1947 Birthday Honours

The 1947 King's Birthday Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made "on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty's Birthday."

United Kingdom

The 1947 King's Birthday Honours for the United Kingdom were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 6 June 1947.

Order of the Crown of India

• Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary.
• Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose.

Baron

• Reginald Douglas Crook, Esq. For political and public services.
• Frederick Montague, Esq., C.B.E., M.P., Member of Parliament for West Islington, 1923–31, and since 1935. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Air, June, 1929–31. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport, 1940–41, and Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1941–42. For political and public services.
• Sir Arthur Frederick Richards, G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nigeria. For services to the Colonial Empire.
• Sir Roy Lister Robinson, O.B.E., Chairman, Forestry Commission.

Privy Counsellor

• Sir (William) Norman Birkett, K.C. (The Hon. Mr Justice Birkett), a Justice of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division.
• The Right Honourable Thomas Sivewright, Baron Catto, C.B.E., Governor of the Bank of England.
• Ness Edwards, Esq., M.P., Member of Parliament for Caerphilly since 1939. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service since 1945.
• The Honourable Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins, C.H., K.C.M.G., F.R.C.S., Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia since 1934.
• George Mathers, Esq., D.L., M.P., Member of Parliament for West Edinburgh, 1929–31, and for Linlithgow since 1935. Comptroller of H.M. Household, 1944–45, and Treasurer, 1945–46. Deputy Chief Whip, 1945–46. Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1946 and 1947. For political and public services.

Knight Bachelor

• John Smith Boyd, Esq., Permanent Vice-President of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation.
• Captain Sidney William Clift. For public services in Birmingham and the Midlands.
• John Samuel Dodd, Esq., Past President of the Associated British Chambers of Commerce.
• William Norwood East, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P. For services to the study of criminal psychology.
• Ifan ab Owen Edwards, Esq., Founder of the Welsh League of Youth.
• Ralph Roscoe Enfield, Esq., C.B., Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• William Russell Flint, Esq., R.A., President of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours.
• Ralph Freeman, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., Partner in Freeman, Fox and Partners, Consulting Civil Engineers.
• Douglas Thornbury Garrett, Esq., President of the Law Society.
• Alexander Greig, Esq., Director of Retail Coordination and Retail Trade Adviser, Ministry of Food.
• David Kennedy Henderson, Esq., M.D., F.R.F.P.S.G., F.R.C.P.Ed., Professor of Psychiatry, Edinburgh University.
• Professor Ernest Laurence Kennaway, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., lately Director, Chester Beatty Research Institute of the Royal Cancer Hospital, London.
• Russell Kettle, Esq., Senior Partner, Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths and Company.
• Major Hew Ross Kilner, M.C., Deputy Chairman and Managing Director (Aviation), Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd.
• Alexander McCall, Esq., M.D., Ch.B. For public services.
• Andrew McCance, Esq., D.Sc., F.R.S., Member, Advisory Council to the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Andrew Simpson Macharg, Esq., Senior Partner, McClelland Ker and Company, Glasgow.
• Archibald Hector McIndoe, Esq., C.B.E., M.S., M.Sc., F.R.C.S., F.A.C.S., Civilian Consultant in Plastic Surgery to the Royal Air Force.
• Greville Simpson Maginness, Esq., President of the British Employers' Confederation.
• Charles Johns Mole, Esq., M.V.O., O.B.E., F.R.I.B.A., Director-General of Works, Ministry of Works.
• Laurence Kerr Olivier, Esq., Actor. For services to the stage and to films.
• William Peters, Esq., C.M.G., H.M. Senior Trade Commissioner in the Union of South Africa.
• Professor Arnold Plant. For services to Government Departments.
• Reginald Kaye Rowell, Esq., Controller of Death Duties, Board of Inland Revenue.
• Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent, Esq., Mus.D., A.R.C.O., F.R.C.M., Conductor. For services to music.
• Alderman Walter Thompson, D.C.L., J.P. For public services in Newcastle upon Tyne.
• Robert Hill Tolerton, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• Ifor Williams, Esq., D.Litt., F.B.A., F.S.A., Professor of Welsh Language and Literature, University College of North Wales, Bangor.
• Robert Arthur Young, Esq., C.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., Consulting Physician, Middlesex and Brompton Hospitals.

