1881 Birthday Honours

The 1881 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 24 May 1881.[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

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Military Division

Royal Navy

Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour

Army

General the Earl of Longford

Military Division

Royal Navy

Admiral the Honourable Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot
Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe
Vice-Admiral the Right Honourable Lord John Hay
Captain Frederick William Richards

Army

General George Colt Langley
General William Montagu Scott McMurdo
General Lord Mark Kerr
General His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar
General John Thornton Grant
Lieutenant-General George Vaughan Maxwell
Lieutenant-General Alexander Macdonell
Lieutenant-General Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker
Lieutenant-General John Forbes
Honorary Major-General John Coke
Colonel Charles George Arbuthnot
Colonel Charles Cooper Johnson Bengal Staff Corps

Civil Division

Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham, Londonderry Militia
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Hambleton Francis Custance, West Norfolk Militia
Lieutenant-Colonel Viscount Ranelagh, 2nd (South) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Loyd-Lindsay First Berkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
Thomas Brassey, Honorary Commander of the Liverpool Brigade of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers
Captain Frederick John Owen Evans
Alfred Comyn Lyall

Military Division

Royal Navy

Vice-Admiral Richard Dunning White
Vice-Admiral Edward Bridges Rice
Captain Sholto Douglas
Captain William Arthur

Army

Lieutenant-General Joseph Henry Laye
Major-General Francis Peyton
Major-General John Henry Ford Elkington
Major-General James Gubbins
Major-General John Gordon
Major-General George Godfrey Pearse
Colonel Reginald Gipps, Scots Guards
Colonel George Byng Harman, late Brigade Depot
Colonel Allen Bayard Johnson, Bengal Staff Corps
Colonel John Alexander Mathew Macdonald, Bombay Staff Corps
Colonel George Scougall Macbean, Bengal Staff Corps
Colonel Robert Crosse Stewart, late 2nd Foot
Colonel Frederick Dobson Middleton, late 29th Foot
Colonel the Honourable James Charlemagne Dormer, late 13th Foot
Colonel Rowley Sale Hill, Bengal Infantry
Colonel Charles Edward Cumberland, Royal Engineers
Colonel William French, Royal Artillery
Colonel John William Hoggan, Bengal Staff Corps
Colonel Thomas Gaily Ross, Bengal Staff Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Macnaghten Armstrong, Bengal Staff Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Dawson Stockley Warren, 14th Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Donald Malcolm, Royal Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Copland, Bengal Staff Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Cromer Ashburnham, 60th Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Augustus Bushman, 9th Lancers
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Montizambert Stockwell, 72nd Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel John Frederick Crease, Royal Marine Artillery
Major Joseph Philips, Royal Marine Light Infantry
Major John Ramsay Slade, Royal Artillery
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Daniel John Duigan
Deputy Surgeon-General John O'Nial, Army Medical Department
Surgeon-Major Samuel Black Roe Army Medical Department
Deputy Commissary-General Henry John Brownrigg, Commissariat and Transport Staff
Assistant Commissary-General Henry Spencer Edward Reeves, Commissariat and Transport Staff

Civil Division

Colonel Lord Hatherton, the (King's Own) 2nd Stafford Militia
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise, West Essex Militia
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel David Carrick Robert Carrick Buchanan, 2nd Royal Lanark Militia
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel John Williams Wallington, Royal North Gloucester Militia
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir John Stephen Robinson Louth Militia
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir Thomas Oriel Forster Monaghan Militia
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Winn Knight, 1st Worcester Rifle Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel David Davidson, 1st (The Queen's City of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade)
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Watkin Shakerley 5th Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Barttelot Barttelot 2nd Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Charles Hugh Lindsay, 6th Middlesex (St. George's) Rifle Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel and Vice-Admiral Thomas Chaloner, 1st North Riding of Yorkshire Artillery Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Ewen Macpherson, 1st Inverness (Highland) Rifle Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Addison Potter, 1st Northumberland and Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Sagar Hirst, 3rd West Riding of Yorkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir James Bourne Royal Lancashire Artillery Militia
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Edwards 2nd West Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot 1st Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert John Tilney, 5th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Stock Hill, 1st Glamorgan Artillery Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Matheson, 1st Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteer Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Leopold George Frederick Keane, Waterford Artillery, Militia
Sir Allen William Young, Commanding the London Brigade of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers
Ernest Hobart Inman, Commanding the Liverpool Brigade of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers
Charles Lister Ryan, Assistant Comptroller and Auditor-General
Frederick James Fegen, Paymaster in the Royal Navy
Captain Andrew Noble, late Royal Artillery

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 Sujjun Singh, Maharana of Udaipur

Knight Commander (KCSI)

General Orfeur Cavenagh, Bengal Staff Corps
Charles Umpherston Aitchison Bengal Civil Service, Chief Commissioner British Burmah
His Highness Tukht Singh, Thakur Saheb of Bhavnagur
James Davidson Gordon Bengal Civil Service, Resident at Mysore
John Forsyth Inspector-General of Hospitals (Retired), Bengal Medical Service
Lepel Henry Griffin Bengal Civil Service, Agent to the Governor-General in Central India

Companion (CSI)

Donald Campbell Macnabb, Bengal Civil Service (Retired), late Commissioner Punjab
Wazirzadah Muhammad Afzal Khan, late Political Assistant in Afghanistan
Major-General John Salusbury Trevor (Retired), Royal (late Bombay) Engineers, lately Director-General of State Railways
Horace Abel Cockerell, Bengal Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, in the Judicial and Political Department
Colonel Samuel Black, Bengal Staff Corps, Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Military Department

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Star of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Queensland
Major-General Sir Harry St George Ord Royal Engineers

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

Sir Francis Dillon Bell Agent-General in England for New Zealand, and late Speaker of the House of Representatives in that Colony
George Berkeley Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands
Hector-Louis Langevin Minister of Public Works in the Dominion of Canada
Major-General George Richards Greaves late Chief Secretary and Chief of the Staff in Cyprus
Arthur Hunter Palmer, Colonial Secretary, and lately Premier of Queensland

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

Augustus Frederick Gore, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Saint Vincent
Major-General James Robert Mann, Royal Engineers, Director of Roads and Surveyor-General, Jamaica
William Warren Streeten, Chief Justice of the West Africa Settlements
Malcolm Fraser, Surveyor-General and Commissioner of Crown Lands, of Western Australia
William Henry Marsh, Colonial Secretary and Auditor-General, Hong Kong
Major John George Dartnell, Commandant of the Natal Mounted Police
John William Dawson Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Alpheus Todd Librarian to the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada
William Dealtry, late Chief Clerk of the Colonial Office
Charles John Irving, Resident Councillor at Malacca, Straits Settlements
Henry Nicholas Duverger Beyts, Receiver-General of Mauritius
William Augustine Duncan, Collector of Customs, New South Wales
Charles Bruce, Director of Public Instruction, Ceylon
William MacGregor Chief Medical Officer and Receiver-General, Fiji

References

"No. 24976". The London Gazette. 24 May 1881. pp. 2673–2675.

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