National awards given by Queen Victoria
The1881 Birthday Honours were appointments byQueen Victoria tovarious orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate theofficial birthday of the Queen, and were published inThe London Gazette [ 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.
United Kingdom and British Empire [ edit ] Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath [ edit ] Royal Navy Army [ edit ] Royal Navy Army [ edit ] Royal Navy Vice-Admiral Richard Dunning White Vice-AdmiralEdward Bridges Rice Captain Sholto Douglas Captain William Arthur Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Daniel John Duigan Army Lieutenant-GeneralJoseph Henry Laye Major-General Francis Peyton Major-GeneralJohn Henry Ford Elkington Major-General James Gubbins Major-General John Gordon Major-General George Godfrey Pearse ColonelReginald Gipps , Scots Guards ColonelGeorge Byng Harman , late Brigade Depot ColonelAllen Bayard Johnson , Bengal Staff Corps Colonel John Alexander Mathew Macdonald, Bombay Staff Corps ColonelGeorge Scougall Macbean , Bengal Staff Corps Colonel Robert Crosse Stewart, late 2nd Foot ColonelFrederick Dobson Middleton , late 29th Foot Colonel the HonourableJames 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-ColonelCromer 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 MajorJohn Ramsay Slade , Royal Artillery Deputy Surgeon-General John O'Nial, Army Medical Department Surgeon-Major Samuel Black Roe Deputy Commissary-General Henry John Brownrigg, Commissariat and Transport Staff Assistant Commissary-General Henry Spencer Edward Reeves, Commissariat and Transport Staff ColonelLord Hatherton , the (King's Own) 2nd Stafford Militia Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary ColonelSamuel 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 RobinsonBt Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir Thomas Oriel ForsterBt Lieutenant-ColonelFrederick 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 ShakerleyBt Lieutenant-Colonel SirWalter Barttelot Barttelot Bt Lieutenant-Colonel the HonourableCharles 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 SirJames Bourne Bt Lieutenant-Colonel SirHenry Edwards Bt Lieutenant-Colonel SirHenry Wilmot Bt VC Lieutenant-Colonel Robert John Tilney, 5th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps Lieutenant-ColonelEdward 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 SirAllen 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-GeneralFrederick James Fegen, Paymaster in the Royal Navy CaptainAndrew Noble , late Royal Artillery Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India [ edit ] [ edit ] 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 Star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George [ edit ] [ edit ] [ edit ] George Edward March, late Superintendent of the Treaty Department, Foreign Office CaptainJohn Donald Hamill Stewart , Vice-Consul in Anatolia Halliday Macartney MD, English Secretary to the Chinese LegationAugustus 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 AustraliaWilliam Henry Marsh , Colonial Secretary and Auditor-General, Hong KongMajor John George Dartnell, Commandant of the Natal Mounted Police John William Dawson Alpheus Todd William Dealtry, late Chief Clerk of the Colonial Office Charles John Irving , Resident Councillor at Malacca, Straits SettlementsHenry Nicholas Duverger Beyts, Receiver-General of Mauritius William Augustine Duncan , Collector of Customs, New South WalesCharles Bruce , Director of Public Instruction, CeylonWilliam MacGregor