Dominions

• James Hay Gosse, Esq. For public services in the State of South Australia.
• Thomas William Meagher, Esq., M.B., B.S., Lord Mayor of the City of Perth, State of Western Australia, 1939–45. For public services.

India

• The Honourable Mr Justice Frederick William Gentle, Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St George, Madras.
• The Honourable Mr Justice Ronald Evelyn Pollock, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar.
• Alfred Charles Turner, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., M.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Principal Secretary to the Government of India, Finance Department.
• Marmaduke Robert Coburn, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., O.B.E., Additional Financial Adviser, Military Finance, Government of India.
• The Honourable Mr Harry Douglas Townend, Member of the Council of State, President, Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Associated Chambers of Commerce.
• Jasper Fellowes Crofts Reynolds, Esq., C.I.E., M.C., General Manager, South Indian Railway, Trichinopoly.
• Brigadier Henry Lawrence Scott, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Major-General in and Chief of the Military Staff, Jammu and Kashmir State Forces.
• Percival Joseph Griffiths, Esq., C.I.E., Member of the Central Legislative Assembly.
• Colonel George Reid McRobert, C.I.E., Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bihar.
• Trevor Joselyne Matthews, Esq., Senior Director of the firm of Grindlays and Company Limited, Bankers and Agents.

Burma

• The Honourable Mr Justice Reginald Taafe Sharpe, Barrister-at-Law, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Rangoon.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

• Charles Henry Collins, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Administrative Service, Deputy Chief Secretary, Ceylon.
• Gate Mudaliyar Don Henry Kotalawala, J.P. For public services in Ceylon.
• Mehmet Munir Bey, C.B.E. For public services in Cyprus.
• Harold Curwen Willan, Esq., C.M.G., M.C., Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Malayan Union.
• Eustace Gordon Woolford, Esq., O.B.E., K.C. For public services in British Guiana.

Order of the Bath

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

• Admiral Sir Algernon Usborne Willis, K.C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O.
• General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., A.D.C., late The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
• General Sir Daril Gerard Watson, K.C.B., C.B.E., M.C., A.D.C., late The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
• Sir Archibald Rowlands, K.C.B., M.B.E., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Supply.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Surgeon Vice-Admiral Henry St Clair Colson, C.B., C.B.E., M.B., B.S., D.P.H.
• Vice-Admiral Wilfred Rupert Patterson, C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E.
• Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Ponsonby Talbot, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O. (Retired).
• General Sir John Tredinnick Crocker, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
• Acting Air Marshal Cyril Bertram Cooke, C.B., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Marshal Robert Victor Goddard, C.B., C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Sir Cecil Thomas Carr, K.C., LL.D., Counsel to the Speaker.
• John Gerald Lang, Esq., C.B., Permanent Secretary, Admiralty.
• Sir Percivale Liesching, K.C.M.G., Secretary, Ministry of Food.
• Sir (Albert) Henry Self, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation.
• Sir (James) Ulick Francis Canning Alexander, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., O.B.E., Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to The King.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Rear-Admiral Angus Edward Malise Bontine Cunninghame-Graham, C.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral Hugh Turnour England, D.S.O. (Retired).
• Rear-Admiral Gervase Boswell Middleton, C.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral (E) Charles Hepworth Nicholson, C.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral Reginald Maxwell Servaes, C.B.E.
• Rear-Admiral Guy Langton Warren (Retired).
• The Venerable Archdeacon John Kenneth Wilson, C.B.E., M.A., K.H.Ch., Chaplain of the Fleet.
• Temporary Captain Charles Rodger Noel Winn, O.B.E., R.N.V.R.
• Major-General Frederick Sherwood Clover, C.B.E., A.M.I.Mech.E., late Royal Army Service Corps.
• Major-General John Frederick Boyce Combe, D.S.O., late Royal Armoured Corps.
• Major-General William Alfred Dimoline, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Corps of Signals.
• Major-General (temporary) Bernard Edward Cooke Dixon, C.B.E., M.C., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General William Foot, M.C., M.B., K.H.P., late Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Major-General Harry Leicester Longden, C.B.E., late The Dorsetshire Regiment.
• Major-General Neil McMicking, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., late The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).
• Major-General Harold Redman, C.B.E., late The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
• Brigadier (temporary) Henry Shapcott, C.B.E., M.C., late Extra Regimentally Employed List.
• Major-General (temporary) Alexander Wallace Sproull, C.B.E., B.Sc., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E., late Corps of Royal Engineers.
• Major-General (acting) Bertram Temple, O.B.E., M.C., late The Gloucestershire Regiment.
• Major-General (acting) John Dane Woodall, O.B.E., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Colonel (Temporary Major-General) Roger Eustace Le Fleming, O.B.E., M.C., Indian Army.
• Colonel (Acting Major-General) Henry Robinson Swinburn, M.C., Indian Army.
• Colonel (Temporary Major-General) John Bernard Dalison, O.B.E., Indian Army.
• Colonel (Temporary Major-General) Malcolm Glover, O.B.E., Indian Army.
• Air Vice-Marshal Anthony Lauderdale Paxton, C.B.E., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Vice-Marshal Thomas Arthur Warne-Browne, C.B.E., D.S.C., Royal Air Force.
• Acting Air Vice-Marshal Allan Lancelot Addison Perry-Keene, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Frank Beaumont, Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore Richard Bowen Jordan, D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Air Commodore John Gerard Willsley Weston, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
• Group Captain Edgar Noel Lowe, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.

