1875 Birthday Honours

Appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours August 2016 August 2016 The 1875 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 in May and June 1875.24212 2811 28 May 1875 24213 2851 29 May 1875 24215 2903 4 June 1875 8585 357 Edinburgh 1 June 1875 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 Cospatrick Alexander, Earl of Home, by the name, style, and title of Baron Douglas, of Douglas, in the county of Lanark George, Earl of Dalhousie GBR CB Vice-Admiral on the Retired List of Her Majesty's Fleet, by the name, style, and title of Baron Ramsay, of Glenmark, in the county of Forfar Arthur Edward Holland Grey Egerton, commonly called Viscount Grey de Wilton, by the name, style, and title of Baron Grey de Radcliffe, in the county palatine of Lancaster The Most Honourable Order of the Bath thumb|Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton GBR KCB Army General Sir Thomas Reed GBR KCB General Henry, Lord Rokeby GBR KCB General Sir John Bloomfield Gough GBR KCB General Sir Charles Thomas Van Straubenzee Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Augustus Almeric Spencer GBR KCB Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Shepherd Stuart GBR KCB Lieutenant-General Sir John Garvock GBR KCB Lieutenant-General Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain GBR GCSI KCB Major-General Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford GBR KCB Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Richard Collinson GBR CB Vice-Admiral Claude Henry Mason Buckle GBR CB Vice-Admiral George Giffard GBR CB Vice-Admiral William Loring GBR CB Vice-Admiral Edward Southwell Sotheby GBR CB Army Lieutenant-General Burke Cuppage Lieutenant-General the Honourable George Cadogan GBR CB Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Seymour GBR Bt CB Lieutenant-General William O'Grady Haly GBR CB Lieutenant-General Edward Alan Holdich GBR CB Major-General Edwin Beaumont Johnson GBR CB Major-General Henry Daly GBR CB Surgeon-General John Campbell Brown GBR CB Bengal Army Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Thomas Henry Mason Captain Samuel Hoskins Derriman Captain the Honourable Henry Carr Glyn Captain George Fiott Day GBR VC Captain Richard Vesey Hamilton Captain Radulphus Bryce Oldfield Captain Charles Murray-Aynsley Captain John Eglinton Montgomerie Captain Henry James Raby GBR VC Captain William Charles Fahie Wilson Captain John Halliday Care Captain James Graham Goodenough Captain Nowell Salmon GBR VC Captain Frederick William Gough Captain Henry Duncan Grant Army Lieutenant-General William Raikes Faber, 17th Regiment Lieutenant-General David Pott, Bengal Staff Corps Major-General Charles Lennox Brownlow Maitland Major-General William Charles Forrest Major-General Richard Hamilton, Madras Staff Corps Colonel James Conolly Colonel George Bryan Milman, late 5th Regiment Colonel Henry Le Geyt Bruce, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery Colonel Henry Hastings Affleck Wood, Bombay Staff Corps Colonel Francis Adam Ellis Loch, Bombay Staff Corps Colonel Henry Knightley Burne, Bengal Staff Corps Colonel Charles Terrington Aitchison, Bombay Staff Corps Colonel Mark Walker GBR VC 45th Regiment Colonel Philip Gossett Piara, Royal Artillery Colonel Alexander Abercrombie Nelson, late Depot Battalion Colonel Patrick Robertson-Ross, late Depot Battalion Colonel Henry Lowther Chermside, Royal Artillery Colonel Hugh Rowlands GBR VC 34th Regiment Colonel Frederick Ernest Appleyard, 85th Regiment Colonel Thomas Maunsell, Brigade Depot Colonel Francis Fisher Hamilton, 4th Regiment Colonel the Honourable Ivo de Vesci Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, late 9th Lancers Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Ingilby, Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Jordan, 41st Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Ravenhill, Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel Charles John Stanley Gough GBR VC Bengal Cavalry Lieutenant-Colonel George Hutchinson GBR CSI Bengal Staff Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast GBR VC Royal (late Madras) Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Hillman Burnside, late 88th Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel George Murray Miller, 79th Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick George Pym, Royal Marine Light Infantry The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George thumb|Star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Francis Fortescue Turville GBR CMG The Honourable Viscount Kirkwall GBR CMG Charles Sladen GBR CMG Julius Vogel GBR CMG Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Sir Henry Thurstan Holland GBR Bt MP formerly Legal Adviser, and subsequently Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies Captain George Cumine Strahan GBR RA Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast Colony Captain James Graham Goodenough GBR RN, Commodore Commanding Her Majesty's Naval Forces on the Australian Station, lately employed as Commissioner to inquire into the offer of the cession of the Fiji Islands Edgar Leopold Layard, Consul for Her Majesty at the Fiji Islands, lately employed as Commissioner to inquire into the offer of the cession of those Islands, and now acting as Administrator of the Government of the Colony of Fiji William Charles Sargeaunt, Crown Agent for the Colonies Colonel John Dyde, late Colonel-Commandant of Militia in the District of Montreal, in the Dominion of Canada Colonel John Sewell, late Colonel-Commandant of the District of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada References Category:Birthday Honours Category:1875 awards Category:1875 in the United Kingdom Category:Queen Victoria