1897 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1897 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 1 January 1897.^[1]

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.

Order of the Bath

Knights Grand Cross (GCB)

Civil division

The Right Honourable Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles, GCMG, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin.

Knights Commander (KCB)

Civil division

Sir Elwin Mitford Palmer, KCMG, Financial Adviser to His Highness the Khedive of Egypt.
William Anderson, Esq, CB, Director-General of Ordnance Factories.
Honorary Colonel the Honourable Wellington Patrick Manvers Chetwynd-Talbot, Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Lords.

Companions (CB)

Civil division

Basil Cave, Esq, Consul at Zanzibar.
William Edward Davidson, Esq, QC, Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office.
William Conyngham Greene, Esq, British Resident, South African Republic.
William John Mure, Esq, Legal Secretary to the Lord Advocate for Scotland.
Richard Thomas Prowse, Esq, Secretary to the Board of Customs.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Kerr Scott, retired pay, late Royal Engineers.
Edmond Henry Wodehouse, Esq, Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

Order of the Star of India

Knights Commander (KCSI)

John Woodburn, Esq, CSI, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India.
His Highness Maharao Raja Raghubir Singh Bahadur, Chief of Bundi.
Sir Edward Charles Buck, CSI, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Revenue and Agriculture.

Companions (CSI)

John Nugent, Esq, Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay.
Charles Lewis Tupper, Esq, Officiating Second Financial Commissioner of the Punjab.
Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser, Esq, Commissioner of the Nagpur Division, Central Provinces.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knights Grand Commander (GCIE)

Major-General Sir Owen Tudor Burne, KCSI, CIE

Knights Commander (KCIE)

His Highness Maharaja Sawai Ranjor Singh Bahadur, of Ajaigarh.

Companions (CIE)

William Earnshaw Cooper, Esq
Alexander Anderson, Esq, Indian Civil Service.
John Eliot, Esq, FRS, Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India.
Maharaj Rajeshwari Sankara Stibbaiyar, Diwan of Travancore.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lake Wells, RE
Lieutenant Eaton Wallace Petley, RN (Retired)
Rui Bahadur Pandit Bhag Ram
Khan Bahadur Naoroji Pestonji Vakil

Order of St Michael and St George

Knights Commander (KCMG)

The Honourable George Turner, Premier and Treasurer of the Colony of Victoria

Companions (CMG)

Charles Benjamin Mosse, Esq, CB, Deputy Surgeon-General, AMD, Superintending Medical Officer for the Island of Jamaica;
Captain Robert Lister Bower, Resident of Ibadan
Henry Cloete, Esq., lately Acting British Agent in the South African Republic.

References

↑ The London Gazette: no. 26808. pp. 1–2. 1 January 1897.

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)

PM'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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