The New Year honours list was headed by Sir James
Barrie, who was appointed to the Order of Merit. Four new barons were created—Sir James Buchanan, Sir Robert Nivison, Mr. Joseph Watson, a director of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, and Mr. Francis Willey, of Bradford. Among the seventeen new baronets we may mention Mr. Hugh Reid, of Glasgow; Mr. D. R. Llewellyn, the colliery proprietor; Mr. R. P. Houston, M.P., and Mr. Charles Hyde, the proprietor of the Birmingham Post. No fewer than a hundred and twelve persons received knighthood. Most of them are local politicians, but a few are known in other spheres, such as Professor Herdman, Mr. J. J. Shannon, Mr. Gerald du Maurier and Mr. Charles Hawtrey, Mr. It a Witt and Mr. Radcliffe, the proprietor of the Liverpool Courier. In the Order of the British Empire Mr. Evelyn Cecil and Professor Sherrington were made Knights
Grand Cross, and Miss Ethel Smyth was made a Dame Com- mander. Sir Henry Jones, Sir Henry Newbolt and Mr. Havelock Wilson were appointed Companions of Honour.
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