Civil Division

• Colonel Sir James Lithgow, Bt., G.B.E., M.C., T.D., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Renfrew.
• Brevet-Colonel William Dillworth Crewdson, T.D., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Westmorland.
• Major Arthur Hardie Hill, M.C., Chairman, Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association for the County of Bute.
• Stanislaus Joseph Baker, Esq., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Home Office.
• Bernard Barnes, Esq., M.C., Accountant-General, Ministry of Fuel and Power.
• Percy Barter, Esq., Chairman, Board of Control.
• Eric Blacklock Bowyer, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Supply.
• Geoffrey Ronald Aubert Buckland, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• George Calder, Esq., Under-Secretary, Board of Trade.
• Albert Edgar Feavearyear, Esq., D.Sc., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Food.
• Reginald Hector Franklin, Esq., C.B.E., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Norman Arthur Guttery, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of Transport.
• Benjamin Honour, Esq., M.C., Principal Assistant Solicitor, Office of H.M. Procurator-General and Treasury Solicitor.
• Reginald William Luce, Esq., M.B.E., Principal Assistant Secretary, Control Commission for Germany.
• James Edward Meade, Esq., Director, Economic Section, Cabinet Office.
• John David Morris, Esq., O.B.E., Under-Secretary, Admiralty.
• Thomas Padmore, Esq., Third Secretary, H.M. Treasury.
• Edward Talbot Paris, Esq., D.Sc., Principal Director, Scientific Research (Defence), Ministry of Supply.
• Bertram Lamb Pearson, Esq., D.S.O., M.C., Accountant-General, Ministry of Education.
• Harold Vale Rhodes, Esq., Under-Secretary, Ministry of National Insurance.
• Geoffrey William Berkeley Throckmorton, Esq., Clerk of the Journals, House of Commons.
• William Duncan Waterfall, Esq., Director of Savings, General Post Office.
• Major Michael Edward Adeane, M.V.O., Assistant Private Secretary to The King.

Order of the Star of India

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

• Colonel His Highness Maharaja Shri Sir Digvijaysinhji, G.C.I.E., K.C.S.I., A.D.C., Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar.

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

• Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Walter Messervy, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., Indian Army, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command, India.
• Sir George Hemming Spence, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative Department.

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

• James Philip Mills, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Adviser to His Excellency the Governor for Tribal Areas and States, Shillong, Assam.
• Henry Stuart Bates, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Member, Board of Revenue, United Provinces.
• Brigadier Brian Palliser Tiegue O'Brien, O.B.E., M.C., Indian Army, Director of Intelligence, General Headquarters, India.
• Walter Graham Lacey, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Divisional Commissioner, Bihar.
• Robert McIntosh, Esq., M.B.E., Indian Service of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Public Works Department (General, Buildings and Defence), Madras.
• Victor Kennard Maitland, Esq., M.C., Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Central Provinces and Berar.

Order of St Michael and St George

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

• The Honourable Sir James Mitchell, K.C.M.G., Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Western Australia.
• Major-General Sir Hubert Jervoise Huddleston, G.B.E., K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., until recently Governor-General of the Sudan.

