1877 Birthday Honours

Appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours August 2016 August 2016 The 1877 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 30 May and 2 June 1877. 24464 3442–3443 30 May 1877 24467 3497–3498 2 June 1877 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 Admiral Sir George Rodney Mundy GBR KCB Army General Sir William Wyllie GBR KCB Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Edward Chapman GBR KCB Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Paul Haines GBR KCB Lieutenant-General Sir David Edward Wood GBR KCB Major-General Sir John Douglas GBR KCB Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Royal Navy Admiral George Elliot Vice-Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour GBR CB Rear-Admiral William Houston Stewart GBR CB Army Lieutenant-General Arthur Borton GBR CB Lieutenant-General Richard Waddy GBR CB Lieutenant-General Henry Dalrymple White GBR CB Major-General William Sherbrooke Ramsay Norcott GBR CB Major-General Daniel Lysons GBR CB Major-General Charles Lawrence D'Aguilar GBR CB Major-General James Talbot Airey GBR CB Major-General Alexander Taylor GBR CB Major-General Michael Galwey GBR CB Major-General George Wade Guy Green GBR CB Major-General Thomas Hurdle GBR CB late Royal Marines Inspector-General of Hospital and Fleets William Richard Edwin Smart GBR CB MD Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral Richard James, Lord Gilford Captain John Bythesea GBR VC Captain Arthur Wilmshurst Captain William Gore Jones Captain George Augustus Cooke Brooker Captain William Horton Captain Henry William Hire Captain Joseph Henry Marryat Captain Henry Frederick McKillop Captain Hubert Campion Captain Edward Hardinge Captain William Graham Captain Anthony Hiley Hoskins Captain Henry Hamilton Beamish Army Lieutenant-General John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple Major-General Alfred Huyshe Major-General Lord Alexander George Russell Major-General Charles John Foster Colonel Edward Seager, Inspecting Officer of Auxiliary Cavalry Colonel Alexander Cunningham Robertson, Brigade Depot Colonel Robert Beaufoy Hawley, late 60th Regiment Colonel George Courtney Vialls, Brigade Depot Colonel William Charles Robertson Macdonald, Madras Staff Corps Colonel George Bridges Rodney, Royal Marines Colonel William Frederick, Lord Abinger, Scots Guards Colonel James Thomas Walker, Royal (late Bombay) Engineers Colonel Octavius Edward Rothney GBR CSI Bengal Staff Corps Colonel Campbell Claye Grant Ross, Bengal Staff Corps Captain Robert Calder Allen Colonel Thomas Casey Lyons, late Brigade Depot Colonel Alexander James Hardy Elliot Colonel Robert Biddulph, Royal Artillery Colonel Charles Cooper Johnson, Bengal Staff Corps Colonel Osborn Wilkinson, Bengal Cavalry Colonel Frederick Richard Solly-Flood, 82nd Regiment Colonel Edward William Bray, 4th Regiment Colonel Talbot Ashley Cox, 3rd Regiment Colonel Charles Edward Oldershaw, Royal Artillery Colonel John Elliott, late Royal Marines Lieutenant-Colonel James Bevan Edwards, Royal Engineers Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Delafosse, 101st Regiment Lieutenant-Colonel Nevinson Willoughby de Courcy, Royal Marines Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets William Thomas Domville GBR MD Deputy Commissary-General Arthur William Downes 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) Field-Marshal His Royal Highness George William Frederick Charles, Duke of Cambridge GBR KG GCB KP GCMG Knight Commander (KCSI) Joseph Dalton Hooker GBR MD CB Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew Thomas Lawrence Seccombe GBR CB Financial Secretary to the Secretary of State for India in Council Companion (CSI) Colonel George Cliffe Hatch, Bengal Staff Corps Judge Advocate-General, Bengal Army Lieutenant-Colonel William George Davies, Bengal Staff Corps, Commissioner, Delhi 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) Field-Marshal His Royal Highness George William Frederick Charles, Duke of Cambridge GBR KG GCMG Commanding-in-Chief the Forces, to be Grand Master and First or Principal Knight Grand Cross of the said Most Distinguished Order Field-Marshal His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales GBR KG The Most Honourable the Marquess of Normanby GBR KCMG Governor of the Colony of New Zealand Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Major-General Sir Harry Saint George Ord GBR Kt CB Royal Engineers, lately Governor of the Straits Settlements Sir Redmond Barry GBR