The 1925 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published in The London Gazette on 3 June 1925.[1]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate,
The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
Colonel William Graham NicholsonJP DL MP Member of Parliament for the Petersfield Division since 1897. Chairman of the Selection Committee of the House of Commons and of the Chairman's Panel
Baronetcies
Lieutenant-Colonel George Loyd CourthopeMC TD JP DL MP Member of Parliament for the Rye Division of Sussex since 1906. For political and public services.
Hugo Hirst, Chairman of General Electric Company Limited. Member of Board of Trade Advisory Council
Lieutenant-Colonel James LithgowMC DL President of the National Confederation of Employers Organisations. British-Employers Delegate at the International Labour Conference at Geneva 1922-25
Major Sir David Hughes-MorganDL High Sheriff of Breconshire 1898–99. Has been several times Mayor of Tenby. For political and public services in Wales.
Major Richard Whieldon BarnettMP Member of Parliament for West St. Pancras, October 1916–18, and for S.W. St. Pancras since 1918. For political and public services.
William James Miller Burton. For public, services in connection with the new site and building of Lloyds. Managing Director of the City of London Real Property Co. Ltd.
John Byford DL For political and public services in West Ham. Former Mayor of West Ham
Harry Edward Dixey JP DL Chairman and Honorary Secretary of the Bewdley and West Worcestershire Unionist Association for 25 years. For political and public services.
David William Evans, Director and Legal Adviser of the Welsh National Memorial Association. For public services.
in Wales
Alderman John William Forrest OBE Member of Blackburn Town Council since 1913. Alderman 1921. Leader of the Council since 1916. Chairman of the Finance Committee and of the Education Committee. For political and public services.
Major Ernest Gray Member of Parliament for West Ham (North) 1895-1906 for Accrington 1918–1922, Member of the London County Council since 1907, of which he was Vice-Chairman in 1915. Formerly President of the National Union of Teachers. For political and public services.
John Herbert Hunter Chairman of the London County Council, of which he has been a member since 1907. Chairman of the North Paddington Conservative Association since 1907. For political and public services.
Alderman Percy Richard Jackson, Chairman of Education Committee of West Riding of Yorkshire. For honorary services to education.
John William Lorden DL Member of Parliament for North St. Pancras 1918–23. Member of Wandsworth Borough Council for 21 years, Mayor 1903-4 and 1907–8. Chairman of Committees on Stone, Brick and Clay Ware Trades and on Timber set up in 1920-21 under the Profiteering Act. For political and public services.
William John Morcom DL For political and public services in Surrey
Thomas Taylor, For political and public services in Macclesfield.
Alderman Illtyd Thomas DL Former Lord Mayor of Cardiff. Original Member of the Court of Governors and of the Council of the National Museum of Wales. Honorary Treasurer since 1917. For political and public services in Wales.
James MacKenna CIE Indian Civil Service, Additional Financial Commissioner, Burma
John Hope SimpsonCIE Indian Civil Service (retired), late Chairman, Colonies Committee
Rajamantra Dhurina Albion Rajkumar BanerjiCSI CIE Indian Civil Service (retired), Dewan and President in Council, Mysore
Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Travers O'Connor CSI CIE CVO late British Envoy at the Court of Nepal
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert William Layard Dunlop CIE DSO Solicitor to the Government of India
Diwan Bahadur Rajasabhabhusana Krishnarajapuram Pallegondai Puttanna Chetty CIE Member of the Legislative Council, Mysore, Mysore Civil Service (retired)
Raja Venganad Vasudeva Raja Avargal, Valiya Nambidi CIE of Kollengode, Landholder, Malabar, Madras
Leslie Sewell Hudson, Member of the Legislative Council, Bombay, Partner in firm of Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co., President, Bombay Chamber of Commerce, and Member of Bombay Port Trust
Joseph Clifton Love, lately President of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, Commonwealth of Australia, in recognition of his services to the Commonwealth
Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Claude MoorhouseCMG DSO Lieutenant-Governor of the Southern Provinces of Nigeria
James Peiris, Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon
Archibald Thomas Strong, formerly Professor of Classics and Lecturer in English at Melbourne University, and Chief Government Censor of Cinematograph Films, Commonwealth of Australia
George O'Donnell Walton, Chief Justice of Grenada
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Colonel Herbert William JacksonCSI DSO Indian Army, Area Commandant, Bangalore Brigade Area, India
Colonel Patrick Henry Dundas CBE DSO Indian Army, Brigade Commander, 18th Indian Infantry Brigade, India
Civil Division
Charles Frederick Munday, Deputy Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty
Colonel Harry Dalton Henderson DSO VD TD Territorial Army, Honorary Colonel, 51st (Highland) Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army
Reginald Clifton Grannum, Treasurer, Colony of Kenya
The Most Reverend Edward Hutson Bishop of Antigua and Archbishop of the Province of the West Indies, Chairman of the Central Relief Committee in the Leeward Islands after the recent hurricane
William Mclver, Director of Land Settlement, Secretary for Lands, Chairman of Closer Settlement Board and Member of Board of Land and Works, State of Victoria
John Henry StarlingOBE Official Secretary to the Governor-General and Secretary of the Federal Executive Council, Commonwealth of Australia
Oswald Francis Gerard Stonor, British Resident, Selangor, Federated Malay States
Charles John Howell Thomas, Chief Valuer, Board of Inland Revenue; for services as Member of the Compensation (Ireland) Commission
Ernest Frederick Gye, Counsellor in the Foreign Office
John Murray, Counsellor in the Foreign Office
John Joyce Broderick, Commercial Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington
Arthur Andrew Morrison CM British Delegate on the International Maritime Sanitary and Quarantine Board of Egypt
Godfrey Thomas Havard, Oriental Secretary to his Majesty's Legation at Tehran
Sir Hugh Charles CliffordGCMG Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, Governor and Commander-in-Chief designate of the Island of Ceylon
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Charles Leolin Forestier-WalkerMP |Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. For political and public services. Member of Parliament for Monmouth. since 1918. Chairman of Monmouthshire County Council 1923–24. A Forestry Commissioner (unpaid). A Commissioner of the Board of Control (unpaid). A Welsh Church Commissioner (unpaid)
Frederick Thomas Hopkinson MInstCE For services in connection with the Nile Dam, Sudan
John Lloyd Vaughan Seymour Williams TD, Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineers (T.A.), retired. Clerk to the Rural District Council of Warmley for over 20 years; Chairman of Executive, Rural District Councils Association for over 25 years
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Robert MacLeod Hodgson CMG His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Moscow
Thomas Harold Lyle CMG His Majesty's Consul-General at Bangkok
Andrew Ryan CMG His Majesty's Consul-General at Rabat, Morocco
British India
John Arnold Wallinger CIE DSO Indian Police
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Colonel Herbert Bryan CMG DSO Colonial Secretary and Revenue Commissioner, Island of Jamaica
James Alexander Mackenzie Elder, Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Australia in the United States of America
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Reginald Barke TD 5th Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment, Territorial Army, Commanding 3rd Battalion, Iraq Levies
Colonel James Molesworth Blair CMG DSO late Military Attache, Belgrade
Councillor Margaret Evelyn Pilkington JP President of St. Helen's Women's Unionist Association, Member of St Helens Council. For political and public services.
Ellen Frances Hume Pinsent, Commissioner, Board of Control
Godfrey Rotter OBE Director of Explosives Research, War Office
William George Verdon Smith, Chairman of Bristol Local Employment Committee
Major Alexander James Hutchison Russell, Indian Medical Service, Director of Public Health, Madras
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Austen Alexander Rodney Boyce, Head of Survey Department, Sudan Government
Charles Edward Hardley Childers, His Majesty's Consul at Pittsburg
John Gadsby, Legal Adviser to His Majesty's Embassy at Tokyo
Lieutenant-Colonel George Douglas Gray, Doctor at His Majesty's Legation at Peking
Thomas Lavington Jacks, Joint Manager of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
William Kidston McClure
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
George Drysdale Bayley, Commissioner of Lands and Mines, Colony of British Guiana
Richard Hind Cambage, Honorary Secretary to the Australian National Research Council, Commonwealth of Australia
Massimiliano Debono President of the Senate and President of the Chamber of Advocates, Island of Malta
