Knighthoods have been conferred in the King’s Birthday Honours List on Dr. Robert Mond, the famous Egyptologist, elder brother of the late Lord Melchett, and on Mr. Leonard Benjamin Franklin, who is a brother-in-law of Sir Herbert Samuel, and father-in-law of Colonel Kisch, former member of the Zionist Executive.
Dr. Robert Mond has become famous for his archeological researches, especially at Armant, in Upper Egypt, and for his keen furtherance of other scientific pursuits. He is President of the Faraday Society and of the Egypt Exploration Society. Last month the Astronomer Royal formally opened the new Photographic Equatorial and Dome given by Dr. Mond to the Norman Lockyer Observatory, Sidmouth.
Dr. Mond has given many important gifts to various institutions, among them a million francs to the Institute of Chemistry in Paris, and a million francs to the British Institute in Paris.
Mr. Leonard B. Franklin, who has been member of Parliament for Central Hackney, is an active Jewish communal worker.
Sir Philip Sassoon, the Under-Secretary for Air, is promoted Honorary Air Commodore.
Several Jews have been awarded the Order of the British Empire, including Mr. Arthur Benjamin Hart, Assistant Engineer-in-chief to the Post Office, and Mr. Altamont Ernestda Costa, the Custos of Jamaica, and an active Jewish communal worker there. Mr. da Costa who was appointed in 1928, is a former Mayor of Kingston, and has been identified for nearly 25 years with public and Jewish life in Jamaica.
The Kaisar-I-Hind Medal has been awareed to Miss Helen Marion Franklin, of the Lady Reading Hospital in Simla, India, and the C. M. G. on Mr. H. C. Stiebel, Provincial Commissioner of Tanganyika.
Major Alan Saunders, the Deputy Police Commandant of Palestine, who was in command during the 1929 massacres and as one of the chief witnesses before the Shaw Commission, has been awarded the O.B.E., and Lieut.-Colonel Sir George Symes, former Chief Secretary to the Palestine Government, and now Resident of Aden, where fighting has occurred recently between Jews and Arabs, has received the K.C.M.G. Sir George has been promoted this week Governor of Tanganyika.
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