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Herbert Ernest Bates CBE (16 May 1905 – 29 January 1974) was a British writer, known for his gritty realistic short stories (he wrote more than 25 collections) and novels set in the early to mid 20th century of England mainly. He was from the countryside and adored flowers and gardening (writing two books on gardening), so much of his writing ...
Herbert Henry Swift, Chief Liaison Officer for National Savings, British Railways (South-Wales Area). Captain Edward John Syvret, Commodore Master, MV Port Auckland, Port Line Ltd. Arthur Henry Taylor, MBE, Principal Scientific Officer, Fuel Research Station, Department of Scientific & Industrial Research. Captain Charles William Taylor, DSC, RD.
Henry Peart Wood, CBE, Principal, Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow. Diplomatic Service and Overseas List. Donald Falshaw, lately Chief Justice of the High Court, Punjab, India. John Ortcheson, CBE, lately Senior Judge of the High Court of West Pakistan. State of New South Wales. Warwick Oswald Fairfax. For services to the community.
The 1948 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the Commonwealth Realms.The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the King, and were published in The London Gazette on 4 June.
Bates's Uncle Silas figure, and many of the lineaments of his character, were based on a real person named Joseph Betts, the husband of H. E. Bates's maternal grandmother's sister Mary Ann. Betts lived in a village in the Ouse Valley, was born in the early 1840s, and lived to the early 1930s.
The Right Honourable Sir Basil Stanlake Brooke, Bt, CBE, MC, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.; The Right Honourable Sir (Alfred) Duff Cooper, GCMG, DSO, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1934–1935; Secretary of State for War, 1935–1937; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1937–1938; Minister of Information, 1940–1941; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1941–1943; HM Ambassador to ...
The King's Birthday Honours 1945, celebrating the official birthday of King George VI, were announced on 14 June 1945 for the United Kingdom and British Empire. [1]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.
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