1930 Birthday Honours


The King's Birthday Honours 1930 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King. They were published on 30 May 1930.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes and then divisions as appropriate.

British Empire

Baron

Baronet

Knight Bachelor

;Dominions
;India
;Colonies, Protectorates, &c.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
;;Army
;;Royal Air Force
  • Air Vice-Marshal David Munro,,
;Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
;;Army
;Civil Division

Order of Merit (OM)

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)

Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

  • John Edwin Clapham Jukes,, Indian Civil Service, lately Controller of Civil Accounts.
  • Harold Anselm Bellamy Vernon,, Indian Civil Service, Member of the Board of Revenue, Madras.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

  • Robert Albert Anderson. For public services in the Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Christopher William, Baron Barnard,, Chairman of the Northumberland and Durham Migration Committee.
  • Thomas Ainsworth Dickson,, Resident Commissioner, Swaziland.
  • William James Gall, Under Secretary, Home Secretary's Department, and Comptroller General of Prisons, State of Queensland.
  • Hugh Marrison Gower Jackson,, Chief Native Commissioner, Southern Rhodesia.
  • Robert Lewis Parker,. For public services in the State of Tasmania.
  • Paul Desiré Nestor Verschaffelt,, Public Service Commissioner, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Captain Walter Buchanan-Smith,, Senior Resident, Nigeria.
  • Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane, British Resident, Perak, Federated Malay States.
  • Alfred John Harding,, Director of Colonial Audit.
  • Major Gerald Joseph Keane,, Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, Uganda Protectorate.
  • Henry Monck-Mason Moore, Colonial Secretary, Kenya.
  • David William Tratman, Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils, Hong Kong.
  • Walter Ernest Wait, of the Ceylon Civil Service.
  • Thomas Dacre Dunlop, one of His Majesty's Inspectors-General of Consulates.
  • Charles Fortescue Garstin,, one of His Majesty's Consuls-General in China.
  • Thomas Joseph Harrington, His Majesty's Consul General at Manila.
  • Harold Preece Hewins,, Director of the Commercial Intelligence Branch, Central Economic Board, Khartoum.
  • Reginald Gerard Leigh,, Assistant Private Secretary to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
  • Francis Alfred Oliver,, His Majesty's Consul-General at Hamburg.
  • Herbert Chavasse Squires,, Director, Khartoum Civil Hospital.
  • Hubert Wilberforce Wilson,, His Majesty's Consul-General at Buenos Aires.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

[Imperial Order of the Crown of India]

  • Jeannette Hope, Lady Birdwood.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

  • Haywood Temple Holmes,.
  • Evelyn Campbell Shaw,.
  • Alexander Ormiston Curie.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)

  • Clifford Viney Braimbridge,.
  • Major Colin Lindsay Gordon.
  • Edgar Stanley Roper.
  • Major Vere Elliot Ward-Simpson,.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

;Military Division
;Civil Division

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

;Military Division
;;Army
  • Colonel Ralph Hawtrey Rohde Benson,,, Member of the Ordnance Committee.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Barre Algernon Highmore Goldie, late 86th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army.
  • Colonel Desmond Murree FitzGerald Hoysted,,, late Chief Technical Examiner for Works Services, War Office.
  • Colonel Charles Campbell Todd,., late Royal Army Pay Corps, and Command Paymaster, The British Troops in Egypt.
;;Royal Air Force
;Civil Division

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
  • Lieutenant Commander Sir Archibald Alison,.
  • Lieutenant Commander George Ernest Blackmore,.
  • Lieutenant Frank Woodgate Lipscomb.
;;Army
;;Royal Air Force
  • Wing Commander William Millett.
  • Squadron Leader Hugh Leedham.
  • Squadron Leader Alan George Bishop,.
;Civil Division

