The King's Birthday Honours 1934 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King. They were published on 4 June 1934.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
United Kingdom and Colonies
Viscount Charles Cheers, Baron Wakefield, , Honorary Colonel, 2nd City of London Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers). For public services, especially to Civil Aviation.
Baron The Right Honourable Robert, Lord Alness, , lately Lord Justice Clerk and President of the Second Division, Court of Session. Sir Hugo Hirst, , Chairman and Managing Director, General Electric Company Ltd. For public services. Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, President of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations 1924-26. Member of Parliament for Brighton, 1889-1905. For political and public services. Brigadier-General George Charles, Earl of Lucan, , Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, January–June 1929, and since 1931. Conservative Whip in the House of Lords 1920-31, and Government Chief Whip since 1931.
Knights of the Thistle Archibald Alexander, Earl of Leven & Melville. Colonel Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel, .
Privy Councillor Robert Anthony Eden, , Lord Privy Seal since January 1934. Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs 1931-33. Member of Parliament for Warwick & Leamington since 1923.
Baronet Sir Julien Cahn. For services to agriculture and to a number of charitable causes. Herbert Brent Grotrian, . For public services. Major John Charles Harford, . For political and public services in Cardiganshire. Sir David McCowan, , President of the Glasgow Unionist Association. For political and public services in Scotland. Sir John Priestman, . For services to many social organisations in Durham.
Knight Bachelor Major Robert George Archibald, , Royal Army Medical Corps (Retd.), Director, Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Sudan. Alderman John Aspell, , Chairman of the Highways Committee, Lancashire County Council. (George Harold Arthur) Comyns Berkeley, , Consulting Obstetric Surgeon, Middlesex Hospital. Director of the London County Council Radium Centre, Hampstead. Lieutenant-Colonel George Reginald Blake, . For political and public services in Wiltshire. Samuel Brighouse, His Majesty's Coroner for South-West Lancashire. Edmund Ralph Cook, , Secretary to the Law Society. Commander Charles Worthington Craven, , Royal Navy (Retd.), Managing Director, Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. Major Albert James Edmondson, , Member of Parliament for Banbury since 1922. For political and public services. Alfred William Flux, , Honorary Vice-President (past President) of the Royal Statistical Society. Captain William Jocelyn Ian Fraser, , Chairman of the Executive Council of St. Dunstan's. For services on behalf of the blind. Alderman Thomas Edward Higham, . For political and public services in Accrington. Jesse William Hind. For public services in Nottinghamshire. John Edward Lloyd, , Emeritus Professor of History at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. (George) Ian MacAlister, Secretary to the Royal Institute of British Architects. Ronald Wilfred Matthews, . For political and public services in Sheffield. Ralph Millbourn. For political and public services. Walter Hamilton Moberly, , Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester. Alderman Robert Pattinson, , Member of Parliament for Grantham 1922-23. For political and public services in Lincolnshire. Francis Henry Pepper, . For political and public services in Birmingham. Colonel John Archibald Roxburgh, , President of the Boys' Brigade 1919-33. Frederick William Pascoe Rutter, Chairman of the London & Lancashire Insurance Co., Ltd. Ex-President of the Insurance Institute. Andrew Scott. For twenty-eight years Secretary to Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Grafton Elliot Smith, , Professor of Anatomy in the University of London (University College). Robert Workman Smith, , Member of Parliament for Central Aberdeenshire & Kincardineshire since October 1924. For political and public services. Waldron Smithers, , Member of Parliament for Chislehurst since 1924. For political and public services. John Wilson Taylor, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Pilgrims Association. Hugh Robert Topping, General Director of the Conservative and Unionist Central Office since 1928. For political services. Walter James Womersley, , a Lord Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury since 1931. Member of Parliament for Grimsby since 1924.
Dominions Robert Albert Anderson, . For public services to shipping, education and banking in the Dominion of New Zealand. The Honourable David Gilbert Ferguson, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court, State of New South Wales; Chairman of the Federal Royal Commission on Taxation, Commonwealth of Australia. Robert Wilson Knox, Chairman of the Australian National Committee, International Chamber of Commerce, Commonwealth of Australia. Charles Edward Saunders, , lately Dominion Cerealist, Dominion of Canada; discoverer of Marquis, Ruby, Reward and Garnet Wheat. Councillor Harold Gengoult Smith, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, State of Victoria. John Christian Ramsay Sturrock, , Resident Commissioner, Basutoland. George Henry Wilson. For philanthropic services in the Dominion of New Zealand.
