1881 Birthday Honours

National awards given by Queen Victoria August 2016 August 2016 The 1881 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 24 May 1881 and 27 May 1881.24976 2673–2675 24 May 1881 24979 27 May 1881 2746 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 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 Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour GBR KGB Army General the Earl of Longford GBR KGB Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral the Honourable Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot GBR CB Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe GBR CB Vice-Admiral the Right Honourable Lord John Hay GBR CB Captain Frederick William Richards GBR CB Army General George Colt Langley GBR CB General William Montagu Scott McMurdo GBR CB General Lord Mark Kerr GBR CB General His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar GBR CB General John Thornton Grant GBR CB Lieutenant-General George Vaughan Maxwell GBR CB Lieutenant-General Alexander Macdonell GBR CB Lieutenant-General Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker GBR CB Lieutenant-General John Forbes GBR CB Honorary Major-General John Coke GBR CB Colonel Charles George Arbuthnot GBR CB Colonel Charles Cooper Johnson GBR CB Bengal Staff Corps Civil Division Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham, Londonderry Militia Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Hambleton Francis Custance, West Norfolk Militia Lieutenant-Colonel Viscount Ranelagh, 2nd (South) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Loyd-Lindsay GBR VC First Berkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps Thomas Brassey, Honorary Commander of the Liverpool Brigade of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers Captain Frederick John Owen Evans GBR CB Alfred Comyn Lyall GBR CB Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Richard Dunning White Vice-Admiral Edward Bridges Rice Captain Sholto Douglas Captain William Arthur Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Daniel John Duigan GBR MD Army Lieutenant-General Joseph Henry Laye Major-General Francis Peyton Major-General John Henry Ford Elkington Major-General James Gubbins Major-General John Gordon Major-General George Godfrey Pearse Colonel Reginald Gipps, Scots Guards Colonel George Byng Harman, late Brigade Depot Colonel Allen Bayard Johnson, Bengal Staff Corps Colonel John Alexander Mathew Macdonald, Bombay Staff Corps Colonel George Scougall Macbean, Bengal Staff Corps Colonel Robert Crosse Stewart, late 2nd Foot Colonel Frederick Dobson Middleton, late 29th Foot Colonel the Honourable James Charlemagne Dormer, late 13th Foot Colonel Rowley Sale Hill, Bengal Infantry Colonel Charles Edward Cumberland, Royal Engineers Colonel William French, Royal Artillery Colonel John William Hoggan, Bengal Staff Corps Colonel Thomas Gaily Ross, Bengal Staff Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Macnaghten Armstrong, Bengal Staff Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Dawson Stockley Warren, 14th Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Donald Malcolm, Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Copland, Bengal Staff Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Cromer Ashburnham, 60th Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Augustus Bushman, 9th Lancers Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Montizambert Stockwell, 72nd Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel John Frederick Crease, Royal Marine Artillery Major Joseph Philips, Royal Marine Light Infantry Major John Ramsay Slade, Royal Artillery Deputy Surgeon-General John O'Nial, Army Medical Department Surgeon-Major Samuel Black Roe GBR MB Army Medical Department Deputy Commissary-General Henry John Brownrigg, Commissariat and Transport Staff Assistant Commissary-General Henry Spencer Edward Reeves, Commissariat and Transport Staff Civil Division Colonel Lord Hatherton, the (King's Own) 2nd Stafford Militia Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise, West Essex Militia Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel David Carrick Robert Carrick Buchanan, 2nd Royal Lanark Militia Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel John Williams Wallington, Royal North Gloucester Militia Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir John Stephen Robinson GBR Bt Louth Militia Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir Thomas Oriel Forster GBR Bt Monaghan Militia Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Winn Knight, 1st Worcester Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel David Davidson, 1st (The Queen's City of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade) Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Watkin Shakerley GBR Bt 5th Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Barttelot Barttelot GBR Bt 2nd Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Charles Hugh