The Times/1917/News/Birthday Honours

The King has been pleased to make the following appointments :— ...

His Majesty has been pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon :—

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ALFRED FARTHING ROBBINS|ALFRED FARTHING ROBBINS,, F.J.I.

London correspondent of the Birmingham Daily Post since 1888, and equally well known in Fleet-street, the Lobby of the House of Commons, and at theatrical first nights, he was president of the Institute of Journalists in 1908, and has been chairman of its Orphan Fund since 1911. A prominent Freemason, he is president of the Board of General Purposes in the United Grand Lodge of England.

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