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5 unusual facts about CMG


Alan Woodruff

Alan Waller Woodruff CMG OBE (27 June 1916 - 12 Oct. 1992) was a British medical doctor, an expert on tropical diseases.

Campbell West-Watson

Campbell West-Watson, CMG, was successively an Anglican suffragan bishop, diocesan bishop and archbishop over a 40 year period during the first half of the 20th century.

George Douglas Robb

Sir George Douglas Robb, CMG (1899–1974) was a New Zealand surgeon, medical reformer, writer, and university chancellor.

Gunasena de Soyza

Gunasena de Soyza CMG OBE (20 December 1902 – 12 October 1961) was High Commissioner for Ceylon in Britain from 1960 until his death.

Worshipful Company of Security Professionals

The first meeting with 62 founder members took place on 27 March 2000, with Sir Neil Macfarlane being elected Founder Master and with Sir David Brewer, CMG, LL, and Deputy Philip Willoughby as Sponsors.


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1904 Birthday Honours

John Pickersgill Rodger, Esq., CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast Colony.

Anthony O'Grady Lefroy

Anthony O'Grady Lefroy CMG (14 March 1816–21 January 1897), often known as O'Grady Lefroy, was an important government official in Western Australia before the advent of responsible government.

Arthur Blackburn

Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn VC, CMG, CBE, ED (25 November 1892 – 24 November 1960) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Christopher Ingham

Ingham was appointed as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 2002 in a special Honours list for individuals involved in the early stages of the War in Afghanistan.

Dayendranath Burrenchobay

Sir Dayendranath Burrenchobay KBE, CMG, CVO, GCSK, (Born as सर डयेन्द्रनथ बुर्रेन्चोबय 24 March 1919 – 29 March 1999) was born in Plaine Magnien, Mauritius and served as Governor-General of Mauritius.

Desmond Crawley

Desmond John Chetwode Crawley, CMG CVO (2 June 1917 – 26 April 1993) was a British diplomat, who served as administrator under the Raj to Commonwealth diplomat, from the Asian sub-continent to West Africa, and, finally, from behind the Iron Curtain to the Vatican.

Edmond Townsend

Surgeon-General Sir Edmond Townsend, KCB, CB, CMG, RAMC; MA, MD, MCh Degrees from Queen's University of Ireland.

Edward Mortimer

Edward Mortimer CMG (born 22 December 1943 in Burford, Oxfordshire) was until January 2007 the Director of Communications in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General.

Eustace Gibbs, 3rd Baron Wraxall

Eustace Hubert Beilby Gibbs, 3rd Baron Wraxall, KCVO CMG, (born 3 July 1929) succeeded his brother, George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall as Baron Wraxall on 19 July 2001.

Faris Glubb

Born in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine as Godfrey Peter Manley Glubb, he was the son of the noted British officer Sir John Bagot Glubb KCB CMG DSO OBE MC, who, as the chief military advisor to the Jordanian military, became known as Glubb Pasha, and his wife, Muriel Rosemary Forbes.

Francis Billy Hilly

Already Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), Hilly was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2012 Birthday Honours.

H. G. de Lisser

He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1920 New Year Honours.

Harold Fairburn

Harold Fairburn, CMG, KPM, (1884-1973) was the Inspector General of the Straits Settlements Police in Singapore from 1925 to 1935.

Helen Wallace

--Professionally known as Helen Wallace, not Lady Wallace, and thus the prefix is correctly added--> DBE, CMG, FBA (born 25 June 1946), née Rushworth, is a British expert in European Studies and, by marriage to William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, a peeress.

Henry Wray

Lieutenant-General Henry Wray CMG (1 January 1826 – 6 April 1900) was a Royal Engineers officer who arrived in Fremantle on 12 December 1851 and was responsible for carrying out the construction plans for Fremantle Prison for Edmund Henderson.

Idris Shah II of Perak

Sultan Idris Iskandar Shah II, CMG (12 August 1924 – 31 January 1984) was the Sultan of the Malaysian state of Perak from 1963 until his death in 1984.

James David Bevan

He was appointed CMG in 2006 and knighted KCMG in 2012.

