National awards given by Queen Victoria
The1896 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 Times [ 3]
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 ] The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath [ edit ] Military Division Civil Division [ edit ] Military Division Civil Division [ edit ] Military Division Surgeon-Major-General Charles Dodgson MaddenQHS Major-General William Walters Biscoe, Bengal Cavalry. Major-GeneralRevell Eardley-Wilmot , Bengal Infantry. Major-General Robert Melvill Jennings, Bengal Cavalry, commanding a Second Class District in India. Major-General Hugh Richard Hope, Madras Cavalry. Colonel George Augustus Way, Indian Staff Corps. Colonel John Robert Collins Colonel George Tindal Pretyman, Royal Artillery. ColonelRichard Hebden O'Grady Haly DSO ColonelRonald Bertram Lane , Assistant Military Secretary, Headquarters. ColonelEuston Henry Sartorius VC ColonelReginald Clare Hart VC Colonel Alexander Ferrier Kidston, Regimental District. Colonel Dudley North, Assistant Adjutant-General, Canada. Colonel (Brigadier-General) George Crawford Hogg, Bombay Cavalry, commanding a Second Class District in India. Colonel Elphinstone Waters BegbieDSO Colonel Henry Fyers Turner, Deputy Inspector-General of Fortifications. Lieutenant-Colonel and ColonelDouglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton, Earl of Dundonald . 2nd Life Guards. Colonel Patrick Douglas Jeffreys, Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters, India. Colonel Robert Patch, Indian Staff Corps. Colonel Pelham James Maitland, Indian Staff Corps, Deputy Secretary, Military Department, Government of India. Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Robert Hunter Murray,Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany's). Major and Brevet Colonel Arthur Gethin Creagh, Royal Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Alphonsus Dunne, Army Service Corps, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, North-Eastern District. Lieutenant-Colonel Marcus Edward Read Rainsford, Army Service Corps, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, Egypt. Lieutenant-ColonelEdward Willis Duncan Ward , Army Service Corps, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, Home District. Lieutenant-ColonelEdward Robert Prevost Woodgate , theKing's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) . Civil Division Sir Henry Neville Dering Bt John Hamilton Franks, Secretary to the Irish Land Commission. David Gill , Her Majesty's Astronomer,Cape of Good Hope .Henry Arthur William Hervey, late Chief Clerk, Foreign Office. Edward Leigh Pemberton , late Assistant Under Secretary of State, Home Office.Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel (retired)Henry Smith , Commissioner of the City of London Police. William Jameson Soulsby , Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor.Josiah Vavasseur Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India. [ edit ] James Fairbairn Finlay, Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance and Commerce Department. Insignia of a Knight / Dames Commander of the Royal Victorian Order [ edit ] [ edit ] Colonel the Hon. William James ColvilleCB [ edit ] [ edit ] Star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. [ edit ] [ edit ] The Hon.Hugh Muir Nelson , Premier Chief Secretary, and Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of Queensland. The Hon.Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau [ edit ] Somerset Richard French, Postmaster-General of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Henry O'Connell Cardozo, Superintendent of Revenue Survey, Madras. Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-ColonelBenjamin Franklin Thomas Higham, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch. Major John ShakespearDSO Leinster Regiment . Sardar Ratan Singh, President of the Council of Regency of theJind State . Raja Bhup Indra Bikram Singh, of Piagpur. Major James John Macleod, Officiating Commandant,Bihar Light Horse . Captain Norman Franks Arthur Henry Plunkett Rao Bahadur Chunilal Venilal
