Birthday Honours 1937
Edmund Vivian Gabriel GCVO
Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
Recognised in the Birthday Honours 1937 with the Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.
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Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) · 1937
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The Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order was awarded 105 times in the Birthday Honours List 1937 — about 9% of the list.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in the Birthday Honours 1937
Alexander West Russell
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“for Tynemouth since Novem- ber, 1922.”
Archibald Campbell Black
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
“For political and public services in Glasgow.”
Archibald Richard James Southby
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
“for the Epsom division since 1928.”
Armigel de Vins Wade
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Arthur Edwin Horn
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Arthur Frederick Hurst
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Arthur Giver
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Best & Co.
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Brigadier-General Alexander Gore Arkwright
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Charles Ewan Law
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Charles George Matheson
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Charles Granville Gibson
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
“for Pudsey and Otley since 1929.”
Charles John Boyd Norwood
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
“For public services in the Dominion of New Zealand.”
Charles Sydney Jones
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
“For public services.”
Claude George
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Clement Edmund Royds Brocklebank
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
“for the Fairfield division of Liverpool since 1931 and for East Nottingham 1924 to 1929.”
Comptroller of His Majesty's Household
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
David Milne-Watson
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
David Rowland Evans
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
“For political and public services.”
Director of Survey of English Place Names.
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Diwan Bahadur Subbarayalu Kumaraswami Reddiyar Avargal
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
“for Education and Public Health to the Governor of Madras, Madras.”
Edward Hearle Cole
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Ernest Davis
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
Ernest James Johnson
PersonDame Grand Cross Of The Royal Victorian Order · 1937
“For political and public services in Staffordshire.”
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Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order · 1937
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1937 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1937.
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