Appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours
The1877 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 Army Lieutenant-GeneralJohn Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple Major-General Alfred Huyshe Major-GeneralLord Alexander George Russell Major-General Charles John Foster ColonelEdward 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 ColonelWilliam Frederick, Lord Abinger , Scots Guards ColonelJames Thomas Walker , Royal (late Bombay) Engineers Colonel Octavius Edward RothneyCSI ColonelCampbell Claye Grant Ross , Bengal Staff Corps CaptainRobert Calder Allen ColonelThomas Casey Lyons , late Brigade Depot ColonelAlexander James Hardy Elliot ColonelRobert Biddulph , Royal Artillery ColonelCharles Cooper Johnson , Bengal Staff Corps Colonel Osborn Wilkinson, Bengal Cavalry ColonelFrederick 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-ColonelJames 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 Deputy Commissary-General Arthur William Downes Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India [ edit ] [ edit ] Colonel George Cliffe Hatch, Bengal Staff Corps Judge Advocate-General, Bengal Army Lieutenant-Colonel William George Davies, Bengal Staff Corps, Commissioner, Delhi Star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George [ edit ] [ edit ] Major-General SirHarry Saint George Ord Kt CB SirRedmond Barry Kt SirHenry Watson Parker Kt John Bayley Darvall CMG Stephen WalcottCMG William Cleaver Francis Robinson CMG MajorRobert Miller Mundy CMG Major-GeneralPatrick Leonard MacDougall , Deputy Quartermaster-General, formerly Adjutant-General of the Militia of the Dominion of Canada Major-GeneralJohn Henry Lefroy RA CB Major-GeneralEdward Selby Smyth , Commanding the Militia of the Dominion of Canada Brigadier-GeneralRobert Michael Laffan , Royal Engineers, Governor of the Bermuda Islands John Robertson , lately First Minister of the Colony of New South WalesHenry Parkes , First Minister of the Colony of New South WalesArthur Blyth , lately First Minister of the Colony of South AustraliaSirHenry Thurstan Holland Bt CMG MP William Wellington Cairns CMG Lieutenant-ColonelHenry Berkeley Fitzhardinge Maxse CMG William Fitzherbert CMG [ edit ] J. Thomas Fitzgerald Callaghan , Governor of the Falkland IslandsWilliam Robinson , Governor of the Bahama IslandsHudson Ralph Janisch , Governor of the Island of Saint HelenaGeorge Dundas , Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Saint VincentGeorge William Des Vœux , Administrator of the Government of the Island of Saint LuciaFrederick Palgrave Barlee , Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of British HondurasJoseph Trutch , lately Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of British ColumbiaCyril Clerke Graham , Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of GrenadaJohn Douglas , First Minister of the Colony of QueenslandEdwin 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 GuianaGustave Barthélémy Colin, lately Procureur and Advocate-General of the Island of Mauritius Frederick Napier Broome , Colonial Secretary for the Colony of NatalAlexander 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 CeylonThomas Russell , formerly Defence Minister of the Colony of New ZealandJames 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 WalesAlexander Murray , Director of the Geological Survey of the Island of NewfoundlandSandford Fleming , Royal Engineers, Engineer-in-Chief of the Canadian Pacific RailwayJohn Palliser , lately in Command of an Expedition sent by the Government of Canada to the Rocky MountainsMajor Donald R. CameronRA Captain Samuel Anderson, Royal Engineers, lately Chief Astronomer of the British Boundary Commission, Canada CaptainGeorge Arthur French RA Donald Currie CaptainLouis 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 GuianaLieutenant-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
