Professor Douglas A Gilchrist, Professor of Agriculture, Armstrong College; E R B Reynolds, President of the Students' Representative Council, Armstrong College; Dr D Drummond, President of Durham College of Medicine, and Professor R Howden, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Armstrong College; and Sir George Hadcock of Sir W G Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
George Colville, Secretary of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales; Sir James Martin, Advisor to the Council of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors; and N C Sen, Joint Secretary to the High Commissioner for India for Indian Students' Work