Honors
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil Division) (1949)
- Justice of the Peace
- Membre d‘Honneur of École française d'Extrême-Orient
- Commander of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon
- Buddha Sasana Vepulla Hitadhara from the Supreme Council of Buddhist Monks, Burma
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