HC Deb 08 December 1947 vol 445 c786

1. Sir Frederick John Burrows, G.C.I.E., Governor of Bengal, 1946–47. Former member of the Hereford War Agricultural Executive Committee. Past President of the National Union of Railwaymen. Previously, member of the Agricultural and Smallholdings Committee of the Herefordshire County Council, and of the Wye Catchment Board.

2. Sir Cadwaladr Bryner Jones, C.B., C.B.E. Previously Welsh Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, and liaison officer of the Minister in Wales. At present, chairman of the Montgomery War Agricultural Executive Committee.

3. The hon. Geoffrey J. Bourke, F.R.I.C.S., F.L.A.S., President of the Land Agents' Society; honorary secretary of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; senior partner in Smiths Cars & Company, agents for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England (Northern Division).

4. Mr. E. Watson Jones. At present member of the Shropshire War Agricultural Executive Committee, and chairman of the Cultivations Committee since 1939. Was a member of the Agricultural Goodwill Mission to America in 1943. Farms 2,400 acres in Shropshire and Staffordshire.

5. Sir Francis Verner Wylie, K.G.S.I., C.I.E. Governor of the United Provinces, India, 1945–47. Governor of Central Provinces and Berar, 1938–40, and Minister to Afghanistan, 1941–43.