1899 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1899 were announced in celebration of the 24 May birthday of Queen Victoria.

Order of the Bath

Appointments to the Order of the Bath were published in The London Gazette on 3 June 1899 (Military Division),^[1] and in The Edinburgh Gazette on 13 June (Civil Division).^[2]

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

Civil Division

Charles Scott, GCMG CB, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Saint Petersburg.
Henry Morton Stanley, Esq MP

Military Division

General John Forbes, KCB, Bombay Cavalry.
Admiral Walter Hunt-Grubbe, KCB.
Admiral Edmund Fremantle, KCB CMG.
Admiral Sir John Ommanney Hopkins, KCB.
General Sir Robert Biddulph, GCMG KCB, Royal Artillery, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Civil Division

John Farquharson, CB, Royal Engineers, late Director-General of the Ordnance Survey.
George Murray, Esq CB, Secretary to the General Post Office.
William Henry Preece, Esq CB, Consulting Engineer to the General Post Office.
Michael Foster, Esq, Secretary to the Royal Society.

Military Division

Lieutenant-General Frederick Willis, CB (since deceased).
Major-General Henry Radford Norman, CB
Major-General Alexander Hugh Cobbe, CB
Lieutenant-General Robert Gordon Rogers, CB, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-General Benjamin Lumsden Gordon, CB, Royal (late Madras) Artillery.
Major-General Francis Clery, CB, Deputy-Adjutant-General to the Forces.
Vice-Admiral Cyprian Bridge.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Civil Division

James Samuel Gibbons, Esq, Chairman of the Prison Commissioners, Ireland.
William Graham Greene, Esq, Admiralty.
Thomas John Pittar, Esq, Principal of the Statistical Department of the Custom House.
William Tucker, Esq, Assistant-Secretary to the Education Department.
Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Royal Navy.

Military Division

Surgeon-General Albert Augustus Gore, late-Principal Medical Officer in India.
Colonel Hugh Sutlej Gough, CMG, half-pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel James Hay, Indian Staff Corps.
Colonel Morgan Samuel Crofton, DSO, Assistant Adjutant-General in South Africa.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel James Cook, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Samuel Job Lea, Army Service Corps, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, Head-Quarters, Ireland.

References

↑ The London Gazette: no. 27086. pp. 3585–3586. 3 June 1899. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 11101. p. 589. 13 June 1899. Retrieved 3 April 2015.

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 2007† †Not issued

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 †Not issued

Special Honours	2009 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)

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