1920 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours

The 1920 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours were appointments by George V of New Zealanders to the Royal Victorian Order, to mark the visit of the Prince of Wales to New Zealand that year. The recipients were invested by the prince at a dinner aboard HMS Renown in Lyttelton Harbour on 21 March 1920.^[1][2]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander (KCVO)

• Major-General Sir Edward Walter Clerveaux Chaytor KCMG CB – Commandant, New Zealand Military Forces.
• Sir William Fraser – Minister of Mines

• 
  Sir Edward Chaytor
• 
  Sir William Fraser

Member, fourth class (MVO)

• Gavin Macaulay Hamilton – secretary to the governor-general.
• James Hislop OBE – under-secretary, Department of Internal Affairs.
• Richard William McVilly – general manager, New Zealand Railways.
• John O'Donovan – commissioner of police, Wellington.
• Captain Arthur Tahu Gravenor Rhodes – Grenadier Guards; military secretary to the governor-general.
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Lewis Sleeman CBE – Royal Sussex Regiment; director of military training, Wellington.

In 1984, Members of the Royal Victorian Order, fourth class, were redesignated as Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO).^[3]

• 
  Gavin Hamilton
• 
  James Hislop
• 
  Richard McVilly
• 
  John O'Donovan
• 
  Tahu Rhodes
• 
  James Sleeman

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