Kt Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria Sir Henry Watson Parker GBR Kt formerly First Minister of the Colony of New South Wales John Bayley Darvall GBR CMG formerly Attorney-General of the Colony of New South Wales Stephen Walcott GBR CMG Her Majesty's Commissioner for Emigration William Cleaver Francis Robinson GBR CMG Governor of the Colony of Western Australia Major Robert Miller Mundy GBR CMG lately Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of British Honduras Major-General Patrick Leonard MacDougall, Deputy Quartermaster-General, formerly Adjutant-General of the Militia of the Dominion of Canada Major-General John Henry Lefroy GBR RA CB lately Governor of the Bermuda Islands Major-General Edward Selby Smyth, Commanding the Militia of the Dominion of Canada Brigadier-General Robert Michael Laffan, Royal Engineers, Governor of the Bermuda Islands John Robertson, lately First Minister of the Colony of New South Wales Henry Parkes, First Minister of the Colony of New South Wales Arthur Blyth, lately First Minister of the Colony of South Australia Sir Henry Thurstan Holland GBR Bt CMG MP late Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies William Wellington Cairns GBR CMG Governor of the Colony of South Australia Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse GBR CMG Governor of the Island of Heligoland William Fitzherbert GBR CMG formerly Colonial Treasurer and Member of the Executive Government and Executive Council of New Zealand, and Special Agent for that Colony Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) J. Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan, Governor of the Falkland Islands William Robinson, Governor of the Bahama Islands Hudson Ralph Janisch, Governor of the Island of Saint Helena George Dundas, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Saint Vincent George William Des Vœux, Administrator of the Government of the Island of Saint Lucia Frederick Palgrave Barlee, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of British Honduras Joseph Trutch, lately Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia Cyril Clerke Graham, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Grenada John Douglas, First Minister of the Colony of Queensland Edwin Donald Baynes, Colonial Secretary for the Leeward Islands John Scott Bushe, Colonial Secretary for the Island of Trinidad William Alexander George Young, Government Secretary for the Colony of British Guiana Gustave Barthélémy Colin, lately Procureur and Advocate-General of the Island of Mauritius Frederick Napier Broome, Colonial Secretary for the Colony of Natal Alexander Wilson Moir, President of the Island of Saint Christopher John d'Auvergne Dumaresq, Colonial Secretary for the Gold Coast Colony George Vane, Treasurer of the Island of Ceylon Thomas Russell, formerly Defence Minister of the Colony of New Zealand James Henry Keens, formerly President of the Privy Council of the Island of Tobago John Smith, President of the Council of Education for the Colony of New South Wales Alexander Murray, Director of the Geological Survey of the Island of Newfoundland Sandford Fleming, Royal Engineers, Engineer-in-Chief of the Canadian Pacific Railway John Palliser, lately in Command of an Expedition sent by the Government of Canada to the Rocky Mountains Major Donald R. Cameron GBR RA lately Chief Officer of the British Boundary Commission, Canada Captain Samuel Anderson, Royal Engineers, lately Chief Astronomer of the British Boundary Commission, Canada Captain George Arthur French GBR RA formerly Commissioner of the North-West Police, Canada Donald Currie Captain Louis Frederick Knollys, late of Her Majesty's 32nd Regiment of Foot, lately Commanding Armed Constabulary in the Colony of Fiji Arthur J. L. Gordon, Private Secretary to the Governor of the Colony of Fiji Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright, Governor of the Colony of British Guiana Lieutenant-Colonel William Grossman, R.E., lately Her Majesty's Commissioner of Enquiry into the Financial Affairs of the Province of Griqua Land West Henry Lushington Phillips, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Natal, and lately Acting Chief Justice for the Island of Barbados Colonel Antonio Mattel, R.M.F.A., for many years Lieutenant-Colonel in Command of the Royal Malta Fencible Artillery References Category:Birthday Honours Category:1877 awards Category:1877 in Australia Category:1877 in Canada Category:1877 in India Category:1877 in the United Kingdom Category:Queen Victoria