James Wyndham John Hughes-Hallett

James Wyndham John Hughes-Hallett, CMG, SBS (born 10 September 1949) is a British businessman and investor.

John Adrian Chamier

Air Commodore Sir John Adrian Chamier CB, CMG, DSO, OBE (26 December 1883 - 3 May 1974) is known as "The Founding Father of the ATC" for his role in the foundation of the Air Training Corps.

John Archibald Ballard

The Ballards were in Scotland for the birth of both their next two children: Brigadier General Colin Robert Ballard CB CMG on 22 July 1868 in Cockpen, Midlothian; and Joanna E, on 8 January 1870 in Portobello, Midlothian.

John Archibald Venn

John Archibald Venn CMG FSA JP (10 November 1883 – 15 March 1958), son of John Venn, was a British economist, President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1932 until his death, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University 1941–43, university archivist, and author, alongside his father, of Alumni Cantabrigienses.

John Carey Hall

John Carey Hall, CMG, ISO, (1844–1921) was a leading British diplomat who served in Japan in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.

John McKinna

Brigadier John Gilbert McKinna CMG, CBE, DSO, LVO, ED (11 December 1906 - 28 January 2000) was a senior officer in the Australian Army during World War II.

John Mulvaney

John Mulvaney AO CMG (born 26 October 1925) is an Australian archaeologist and known as the "father of Australian Archaeology".

Kenneth Wheare

He was appointed CMG in 1953 and was knighted in 1966.

Lanckoroński Foundation

Lanckoroński Foundation is Zygmunt Jan Ansgary Tyszkiewicz (CMG) of Cambridge, England.

Leeds Student

The editorship became a full-time, paid sabbatical position in 1972 after a campaign led by the then editor, Paul Vallely CMG, who went on to become the first sabbatical editor.

Mac Holten

Rendle McNeilage "Mac" Holten CMG (29 March 1922 – 12 October 1996) was a leading Australian rules footballer, Australian politician and government minister.

Mariot Leslie

She was appointed Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2005 New Year Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) in the 2012 Birthday Honours.

Maurice Wilder-Neligan

Lieutenant Colonel Maurice Wilder-Neligan CMG, DSO & Bar, DCM (20 April 1886–10 January 1923), born Maurice Neligan, was a British-born Australian soldier.

Munir Butt

Munir Udit Zadu Nehru Butt, CMG (born 1940) is a former senior British diplomat and academic who was an economic and foreign policy advisor to various British Prime-Ministers.

Oleg Gordievsky

Gordievsky was appointed Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for "services to the security of the United Kingdom" in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours (in the Diplomatic List).

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

For his service he was offered a CMG by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in the new year's honours list of 1946, which declined.

Paul Buysse

Paul Henri Maria, Baron Buysse, CMG, CBE (born 17 March 1945, in Antwerp) is a Belgian businessman.

Philip Strong

Sir Philip Nigel Warrington Strong KBE CMG CStJ (1899–6 July 1983) served as the fifth Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane from 1962 to 1970, also serving as primate of the Church of England in Australia (now called the Anglican Church of Australia) from 1966.

Robert Hannigan

Robert Peter Hannigan CMG (born 1965) is a senior British civil servant currently serving as the Director-General of Defence and Intelligence at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Samuel Manuwa

Samuel Layinka Ayodeji Manuwa, KT, CMG, OBE (1903–1976) was a pioneering Nigerian surgeon, Inspector General of Medical Services and former Chief Medical Adviser to the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Sandy Gall

He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the people of Afghanistan.

Henderson Alexander "Sandy" Gall, CMG, CBE (born 1 October 1927), is a Scottish journalist, author, and former ITN news presenter whose career as a journalist has spanned more than 50 years.

Tim Hitchens

Timothy Mark Hitchens, CMG, LVO (born 1962) is a British diplomat and a former Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, 1999-2002.

Hitchens was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2012 New Year Honours.

Truby

Truby King CMG (1858–1938), generally known as Truby King, was a New Zealand health reformer and Director of Child Welfare

Walter D. Scott

Sir Walter D. Scott, AC, CMG founded Australia's first management consultancy firm, WD Scott and was active in its leadership until his death in 1981.


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