SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, i JANUARY, 1945 Commander Aylmer Newton George Firebrace, Reginald Edward Stradling, Esq., C.B., M.C., C.B.E., R.N. (Retired), Chief of the Fire X>.Sc., Ph.D., M.Inst.C.E., F.R.S., Chief Staff and Inspector-in-Chief of the Fire Ser- Adviser, Research and Experiments Depart- vices, Home Office. ment; Ministry of Home Security. Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Esq., C.B.E., Herbert Alker Tripp, Esq., C.B.E., Assistant D.Eng., M.Sc., M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E., Commissioner, Metropolitan Police. Director, Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert John Acland Company, Manchester. For services to Troyte, C.M.G., D.S.O., J.P., M.P., education. Member of Parliament for Tiverton since Claude Howard Stanley Frankau, Esq., C.B.E., 11924. For political and public services. D.S.O., M.S., M.B., F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Alderman William Walker, M.I.E.E., Director, Emergency Medical Services, M.I.Mech.E., J.P. For services to Municipal London and Home Counties. Electricity Supply. Edward Hardy, Esq., Chairman of Kent Angus Watson, Esq., J.P., Divisional Food County Council. Officer, Northern Division, Ministry of Food. Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Peiham Heneage, Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby, Esq., C.V.O., D.S.O., J.P., D.L., M.P., Member of Parlia- M.C., M.D., B.Ch., F.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., ment for Louth since 1924. For political and D.P.H. (Brigadier, Territorial Army, Re- public services. serve of Officers), lately Bacteriologist at Roger Gaskell Hetherington, Esq., C.B., the Middlesex Hospital. For services in the O.B.E., M.Inst.C.E., Adviser on Water and development of the sulphonamide group of Director of Water Surveys, Ministry of drugs. Health. Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker, LL.D., William Percival Hildred, Esq., C.B., O.B.E., Sc.D., F.R.S., Professor of Mathematics, Director-General of Civil Aviation, Air Edinburgh University. Lately President of Ministry. the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Mark Hodgson, Esq., O.B.E., J.P., General Secretary, United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders. DOMINIONS. Joseph Stanley Holmes, Esq., M.P., Member Digby Vere Burnett, Esq., Resident Director of (Parliament for North-East Derbyshire, and General Manager of the London and 1918-1922, and for Harwich since November, Rhodesia Mining and Land Company, I935- F°r political and public services. Limited, and Chairman of the Cold Storage Alfred Bakewell Howitt, Esq., C.V.O., M.D., Commission, Southern Rhodesia. M.P., Member of Parliament for Reading Colonel Arthur Murray Cudmore, C.M.G., since October, 1931. For political and public M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S., President of the services. Medical Board of the State of South Robert Dixon Kingham, Esq., C.B.E., Secre- Australia. For public services. tary, National Savings Committee. Thomas Sydney Nettlefold, Esq., O.B.E., Lord Robert Fisher Lancaster, Esq., Secretary and Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Executive Officer'of the Co-operative Whole- Victoria. sale Society Ltd. Allan Campbell Macdiarmid, Esq., Chairman and Managing Director, Stewarts and Lloyds, • INDIA. Ltd. The Honourable Mr. Justice Harsidhbhai Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander, Esq., J.P., Vajubhai Divatia, Puisne Judge of the High M.P., Member of Parliament for Wolver- Court of Judicature at Bombay. hampton East since May, 1929. For The Honourable Mr. Justice James Joseph political and public services. Whittlesea Allsop, Indian Civil Service, Ellis Hovell Minns, Esq., Litt.D., F.B.A., Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature Emeritus Professor of Archaeology and at Allahabad, United Provinces. President of Pembroke College, University The Honourable Mr. Justice Syed Najim AH, of Cambridge. Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature Arthur Evan Morgan, Esq., General Manager at Fort William in Bengal. and Director, The London Assurance. Robert William Targett, Esq., C.I.E., Director- John Morison, Esq., Director General of General, Supply and Disposals, Department Finance, Ministry of Supply. of Supply, Government of India. James Frederick Rees, Esq., M.A., Principal Eric Thomas Coates, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., of University College of South Wales and Indian Civil Service, Financial Adviser, Mili- Monmouthshire, Cardiff. Vice-Chancellor of tary Finance, Government of India. the University of Wales. Bomanji Jamshedji Wadia, Esq., Barrister-at- Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Gibb Scorgie, Law, Vice-Chancellor, University of C.V.O., C.B.E., Controller, H.M. Stationery Bombay. Office. Diwan Bahadur Arcot Lakshmanaswami Arthur Frederick Sidgreaves, Esq., O.B.E., Mudaliyar, LL.D., D.Sc., M.D., Vice- Managing Director, Rolls-Royce Ltd. Chancellor, University of Madras. Frederick James Simmons, Esq., J.P., Mayor Charles William Blyth Normand, Esq., C.I.E., of Londonderry. D.Sc., Officer on Special Duty, India Alderman Bracewell Smith, M.P., Sheriff of the Meteorological Department, and lately City of London. Director-General of Observatories, Govern- David Wadsworth Smith, Esq., F.C.I.S., J.P., ment of India. Director, Halifax Building Society. Claude Cavendish Inglis, Esq., C.I.E., B.A.I., William Samuel Stephenson, Esq., M.C., M.Inst.C.E., Indian Service of Engineers D.F.C., employed in a Department of the (retired), Director, Indian Waterways Foreign Office. Experiment Station, Poona. IRumb. 