New Year Honours 1937
Lately Librarian to Royal Society. CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
• Lately Librarian to the Royal Society
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1937 with the Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) · 1937
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 79 times in the New Year Honours List 1937 — about 15% of the list.
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Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1937
— Llewellyn Vaughan Morgan
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Alice Helena Alexandra Williams
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Allan Ernest Messer
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Arthur Edward Hamp
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Arthur Nevil Rucker
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Brodie Haig
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Charles Calveley Foss
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Che Mohamed Sheriff bin Osman
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Clement Gillman
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Commissioned Boatswain Ernest Edwin Kay
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Commissioned Engineer Sydney Albert William Chisholm
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Commissioned Gunner Francis William Wheble
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Commissioned Signal Boatswain Robert Frederick Cubitt
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Compton Cardew Norman
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Cyril Wood-Hill
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Eccles Local Employment.Committee.
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Chairman
Edgar William Bertram Clayton-Smith
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Edward Ernest Fletcher
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Edward James Slater
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Egbert Thomas Rose
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Engineer Rear-Admiral Edward Leopold . Dyke Acland
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Engineer Stanley Herbert Sims
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Ernest Whone
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Ethel Bruce Sainsbury
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1937
Source & provenance
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 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 30 December 1936.
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