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Colonial Office Honours List, Birthday 1936: List by country of honours and names....

Catalogue reference: CO 448/45/10

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CO 448/45/10
Date
1936
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Colonial Office Honours List, Birthday 1936: List by country of honours and names. Lists of suggested names, and accepted names:

Order of St Michael and St George, for KCMG:

  • Sir Selwyn Macgregor Grier, CMG; Governor, Windward Islands.

For CMG:

  • David Henry Elias, Esq, MC; General Manager, Federated Malay States.
  • Harold Hignell, Esq; Colonial Administrative Service (CAS), Senior Provincial Commissioner, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Harold James Huxham, Esq; CAS, Financial Secretary, Ceylon.
  • William Joseph Johnson, Esq, OBE; Treasurer, Palestine.
  • Lieutenant Colonel Morice Challoner Lake, Political Secretary, Aden.
  • George Ernest London, Esq; CAS, Colonial Secretary, Gold Coast.
  • Arthur Innes Mayhew, Esq, CIE; Joint Secretary and Member of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies.
  • Henry Harold Scott, MD, FRCP; Director of the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases.
  • Edwin Taylor, Esq; Treasurer, Hong Kong.
  • Hugh Robert E E Welby, Esq; CAS, Provincial Commissioner, First Grade, Kenya.

Imperial Service Order (ISO):

  • Frank Edward Balmer, Esq; lately Chief Accountant, Posts and Telegrams Department, Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika Territory.
  • Evan Browne Bynoe, Esq; Provost Marshal and Sergeant at Arms, Barbados.
  • Pedro St Matthew Daniel, Esq; lately Senior Registrar, Judicial Department, Nigeria.
  • Moor Mohamed Hashim bin Mohamed Dali; lately Assistant Economic and Education Officer, Cooperative Department, Federated Malay States.
  • Beverley Burnley Littlepage, Esq; lately Postmaster General, Trinidad.
  • Melvin Warren B Wright, Esq; lately Office Assistant, Public Works Department, Sierra Leone.

For Knight Bachelor:

  • John Bagnall, Esq; Straits Settlements.
  • Panayiotis Loizou Cacoyannis, Esq; Cyprus.
  • Lieutenant Colonel John Calderwood Strathearn, CBE; Warden and Chief Surgeon of the St John of Jerusalem Ophthalmic Hospital. Jerusalem and Honorary Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Government of Palestine.
  • Edmund Oswald Teale, Esq, DSc, FGS, M Inst MM. Mining Consultant to the Government of the Tanganyika Territory.
  • Arthur Frederick Clarence Webber, Esq; Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Sierra Leone.

Order of the British Empire (Military Division), for CBE:

  • Lieutenant Colonel Percy John Parsons, ED; Officer Commanding, Ceylon Garrison Artillery.

(Military Division), for OBE:

  • Major (local Lieutenant Colonel) Charles Vere Bennett; Officer Commanding, Somaliland Camel Corps, King's African Rifles.
  • Captain William Tysoe, DSO, MC; Northern Rhodesia Regiment.

(Military Division), for MBE:

  • Lieutenant Douglas Foster Grierson; Perak Battalion, Federated Malay States.
  • Lieutenant (local Captain) Walter Robert Haymes; Pay and Quartermaster, Somaliland Camel Corps, King's African Rifles.
  • Captain Seng Tee tan; Company Commander, Malacca Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force.

(Civil Division), for CBE:

  • George Preston Bradney, Esq; lately Auditor for the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States.
  • Bertie Harry M Easter, Esq, MBE, BA; Director of Education, Jamaica.
  • John Campbell Fisher, Esq, OBE; Deputy Director of Colonial Audit.
  • Sidney Howard Grantham, Esq; Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Nigeria.
  • Philip Douglas Oakley, Esq, MRCS, LRCP; Colonial Medical Service, Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, Sierra Leone.
  • Evan David Reynolds, Esq; Uganda Protectorate.

(Civil Division), for Honorary CBE:

  • Meir Dizengoff, Esq, OBE; Palestine.
  • Usumanu, Emir of Gwandu, Nigeria.

