The names of a number of well-known Scots find a place in the Birthday Honours. At the head of them stands Sir John Lorne MacLeod, who is made a Knight of the Grand Cross_ of the British Empire Order. He was Lord Pro-vast of Edinburgh during the war, had a particularly successful form of office, and is now acting as Food Commissioner for Scotland.
xander Walker, of John Walker Sons, Kilmarnock, who receives a Knight Conmandership, held al posts in the Ministry of Munitions and later was concerned with demobilization and reconstruction.
The baronets include Peter Jeffrey Mackie, chairman of the distillery which produces the White Horse and other notable blends of whisky. He financed the Mackie s Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa, and presented some valuable pedigree cattle to Rhodesia. John Anderson, managing director of P. & W. Anderson, Glasgow, who during the war placed his whole staff and plant at the disposal of the Government, and organized many important ' national—undertakings. John Henderson Stewart of Fingask Castle, Perthshire, of
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