1902 Coronation Honours

The 1902 Coronation Honours were announced on 26 June 1902, the date originally set for the coronation of King Edward VII. The coronation was postponed because the King had been taken ill two days before, but he ordered that the honours list should be published on that day anyway.

The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India, and the creation of two new decorations:

• the Order of Merit
• the Imperial Service Order

The honours were covered in the press at the time, including in The Times on the day,^[1] but formal announcements in the London Gazette were spread out over the following months, in gazettes dated 26 June 1902,^[2] 11 July 1902,^[3] 18 July 1902,^[4] 22 July 1902,^[5] 25 July 1902,^[6] and 2 September 1902.^[7]

A South African list, honouring people for their service during the Second Boer War, was published on the same day.

Order of the Garter

• The Duke of Wellington, GCVO
• The Duke of Sutherland

Order of the Thistle

• The Duke of Roxburghe, MVO
• The Earl of Haddington

Order of St Patrick

• The Earl of Enniskillen
• Lord de Ros

Peerages

Marquess

• The Earl of Hopetoun, KT, GCMG, GCVO, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia

Viscount

• Lord Colville of Culross, KT, GCVO^[4]
• Lord Churchill, KCVO^[4]
• Lord Milner, GCB, GCMG^[4]

Baron

• The Lord Justice-General of Scotland^[8]
• The Right Honourable Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, MP^[8]
• The Right Honourable William L. Jackson, MP^[8]
• The Right Honourable Arthur Smith-Barry^[6]
• General Sir Francis Grenfell, GCB, GCMG^[8]
• Sir Francis Knollys, GCVO, KCB, KCMG^[8]
• Algernon B. Freeman-Mitford, Esq., CB, CVO^[8]

Privy Council

• Ronald Leslie-Melville, 11th Earl of Leven
• Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, GCMG, Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada
• Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
• William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, GCVO, FRS
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, FRS
• Sir Edward Grey, Bart., MP
• Sir John Dorington, Bart., MP
• Sir Hugh MacDonell, GCMG, CB
• Sir Antony MacDonnell, GCSI
• Sir Alfred Lyall, GCIE, KCB
• Lieutenant-Colonel Honourable Sir Albert Hime, KCMG (Premier of Natal)
• Honourable Sir Robert Bond, KCMG (Premier of Newfoundland)
• Sir Ernest Cassel, KCMG, KCVO
• Richard B. Haldane, Esq., KC, MP
• Arthur Jeffreys, Esq., MP
• James Round, Esq., MP

Privy Council of Ireland

• James Butler, 3rd Marquess of Ormonde, KP
• John Crichton, 4th Earl Erne, KP
• Anthony Nugent, 11th Earl of Westmeath
• Mr. Justice (John) Ross
• Mr. Justice (William) Kenny
• Jonathan Hogg
• Daniel Dixon, Lord Mayor of Belfast

Baronets

• The Right Honourable Andrew Marshall Porter, Master of the Rolls in Ireland
• Sir Joseph Dimsdale, Lord Mayor of the City of London
• Colonel Sir Edward Bradford, GCB, KCSI
• Sir Andrew Noble, KCB
• Sir Francis Evans, KCMG, MP
• Sir Francis Laking, KCVO, MD
• Sir Thomas Lipton, KCVO
• Sir Frederick Treves, KCVO, CB, FRCS, Honorary Serjeant-Surgeon to His Majesty
• Sir Hubert Parry, Mus. Doc.
• Sir George Lewis
• Sir Edward Poynter, President of the Royal Academy
• Sir Thomas Jackson
• Alexander Henderson, Esq., MP
• Robert Hermon-Hodge, Esq., MP
• Philip A. Muntz, Esq., MP
• Charles Bright McLaren, Esq., MP
• William E. Tomlinson, Esq., MP

