Evening star., 1938-01-01
NUFF|ELD IS MADE
V|SCOUNT BY KING
6 New Peers, 3 Privy Coun-
CiIors and 5 Baronets In
c|uded on George VI List.
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 1.-Baron Nufield,
60year-old silver-haired automobile
manufacturer. who has given away
S60,000.000 in the last 13 years, was
created viscount today at the top
Of King George Wis New Year honor
list.
The list, third Of the reign, included
6 new peers, 3 privy councillors.
baronets. SO knights bachelor and l
companion of honor The King also
made Oracle Fields. leading come
dienne of London's music halls. a
commander of the Order of the British
Empire.
Sir Robert G. Vansittart, permanent
undersecretary Of the foreign office
since 1880. was made Knight Grand
Cross Of the Order Of the Bath. At
the same time it was announced the
56-year-old diplomat had been pro-
noted to newly created post as chief
diplomatic adviser to the foreign Sec
retary.
Gen. Viscount Gort. who became
chief of the imperial general staff in
the recent war office shake-up. was
made knight commander of the
Bath.
Ford Head Made Baron.
Among the five new barons were
Sir Percival Perry, head of the Ford
Motor Co. in Great Britain and on
the Continent. and Field Marshal Sir
William Birdwood. former COM
mander-in- chief of the army in India
and Of the Australian and New Zea-
land army corps during the World
War.
Lord Horder. physician to the King,
was made a knight grand cross Of the
Royal Victorian Order.
Howell Gwynne. editor Of the Morn
ing Post until it was absorbed by the
Telegraph last year, was made a
companion of honor.
E. N. R. Trentham. financial adviser
to the British Embassy at Washing
ton. was named companion of the
Order of ST. Michael and ST. George
The Austrian official secretary in the
United States, David Mckenzie Dow.
was made an officer of the Order of
the British Empire. AS was Maj c. R.
Redgrave, a British resident of New
York.
Miss Charlotte Josephine King, a
clerk Of the British Consulate Cen
eral at Chicago, was made member
OF the Order Of the British Empire
Started In Bicycle Shop.
Lord Nuffield. who was plain Will
liam Richard Morris until 1929, when
he was made baronet, recently do
mated $6.500,0 to oxford University.
His previous gifts included $4,000 900
to oxford for medical college, s1O,-
100000 to the depressed areas and a
slO,000,000 fund to his employees.
The son of a poor oxford clerk,
Lord Nuffield started a bicycle shop
there when he was 16, graduated to
motor cycles and then to automobiles
in 1910. He was forced to abandon
his business during the World War,
during which he made minelayers
for the government on a salary basis
He started rebuilding his business
In 1920 and@he following year, when
prices were rising and business fall
ing, he took chance, cut prices of
his models drastically and practically
monopolized the market. He was
made baron in 1894.
There was one tragic note in the
honors list. A knighthood had been
conferred on Col. M. w. j. Bourchier.
agent-general for the State of Vic
toria in London. He was taken i'll.
however, and died before he could be
knighted. King George granted his
wife the title of Lady Bourchier, to
which she would have been entitled
had her husband survived.