1877 Birthday Honours

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The 1877 Birthday Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the Queen, and were published in The London Gazette on 30 May and 2 June 1877. [1] [2]

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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.

United Kingdom and British Empire

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
Royal Navy
Army

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

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Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

Knight Commander (KCSI)

  • Joseph Dalton Hooker CB Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew
  • Thomas Lawrence Seccombe CB Financial Secretary to the Secretary of State for India in Council

Companion (CSI)

  • Colonel George Cliffe Hatch, Bengal Staff Corps Judge Advocate-General, Bengal Army
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William George Davies, Bengal Staff Corps, Commissioner, Delhi

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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Star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

  • J. Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan, Governor of the Falkland Islands
  • William Robinson, Governor of the Bahama Islands
  • Hudson Ralph Janisch, Governor of the Island of Saint Helena
  • George Dundas, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Saint Vincent
  • George William Des Vœux, Administrator of the Government of the Island of Saint Lucia
  • Frederick Palgrave Barlee, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of British Honduras
  • Joseph Trutch, lately Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia
  • Cyril Clerke Graham, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Grenada
  • John Douglas, First Minister of the Colony of Queensland
  • Edwin Donald Baynes, Colonial Secretary for the Leeward Islands
  • John Scott Bushe, Colonial Secretary for the Island of Trinidad
  • William Alexander George Young, Government Secretary for the Colony of British Guiana
  • Gustave Barthélémy Colin, lately Procureur and Advocate-General of the Island of Mauritius
  • Frederick Napier Broome, Colonial Secretary for the Colony of Natal
  • Alexander Wilson Moir, President of the Island of Saint Christopher
  • John d'Auvergne Dumaresq, Colonial Secretary for the Gold Coast Colony
  • George Vane, Treasurer of the Island of Ceylon
  • Thomas Russell, formerly Defence Minister of the Colony of New Zealand
  • James Henry Keens, formerly President of the Privy Council of the Island of Tobago
  • John Smith, President of the Council of Education for the Colony of New South Wales
  • Alexander Murray, Director of the Geological Survey of the Island of Newfoundland
  • Sandford Fleming, Royal Engineers, Engineer-in-Chief of the Canadian Pacific Railway
  • John Palliser, lately in Command of an Expedition sent by the Government of Canada to the Rocky Mountains
  • Major Donald R. Cameron RA lately Chief Officer of the British Boundary Commission, Canada
  • Captain Samuel Anderson, Royal Engineers, lately Chief Astronomer of the British Boundary Commission, Canada
  • Captain George Arthur French RA formerly Commissioner of the North-West Police, Canada
  • Donald Currie
  • Captain Louis Frederick Knollys, late of Her Majesty's 32nd Regiment of Foot, lately Commanding Armed Constabulary in the Colony of Fiji
  • Arthur J. L. Gordon, Private Secretary to the Governor of the Colony of Fiji
  • Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright, Governor of the Colony of British Guiana
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Grossman, R.E., lately Her Majesty's Commissioner of Enquiry into the Financial Affairs of the Province of Griqua Land West
  • Henry Lushington Phillips, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Natal, and lately Acting Chief Justice for the Island of Barbados
  • Colonel Antonio Mattel, R.M.F.A., for many years Lieutenant-Colonel in Command of the Royal Malta Fencible Artillery

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References

  1. "No. 24464". The London Gazette . 30 May 1877. pp. 3442–3443.
  2. "No. 24467". The London Gazette . 2 June 1877. pp. 3497–3498.