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

• Richard Gordon Munro, Esq., C.M.G., M.C., Representative of H.M. Treasury in Washington.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, Bt., K.C.V.O., C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C., Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief, British Forces in Germany, and Deputy Military Governor.
• The Honourable Sir John Waters Kirwan, Kt., lately President of the Legislative Council of the State of Western Australia.
• Sir John Valentine Wistar Shaw, C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Trinidad.
• Sydney Caine, Esq., C.M.G., a Joint Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
• Nevile Montagu Butler, Esq., C.M.G., C.V.O., an Assistant Under-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office.
• Cecil Bertrand Jerram, Esq., C.M.G., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Stockholm.
• William Henry Bradshaw Mack, Esq., C.M.G., United Kingdom Political Representative to the Austrian Government.

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

• Reginald Albert Furness, Esq. For services with the British Food Mission in Washington.
• Hubert George Gee, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• Raymond Newton Kershaw, Esq., Adviser to the Bank of England.
• The Honourable John Gilbert Simon, lately Shipping Adviser, Ministry of Transport.
• Frederick William Smith, Esq. For services as Director-General of Building Materials, Ministry of Works.
• Roger Bentham Stevens, Esq. For services as Head of the British Secretariat, Washington. (Now Counsellor, Foreign Office).
• Colonel Philip Graham Stock, C.B., C.B.E. M.B., F.R.C.P., Medical Officer, Ministry of Health.
• Jack Pickering Cartledge, Esq., Assistant Parliamentary Draftsman, State of South Australia.
• The Honourable Charles Ernest Culley, a Member of the House of Assembly, and lately Chief Secretary and Minister for Transport, State of Tasmania.
• Russell William Thornton, Esq., C.B.E., Agricultural Adviser to the High Commissioner for Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, and Director of the Native Land Settlement Department, Swaziland.
• Sydney Stubbs, Esq., lately a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Western Australia.
• Robert Watson, Esq., O.B.E., Director of Agriculture, Burma.
• Robert Duncan Harris Arundell, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Resident British Member, Caribbean Commission, Washington.
• Henry Basten, Esq., Chairman and General Manager, Singapore and Penang Harbour Boards.
• Velupillai Coomaraswamy, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Government Agent, Western Province, Ceylon.
• Roger Alastair McLaren Davidson, Esq., Colonial Education Service, Director of Education, Nigeria.
• Christopher William Dawson, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, Sarawak.
• Christopher Gilbert Eastwood, Esq., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
• Ronald Herbert Garvey, Esq., M.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Administrator, St Vincent, Windward Islands.
• John Cloudesley Mundy, Esq., Commissioner of Inland Revenue, Kenya, and Commissioner of Income Tax, East Africa.
• John Dalzell Rankine, Esq., Colonial Administrative Service, Colonial Secretary, Barbados.
• Douglas William Robertson, Esq., D.S.O., M.C., Colonial Administrative Service, Secretary for African Affairs, Uganda.
• The Honourable Edwin Herbert Samuel, Colonial Administrative Service, Director of Broadcasting, Palestine.
• Major Clarence Roy Turner, lately General Manager of the Gold Coast Railway.
• Patrick Henry Dean, Esq., Head of the German Department of the Foreign Office.
• Guy Francis Foley, Esq., O.B.E., M.C., formerly Director of the Department of Economics and Trade, Sudan Government.
• Harold Charles Lehrs Gibson, Esq., attached to a Department of the Foreign Office.
• Hubert Ashton Graves, M.C., Esq., Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Washington.
• Paul Mason, Esq., Head of the United Nations (Political) Department of the Foreign Office.
• Sir Andrew Napier Noble, Bart., until recently Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Buenos Aires.
• Alexander Swinton Paterson, Esq., O.B.E., Inspector of His Majesty's Foreign Service Establishments abroad.
• Denis Hubert Fletcher Rickett, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Offices of the Cabinet.
• Leslie Robert Sherwood, Esq., O.B.E., Head of the Finance Department of the Foreign Office.
• Geoffrey Arnold Wallinger, Esq., until recently Counsellor at His Majesty's Embassy in Nanking.

Honorary Companion

• H.H. Tunku Yacob bin Sultan Abdul Hamid, State Agricultural Officer, Kedah, Malayan Union.

