New Year Honours 1938
Mary Katherine Howard Price-Hughes CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1938 with the Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) · 1938
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The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 50 times in the New Year Honours List 1938 — about 8% 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 Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1938
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PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Archibald Aloysius Rankin
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
“For social welfare and municipal services in the City of Newcastle, State of New South Wales.”
Arthur Claude Moore
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Arthur Edward Jefferys Nicolls
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Arthur Lonsdale Hetherington
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Bernard Winthrop Swithinbank
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Cecil Charles Hudson Moriarty
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Chau Tsun-Nin
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Clara Fyfe
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
“For political and public services.”
Douglas Newbold
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Elgin Nathaniel George Poulton
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
“for Internal Affairs, Dominion of New Zealand.”
Ernest Charles Snow
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Frank Dudley Evans
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Frank Hubert McNamara
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
George Kruger Gray
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Gertrude Mary Dean
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
“For political and public services in Blackburn.”
Grace Selinger
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
Harriet Pearl Alice Cohen
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
“For services to music, and the promotion of interest in British music abroad.”
Herbert Charles Ransom
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
“for the Colonies.”
Herbert John Gordon Griffin
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
“for the Preservation of Rural England.”
Ibrahim Pasha Hashem
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
James Mahood
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
James Percy Chatterton Coast
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
John Alexander King
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1938
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 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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