1920 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours Explained

The 1920 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours were appointments by George V of New Zealanders to the Royal Victorian Order, to mark the visit of the Prince of Wales to New Zealand that year. The recipients were invested by the prince at a dinner aboard HMS Renown in Lyttelton Harbour on 21 March 1920.^[1]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander (KCVO)

• Major-General Sir Edward Walter Clerveaux Chaytor – Commandant, New Zealand Military Forces.
• Sir William Fraser – Minister of Mines

Member, fourth class (MVO)

• Gavin Macaulay Hamilton – secretary to the governor-general.
• James Hislop – under-secretary, Department of Internal Affairs.
• Richard William McVilly – general manager, New Zealand Railways.
• John O'Donovan – commissioner of police, Wellington.
• Captain Arthur Tahu Gravenor Rhodes – Grenadier Guards; military secretary to the governor-general.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Lewis Sleeman – Royal Sussex Regiment; director of military training, Wellington.

In 1984, Members of the Royal Victorian Order, fourth class, were redesignated as Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO).^[2]

Notes and References

1. News: Official dinner party . 22 March 1920 . The Press . 26 September 2018 . 9.
2. Web site: The Royal Victorian Order . Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood . 12 March 2024.