Order of the Indian Empire

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

• Lieutenant-Colonel His Highness Maharaja Rajindra Prakash, Bahadur, Maharaja of Sirmur.
• The Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay, C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Political Service, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
• George Edmond Brackenbury Abell, Esq., C.I.E., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Governor-General (Personal) and Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.
• Harold Samuel Eaton Stevens, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E., M.C., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal.

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

• Noel Kennedy Paterson, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, lately Chief Commissioner, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
• Charles Beresford Duke, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Political Service, Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department.
• Colonel (Temporary Major-General) Joseph Edward Hirst, D.S.O., lately Chairman, Post-War Accommodation, Scales and Standards Committee, General Headquarters, India.
• Arthur George Hall, Esq., M.B.E., General Manager, North-Western Railway, Lahore.
• Colonel (Temporary Brigadier) Robert Charles Herron, O.B.E., I.E.M.E., Brigadier I.E.M.E., Northern Command, India.
• Hugh Beresford Kidd, Esq., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Bombay.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Dudley Gordon Heriot de la Fargue, Indian Political Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of the North-West Frontier Province.
• Idris Wyn Lewys-Lloyd, Esq., O.B.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to His Excellency the Governor of the United Provinces.
• Kenneth Valentine Freeland Morton, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Electricity and Industries Departments.
• Francis Ernest Alfred Taylor, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bihar in the Revenue Department.
• Herbert Gwyther Bartley, Esq., Indian Police, Inspector-General of Police, Assam.
• William Geoffrey Dyson, Esq., M.C., Indian Forest Service, Chief Conservator of Forests, Madras.
• Francis Theodore Castells, Esq., Financial Adviser and Chief Accounts Officer, Bengal-Nagpur Railway, Calcutta.
• Colonel Lloyd Kirwood Ledger, O.B.E., M.R.C.S., D.O., Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals and Director of Public Health, Central Provinces and Berar.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald Charles George Chapman, O.B.E., Master, Security Printing, India.
• Acting Captain (Commodore Second Class) Walter Richard Shewring, Royal Indian Navy Liaison Officer in London.
• Colonel Douglas Hendrie Currie, C.B.E., M.C., D.C.M., Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.
• William Waters Finlay, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner in charge, Kumaun Division, Naini Tal, United Provinces.
• Henry Verner Hampton, Esq., Indian Educational Service (retired), Member, Bombay-Sind Public Service Commissioners, Bombay.
• Hugh Keene, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Madras.
• John Lewis Jenkins, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Presidency Range, Bengal.
• Lieutenant-Commander William Hutcheon Watt, O.B.E. R.N.R. (retired), Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation in India.
• Ian Dixon Scott, Esq., Indian Political Service, Deputy Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Malise Graham, D.S.O., M.C., Chief of the Staff, His Exalted Highness the Nizam's Regular Forces, Hyderabad (Deccan).
• Benjamin Rigby Hardaker, Esq., Senior Adviser, Customs and Central Excises, Central Board of Revenue, Government of India.
• Richard Powell, Esq., Inspector-General of Police, Jammu and Kashmir State.
• Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold, Esq., Secretary, Economic Department, India Office, London.

Honorary Companion

• Commander Colonel Daman Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana, C.B.E., Consul-General for Nepal.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

• The Right Honourable Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., M.C.
• Admiral Sir Dudley Burton Napier North, K.C.V.O., C.B., C.S.I., C.M.G.

Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (DCVO)

• The Right Honourable Beatrice Mildred Edith, Baroness Harlech.

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Sir Hugh Lett, Bt., C.B.E., D.C.L., M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.S.
• Admiral Sir Aubrey Clare Hugh Smith, K.B.E., C.B., M.V.O.
• Surgeon Rear-Admiral Henry Ellis Yeo White, C.V.O., O.B.E., M.D.
• Rear-Admiral William Gladstone Agnew, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O. ^A

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Lady Delia Adelaide Margaret Peel.
• Anthony Frederick Blunt, Esq.
• George Edward Fenton King, Esq., M.V.O.
• Commander the Honourable Humphry Legge, D.S.O., Royal Navy (Retired).
• Geoffrey Sydney Todd, Esq., O.B.E., M.B., Ch.M., F.R.C.P.
• Wing Commander Peter Wooldridge Townsend, D.S.O., D.F.C., Royal Air Force.
• Major John Lamplugh Wickham, M.V.O.
• Commander William John Lamb, M.V.O., O.B.E., Royal Navy. ^A

Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.

