The New Year Honours 1921 were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 31 December 1920.

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

British Empire

Baron Sir William Beardmore, ., chairman and managing director of William Beardmore & Co., Ltd.; Chairman of the Industrial Welfare Society. For public services. Sir Ernest Cable, Ex-President of Bengal Chamber of Commerce; Ex-Sheriff of Calcutta. Prominently identified with development of India. Mathew Lewis Vaughan-Davies, , Member of Parliament for Cardiganshire for 26 years. The Right Honourable Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, , Lord Mayor of London 1918–19. For public services. Colonel James Alexander Francis Humberston Stewart-Mackenzie of Seaforth, late 9th Lancers, , Vice-Lieutenant for Ross and Cromarty, and Chairman of the Territorial Force since its inception; Honorary Colonel, 1/4th Seaforth Highlanders.

Privy Councillor William Lehman Ashmead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts, , Member of Parliament for Westminster since 1885.

Ireland Edward Mervyn Archdale, , Member of Parliament for North Fermanagh. Alderman Sir Andrew Beattie, , Ex-High Sheriff of Dublin City, Commissioner of National Education, Ireland. The Reverend Thomas Hamilton, . For long and successful service to the cause of education in Ireland. First as President of Queens College, Belfast, subsequently as president and Vice-Chancellor of the Queens University of Belfast. Andrew Jameson, Ex-Governor, Bank of Ireland, Chairman of Irish Lights Commission.

Baronet Sir Archibald Birkmyre, , late Member of the Viceroy of India's Legislative Council and the Bengal Legislative Council; Vice President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce. For public services. Albert Edward Bowen, President of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Ex-High Sheriff of Bedfordshire. For public services on many Government War Committees. Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, . For war services. Commander August Bernard Tellefsen Cayzer, Chairman of the Clan Line of steamers. For public and national services. Rear-Admiral Sir Walter Cowan, . For war services. Reginald Henry Cox, , Senior Partner in Messrs. Cox & Co., Bankers and Agents to the British Army for over a century and a half, JP and Deputy-Lieutenant for Berkshire and Ex-High-Sheriff of that county. For public services. James Hamet Dunn. For public services rendered to the Government during the War. Colonel Sir William Thomas Dupree, , for several years Mayor of Portsmouth. For municipal and local services. Frederick Eley, General Manager and a Director of the National Provincial and Union Bank of England Ltd. For public services. Sven Wohlford Hansen, Chairman of Hansen Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Co. Ltd., which revived the shipbuilding industry in Bideford (after 50 years lapse). For public and local services. Colonel Sir Joseph Hewitt. For notable services rendered in the Coal Controllers Department. Sir Samuel Hill Hill-Wood, , Member of Parliament for High Peak Division, Derbyshire. For local services. Rowland Frederick William Hodge, Founder of Northumberland Shipbuilding Company; Chairman of Eltringhams Ltd. For public services, particularly in connection with shipbuilding. George Harry Holcroft, . For notable services in Birmingham, particularly in connection with the university. Trehawke Herbert Kekewich, , Chairman of Devon Quarter Sessions, Recorder of Tiverton for over 20 years. For national services. Donald Macmaster, , Member of Parliament for Chertsey Division, Surrey, since 1910. Frederick Mills, , Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Monmouth; Chairman of the Ebbw Vale Steel & Iron Company and of the Ebbw Vale Industrial Council. For public and local services. Bernard Oppenheimer. For work in connection with the inauguration of diamond polishing for discharged and disabled soldiers. Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, , Founder of the Boy Scout Movement. Henry Samman, Honorary Elder Brother, Trinity House, Hull; Chairman of the Shipping Section of the Hull Chamber of Commerce. For public services. Colonel Charles Edward Yate, , Member of Parliament for Melton Division. For public services.