Edgard Lucien de Chazal Superintendent, Victoria Hospital, Mauritius
The Reverend Alexander Hetherwick Head of the Church of Scotland Mission, Nyasaland Protectorate, and Member of the Legislative Council of the Protectorate
John Lisseter Humphreys, British Adviser, Trengganu, Malay States
David Sliman MacGregor, Treasurer and Custodian of Enemy Property, Nigeria
Colonel Angus John McNeill CB DSO Commandant, British Section, Palestine Gendarmerie
Clive McPherson, has acted as Honorary Adviser to the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia in the organization of primary industries
John Pears Murray, Deputy Resident Commissioner, Basutoland
Victor Richard Ratten Surgeon Superintendent, Hobart Public Hospital, State of Tasmania
Allan Wilkie, Actor-Manager and producer of Shakespeare's Plays in the Commonwealth of Australia
Honorary Commanders
Haji Nik Mahmud bin Haji Ismail, the Datok Perdana Meaitri Paduka Raja of Kelantan, Malay States
Plaji Ngah Muhammad bin Yusuf, Datok Sri Amar Diraja, President of the State Council, Trengganu, Malay States
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Military Division
Royal Navy
Commander Edward Bernard Cornish Dicken DSC RN
Commander Robert Lindsay Burnett RN
Surgeon Commander John Scarbrough Dudding RN
Paymaster Commander Robert Alfred Jinkin RN Instructor
Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Edward Hall ARCS RN
Major Frederick William Mattison RM
Army
Temp. Inspector of Works and Captain William Barrie AMInstCE Staff for Royal Engineer Services
Major Darell St. John Baxter, 3/8th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Beach TD 9th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment, Territorial Army
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell Spieker Brander AMIMechE Royal Army Service Corps
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Bolger Butler MC 8th King George's Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Coates, Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Battalion, Auxiliary Force, India
Major Thomas Herbert Darwell MC Royal Tank Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel The Hon. John DewarMC TD 6/7th Battalion, The Black Watch, Territorial Army
Major George Melville Duncan TD 8th Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Territorial Army
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Ninum Falkner TD 56th (1st London) Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Corps, Territorial Army
Major D'Arcy John Francis, 23rd (London) Armoured Car Company, Territorial Army
Lieutenant (Temp. Major) Ernest Edward Gawthorn DCM Postal Section, Royal Engineers
Major Cecil Courtney Godwin, The Green Howards
Major Harold James Huxford, 5th/6th Rajputana Rifles (Napiers), Indian Army
Captain Charles Norman Jervelund, The Green Howards
Major Edgar Montague Jones TD St. Alban's School Contingent, Officers Training Corps, General List, Territorial Army. Ordnance Executive Officer, 1st Class, and Major John Henry Keyes MC Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Staff Paymaster and Lieutenant-Colonel William Shand Mackenzie, Royal Army Pay Corps
Major Thomas Moss, 16th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel David Ogilvy DSO Royal Engineers
Accountant Officer, 2nd Class, and Lieutenant-Colonel Vernon Ivor Robins, Corps of Military Accountants
Quartermaster and Major Albert Edward Robinson MC Senior Officers School, Sheerness
Major John Scott DSO Indian Medical Service
Captain John Teague MC 1st/10th Baluch Regiment, Indian Army
Quartermaster and Major Jabez Teece MC 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Quartermaster and Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Walker, Recruiting Duties, Edinburgh
Major James Walker DSO TD 26th (East Riding of Yorkshire) Armoured Car Company, Territorial Army
Major John Percival Ward MC TD 2nd, (Cheshire) Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army
Senior Nursing Sister Mary Wardell ARRC Queen Alexandra's Military Nursing Service for India
Quartermaster and Major Frederick Henry White DCM Recruiting Duties, Wolverhampton
Royal Air Force
Squadron Leader Norman Channing Spratt
Flight Lieutenant Albert William Fletcher DFC AFC
Flight Lieutenant Norman Hugh Jenkins DFC DSM
Civil Division
Walter Abbott, Principal Officer, Ministry of Commerce, Northern Ireland
Albert Edward Adcock, Chairman of Deptford Local Employment Committee
William Anderson, Chief Constable, City of Aberdeen Police Force
Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney Ashley VD Superintendent Registrar, St. Giles District
Councillor Henrietta Bartleet JP Member of Birmingham City Council. For public services.
