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HOME HONOURS.

Colonial Office Official's Services.

G.C.M.G. FOR CHIEF SCOUT.

The following Birthday Honours are announced in a Reuter cable from London, the two most interesting to Hong Kong being the C.B. conferred on Brigadier General Sir Samuel Wilson, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Colonies, and the G.C.M.G. conferred on Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movement.

Barons.

Sir Davison Dalziel, Conservative M.P. for Brixton Division, Lambeth from 1910 to 1928 and again from 1924, was created a baronet in 1919. He is Chairman of the Pullman Car Company and President of the Board of Directors and of the Managing Committee of the International Sleeping Car Co. He first introduced motor cabs in London.

Sir Gilbert Greenall, who succeeded to a first baronetcy, is President of the Royal Agricultural Society. He was appointed Sheriff of Cheshire in 1911.

Baronets.

Sir John Brickwood, F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S., created a knight in 1904, is Chairman and Managing Director of Brickwood & Co., Ltd., Brewers, Portsmouth. For three years he was Chairman of the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce and for four years Chairman of the National Trade Defence Association.

Sir Harry (William, Henry Neville) Goschen, K.B.E., is a Partner of Goschens and Cunliffe, a Director of the National Provincial and Union Bank of England, and a Director of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. He was Chairman of the London Clearing Banks in 1918 and Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths Co. from 1919 to 1920.

Sir Harry Benedetto Renwick, K.B.E., was Director of feeding stuffs to the Ministry of Food from 1917 to 1918 and a member of several Government committees during the war. Besides being Chairman and Managing Director of numerous electric supply companies, including several in London, he is the founder and first Chairman of the Provincial Electric Supply Committee of the United Kingdom, and organised the unification of the supply of London.

Lieut.-Commander Geoffrey Cecil Congreve is nominally attached to H.M.S. "Victory" but since November 1916 has been employed on the river Severn Survey duty. He was appointed Lt.-Comdr. in June, 1926.

Mr. Ernest Craig, Unionist M.P. for Crewe from 1912 to 1918 and since 1924. A mining engineer and coalowner, he has published books on his special subject.

Mr. Reginald James Neville, Conservative M.P. for Wigan, from 1910 to 1918 and for East Norfolk since 1924. The eldest son of a judge of the High Court of Calcutta, he took up law as a profession and was called to the Bar in 1887. He is a Director of the Gas Light and Coke Company.

C.B.

Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (1399).

Air Vice-Marshal Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, A.F.C, D.S.O., is the Air Officer commanding the Fighting Area of the Air Defences of Great Britain since 1926. He entered the Army in 1898 and joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1912. He served in the war with distinction, receiving a number of decorations, and was Commandant of the Royal Air Force Staff College from 1921 to 1926.

Brigadier General Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson, K.C.M.G., has been Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies since 1925. Joining the Royal Engineers in 1893 he had a distinguished Army career, and during the war saw much active service, being mentioned in despatches seven times and receiving several foreign decorations. During the war he also served as Principal Assistant Secretary to the Overseas Defence Committee, the Home Ports Defence Committee and the Imperial Communications Committee. After the war he was appointed Governor of Trinidad and Tobago and later Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of Jamaica.

G.C.M.G.

Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George.

Lieut.-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, created a baronet in 1922, famous the world over as the founder of the organisation of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides to promote good citizenship in the rising generation. Sir Robert has had a distinguished military career, having seen much service abroad, and he is the author of a number of books on scouting. He is the holder of numerous British and foreign decorations.

His Highness Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak. Educated in England, he joined his father in Sarawak to study the duties of Government. Sir Charles Brooke now rules over a population of 500,000 souls and a country of 40,000 square miles. He has led several expeditions into the far interior of the country to punish head hunters.

The Rt. Hon. Sir John Anthony Tilley, P.C., K.C.M.G., Ambassador to Tokyo since 1926. Entering the Foreign Office in 1893, Sir John Tilley has seen much service at Home and abroad. He has acted as British delegate to arms conferences in Europe and frontier conferences in Africa.

C.M.G.

Companion of St. Michael and St. George.

The Emir Abdullah of Trans-Jordania. Second son of King Hussein, he was appointed Emir in 1921. Transjordania consists of three districts and is under the same mandate as Palestine. The emirate has an Arab population of about 240,000.

C.V.O.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.

Sir Frank Dicksee, President of the Royal Academy since 1924. He is the painter of some of the most popular pictures of the generation, among them being "Harmony," "Romeo and Juliet," "The Passing of Arthur," "The Funeral of a Viking" and "The Two Crowns." He was knighted in 1925.

D.B.E.

Dames of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles, the only daughter of the King and Queen, married the eldest son of the Earl of Harewood in 1922 amid remarkable demonstrations of popular satisfaction.

Dame Nellie Melba, the famous soprano and operatic singer who takes her name from her native city of Melbourne. Dame Nellie Melba was made a D.B.E. in 1918 for her work on behalf of war charities. She appeared for the last time in opera on June 8, 1926 and held a farewell concert in the Albert Hall the same month.

Royal Air Force Crosses.

Messrs. Leete and Stack for flying in a light aeroplane from London to Delhi.

資料：

1. 中華民國16年6月3日（星期五）《德臣西報》第1頁、第12頁

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   • 公元1927年6月3日（星期五）