1912 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1912 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were announced on 29 December 1911.

Knight Grand Cross (GCB)

 * Military Division
 * General Count Maresuke Nogi, Imperial Japanese Army. (Honorary)

Knight Commander (KCB)

 * Civil Division
 * Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas, K.C.M.G., C.B.

Companion (CB)

 * Civil Division
 * Major John Grey Baldwin.
 * Edmund Kerchever Chambers, Esq.
 * Henry Ernest Fitzwilliam Comyn, Esq.
 * Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten.
 * William Francis Marwood, Esq.
 * Charles Henry Lawrence Neish, Esq.
 * Arthur Newsholme, Esq., M.D.
 * Andrew Muter John Ogilvie, Esq.
 * James Duncan Stuart Sim, Esq.
 * Alfred Walter Soward, Esq.
 * William Gibbs Turpin, Esq.
 * Archibald Edwards Widdows, Esq.

Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)

 * Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

Knight Commander (KCMG)

 * Sir Edward Albert Stone, Knight, Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Western Australia.
 * His Honour Colonel John Morison Gibson, K.C., LL.D., Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario.
 * Joseph Pope, Esq., C.V.O., C.M.G., I.S.O., Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, Dominion of Canada.
 * George Vandeleur Fiddes, Esq., C.B., C.M.G., Assistant Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
 * George Townsend Fenwick, Esq., C.M.G., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
 * The Honourable Thomas Watt, C.M.G., Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa.
 * His Highness Suleiman bin Almerhum Raja Musa, C.M.G., Sultan of Selangor. (Honorary)
 * Rear-Admiral the Honourable Alexander Edward Bethell, C.M.G., Director of Naval Intelligence.

Companion (CMG)

 * Thomas Cooper Boville, Esq., Deputy Minister of Finance of the Dominion of Canada.
 * John Frank Brown, Esq., Member of the Provincial Council and of the Executive Committee of the Transvaal Province, Union of South Africa.
 * Horace Archer Byatt, Esq., Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for the Somaliland Protectorate.
 * Douglas Graham Campbell, Esq., General Adviser to the Government of Johore.
 * Harry John Charles Diddams, Esq., Mayor of the City of Brisbane.
 * William Francis Joseph Fitzpatrick, Esq., Chairman of Railway Commissioners for Victoria.
 * The Honourable Alexander Hean, Minister of Lands and Works of the State of Tasmania, and recently Acting Premier, of that State.
 * Edbert Ansgar Hewett, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony of Hong Kong.
 * Major Richard Abercrombie Irvine, Provincial Commissioner, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast.
 * Thomas Orr, Esq., Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa.
 * Lieutenant-Colonel David Prain, C.I.E., F.R.S., Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
 * Daniel Woodley Prowse, Esq., K.C., LL.D., Author of "A History of Newfoundland".
 * Colonel Alfred William Robin, C.B., Adjutant-General to the New Zealand Military Forces.
 * Tan Jiak Kim, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements.
 * Maurice Edward Wingfield, Esq., recently Acting Colonial Secretary of the Colony of the Gambia.
 * Salim bin Khalfan, Liwali of Mombasa. (Honorary)
 * Milne Cheetham, Esq., Councillor of Embassy in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service attached to His Majesty's Agency and Consulate-General at Cairo.
 * James Frederick Roberts, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Barcelona.
 * Donald Andreas Cameron, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Alexandria.
 * Henry Fountain, Esq., Principal Clerk in the Board of Trade.
 * James McIver MacLeod, Esq., His Majesty's Consul at Fez.

Knight Commander (KCVO)

 * The Hon. Sidney Robert Greville, C.V.O., C.B.
 * The Hon. Arthur Henry John Walsh, C.V.O.

Member, 4th Class

 * Bertram Mackennal, Esq., A.R.A.