1916 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1916 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 1916.^[1]

A number of the honours were gazetted as being in recognition of the services of officers during the War. These are noted with a # below.

Order of the Garter

• The Right Honourable George Nathaniel, Earl Curzon of Kedleston, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.
• Right Honourable Sir Victor Christian William, Duke of Devonshire, G.C.V.O.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross (GCB)

Civil Division

• The Right Hon. Sir George Houstoun Reid, G.C.M.G.
• Sir Robert Chalmers, K.C.B.

Knight Commander (KCB)

Military Division

• Vice-Admiral Edward Eden Bradford, C.V.O. #
• Vice-Admiral Herbert Goodenough King-Hall, C.V.O., C.B., D.S.O. #
• Acting Vice-Admiral Charles Edward Madden, C.V.O. #
• Rear-Admiral Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, C.M.G., M.V.O. #
• Acting Vice-Admiral The Honourable Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe, C.B. #
• Acting Vice-Admiral John Michael de Robeck. #
• Rear-Admiral Dudley Rawson Stratford De Chair, C.B., M.V.O. #
• Acting Vice-Admiral Henry Francis Oliver, C.B., M.V.O. #
• Vice-Admiral Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon, C.V.O., D.S.O., retired. #
• Temporary Major-General Archibald Paris, C.B., R.M.A. #
• Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake, K.C.M.G., C.B., Colonel, The East Lancashire Regiment, Chief of the General Staff, India.
• Major-General Arthur Phayre, C.B., Indian Army, Commanding Secunderabad Division.
• Major-General Fenton John Aylmer, V.C., C.B., Adjutant-General in India.

Civil Division

• Colonel Henry Capel Lofftt Holden, C.B., Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, War Office.
• Ernley Robertson Hay Blackwell, Esq., C.B., Assistant Under Secretary, Home Office.
• Lionel Earle, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., Secretary, H.M. Office of Works.
• Noel Thomas Kershaw, Esq., C.B., Assistant Secretary, Local Government Board.
• Frederick Francis Liddell, Esq., C.B., Second Parliamentary Counsel, The Treasury.

Companion (CB)

Military Division

• Rear-Admiral Stuart Nicholson, M.V.O. #
• Captain Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler, R.N. #
• Captain George Price Webley Hope, R.N. #
• Commodore Algernon Walker Heneage, M.V.O., R.N. #
• Captain the Honourable Algernon Douglas Edward Harry Boyle, M.V.O., R.N. #
• Captain Hughes Campbell Lockyer, R.N. #
• Captain Lionel George Preston, R.N. #
• Engineer Captain William Whittingham, R.N. #
• Engineer Captain Henry Humphreys, R.N. #
• Engineer Commander George Edward Andrew, R.N. #
• Fleet Surgeon Arthur Gaskell, R.N. #
• Fleet Paymaster Hamnet Holditch Share, R.N. #
• Captain Charles Alfred Bartlett, R.N.R., R.D. #
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) John MacNeill Walter, D.S.O., Deputy Adjutant-General, Headquarters, India.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Francis John Fowler, D.S.O., Indian Army, Commanding Derajat Brigade.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Alexander Henry Eustace, D.S.O., Indian Army, Commanding Kohat Brigade.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Wyndham Charles Knight, D.S.O., A.D.C., Indian Army, Commanding Bombay Brigade.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Frederick Hopewell Peterson, D.S.O., Indian Army, Commanding Jhelum Brigade.
• Colonel Francis Herbert Sullivan Thomas, Indian Army.
• Colonel Arthur William Cripps, Indian Army, Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, Lahore Division.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Charles Edward Hendley, Indian Army.
• Colonel Edward Hearle Cole, Indian Army.
• Brevet Colonel William Westropp White, Indian Medical Service.

Civil Division

• Rear-Admiral Arthur William Waymouth. #
• Rear-Admiral Morgan Singer. #
• Captain Laurence Eliot Power, M.V.O., R.N. #
• Captain Clement Greatorex, M.V.O., R.N. #
• Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Edward Blumberg, R.M.L.I. #
• Engineer Rear-Admiral William Henry Riley. #
• Surgeon-General William Henry Norman, R.N. #
• Temporary Surgeon-General Humphrey Daw Rolleston, M.D., F.R.C.P., R.N. #
• Honorary Captain Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, Bart., R.N.R. #
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Orby Shipley, Commanding 3rd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Henry Launcelot Errington, Commanding Inns of Court Officers Training Corps.
• Honorary Brigadier-General Horatio Reginald Mends (Retired Pay), Secretary, West Riding of York Territorial Force Association.

