1911 Coronation Honours


The Coronation Honours 1911 for the British Empire were announced on 19 June 1911, to celebrate the Coronation of George V which was held on 22 June 1911.
The honours were covered in the press at the time, including in The Times on 20 June 1911, listing the formal announcements in the London Gazette on the previous day.
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 [Order of the Crown of India]

[Order of the Garter]

[Order of the Thistle]

[Order of St. Patrick]

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Marquess

Earl

Viscount

Baron

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[Privy Council of Ireland]

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Knights Bachelor">Knight Bachelor">Knights Bachelor

;Empire

[The Most Honourable Order of the Bath]

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

; Civil Division
; Military Division

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

; Civil Division
; Military Division
  • Admiral Henry Coey Cane, CB
  • Vice-Admiral George Fowler King Hall, CVO
  • Vice-Admiral Sir Alfred Wyndham Paget, KCMG
  • Vice-Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, KCVO, CB
  • Rear-Admiral Thomas Hounsom Butler Fellowes, CB
  • General William Campbell, CB, RMA
  • General Francis William Thomas, RMLI
  • Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Doyle Money Shaw, CB
  • Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Thomas Desmond Gimlette, CB
  • Chief Inspector of Machinery James Roffey, CB
  • Chief Inspector of Machinery John Harold Heffernan, CB
  • Paymaster-in-Chief John Samuel Moore, CB
  • Major-General Lord Ralph Drury Kerr, CB, Colonel 10th Hussars
  • General George Francis Beville, CB, Unemployed Supernumerary List, Indian Army
  • Major-General Henry Hallam Parr, CB, CMG, Colonel, The Prince Albert's
  • Colonel and Honorary Major-General John Palmer Brabazon, CVO, CB
  • General Horace Moule Evans, CB, Unemployed Supernumerary List, Indian Army
  • Veterinary Colonel Francis Duck, CB, late Director-General, Army Veterinary Department
  • Colonel William Hugh Mortimer, CB,, late Army Pay Department
  • Major-General Alfred William Lambart Bayly, CB, CSI, DSO, Indian Army
  • Major-General John George Ramsay, CB, Indian Army, Commanding Bangalore Infantry Brigade
  • Lieutenant-General John Eccles Nixon, CB, Indian Army, Commanding 1st Division
  • Lieutenant-General John Plumptre Carr Glyn, Colonel Commandant, The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
  • Major-General George Mackworth Bullock, CB, Colonel, The Devonshire Regiment, Commanding West Riding Division, Northern Command
  • Major-General Alexander Nelson Rochfort, CB, CMG, Lieutenant-Governor and Commanding the Troops, Jersey District
  • Major-General Francis Lloyd, CVO, CB, DSO, Commanding Welsh Division, Western Command
  • Lieutenant-General James Moncrieff Grierson, CVO, CB, CMG
  • Colonel and Honorary Major-General Francis Edward Mulcahy, CB,, late Army Ordnance Department, Director of Equipment and Ordnance Stores, War Office
  • Major-General Edward Owen Fisher Hamilton, CB, Lieutenant-Governor and Command the Troops, Guernsey and Alderney District
  • General Sir Laurence James Oliphant, KCVO, CB, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Northern Command
  • Lieutenant-General Frederick Walter Kitchener, CB, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bermuda
  • Major-General John Spencer Ewart, CB, ADC General, Adjutant-General to the Forces
  • Surgeon-General Adam Scott Reid, CB, Indian Medical Service
  • Major-General John Blaxell Woon, CB, Indian Army, Commanding 9th Division
  • Lieutenant-General Charles Hamilton Des Voeux, CB, Indian Army
  • Lieutenant-General Alfred Astley Pearson, CB, Indian Army,, Commanding 3rd Division
  • Major-General Henry Montague Pakington Hawkes, CB, CSI, Indian Army
  • Major-General Archibald James Murray, CVO, CB, DSO, Director of Military Training, War Office
  • Surgeon-General William Launcelotte Gubbins, CB, MVO, KHS, Director-General, Army Medical Service
  • Major-General George Barker, CB, Commanding Eastern Coast Defences, Eastern Command
  • Major-General Herbert Napier Bunbury, CB

Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military division
  • Rear-Admiral Arthur Henry Limpus
  • Rear-Admiral Robert Hathorn Johnston Stewart, MVO
  • Rear-Admiral William Lowther Grant
  • Rear-Admiral David Beatty, MVO, DSO
  • Rear-Admiral Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge, CMG, MVO
  • Captain Horace Lambert Alexander Hood, MVO, DSO, RN
  • Captain William Osbert Boothby, MVO, RN
  • Captain Roger John Brownlow Keyes, MVO
  • Colonel James Henry Bor, CMG, ADC, RMA
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Algernon St. Leger Burrows, RMLI
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Estcourt Matthews, RMLI
  • Engineer Rear-Admiral John Stocker Sanders
  • Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Charles Cane Godding
  • Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Arthur William May
  • Paymaster-in-Chief John Henry George Chapple, MVO
  • Paymaster-in-Chief Francis Harrison Smith.
  • Major-General Sir Charles Fergusson, Bt, MVO, DSO, Inspector of Infantry
  • Surgeon-General James Gaussen MacNeece, Principal Medical Officer, 8th Division, India
  • Surgeon-General George Winsor Robinson, Principal Medical Officer Aldershot Command
  • Colonel Robert Megaw Ireland, CMG, Army Pay Department, Chief Paymaster War Office
  • Colonel Charles Rudyerd Simpson, Commanding 5th Infantry Brigade, Aldershot Command
  • Colonel Samuel Charles Norton Grant, C.M.G., Director General of the Ordnance Survey.
  • Colonel Anthony John Abdy, Commanding Royal Horse and Royal Field. Artillery, South Africa.
  • Colonel Herman James Shelley Landon, Commanding 3rd Infantry Brigade, Aldershot Command.
  • Colonel Edward John Granet, Military Attache, Rome and Berne.
  • Colonel James Thomason Johnston, Half-pay.
  • Colonel Francis Algernon Curteis, Commanding Western Coast Defences, Western Command.
  • Colonel Charles Edward Hayries, Chief Engineer, Eastern Coast Defences, Eastern Command.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Hugh Pentland Shekleton, Commanding 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Volunteers.
  • Colonel Edmund Donough John O'Brien, Commanding Potchefstroom District, South Africa.
  • Colonel Arthur Dashwood Bulkeley Buckley, Assistant Adjutant General, War Office.
  • Colonel Andrew Graham Thomson, Commandant, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
  • Colonel Montagu Creighton Curry, D.S.O., Commanding No. 4 District, Western Command.
  • Colonel Edmund John Phipps-Hornby, V.C., Commanding Royal Artillery, 4th Division, Eastern Command.
  • Colonel Henry Huntly Leith Malcolm, D.S.O., Half-pay.
  • Colonel John Edward Watson, Half-pay.
  • Colonel Walter Norris Congreve, V.C., M.V.O., Commandant, School of Musketry, Hythe.
  • Colonel William Riddell Birdwood, C.S.I., C.I.E., D.S.O., A.D.C., Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Kohat Brigade.
  • Colonel Frederick Charles Almon Gilpin, Assistant Director, of Supplies and Transport, Southern Command.
  • Colonel Kenneth Edward Lean, General Staff Officer, 1st grade, India.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel the Honourable Charles Granville Fortescue, C.M.G., D.S.O., Commanding 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade.
  • Colonel George Arthur Cookson, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Bangalore Cavalry Brigade.
  • Colonel Robert Arundel Kerr Montgomery, D.S.O., General Staff Officer, 1st grade, 1st Division, Aldershot Command.