James Billings, Chief Constable, Metropolitan Police
James Gressier Blackledge JP Chairman of Bootle Advisory Committee since 1918
John Joseph Bonnett, Chairman, South Middlesex, Slough and District War Pensions Committee
Arthur Brandram, Secretary, United Services Trustee
Captain John Turner Brinkley, Chief Constable of Warwickshire
William Allison Davies, Borough Treasurer of Preston. For valuable services in the work of Local Government
Frederic William Charles Dean MBE Superintendent, Royal Gun and Carriage Factories, Woolwich Arsenal
George Elmhirst Duckering, Inspector of Factories, Home Office. Director of Government Wool Disinfecting Station
Charles John Ffoulkes, Curator of Armouries, H.M. Tower of London, Curator and Secretary, Imperial War Museum
Joseph Wilson Fogarty MBE Temporary Assistant in Shipping Liquidation Department
Frederick William Prosser French, Principal Clerk, Board of Inland Revenue
Major Cedrio Valentine Godfrey, Chief Constable of Salford
Herbert Noah Grundy, Chief Instructions Officer, Employment and Insurance Department, Ministry of Labour
Ivor Blashka Hart Education Officer, Grade I, Air Ministry
Henry Cleverdon Honey, Director of Gas Administration, Board of Trade
Albert Humphries MBE MInstCE Superintendent, Royal Ammunition Factories, Royal Arsenal
William Aubrey Hurst For services to the Ministry of Labour
David Sinclair Irvine, Chairman of Londonderry Local Employment Committee
The Reverend Canon Thomas Jesse Jones Chairman of Bargoed Local Employment Committee
Edwin Charles Jubb, Assistant Director of Navy Contracts, Admiralty
Zachary Harris Kingdon, Superintending Electrical Engineer, Grade I., Devonport Dockyard
Neil McLennan, Chief Constable, Dumbarton County Force
William Macleod, Senior Inspector of Taxes, Board of Inland Revenue
William James Mair, Chairman of Luton Local Employment Committee
Captain Joseph Dallas Nicholl MC Ulster Special Constabulary
The Reverend Harry Pearson Hon C.F., Secretary of London Police Court Mission since 1915
Herbert Richard Poole MBE Deputy Accountant General, Board of Customs and Excise
Edwin Potts. For valuable services in connection with National Health Insurance
Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil du Pré Penton Powney MBE Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary
William Alfred Radley, Technical Adviser, Small Arms Ammunition, Royal Arsenal
George Randell-Evans, Chairman, St. Pancras and Hampstead War Pensions Committee
Charles John Ritchie MBE JP Senior Staff Officer, Metropolitan Special Constabulary
Arthur Francis Rowe, Chief Clerk in the Department of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Arthur William Rowe MBE Senior Principal Clerk, Ministry of Pensions
Mark Scott JP Chairman of Selby Local Employment Committee
Roland Ingleby Smith Deputy Director of Works and Chief Architect, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland
James Don Stewart, Deputy Director of Accounts, Ministry of Pensions
James Stirling, Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Anderston Registration District, Glasgow
Charles Terry JP Chairman of Redditch Local Employment Committee
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Joseph Wiley DSO Chief Insurance Officer, Ministry of Labour
Bruce Murray Wylie, late Assistant Accountant-General, General Post Office
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Cooke Adams
Robert Edward Hartwell Baily MBE Governor of Khartoum
Captain Rudolph Hollocombe, Translator to His Majesty's Legation at Mexico
Gilbert Walter King, Registrar of Supreme Court for China and Korea
Francis Joseph Patron, His Majesty's Consul at Palermo
Julian Piggott, Rhineland High Commission
Johannes Marius Prillevitz, His Majesty's Consul at The Hague
Zoe Tristram
Ernest Troughton, Rhineland High Commission
Ebenezar Thomas Ward
Lieutenant-Colonel John James Whitehead, British Vice-Consul at Lemberg
British India
George Connor, Divisional and Sessions Judge, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province
Alexander John Happell, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Madras
Khan Bahadur Sheik Abdul Aziz, Superintendent of Police, Punjab
Reginald Bramley Van Wart, Principal of the Rajput Schools, Jodhpur, Rajputana
Edwin Somerville Murray, Manager of the Aden firm of Messrs. Luke Thomas & Co., Bombay
