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.
Field Marshal Michael John Dawson Walker,Baron Walker of Aldringham,is a retired British Army officer. Commissioned in 1966,he served in Cyprus,Northern Ireland,and in a variety of staff posts in the United Kingdom until 1984. After being given command of a battalion,he was mentioned in despatches for his service during a second tour of duty in Northern Ireland,this time in Derry,and subsequently served a tour on Gibraltar. He was promoted to brigadier,unusually having never held the rank of colonel,and took command of 20th Armoured Brigade in Germany before becoming I Corps chief of staff.
Sir Ronald Hibbert Cross,1st Baronet,was a British politician and diplomat. He served as Governor of Tasmania 1951-58.
Sir Denys Tudor Emil Roberts was a British colonial official and judge. Joining the colonial civil service as a Crown Counsel in Nyasaland in 1953,he became Attorney General of Gibraltar in 1960. In 1962,he was posted to Hong Kong as Solicitor-General,and was successively promoted to Attorney-General in 1966,Colonial Secretary/Chief Secretary in 1973 and Chief Justice in 1979. He was the first and only Attorney-General to become both Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong. Never having been a judge before,he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1979 and was the first and only Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong to receive such appointment.
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 until 2009.
Patrick Richard Henry Wright,Baron Wright of Richmond,was a British diplomat who served as Head of HM Diplomatic Service.
Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier was an Australian judge and academic administrator. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia between 28 February 1924 and 28 February 1967,Chief Justice of South Australia from 25 February 1942 until 28 February 1967 and Chancellor of the University of Adelaide.
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. He was the last British 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 David William Brewer,is an English marine insurance broker who served as Lord Mayor of London (2005–06) and Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London to Elizabeth II (2008–15).
Vice Admiral Sir David George Steel,is a retired senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord between 2012 and 2015. He assumed the office of Governor of Gibraltar on 11 June 2020.
Lieutenant General Edward Grant Martin Davis,is a former senior Royal Marines officer. He was Commandant General Royal Marines from December 2011 to June 2014,and the Deputy Commander of NATO's Allied Land Command in Izmir,Turkey,from 2014 to 2015. He was Governor of Gibraltar from 2016 to 2020.
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 Philip Robert Barton is a British diplomat,currently the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office. He was previously British High Commissioner to India;he was High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2014 to 2016.
Sir Rodney Errey Lawrence Williams,is the current and 4th Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.
Sir Gavyn Farr Arthur KStJ was a British judge and prominent figure in the City of London who served as the 675th Lord Mayor from 2002 to 2003.
