The 1928 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 4 June 1928.
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
Baron Sir George Rowland Blades by the name, style and title of Baron Ebbisham, of Cobham in the County of Surrey. President of the Federation of British Industries. Lord Mayor of London 1926-27. For public services. The Rt. Hon. Sir Alfred Moritz Mond by the name, style and title of Baron Melchett, of Landford in the County of Southampton. For public and political services. Sir James Farquharson Remnant by the name, style and title of Baron Remnant, of Wenhaston in the County of Suffolk. Member of Parliament for Holborn since March 1900. For political and public services.
Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: Godfrey Lampson Tennyson Locker-Lampson Member of Parliament for Salisbury January, 1910–18, and for Wood Green Division since December, 1918. Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs since December 1925, and for Home Affairs, 1923–24, and November 1924-December 1925
Baronetcies The Rt. Hon. Edward Mervyn Archdale Minister of Agriculture for Northern Ireland William Walter Carlile Member of Parliament for Buckingham Division 1895-1906. Chairman of the Magisterial Bench, Buckinghamshire, For political and public services in Buckinghamshire. Major William Cope Member of Parliament for Llandaff and Barry Division since December 1918. Comptroller of His Majesty's Household since January 1928. Lord Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury March 1923 to January 1924, and November 1924 to January 1928 Sir Havilland Walter de Sausmarez, Bailiff of Guernsey Robert Williams Managing Director of Tanganyika Concessions
Knight Bachelor John Sandeman Allen Member of Parliament for West Derby Division of Liverpool since 1924. Member of the Council of the International Chamber of Commerce and Acting Chairman (Chairman Designate) of the Royal Colonial Institute. For political and public services. Reginald Mitchell Banks Member of Parliament for Swindon Division of Wiltshire since November 1922. Recorder of Wigan since April 1928. For political and public services. Walter Baker Clode President, Railway Rates Tribunal. Chairman, Rates Advisory Committee, Ministry of Transport Cecil Allen Coward, President of the Law Society Professor William Alexander Craigie Joint Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. Professor of English in the University of Chicago Brigadier-General James Edward Edmonds Director of the Military Branch, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence Sydney James Gammell. For political and public services in the North East of Scotland. John Marice Æmilius Gatti Ex-Chairman of the London County Council Henry Cubitt Gooch For political and public service's in the County of London. Member of Parliament for Peckham 1908-10 and member of the London County Council for 15 years, being Chairman 1923-24 Victor Raphael Harari Pasha Director of the National Bank of Egypt and of the Agricultural Bank of Egypt. A leading member of the British community in Cairo. For services over a long period in promoting trade and commerce between England and Egypt Enoch Hill For political and public services in Yorkshire. Chairman of the Building Societies Association James Atkinson Hosker For political and public services in Bournemouth. Chairman of the Bournemouth Conservative Association Archibald Hurd, Author of many works on Naval subjects George Aitken Clark Hutchison Member of Parliament for the Northern Division of Midlothian and Peebles, 1922–23 and since October 1924, and three times contested Argyllshire in the Unionist interest. For political and public services. James Hopwood Jeans Member of the Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Secretary of the Royal Society John Buck Lloyd, Junior, Financial Director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Henry Thomas McAuliffe, Member of the Corporation of the City of London; and Chairman of the Finance Committee for seven years Percy Graham MacKinnon, Chairman of Lloyd's Ernest Louis Meinertzhagen Senior London County Council Member for Chelsea for over 20 years. Chairman of Chelsea Conservative Association. For public and political services. Benjamin Howell Morgan, Chairman of British Empire Producers Organisation. For public services. Francis Morris Chairman of the Metropolitan Asylums Board James Openshaw For political and public services in Lancashire. President and Chairman of the Fylde Conservative Association Max Pemberton Author, Director of the London School of Journalism Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Pinkham Chairman of the Middlesex County Council Nigel Playfair, Manager of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith Reginald Ward Edward Lane Poole, For political and public services. Spencer John Portal Chairman of the Trustee Savings Banks Association, Chairman of the London Savings Bank Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Bateman Protheroe-Smith Chief Constable, Cornwall. For services in the above-mentioned capacity and in connection with the relief of the Cornish tin miners and their families George Stuart Robertson Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies Alderman Samuel Thomas Talbot For political and public services in Birmingham Thomas Marris Taylor Vice Chairman of the Special Grants Committee, Ministry of Pensions Gilbert Christopher Vyle, President, Association of British Chambers of Commerce, 1926–28 Henry Walker His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Mines Thomas Watts Member of Parliament for Withington Division of Manchester November 1922-23 and since October 1924. For political and public services. Colonel Albert Edward Whitaker For political and public services in Nottinghamshire. Thomas White Chairman of the Central Valuation Committee for England and Wales
Dominions
Murray Bissett, Senior Judge of the High Court of Southern Rhodesia The Hon. George Fowlds President of Auckland University College, Dominion of New Zealand; for public services. John Melrose, a prominent pastoralist in the State of South Australia; in recognition of his charitable services. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Simpson Newland a leading surgeon of Adelaide, State of South Australia Captain George Hubert Wilkins distinguished Australian aviator and explorer
British India Khan Bahadur Muhammad Usman Sahib Bahadur, Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras Babu Ganesh Datta Singh, Minister in charge of the Ministry of Local Self-Government, Bihar and Orissa Maulavi Saiyid Muhammad Saadulla, Minister, Assam Justice Alan Brice Broadway, Senior Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature at Lahore Justice Benjamin Lindsay, Puisne Judge, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Justice Henry Sheldon Pratt, Judge, High Court of Judicature at Rangoon Jamshedji Behramji Kanga Advocate-General, Bombay Captain Edward James Headlam Director of the Royal Indian Marine Lieutenant-Colonel George Henry Willis Royal Engineers, Master of the Security Printing Press at Nasik Muhammad Akbar Nazar Ali Hydari, Nawab Hydar Nawaz Jang Bahadur, Sadr-ul-Maham, Finance Department, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Government Hadji Abdul Karim Abu Ahmed Khan Ghuznavi, Member of the Bengal Legislative Council Austin Low Chairman, Messrs. Griridlay & Co.