Ernest Edwin Coombs, Superintendent, Government Printing and Stationery, Bombay
Ronald Wordsworth Fleming Shaw, late Registrar, Patna University, Bihar and Orissa
Frank Wood, Managing Director, Messrs. Foucar & Co., Burma
Janaki Nath Mukerji, Chief Electrician, Posts and Telegraphs Department
Jeanie Morrison Gibb, St. John's Ambulance Association, Bengal
Helen Gordon Stuart, Chief Inspectress of Girls Schools, United Provinces
Thomas George Cuyper, retired Builder and Contractor, Bengal
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
William Bevan, lately Director of Agriculture, Colony of Cyprus
Charles William Joseph Bird, Secretary, to the City Council, Gibraltar
James Marie Brodie, Nominated Member of the Council of Government, Mauritius
James Edward Francis Campbell, Assistant District Governor, Jerusalem-Jaffa District, Palestine
William Henry Chase, Principal Veterinary Officer, Bechuanaland Protectorate
Morley Thomas Dawe, Commissioner of Lands and Forests, Sierra Leone
Cecil John Edmonds, Administrative Inspector, Kirkuk Liwa, Ministry of the Interior, Iraq
William Alexander Elder, Principal Veterinary Officer, Swaziland
Captain Ofcho Lewis Hancock, Commissioner of the Virgin Islands
Edmund Wodehouse Lucie-Smith, Manager of the Colonial Bank in Jamaica, for services to the Government of Jamaica
Allan Graham, Marwick, Assistant Commissioner, Hlatikulu District, Swaziland
Rupert Otway, Inspector of Works and Roads, Montserrat
Major Herbert Walter Peebles DSO Commissioner of Montserrat
Arthur Elliott Goodchild Terry, Valuer, First Class, Board of Inland Revenue; for services as one of the Joint Secretaries, Compensation (Ireland) Commission
Frank Arthur Verney, Principal Veterinary Officer, Basutoland
Frederick Henry Watkins ISO Magistrate of Nevis
Honorary Officers
All Effendi Jarallah MBE Member of the Supreme Court of Palestine
Ruhi Bey Abdel Hadi, District Officer, Jerusalem-Jaffa District, Palestine
Abder Rahman Effendi El Haj, Mayor of Haifa, Palestine
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Military Division
Army
Sub-Conductor Lancelot John Addison, Indian Army Service Corps
Quartermaster and Captain Howard Armishaw, 5th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Territorial Army
Lieutenant Philip Taylor Baddiley, Regular Army Reserve of Officers, General List, 3rd Battalion, Iraq Levies
Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Charles Gordon Bartrop, Indian Miscellaneous List
Captain Frank Melville Moyle Bawden, 4th/5th Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Territorial Army
Regimental Sergeant-Major William Black, Royal Engineers
Captain William Maurice Broomhall, Royal Engineers
Quartermaster and Lieutenant Walter John Cook MC 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards
Staff Sergeant-Major Frederick James Coplin, Royal Army Service Corps
Captain Harry Dawkins, Royal Engineers, Indian Army
Captain George Thomas Dorrell VC 90th (1st London) Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army
Lieutenant William George Ide Miers Etherington, Army Educational Corps
Captain Richard Maurice Foskett, Indian Army Service Corps
First-Class Staff Sergeant-Major William James Franks, Royal Army Service Corps
Captain William Henry Godfrey MM 13th Battalion, The London Regiment, Territorial Army
Lieutenant Cyril Harvey Gowan MC 13th/18th Hussars, Cavalry Instructor, Iraq Army
Captain James Grassie DSO Record Office, Perth
Sub-Conductor George Sydney Griffin, Indian Army Service Corps
Lieutenant Francis William Hall, Regular Army Reserve of Officers
General List, Ordnance Officer, Iraq Levies
Captain Frank Albert Hilbom AMIMechE Royal Tank Corps
Temp. Lieutenant Harold Douglas Hill, General List
Quartermaster and Captain Daniel Hutton, Royal Engineer's
Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Charles Gowan Jackson, Indian Miscellaneous List
Quartermaster and Captain Thomas Manfield
4th Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Territorial Army
Captain Frederick Mattocks, Royal Engineers, Indian Army
Ordnance Officer, 4th Class, and Captain John Stuart Omond MC Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Captain Charles Edward Ovington MC 5th City of London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), Territorial Army
Quartermaster and Lieutenant James Radford, 2nd Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