Knights Bachelor

• John Charles Bell, Sheriff of the City of London
• Horace Brooks Marshall, Sheriff of the City of London
• William Allan, Esq., MP
• Francis Cowley Burnand, Esq.
• Caspar Purdon Clarke, Esq.,CIE
• William Laird Clowes, Esq.
• William Job Collins, Esq., MD, FRCS
• Alfred Cooper, Esq., FRCS
• Halliday Croom, Esq., President of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh)
• Thomas Dewar, Esq., MP
• Arthur Conan Doyle, Esq., MD
• William Emerson, Esq., President of the Royal Society of British Architects
• Colonel Aubone George Fife, Standard Bearer of His Majesty’s Bodyguard of Gentlemen at Arms
• Thomas Firbank, Esq., MP
• Thomas Fraser, Esq., FRS, MD, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
• William Henry Holland, Esq., MP
• Samuel Hall, Esq., KC, Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• Colonel Reginald Hennell, DSO, Adjutant of His Majesty's Bodyguard of Yeomen of the Guard
• Victor Horsley, Esq., FRS, FRCS
• Henry G. Howse, Esq., President of the Royal College of Surgeons
• Joseph Lawrence, Esq., MP
• Ralph Littler, Esq., CB, KC
• George Livesey, Esq.
• Oliver Lodge, Esq., FRS
• Henry Bell Longhurst, Esq., Hon. Surgeon-Dentist to His Majesty
• John Henry Luscombe, Esq., Chairman of Lloyd's
• John McDougall, Esq., Chairman,, London County Council
• Professor William Macewen, FRS, FRCS
• William Mather, Esq., MP
• Isambard Owen, Esq., MD, Senior Deputy Chancellor of the University of Wales
• Gilbert Parker, Esq., MP
• Paynton Pigott, Esq., Chief Constable of Norfolk
• Arthur Rücker, Esq., FRS, Principal of the University of London
• William J. Soulsby, Esq., CB, CIE
• Charles Villiers Stanford, Esq., Mus. Doc.
• Alfred Thomas, Esq., MP
• John Thornycroft, Esq., FRS
• Ernest Waterlow, Esq., A.R.A., President of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours
• J. L. Wilkinson, Esq., General Manager, Great Western Railways
• Guy Fleetwood Wilson, Esq., CB, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, War Office
• Charles Wyndham, Esq.

British Empire

• C. Paul Chater, Esq., CMG, Member of the Executive and Legislative Council, Hong Kong
• Honourable T. L. Hulett, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Natal
• Willem van Hulsteyn, Esq., of Johannesburg
• Henri Taschereau, Esq., Judge of the Supreme Court, Canada
• Honourable Robert Boak, President of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia
• Honourable Edward Dalton Shea, President of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland
• Edward Albert Stone, Esq., Chief Justice of Western Australia
• Honourable J. Lancelot Stirling, President of the Legislative Council of South Australia
• Honourable Henry McLaurin, Chancellor of the University of Sydney
• Honourable Arthur Rutledge, Attorney-General of Queensland
• Honourable A. Thorpe-Douglas, President of the Legislative Council of Tasmania
• Captain W. Russell-Russell, New Zealand
• John Logan Campbell, Esq., late Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand

Ireland

• John George Barton, Esq., CB
• James Brown Dougherty, Esq., CB
• John Hamilton Franks, Esq., CB
• Francis Henry Miller, Mayor of Londonderry
• Thomas Myles, Esq., MB
• Vincent Nash, Esq., High Sheriff of Limerick City
• George Roche, Esq.
• John Olphert, Esq.
• Dr. William Whitla, MD
• James Murphy, Esq., President of Chamber of Commerce, Dublin

Order of Merit

The King has been pleased to institute an Order of Merit, to which His Majesty, as Sovereign of the Order, has made the following appointments:

• Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, KG, KP, VC
• Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, KP, GCB
• General Herbert Kitchener, Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, GCB, GCMG
• John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, FRS
• William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, GCVO, FRS
• Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, FRS
• Admiral of the Fleet the Honourable Sir Henry Keppel, GCB
• The Right Honourable John Morley, MP
• The Right Honourable William Edward Hartpole Lecky, MP
• Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, GCB
• Sir William Huggins, KCB, PRS
• George Frederic Watts, Esq., RA