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
  • Lieutenant Henry Melville.
  • Paymaster Lieutenant Ernest Richard Darby.
  • Captain Arthur Hurford, Royal Marines
  • Senior Chief Officer Arthur John Stubbs.
  • Chief Officer William Chalmers.
  • Warrant Engineer William John George Jenkins.
;;Army
;;Royal Air Force
  • Flight Lieutenant Sidney James Bailey.
  • No. 472 Sergeant-Major, 1st Class, Alfred Box.
  • No. 798 Sergeant-Major, 1st Class, Frank Lamdin.
  • No. 7677 Sergeant-Major, 1st Class, Laurence Richard Fears.
;Civil Division
  • Henry Walter Acres, Staff Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Frederick Adams, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Health.
  • John Maurice Adams, Staff Clerk, War Office.
  • Harold Arthur Agnew, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Labour, Northern Ireland.
  • Louisa Bessie Violet Bolton,, Head Mistress of the Burghley Senior Girls' School, St. Pancras.
  • Clement Bristow,, Superintendent, West Sussex County Constabulary.
  • George William Brownell, Superintending Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland.
  • James Carson, Superintendent, Rossie Reformatory School, Angus.
  • Colin Grant Croall, Chairman of the Northampton, Wolverton and District War Pensions Committee.
  • Conrad Hughes Davies,, Senior Intelligence Officer, Department of Overseas Trade.
  • William Davis, Superintendent, London Postal Service, General Post Office.
  • William Deacon, Superintendent, Hampshire Constabulary.
  • Henry James Ernest Easton, Staff Officer, Patent Office, Board of Trade.
  • Albert Endicott,, Superintending Estate Surveyor, Office of Works.
  • Percy Haigh, Clerk, Higher Grade, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • William James Charles Hammond, Shop Manager, Royal Naval Torpedo Factory, Greenock.
  • Ernest William Henry Harbour, Principal Clerk, Ministry of Pensions.
  • David Hardie, Superintendent of the Admiralty Chart Establishment, Cricklewood.
  • John Haworth,, General Manager of the Sewage Disposal Department, and Chief Chemist and Water Examiner, Sheffield Corporation.
  • Ellen Mathers Hough, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Pensions.
  • William Charles Hannaford Hutchins, Assistant Accountant, Board of Education.
  • Alfred James, Chief Timber Inspector under the Director of Contracts, Admiralty.
  • Henry Johnson,, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Borough of Wimbledon.
  • George Shepherd Shepherd-Jones, Accountant, Accountant and Comptroller General's Office, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Michael Augustine Kent,, Handicraft Instructor, Elbow Lane Practical Instruction Centre, Leicester.
  • William Charles Letts, Principal Clerk, Ministry of Pensions.
  • John Armour McGilvray, Staff Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Robert John Mackrell, Chief Examiner, Estate Duty Branch, Ministry of Finance, Northern Ireland.
  • John Main,. For public services, in Glasgow and district.
  • Catherine Gow Milne, Clerical Officer, Home Office. Until recently Secretary Shorthand Typist to the Ceremonial Secretary.
  • Sebastian Elliot Moorcroft, Chief Realisation Clerk, Clearing Office,, Board of Trade.
  • Ernest Edward Parker, Staff Officer, Exchequer, Edinburgh.
  • John Phillips, Chairman of the Monmouthshire War Pensions Committee.
  • Lawrence George Polden, Accountant, Finance Department, Ministry of Labour.
  • Alfred Henry Marmaduke Purse. For services in connection with Health Insurance Secretary to the Welsh Joint Insurance Committee.
  • William Robert Rae, Superintendent, Edinburgh City Police.
  • Councillor Mona Bryant Robinson,, Headmistress, Mudeford Church of England School, Christchurch, Hampshire, Mayor of Christchurch 1928–29, and now deputy mayor.
  • William George Sankey, Grade I Clerk, Inspection Department, Woolwich Arsenal.
  • Minna Florence Schirges, Clerk, Higher Grade, Establishments Department, Ministry of Labour.
  • William Whittaker Siddell, Deputy Chief Collector, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Frank Singer, Staff Officer, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • William Percy Smart, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Mildred Kate Spencer, Higher Clerical Officer, Foreign Office.
