1893 Birthday Honours

The 1893 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 2 June 1893^[1] and in The Times on 3 June 1893.^[2]

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

Sir H. Hussey Vivian Bt MP
Sir Thomas Henry Farrer Bt
John Campbell White, of Overtoun, Dumbartonshire.
Cecil G. Savile Foljambe.
Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig.

Baronetcies

Isaac Holden MP
James Joicey MP
Dr. Charles Cameron MP
Benjamin Hingley MP
William Ingram MP
Joseph Pulley, formerly Member of Parliament for Herefordshire.
William Henry Wills, formerly Member of Parliament for Coventry.
Walter Gilbey.
Sir Robert Hart GCMG Inspector-General of Customs in China.

Knight Bachelor

William Roger Brown, of Trowbridge.
William Davies, formerly Member of Parliament for Pembrokeshire.
Henry Dias, late Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon.
William Henderson, of Aberdeen.
Samuel George Johnson, Town Clerk of Nottingham.
John Leng MP for Dundee.
George Henry Lewis.
John Madden, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria.
Patteson Nickalls.
Dr. George Augustus Pilkington, formerly Mayor of Southport.
Francis Powell, President of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.
Dr. William Overend Priestley.
Hugh Gilzean-Reid, First President of the Institute of Journalists.
Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson FRS
John Richard Robinson, Editor of the Daily News.
Edward Richard Russell, Editor of the Liverpool Daily Post.
George Shenton, President of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Western Australia.
Samuel Henry Strong, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Dominion of Canada.
John Tenniel.
Thomas Wright, of Leicester.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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

Lieutenant-General Sir James Hills-Johnes VC KCB Royal (late Bengal) Artillery.
General Sir William Montagu Scott McMurdo KCB
General Lord Mark Ralph George Kerr KCB

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division

General Richard Thomas Farren CB
Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General William Drysdale CB
Lieutenant-General and Honorary General Julius Augustus Robert Raines CB
General William Gordon Cameron CB Commanding the Troops in South Africa.
General the Hon. Percy Robert Basil Feilding CB
General Alfred William Lucas CB Indian Staff Corps.
Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General John Blick Spurgin CB CSI
General Thomas Wright CB Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-General John Doran CB Indian Staff Corps.
General Robert White CB
General Mark Walker VC CB
Lieutenant-General and Honorary General Charles John Foster CB
Lieutenant-General William Stirling CB Royal Artillery, Governor and Commandant Royal Military Academy.

Civil Division

Andrew Noble CB late Capt. Royal Artillery.
Francis Mowatt CB Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.
John Frecheville Dykes Donnelly CB Honorary Major-General Royal Engineers (Retired List), Secretary to the Science and Art Department.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division

Major-General Augustus Henry King, Royal Artillery, Commanding Royal Artillery, Aldershot.
Major-General Henry Broom Feilden.
Major-General Archibald Hammond Utterson, Commanding a Brigade at Aldershot.
Major General Crombie Cowie, Royal (late. Bengal) Artillery.
Major-General George Francis Seville, Indian Staff Corps, Commanding a Second Class District in India.
Colonel James May, Indian Army.
Colonel William Liston Dalrymple, Deputy Quartermaster-General in India.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Thomas Thomson Simpson.
Colonel Arthur Haldimand Prinsep, Indian Army, Colonel on the Staff, Bengal.
Colonel Charles John Burnett, Assistant Adjutant-General, Aldershot.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Arthur Gore Handcock, Indian Staff Corps, Colonel on the Staff, Bengal.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Dawsonne Melancthon Strong, Indian Army.
Colonel (with the local rank of Brigadier-General) Alexander Angus Airlie Kinloch, Commanding a Second Class District in India.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Malcolm Hassels Nicolson, Indian Army, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Osmond Barnes, Indian Staff Corps.
Colonel Thomas Kelly-Kenny.
Colonel Frederick Augustus le Mesurier, Colonel on the Staff (Chief Engineer), Ireland.
Colonel (with the local rank of Brigadier-General) Gerald de Courcy Morton, Commanding a Second Class District in India.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Theophilus Higginson, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel George Swinley, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery, Colonel on the Staff, Bengal.
Colonel William Salmond, Deputy Inspector-General of Fortifications at Head-Quarters.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Henry Hallam Parr CMG The Prince Albert's (Somersetshire Light Infantry), Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Mark Sever Bell VC Royal Engineers, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel James Henry Gordon DSO Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Robert MacGregor Stewart, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Chief Instructor School of Gunnery.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Reginald William Dalgety, the York and Lancaster Regiment.
Colonel James Tierney Skinner DSO Army Service Corps, Assistant Adjutant-General (for Supply Reserves) Woolwich Dockyard.
Colonel Charles James Bromhead, Regimental District.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel John Baillie Ballantyne Dickson.
Major and Colonel Frederick George Slade, Royal Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John Palmer Brabazon, 4th Hussars, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Reginald Garnett, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
Lieutenant-Colonel Harrison Ross Lewin Morgan, Royal Artillery.

Civil Division

Richard Mills, Assistant Comptroller and Auditor-General, Exchequer and Audit Department.
Owen Slacke, late Capt. 10th Hussars, Divisional Commissioner in Ireland (Northern Division).
Edward Maunde Thompson, Principal Librarian and Secretary of the British Museum.
Charles George Turner, Accountant and Comptroller-General of the Inland Revenue Department.

