1884 Birthday Honours


The 1884 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 in May and June 1884.
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

[Baron]

  • James, Earl of Seafield, by the name, style, and title of Baron Strathspey, of. Strathspey, in the counties of Inverness and Moray

[Knight Bachelor]

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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

Military Division
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Military Division
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Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Military Division
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  • Major-General John Davis
  • Colonel Edward Alexander Wood, 10th Hussars
  • Colonel Barnes Slyfield Robinson, Princess Victoria's'
  • Colonel Cornelius Francis Clery
  • Brigade Surgeon Edmund Greswold McDowell, Army Medical Department
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Green, the Black Watch
  • Lieutenant-Colonel William Byam, York and Lancaster Regiment
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur George Webster, 19th Hussars
  • Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles Ardagh, Royal Engineers
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Harry Stanley Barrow 19th Hussars
  • Assistant Commissary-General Robert Arthur
    Civil Division
  • The Honourable William Nassau Jocelyn, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Darmstadt
  • John Gardner Dillman Engleheart, Clerk of the Council cf the Ducliy of Lancaster
  • Francis Mowatt, Principal Clerk in Her Majesty's Treasury

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Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

Companion (CSI)

  • Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations
  • Charles Gonne, Bombay Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations
  • William Wilson Hunter Bengal Civil Service, Director-General of Statistics to the Government of India, Additional Member of the Council of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations
  • Colonel Robert Murray, Bengal Staff Corps, late Director-General of Telegraphs to the Government of India

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

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

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

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Companion (CIE)

  • Alfred Woodley Croft, Director of Public Instruction, Bengal
  • The Reverend William Miller, Principal of the Christian College, Madras
  • Kashinath Trimbak Telang, Barrister-at-Law, Bombay
  • Benjamin Lewis Rice, Director of Public Instruction, Mysore and Coorg
  • Captain George O'Brien Theodore Carew, Deputy-Director of Indian Marine
  • Sheikh Shuruf-ud-din, Raees of Sheikhupur
  • Rai Bahadur Kanai Lai Dé
  • Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, employed on a special mission on the Perso-Afghan frontier
  • Durga Charan Laha, late Member of the Council of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations
  • Edward Thomas, Bengal Civil Service