1871 Birthday Honours

National awards given by Queen Victoria August 2016 August 2016 The 1871 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 on 20 May 1871. 23739 2473–2474 20 May 1871 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 The Most Honourable Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral the Honourable Sir Henry Keppel GBR KCB Admiral Sir Alexander Milne GBR KCB Admiral Sir Sydney Colpoys Dacres GBR KCB General Sir Robert Vivian GBR KCB Army General Sir William Fenwick Williams GBR Bt KCB Lieutenant-General Sir John Michel GBR KCB Lieutenant-General Lord William Paulet GBR KCB Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral William Robert Mends GBR CB Rear-Admiral William King-Hall GBR CB Army Lieutenant-General James Alexander GBR CB Lieutenant-General Edward Walter Forestier-Walker GBR CB Lieutenant-General John Fowler Bradford GBR CB Major-General David Russell GBR CB Major-General Henry William Stisted GBR CB Major-General Charles Richard, Earl De La Warr GBR CB Major-General Frederick Paul Haines Major-General Thomas Montagu Steele GBR CB Major-General Collingwood Dickson GBR VC CB Major-General Charles Reid GBR CB Major-General James William Fitzmayer GBR CB Major-General Henry Charles Barnston Daubeney GBR CB David Dumbreck GBR MD CB Inspector-General of Hospitals Controller William Henry Drake GBR CB Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe Rear-Admiral John Bourmaster Dickson Captain the Honourable George Disney Keane Captain Alan Henry Gardner Captain William Rae Rolland Captain Edward Winterton Turnour Captain Arthur William Acland Hood Captain Charles Fellowes Captain Charles Codrington Forsyth Army Colonel Edward Herbert Maxwell, 88th Regiment Colonel Edward Kaye, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery Colonel William Gordon Colonel George Harry Smith Willis Colonel Charles Vyvyan Cox, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery Colonel George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, Grenadier Guards Colonel William Boyle, 89th Regiment Colonel Robert William Lowry, 47th Regiment Colonel John Blick Spurgin GBR CSI 102nd Regiment Colonel Robert John Eagar, 31st Regiment Colonel the Honourable Hussey Fane Keane, Royal Engineers Colonel Alexander Caesar Hawkins, Royal Artillery Colonel Richard Parke, Royal Marines Colonel Fairfax Charles Hassard, Royal Engineers Colonel George Shaw, Royal Artillery Colonel John Chetham McLeod, 42nd Regiment Colonel Sir Seymour John Blane GBR Bt late Rifle Brigade Colonel James Clerk Rattray, 90th Regiment Colonel Thomas Wright, Bengal Staff Corps Colonel Charles George Arbuthnot, Royal Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Craufurd Elphinstone GBR CB (Civil)GBR CMG VC Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Palliser, Bengal Staff Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Fane, Madras Staff Corps Inspector-General of Hospitals Joshua Paynter Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Richard James O'Flaherty Surgeon-Major John Ashton Bostock GBR MD Scots Fusilier Guards Civil Division Controller William Henry Maturin Colonel William Manley Hall Dixon, of the Royal Artillery, Superintendent of the Royal Small Arms Factory Deputy Controller Ben Hay Martindale Assistant Controller Joseph Osbertus Hamley The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India thumb|Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India Knight Grand Commander (GCSI) His Highness Dheraj Sumbho Sing, Maharana of Oodeypore His Highness The Rao Pragmuljee of Cutch Knight Commander (KCSI) The Nawab Mohsin-ood-Dowlah Bahadoor of Oude His Highness Mohubut Khan, Nawab of Joonaghur Major-General George Inglis Jameson, Bombay Army, late President of the Military Finance Commission for India, Auditor of the Accounts of the Department of the Secretary of State for India in Council John William Kaye, formerly of the Bengal Artillery, now Secretary in the Political and Secret Department of the Office of the Secretary of State for India in Council Henry Sumner Maine, late Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India Companion (CSI) Khajah Abdool Gunny, of Dacca, late Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for making Laws and Regulations Vembankum Ramiergar, Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras for making Laws and Regulations Istakant Shungoony Menon, Dewan of His Highness the Rajah of Cochin Mir Shaharaut Ali, Superintendent of the State of Rutlam in Central India Mahomed Akram Khan, Nawab of Amb Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy GBR Bt late Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations Munguldass Nuthoobhoy, Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations Lionel Robert Ashburner, Bombay Civil Service, Collector and Magistrate of Kandeish Major-General Alexander Cunningham, late Bengal Army, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India References Category:Birthday Honours Category:1871 awards Category:1871 in India Category:1871 in the United Kingdom Category:Queen Victoria