1866 Birthday Honours


The 1866 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 25 May and 29 May 1866.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes and then divisions as appropriate.

United Kingdom and British Empire

[Duke] and [Earl]

Earl

  • The Right Honourable John, Baron Wodehouse, ''by the name, style, and title of Earl of Kimberley, of Kimberley, in the county of Norfolk''

The Most Exalted [Order of the Star of India">Order of the Star of India">The Most Exalted [Order of the Star of India]

Knight Commander (KCSI)

Companion (CSI)

  • The Nawab Syed Asghur Ali Khan
  • Fleetwood Williams, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit for the Meerut Division
  • The Nawab Foujdar Khan
  • Charles Raikes, Bengal Civil Service, late Judge of the Sudder Dewannee and Nizamut Adawlut, North West Provinces
  • The Rajah Bindessery Pershad, of Sirgooja and Oodeypoor
  • Samuel Mansfield, Bombay Civil Service, Commissioner in Scinde
  • The Rajah Pertab Chund Singh
  • Arthur Austin Roberts Benga Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner in the Punjab
  • The Rajah Sutto Chund Ghosal
  • Cudbert Bensley Thornhill, Bengal Civi Service, Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit at Allahabad
  • The Rajah Yelugoti Kumara Yachamu Nayuda Bahadoor, Zemindar of Veukatagiri
  • William Ford, Bengal Civil Service Commissioner at Mooltan
  • The Rajah Bhowanee Singh, of Mynpoorie
  • William Rose Robinson, Madras Civil Service, Inspector-General of Police, Madras Presidency
  • Colonel Crawford Trotter Chamberlain, Bengal Staff Corps, Commandant of the 1st Bengal Cavalry
  • The Rajah Sheoraj Singh, of Kasheepoor
  • Colonel Richard Strachey, Royal Engineers, late Secretary in the Public Works Department, Government of India
  • The Rajah Teekum Singh, of Morsan
  • Colonel Reynell George Taylor Bengal Staff Corps, Commissioner in the Punjab
  • The Rajah Jeswunt Rao, of Etawah
  • Colonel Alfred Thomas Wilde Madras Staff Corps, Commanding the Punjab Irregular Force
  • Dhe Rajah of Bansee, Goruckpoor
  • Colonel William Frederick Marriott, Bombay Staff Corps, Military Secretary to Government at Bombay
  • The Rajah Hurdeo Bux Bahadoor, of Kutyaree
  • Richard Temple, Bengal Civil Service, Chief Commissioner in the Central Provinces
  • The Rajah Dig Bijye Singh, of Morarmow
  • John Walter Sherer, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector in Bundlecund
  • The Dewan Cheeboo Lama
  • James Davidson Gordon, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector at Pubna
  • The Dewan Moolla Buksh, of Patna
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Edward John Lake, Royal Engineers, Financial Commissioner in the Punjab
  • Sirdar Soorut Singh, of Benares
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Colpoys Haughton, Bengal Staff Corps, Commissioner at Cooch-Behar
  • Syud Azimooddeen Hussun Khan Bahadoor
  • William Mackenzie Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, Madras Establishment
  • Syud Hussun al Edroos, of Surat
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Richard John Meade, Bengal Army, Agent for the Governor-General of India in Central India
  • Ruggonath Row Wittul, Chief of Vinchoor
  • Major Richard Harte Keatinge Bombay Staff Corps, Political Agent at Kattywar
  • Ghulam Ali Khan, Jaghirdar of Bunganapalle
  • Major William McNeile, Bengal Staff Corps, Deputy Commissioner in the Punjab
  • Baboo Prosunno Comar Tagne
  • Major John William Younghusband, Bombay Staff Corps, Inspector-General of Police in the Hyderabad Districts
  • Baboo Amendanath Roy, of Nattore
  • Eyre Burton Powell, Director of Public Instruction at Madras
  • Madanna Juggah Rao, of Rajahmundry
  • Sheth Maomull, of Kurrachee
  • John Fleming, of Bombay
  • Gajalu Lakshminarasu Seth
  • Abdoollah David Sassoon, of Bombay