36866 SUPPLEMENT TO The London Gazette Of FRIDAY, the zgth of DECEMBER, 1944 published by fluidity Registered as a newspaper MONDAY, i JANUARY, 1945 CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS Sir Charles Bruce-Gardner, lately Controller of OF KNIGHTHOOD. Labour Allocation and Supply, Ministry of St. James's Palace, S.W.J.. Aircraft Production. Chief Executive for ist January, 1945. Reconversion, Board of Trade. Sir Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, K.C.V.O., The RING has been graciously pleased to C.B.E., D.S.O., T.D., M.B., Ch.B., Presi- signify His Majesty^ intention of conferring . dent of the Royal College of Surgeons. Peerages of the United Kingdom on the following: — To be an Earl:— CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS The Right Honourable David Lloyd George, OF KNIGHTHOOD. O.M., M.P. St. James's Palace, S.W.I, To be a Viscount:— ist January, 1945. The Right Honourable Wyndham Raymond, The KING has been graciously pleased to Baron Portal, D.S.O., M.V.O., Minister of signify His Majesty's intention of conferring the Works, 1942-1944. Honour of Knighthood upon the following: — To be a Baron:— Leslie Patrick Abercrombie, Esq., M.A., Sir Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, Bt., His Majesty's F.R.I.B.A., Professor of Town Planning in Lieutenant of the County of Leicester. For the University of London. •public services. Edward Battersby Bailey, Esq., M.C., D.Sc., F.R.S., Director of tile Geological Survey The KING has been graciously pleased to of Great Britain, Department of Scientific and declare ffcat the undermentioned shall be sworn Industrial Research. of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Frederick William Bain, Esq., M.C., Chairman, Council: — Chemical Control Board, Ministry of Supply. Miss Florence Horsbrugh, C.B.E., M.P., Captain Ernest Arthur Bridges, lately Commo- Member of Parliament for Dundee since 1931. dore Master, Royal Mail Line Fleet, Royal Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, Mail Lines Ltd. since 1939. Peter Boswell Brown, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., Miss Ellen Cicely Wilkinson, M.P., Member of M.Inst.M.M., J.P., Chairman and Managing Parliament for Middlesbrough East 1929- Director, Hadfields Ltd. 1931, and for Jarrow since 1935. Parliamen- James Chadwick, Esq., M.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., tary Secretary, Ministry of Home Security, F.R.S., Professor of Physics in the since 1940. University of Liverpool. For services to the Department of Scientific and Industrial The KING has been graciously pleased to Research. signify His Majesty's intention of conferring Lawrence Andrew Common, Esq., D.S.O., Baronetcies of the United Kingdom on the Director, Ship Management Division, Ministry following: — of War Transport. Major Thomas Lionel Dugdale, J.P., D.L., Philip D'Ambnimenil, Esq., Deputy Chairman, M.P., Member of Parliament for the Rich- War Risks Insurance Office. mond division of Yorkshire since May, 1929. Charles Frederick Deslandes, Esq., Chief In- Chairman of the Conservative Party spector, Board of Customs and Excise. Organization, March, 1942, to October, 1944. Roy Hardy Dobson, Esq., C.B.E., Managing For political and public services. Director, A. V. Roe and Company Ltd. SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, i JANUARY, 1945 Commander Aylmer Newton George Firebrace, Reginald Edward Stradling, Esq., C.B., M.C., C.B.E., R.N. (Retired), Chief of the Fire X>.Sc., Ph.D., M.Inst.C.E., F.R.S., Chief Staff and Inspector-in-Chief of the Fire Ser- Adviser, Research and Experiments Depart- vices, Home Office. ment; Ministry of Home Security. Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Esq., C.B.E., Herbert Alker Tripp, Esq., C.B.E., Assistant D.Eng., M.Sc., M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E., Commissioner, Metropolitan Police. Director, Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert John Acland Company, Manchester. For services to Troyte, C.M.G., D.S.O., J.P., M.P., education. Member of Parliament for Tiverton since Claude Howard Stanley Frankau, Esq., C.B.E., 11924. For political and public services. D.S.O., M.S., M.B., F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Alderman William Walker, M.I.E.E., Director, Emergency Medical Services, M.I.Mech.E., J.P. For services to Municipal London and Home Counties. Electricity Supply. Edward Hardy, Esq., Chairman of Kent Angus Watson, Esq., J.P., Divisional Food County Council. Officer, Northern Division, Ministry of Food.