The New Year Honours 1926 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 29 December 1925.
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
Viscount
The Right Honourable Edgar, Baron D'Abernon, , His Majesty's Ambassador at Berlin since 1920. The Right Honourable Andrew Graham, Baron Dunedin, , a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Keeper of the Great Seal of the Principality of Scotland.
Baron
The Right Honourable Geoffrey Henry, Baron Oranmore and Browne, . The Right Honourable Sir Ernest Murray Pollock, , Master of the Rolls, Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire, Member of Parliament for Warwick and Leamington, 1910–1923.
Privy Councillor
Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Francis Stanley Jackson, , Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party since March 1923. Financial Secretary to the War Office, 1922. Member of Parliament for the Howdenshire Division of Yorkshire since 1915. Colonel George Richard Lane-Fox, , Parliamentary Secretary for Mines, Department of Board of Trade. Charity Commissioner 1921. Member of Parliament for the Barkston Ash Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire since 1906. Charles, Baron Bledisloe, , Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries since November 1924. Major the Honourable Joseph Gordon Coates, , Prime Minister of the Dominion of New Zealand. The Honourable Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell, , Attorney-General, Minister of External Affairs, and Leader of the Legislative Council, Dominion of New Zealand.
Baronet
William Waters Butler, . For valuable political and philanthropic services in Birmingham. Member of Council of Birmingham University. Sidney Hutchinson Byass, . For political, public and philanthropic services. President of the Mid-Glamorgan Conservative Association. High Sheriff of the County. Mayor of Aberavon for three consecutive years. Sir Clement Kinloch-Cooke, , Member of Parliament for Devonport, January 1910; for Devonport Division, December 1918, and November 1922, and for Cardiff East since 1924. Founded in 1905 the Central Emigration Board of which he is chairman, and has done yeoman work in connection with emigration. For political and public services. The Right Honourable Sir Henry Craik, , Member of Parliament for Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities, 1906, and for the Scottish Universities since December 1918. Secretary of the Scottish Education Department, 1885–1904. For political and public services. Herbert Gibson, President of the Law Society which celebrates its centenary this year. Sir Robert Jones, , President, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Edmund Russborough Turton, , Member of Parliament for Thirsk and Malton Division since February 1915. Chairman of the North Riding Quarter Sessions since 1898. Member of the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform 1916–17; the Royal Commission on London Government, 1921; and of the Royal Commission on Local Government, 1923.