1871 Birthday Honours

The 1871 Birthday Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the Queen, and were published in The London Gazette on 20 May 1871.[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

Military Division

Royal Navy

Admiral the Honourable Sir Henry Keppel
Admiral Sir Alexander Milne
Admiral Sir Sydney Colpoys Dacres
General Sir Robert John Hussey Vivian

Army

General Sir William Fenwick Williams
Lieutenant-General Sir John Michel
Lieutenant-General Lord William Paulet

Military Division

Royal Navy

Rear-Admiral William Robert Mends
Rear-Admiral William King-Hall

Army

Lieutenant-General James Alexander
Lieutenant-General Edward Walter Forestier-Walker
Lieutenant-General John Fowler Bradford
Major-General David Russell
Major-General Henry William Stisted
Major-General Charles Richard, Earl De La Warr
Major-General Frederick Paul Haines
Major-General Thomas Montagu Steele
Major-General Collingwood Dickson
Major-General Charles Reid
Major-General James William Fitzmayer
Major-General Henry Charles Barnston Daubeney
David Dumbreck Inspector-General of Hospitals
Controller William Henry Drake

Military Division

Royal Navy

Vice-Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe
Rear-Admiral John Bourmaster Dickson
Captain the Honourable George Disney Keane
Captain Alan Henry Gardner
Captain William Rae Rolland
Captain Edward Winterton Turnour
Captain Arthur William Acland Hood
Captain Charles Fellowes
Captain Charles Codrington Forsyth

Army

Colonel Edward Herbert Maxwell, 88th Regiment
Colonel Edward Kaye, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery
Colonel William Gordon
Colonel George Harry Smith Willis
Colonel Charles Vyvyan Cox, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery
Colonel George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, Grenadier Guards
Colonel William Boyle, 89th Regiment
Colonel Robert William Lowry, 47th Regiment
Colonel John Black Spurgin 102nd Regiment
Colonel Robert John Eagar, 31st Regiment
Colonel the Honourable Hussey 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
Colonel John Chetham McLeod, 42nd Regiment
Colonel Sir Seymour John Blane late Rifle Brigade
Colonel James Clerk Rattray, 90th Regiment
Colonel Thomas Wright, Bengal Staff Corps
Colonel Charles George Arbuthnot, Royal Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Craufurd Elphinstone (Civil) Royal Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Palliser, Bengal Staff Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Fane, Madras Staff Corps
Inspector-General of Hospitals Joshua Paynter
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Richard James O'Flaherty
Surgeon-Major John Ashton Bostock Scots Fusilier Guards

Civil Division

Controller William 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

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

His Highness Dheraj Sumbho Sing, Maharana of Oodeypore
His Highness The Rao Pragmuljee of Cutch

Knight Commander (KCSI)

The Nawab Mohsin-ood-Dowlah Bahadoor of Oude
His Highness Mohubut Khan, Nawab of Joonaghur
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 Council
Henry Sumner Maine, late Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India

Companion (CSI)

Khajah 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 of Amb
Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy late Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations
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 Kandeish
Major-General Alexander Cunningham, late Bengal Army, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India

References

"No. 23739". The London Gazette. 20 May 1871. pp. 2473–2474.

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[1] "No. 23739". The London Gazette. 20 May 1871. pp. 2473–2474.

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Birthday Honours	1860 1861 1862 1863§ 1864§ 1865§ 1866 1867 1868§ 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876§ 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887† 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897† 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911† 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937† 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953† 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 § Not issued † Not issued because of Jubilee Honours (1887, 1897) and Coronation Honours (1911, 1937, 1953)
New Year Honours	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902† 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940† 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 † Not issued because of Birthday Honours of new king (1902) and WWII (1940)
Coronation Honours	1821 1831 1838 1902 1911 1937 1953
PM's Resignation Honours	1895 1905 1916 1924 1945 1951 1955† 1957† 1963 1964 1970 1976 1979† 1990 1997 2007† 2010† 2016 2019 † Not issued
Dissolution Honours	1874 1885 1892 1895 1900† 1906† 1910† 1918† 1922 1923† 1924 1929 1931 1935† 1945 1950 1951† 1955† 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (February) 1974 (October) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017† 2019 † Not issued
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Additional Honours	1887 (Golden Jubilee) 1897 (Diamond Jubilee) 1911 (Delhi Durbar) 1923 Prime Minister 1935 (Silver Jubilee) 1969 (Investiture of the Prince of Wales) 1977 (Silver Jubilee) 1990 (Queen Mother's 90th Birthday) 2002 (Death of Queen Mother and Princess Margaret) 2002 (Golden Jubilee) 2012 (Diamond Jubilee) 2020 (Political)
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