National awards given by Queen Victoria
The1871 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]
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 ] [ edit ] Royal Navy Army [ edit ] Royal Navy Army [ edit ] Royal Navy Army Colonel Edward Herbert Maxwell, 88th Regiment Colonel Edward Kaye, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery Colonel William Gordon ColonelGeorge Harry Smith Willis Colonel Charles Vyvyan Cox, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery ColonelGeorge Wentworth Alexander Higginson , Grenadier Guards Colonel William Boyle, 89th Regiment ColonelRobert William Lowry , 47th Regiment ColonelJohn Blick Spurgin CSI Colonel Robert John Eagar, 31st Regiment Colonel the HonourableHussey Fane Keane , Royal Engineers Colonel Alexander Caesar Hawkins, Royal Artillery Colonel Richard Parke, Royal Marines Colonel Fairfax Charles Hassard, Royal Engineers Colonel George Shaw, Royal Artillery ColonelJohn Chetham McLeod , 42nd Regiment Colonel Sir Seymour John BlaneBt Colonel James Clerk Rattray, 90th Regiment Colonel Thomas Wright, Bengal Staff Corps ColonelCharles George Arbuthnot , Royal Artillery Lieutenant-ColonelHoward Craufurd Elphinstone CB (Civil) CMG VC Lieutenant-ColonelCharles Henry Palliser , Bengal Staff Corps Lieutenant-ColonelWalter Fane , Madras Staff Corps Inspector-General of Hospitals Joshua Paynter Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Richard James O'Flaherty Surgeon-Major John Ashton Bostock ControllerWilliam Henry Maturin Colonel William Manley Hall Dixon, of the Royal Artillery, Superintendent of the Royal Small Arms Factory Deputy Controller Ben Hay Martindale Assistant Controller Joseph Osbertus Hamley Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India [ edit ] [ edit ] The Nawab Mohsin-ood-Dowlah Bahadoor of Oude His Highness Mohubut Khan, Nawab ofJoonaghur Major-General George Inglis Jameson, Bombay Army, late President of the Military Finance Commission for India, Auditor of the Accounts of the Department of the Secretary of State for India in Council John William Kaye , formerly of the Bengal Artillery, now Secretary in the Political and Secret Department of the Office of the Secretary of State for India in CouncilHenry Sumner Maine , late Member of the Council of the Governor-General of IndiaKhajah Abdool Gunny, of Dacca, late Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for making Laws and Regulations Vembankum Ramiergar, Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras for making Laws and Regulations Istakant Shungoony Menon, Dewan of His Highness the Rajah of Cochin Mir Shaharaut Ali, Superintendent of the State of Rutlam in Central India Mahomed Akram Khan , Nawab ofAmb SirJamsetjee Jejeebhoy Bt Munguldass Nuthoobhoy, Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations Lionel Robert Ashburner , Bombay Civil Service, Collector and Magistrate of KandeishMajor-GeneralAlexander Cunningham , late Bengal Army, Director-General of theArchaeological Survey of India