Order of the Bath

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

Military Division

Civil Division

• Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon, PC, Lord Chamberlain
• The Right Honourable Sir Francis Henry Jeune, KCB, PC, Judge Advocate General
• The Right Honourable Sir Algernon Edward West, KCB, PC
• General the Right Honourable Sir Dighton Macnaghten Probyn, VC, GCVO, KCB, KCSI, PC,

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division

Civil Division

• Richard Davis Awdry, Esq., CB, Accountant General of the Royal Navy
• The Honourable Bernard Eric Barrington, CB
• The Honourable Francis Leveson Bertie, Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office
• Sir William Selby Church, Bart., MD, President of the Royal College of Physicians
• Clinton Edward Dawkins, Esq., CB, Chairman of the recent Committee upon the administration of the War Office
• Thomas Henry Elliot, Esq., CB, Secretary to the Board of Agriculture
• Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, KCVO, CB, Secretary to His Majesty′s Office of Works
• John Lowndes Gorst, Esq., CB, Financial Adviser to the Egyptian Government
• Henry John Lowndes Graham, Esq., CB, Clerk of the Parliaments
• The Honourable Schomberg Kerr MacDonnell, CVO, CB
• Henry James van Sittart Neale, Esq., CB, Assistant Secretary to the Admiralty
• Alfred de Bock Porter, Esq., CB, Secretary to the Ecclesiastical Commission
• Professor William Ramsay, FRS
• Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise, Esq., CB, Chairman of the Prison Commission
• Horace A. D. Seymour, Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Esq., CB (he died before the list was gazetted and was never knighted, his widow was granted the rank of a knight′s widow)
• Leslie Stephen, Esq.
• George Whitehouse, Esq., Engineer-in-Chief of the Uganda Railway
• Henry Francis Redhead Yorke, Esq., CB, Director of Victualling, Royal Navy

Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military division

Civil division

• Sir John Henry Bergne, KCMG, Foreign Office
• William Patrick Byrne, Esq., Home Office
• Heffernan Fritz James Joseph John Considine, Deputy Inspector-General, Royal Irish Constabulary
• Captain Fritz Hauch Eden Crowe, RN, His Majesty′s Consul-General, Lourenco Marques
• Alan Cole, Esq., Board of Education
• Hugh Bertram Cox, Esq., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office
• Major Patrick George Craigie, Assistant Secretary, Board of Agriculture
• Henry James Gibson, Esq., Assistant Accountant-General, War Office
• Sir Gabriel Prior Goldney, 2nd Baronet, City Remembrancer
• Lieutenant-Colonel John Lane Harrington, CVO, His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Abyssinia
• Honorary Commander John Howson, RNR
• Hartmann Wolfgang Just, Esq., CMG, Colonial Office
• Horace Cecil Monro, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Local Government Board
• Robert Laurie Morant, Esq., Board of Education
• George Peter Martin, Esq., RN, late Deputy Judge Advocate of the Fleet
• Frank Thomas Marzials, Esq., Account-General of the Army
• Augustus Henry Oakes, Esq., Chief Librarian, Foreign Office
• Frederick Sydney Parry, Esq., Treasury
• Douglas Close Richmond, Esq., Comptroller and Auditor-General
• Ronald Ross, Esq., FRS, FRCS
• George Watson Smyth, Esq., Assistant Secretary, General Post Office
• Lieutenant-Colonel James Hayes Sadler, His Majesty's Commissioner for the Uganda Protectorate
• Benjamin Arthur Whitelegge, Esq., MD, FRCP, Chief Inspector of Factories

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• The Right Honourable Sir John Gordon Sprigg, KCMG, Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope
• The Right Honourable Edmund Barton, KC, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia
• Sir Edwin Henry Egerton, KCB, His Majesty's Minister at Athens
• Sir Ernest Mason Satow, KCMG, His Majesty's Minister at Pekin