India Jwala Prasad Srivastava, Minister to the Governor of the United Provinces for Education. Mr. Justice Gilbert Hollinshead Blomfield Jackson, Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras. Miles Irving, , Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Punjab. Major-General James Drummond Graham, , Indian Medical Service (Retd.), late Public Health Commissioner with the Government of India. Maurice William Brayshay, Agent, Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railway, Bombay. Rai Bahadur Satya Charan Mukherjee , Zamindar, Bengal. John Arnold Cherry, , Chairman of the Port Commissioners, Rangoon, Burma. Albert Howard, , lately Agricultural Adviser to the States in Central India and Rajputana. William Owen Wright, , Director, Messrs. Parry & Co. Ltd., Madras. Khan Bahadur Mahbubmiyan Imambaksh Kadri, , Retired District Judge, Bombay. Rai Bahadur Upendra Nath Brahmachari, Medical Practitioner, Bengal. Khan Bahadur Dosabhai Hormasji Bhiwandiwalla, Landlord, Bombay. Maulvi Saiyid Liaqat Ali, Minister in Attendance on His Highness the Nawab of Bhopal, Central India. Sohrabji Nusserwanji Pochkhanawala, Managing Director of the Central Bank of India Ltd., Bombay.
Colonies, Protectorates, &c. Captain Maxwell Hendry Maxwell-Anderson, , Royal Navy (Retd.), Chief Justice, Fiji. Crawford Douglas Douglas-Jones, , Colonial Secretary, British Guiana. Brigadier-General Godfrey Dean Rhodes, , Royal Engineers (Retd.), General Manager, Railways & Harbours, Kenya & Uganda. Arnold Percy Robinson, Unofficial Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Straits Settlements. For public services. Salisbury Stanley Spurling, , Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Bermuda. For public services.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division General Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd, , Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Aide-de-Camp General to The King, Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Lionel George Preston, . Vice-Admiral Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, . Engineer Vice-Admiral Harold Arthur Brown, .
Army Lieutenant-General Bertram Richard Kirwan, , Retd. pay, Colonel Commandant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, late Master-General of the Ordnance, India. Lieutenant-General William Henry Bartholomew, , (late Royal Artillery), Chief of the General Staff, India. Lieutenant-General George Alexander Weir, , Colonel, 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards), General Officer Commanding, The British Troops in Egypt. Lieutenant-General Antony Ernest Wentworth Harman, , Retd. pay, Colonel, The Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), late General Officer Commanding, 1st Division.
Civil Division Brigadier-General Richard Beale Colvin, , President, Territorial Army Association of the County of Essex. John Jeffrey, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. Sir John Loader Maffey, , Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Noel Frank Laurence, . Rear-Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, . Rear-Admiral Max Kennedy Horton, . Colonel William Henry Lainson Tripp, , Royal Marines.
Army Major-General Patrick Hagart Henderson, , (late Royal Army Medical Corps), Honorary Physician to The King, Director of Hygiene, The War Office. Major-General Baptist Barton Crozier, , (late Royal Artillery), Half-pay, General Officer Commanding, designate, 43rd (Wessex) Division, Territorial Army, Southern Command. Major-General Octavius Henry Lothian Nicholson, , (late The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)), Colonel, 1st/4th Bombay Grenadiers, Indian Army, Half-pay, General Officer Commanding, designate, Deccan District, Southern Command, India. Major-General Walter Pitts Hendy Hill, , (late The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)), Colonel, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Major-General in charge of Administration, Southern Command. Major-General Llewellyn Isaac Gethin Morgan-Owen, , Colonel, The South Wales Borderers, Major-General in charge of Administration, Eastern Command. Major-General Andrew Jameson McCulloch, , (late 14th King's Hussars), General Officer Commanding, 52nd (Lowland) Division, Territorial Army, Scottish Command. Major-General Percy Ryan Conway Commings, , (late The South Staffordshire Regiment), Half-pay, General Officer Commanding, designate, 56th (1st London) Division, Territorial Army, London District. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Frederick Gordon Spring, , (late The Lincolnshire Regiment), Commander, Poona (Independent) Brigade Area, Southern Command, India. Major-General Ernest Alexander Walker, , Indian Medical Service, Honorary Surgeon to The King, Director of Medical Services, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Betham Wilkins Shuttleworth, Indian Army, Commander, Ferozepore Brigade Area, Northern Command, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier) Lionel Peter Collins, , Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp to The King, Commandant, Indian Military Academy, India.
Civil Division Rear-Admiral Wilbraham Tennyson Randle Ford. Surgeon Rear-Admiral Percival Thomas Nicholls, . Colonel Percy Reginald Owen Abel Simner, , Territorial Army. Honorary Colonel Francis Killigrew Seymour Metford, , (Lieutenant-Colonel, Retd., Territorial Army), Chairman, Territorial Army Association of the County of Gloucester. Alfred Richard Ainsworth, Principal Assistant Secretary, Board of Education. William Barrowclough Brown, , Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. Crawfurd Wilfrid Griffin Eady, , Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Labour. Wing Commander Eric John Hodsoll, Royal Air Force, Assistant Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence. Reginald Edward Stradling, , Director of Building & Road Research, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ralph Verney, , Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills and Taxing Officer, House of Commons. Acting Secretary to the Speaker.
Additional Companion Major the Honourable Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, , Equerry and Assistant Private Secretary to His Majesty The King since 1920.
Order of the Star of India