Lieutenant James Malcolm Leslie Renton, The Rifle Brigade, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant General, Iraq Levies
Sub-Conductor Benjamin Rigby, Indian Miscellaneous List
Quartermaster and Lieutenant George Frederick William Smith DCM The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)
Assistant Commissary and Lieutenant Walter Smith, Indian, Miscellaneous List
Captain Eneas Symonds, 3rd/19th Hyderabad Regiment, Indian Army
Quartermaster and Lieutenant Thomas Stephen Tate MC 1st Battalion, Soote Guards
Quartermaster and Captain Harry William Thomas Vine, Royal Army Service Corps
Quartermaster and Lieutenant Robert Henderson White, 6th Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders, Territorial Army
Subadar Major Barkat Ram Bahadur, Indian Medical Department
Royal Air Force
Flying Officer Ernest Stanford Bullen
Flying Officer Edwin James Newman
Sergeant-Major 1st Class, Albert Edward Harbot
Sergeant-Major 2nd Class, Reuben Charles Pennicott
Civil Division
Frederick Copping Allworth, Staff Clerk, Ministry of Health
John Hernaman Boulton, Chief Superintendent, Birmingham Police
William Bradley, Senior. Costings Investigator, Army Contracts Directorate, War Office
William Reginald Busbridge, Station-Master at Dover
William Arthur Carson Assistant Accountant, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland
Frank Randall Coles, Clerk to the Hackney Board of Guardians
Charles Stockley Collins, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
William Arthur Dalley, Manager, Birmingham Employment Exchange
Frederick Darlington, late Headmaster of the Dockyard School, Devonport
Herbert Davey, Secretary of the Association of Poor Law Unions
Thomas Davies, Staff Officer, Chief Inspector's Office, Inland Revenue
Joseph William Dobie, Accountant, Board of Customs and Excise
William Donaldson, Waterguard Superintendent, 1st Class, Board of Customs and Excise
Stanley Walter Dowden, Clerk, Higher Clerical Class, H.M. Land Registry
Joseph Dryden, Superintendent, Durham County Police
James Thomson Edwards, Manager, Edinburgh Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour
Edward James Fair, Manager, Tavistock Street, Employment Exchange, London
Mary Caroline Eraser, Voluntary worker among soldiers and their dependants for 30 years
William James Gibbs, Steward at Tooting Bee Asylum under Metropolitan Asylums Board
William Cecil Glover, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland
William Egerton Glover, Chief Superintendent, Liverpool Police
Robert Frederick Goldsack, Member of Plymouth and District War Pensions Committee
James MeDougall Graham, Manager, Govan Employment Exchange
Richard John Halford, Superintendent, London City Police
William Smith Hankins, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary Reserve
Jane Ellen Leslie Harrison, Member of Stoke-on-Trent, Cheadle and District War Pensions Committee
Samuel William Francis Hart, Surveyor, Board of Customs and Excise
Thomas Hickman, Clerk of the Chamber and Messenger of the Great Seal, House of Lords
Alfred House, Staff Officer, Companies Department, Board of Trade
John Ireland, Senior Superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office, Bristol, Board of Trade
John Ivin, Deputy Chief Constable, Bedfordshire Police
James Alister Kirkpatrick, Assistant Accountant, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland
Margaret Katharine Lea, Woman Inspector, Ministry of Health
Livsey Lees, Manager, Oldham Employment Exchange
Bertram Ralph Leftwich, Librarian, Board of Customs and Excise
Hugh Coffey Love, Superintending Officer, Ministry of Education, Northern Ireland
Alexander Marr, Chief Constable, Montrose Burgh Police Force
Walter Marshall, Mate Higher Clerical Officer, Board of Trade
Henry John Martin, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
Alfred Bertram Melles, Horticultural Officer, France, Imperial War Graves Commission
George Monro, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary
John Morrison, Assistant Chief Constable, Lanark County Police Force
John Burton Newman, Education Officer, Grade II., Air Ministry
John Newson. Senior Staff Officer, Statistical Office, Board of Customs and Excise
Elizabeth Claudia Owen, Chief Woman Officer, Wales Division, Ministry of Labour
