel Gerald Henry Summers Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Somaliland Protectorate