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quired to qualify direct entry Officers foi Ernest Ridley Debenham, Esq. A Director of promotion to higher rank." Lloyds Bank and of the Royal Exchange His Majesty, having taken the saic Assurance Corporation. For services to Memorial into consideration, was pleased, by agriculture. and with the advice of His Privy Council, to Sir Eichard Arman Gregory, D.Sc., LL.D. approve of what is therein proposed. Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, Queen's And the Eight Honourable the Lords Com College, London. Editor of " Nature." missioners of the Admiralty are to give the Sir George Ernest May, K.B.E. Secretary to necessary directions herein accordingly. •the Prudential Assurance Company. Mem- ber of the Council of the Institute of M. P. A. HANKEY. Actuaries. George Roberts, Esq. (" Audax "). A generous contributor to charity.

CENTEAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS The KING has been graciously pleased to OP KNIGHTHOOD. signify His Majesty's intention of conferring St. James's Palace, S.W.I, the Honour of Knighthood on the following: — 1st January 1931. Ealph Norman Angell, Esq., 'M.P. Member of Parliament for North Bradford since The KING has been graciously pleased to May 1929. For public and political ser- signify His Majesty's intention of conferring vices. Peerages of the United Kingdom on the following: — Professor Charles Raymond Beazley, M.A., To be Barons. D.Litt., J.P. Professor of Mediaeval and Modern History in the University of Bir- Sir John Scott Hindley, Bt. Commercial mingham. Adviser, Mines Department since 1918. Henry James Buckland, Esq. General For public services. Manager of the Crystal Palace. Sir Ernest Henry Lamb, C.M.G., J.P. John Caulcutt, Esq. Deputy Chairman, Ex- Member of Parliament for Rochester 1906- port Credits Guarantee Advisory Com- 1910 and 1910-18. Member of the City of mittee. London Corporation since 1903. For public (Edward) Percival Clarke, Esq. Senior and political services. Prosecuting Counsel to the Crown at the Sir William Plender, Bt., G.B.E., LL.D., Central Criminal Court. J.P., D.L. Senior Partner of Deloitte, Alfred Thomas Davies. Esq., C.B.E., J.P. Plender, Griffiths & Co. A past President .Member of Parliament for the City of Lin- of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. coln 1918-24. For public and political High Sheriff of Kent; 1928-29. For public services. services. Arthur James Dawson, Esq., C.B.E., D.C.L., Sir Ernest Rutherford, O.M., F.E.S. M.A., J.P. Lately Director of Education Chairman of the Advisory Council of the to the Durham County Education Autho- Committee of the Privy Council for Scien- rity. tific and Industrial Research, late President William Alfred Cecil Goodchild, Esq., C.M.G. of the Royal Society. For public services. Assistant Delegate and General Secretarj^ to the British Delegation, Reparations Com- mission. The KING has been 'graciously pleased to Aldenman Fred Hayward, J.P. For eight declare that .the undermentioned shall be years Chairman of Central and United sworn of His Majesty's Most Honourable Boards of the Co-operative Union. For Privy Council: — three years Chairman of the Parliamentary Thomas Kennedy, 'Esq., M.P. Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative Congress. Secretary to the Treasury since 1929. Mem- For public and political services. ber of Parliament for Kirkcaldy 1921-22 Alfred Howarth, Esq. For many years Town and since 1923. Clerk of Preston. Herbert Stanley Morrison, Esq., J.P., M.P. Albert Edward Humphries, Esq., LL.D. Minister of Transport since 1929. Member Chairman of the National Joint Industrial of Parliament for 'South Hackney 1923-24 Council for the Flour Milling Industry. and since 1929. John Joseph Hunt, Esq., J.P. Member of the East Eiding County Council. For public The Honourable Sir iGeorge Halsey Perley, services and benefactions in the East Eiding. K.C.M.G. Minister without Portfolio, Alderman William Jenkins, J.P., M.P. Mem- Dominion of Canada. ber of Parliament for the Neath Division since 1922. For public and political ser- vices. The KING has been graciously pleased to His Honour Judge Thomas Art-emus Jones, signify His Majesty's intention of conferring K.C., J.P. Formerly British Commissioner Baronetcies of the United Kingdom on the on the Mexican Claims Commission. following: — Ernest- Gordon Graham Little, Esq., iM.D., Sir John Rose Bradford, K.C.M.G., C.B., F.E.C.P., M.P. Member of Senate, Uni- C.B.E., M.D., D.Sc., F.E.C.P., M.E.C.S., versity of London, since 1906. F.E.S. President of the Royal College of Richard Winn Livingstone, Esq., M.A., Hon. Physicians. Consulting Physician to Uni- D.Litt., Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's Uni- versity College Hospital. - versity, Belfast.