  • Andrew Walker, Member of the Retail Fruiterer's Advisory Sub-Committee of the Empire Marketing Board.
  • Thomas James Welsh, Assistant Surveyor of Prisons, Home Office.
  • Ethel Willans, Principal, Women's Advisory Staff, Gas, Light & Coke Co. For services in connection with Empire Marketing.
  • Benjamin Williams, Juvenile Employment Officer for the City of Cardiff.
  • Frederick George Allen Williams, Manager, City Employment Exchange, Ministry of Labour.
  • Thomas Wilson, Deputy Keeper of the Old and New Palaces of Westminster, Superintendent of Works, Office of Works.
  • Arthur Winstanley,, Junior Inspector of Mines, Mines Department, Board of Trade.
  • Elizabeth Mary Wyatt, County Superintendent, East Sussex County Nursing Federation.
  • Thomas James Coleman, Superintendent, Traffic Department, Cairo City Police.
  • Ruth Cooper, Chief Clerk at the Vice-Consulate at Fez.
  • Percy Coriat,, Assistant District Commissioner, Sudan Political Service.
  • Frank Nutter Cox, His Majesty's Consul at Costa Rica.
  • Cyril Henry Haines, Assistant British Agent to the Anglo-Mexican Revolutionary Claims Commission.
  • William Edmund Hampton, Superintendent of Quays, Egyptian Ports and Lighthouses Administration.
  • Luther Martin, Chief Clerk, Inspector-General's Office, Egyptian Ministry of War and Marine.
  • Arthur Stafford Oakley, Assistant District Commissioner, Sudan Political Service.
  • Ellen Leahy. For philanthropic services in the State of New South Wales.
  • Diwan Bahadur Srinivasa Aravamudu Ayyangar, Pleader, Vice-Chairman of the Residency Bazars Committee, Hyderabad.
  • Gerald George Bladen-Taylor, Imperial Secretariat Service, Superintendent, Foreign and Political Department, Government of India.
  • William Edmund Betting, Executive Officer, Improvement Trust, Lucknow, United Provinces.
  • William Arthur Brito, Secretary to the Commissioner of Excise, Madras.
  • William D'Almeida, Imperial Secretariat Service, Superintendent, Office of the Indian Statutory Commission.
  • Owen Richard Cowley Freeman, Indian Medical Department, Deputy Superintendent, Central Mental Hospital.
  • Captain Dinshaw Sorabji Khory, British India Steam Navigation Company Limited, Karachi.
  • Rai Sahib Lala Nathu Rain, Punjab Civil Service, City Magistrate, Lahore.
  • Albert John Parker, Chief Clerical Assistant, Indian Statutory Commission.
  • Joseph Murray Richardson, Indian Medical Department, Superintendent of the Juvenile Jail, Narsinghpur, Central Provinces.
  • George Edward Biddle, Superintendent of Prisons, Sierra Leone.
  • Ethel Marion Blyth, Controller of Female Staffs, Office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
  • William Ward Brew, Member of the Cape Coast Town Council, Gold Coast. For public services.
  • Thomas Henry Brown, Postmaster, Jaffa. For services during the disturbances in Palestine in August 1929.
  • Edwin George Bryant,, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Palestine. For services during the disturbances in Palestine in August 1929.
  • Patrick Henry Burns, Superintendent of Telegraphs, Bahamas.
  • Lena Augusta Chapman, Principal of Hillwood College, Kandy, Ceylon.
  • Herbert Thomas Clark, Inspector of Schools, Singapore.
  • Herbert Harold Heath, Colonial Postmaster, Barbados.
  • Henry Walter Jack Economic Botanist, Agricultural Department, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States.
  • Ellen Menendez Johnson, Assistant Postmaster, Bahamas.
  • Lily Morris, senior Mistress, King's College, Hong Kong.
  • Gertrude Nettleship. For missionary services in Ceylon.
  • Margaret Katherine Packer. For social services in Barbados.
  • Horace George Davie Rooke, lately Chief Locust Officer, Ministry of Irrigation and Agriculture, Iraq.
  • Arumugam Sellamuttu. For philanthropic services in Ceylon.
  • Dorothy Frances Vibert Jackson. For services in the promotion of the Girl Guide movement in Grenada, Windward Islands.
  • Barukh Binah, Administrative Officer, Haifa. For services during the disturbances in Palestine in August 1929.
  • Haj Abdul Raheem el Nabulsi, Acting Mayor of Nablus. For services during the disturbances in Palestine in August 1929.
  • Michael Makhlouf, Surveyor, Department of Customs, Excise and Trade, Palestine.
  • Solomon Schieff, Acting Divisional Inspector, Tel Aviv. For services during the disturbances in Palestine in August 1929.

Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

Medal of the Order of the British Empire

For Meritorious Service.
;Military Division
;;Royal Navy
  • William Frederick Amos Betty, Chief Petty Officer, 238518,.
  • Frederick John Jolly, Chief Petty Officer, J.7719,.
  • Edward William Pope, Supply Petty Officer, M.31229,.
  • Leonard Hammett, Able Seaman, J.54919,.
  • Duncan Scott Smith, Sick Berth Attendant, M.36565,.
;;Army
;;Royal Air Force
  • No. 358497 Leading Aircraftman Arthur Horace Street.
  • No. 2172 Orderly Room-Sergeant Fazal Ahmed, Aden Protectorate Levies.
;Civil Division

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

;Home Civil Service
  • William Clarence Barber,, Head of the Establishment Section, Board of Education.
  • James Arthur Chamberlain, Senior Staff Clerk, Ministry of Labour.
  • Henry Richard Cornfield, Senior Auditor, Exchequer and Audit Department.
  • William Lawe Gane, Senior Examiner, Estate Duty Office, Board of Inland Revenue.
  • Ernest Stephen Jones,, Principal of the Accounts Branch and Chief Clerk, National Debt Office.
  • Walter Herbert Judson, Assistant Director, of Contracts, Admiralty.
  • Robert Squire Langford, Senior Staff Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • James Mahood, Principal Clerk, Paymaster General's Office.
  • Robert Anstruther Moad, Superintending Clerk, General Register Office, Ministry of Health.
  • Alexander Oliphant, Assistant Establishment Officer and Superintendent of Statistics, Department of Health for Scotland.
  • Percival Fitzgerald Pyle, Chief Clerk, Treasury.
  • Sidney Charles Ratcliff,, Assistant Keeper, First Class, Public Record Office.
  • Percy Baldwin Renshaw, Chief Enquiry Officer, Board of Customs and Excise.
  • Percy Christopher Rice,, Chief Establishment Officer and Finance Officer, Department of Overseas Trade.
  • William Campbell Sansom,, Senior Staff Clerk, War Office.
  • Alfred John Waldegrave,, Deputy Controller and Accountant General, General Post Office.
  • James Kyd Young, Chief Clerk in the Crown Office, Edinburgh.
;Dominions
  • Charles Arrowsmith Bernays, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, State of Queensland.
  • Joshua William Ferguson, Secretary and Commercial Officer, Office of the Agent General in London for the State of New South Wales.
  • Philip Samuel Messent, Secretary for Lands, State of South Australia.
;Indian Civil Services
  • Clarence Francis George, Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Assistant Director of Commercial Audit.
  • Frederick Hewitt, Inspector of Stores, India Store Department, London.
  • David Keiller, Head Laboratory Assistant, Imperial Institute of Veterinary Research, Muktesar, United Provinces.
  • Hugh Maurice LaFrenais, Indian Medical Department, on duty at the Haffkine Institute, Bombay.
  • Gilbert McGuire, Indian Medical Department, Punjab.
  • John William McKay, Registrar, Bengal Legislative Council and Legislative Department, Bengal.
  • Frederick George Pettifer, Bihar & Orissa Police Service.
  • Lala Ram Chander Agarwal, Head Clerk, Office of the Assistant Director, Supply and Transport, Peshawar District.
  • Rai Bahadur Ram Saran Das, Special Manager, Court of Wards, United Provinces.
  • Henry Theodore, Manager, Office of the Surgeon-General, Madras.
;Colonies, Protectorates, &c.
  • Durand Victor Altendorff, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Ceylon.
  • Paul Azu, Secretariat Assistant, Gold Coast.
  • Rudolf Fernandez,, formerly superintendent in the Office of the High Commissioner for Iraq.
  • Duncan Laurence Lewis Feurtado, lately Assistant Director of Public Works, Jamaica.
  • Joseph Claude Gaffiero, Engineer, Public Works Department, Cyprus.
  • Hugh Houston Hutchings, Commissioner of Montserrat, Leeward Islands.
  • James Maddy Lumley, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kenya.
  • Colonel George Herbert May,, Inspector-General of Constabulary and Commandant of Local Forces, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Gustave Savy, lately Inspector of Police, Seychelles.
  • Dudley Henry Semper, Magistrate and Coroner, Presidency of Saint Christopher and Nevis, Leeward Islands.
  • John Henry Cheetham Smart, African Assistant Colonial Secretary, Sierra Leone.

Imperial Service Medal

  • Babu Haridas Dass, late Viceman, General Workshop, His Majesty's Mint, Calcutta.
  • Usman Khan Ahmed Khan, late Gatekeeper and General Custodian of the Public Works Department, Secretariat Building, Bombay.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

;First Class
;Second Class

Air Force Cross (AFC)

  • Squadron Leader Alan Lees.
  • Flight Lieutenant Henry George Watts Lock,.
  • Flight Lieutenant Alfred Randles Wardle.

Bar to the Air Force Cross