(Civil Division), for OBE:

  • Nana Ayirebi Acquah III, Omanhene of Wnneba, Gold Coast.
  • Eldred Curwen Braithwaite, Esq, MB, FRCS; Colonial Medical Service, Specialist, Nigeria.
  • Geoffrey Fletcher Clay, Esq, MC, BSc; Colonial Agricultural Service, Deputy Director of Agriculture, Uganda Protectorate.
  • Major John Cormack Craig, DSO, M Inst CE; Director of Public Works, British Guiana.
  • Major Joseph Turner Dew, MBE, VD; Leeward Islands.
  • Major Hammettt Holland B Edwards, MRCVS; Colonial Veterinary Service, deputy Director of Animal Husbandry and Chief Veterinary Officer, Kenya.
  • Wilfred Jerome Farrell, Esq, MC, MA; Deputy Director of Education, Palestine.
  • Professor Robert Vistor Galea, Rector of Malta University.
  • Professor John Lewis Gatt, Director of Public Works, Malta.
  • Ernest Wilfred Head, Esq; lately General Manager of the Government Railway, Ceylon.
  • John Rooke Johnston, Esq; CAS, District Officer, Tanganyika Territory.
  • Frank Harold Lowe, Esq; Northern Rhodesia.
  • George Henry Masson, Esq, MD, FRCP; Medical Officer of Health, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
  • Horace Walter Raper, Esq; Straits Settlements.
  • William Johnson Thornhill, Esq, M Inst CE; lately Director of Public Works, Ceylon.
  • Charles Gordon Timms, Esq, MC, LRCP; Colonial Medical Service, Medical Officer, Somaliland Protectorate.
  • Gilbert Cochrane Wainwright, Esq; Jamaica.
  • Wilfrid Wise, Esq, BSc, AMICE, Director of Public Works, Fiji.

(Civil Division), for Honorary OBE:

  • Tewfik Bey Sinnu; President of the Court of Appeal, Trans-Jordan.
  • The Reverend Mother Tarcisius; for services to Education in the Straits Settlements.

(Civil Division), for MBE:

  • Ahmed Alhadi, Esq; Sierra Leone.
  • Miss Ruth Alice Bugot; Uganda Protectorate.
  • Manser William Bartlett, Esq; Nyasaland Protectorate.
  • Miss Henriette Bauman, Kenya.
  • Miss Emma Melicent P Branch; Leeward Islands.
  • Arthur Theodore Culwick, Esq; Tanganyika Territory.
  • Quirino Bonifacio de Freitas, Esq, MRCS, LRCP; British Guiana.
  • Mrs Hilda Fowke, DSc. Ceylon.
  • Miss Jane Ingham Frith; Bermuda.
  • Eugene Gregoire, Esq; Mauritius.
  • Ernest Charles Harvey, Esq; Palestine.
  • Miss Dorothy Charles Hutson, Barbados.
  • Robert Jones, Esq; Oyo Province, Nigeria.
  • Arthur James Keevill, Esq, MB; Tanganyika Territory.
  • Gerald Percival Keuneman, Esq; Ceylon.
  • Mrs Laura Hermione Longden; Uganda Protectorate.
  • Miss Elizabeth McMurtrie; Kenya
  • David McMillan McNair, Esq; Gold Coast.
  • Robert Key Masson, Esq; British Honduras.
  • Arthur Podmore Oakes, Esq, MM; Somaliland Protectorate.
  • Samuel Herbert Pearse, Esq; Nigeria.
  • William George Peasley, Esq; Palestine.
  • Miss Kathleen Wanlass Storrier; Nigeria.
  • Frank Edward Toms, Esq; Tanganyika Territory.
  • John Frederick G Troughton, Esq; Kenya.
  • Thomas George Westall, Esq; Windward Islands.

For Honorary MBE:

  • The Reverend father Auguste Brochard, Windward Islands.
  • Joao Franscisco L Gracias, Esq; Kenya and Uganda.
  • Hilmi Saleh Bey Husseine, Palestine.
  • The Very Reverend Father James John M Minderop; Uganda Protectorate.
  • Haj Nimr Effendi Sabia; Palestine.
  • Avinoam Yellin, Esq, MA; Palestine.

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