1901 New Year Honours


The 1901 New Year Honours were appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.
The list was published in The Times on 1 January 1901, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 28 December 1900 and 8 January 1901.
The recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank then division.

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[Baronet]

[Knight Bachelor]

[The Most Honourable Order of the Bath]

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

; Civil Division

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

; Civil Division

Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Civil division

[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)

  • Frederick Styles Philpin Lely, Esq., Indian Civil Service
  • John Ontario Miller, Esq., Indian Civil Service
  • George Robert Irwin, Esq., Indian Civil Service
  • William Robert Bright, Esq., Indian Civil Service

[Order of Saint Michael and Saint George]

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)

[Order of the Indian Empire]

Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)

Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

  • Alexander Frederick Douglas Cunningham, Esq., CIE, Indian Civil Service
  • Henry Evan Murchison James, Esq., CIE, Indian Civil Service

Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

  • Mian Bhure Singh, of Chamba
  • Captain Walter Somerville Goodridge, Royal Navy, Director of the Royal Indian Marine
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Solomon Charles Frederick Peile, Indian Staff Corps
  • Bertram Prior Standen, Esq., Indian Civil Service
  • Henry Alexander Sim, Esq., Indian Civil Service
  • Major James Robert Dunlop Smith, Indian Staff Corps
  • Major John Crimmin, VC, Indian Medical Service
  • Major Granville Henry Loch, Indian Staff Corps
  • Fardunji Kuvarji Tarapurvala, Public Works Department, Executive Engineer, Ahmedabad
  • Babu Kalinath Mitter, laletly Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for making Laws and Regulations
  • Frederick William Latimer Esq., Assistant Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy of India
  • William Jameson Soulsby, Esq., CB, Secretary to the Mansion House Indian Famine Relief Funds in 1877, 1897, and 1900