1891 Birthday Honours

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The 1891 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 29 May 1891 [1] and in The Times on 30 May 1891. [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

Baron

Privy Councillor

The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:

Baronetcies

Knight Bachelor

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 (KGCB)

Military Division

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
  • Maj.-Gen. Thomas Rose Nimmo, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Capt. Walter Stewart RN
  • Col. (temporary Maj.-Gen.) Henry le Guay Geary, Commanding Royal Artillery, Southern District.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. the Hon. George Patrick Hyde Villiers CMG Grenadier Guards.
  • Capt. Alan Brodrick Thomas RN
  • Capt. Henry Coey Kane RN
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. William Popham Dicken DSO Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Swinton John Browne, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Francis William Boileau, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Robert Cecil Richard Clifford, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. James Calder Stewart, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Francis William Collis, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Joseph Gabbett, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Thomas Fraser CMG Royal Engineers.
  • Col. James Alleyne, Assistant Adjutant-General, Aldershot.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. John Frederick Maurice, Professor, Staff College.
  • Col. Henry Richard Abadie, Regimental District.
  • Chief Inspector of Machinery John Harold Heffernan RN
  • Col. James Woodward Scott ADC Royal Marine Light Infantry.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Bindon Blood, Royal Engineers.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Arthur Godolphin Yeatman-Biggs, Royal Artillery.
  • Maj. and Brevet Col. Charles Holled Smith, the King's Royal Rifle Corps (Governor-General of the Red Sea Littoral and Commandant, Suakin).
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Richard Westmacott DSO Indian Staff Corps.
  • Col. Arthur Singleton Wynne, Assistant Adjutant General, Curragh.
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Frederick Meyer Wardrop, 12th Lancers.
  • Maj. and Col. John Hartley Sandwith, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Egypt.
  • Maj. and Col. Charles Coghlan Smyth, the Welsh Regiment.
  • Principal Veterinary Surgeon James Drummond Lambert, Veterinary Department.
  • Col. William Gustavus Nicholson, Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief in India.
  • Brigade Surgeon Robert Waters
  • Lt.-Col. Arthur James Poole.
  • Honorary Lt.-Col. Edmund Grey Skinner, Assistant Commissary General of Ordnance, Ordnance Store Department.
  • Lt.-Col. Wodehouse Dillon Richardson, Army Service Corps, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General, Egypt.
Civil Division
  • Lt.-Col. and Col. Robert Young Armstrong, Royal Engineers, Inspector of Submarine Defences.
  • Robert Giffen, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade.
  • Honorary Col. William Macdonnell, Chief Paymaster, Army Pay Department.
  • Frederic Lacey Robinson, Commissioner of Inland Revenue.
  • Guy Douglas Arthur Fleetwood Wilson, War Office.

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 Commander (KCSI)

Companion (CSI)

  • Col. George Herbert Trevor, Madras Staff Corps, Agent to the Governor-General in Rajputana.

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

  • Richard Southey CMG formerly Colonial Secretary of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Griqualand West.
  • John Forrest CMG Premier and Treasurer of the Colony of Western Australia.
  • George William Robert Campbell CMG oil retirement from the office of Inspector-General of Police and Prisons of the Island of Ceylon.

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

  • William Grey-Wilson, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of St. Helena.
  • Col. John Elliott CB Inspector-General of Police of the Island of Barbados.
  • Thomas Dickson Foote, late President of the General Legislative Council of the Leeward Islands and of the Legislative Council of Antigua.
  • Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast Colony.
  • George Chardin Denton, Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Lagos.
  • Lt.-Col. Alexander Chalmers McKean, for services in Zululand.
  • Lt.-Col. David Wilson, Commanding the Rifle Volunteers in Trinidad, and Sub-intendant of Crown Lands of that Colony.
  • Charles Shortt Dicken, Secretary to the Agent-General in London for the Colony of Queensland.
  • Charles James Ward, for services in connection with the Jamaica Exhibition.
  • George Stiebel, for services in connection with the Jamaica Exhibition.
Honorary Companion
  • Dato Sri Amar d'Raja Abdul Rahman, Secretary to His Highness the Sultan of Johore GCMG KCSI

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire

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Riband, badge and star of the Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

  • His Highness Mir Ali Murad Khan, Talpur of Khairpur.

Knight Commander (KCIE)

Companion (CIE)

  • Nawub Ahsun Ullah, of Dacca.
  • John Prescott Hewett, Bengal Civil Service.
  • Raj Kanti Chunder Mukarji Bahadur, Diwan of Jaipur.
  • Dr. William Schlich
  • Maharaja Mahendra Singh, of Bhadawar.
  • Capt. Francis Edward Younghusband, 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards.
  • Vincent Robinson.
  • Khan Bahadur Muncherji Kavasji Murzban.

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

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References

  1. ↑ "No. 26167". The London Gazette . 29 May 1891. pp. 2921–2923.
  2. ↑ "Birthday Honours". The Times . 30 May 1891. p. 9.
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