1912 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1912 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 29 December 1911.^[1]

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross (GCB)

Military Division

• General Count Maresuke Nogi, Imperial Japanese Army. (Honorary)

Knight Commander (KCB)

Civil Division

• Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas, K.C.M.G., C.B.

Companion (CB)

Civil Division

• Major John Grey Baldwin.
• Edmund Kerchever Chambers, Esq.
• Henry Ernest Fitzwilliam Comyn, Esq.
• Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten.
• William Francis Marwood, Esq.
• Charles Henry Lawrence Neish, Esq.
• Arthur Newsholme, Esq., M.D.
• Andrew Muter John Ogilvie, Esq.
• James Duncan Stuart Sim, Esq.
• Alfred Walter Soward, Esq.
• William Gibbs Turpin, Esq.
• Archibald Edwards Widdows, Esq.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)

• Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

Knight Commander (KCMG)

• Sir Edward Albert Stone, Knight, Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Western Australia.
• His Honour Colonel John Morison Gibson, K.C., LL.D., Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
• Joseph Pope, Esq., C.V.O., C.M.G., I.S.O., Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, Dominion of Canada.
• George Vandeleur Fiddes, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., Assistant Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
• George Townsend Fenwick, Esq., C.M.G., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
• The Honourable Thomas Watt, C.M.G., Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa.
• His Highness Suleiman bin Almerhum Raja Musa, C.M.G., Sultan of Selangor. (Honorary)
• Rear-Admiral the Honourable Alexander Edward Bethell, C.M.G., Director of Naval Intelligence.

Companion (CMG)

• Thomas Cooper Boville, Esq., Deputy Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada.
• John Frank Brown, Esq., Member of the Provincial Council and of the Executive Committee of the Transvaal Province, Union of South Africa.
• Horace Archer Byatt, Esq., Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for the Somaliland Protectorate.
• Douglas Graham Campbell, Esq., General Adviser to the Government of Johore.
• Harry John Charles Diddams, Esq., Mayor of the City of Brisbane.
• William Francis Joseph Fitzpatrick, Esq., Chairman of Railway Commissioners for Victoria.
• The Honourable Alexander Hean, Minister of Lands and Works of the State of Tasmania, and recently Acting Premier, of that State.
• Edbert Ansgar Hewett, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony of Hong Kong.
• Major Richard Abercrombie Irvine, Provincial Commissioner, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast.
• Thomas Orr, Esq., Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa.
• Lieutenant-Colonel David Prain, C.I.E., F.R.S., Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Daniel Woodley Prowse, Esq., K.C., LL.D., Author of "A History of Newfoundland".
• Colonel Alfred William Robin, C.B., Adjutant-General to the New Zealand Military Forces.
• Tan Jiak Kim, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements.
• Maurice Edward Wingfield, Esq., recently Acting Colonial Secretary of the Colony of the Gambia.
• Salim bin Khalfan, Liwali of Mombasa. (Honorary)
• Milne Cheetham, Esq., Councillor of Embassy in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service attached to His Majesty's Agency and Consulate-General at Cairo.
• James Frederick Roberts, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Barcelona.
• Donald Andreas Cameron, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Alexandria.
• Henry Fountain, Esq., Principal Clerk in the Board of Trade.
• James McIver MacLeod, Esq., His Majesty's Consul at Fez.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander (KCVO)

• The Hon. Sidney Robert Greville, C.V.O., C.B.
• The Hon. Arthur Henry John Walsh, C.V.O.

Member, 4th Class

• Bertram Mackennal, Esq., A.R.A.

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