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1894 New Year Honours
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Appointments by Queen Victoria
February 2016
July 2026
The 1894 New Year Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published in The Times on 1 January 1984 New Year Honours. The Times 6 1 January 1984 and in The London Gazette on 2 January 1894.26472 2 January 1894 1–2
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.
Baronetcies
Leonard Lyell GBR MP
Theodore Fry GBR MP
Knighthoods
Thomas Roe GBR MP
Donald Horne Macfarlane GBR MP
Robert Hunter, Solicitor to the Post Office.
Colonial list
Fielding Clarke, Chief Justice of Hong Kong
John Winfield Bonser, Chief Justice of Ceylon
Hartley Williams, Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria
William Patrick Manning, Mayor of Sydney
Victoria Cross (VC)
Surgeon-Major Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd
Order of the Bath
Knights Grand Cross (GCB)
Civil division
Abdul Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan GBR GCSIh
Knights Commander (KCB)
Civil division
Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson GBR KCMG CB Assistant Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office.
The Hon. Robert Meade GBR CB Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
Companions (CB)
Military division
Colonel Edmond Roche Elles, Assistant Quartermaster-General (Intelligence Branch), Headquarters India
Civil division
William James Colville, Colonel in the Army (Retired List)
Cornelius Neale Dalton GBR CB, Assistant-Secretary to the Local Government Board
Charles E. Gifford, Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth
J. Norman Lockyer GBR FRS, Professor of Astronomy in the Royal College of Science
William Henry Preece, Engineer-in-Chief to the General Post Office
Order of the Star of India
Knights Commander (KCSI)
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand GBR KCIE CSI Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department
Companions (CSI)
Richard Udny, Commissioner and Superintendent, Peshawur Division
Jervoise Athelstane Baines, Member of the Indian Civil Service
William John Cuningham, Deputy Secretary and Acting Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department
Thomas Salter Pyne
Order of the Indian Empire
Knights Commander (KCIE)
The Maharao Raja of Bundi
The Maharaja of Karauli
The Maharaja of Orchha
Prince Jehan Kader Mirza Bahadur, of Oudh
Colonel John Charles Ardagh GBR CB CIE Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy
Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford GBR CIE VC Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.
James Lyle Mackay GBR CIE
Companions (CIE)
Pherozeshah Merwanji Mehta, Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India
William Robert Brooke, Director-General of Telegraphs in India
Paul Gregory Melitus, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department
Lieutenant-Colonel George Montgomery Moore, RA, Retired, President of the Madras Municipal Commission
Surgeon-Major Ernest Harrold Fenn
Major Richard Carnac Temple, Indian Staff Corps.
Major John William Hogge, Indian Staff Corps
Edward Claudius Scotney George, Officiating Deputy Commissioner of the Bhamo District
Robert William Edward Hampe Vincent, Acting Commissioner of Police, Bombay
Lieutenant Arthur Henry McMahon, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant John Manners Smith GBR VC Indian Staff Corps
John Stuart Donald, Assistant-Commissioner, Punjab.
Rai Bahadur Bankim Chunder Chatterjee.
Order of St Michael and St George
Knights Commander
Neale Porter GBR CMG Colonial Secretary of the Island of Jamaica
Jenkin Coles, Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Colony of South Australia
Westby Perceval, Agent-General in London for the Colony of New Zealand
Companions (CMG)
Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis GBR RN For services connected with certain islands in the Western Pacific.
John Edward Tanner GBR MICE late Director of Public Works and General Superintendent of Railways in the Island of Trinidad.
Frederick William Webb, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of New South Wales
Godfrey Yeatman Lagden, Government Secretary and Accountant of Basutoland.
George Edward Yorke Gleadowe, of Her Majesty's Treasury, for services connected with the award of compensation to British Sealers excluded from Behring Sea, under the modus vivendi with the United States of 1891.
(Honorary) Tungu Mohamed bin Antah, Yam Tuan Besar of Sri Menanti, President of the State Council of the Negri Sembilan Confederated States
Distinguished Service Order (DSO)
Captain Gordon Napier Caulfeild, Indian Staff Corps
Captain Hugh Neufville Taylor, Indian Staff Corps
Lieutenant John Henegan, Indian Staff Corps
References
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