1929 Dissolution Honours Explained

The 1929 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 28 June 1929 at the advice of the outgoing Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin.

Earldom

• Rt Hon William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel, GBE

Viscountcy

• Rt Hon Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt, MP

Baronies

• Rt Hon Sir Hamar Greenwood, Bt, KC, for political and public services.
• Sir George Lawson Johnston, KBE, JP, for philanthropic and public services.
• Sir Gilbert Wills, Bt, OBE, JP, for public and political services.
• Major Robert Yerburgh, for political and public services.

Privy Council

• Douglas Hewitt Hacking, OBE, MP
• Captain Rt Hon Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, CBE, VD, RNVR, for political and public services.
• Commodore Henry Douglas King, CB, CBE, DSO, VD, RNVR, MP.
• Sir Francis William Lowe, Bt.
• Rt Hon Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth
• Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt, GBE, CMG, MP
• Roundell Palmer, Viscount Wolmer, MP

Baronets

• Albert James Bennett, JP, MP, for political and public services.
• Henry Bucknall Betterton, CBE, MP
• Sir Alfred Butt, MP, for political and public services.
• Sir Patrick Ford, MP, for political and public services in Scotland.
• Geoffrey Storrs Fry, CB, CVO, for services to the former Prime Minister since 1923.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Philip Richardson, OBE, VD, MP, for political and public services.

Knighthoods

• Captain George Edward Wentworth Bowyer, MC, MP
• George Thomas Broadbridge, for political and public services.
• Julien Cahn, for philanthropic and public services.
• Major Philip Arthur Sambrooke Crawley, JP, for political and public services.
• James Malcolm Monteith Erskine, JP, for political and public services.
• Sydney Herbert Evershed, JP, for political and public services in the Borough of Burton-on-Trent.
• Frederick George Penny, MP
• Colonel Edwin King Perkins, CBE, VD, for political and public services.
• Ernest Whittome Shepperson, JP, MP, for political and public services.
• Alderman Frederick Smith, JP, for political and public services.
• John James Withers, CBE, MA, MP, for political and public services.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Companion (CB)

• Philip Tonstall Farrer, Private Secretary to the Marquess of Salisbury, late Leader of the House of Lords.

Order of the British Empire

Knight Grand Cross (GBE)

• Sir Harold Bowden, Bt, for philanthropic and public services.
• Rt Hon Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, KBE, MC, MP.
• Commander the Rt Hon Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, RN (Retired), MP

Commander (CBE)

• The Rev Richard James Basil Patterson-Morgan, for political and public services in Northwich.

Officer (OBE)

• Maggie Mitchell, for political and public services.

Member (MBE)

• Miss Eileen Cecilia Feiling
• George Newburn, for political and public services.