1925 Birthday Honours
The 1925 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published in The London Gazette on 3 June 1925. 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 British Empire Viscount Marcus Samuel, Baron Bearsted Privy Councillor The King appointed the following to His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: Colonel William Graham Nicholson Member of Parliament for the Petersfield Division since 1897. Chairman of the Selection Committee of the House of Commons and of the Chairman's Panel Baronetcies Lieutenant-Colonel George Loyd Courthope Member of Parliament for the Rye Division of Sussex since 1906. For political and public services. Sir John Ritchie Findlay Chairman of the Board of Trustees, for the National Gallery in Scotland. Former Master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh. Chairman of Sick Children's Hospital, Edinburgh. For political and public services in Scotland. Hugo Hirst, Chairman of General Electric Company Limited. Member of Board of Trade Advisory Council Lieutenant-Colonel James Lithgow President of the National Confederation of Employers Organisations. British-Employers Delegate at the International Labour Conference at Geneva 1922-25 Major Sir David Hughes-Morgan High Sheriff of Breconshire 1898–99. Has been several times Mayor of Tenby. For political and public services in Wales. Sir John Bland-Sutton President of the Royal College of Surgeons Wilfrid Forbes Home Thomson, For political and public services in Yorkshire. Major Granville Charles Hastings Wheler Member of Parliament for Faversham Division since 1910. For political and public services. Knight Bachelor Major-General Llewellyn William Atcherley H.M. Inspector of Constabulary Major Richard Whieldon Barnett Member of Parliament for West St. Pancras, October 1916–18, and for S.W. St. Pancras since 1918. For political and public services. James Berry Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital. Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Chief authority on goitre in this country. Herbert Edwin Blain Principal Agent of the Conservative and Unionist Party since 1924. Late Assistant Managing Director of the London Underground Railways and the London General Omnibus Company Group For political and public services. William James Miller Burton. For public, services in connection with the new site and building of Lloyds. Managing Director of the City of London Real Property Co. Ltd. John Byford For political and public services in West Ham. Former Mayor of West Ham Harry Edward Dixey Chairman and Honorary Secretary of the Bewdley and West Worcestershire Unionist Association for 25 years. For political and public services. David William Evans, Director and Legal Adviser of the Welsh National Memorial Association. For public services. in Wales Alderman John William Forrest Member of Blackburn Town Council since 1913. Alderman 1921. Leader of the Council since 1916. Chairman of the Finance Committee and of the