Queen Elizabeth’s birthday list, released Friday, awards honors to several British Jews. Knighthood was bestowed upon Prof. Nikolaus B. L. Pevsner, art historian, for services to art; Dr. Ernst Boris Chain, biochemist, educator and Nobel Prize winner, who helped in the discovery of penicillin; and Julian Salmon, a director of the Lyons Catering Firm, for services to the catering industry. Harold Lever, member of Parliament and financial secretary to the treasury, second in rank to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, became a member of the Privy Council. Life peerage was given to Sir Sidney Bernstein, chairman of Granada Film and Television, a commercial network. Samuel Goldman, second secretary of the treasury, was made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, which, like Knighthood, carries the title of Sir.
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