1915 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1915 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were announced on 1 January 1915.^[1]

Order of the Bath

Knight Commander (KCB)

Civil Division

• Edmund Ernest Nott-Bower, Esq., C.B., Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue.
• Lionel Abrahams, Esq., C.B., Assistant Under Secretary of State, India Office.

Companion (CB)

Military Division

• Captain Noel Grant, R.N., (H.M.S. "Carmania").
• Captain John Collings Taswell Glossop, R.N. (H.M.A.S. "Sydney").
• Commander James Barr, R.N.R. (H.M.S. "Carmania").

Civil Division

• Captain Richard Webb, R.N.
• Fleet-Paymaster Charles John Ehrhardt Rotter, R.N.
• Basil Phillott Blackett, Esq., First Class Clerk, The Treasury.
• George Russell Clerk, Esq., C.M.G., Senior Clerk, Foreign Office.
• James Edward Masterton Smith, Esq., Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Commander (KCSI)

• Major-General William Riddell Birdwood, C.B., C.S.I., C.I.E., D.S.O., late Secretary in the Army Department to the Government of India.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)

• The Right Honourable Sir Louis Mallet, K.C.M.G., C.B., lately His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Constantinople.

Knight Commander (KCMG)

• Wilfred Collet, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Honduras.
• George Basil Haddon Smith, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Windward Islands.
• The Honourable George Halsey Perley, Minister of the Dominion of Canada; at present in charge of the office of the High Commissioner in London for the Dominion.
• The Honourable Robert Philp, formerly Premier of the State of Queensland.
• The Honourable Clifford Sifton, K.C., Member of the King's Privy Council for Canada, and formerly Minister of the Interior of the Dominion.

Companion (CMG)

• Frederic Chapple, Esq., Head Master of Prince Alfred College, Adelaide.
• Charles Thomas Davis, Esq., of the Colonial Office.
• George Joseph Desbarats, Esq., Deputy Minister and Comptroller of the Naval Service of the Dominion of Canada.
• Laurence Stirling Eliot, Esq., I.S.O., lately Under Treasurer of the State of Western Australia.
• Surgeon-Major-General Eugène Fiset, M.D., D.S.O., Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence of the Dominion of Canada.
• Edward Allan Grannum, Esq., Receiver-General of the Colony of Mauritius.
• George Hogben, Esq., Inspector-General of Schools, Dominion of New Zealand.
• Loke Yew, Esq., of Selangor, Federated Malay States.
• Thomas Slingsby Nightingale, Esq., Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner in London for the Union of South Africa.
• John Houston Sinclair, Esq., Chief Secretary, Zanzibar.
• Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson, Esq., Legal Assistant, Colonial Office.

• Captain Charles Walter Barton, D.S.O., The King's African Rifles. (Nyasaland. Additional Member, in connection with military operations.)
• Brigadier-General Charles Macpherson Dobell, D.S.O., A.D.C., Inspector-General of the West African Frontier Force.(West Africa. Additional Member, in connection with military operations.)
• Captain Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, of His Majesty's Cruiser "Cumberland."(West Africa. Additional Member, in connection with military operations.)

• Charles Alfred Bell, Esq., of the Indian Civil Service, for services in connection with the Tibet Conference, 1913.
• Richard William Brant, Esq., lately Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

• Maharaja Sir Velugoti Sri Rajagopala Krishna Yachendralavarti Bahadur, K.C.I.E., Panchhazari Mansabdar, of Venkatagiri.
• Sir Sri Kantirava Narasinharaja Wadiyar Bahadur, K.C.I.E., Yuvaraja of Mysore.

Companion (CIE)

• Abdulla bin Esa, son of Sheikh Esa bin Ali al Khalifa, the Chief of Bahrein. (Honorary)
• The Reverend James Caruthers Rhea Ewing, D.D., LL.D., M.A., Principal of the Forman Christian College, Lahore, Punjab. (Honorary)
• Claude Dundas James Carmichael, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Madras.
• Meherali Fazulbhoy Chinoy, Sheriff of Bombay, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
• Kiran Chandra De, Esq., B.A., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Bengal.
• Frank Willington Carter, Esq.
• Charles Montague King, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar, Punjab.
• Khan Bahadur Sheikh Riaz Hussein, Honorary Extra Assistant Commissioner and Magistrate of Multan, Punjab.
• Edward Rawson Gardiner, Esq., Indian Public Works Department, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of Bihar and Orissa, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
• George Thomas Barlow, Esq., Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Branch, Public Works Department, United Provinces.
• Frederick Samuel Philip Swann, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Banda, United Provinces.
• Berkeley John Byng Stephens, Esq., a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Burma for making Laws and Regulations.
• Mir Kamal Khan, Jam of Las Bela, Kalat, Baluchistan.
• Captain Walter Lumsden, C.V.O., R.N. (retired), Director of the Royal Indian Marine.
• Colonel Dewan Bishan Das, Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Jammu and Kashmir State.
• Mager Frederic Gauntlett, Esq., Indian Civil Service, lately Comptroller and Auditor-General.
• Major Samuel Richard Christophers, M.B., Indian Medical Service, Officer in Charge of the Malarial Bureau at the Central Research Institute, Kasauli.
• Colonel George William Patrick Dennys, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Central Provinces, and a Member of the Council of the Chief Commissioner for making Laws and Regulations.
• William Peter Sangster, Esq., Indian Public Works Department, Executive Engineer, Malakand Division, Upper Swat River Canal, North-West Frontier Province.
• Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Indian Army, Political Department, lately Political Agent, Koweit, Persian Gulf.
• Montague Hill, Esq., Indian Forest Department, Chief Conservator of Forests, Central Provinces, and lately Officiating Inspector-General of Forests.
• Captain Frederick Marshman Bailey, Indian Army, Political Department.
• Sahibzada Abdus Samad Khan, Chief Secretary to His Highness the Nawab of Rampur, United Provinces.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross (GCVO)

• His Highness Prince Leopold Arthur Louis of Battenberg, K.C.V.O.

Commander (CVO)

• Major Clive Wigram, C.S.I., M.V.O., Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry in Waiting to His Majesty.
• John Marnoch, Esq., Regius Professor of Surgery, Aberdeen University.

Member, 5th Class

• Carpenter Lieutenant John William Sheldrake, Royal Navy. On promotion from His Majesty's yacht "Victoria and Albert." (Dated 1st October, 1914.)

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