The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George,Prince of Wales,while he was acting as prince regent for his father,King George III. It is named in honour of two military saints,Michael and George.
Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith,was a British Army officer who served as Governor of Queensland,Australia. He married Lady May Cambridge,a niece of Queen Mary,consort of King George V.
Sir Peter Richard Caruana,is a Gibraltarian former politician who served as Chief Minister of Gibraltar from 1996 to 2011 and Leader of the Gibraltar Social Democrats (GSD) from 1991 to 2013. He is the longest serving Chief Minister to date.
Sir Ronald Hibbert Cross,1st Baronet,was a British politician and diplomat. He served as Governor of Tasmania 1951-58.
Sir Everard Ferdinand im Thurn was an author,explorer,botanist,photographer and British colonial administrator. He was Governor of Fiji in the years 1904–1910.
Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy Gurney was a British colonial administrator who served in various posts throughout the British Empire. Gurney was killed by communist insurgents during the Malayan Emergency,while serving as high commissioner in the Federation of Malaya.
Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas was a British colonial administrator most notable for his role as Governor of the Straits Settlements in Singapore.
Sir John Baines Johnston was a British diplomat. He is best known for being Britain's High Commissioner to Rhodesia when that colony made its Unilateral Declaration of Independence in November 1965.
Sir John Fearns Nicoll was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1952 to 1955.
Sir Laurence Nunns Guillemard was a British civil servant who served as high commissioner in Malaya when it was under the British Empire.
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Henry Gervase Fulton,is a retired British Royal Marines officer who served as Governor of Gibraltar from 2006 to 2009.
Patrick Richard Henry Wright,Baron Wright of Richmond,was a British diplomat who served as Head of HM Diplomatic Service.
Vice Admiral Sir Adrian James Johns,is a former senior officer in the Royal Navy,serving as Second Sea Lord between 2005 and 2008. He was the Governor of Gibraltar between 2009 and 2013.
Major General Sir Rohan Delacombe,was a senior British Army officer. After he retired from the army,he was the last British-born Governor of Victoria,Australia from 1963 to 1974.
Sir William Allmond Codrington Goode was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1957 to 1959,and Governor of North Borneo from 1960 to 1963.
Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott was a British colonial administrator who was in turn governor of the British Seychelles,British Honduras,British Leeward Islands and British Fiji.
Sir Mark Justin Lyall Grant is a former senior British diplomat who was previously the United Kingdom's National Security Adviser and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations.
Vice Admiral Sir David George Steel,is a retired senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord between 2012 and 2015. He served as Governor of Gibraltar from 2020 to 2024.
The 1904 Birthday Honours were announced on 9 November 1904,to celebrate the birthday of King Edward VII that day. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and the British Empire.
Sir Rodney Errey Lawrence Williams,is the current and 4th Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
