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1892 Birthday Honours
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The 1892 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 1892 26291 3137–3139 24 May 1892 and in The Times on 25 May 1892.Birthday Honours The Times 10 25 May 1892
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
The Right Hon. Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson GBR Bt MP
Sir Evelyn Baring GBR GCMG KCB Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Cairo.
Privy Councillor
The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
Alexander Bruce, Lord Balfour of Burleigh.
Baronetcies
Francis Sharp Powell GBR MP
Henry Wiggin GBR MP
Knight Bachelor
Frederick Bateman GBR MD
William James Bell GBR LLD
William James Richmond Cotton, City Remembrancer.
John Gardner Engleheart GBR CB Clerk of the Council of the Duchy of Lancaster.
George Findlay, General Manager of the London and North Western Railway.
George Johnson GBR MD FRS Physician Extraordinary to her Majesty.
Robert Micks, Secretary of the Excise Department, Inland Revenue Board.
Joseph Palmer Abbott, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales.
Alexandre Lacoste, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Quebec.
George Clarke Pill, President of the Legislative Council of the Island of Barbados.
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 (KGCB)
Military Division
Admiral Sir George Ommanney Willes GBR KCB
Civil Division
Sir Julian Pauncefote GBR GCMG KCB Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division
Vice-Admiral John Ommanney Hopkins.
Vice-Admiral Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage.
General John William Collman Williams, Royal Marine Artillery.
Civil Division
Godfrey Lushington GBR CB Under Secretary of State, Home Office.
Lieutenant-General Richard Hieram Sankey GBR CB (Military Division), Chairman Board of Public Works, Ireland.
Henry Jenkyns GBR CB Parliamentary Counsel.
Courtenay Boyle GBR CB Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade (Railway Department).
Lieutenant-Colonel George Archibald Leach GBR CB late Royal Engineers, late Secretary to the Board of Agriculture.
Admiral William Windham Hornby, Commissioner, Prison Department, Home Office.
John Evans GBR DCL LLD President of the Society of Antiquaries.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Military Division
Capt. Uvedale Corbet Singleton GBR RN
Capt. Rodney Maclaine Lloyd GBR RN
Capt. Tynte Ford Hammill GBR RN
Capt. Sir William Cecil Henry Domville GBR Bt RN
Capt. Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson GBR RN
Capt. Henry John May GBR RN
Commander Robert Archibald James Montgomerie GBR RN
Colonel Arthur French GBR ADC Royal Marine Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Guise Tucker, Royal Marine Artillery.
Fleet Surgeon Edward Elphinstone Mahon GBR RN
William Castle GBR RN Chief Inspector of Machinery
Civil Division
James Caulfeild, Viscount Charlemont, late Comptroller of the Household to the Viceroy of Ireland.
George Culley, Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests.
Joseph Brown GBR QC Chairman of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting.
William Patrick O'Brien, General Prisons Board, Ireland.
Henry Nicol, late Superintendent, Treasury County Court Department.
Charles S. Murdoch, Home Office.
William Clayton Pickersgill, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul in Madagascar.
Louis Brennan, Superintendent of the Brennan Torpedo Factory.
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)
Colonel His Highness Maharaja Pratap Singh, Indar Mahindar Bahadur, Sipar-i-Sultanat of Jammu and Kashmir.
Knight Commander (KCSI)
Sir Auckland Colvin GBR KCMG CIE Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioner of Oudh.
Henry Edward Stokes GBR CSI Madras Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras.
His Excellency Maharaja Bir Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister of Nepal.
Maharaja Mana Vikrama Bahadur Zamorin of Calicut.
Companion (CSI)
Sir Edward Charles Buck, Bengal Civil Service, Secretary to Government of India, Revenue and Agriculture Department.
Henry John Stedman Cotton, Bengal Civil Service, Officiating Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Member of the Legislative Council of Bengal.
Surgeon-Major-General William Roche Rice GBR MD Indian Medical Service, Surgeon-General and Sanitary Commissioner with Government of India.
