Honours Noticing no date was given to his becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society I have added a section on honours he received mostly degrees and freedoms which may be of interest given his mixed reputation and that he refused knighthood cited to Kelly s Handbook and the Dictionary of National Biography 1931 1940 Surprising may be that he was made in 1939 an honorary Air Commodore in the Auxiliary Air Force I have left the awards undated where I found no date given in my sources