Fourth Class

• Lieutenant-Commander Peter William Beckwith Ashmore, D.S.C., Royal Navy.
• Captain William Albemarle Fellowes.
• Charles Frederic Glenny, Esq.
• Lionel Benedict Nicolson, Esq.
• Commander (E) Lancelot Arthur Babington Peile, D.S.O., Royal Navy. ^A
• Commander (S) Keith Leslie Dunn, Royal Navy. ^A
• Lieutenant-Commander Ian Greynvile Steel, Royal Navy. ^A
• Major Francis Vivian Dunn, M.V.O., Royal Marines. ^A
• Major Reginald Carteret de Mussenden Leathes, Royal Marines. ^A
• Acting Wing Commander Ernest William Tacon, D.S.O., D.F.C., A.F.C., Royal Air Force. ^B

Fifth Class

• Albert Hugh Buckland, Esq.
• Harry Vincent Ireson, Esq.
• Mr Frederick William Pardy, Warrant Catering Officer, Royal Navy.
• Sub-Lieutenant James Duncan Gordon Davidson, Royal Navy. ^A
• Mr Horace Benjamin Banford, Commissioned Boatswain, Royal Navy. ^A
• Acting Squadron Leader Harold Frederick Payne, A.F.C., Royal Air Force. ^B
• Acting Squadron Leader Harold Wright, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. ^B
• Flight Lieutenant Arthur Knapper, A.F.C., Royal Air Force. ^B
• Flight Lieutenant George Alexander Pearson, Royal Air Force. ^B
• Flight Lieutenant Lewis George Alfred Reed, D.F.C., Royal Air Force. ^B

^A Officers of HMS Vanguard, for services in connection with Their Majesties' visit to the Union of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and other territories in Africa.
^B Officers of The King's Flight, for services in connection with Their Majesties' visit to the Union of South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and other territories in Africa.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)

• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Robert Chancellor, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., D.S.O. For services to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

• Miss Matilda Goodrich, R.R.C., Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service.
• Miss Evelyn Emily Marian Fox, C.B.E. For services to mental health.
• Miss Caroline Haslett, C.B.E. For services to the Board of Trade and the Ministry of Labour.
• Miss Emmeline Mary Tanner, lately Headmistress of Roedean School. For services to education.

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

• Lieutenant-General Gwilym Ivor Thomas, C.B., D.S.O., M.C., late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
• Lieutenant-General (Acting) Ernest Wood, C.B., C.I.E., M.C., Quartermaster General in India.
• Air Vice-Marshal William Boston Cushion, C.B., C.B.E., Royal Air Force (Retired).
• William Castle Cleary, Esq., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Education.
• George Henry Henderson, Esq., C.B., Secretary, Department of Health for Scotland.
• George David Roseway, Esq., C.B., C.B.E., Deputy Under-Secretary of State, War Office.
• Harold Herbert Wiles, Esq., C.B., M.B.E., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Service.
• The Honourable Cecil James Henry Campbell, C.M.G., Managing Director, Marconi Radio Telegraph Company of Egypt.
• Laurence Barton Grafftey-Smith, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Jedda.
• Sir Harry Harrison Burn, Imperial Chemical Industries, Calcutta, Bengal.
• Ralph Thompson Stoneham, Esq., Government Projects Financial Representative.
• George Ritchie Sandford, Esq., C.M.G., O.B.E., Colonial Administrative Service, Chief Secretary, East African Governor's Conference.

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Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• James Bone, Esq., lately London Editor of the Manchester Guardian. For services to journalism.
• John William Robertson Scott, Esq., J.P., Author. Founder and lately Editor of "The Countryman".

New Zealand

The 1947 King's Birthday Honours for New Zealand were announced in a supplement to the London Gazette of 6 June 1947.

Knight Bachelor

• The Honourable Harold Featherston Johnston – formerly a judge of the Supreme Court.

Order of the Bath

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

• Commodore George Haines Faulkner DSC – Royal Navy (Retired).

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• John Malcolm MD FRSE – professor emeritus, University of Otago. For services to the medical profession.
• William Henry Moyes – formerly Headmaster, Boys' High School, New Plymouth.

