1894 Birthday Honours


The 1894 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 1894, and in The Times on 26 May 1894.
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

Privy Councillor">Privy Council of the United Kingdom">Privy Councillor

The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:

[Baronet]cies

[Knight Bachelor]

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath">Order of the Bath">The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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

;Military Division

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division
  • General James Frankfort Manners Browne Royal Engineers.
  • Surgeon-General James Mouat late Army Medical Department, Honorary Surgeon to the Queen.
  • Honorary Major-General James Mansfield Nuttall retired full pay, late Indian Staff Corps.
  • General James Abbott Royal Artillery.
  • General Robert Cadell Royal Artillery.
  • General Henry Hastings Affleck Wood Indian Staff Corps.
  • Major-General Frederick William Edward Forestier-Walker Commanding the Force in Egypt.
  • Lieutenant-General Edward Newdigate Newdegate
  • Lieutenant-General Henry Brackenbury Royal Artillery, Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India.
  • Honorary Major-General Robert John Hughes
  • Rear-Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher Controller of the Navy.
  • Colonel William Green
  • Lieutenant-General Robert John Hay Royal Artillery, Director of Artillery.
;Civil Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division
  • Deputy Surgeon-General William George Nicholas Manley late Army Medical Department.
  • Colonel Edward Lutwyche England.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Horace Moule Evans, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Francis James Caldecott, Royal Artillery, Indian Ordnance Department.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Francis Eddowes Hastings, Indian Army.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Charles McInroy, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Francis William Ward, Royal Artillery, Colonel on Staff, Bengal.
  • Colonel John Jopp, Indian Staff Corps, Commanding a Second Class District in India.
  • Colonel Hugh Thomas Jones-Vaughan, Colonel on the Staff Commanding the Troops in the Straits Settlements.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edmund Henry Eyre, Indian Staff Corps, Quartermaster-General, Madras.
  • Colonel William Freeman Kelly.
  • Colonel Charles More Stockley, Regimental District.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel the Hon. George Hugh Gough, 14th Hussars.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel John Henry Barnard Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Thomas Hungerford Holdich, Royal Engineers.
  • Colonel Edward Thomas Henry Hutton, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Commandant Colonial Forces, New South Wales.
  • Veterinary Lieutenant-Colonel William B. Walters, late Army Veterinary Department.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Broadfoot, Royal Artillery.
The following appointments to the Most Honourable Order of the Bath given in recognition of the services in the recent operations against Fodey Silah in Combo on the Gambia:
  • Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Domville Corbet, Royal Marine Light Infantry.
  • Fleet Surgeon William Rogerson White.
;Civil Division

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)

  • Major-General Robert Charles Boileau Pemberton, Royal Engineers.
  • Arthur Charles Trevor, Indian Civil Service, Member of Council, Bombay.

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George">Order of Saint Michael and Saint George">The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

  • The Hon. Sir Henry Ayers five times Premier of South Australia, and subsequently for many years President of the Legislative Council of that Colony.

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

;Honorary Knight Commander

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

  • Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville, Senator of the Dominion of Canada.
  • Colonel Frederick Cardew, now Administering the Government of the Colony of Sierra Leone, and lately Acting Resident Commissioner in Zululand.
  • Charles Bletterman Elliott General Manager of Railways of the Cape of Good Hope.
  • Capt. Hamilton John Goold-Adams, Commandant of the British Bechuanaland Border Police.
  • Robert Grieve Surgeon-General of the Colony of British Guiana.
  • Emanuel Charles Poupinel de Valencé, President of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius, and Vice-President of the General Board of Health in that Colony.

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire">Order of the Indian Empire">The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire

Companion (CIE)

  • Colonel Thomas Hungerford Holdich, Royal Engineers, Superintendent, Survey Department.
  • His Highness Mir Hasan Ali Khan.
  • Colonel Frank William Chatterton, Commandant Administrative Battalion, Calcutta Volunteers, and Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India.
  • George Abraham Grierson, Indian Civil Service.
  • Francis Joseph Edward Spring, Joint Secretary to Government, Public Works Department, Railway Branch, Bombay.
  • Edwin Welsh Kellner, Accountant-General, Punjab.
  • Major Ivar Macivor, Indian Staff Corps
  • Cowasjee Dinshaw, of Aden
  • Thomas Blaney, President of the Municipal Corporation, Bombay.
  • Graham Anderson.
  • Tikka Raghunath Singh, of Bashahr.
  • Rao Bahadur Sri Ram Bhikaji Jatar.

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)