1908 Birthday Honours


The 1908 Birthday Honours for the British Empire were announced on 28 June, to celebrate the birthday of Edward VII.
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.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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

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;Civil Division
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  • Major-General Henry Bulckley Burlton Watkis, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India.
  • Major-General Frederick Augustus Bowles, Commander, Coast Defences, Plymouth.
  • Colonel Henry Vivian Cowan, C.V.O., A.D.C., Commandant, Royal Military Academy.
  • Colonel John Lindesay Keir, Brigade Commander, India.
  • Colonel Robert Whyte Melville Jackson, C.M.G., Chief Ordnance Officer, Royal Army Clothing Factory.
  • Colonel Francis Henry Kelly, Brigade Commander, India.
  • Colonel Charles Conyngham Ellis.
  • Colonel Francis Charles Carter, Brigadier-General Sub-District, South Africa.
  • Colonel Edward Hegan.
  • Colonel Frederick Hammersley, Brigadier-General 3rd Brigade, Aldershot Command.
  • Colonel Henry Richard Beadon Donne, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters of Army.
  • Colonel Charles Herbert Powell, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India.
  • Colonel Francis Garnett Atkinson, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India.
  • Major and Brevet Colonel Augustus de Segur McKerrell, Cameron Highlanders.
  • Colonel William Edward Blewitt, C.M.G., Director of Artillery, Headquarters of Army.
  • Colonel Francis Seymour Inglefield, D.S.O., General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, 5th Division, Irish Command.
  • Colonel Lovick Bransby Friend, Commander, Coast Defences, Scottish Command.
  • Colonel Charles Henry Westmorland, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India.
  • Colonel Walter Fullarton Lodovic Lindsay, D.S.O., Commanding Royal Artillery, 3rd Division, Southern Command.
  • Colonel Raymond Northland Revell Reade, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Malta.
  • Colonel William Douglas, D.S.O., General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, 6th Division, Irish Command.
  • Colonel Francis Henry Rutherford Drummond, C.I.E., Indian Army, Inspector-General, Imperial Service Troops, India.
  • Colonel Edward Robert John Presgrave, D.S.O., Indian. Army.
  • Colonel Alfred James Whitacre Allen, half-pay.
  • Colonel Henry Newport Charles Heath, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, Headquarters of Army.
  • Colonel William Henry Sitwell, D.S.O., half-pay.
  • Colonel George Osbaldeston Welch, Assistant Director of Transport, Headquarters of Army.
  • Colonel Alexander Wallace, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India.
  • Colonel William Richard Yielding, C.I.E., D.S.O., Indian Army.
  • Colonel Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe, Brigadier-General 2nd Cavalry Brigade, Eastern Command.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Kenneth Stewart Davison, Indian Army, Commandant 2nd Lancers .
  • Colonel Henry Hughes Wilson, D.S.O., Commandant Staff College.
  • Colonel Launcelot Edward Kiggell, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, Headquarters of Army.
  • Colonel John Townshend St Aubyn, Baron St Levan, C.V.O., Commanding Grenadier Guards and Regimental District and Commander, 2nd London Territorial Brigade, London District.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Johnston Shearer, D.S.O., Indian Medical Service.
In commemoration of the Military Operations in India in 1857 and 1858.
  • Colonel Arthur Moffatt Lang, Royal Engineers.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Aylmer McIver Campbell, Indian Staff Corps.
;Civil Division

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

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

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

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

  • Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart.
  • Rear-Admiral James Edward Clifford Goodrich, M.V.O., Admiral Superintendent and in charge of all His Majesty's Naval Establishments at Gibraltar.
  • Commodore Colin Richard Keppel, C.V.O.. C.B., D.S.O., Ad.C., Commanding His Majesty's Yachts.

    Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

  • François Flameng, Membre de l'Institut de France.
  • Colonel Sir John Smith Young, M.V.O., late Secretary, Royal Patriotic Fund.
  • John David Rees, Esq., C.I.E., M.P.

    Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class

  • The Reverend Walter Boyce, Head Master, King [Edward VII School, King's Lynn|King Edward VII Grammar School, King's Lynn].
  • Percy John de Paravicini, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of King Edward VII Hospital and Dispensary, Windsor.

    Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class

  • Lieutenant Thomas Ready, RN, retired, late His Majesty's Yacht "Osborne."
  • Carpenter-Lieutenant James Rice RN, His Majesty's Yacht "Victoria and Albert."
  • Second Lieutenant John Mackenzie Rogan, Mus.Doc., Bandmaster, Coldstream Guards.
  • Second Lieutenant Charles William Hemphill Hall, Bandmaster, 2nd Life Guards.
  • Second Lieutenant Albert Williams, Mus.Doc., Bandmaster, Grenadier Guards.

    Imperial Service Order

  • Thomas Allchiii, Esq., Assistant Commissioner, Charity Commission.
  • Justin Charles William Alvarez, Esq., Consul-General, Tripoli..
  • George Nealon Babbit, Esq., Deputy Receiver-General of the Province of New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada.
  • John Walter Bailey. Esq., late Assistant Chief Inspector of Excise.
  • James Dyer-Ball, Esq., Chief Interpreter to the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong Kong.
  • John Redman Bovell, Esq., Agricultural Superintendent, Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, and Superintendent of the Botanic Station, Barbados.
  • George Andrew Breading, Esq., Clerk, Higher Division, War Office.
  • James Edwin Christoffelsz, Esq., Chief Clerk, Secretariat, Island of Ceylon.
  • Adolphus Philip Clapin, Esq., late Clerk Assistant of the Legislative Council of the State of.New South- W ales.
  • Miss Margaret Susan Creswell, late Postmistress, Post Office and Savings Bank Department, Gibraltar.
  • David Dolton, Esq., Principal Clerk, Legal Department, Local Government Board.
  • Richard Uriah Falkus, Esq., Staff Clerk, Secretary's Department, Admiralty.
  • John Fraser, Esq., Auditor-General of the Dominion of Canada.
  • William George Lewis, Esq., Chief Surveyor General, Customs.
  • Redmond Nash, Esq., Accountant, Office of National Education, Ireland.
  • Jasper Alexander Redgrave, Esq., Superintending Inspector of Factories, Midland Division), Home Office.
  • Johannes Smuts, Esq., Registrar of Deeds, Transvaal.
  • Alexander George Denison Taylor. Esq., Clerk of English Journals, House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada.
  • James Arthur Thompson, Esq., Accountant to the Department of Defence, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • John Henry Richard West, Esq.. Assistant Controller, Savings Bank Department, Post Office.