1898 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1898 were granted in celebration of the 24 May birthday of Queen Victoria. Some were announced in the London Gazette on 21 May 1898^[1] and some on 3 June but backdated to 21 May.^[2]

Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

General His Royal Highness Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, K.G., K.T., K.P., G.C.S.I, G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., A.D.C., Commanding the Troops, Aldershot.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Civil Division

Colonel Sir Richard Edward Rowley Martin, K.C.M.G.
Kenneth Augustus Muir MacKenzie, Esq., C.B., Q.C., Permanent Secretary of the Lord Chancellor's Office and Clerk of the Crown.
Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe, Esq., C.B. (commonly called the Honourable Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe, C.B.), Solicitor to the Treasury, Director of Public Prosecutions.
Edward Leigh Pemberton, Esq., C.B., late Assistant Under Secretary of State, Home Office.
Kenelm Edward Digby, Esq., Under Secretary of State, Home Office.
John Murray, Esq.

Military Division

General Hugh Rowlands, V.C., C.B.
General John James Hood Gordon, C.B., Indian Staff Corps, Member of Council of India.
General Stanley de Burgh Edwardes, C.B., Indian Army.
Vice-Admiral Lord Charles Thomas Montagu-Douglas-Scott, C.B. (Civil).
General John Davis, C.B., Commanding the Troops, Southern District.
Major-General Coleridge Grove, C.B., Military Secretary at Headquarters.
Vice-Admiral Richard Edward Tracey, President of the Royal Naval College.
Vice-Admiral Compton Edward Domvile, Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves.
Major-General Raymond Hervey, Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Civil Division

Victor Arthur Wellington Drummond, Esq., Minister Resident at Munich.
Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot, Esq., a Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service.
John Fergusson, Esq., Chief Inspector, Stamps and Taxes Department, Inland Revenue.
Edward Henry French, Esq., late of the Consular Service.
George William Hervey, Esq., Secretary and Comptroller-General, National Debt Office.
John Macdonell, Esq.
Richmond Ritchie, Esq., India Office.
Horace Alfred Damer Seymour, Esq., Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Mint.
Charles Malcolm Wood, Esq.

Military Division

Surgeon-Major-General Robert Harvey, D.S.O., Indian Medical Service.
Colonel (Brigadier-General) Donald James Sim McLeod, D.S.O., Commanding a Second Class District in India.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Henry Hamilton Settle, D.S.O., Royal Engineers, Assistant Inspector-General of Fortifications.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Reginald Chalmer, half-pay.
Colonel the Honourable Frederick William Stopford, Assistant Adjutant-General (Officer in charge of Mobilization Services), Headquarters.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Charles Edward Beckett, 3rd Hussars.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)

His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

William Lee-Warner, Esq., C.S.I., Political Secretary, India Office.
Trevor John Chichele Chichele-Plowden, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service.

Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

Thomas Stoker, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
Colonel Maule Campbell Brackenbury, Royal Engineers.
Edward Richard Henry, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
Lucas White King, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
Khan Bahadur Yar Muhammad Khan.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

His Highness Aga Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan.
Colonel Robert Warburton, C.S.I., Indian Staff Corps.

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

Alexander Pennycuick, Esq.
Philip Chicheley Hyde Snow, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Mudge Branfoot, M.B.
Edward Fountaine Jacob, Esq.
Major Robert Irvin Scallon, D.S.O., Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant Kunwar Bir Bikram Singh.
Lieutenant Alfred Beckett Minchin, Indian Staff Corps.
William Taylor Van Someren, Esq.
Charles Still, Esq.
Tahilram Khemchand.

Order of St Michael and St George

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

General Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Malta and its Dependencies.

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

The Honourable Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier, C.M.G., Speaker of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada.
The Honourable James David Edgar, Q.C., Speaker of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada.
John George Bourinot, Esq., LL.D., D.C.L., C.M.G., Clerk of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada.
James Alexander Swettenham, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements.

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

Henry Martyn Herbert Orpen, Esq., Assistant Treasurer, Accountant-General, Receiver-General, and Paymaster-General of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
David Hunter, Esq., General Manager of the Government Railways of the Colony of Natal.
George Ruthven Le Hunte, Esq., M.A., Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Mauritius.
James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, Esq., Colonial Secretary and Registrar-General of the Colony of Hong Kong.
George Robert Parkin, Esq., LL.D., Principal of Upper Canada College, Toronto, in the Dominion of Canada.
Sydney Olivier, Esq., B.A., of the Colonial Department.

References

↑ The London Gazette: no. 26969. pp. 3229–3230. 21 May 1898.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 26974. p. 3446. 3 June 1898.

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