Lindsay, 6th Middlesex (St. George's) Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel and Vice-Admiral Thomas Chaloner, 1st North Riding of Yorkshire Artillery Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Ewen Macpherson, 1st Inverness (Highland) Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Addison Potter, 1st Northumberland and Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Sagar Hirst, 3rd West Riding of Yorkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir James Bourne GBR Bt Royal Lancashire Artillery Militia Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Edwards GBR Bt 2nd West Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot GBR Bt VC 1st Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Robert John Tilney, 5th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Stock Hill, 1st Glamorgan Artillery Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Matheson, 1st Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Leopold George Frederick Keane, Waterford Artillery, Militia Sir Allen William Young, Commanding the London Brigade of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers Ernest Hobart Inman, Commanding the Liverpool Brigade of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers Charles Lister Ryan, Assistant Comptroller and Auditor-General Frederick James Fegen, Paymaster in the Royal Navy Captain Andrew Noble, late Royal Artillery 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 Sujjun Singh, Maharana of Udaipur Knight Commander (KCSI) General Orfeur Cavenagh, Bengal Staff Corps Charles Umpherston Aitchison GBR CSI Bengal Civil Service, Chief Commissioner British Burmah His Highness Tukht Singh, Thakur Saheb of Bhavnagur James Davidson Gordon GBR CSI Bengal Civil Service, Resident at Mysore John Forsyth GBR CB Inspector-General of Hospitals (Retired), Bengal Medical Service Lepel Henry Griffin GBR CSI Bengal Civil Service, Agent to the Governor-General in Central India Companion (CSI) Donald Campbell Macnabb, Bengal Civil Service (Retired), late Commissioner Punjab Wazirzadah Muhammad Afzal Khan, late Political Assistant in Afghanistan Major-General John Salusbury Trevor (Retired), Royal (late Bombay) Engineers, lately Director-General of State Railways Horace Abel Cockerell, Bengal Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, in the Judicial and Political Department Colonel Samuel Black, Bengal Staff Corps, Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Military Department The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George thumb|Star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy GBR KCMG CB Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Queensland Major-General Sir Harry St George Ord GBR KCMG CB Royal Engineers Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Lieutenant-General John Summerfield Hawkins RE formerly employed on the North American Boundary Commission Lieutenant-Colonel Charles William Wilson RE GBR CB Consul-General in Anatolia Sir Francis Dillon Bell GBR Kt Agent-General in England for New Zealand, and late Speaker of the House of Representatives in that Colony George Berkeley GBR CMG Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands Hector-Louis Langevin GBR CB QC Minister of Public Works in the Dominion of Canada Major-General George Richards Greaves GBR CB late Chief Secretary and Chief of the Staff in Cyprus Arthur Hunter Palmer Colonial Secretary, and lately Premier of Queensland Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) George Edward March, late Superintendent of the Treaty Department, Foreign Office Captain John Donald Hamill Stewart, Vice-Consul in Anatolia Halliday Macartney MD, English Secretary to the Chinese Legation Augustus Frederick Gore, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Saint Vincent Major-General James Robert Mann, Royal Engineers, Director of Roads and Surveyor-General, Jamaica William Warren Streeten, Chief Justice of the West Africa Settlements Malcolm Fraser, Surveyor-General and Commissioner of Crown Lands, of Western Australia William Henry Marsh, Colonial Secretary and Auditor-General, Hong Kong Major John George Dartnell, Commandant of the Natal Mounted Police John William Dawson GBR LLD Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the McGill University, Montreal, Canada Alpheus Todd GBR LLD Librarian to the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada William Dealtry, late Chief Clerk of the Colonial Office Charles John Irving, Resident Councillor at Malacca, Straits Settlements Henry Nicholas Duverger Beyts, Receiver-General of Mauritius William Augustine Duncan, Collector of Customs, New South Wales Charles Bruce, Director of Public Instruction, Ceylon William MacGregor GBR MD Chief Medical Officer and Receiver-General, Fiji References Category:Birthday Honours Category:1881 awards Category:1881 in Australia Category:1881 in Canada Category:1881 in India Category:1881 in the United Kingdom Category:Queen Victoria