Knight Bachelor Ivor Algernon Atkins, , Organist of Worcester Cathedral. Conductor of the Three Choirs Festival. Reginald Blair, , Member of Parliament for Bow and Bromley. For public services. Thomas Jewell Bennett, , Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks Division. For many years Editor of The Times of India. For public services. Richard Dawson Bates, . For public and local services. James Bell, Jr., Member of Shipping Committee of the Hull Chamber of Commerce and of Humber Conservancy Board. For public and local services. Samuel Barrow, , Member of Trade Committee dealing with trade reconstruction after the war. For public and local services in Surrey. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Baldwin Barton, , Mayor of Finsbury since 1911. For public and local services. Wilfred Denham, Author and Writer. John Daniel, Member of the Cardiff City Council and Education Committees; President of the Cardiff Cymmrodorion and Chairman of the Glamorganshire Branch of the National Union of Welsh Societies. For public and local services. William Davies, Editor of the Western Mail, Cardiff. Andrew Rae Duncan, Coal Controller since October 1919. Henry Foreman, , Member of Parliament for North Hammersmith; for many years Mayor of Hammersmith. For municipal and local services. John Charles Fox, Senior Master of the Supreme Court, Chancery Division. Captain Francis John Childs Ganzoni, , Member of Parliament for Ipswich. For public services. Charles Frederick Gill, , Recorder of Chichester. Councillor William Hopwood, . For public and local services in Lancashire. John Martin-Harvey, Actor. William Hodgson. For public services in Crewe. Alexander McAusland Kennedy, , President of the Shipbuilding Employers Federation of Great Britain; served on several Government advisory committees during the War. For public and local services. Harry Vernon Kilvert, . For public and local services in Cheshire. Professor Peter Redford Scott Lang. For over 40 years Professor of Mathematics in St. Andrew's University. For public services. Richard Roope Linthorne, Town Clerk of Southampton for 22 years. For public and local services. John Mitchell, Provost of Ayr during the whole of the war. For municipal and local services. William Edgar Nicholls, , Director of Barclay's Bank. For public services. Ernest Fitzjohn Oldham, Deputy Chairman of the Federation of British Industries. For public services. Thomas David Owen. For public and local services in Merseyside, and for services in connection with the University College of North Wales. Major William Reid, , Chairman of Board of Management of Royal Glasgow Asylum for the Blind. For public and local services. Charles Ryall, , Senior Surgeon to the Cancer Hospital and to the Bolingbroke Hospital. For public services. John Ross, , Treasurer of the Carnegie University (Scotland) Trust, Chairman of Carnegie (UK) Trust and Hero Fund. For public services. Thomas Rowbotham, Mayor of Stockport 1916–18. For public and local services. His Honour Judge Walworth Howland Roberts, County Court Judge of Marylebone. William Peter Rylands, President of the Federation of British Industries. Edwin Savill, Chartered surveyor Harold Smith, , Member of Parliament for Warrington. Samuel Squire Sprigge, , Editor of The Lancet. Edwin Forsyth Stockton, Governor of Manchester University. For local and public services. Alderman William Wade, , Lord Mayor of Bradford, 1919–20; Member of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce. For public and local services. Professor James Walker, Professor of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh. Captain Lionel de Lautour Wells, , Royal Navy, late Chief Officer Metropolitan Fire Brigade. For public services. Dawson Williams, , Editor of the British Medical Journal. Richard John Williams. Mayor of Bangor, 1913–20. For public and local services. Arthur Worley, , General Manager of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company. For public services.

Ireland Edward Coey Bigger, , Chairman of Public Health Council and Medical Member of Local Government Board, Ireland. Henry Campbell, Town Clerk of Dublin for many years. Robert Meyer, Town Clerk of Belfast. Ernest Godwin Swifte, , Chief Metropolitan Police Magistrate in Dublin for many years.

India George Herman Collier, , Director-General of Stores, India Office. Thomas Walker Arnold, , lately Educational Adviser for Indian Students to the Secretary of State. Mr. Justice Brod Bahadur Shadi Lal, Barrister-at-Law, Chief Justice, High Court, Punjab. Surendra Nath Banerjea, Elected Member of the Viceroy's Legislative Council. Gokaldas Kahandas Parekh, Pleader, Bombay. Montagu de Pomeroy Webb, , Merchant, Karachi, Bombay. Alexander Robertson Murray, , Senior Partner, Messrs. Thomas Duff & Company, Calcutta, President, Chamber of Commerce. Khan Bahadur Mirza Abdul Husain Sahib, Sheriff of Madras. Marakjee Byramjee Dadabhoy, , Barrister-at-Law, Nagpur, Central Provinces. Thomas Smith, , Manager, Muir Mails Company, Cawnpore, United Provinces. Rai Bahadur Hari Ram Goenka, , Merchant and Landholder, Bengal.

Dominions, Crown Colonies, Protectorates, etc. The Honourable Theophilus Cooper, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Frederick Dutton, Honorary Treasurer, Royal Colonial Institute. Henry Cowper Gollan, , Attorney-General of the Island of Ceylon. Alexander Jarvie Hood, , of Sydney, Senior Honorary Physician at the Prince of Wales (Military) Hospital, Randwick, State of New South Wales. George Hunter, Member of the House of Representatives, Dominion of New Zealand. Has rendered valuable assistance in connection with the settlement of returned soldiers. The Honourable Edward Lucas, Agent-General in London for the State of South Australia. The Honourable John Emanuel Mackey, , Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Victoria. Pietro James Michelli, , Secretary to the London School of Tropical Medicine. Ernest Oppenheimer, Honorary Secretary to the South African War Memorial Fund. Took a leading part in recruiting, both of combatants and labourers, for various fronts during the War. Michel Angelo Refalo, , the Chief Justice and President of His Majesty's Court of Appeal for the Island of Malta. Newton John Stabb, , Chief Manager of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hong Kong. For services on behalf of British trade and interests in the Far East. Henry Strakosch. For financial services to the Union of South Africa in connection with the War.

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral Louis Alexander Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, . Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, . Admiral Sir John Michael de Robeck, .

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Laurence Eliot Bower .

Army Major-General (Honorary Lieutenant-General) Michael Frederic Rimington, (Colonel, 6th Dragoons), Retired Pay. Major-General Robert Porter, , Retired Pay. Major-General Layton John Blenkinsop, , Director General, Army Veterinary Service, War Office. Major-General Sir Vere Bonamy Fane, .

Civil Division Vincent Wilberforce Baddeley, . Brigadier-General William Thomas Francis Horwood, , Commissioner of Metropolitan Police.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Maurice Swynfen Fitzmaurice, . Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Thomas Creswell Jones, , Royal Marines Light Infantry.

Army