The Birthday Honours, announced on Monday, proved in the main
of a humdrum order. An earldom has been granted to Lord Kitchener—his third step in the peerage—and the Master of the Rolls (Sir H. Cozens-Hardy), Sir Edgar Vincent, General Brocklehurst, and Sir Leonard Lyell are made Barons, a selection which has the great merit, from the point of the Whips' room, that it does not involve a single by-election. Privy Councillorships are bestowed on Mr. Harold J. Tennant and Mr. Ellis Griffith, both members of the Ministry, Lord St. Davids, and Mr. Joseph Cook, the Prime Minister of the Australian Commonwealth. Amongst the eight new Baronets may be noted Sir Joseph Beecham, the patron of Russian Opera, and Sir John Benn, the leader of the Progressives in the London County Council ; while the outstanding names among the new Knights are those of Dr. J. G. Frazer, the author of The Golden Bough, Dr. George Henschel, the musical Admirable Crichton, and Dr. Rawson, the Antarctic explorer. Mr. Borden, the Prime Minister of Canada, receives the G.C.M.G., and Colonel Henderson's services in the sphere of military aeronautics are acknowledged by a K.C.B.
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