• Major-General John Wallace Carson, Canadian Local Forces. #
• Honorary Brigadier-General Frank Robert Crofton Carleton (Retired Pay), Director of Organisation, War Office. #
• Colonel Willoughby Garnons Gwatkin, Canadian Local Forces. #
• Colonel Charles Philip Martel, Superintendent, Royal Gun and Carriage Factories, Royal Arsenal. #
• Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Colonel) Lionel Charles Gostling Tufnell, Officer in Charge of Records and Commanding Army Ordnance Corps. #
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Phipps, Royal Garrison Artillery Inspection Staff, Royal Arsenal. #

• Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler, Esq., lately Joint Secretary on the Indian Public Services Commission.
• Albert Gray, Esq., K.C., Counsel to the Chairman of Committees, House of Lords.
• Sidney West Harris, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Home Office.
• George Macdonald, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Scotch Education Department.
• Henry Gascoyen Maurice, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Walter Frederick Nicholson, Esq., Clerk, The Admiralty.
• Garnham Roper, Esq., Assistant Board of Trade.
• Robert Fitzwilliam Starkie, Esq., Magistrate, Ireland.
• Percy Thompson, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Inland Revenue.
• John Anthony Cecil Tilley, Esq., Chief Clerk, Foreign Office.

• Justin Theodore La Brooy, Esq., Civil Assistant to the Chief Superintendent, Royal Ordnance Factories. #
• Arthur William James MacFadden, Esq., M.B., Chief Inspector of Foods, Local Government Board. #

Order of Merit

• Henry James, Esq.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

• His Excellency General Sir Beauchamp Duff, G.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., C.I.E., A.D.C. General, Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty's Forces in India.

Knight Commander (KCSI)

• Sir Steyning William Edgerley, K.C.V.O., C.I.E., Member of the Council of India.
• Harrington Verney Lovett, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of the Lucknow Division, United Provinces, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
• Robert Woodburn Gillan, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, President of the Railway Board.
• Maharaj Sri Bhairon Singh Bahadur, C.S.I., Vice-President and Political Member of the State Council, Bikaner, Rajputana.

Companion (CSI)

• Henry Sharp, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Educational Service, Officiating Secretary to the Government of India in the Education Department, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations.
• Ludovic Charles Porter, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Secretary to the Government of India in the Education Department.
• Robert Russell Scott, Esq., Principal Clerk, The Admiralty, late Joint Secretary, Indian Public Services Commission.

• Lieutenant-Colonel John Walter Edward, Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, V.D., Commandant, 2/7 Hampshire Regiment. #

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)

• Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles, G.C.B., C.V.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the City and Garrison of Gibraltar.

• His Highness, Ibrahim, Sultan of the State and Territory of Johore, K.C.M.G. (Honorary)

Knight Commander (KCMG)

• Sir Edward Marsh Merewether, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Sierra Leone.
• William Lamond Allardyce, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands.
• The Honourable William Thomas White, Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada.
• The Honourable Thomas MacKenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom.
• The Honourable Sir Charles Kinnaird Mackellar, Knt., Member of the Legislative Council of the State of New South Wales, and lately President of the State Children's Relief Board.
• Collingwood Schreiber, Esq., C.M.G., General Consulting Engineer to the Government of the Dominion of Canada.
• Esme William Howard, Esq., C.V.O., C.M.G., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Sweden.
• The Honourable Lancelot Douglas Carnegie, M.V.O., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Portuguese Republic.
• William Edwin Brunyate, Esq., C.M.G., Legal Counsellor to the Egyptian Government.
• Sheikh Said Ali el Morghani, C.M.G. (Honorary)

• Vice-Admiral Frederic Edward Errington Brock, C.B. #
• Vice-Admiral Sackville Hamilton Carden. #
• Vice-Admiral Sir George Edwin Patey, K.C.V.O. #
• Vice-Admiral Arthur Henry Limpus, C.B. #
• Rear-Admiral Cecil Fiennes Thursby, C.M.G. #
• Surgeon-General Sir James Porter, R.N., LL.D., M.D., K.C.B., Honorary Physician to the King. #
• Temporary Surgeon-General Sir William Watson Cheyne, Bart., R.N., M.B., C.B., Honorary Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the King. #

Companion (CMG)

• Thomas Alexander Vans Best, Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Leeward Islands.
• Thomas Inglis Binnie, Esq., Director of Public Works, Nyasaland Protectorate.
• James Rufus Boose, Esq., Travelling Commissioner, Royal Colonial Institute.
• William Brymner, Esq., President of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
• John Cadman, Esq., D.Sc., Professor of Mining in the University of Birmingham; Petroleum Adviser to the Colonial Office, and Coal Mining Adviser to the Government of Nigeria.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry James Grasett, Chief Constable, Toronto.
• The Honourable Victor Albert Nelson Hood, Private Secretary to the Governor of Victoria.
• Surgeon-General Guy Carleton Jones, Director of Medical Services; Canadian Expeditionary Force.
• Brigadier-General James Charles MacDougall, Commanding Canadian Training Division; Canadian Expeditionary Force.
• John Middleton, Esq., M.A., Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Mauritius.
• Charles Frederick Wray Palliser, Esq., Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner for New Zealand.
• Bernard Senior, Esq., I.S.O., Treasurer of the Island of Ceylon.
• Adam Smith, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Brigadier-General Frederick Hugh Gordon Cunliffe. ("in connection with military operations in the Cameroons.")
• Captain Guy Reginald Archer Gaunt, R.N., Naval Attache to His Majesty's Embassy at Washington.
• Andrew Ryan, Esq., late First Dragoman at His Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople.
• Thomas Harold Lyle, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Bangkok.
• Arthur Hyde Lay, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Seoul.
• Colonel William Hacche Drake, R.A., Adjutant-General for the Soudan.