  • Colonel John Fowle, Assistant Director of Remounts, War Office.
  • Colonel Francis Alexander Fortescue, Brigade, Commander, Devon and Cornwall Infantry Brigade.
  • Colonel Granville Roland Francis Smith, Assistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, London District.
  • Colonel Charles William Thompson, D.S.O., General Staff Officer, 1st grade, Western Command.
  • Colonel George Mackintosh, Half-pay.
  • Colonel Henry D'Urban Keary, D.S.O., A.D.C., Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Garhwal Brigade.
  • Colonel Charles John Melliss, V.C., A.D.C., Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Fyzabad Brigade.
  • Colonel Hugh O'Donnell, D.S.O., Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Bannu Brigade.
  • Colonel Ernest Hunter Rodwell, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Secunderabad 2nd Brigade.
  • Colonel William Edwin Bunbury, Indian Army, General Staff, Northern Army, India.
  • Colonel Philip Mainwaring Carnegy, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Abbottabad Brigade.
  • Colonel James Gibbon Turner, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Risalpur Cavalry Brigade.
  • Colonel Edmund Boteler Burton, Indian Army.
  • Colonel Herbert James, Indian Army.
  • Colonel St. George Loftus Steele, Indian Army, Assistant Quartermaster-General, India.
  • Colonel Richard Boileau Gaisford, C.M.G., Assistant Quartermaster-General, Scottish Command.
  • Colonel Richard Makdougall Brisbane Francis Kelly, D.S.O., Commanding Royal Artillery, Southern Coast Defences, Southern Command.
  • Colonel Paul Rycaut Stanbury Churchward, Commanding Middlesex Infantry Brigade, Eastern Command.
  • Colonel John Arthur Tanner, D.S.O., General Staff Officer, 1st grade, India.
  • Colonel Claude Arthur Bray, C.M.G., Army Pay Department, Command Paymaster, Southern Command.
  • Colonel George Macaulay Kirkpatrick, Inspector-General, Military Forces, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • Colonel Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston, D.S.O., General Staff Officer, 1st grade, War Office.
  • Colonel Henry Ernest Stanton, D.S.O., A.D.C., Royal Artillery.
  • Colonel Hugh Gregory Fitton, D.S.O., A.D.C., Assistant Adjutant-General, Eastern Command.
  • Colonel Charles Rutherford, C.M.G., Principal Veterinary Officer, India.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel George Ralph Collier Westropp, Indian Army.
  • Colonel Ernest William Stewart King Maconchy, C.I.E., D.S.O., Indian Army, Deputy Secretary, Army Department, India.
  • Colonel Michael Joseph Tighe, D.S.O., Indian Army.
  • Colonel James Marshall Stewart, A.D.C., Indian Army.
  • Colonel Robert Smeiton Maclagan, Superintending Engineer, 2nd grade, Public Works Department, India.
  • Colonel Charles Fancourt Willis, Indian Medical Service, Principal-Medical Officer, 5th Division.
  • Colonel Walter Pipon Braithwaite, Commandant, Staff College, Quetta.
  • Colonel William Cross Barratt, D.S.O., Indian Army.
  • Colonel Vesey Thomas Bunbury, D.S.O., Half-pay.
  • Colonel George Benjamin Hodson, D.S.O., Indian Army.
  • Colonel Thomas Grainger, Indian Medical Service, Principal Medical Officer, Burma Division.
  • Colonel Charles Massy Mathew, D.S.O., Assistant-Director of Ordnance Stores, Southern Command.
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[Order of Merit] (OM)