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

• Major Matthew Nathan, Royal Engineers, CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast Colony
• His Honour Daniel Hunter McMillan, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Manitoba, in the Dominion of Canada
• The Honourable Neil Elliot Lewis, MA, BCL, CMG, Prime Minister of the State of Tasmania
• The Honourable Frederick William Holder, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia
• The Honourable John See, Prime Minister of the State of New South Wales
• The Honourable Alexander James Peacock, late Prime Minister of the State of Victoria
• The Honourable Frederick William Borden, MD, Minister of Militia and Defence of the Dominion of Canada
• The Honourable William Mulock, KC, LLD, MA, Postmaster General of the Dominion of Canada
• Edmund Constantine Henry Phipps, Esq., CB, His Majesty's Minister at Brussels, for services in connection with the Sugar conference
• The Honourable Michael Henry Herbert, CB, His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington
• Commodore Francis Powell, CB, Royal Navy, for services in China
• Pelham Laird Warren, Esq., CMG, His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai, for services in China
• Surgeon-General Horace Henderson Pinching, Head of the Sanitary Department in Cairo
• George Mackenzie, Esq., CB, for services in connection with Persia
• Francis Langford O'Callaghan, Esq., CSI, CIE, Managing Director of the Uganda Railway

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

• Robert Armitage Sterndale, Esq., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of St Helena
• William Lamond Allardyce, Esq., Administrator of the Government of Fiji, assistant Colonial Secretary and Receiver-General
• Brevet Colonel (local Major-General) Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, KCB, DSO, for services rendered while Military Governor of Pretoria
• The Honourable William McCulloch, late Minister of Health and public Works of the State of Victoria
• Captain George Augustus Giffard, Royal Navy for services as Senior Naval Officer engaged in the protection of the Newfoundland Fisheries
• Arthur Ashley Parson, Esq., of the Colonial Office, for services as one of the British Delegates at the Sugar Bounties Conference, 1901-02
• William Hepworth Mercer, Esq., one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies, for services as Secretary of the Pacific Cable Committees
• Henry Francis Wilson, Esq., MA, Secretary to the Administration of the Orange River Colony
• Edward Rawle Drayton, Esq., Colonial Secretary and registrar-General of the Island of Grenada
• Anthony Musgrave, Esq., Government Secretary of the Possession of British New Guinea
• John Kemys George Thomas Spencer-Churchill, Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Bahama Islands
• Robert Wilson Ievers, Esq., MA, Government Agent of the Northern Province of the Island of Ceylon
• Charles Riby Williams, Esq., Treasurer of the Gold Coast colony
• Horace Major Brandford Griffith, Esq.,Treasurer of the Colony of The Gambia
• Edward Deshon, Esq., Auditor-General of the State of Queensland
• Edmund Fosbery, Esq., Inspector-General pf Police of the State of New South Wales
• George Thompson Hare, Esq.,Secretary for Chinese Affairs for the Federation of the Protected States of the Malay Peninsula

Imperial Service Order

His Majesty has been pleased to institute a Decoration for Members of the Civil Service to be conferred after Long and Meritorious Service, and to be known as the Imperial Service Order.

References

• The Coronation Honours, The Times (London), 26 June 1902, pp. 5–6
• Coronation Honours – A Long List – Many Australians Included, Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Queensland), 27 June 1902, page 5
• Coronation Honours, Otago Witness (New Zealand), 2 July 1902, Page 15

1. "The Coronation Honours" The Times (London). Thursday, 26 June 1902. (36804), p. 5.
2. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 27448. p. 4189. 26 July 1902.
3. The London Gazette: no. 27453. p. 4441. 11 July 1902.
4. The London Gazette: no. 27455. p. 4586. 18 July 1902.
5. The London Gazette: no. 27456. p. 4669. 22 July 1902.
6. The London Gazette: no. 27457. p. 4739. 25 July 1902.
7. The London Gazette: no. 27470. p. 5679. 2 September 1902.
8. The London Gazette: no. 27455. p. 4587. 18 July 1902.