The Imperial Order of the Crown of India

Her Highness Kempa Nanjammani Vani Vilasa Sannidhana, the Maharani of Mysore.

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

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

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

General Frederick Sleigh, Baron Roberts of Kandahar GCB GCIE VC

Companion (CSI)

Herbert Mills Birdwood, Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay.
Charles James Lyall CIE Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department.
Herbert Frederick Clogstoun, Commissioner of Revenue Settlement and Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Madras.
Major General Alexander Walker RA Director-General of Ordnance in India.
Colonel Hurlock Galloway Pritchard, Indian Staff Corps, Accountant General in the Military Department Government of India.
Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Melliss, Indian Staff Corps.

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.

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

Sir George William Des Vœux KCMG late Governor of Hong Kong.

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

John Carling, Senator and Member of the Government of the Dominion of Canada.
Charles Todd CMG Postmaster-General and Superintendent of Telegraphs of the Colony of South Australia.
Melmoth Osborn CMG late Commissioner and Chief Magistrate, Zululand.
Gilbert Thomas Carter CMG Governor of the Colony of Lagos.
George Berkley Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, for services rendered as Consulting Engineer to the Government of Natal and in connection with other Colonies.
Francis Henry Evans MP for services in connection with the Colonies as Deputy Chairman of the Union Steamship Company, and otherwise.

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

Major-General Alexander Bruce Tulloch CB Commandant of the Military Forces of the Colony of Victoria.
James Robert Gowan LLD Member of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada, and formerly Judge of the High Court of Justice, Ontario.
Collingwood Schreiber, Deputy Minister o Railways and Canals in the Dominion of Canada.
Major William George Morris, Royal Engineers, for services connected with the Geodetic Survey of the Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope and Natal.
Edward Charles Stirling MD Senior Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital and Member of the Council of the University of Adelaide, in the Colony of South Australia.
Philip Burnard Chenery Ayres, Colonial Surgeon and Inspector of Hospitals in the Colony of Hong Kong.
Francis Henry Lovell, Chief Medical Officer and President of the General Board of Health, Mauritius.
Daniel Morris MA Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in recognition of scientific and economic services rendered to Her Majesty's Colonies.
Walter Peace, for many years Emigration Agent in London for the Colony of Natal.
Samuel Lewis, Barrister-at-Law, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Sierra Leone.
Denis O'Donovan, Librarian of the Parliament of the Colony of Queensland.
Francis John Waring, C.E. Chief Resident Engineer of the Government Railway Extensions in Ceylon.
Francis John Stephens Hopwood, Assistant Secretary, Railway Department, Board of Trade, for services in connection with Colonial Fisheries and other Maritime questions.

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire

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

Knight Commander (KCIE)

Lieutenant-General Thomas Edward Gordon CB CSI Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-General Edward Charles Sparshott Williams CIE Royal Engineers
Sardar Asad Khan, of Sarayvan CIE
John Lambert CIE Commissioner of Police, Calcutta.

Companion (CIE)

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ravenshaw Thuillier, Royal Engineers, Surveyor-General of India.
Surgeon-Colonel Archibald Hamilton Hilson MD late Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals in Bengal.
Capt. Alexander Campbell DSO Deputy Director, Royal Indian Marines.
Rao Bahadur Singh, Thakur of Masuda.
Sheikh Baha-ud-din, Nawab-i-Umb, Vizier of the Nawab of Junagarh.
Veterinary Lieutenant-Colonel James Herbert Brockencote Hallen FRCS Inspector-General of the Civil Veterinary Department in India.
Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel David Douglas Cunningham MB Professor of Physiology, Medical College, Calcutta.
Alexander Milne, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Surma Valley Light Horse Volunteers.
Bertram Sausmarez Carey, Political Officer, Chin Hills.
Dewan Bahadur Srinivasa Raghava Iyengar BA Inspector-General of Registration, Madras.

References

↑ The London Gazette: no. 26409. pp. 3251–3253. 2 June 1893.
↑ "Birthday Honours". The Times (The Times Digital Archive). 3 June 1893. p. 14.

Honours Lists

New Year Honours	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902† 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940† 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 †Not issued because of birthday honours of new king (1902) and WWII (1940)

Birthday Honours	1885 1886 1887† 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897† 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911† 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937† 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 †Not issued because of Jubilee Honours (1887, 1897) and Coronation Honours (1911, 1937)

Prime Minister's Resignation Honours	1945 1951 1955 1957 1963 1964 1970 1976 1979 1990 1997

Coronation Honours	1902 1911 1937 1953

Dissolution Honours	1900 1906 1910 (January) 1910 (December) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (February) 1974 (October) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015

Special Honours	2013 2014 2015 2016

Additional Honours	1887 (Golden Jubilee) 1897 (Diamond Jubilee) 1923 Prime Minister 1935 (Silver Jubilee) 1977 (Silver Jubilee) 1990 (Queen Mother's 90th Birthday) 2002 (Death of Queen Mother and Princess Margaret) 2002 (Golden Jubilee) 2012 (Diamond Jubilee)

Honours by nation	Australia Canada Ceylon India New Zealand

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