New Year Honours 1938
John Auld Mactaggart
• For political and public services
“For political and public services.”
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- New Year Honours 1938
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- For political and public services
“For political and public services.”
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How common is this award?
The was awarded 27 times in the New Year Honours List 1938 — about 4% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
For political and public services.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the same honour in the New Year Honours 1938
Charles Norman Paul
Person1938
“For public and philanthropic services in the Commonwealth of Australia.”
Charles Robert Bignold
Person1938
“For political and public services in Norwich.”
David Davies
Person1938
“For political and public services in St.”
Deputy President of University College of South West
Person1938
“For public services.”
Derrick Wellesley Gunston
Person1938
“for the Thorn- bury division of Gloucestershire since 1924.”
Duncan Randolph Wilson
Person1938
Ernest Hadfield
Person1938
Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender
Person1938
“For services relating to the institution of the Museum.”
George Dalziel Kelly
Person1938
“for public services.”
Henry Isaac Close Brown
Person1938
“For public services in Jamaica.”
Ivor Broadbent Thomas
Person1938
John Childs Ganzoni
Person1938
“for Ipswich, 1914 to 1923 and since 1924.”
John Smedley Crooke
Person1938
“for the Deritend division of Birmingham, 1922-29 and since 1931.”
Joseph William Leech
Person1938
“for Newcastle-upon-Tyne West division, since 1931.”
Joshua Paterson Ross-Taylor
Person1938
“For services to Scottish Agriculture.”
Lambert Wilfred Alexander De Soysa
Person1938
“For public services in Ceylon.”
Leonard Campbell Brassey
Person1938
“for Northamptonshire, Northern division, 1910-18, and for the Peterborough division 1918-29.”
Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry
Person1938
“For political and public services.”
Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds
Person1938
“For political and public services in Surrey.”
Philip Carlebach
Person1938
“For services to the Cadet move- ment.”
Robert James Johnstone
Person1938
“For services to public health in Northern Ireland.”
Sidney Law
Person1938
“For political and public services in Stourbridge, Worcester- shire.”
William Albert Jenkins
Person1938
“for Brecon and Radnor, 1922-24.”
William Henry Rowland
Person1938
“For political and public services in Southampton.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
· 1938
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1938 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1937.
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