Minister's Statistical Branch OBE Thomas Wilson, Assistant, Prime Minister's Statistical Branch MBE Patrick Francis Kinna Sheila Allison Minto Defence Medal Marian Lumley-Holmes; Elizabeth Shakespear Layton; Frank Sawyers; Nina Edith Sturdee Political and Public Services List Viscount Gomer Kemsley, 1st Baron Kemsley, newspaper proprietor Frederick Penny, 1st Baron Marchwood, treasurer of the Conservative Party Baron Sir George Broadbridge, MP Sir William Davison, MP John Llewellin, MP Sir Charles Lyle, Bt, MP Privy Councillor Sir Cuthbert Headlam, Bt, MP Malcolm McCorquodale, MP Baronet Ralph Cokayne Assheton, "For public services in Lancashire over a period of fifty years" [He was the father of Ralph Assheton MP, Chairman of the Conservative Party] Harold Mitchell, MP, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party Walter Womersley, MP Arthur Young, MP, Knight Robert Cary, MP Alan Patrick Herbert, MP David Robertson, MP Brigadier-General Edward Riddell CMG DSO Basil Neven-Spence, MP Order of the Companions of Honour Rt Hon Leopold Stennett Amery, MP, Secretary of State for India and Burma Rt Hon Alfred Ernest Brown, MP References 1945 in British politics August 1945 events in Europe Prime Minister's Resignation Honours Winston Churchill 1945 awards