The Birthday Honours were announced on Friday morning. Seven new
peerages are created, all Barons,—Mr. Richard Knight Canton, Sir Walter Foster, Sir Hudson Kearley, Sir Weetman Pearson, Sir William Henry Holland, Sir Christopher Furness, and Mr. Freeman-Thomas. There are five new Privy Councillors—Lord Sheffield, Sir George Murray, Sir William Mather, Mr. Munro-Ferguson, and Mr. James Caldwell—all excellent appointments. Among the new Baronets, who number eleven, we may mention Mr. Alfred Mond, Mr. Courtenay Warner, Mr. Harold Harms- worth, and Mr. Carl Meyer. Mr. Harold Harmsworth, we note, is described as largely interested in Liberal newspapers, including the Leeds Mercury and the Glasgow Daily Record. The list of Knights is a long one. The most interesting appointments are Mr. Quiller-Couch, Dr. Henry Downes, Colonel Fox, Mr. Alfred East, A.R.A., and Mr. Alfred Hopkinson. Sir Ian Hamilton and Sir Charles' Hardinge become G.C.B.'s.
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