Colonel Frederick Jervis Home, Royal Engineers, Inspector-General of Irrigation and Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Public Works Department.
Major Henry St. Patrick Maxwell, Indian Staff Corps, Deputy Commissioner, Assam, and Political Agent and Superintendent of the Manipur State.
Surgeon-Major George Scott Robertson, Bengal Establishment, Agency Surgeon, Gilgit.
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)
Major-General Sir Francis Wallace Grenfell GBR KCB for services rendered in Egypt.
Sir Horace Rumbold GBR Bt KCMG Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
John Joseph Caldwell Abbott GBR DCL QC Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada and President of the Queen's Privy Council for the Dominion.
Chaloner Alabaster, Her Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.
Patrick Alphonsus Buckley, Attorney-General and Colonial Secretary of the Colony of New Zealand.
Ferdinando Vincenzo Inglott GBR CMG late Postmaster-General of the Island of Malta.
Oliver Mowat GBR LLD QC Attorney-General and Premier of the Province of Ontario in the Dominion of Canada.
Sir William Montagu Manning GBR Kt LLD Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New South Wales.
Elwin Mitford Palmer GBR CMG for services rendered in Egypt.
Sir David Tennant GBR Kt Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Alfred Edmund Bateman, of the Board of Trade, for services in connection with British Commercial interests abroad.
Lewis Adolphus Bernays, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Queensland.
George Mercer Dawson GBR DS LLD Assistant Director and Geologist of the Geological and Natural History Survey of the Dominion of Canada, one of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Behring's Sea Fishery.
Robert William Span Mitchell, Government Emigration Agent in Calcutta for the Colonies of British Guiana and Natal.
Morice Pasha, for services rendered in Egypt.
Joseph Henry Phillips, Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of the Colony of British Honduras.
Thomas Shelford, an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements.
Walter Ernest Mortimer Stanford, Chief Magistrate of Griqualand East, in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
James Alexander Swettenham, Auditor-General and Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Island of Ceylon.
Everard Ferdinand im Thurn GBR MA Government Agent of the North-Western District of the Colony of British Guiana.
Francis Pratt Winter, Chief Judicial Officer and Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Possession of British New Guinea.
The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire
thumb|Riband, badge and star of the Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)
Sir James Broadwood Lyall GBR KCSI Bengal Civil Service, late Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab.
Maharaja Mirza Sir Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju GBR KCIE Mani Sultan Bahadur Garu Zamindar of Vizianagram
Knight Commander (KCIE)
Thiruvarur Muthuswamy Iyer GBR CIE one of the Puisne Judges, High Court of Judicature, Madras.
Griffith Humphrey Pugh Evans, Additional Member of the Council of the Viceroy of India for making Laws and Regulations.
Edward Charles Kayll Ollivant GBR CIE Bombay Civil Service, Political Agent and Collector of Stamp Revenue, Kathiawar.
Charles Pontifex, late Legal Adviser and Solicitor to the Secretary of State for India.
Henry Hoyle Howorth GBR MP
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Companion (CIE)
Lieutenant-Colonel John Walter Ottley, Royal Engineers, Chief Engineer and Joint Secretary to the Government of the Punjab.
Frederick Ewart Robertson, Chief Engineer of the East India Railway.
Romesh Chunder Dutt, Bengal Civil Service.
Arthur John Hughes, Superintending Engineer, North Western Provinces and Oudh.
William John Bird Clerke, Civil Engineer
Loudoun Francis MacLean, Civil Engineer
Lieutenant Hugh Daly, Indian Staff Corps, Superintendent, Northern Shan States.
James George Scott, Officiating Superintendent of the Northern Shan States.
George Pringle Rose, Officiating Deputy Manager, North Western Railway.
Raj Bahadur Jai Prakash Lal, Diwan of the Maharaja of Dumraon.
Raj Bahadur Kadir Dad Khan, Gul Khan, Deputy Collector, Sind.
Diwan Ganpat Rai, Extra Assistant-Commissioner, Baluchistan.
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer GBR CMG Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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