Earl

• The Right Honourable David Lloyd George, OM MP

Viscount

• The Right Honourable Wyndham Raymond, Baron Portal, DSO MVO – Minister of Works, 1942–1944.

Baron

• Sir Arthur Grey Hazlerigg, Bt – His Majesty's Lieutenant of the County of Leicester. For public services.

Baronet

• Major Thomas Lionel Dugdale, JP DL MP – Member of Parliament for the Richmond division of Yorkshire since May 1929. Chairman of the Conservative Party Organization, March 1942 to October 1944. For political and public services.
• Sir Charles Bruce-Gardner – lately Controller of Labour Allocation and Supply, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Chief Executive for Reconversion, Board of Trade.
• Sir Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, KCVO CBE DSO TD MB ChB – President of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Privy Counsellors

• Miss Florence Horsbrugh, CBE MP, Member of Parliament for Dundee since 1931. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health, since 1939.
• Miss Ellen Cicely Wilkinson, MP, Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough East 1929–1931, and for Jarrow since 1935. Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Home Security, since 1940.

Knight Bachelor

• Leslie Patrick Abercrombie, MA FRIBA – Professor of Town Planning in the University of London.
• Edward Battersby Bailey, MC DSc FRS – Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Frederick William Bain, MC – chairman, Chemical Control Board, Ministry of Supply.
• Captain Ernest Arthur Bridges – lately Commodore Master, Royal Mail Line Fleet, Royal Mail Lines Ltd.
• Peter Boswell Brown, MInstCE MInstMM JP – chairman and managing director, Hadfields Ltd.
• James Chadwick, MSc PhD DSc FRS – Professor of Physics in the University of Liverpool. For services to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Lawrence Andrew Common, DSO – Director, Ship Management Division, Ministry of War Transport.
• Philip D'Ambrumenil – deputy chairman, War Risks Insurance Office.
• Charles Frederick Deslandes – Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise.
• Roy Hardy Dobson, CBE – Managing Director, A.V. Roe and Company Ltd.
• Commander Aylmer Newton George Firebrace, CBE RN (Retired) – Chief of the Fire Staff and Inspector-in-Chief of the Fire Services, Home Office.
• Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, CBE DEng MSc MIEE MIMechE – Director, Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company, Manchester. For services to education.
• Claude Howard Stanley Frankau, CBE DSO MS MB FRCS LRCP – Director, Emergency Medical Services, London and Home Counties.
• Edward Hardy – Chairman of Kent County Council.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Pelham Heneage, DSO JP DL MP – Member of Parliament for Louth since 1924. For political and public services.
• Roger Gaskell Hetherington, CB OBE MInstCE – Adviser on Water and Director of Water Surveys, Ministry of Health.
• William Percival Hildred, CB OBE – Director-General of Civil Aviation, Air Ministry.
• Mark Hodgson, OBE JP – General Secretary, United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders.
• Joseph Stanley Holmes – MP Member of Parliament for North-East Derbyshire, 1918–1922, and for Harwich since November 1935. For political and public services.
• Alfred Bakewell Howitt, CVO MD MP – Member of Parliament for Reading since October 1931. For political and public services.
• Robert Dixon Kingham, CBE – Secretary, National Savings Committee.
• Robert Fisher Lancaster, Secretary and Executive Officer of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd.
• Allan Campbell Macdiarmid – chairman and managing director, Stewarts & Lloyds, Ltd.
• Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander, JP MP – Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton East since May 1929. For political and public services.
• Ellis Hovell Minns, LittD FBA – Emeritus Professor of Archaeology and President of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.
• Arthur Evan Morgan – General Manager and Director, The London Assurance.
• John Morison – Director General of Finance, Ministry of Supply.
• James Frederick Rees, MA – Principal of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Gibb Scorgie, CVO CBE – Controller, H.M. Stationery Office.
• Arthur Frederick Sidgreaves, OBE – Managing Director, Rolls-Royce Ltd.
• Frederick James Simmons, JP – Mayor of Londonderry.
• Alderman Bracewell Smith, MP – Sheriff of the City of London.
• David Wadsworth Smith, FCIS JP – Director, Halifax Building Society.
• William Samuel Stephenson, MC DFC – employed in a Department of the Foreign Office.
• Reginald Edward Stradling, CB MC DSc PhD MInstCE FRS – Chief Adviser, Research and Experiments Department; Ministry of Home Security.
• Herbert Alker Tripp, CBE – Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Gilbert John Acland Troyte, CMG DSO JP MP – Member of Parliament for Tiverton since 1924. For political and public services.
• Alderman William Walker, MIEE MIMechE JP – For services to Municipal Electricity Supply.
• Angus Watson, JP – Divisional Food Officer, Northern Division, Ministry of Food.
• Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby, CVO MC MD BCh FRCP MRCS DPH – (Brigadier, Territorial Army, Reserve of Officers), lately Bacteriologist at the Middlesex Hospital. For services in the development of the sulphonamide group of drugs.
• Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker, LLD ScD FRS – Professor of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh. Lately President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Dominions

• Digby Vere Burnett – Resident Director and General Manager of the London and Rhodesia Mining and Land Company, Limited, and Chairman of the Cold Storage Commission, Southern Rhodesia.
• Colonel Arthur Murray Cudmore, CMG MB BS FRCS – President of the Medical Board of the State of South Australia. For public services.
• Thomas Sydney Nettlefold, OBE – Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne, State of Victoria.

India

• The Honourable Mr. Justice Harsidhbhai Vajubhai Divatia – Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay.
• The Honourable Mr. Justice James Joseph Whittlesea Allsop – Indian Civil Service, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, United Provinces.
• The Honourable Mr. Justice Syed Najim Ali – Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal.
• Robert William Target, CIE – Director-General, Supply and Disposals, Department of Supply, Government of India.
• Eric Thomas Coates, CSI CIE – Indian Civil Service, Financial Adviser, Military Finance, Government of India.
• Bomanji Jamshedji Wadia – Barrister-at-Law, Vice-Chancellor, University of Bombay.
• Diwan Bahadur Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliyar, LLD DSc MD – Vice-Chancellor, University of Madras.
• Charles William Blyth Normand, CIE DSc – Officer on Special Duty, India Meteorological Department, and lately Director-General of Observatories, Government of India.
• Claude Cavendish Inglis, CIE BAI MInstCE – Indian Service of Engineers (retired), Director, Indian Waterways Experiment Station, Poona.
• Khan Bahadur Malik Muhammad Amin Khan, CBE – Landlord, Shamsabad, Attock District, Punjab.
• James McHame Doak – Managing Director and Partner, Messrs. A. & F. Harvey, Madura, Madras.
• Jehangir Jivaji Ghandy, CIE – Agent, Tata Iron & Steel Company, Limited.
• Shrinivas Prasonna Rajagopalachari – Home Minister and vice-president of the Executive Council of Gwalior State.

Colonies, Protectorates, etc.

• Henry William Butler Blackall – Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice, Trinidad.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart Gore-Browne, DSO – For public services in Northern Rhodesia.
• Walter Harrangin – Colonial Legal Service, Chief Justice of the Gold Coast.
• Colonel Percy John Parsons, CBE ED – For public services in Ceylon.

Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle (KT)

• Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Bt GCB DSO – First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath