The1894 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 in theLondon Gazette on 25 May 1894,^[1] and inThe Times on 26 May 1894.^[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.

The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:

• Jacob BrightMP
• SirArthur HayterBt MP

• James Reckitt.
• Weetman Dickinson Pearson
• Thomas Glen-Coats
• Samuel MontaguMP
• John AustinMP

• Dr.John Charles Bucknill, one of the originators of the National Volunteer Force in 1852.
• Louis-Napoléon Casault, Senior Puisne Judge of the Superior Court of the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada.
• John Joseph Grinlinton, Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Ceylon, Commissioner for that island at the recent Exhibition at Chicago.
• Francis Seymour Haden, President of theRoyal Society of Painter Etchers.
• John Hutton, Chairman of theLondon County Council.
• Philip ManfieldMP for Northampton.
• Jerom Murch, of Bath.
• Isaac Pitman, the originator ofPitman's system of shorthand.
• Thomas Wemyss Reid.
• The Hon.Arthur Renwick Commissioner for New South Wales at the recent Exhibition at Chicago, formerly Minister of Mines, Minister of Public Instruction, and now Member of the Legislative Council of that colony.
• James Alexander Russell,Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
• Thomas RobinsonMP forGloucester.
• The Hon.Frank Smith, Senator and Member of the Government of the Dominion of Canada.
• Dr.Thomas Grainger Stewart, Physician in Ordinary to the Queen in Scotland and Professor of Physic in the University of Edinburgh.
• Richard Tangye, of Birmingham.
• Thomas Thornton, Town Clerk of Dundee.
• George Williams, founder of theYoung Men's Christian Association.

Military Division

• General SirRobert Onesiphorus BrightKCB
• General Sir Robert PhayreKCB Indian Staff Corps.
• Honorary Major General Sir Charles Henry PalliserKCB retired full pay, late Indian Staff Corps.
• General SirCharles George ArbuthnotKCB Royal Artillery.
• Lieutenant-General the Rt. Hon. SirRedvers Henry BullerVC KCB Adjutant-General to the Forces.

Military Division

• General James Frankfort Manners BrowneCB Royal Engineers.
• Surgeon-GeneralJames MouatVC CB late Army Medical Department, Honorary Surgeon to the Queen.
• Honorary Major-General James Mansfield NuttallCB retired full pay, late Indian Staff Corps.
• GeneralJames AbbottCB Royal (late Bengal) Artillery.
• General Robert CadellCB Royal (late Madras) Artillery.
• General Henry Hastings Affleck WoodCB Indian Staff Corps.
• Major-GeneralFrederick William Edward Forestier-WalkerCB CMG Commanding the Force in Egypt.
• Lieutenant-GeneralEdward Newdigate NewdegateCB
• Lieutenant-GeneralHenry BrackenburyCB Royal Artillery, Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India.
• Honorary Major-General Robert John HughesCB
• Rear-AdmiralJohn Arbuthnot FisherCB Controller of the Navy.
• Colonel William GreenCB
• Lieutenant-General Robert John HayCB Royal Artillery, Director of Artillery.

Civil Division

• Edward Walter HamiltonCB Assistant Secretary to the Treasury.
• Augustus Wollaston FranksCB Keeper, Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, British Museum.

Military Division

• Deputy Surgeon-GeneralWilliam George Nicholas ManleyVC late Army Medical Department.
• Colonel Edward Lutwyche England.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and ColonelHorace Moule Evans, Indian Staff Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Francis James Caldecott, Royal (late Bombay) Artillery, Indian Ordnance Department.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Francis Eddowes Hastings, Indian Army.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Charles McInroy, Indian Staff Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and ColonelFrancis William Ward, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery, Colonel on Staff (for Royal Artillery), Bengal.
• Colonel John Jopp, Indian Staff Corps, Commanding a Second Class District in India.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Hugh Thomas Jones-Vaughan, Colonel on the Staff Commanding the Troops in the Straits Settlements.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edmund Henry Eyre, Indian Staff Corps, Quartermaster-General, Madras.
• Colonel William Freeman Kelly.
• Colonel Charles More Stockley, Regimental District.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel the Hon. George Hugh Gough,14th Hussars.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John Henry BarnardCMGAide-de-Camp to the Queen.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet ColonelThomas Hungerford Holdich, Royal Engineers.
• ColonelEdward Thomas Henry Hutton,Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Commandant Colonial Forces, New South Wales.
• Veterinary Lieutenant-Colonel William B. Walters, late Army Veterinary Department.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Broadfoot, Royal Artillery.

