# 1912 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1912 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were announced on 29 December 1911.

## Order of the Bath
### Knight Grand Cross (GCB)
#### Military Division

* General Count Maresuke Nogi, Imperial Japanese Army. (Honorary)

### Knight Commander (KCB)
#### Civil Division

* Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas, K.C.M.G., C.B.

### Companion (CB)
#### Civil Division

* Major John Grey Baldwin.
* Edmund Kerchever Chambers, Esq.
* Henry Ernest Fitzwilliam Comyn, Esq.
* Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten.
* William Francis Marwood, Esq.
* Charles Henry Lawrence Neish, Esq.
* Arthur Newsholme, Esq., M.D.
* Andrew Muter John Ogilvie, Esq.
* James Duncan Stuart Sim, Esq.
* Alfred Walter Soward, Esq.
* William Gibbs Turpin, Esq.
* Archibald Edwards Widdows, Esq.

## Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
### Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)

* Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

### Knight Commander (KCMG)

* Sir Edward Albert Stone, Knight, Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Western Australia.
* His Honour Colonel John Morison Gibson, K.C., LL.D., Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
* Joseph Pope, Esq., C.V.O., C.M.G., I.S.O., Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, Dominion of Canada.
* George Vandeleur Fiddes, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., Assistant Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
* George Townsend Fenwick, Esq., C.M.G., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
* The Honourable Thomas Watt, C.M.G., Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa.
* His Highness Suleiman bin Almerhum Raja Musa, C.M.G., Sultan of Selangor. (Honorary)
* Rear-Admiral the Honourable Alexander Edward Bethell, C.M.G., Director of Naval Intelligence.

### Companion (CMG)

* Thomas Cooper Boville, Esq., Deputy Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada.
* John Frank Brown, Esq., Member of the Provincial Council and of the Executive Committee of the Transvaal Province, Union of South Africa.
* Horace Archer Byatt, Esq., Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for the Somaliland Protectorate.
* Douglas Graham Campbell, Esq., General Adviser to the Government of Johore.
* Harry John Charles Diddams, Esq., Mayor of the City of Brisbane.
* William Francis Joseph Fitzpatrick, Esq., Chairman of Railway Commissioners for Victoria.
* The Honourable Alexander Hean, Minister of Lands and Works of the State of Tasmania, and recently Acting Premier, of that State.
* Edbert Ansgar Hewett, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony of Hong Kong.
* Major Richard Abercrombie Irvine, Provincial Commissioner, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast.
* Thomas Orr, Esq., Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa.
* Lieutenant-Colonel David Prain, C.I.E., F.R.S., Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
* Daniel Woodley Prowse, Esq., K.C., LL.D., Author of "A History of Newfoundland".
* Colonel Alfred William Robin, C.B., Adjutant-General to the New Zealand Military Forces.
* Tan Jiak Kim, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements.
* Maurice Edward Wingfield, Esq., recently Acting Colonial Secretary of the Colony of the Gambia.
* Salim bin Khalfan, Liwali of Mombasa. (Honorary)
* Milne Cheetham, Esq., Councillor of Embassy in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service attached to His Majesty's Agency and Consulate-General at Cairo.
* James Frederick Roberts, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Barcelona.
* Donald Andreas Cameron, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Alexandria.
* Henry Fountain, Esq., Principal Clerk in the Board of Trade.
* James McIver MacLeod, Esq., His Majesty's Consul at Fez.

## Royal Victorian Order
### Knight Commander (KCVO)

* The Hon. Sidney Robert Greville, C.V.O., C.B.
* The Hon. Arthur Henry John Walsh, C.V.O.

### Member, 4th Class

* Bertram Mackennal, Esq., A.R.A.