Colonies, Protectorates, etc. Kitoyi Ajasa Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Nigeria Christian Ludolph Neethling Felling General Manager, Kenya and Uganda Railways Ewen Reginald Logan, Judge of the High Court, Northern Rhodesia Thomas Laurence Roxburgh Unofficial Member of the Privy Council of Jamaica Gualterus Stewart Schneider, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, Ceylon
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle
Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle (KT)
Victor Alexander John, Marquess of Linlithgow
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Francis Oliver
Army General Sir John Philip Du Cane Colonel Commandant, Royal Artillery, Aide-de-Camp General to The King, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta and its Dependencies General Sir George de Symons Barrow Indian Army, Colonel 14/20th Hussars, Colonel, The Scinde Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Cavalry), Indian Army late General Officer. Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Command, India
Civil Division The Rt. Hon. Sir Esmé William Howard His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington, D.C.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Sir John Frederick Andrews Higgins
Civil Division Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers Chairman, Board of Inland Revenue Maurice Linford Gwyer Solicitor to the Treasury Oswald Richard Arthur Simpkin Public Trustee Sir Charles John Howell Thomas Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral John Moore Casement Rear-Admiral the Hon. Matthew Robert Best Rear-Admiral Humphrey Thomas Walwyn Engineer Rear-Admiral Hugh Sydney Garwood
Army The Reverend Alfred Charles Eustace Jarvis Chaplain General to the Forces (Chaplain to The King), Chaplain, Tower of London Major-General Harold Ben Fawcus Deputy Director General; Army Medical Services, War Office' Colonel Reginald John Thornton Hildyard Brigade Commander, 2nd Rhine Brigade, The British Army of the Rhine Colonel Horace de Courcy Martelli Commanding Royal Artillery, 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, Western Command Colonel Evan Maclean Jack Director General, Ordnance Survey, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Colonel Arthur Edward McNamara Commandant, Small Arms School, Netheravon Colonel Henry Barstow Indian Army, Commander, Delhi Independent Brigade Area, India Colonel William Albany Fetherstonhaugh Indian Army, Commandant Lahore Base Sub-area, and Brigade Commander, Lahore Brigade Area, India Colonel William Marshall Fordham Indian Army, Deputy Adjutant and Quartermaster General, Eastern Command, India Colonel Harold Boulton Indian Medical Service, V.H.S., Assistant Director of Medical Services, Deccan District, India
Royal Air Force Air Commodore Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt
Civil Division Colonel Richard Vernon Tredinnick Ford Colonel John Edward Sarson late 1st Volunteer Battalion, the Leicestershire Regiment, Honorary Colonel 4th Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment James Sidney Barnes Assistant Secretary, Admiralty Charles Patrick Duff Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Colonel Herbert Tom Goodland Deputy Controller, Imperial War Grave's Commission, France and Flanders Edgar Hackforth, Deputy Controller, Ministry of Health James Stirling Ross Director of Accounts, Air Ministry
Order of Merit (OM)
Sir George Abraham Grierson In recognition of his eminent position as an Oriental Scholar and of the value to the Empire of his work on Indian Languages and Dialects
The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI) Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler ex-Governor of Burma
Knight Commander (KCSI) Sir William John Keith Indian Civil Service, late Finance Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma
Companion (CSI) Leonard William Reynolds Indian Civil Service, Agent to the Governor-General, Rajputana, and Chief Commissioner, Ajmer-Merwara Hopetoun Gabriel Stokes Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Revenue, Madras Rana Bhagat Chand, Raja of Jubbal, Simla Hill States