1886 Birthday Honours


The Queen's Birthday Honours 1886 were granted in celebration of the 24 May birthday of Queen Victoria. They were announced in the London Gazette of 28 May 1886.
Recipients of honours are shown below as they were styled in the Gazette, before their new honours or any subsequent honours. Various archaisms are preserved, e.g. spellings such as "Burmah", now spelt Burma, etc.; abbreviations such as "Knt." for Knight, etc.; and sequence of post-nominal letters, such as "K.C.B., V.C." whereas V.C. is now placed before other post-nominals.

[The Most Honourable Order of the Bath]

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

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

  • Major-General George Samuel Young, Commanding Troops, Dublin District.
  • Major-General Stephen Henry Edward Chamier, Royal Artillery.
  • Captain Frederick George Denham Bedford, Royal Navy.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Gordon Douglas Pritchard, Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel William Wiltshire Lynch, half-pay, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Aldershot.
  • Captain Robert Woodward, Royal Navy.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel William Dunn Bond, half-pay, Colonel on the Staff, Natal.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Robert Montresor Rogers, V.C., half-pay, Brigadier-General, Bengal.
  • Colonel Adam George Forbes Hogg, Bombay Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Aylmer Spicer Cameron, V.C., half-pay, Commandant and Secretary, Royal Military College.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel George Frederick Gildea, half-pay.
  • Deputy Surgeon-General John By Cole Reade, Medical Staff.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel William de Wilton Roche Thackwell, Regimental District.
  • Colonel Alfred Robert Davidson Mackenzie, Bengal Cavalry.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Edward Hopton, Regimental District.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Charles Henry Browne, Regimental District.
  • Colonel Edward Talbot Thackeray, V.C., Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Sir John William Campbell, Bart., Royal Artillery.
  • Deputy Commissary-General John Leslie Robertson, Commissariat and Transport Staff.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Wardlaw Cortlandt Anderson, Bengal Staff Corps.
  • Brigade Surgeon George Farrell, Bengal Medical Establishment.
  • William Orange, Esq., M.D., Superintendent of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
  • Charles Stuart Scott, Esq., Secretary of Embassy, Berlin.
  • Patrick Cumin, Esq., Secretary to the Committee of Council on Education.

[Order of the Star of India]

Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

[Order of the Indian Empire]

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

  • Surgeon-General Michael Cudmore Furnell, M.D., Indian Medical Department, Madras, Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras.
  • Luchman Das Seth, of Muttra.
  • Edward Spence Symes, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Burmah.
  • Rao Bahadur Ranchonlal Chotalal, of Ahmedabad.
  • Deputy Surgeon-General Alexander Morison Dallas, Indian Medical Department, Bengal, Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Punjab.
  • Frederick Charles Kennedy, Esq., Manager of the Irrawaddy Flotilla, Burmah.

[Order of St Michael and St George]

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

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

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

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

  • Sidney Godolphin Alexander Shippard, Esq., M.A., D.C.L., Administrator and Chief Magistrate of British Bechuanaland, late British Commissioner on Joint Anglo-German Commission in South Africa.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Henry Hime, Colonial Engineer of Natal.
  • Commander Graham John Bower, Secretary to Her Majesty's High Commissioner for South Africa.
  • Edward Stace Symonds, Esq., Under Treasurer of the Colony of Victoria.
  • Charles Meldrum, Esq., FRS, Director of the Royal Alfred Observatory of Mauritius.
  • Osbert Chadwick, Esq., C.E., for services rendered in connection with Hydraulic and Sanitary Works in several Colonies.
  • Hampden Willis, Esq., Under Colonial Secretary for the Cape of Good Hope.
  • Colonel the Honourable George Patrick Hyde Villiers, Her Majesty's Military Attaché at Paris.
  • Percy Sanderson, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul-General for Roumania.