The1903 Birthday Honours were announced on 9 November 1903, to celebrate the birthday of KingEdward VII that day. The list included appointments tovarious orders and honours of theUnited Kingdom and theBritish Empire.

The list was published inThe Times 9 November 1903,^[1] and the various honours were gazetted inThe London Gazette on 6 November 1903^[2] and 17 November 1903.^[3]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander,etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil).

• ColonelJohn Edward Bingham
• Lees Knowles, Esq.,MP

• John George Craggs, Esq.
• Robert Kennaway Douglas, Esq.,British Museum
• Ernest Francis Swan Flower, Esq.,MP
• ProfessorClement Le Neve Foster,FRS
• Henry Alexander Giffard, Esq.,KC,Bailiff of Guernsey
• Charles Holroyd, Esq., Keeper of theTate Gallery
• John Macdonell, Esq.,CB, Master in the Supreme Court
• Alan Reeve Manby, Esq.,MVO
• August Friedrich Manns, Esq., Musical Director of the Crystal Palace
• Harry Simon Samuel, Esq.,MP
• Charles Scarisbrick, Esq.
• His Honour Judge Snagge
• William H. Venables Vernon, Esq.,Bailiff of Jersey

British Empire

• The HonourableFrancis Bathurst Suttor,President of the Legislative Council of the State ofNew South Wales
• Edward Dundas Holroyd, Esq., Puisne Judge and Senior Member of the Supreme Court Bench of theState of Victoria
• Nathaniel Nathan, Esq., on retirement asAttorney-General of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago
• Henry Katz Davson, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the West India Committee, and formerly Member of the Court of Policy of theColony of British Guiana

Military Division

• Admiral SirCyprian Arthur George Bridge, KCB.

Military Division

• AdmiralAlgernon Frederick Rous de Horsey.
• AdmiralAlbert Hastings Markham.
• Vice-Admiral John Fellowes, CB.
• Vice-Admiral theLord Charles Beresford, KCVO, CB.

Civil Division

• Thomas Little Heath, Esq.,Treasury.
• ColonelDuncan Alexander Johnston, RE, Director-General ofOrdnance Survey, Southampton.
• Robert Sidney Mitford, Esq.,Commissioner of Prisons.
• Thomas Pitts, Esq., Assistant Secretary,Local Government Board.
• Charles Sandiford, Esq., Principal Engineer of theUganda Railway.
• Hubert Llewellyn Smith, Esq.,Board of Trade.
• Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, Esq., DSO, MP.

• The HonourableAugustus Charles Gregory, CMG, formerlySurveyor General of Queensland, Member of theLegislative Council.

• The HonourableHenry Bruce Lefroy,Agent General for the State of Western Australia.
• The HonourableJustin Fox Greenlaw Foxton, Member of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Queensland, and late Secretary for Public Lands.
• Herbert Wace, Esq.,Government Agent of the Central Province of the Island ofCeylon.
• ColonelLouis-Félix Pinault,Deputy-Minister of Militia and Defence of the Dominion of Canada.
• Leslie Probyn, Esq., Secretary to the Government of theProtectorate of Southern Nigeria.
• James Allwood, Esq., Collector-General of Customs, Excise, and Internal Revenue of the Island of Jamaica.
• Thomas Herbert Kershaw, Esq., late Legal Adviser,Federated Malay States.
• Charles Henry Ommanney, Esq., Solicitor to theCrown Agents for the Colonies.
• Major James Deane, Military Secretary to the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of theColony of the Cape of Good Hope.
• Louis-Philippe Hébert, Esq., Artist and Sculptor, Dominion of Canada.

• Richard George Penn, Earl Howe,Lord Chamberlain to Her MajestyQueen Alexandra.

• General LordWilliam Frederick Ernest Seymour,Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
• Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale, CVO, CB. (Received the honour of Knighthood.)
• Lieutenant-GeneralArthur Lyttelton Lyttelton-Annesley, Colonel of the11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars. (Received the honour of Knighthood.)

• John Savile Lumley-Savile, Baron Savile.
• Commander SirAllen William Young, CB, RNR (Retd.)
• ColonelDouglas Haig, CB, Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty the King.
• Lieutenant-ColonelCharles Arthur Andrew Frederick, MVO (Coldstream Guards). Deputy-Master of the Household and Extra Equerry to His Majesty the King.

• Captain William Webster, MVO (Fifth Class), Clerk Comptroller in theLord Steward's Department.
• Arthur Abraham David Sassoon, Esq.
• ColonelAlbert Edward Williamson Goldsmid.

For services in securing the safety of His Majesty's ShipVictory when in peril of sinking.

• Captain Thomas James Henry Rapson, Royal Navy, Staff Captain ofPortsmouth Dockyard.
• William Henry Gard, Esq., Royal Navy, Chief Constructor of Portsmouth Dockyard.

On the occasion of the Presentation of Colours by Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, on behalf of His Majesty, to the 2nd BattalionHighland Light Infantry.

• Lieutenant-Colonel Carteret Walter Carey.

Honorary Member

• Corvetten-Capitan Rudolf Hitter von Benigni in Müldenberg (Austrian Navy). Attached to Lord Methuen's special mission to Vienna.

• John Michie, Esq., His Majesty'sFactor atBalmoral.

On the occasion of the Presentation of Colours by Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, on behalf of His Majesty, to the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry.

• Lieutenant Henry Balfour Fergusson Bryant.
• Lieutenant Lionel Graham Pringle.

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