Charles William Palmer, Clerk (Higher Grade), Inland Revenue
William Pinder, Ulster Special Constabulary
Henry Gratton Pring, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary
Gerard John Rawes, Staff Officer, Chief Inspector's Office, Inland Revenue
Captain Samuel Ray, Auditor, Sinai Military Railway
Henry Ernest Redfern, Superintendent, West Riding County Police
George Rowley Richardson, Statistical Officer, Air Ministry
Alice Rosa Ridgeway, Chief Woman Officer, N.E. Division, Ministry of Labour
Ellen Phipps Robinson, Honorary Secretary of Northampton Cripple Children's Fund
David Rock JP District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary
Colonel Henry Charles Savage, Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary
Alfred William Scarlett, Waterguard Superintendent 1st Class, Board of Customs and Excise
Harry Shires, Civil Engineer, Works and Buildings Department, Air Ministry
Olive Story, Member of Finsbury, Holborn and City of London War Pensions Committee
Caroline Swindells, Senior Chief Superintendent of Typists, Board of Inland Revenue
Robert Henry Todd, District Commandant, Ulster Special Constabulary
Ernest Arthur Train, Manager, Employment Exchange, Hull
Charles Walker, Superintendent, Derbyshire Police
Lucy Withrington, Lady Superintendent, Pension Issue Office
Herbert Woodmore, Superintendent, Metropolitan Police
Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
Lazarus Sarkies Arathoon, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Macassar
George Davis Baker, Archivist at His Majesty's Embassy at Washington
Frances M. Coleridge, His Majesty's Embassy, Berlin, Germany
James Dalton, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Samarang
Samuel Evans, Head Clerk of the Intelligence Section of the Sudan Agency in Cairo
Egerton Shaw Humber, His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Panama
Eve B. Napier, Head of the Commercial Registry, His Majesty's Embassy at Washington
Frank Pattman, Cypher Officer at the Residency, Cairo
British India
M. E. Ry. Bao Bahadur Abhiramapuram Krishnamoorthi Sastrigal Rajah Ayyar Avargal, Superintendent of Police, Madras
George Edward Johnston, Deputy Commissioner, Excise Department, Madras
Herbert John Bomer, Deputy Transportation Superintendent, Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Bombay
Agnes Dorothea Haskell, St. John's Ambulance Nursing Division, Bengal
Major Henry Mansfield, Deputy Superintendent, Campbell Medical School and Hospital, Calcutta
Helen Stubbs, Fyzabad, United Provinces
Harry Lamacraft, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Hissar, Punjab
Chan Ta Hin, Merchant and Contractor, Burma
Mohamed Ayoob, alias U Shwe Yun, Pleader, Government Prosecutor, Mergui, Burma
Saravaiya Amritaraj, Health Officer, Civil and Military Station, Bangalore, Mysore
George Prior de la Hey, Personal Assistant to the Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy
Epiphanio Mariano Sequeira, Treasury Officer, Bushire Residency, Persian Gulf
Lieutenant James Charlemagne Chalke, Indian Medical Department, Assistant Surgeon to His Excellency the Governor
Henry Martin, Head Clerk, British Trade Agency, Gyantse, Tibet
William Thomas Ottewill, Parliamentary Clerk, India Office, Assistant Secretary to the Fourth and Fifth Assemblies of the League of Nations
Colonies, Protectorates, etc.
Samuel Patrick Bland, Assistant Director of Public Works, Zanzibar
Annie Isabel Brizzell, Matron, Maseru Hospital, Basutoland Nursing Service
Lawrence de Martino For services to the Malta Association in London
Giuseppe Despott, Superintendent of Fisheries, Island of Malta
Ludovic Smith Hohenkerk, Superintendent of Forest Surveys, British Guiana
Edward Robert Mifsud, Clerk to the Executive Council and Clerk to the Nominated Council, Island of Malta
Alexander Walker Money, Second Class Valuer, Valuation Department, Inland Revenue (Scotland); for services as Investigator, Compensation (Ireland) Commission
Nicholas Wilfrid Morgappah, Assistant Registrar-General, Registrar-General's Department, Ceylon
Frank Sands, of Singapore, Commissioner for Malaya of the Boy Scouts Association
Ernest Goldfinch Seagoe, Commandant of the British Division, New Hebrides Constabulary
John Howard Sempill, Chief of Police and Provost Marshal General, Bermuda
Glencora Barnes Schneider, of Colombo, Ceylon. In recognition of her public services.