• Commodore Roger John Brownlow Keyes, C.B., M.V.O., Ad.C. #
• Captain Douglas Lionel Dent, R.N. #
• Commodore Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice. #
• Captain Wilfrid Nunn, R.N., D.S.O. #
• Acting Commander Leopold Arthur Bernays, R.N. #
• Temporary Major William Wellington Godfrey, Royal Marine Light Infantry. #
• Major Arthur Edward Bewes, Royal Marine Light Infantry. #

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

• His Highness Maharaja Sir Ranbir Singh Bahadur, K.C.S.I., Chief of Jind, Punjab.

Knight Commander (KCIE)

• Edward Vere Levinge, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bihar and Orissa.

Companion (CIE)

• Major Cecil John Lyons Allanson, Indian Army, lately Military Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of Madras.
• Rao Bahadur Chunilal Hari Lai Setalvad, Second Presidency Magistrate, Bombay.
• John Andrew Turner, Esq., M.D., Executive Health Officer, Bombay Municipality.
• Suresh Prosad Sarbadhikary, Esq., M.D., Calcutta.
• John Norman Taylor, Esq., Public Works Department, Officiating Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Branch, Upper Jhelum Canal, Punjab.
• Khan Bahadur Sardar Din Muhammad Khan, Laghari, late Acting Tumandar of the Laghari tribe in the Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab.
• Lionel Linton Tomkins, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Criminal Investigation Department, Punjab.
• Douglas Marshall Straight, Esq., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, United Provinces, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
• Babu Mot-i Chand, a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
• Matthew Hunter, Esq., Indian Educational Service, Principal, Rangoon College.
• John Tarlton Whitty, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector of Gaya, Bihar and Orissa.
• Moses Mordecai Simeon Gubbay, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department, and lately Wheat Commissioner for India.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Augustus Muspratt-Williams, Royal Artillery, Chief Inspector of Explosives with the Government of India.
• Raja Bhagwat Raj Bahadur Singh, of Sohawal, Central India.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Charles MacWatt, Indian Medical Service, Chief Medical Officer, Rajputana, and Civil Surgeon, Ajmer.
• George Paris Dick, Esq., Government Advocate, Central Provinces.
• Horatio Norman Bolton, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Peshawar District, North-West Frontier Province.
• Major William John Keen, Indian Army, Political Agent, Dir, Swat and Chitral, North-West Frontier Province.
• Major William Magill Kennedy, Indian Army, President of the Assam Labour Board.
• Khan Bahadur Sheikh Makbul Hosain, United Provinces Provincial Service, Revenue Minister in the Kashmir State.

• Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Cyril Harcourt Roe, Director of Movements and Quarterings, Quartermaster-General's Branch, Army Headquarters, India. #
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless Shore, C.B., D.S.O., Director of Staff Duties and Military Training, Army Headquarters, India. #
• Lieutenant-Colonel George Sim Ogg, Royal Artillery, Superintendent, Gun and Shell Factory, Cossipore. #
• Major Charles Hugh Hodges Nugent, Royal Engineers, Inspector of Machinery, Military Works Services, India. #
• Commander Michael Warren Farewell, Royal Indian Marine, Port Officer and Marine Transport Officer, Karachi. #
• Major John Bertram Cunliffe, Madras Artillery Volunteers. #
• Temporary Captain Evelyn Berkeley Howell, Special List, Censor of Indian Mails with the Indian Expeditionary Force in France. #

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross (GCVO)

• The Honourable Sir Derek William George Keppel, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., C.I.E., Master of the Household to His Majesty.

Knight Commander (KCVO)

• Richard Maximilian, Baron Acton, M.V.O., late Lord in Waiting to His Majesty.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Robert Dunlop-Smith, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Political Aide-de-Camp to the Secretary of State for India.
• Surgeon-General Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby, K.C.M.G., F.R.C.S., Surgeon in Ordinary to His Majesty.

Commander (CVO)

• William Rose Smith, Esq., C.B., Clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Member, 4th Class

• John George Griffiths, Esq., Honorary Secretary, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London.
• Staff Surgeon Robert Joseph Willan, R.N.V.R. (Dated 10th November, 1915.)

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