1915 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1915 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were announced on 1 January 1915.^[1]

Order of the Bath

Knight Commander (KCB)

Civil Division

Edmund Ernest Nott-Bower, Esq., C.B., Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue.
Lionel Abrahams, Esq., C.B., Assistant Under Secretary of State, India Office.

Companion (CB)

Military Division

Captain Noel Grant, R.N., (H.M.S. "Carmania").
Captain John Collings Taswell Glossop, R.N. (H.M.A.S. "Sydney").
Commander James Barr, R.N.R. (H.M.S. "Carmania").

Civil Division

Captain Richard Webb, R.N.
Fleet-Paymaster Charles John Ehrhardt Rotter, R.N.
Basil Phillott Blackett, Esq., First Class Clerk, The Treasury.
George Russell Clerk, Esq., C.M.G., Senior Clerk, Foreign Office.
James Edward Masterton Smith, Esq., Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Commander (KCSI)

Major-General William Riddell Birdwood, C.B., C.S.I., C.I.E., D.S.O., late Secretary in the Army Department to the Government of India.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)

The Right Honourable Sir Louis Mallet, K.C.M.G., C.B., lately His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Constantinople.

Knight Commander (KCMG)

Wilfred Collet, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Honduras.
George Basil Haddon Smith, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Windward Islands.
The Honourable George Halsey Perley, Minister of the Dominion of Canada; at present in charge of the office of the High Commissioner in London for the Dominion.
The Honourable Robert Philp, formerly Premier of the State of Queensland.
The Honourable Clifford Sifton, K.C., Member of the King's Privy Council for Canada, and formerly Minister of the Interior of the Dominion.

Companion (CMG)

Frederic Chapple, Esq., Head Master of Prince Alfred College, Adelaide.
Charles Thomas Davis, Esq., of the Colonial Office.
George Joseph Desbarats, Esq., Deputy Minister and Comptroller of the Naval Service of the Dominion of Canada.
Laurence Stirling Eliot, Esq., I.S.O., lately Under Treasurer of the State of Western Australia.
Surgeon-Major-General Eugène Fiset, M.D., D.S.O., Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence of the Dominion of Canada.
Edward Allan Grannum, Esq., Receiver-General of the Colony of Mauritius.
George Hogben, Esq., Inspector-General of Schools, Dominion of New Zealand.
Loke Yew, Esq., of Selangor, Federated Malay States.
Thomas Slingsby Nightingale, Esq., Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner in London for the Union of South Africa.
John Houston Sinclair, Esq., Chief Secretary, Zanzibar.
Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson, Esq., Legal Assistant, Colonial Office.

Captain Charles Walter Barton, D.S.O., The King's African Rifles. (Nyasaland. Additional Member, in connection with military operations.)
Brigadier-General Charles Macpherson Dobell, D.S.O., A.D.C., Inspector-General of the West African Frontier Force.(West Africa. Additional Member, in connection with military operations.)
Captain Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, of His Majesty's Cruiser "Cumberland."(West Africa. Additional Member, in connection with military operations.)

Charles Alfred Bell, Esq., of the Indian Civil Service, for services in connection with the Tibet Conference, 1913.
Richard William Brant, Esq., lately Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

Maharaja Sir Velugoti Sri Rajagopala Krishna Yachendralavarti Bahadur, K.C.I.E., Panchhazari Mansabdar, of Venkatagiri.
Sir Sri Kantirava Narasinharaja Wadiyar Bahadur, K.C.I.E., Yuvaraja of Mysore.

Companion (CIE)

Abdulla bin Esa, son of Sheikh Esa bin Ali al Khalifa, the Chief of Bahrein. (Honorary)
The Reverend James Caruthers Rhea Ewing, D.D., LL.D., M.A., Principal of the Forman Christian College, Lahore, Punjab. (Honorary)
Claude Dundas James Carmichael, Esq., Indian Police, Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Madras.
Meherali Fazulbhoy Chinoy, Sheriff of Bombay, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
Kiran Chandra De, Esq., B.A., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Bengal.
Frank Willington Carter, Esq.
Charles Montague King, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar, Punjab.
Khan Bahadur Sheikh Riaz Hussein, Honorary Extra Assistant Commissioner and Magistrate of Multan, Punjab.
Edward Rawson Gardiner, Esq., Indian Public Works Department, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of Bihar and Orissa, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations.
George Thomas Barlow, Esq., Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Branch, Public Works Department, United Provinces.
Frederick Samuel Philip Swann, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Banda, United Provinces.
Berkeley John Byng Stephens, Esq., a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Burma for making Laws and Regulations.
Mir Kamal Khan, Jam of Las Bela, Kalat, Baluchistan.
Captain Walter Lumsden, C.V.O., R.N. (retired), Director of the Royal Indian Marine.
Colonel Dewan Bishan Das, Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Jammu and Kashmir State.
Mager Frederic Gauntlett, Esq., Indian Civil Service, lately Comptroller and Auditor-General.
Major Samuel Richard Christophers, M.B., Indian Medical Service, Officer in Charge of the Malarial Bureau at the Central Research Institute, Kasauli.
Colonel George William Patrick Dennys, Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Central Provinces, and a Member of the Council of the Chief Commissioner for making Laws and Regulations.
William Peter Sangster, Esq., Indian Public Works Department, Executive Engineer, Malakand Division, Upper Swat River Canal, North-West Frontier Province.
Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Indian Army, Political Department, lately Political Agent, Koweit, Persian Gulf.
Montague Hill, Esq., Indian Forest Department, Chief Conservator of Forests, Central Provinces, and lately Officiating Inspector-General of Forests.
Captain Frederick Marshman Bailey, Indian Army, Political Department.
Sahibzada Abdus Samad Khan, Chief Secretary to His Highness the Nawab of Rampur, United Provinces.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross (GCVO)

His Highness Prince Leopold Arthur Louis of Battenberg, K.C.V.O.

Commander (CVO)

Major Clive Wigram, C.S.I., M.V.O., Assistant Private Secretary and Equerry in Waiting to His Majesty.
John Marnoch, Esq., Regius Professor of Surgery, Aberdeen University.

Member, 5th Class

Carpenter Lieutenant John William Sheldrake, Royal Navy. On promotion from His Majesty's yacht "Victoria and Albert." (Dated 1st October, 1914.)

References

↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 29024. pp. 1–3. 29 December 1914.

Honours Lists

New Year Honours	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902† 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940† 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 †Not issued because of birthday honours of new king (1902) and WWII (1940)

Birthday Honours	1885 1886 1887† 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897† 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911† 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937† 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 †Not issued because of Jubilee Honours (1887, 1897) and Coronation Honours (1911, 1937)

Prime Minister's Resignation Honours	1945 1951 1955 1957 1963 1964 1970 1976 1979 1990 1997

Coronation Honours	1902 1911 1937 1953

Dissolution Honours	1900 1906 1910 (January) 1910 (December) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (February) 1974 (October) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015

Special Honours	2013 2014 2015 2016

Additional Honours	1887 (Golden Jubilee) 1897 (Diamond Jubilee) 1923 Prime Minister 1935 (Silver Jubilee) 1977 (Silver Jubilee) 1990 (Queen Mother's 90th Birthday) 2002 (Death of Queen Mother and Princess Margaret) 2002 (Golden Jubilee) 2012 (Diamond Jubilee)

Honours by nation	Australia Canada Ceylon India New Zealand

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