Order of the British Empire

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

Civil Division

• Thomas Anderson Hunter CBE – of Wellington. For services in connection with dental health and welfare.

Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Civil Division

• George Finley Dixon MBE – a private secretary to Ministers of the Crown for 31 years.
• Thomas David James Leech – dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Auckland University College.

Military Division

• Brigadier Leslie Potter DSO – New Zealand Military Forces.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Civil Division

• Joseph Elmsley Broadfoot – director, Institute for the Blind, Auckland.
• Miss Helen Matilda Comrie – of Auckland. For valuable services to nursing.
• Walter Verran Dyer – chairman, Education Board, Wellington.
• Waata Roore Erueti – of Aramiro, Whatawhata. For services to the Māori people.
• James John Marlow – of St Kilda, Dunedin. For municipal services.
• Colin Miln. For services in connection with the Returned Services' Association in Christchurch.
• Patrick John Monaghan MB BS – chief medical officer, Western Samoa.
• Charles Ormond Morse – of Dargaville. For municipal services.
• Archibald Frank Nicoll – of Christchurch. For services to art.
• Raharuhi Pururu – of Horohoro, Rotorua. For services to the Māori people.
• Frank Taylor Sandford – official secretary, High Commissioner's Office, London, 1931–39. For public services.

Military Division

• Commander (E) Alan John Norris – Royal Navy.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Vincent Gordon Jervis – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Sneddon McKinnon – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Acting Wing Commander Cameron Archer Turner – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Civil Division

• Eric Jack Daniel – secretary, Returned Services' Association, Ashburton.
• Mrs Jessie Miller Grant. For patriotic and social welfare work in the Waiapu zone.
• James Fort Himburg – of Dunedin. For patriotic work, particularly in organising entertainments for the Forces.
• Charles Ivory Jennings – of Rangiora. For municipal services.
• Miss Titiata Elizabeth Paora Kawharu – district health nurse, Dargaville. For services in North Auckland and Rarotonga.
• Mrs Lilly Grace McLean – district nurse, Great Barrier Island.
• William Meikleham – manager, special school, Otekaieke. For services in connection with the care and training of backward and defective children.
• Miss Maude Morris – lately matron, Orakanui Home, Waitati.
• Leslie Gordon Olliff – employed in the Naval Dockyard at Auckland.
• Edward James Rose. For services to the St John's Ambulance Brigade, West Coast district.
• Thomas Bankes Smith – employed in the Lighthouse Service, Marine Department.
• Mrs Catherine Thomson – of Brooklyn, Wellington. For services to the St John's Ambulance Brigade.
• Miss Florence Ellen Woodhouse – staff clerk, Lands and Survey Department.

Military Division

• Temporary Acting Lieutenant Edward William Blakiston – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Warrant Officer Class II Alfred John Baigent – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Captain William Hoole Cummings – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Warrant Officer Class I James Edward Hobson – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Major John Alexander Pountney – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Acting Squadron Leader David Charles De Rungs – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader Jesse Julius De Willimoff DFC – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Acting Squadron Leader Frederick William Thornton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Clement Sydney Boulton – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO)

• Harold Digby-Smith – chairman, Social Security Commission.
• John William Macdonald – commissioner, Government Life Insurance Department.

British Empire Medal (BEM)

Military Division

• Leading Writer Victor Noel Duncan – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Chief Petty Officer Radio Mechanic Richard Garfield Williams – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Temporary Warrant Officer Class I Alfred George Burbage – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Staff-Sergeant Wilfred Reynolds Paine – New Zealand Military Forces.
• Flight Sergeant Frank Stanley George Crosby – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant Bruce Gordon Thiele Johnstone – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flight Sergeant David William Jones – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Corporal Roy Sedric Waterhouse – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Sergeant Gladys Amelia Cruickshank – New Zealand Women's Auxiliary Air Force.

Royal Red Cross

Associate of the Royal Red Cross (ARRC)

• Senior Charge Sister (Miss) Venus Marshall Price – New Zealand Army Nursing Service.

Air Force Cross (AFC)

• Flight Lieutenant Edward Pattison Booth Ebbett – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Flying Officer Harold Vincent Carlyle – Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Ivan Bruce Carrie – Royal New Zealand Air Force.