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Coronation Medal: Awards for Advisors to Government Departments, not State Servants....

Catalogue reference: CO 448/49/11

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This record is about the Coronation Medal: Awards for Advisors to Government Departments, not State Servants.... dating from 1937 in the series Colonial Office: Honours: Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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CO 448/49/11
Date
1937
Description

Coronation Medal: Awards for Advisors to Government Departments, not State Servants. Statements showing numbers of medals received and issued by the Colonial Office.

Individuals who have rendered advice or assistance of Outstanding Value include:

  • Edward Bruce Alexander, esq, CMG, VD, Ceylon representative on the International Tin Committee and the International Rubber Committee.
  • Sir Frank Morrish Baddeley, KBE, CMG, Chairman of the West African Currency Board; member of the International Tin Committee.
  • Sir John Cadman, GCMG, DSc, Chairman, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Iraq Petroleum Company.
  • Sir John Caulcott, Director of Barclays Bank.
  • Sir Edward Davson, Bt, KCMG, Member of the Colonial Developmant Advisory Committee.
  • Clifford Figg, Esq, Ceylon representative on the International Tin Committee and the International Rubber Committee.
  • J Fisher, Esq, A member of the Bank of England who deals with Colonial currency.
  • Baron Hailey, GCSI, GCIE, Director, African Research Survey.
  • Brigadier General Frederick Dawson Hammond, CBE, DSO, Chairman, Ceylon Railway Commission.
  • Sir William Henry Himbury, Chairman and Managing Director of the British Cotton Growing Association.
  • Sir James Colquhoun Irvie, CBE, FRS, Joint Colonial Office representative on Committee for Forestry at Oxford.
  • William Hannah McLean, Esq, Pd.d, M.Inst.CE, Advisor on economic questions.
  • Dougal Orme Malcolm, Esq, Member of the Executive Committee of Directors of the British South Africa Company.
  • Major General Sir Neil Malcolm, KCB, DSO, President, British North Borneo (Chartered) Company.
  • John Houldsworth Oldham, Esq, MA, DD, Member of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies.
  • John Smith, Esq, OBE, MRCVS, Member of Colonial Advisory Council of Agriculture and Animal Health.
  • Sir (Hippolyte) Louis Souchon, CBE, Representative in London of the Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture.
  • Sir (Roderick) Roy Wilson, Director of Standard Bank of South Africa, Limited.
  • Arthur Edwin Horn, CMG, MD, MRCP, Consulting Physician to the Colonial Office.
  • Sir Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall, CMG, FRS, Director of the Imperial Forestry Commission.

Advisory or Consultive Bodies:

  • 'Discovery' Committee: Vice Chairman - Sir Sidney Harmer, KBE, DSc, FRS; Member - Vice Admiral Sir (Henry) Percy Douglas, KCB, CMG, RN (Retd).
  • Colonial Development Advisory Committee: Chairman - Sir Alan Rae Smith, OBE; Member - Sir Alan Pim, KCSI, CIE.
  • International Tin Committee: Member - Sir William John Firth.
  • International Rubber Committee: Members - John George Hay, Esq; Eric Miller, Esq; Sir Andrew McFadyean.
  • West India Committee: Chairman - Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Buchanan Davson, OBE, TD; Secretary - Sir Algernon Edward Aspinall, CMG, CBE.
  • Eastern African Dependencies Trade and Information Office: Chairman - Major General Sir John Humphrey Davidson, KCMG, CB, DSO; Members - Colonel Charles Edward Ponsonby, VD, MP; Major Sir Edward Humphrey Manisty Leggett, DSO, RE.
  • Imperial Forestry Institute: Director - J N Oliphant, Esq.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
26271/3/1937
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Access conditions
Closed For 50 years
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10372605/

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