The following appointments to the Most Honourable Order of the Bath given in recognition of the services in the recent operations against Fodey Silah in Combo on the Gambia:

• Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Domville Corbet, Royal Marine Light Infantry.
• Fleet Surgeon William Rogerson White.

Civil Division

• Richard Davis Awdry, Assistant Secretary to the Admiralty.
• The Hon.Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe, Assistant Solicitor to the Treasury.
• Frederic Fitzjames Cullinan, Principal Clerk in the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle.
• Daniel Robert Fearon, Secretary to the Charity Commissioners.
• SirGeorge GroveKt Director of the Royal College of Music.
• Andrew Charles Howard, Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Police.
• Colonel Herbert Locock, Royal Engineers, Deputy Inspector-General of Fortifications, War Office.
• Alfred Milner, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue.
• Walter Murton, Solicitor to the Board of Trade.
• Edmund Constantine Henry Phipps, a Minister Plenipotentiary in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, Secretary to Her Majesty's Embassy at Paris.
• The Reverend Thomas Wetherhead Sharpe, Senior Chief Inspector of Schools, Education Department.

• Major GeneralOliver Richardson NewmarchCSI Military Secretary at the India Office.

• Major-General Robert Charles Boileau Pemberton, Royal Engineers.
• Arthur Charles Trevor, Indian Civil Service, Member of Council, Bombay.

• The Hon. SirHenry AyersKCMG five times Premier of South Australia, and subsequently for many years President of the Legislative Council of that Colony.

• Lieutenant-GeneralArthur James Lyon FremantleCB Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Malta.
• The Hon.James Brown Patterson, Premier and Chief Secretary of the Colony of Victoria.
• The Hon.John Lackey, President of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New South Wales.
• George Thomas Michael O'BrienCMG Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Hong Kong.
• Edwyn Sandys Dawes, for services in connection with the Colony of Queensland, and in developing steam communication between England and certain of Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions.

Honorary Knight Commander

• William Cornelius Van Horne, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.

• Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville, Senator of the Dominion of Canada.
• Colonel Frederick Cardew, now Administering the Government of the Colony of Sierra Leone, and lately Acting Resident Commissioner in Zululand.
• Charles Bletterman Elliott General Manager of Railways of the Cape of Good Hope.
• Capt.Hamilton John Goold-Adams, Commandant of the British Bechuanaland Border Police.
• Robert Grieve Surgeon-General of the Colony of British Guiana.
• Emanuel Charles Poupinel de Valencé, President of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius, and Vice-President of the General Board of Health in that Colony.

• ColonelThomas Hungerford Holdich, Royal Engineers, Superintendent, Survey Department.
• His Highness Mir Hasan Ali Khan.
• Colonel Frank William Chatterton, Commandant Administrative Battalion, Calcutta Volunteers, and HonoraryAide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India.
• George Abraham Grierson, Indian Civil Service.
• Francis Joseph Edward Spring, Joint Secretary to Government, Public Works Department, Railway Branch, Bombay.
• Edwin Welsh Kellner, Accountant-General, Punjab.
• Major Ivar Macivor, Indian Staff Corps
• Cowasjee Dinshaw, of Aden
• Thomas Blaney, President of the Municipal Corporation, Bombay.
• Graham Anderson.
• Tikka Raghunath Singh, of Bashahr.
• Rao Bahadur Sri Ram Bhikaji Jatar.

• Lieutenant and CommanderHerbert Goodenough King-HallRN
• Surgeon Walter BowdenRN

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