Thomas Walter White, Assistant, Post and Telegraph Department, Ceylon
Margaret Isabel Willdon, Matron, Leper Settlement, Botsabelo, Basutoland
Honorary Members
Ibrahim Bey Habeish Stambuli, Assistant Commandant of Police, Jerusalem
Qustandi Effendi Qanaze, Headmaster, Government Secondary Boys School, Nazareth, Palestine
Mikhayel Mani, Member of the District Court of Jaffa, Palestine
Ho Siak Kuan, Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Straits Settlements
Kaisar-i-Hind Medal
First Class
The Hon. Florence Mary Macnaghten, in charge Canadian Mission, Kangra, Punjab
Winifred Spicer, Lady Superintendent
Lady Minto's Indian Nursing Association, and Matron of the Railway Hospital, Ajmer, Rajputana
The Reverend Lorrain Barber, Missionary, Faridpur Industrial School, Bengal
The Reverend Cæsar Augustus Rodney Janvier American Presbyterian Mission, Principal, Ewing Christian College, Allahabad, United Provinces
Esther Gimson Bare
Clara Swain Methodist, Episcopal Mission Hospital, Bareilly, United Provinces
Dorothy Cisley de la Hey, Principal, Queen Mary's College for Women, Madras
Mother Henrietta, in charge of the Nurses at the Ranchi Sadar Hospital, Bihar and Orissa
Edith, Louisa Young Palwal Mission Dispensary, Gurgaon District, Punjab
British Empire Medal (BEM)
Military Division
For Gallantry
James Burke. In recognition of his action in stopping runaway horses on two occasions at great personal risk.
For Meritorious Service
Riza Chaqir, Cavass employed at H.M. Legation, Durazzo
John Gould, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary
Sergeant Hector Gray, Park-keeper at Holyrood Park
John Hayes, Head Constable, Royal Ulster Constabulary
Ibrahim Kiatovic, Head Cavass at H.M. Embassy Constantinople
Bertie Wallace Tibbie. For public services in saving life.
Air Force Cross (AFC)
Flight Lieutenant Richard Burnard Munday DSC
Flight Lieutenant William Edmund Somervell
Air Force Medal (AFM)
Sergeant (Pilot) Alfred Percy Reeve
Imperial Service Order (ISO)
Home Civil Service
William L. Calderwood FRSE Inspector of Salmon Fisheries for Scotland
William Thomas Chard, Inspector of Rates, Rating of Government Property Department
Arthur Harold Wyld Cleave Deputy Master, Royal Mint, Ottawa, Canada
Edward William Colvill, Principal Ship Surveyor, Board of Trade
William Donaldson, Waterguard Superintendent, H.M. Customs and Excise
Montague Spencer Guiseppi, Superintendent of Legal Literary Research Booms, Public Record Office
Joseph Johnston, First Class Clerk, Central Office, Supreme Court of Judicature
Robert McIlroy, Superintending Engineer, London Engineering District, General Post Office
Arthur James Pearce, Staff Officer, Board of Control
James Ridley Redhead, Principal Clerk, Estate Duty Office, Board of Inland Revenue
Colonial Civil Service
William James Clemens, Secretary and Chief Inspector of the Public Service Board, Commonwealth of Australia
Henry Edmonds Downie, Commissioner of Taxes, State of Tasmania
Thomas James Greenwood, Commissioner, First Grade, Colony of Cyprus
Eugene Patrick Griffin MBE Chief Assistant Secretary, Office of Colonial Secretary, Gibraltar
Walter Belinfante Isaacs, lately Supervisor, Revenue Department, Island Treasurer and Manager of the Government Savings Bank, Jamaica
William Miller, Surveyor-General, Bahama Islands
Charles Rodway Morrison, Office Assistant to the Provincial Commissioner of the Southern Province, Sierra Leone
Charles Adrien Pollonais, Assistant Treasurer, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago
Bertram Tanner, Headmaster, Queen's College, Hong Kong
Edgar Allen Garvin Vanderstraaten, Third Landing Surveyor, Customs Department, Ceylon
Indian Civil Service
Hugh Bainbridge Bendle, Assistant Commissioner, Excise Department, and Secretary to the Commissioner of Excise, Madras
Khan Bahadur Fardunji Mancherji Dastur, Registrar of the University of Bombay
Andrew Frank Emmer, Assistant Secretary to Resident and Treasury Officer, Hyderabad (Deccan)
Raj Bahadur Sardar Tirath Singh, Deputy Superintendent of Police, United Provinces
Thomas Stephens Farmer, Superintendent, Reformatory School, Delhi
Gerson de Luna, Superintendent, Residency Office, Aden
Sheikh Imam-ud-Dm, Inspector of Police and Head Clerk, Office of Senior Superintendent of Police, Lahore, Punjab
Imperial Service Medal (ISM)
Abdul Kadir, late Daftri, Government of India, Foreign and Political Department
Harakh Bam, late Jemadar chaprasi, Deputy Commissioner's Office, Banchi, Bihar and Orissa
References
^"No. 33053". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1925. pp. 3767–3781.