[Order of the Star of India]

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

Knight Commander (KCSI)

[Order of Saint Michael and Saint George]

Knight Grand Cross (GCMG)

  • Lord Denman, PC, KCVO, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief designate of the Commonwealth of Australia
  • Sir George Houston Reid, KCMG, High Commissioner in London for the Commonwealth of Australia
  • Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, KCMG, Chief Justice of Canada
  • Sir Richard Solomon, KCB, KCMG, KCVO, High Commissioner in London for the Union of South Africa
  • Colonel Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, KCMG, CB, DSO, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong
  • Sir Gerard Augustus Lowther, KCMG, CB, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Constantinople
  • Sir Eldon Gorst, KCB, His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, Minister Plenipotentiary in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service

Knight Commander (KCMG)

;Honorary

Companion (CMG)

  • Captain Cecil Hamilton Armitage, D.S.O., Chief Commissioner of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast.
  • Chewton Atchley, Esq., I.S.O., Librarian, Colonial Office.
  • James William Barrett, Esq., M.D., Member of the Council and Lecturer of the University of Melbourne.
  • Marcus Henry De la Poer Beresford, Esq., I.S.O., late Secretary to the Administration, Northern Nigeria.
  • Arthur Winbolt Brewin, Esq., Registrar-General of the Colony of Hong Kong.
  • Henry William Frederick Nottingham Brodhurst, Esq., Government Agent, Western Province of the Island of Ceylon.
  • Robert Gervase Bushe, Esq., Auditor General of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.
  • Lieutenant Herbert Alexander Child, R.N., Director of Marine, Southern Nigeria.
  • Arthur Ernest Collins, Esq., Principal Clerk, Colonial Office.
  • Colonel Robert Joseph Collins, I.S.O., Comptroller and Auditor-General, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • William Sayer Comissiong, Esq., Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Island of Grenada.
  • Robert Thorne Coryndon, Esq., Resident Commissioner, Swaziland.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfred Bennett Davidson-Houston, Commissioner of the Presidency of Montserrat.
  • Robert Alexander Falconer, Esq., M.A.., LL.D., D.Litt., President of the University of Toronto.
  • Frederick Fitchett, Esq., LL.D., M.A., Public Trustee, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Edward Thomas Grannum, Esq., Auditor-General of the Island of Barbados.
  • Henry Eugene Walter Grant, Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Leeward Islands.
  • Alfred Claud Hollis, Esq., Secretary for Native Affairs, East Africa Protectorate.
  • Eyre Hutson, Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Fiji.
  • Charles Canniff James, Esq., Deputy Minister of Agriculture for the Province of Ontario.
  • Benjamin Howell Jones, Esq., Member of the Executive Council and Court of Policy of the Colony of British Guiana.
  • Carlos Melhado, Esq., Member of the Executive Council of the Colony of British Honduras.
  • Roland Lyons Nosworthy Michell, Esq., Commissioner of Limassol, Cyprus.
  • Alan Hay Milne, Esq., Secretary to the Incorporated Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
  • Joseph Armand Patron, Esq., Chairman of the Gibraltar Exchange Committee.
  • Howard Lloyd Pryce, Esq., Travelling Commissioner in the Gambia.
  • Robert Archibald Ranking, Esq., First Police Magistrate of the State of Queensland.
  • Henry Nicholas Ridley, Esq., M.A., Director of Gardens and Forests, Straits Settlements.
  • Lionel Henry Sholl, Esq., I.S.O., Under Secretary and Government Statist of the State of South Australia.
  • Adam Shortt, Esq., M.A., Civil Service Commissioner, Dominion of Canada.
  • Arthur French Sladen, Esq., Private Secretary to the Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada.
  • George Smith, Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Mauritius.
  • Henry Richard Wallis, Esq., Assistant Deputy-Governor, Nyasaland Protectorate.
  • Reginald George Watson, Esq., British Resident, Selangor, Federated Malay States.
  • The Honourable Frank Wilson, Premier and Colonial Treasurer of the State of Western Australia.
  • Temistocle Zammit, Esq., M.D., Government Analyst, Public Health Department of the Island of Malta.
  • Edward Thomas Frederick Crowe, Esq., Commercial attaché to His Majesty's Embassy at Tokio.
  • Captain Edward Colpoys Midwinter, late R.E., D.S.O., Director of the Soudan Government Railways.
  • Dugald Christie, Esq., F.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., Head of the Medical Missionaries in China.
  • Commander Bertram Sackville Thesiger, of His Majesty's Navy.

[Royal Victorian Order]

Knights Grand Cross (GCVO)

Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

Members of the Fourth Class of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

Members of the Fifth Class of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)

  • Walter Alcock, Esq., Mus.Doc.
  • Ernest Henry Bright, Esq.
  • Clifford Longden, Esq.
  • Campbell Gerald Hertslet MacGill, Esq.
  • Thomas Moore, Esq.
  • Francis John Sims, Esq.
  • Herbert Arthur Previté Trendell, Esq.
  • Creswell Wells, Esq.
  • Tansley Witt, Esq.

[Imperial Service Order]

  • William Carver Gordon Arrowsmith, Esq., Chief Clerk, Audit Office, Island of Jamaica.
  • Frederick Morewood Ashley, Esq., Chief Clerk in the Department of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.
  • William Nicholas Atkinson, Esq., Divisional Inspector of Mines, Home Office.
  • Frederick Barley, Esq., Chief Staff Officer, Board of Trade.
  • Richard Barton, Esq., Superintendent of Demands, Stationery Office.
  • William Lewis Berrow, Esq., Registrar, Foreign Office.
  • Horatio John Hooper Blow, Esq., Under Secretary for Public Works and Mines, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • John Bould, Esq., Sub-Inspector of Schools, Board of Education.
  • David Brown, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Local Government Board for Scotland.
  • Jeffrey Browning, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Customs and Excise.
  • Nigel Bruce Burnside, Esq., Auditor of Public Accounts, Bahama Islands.
  • William Henry Aglionby Burrowes, Esq., Commissary of Taxation, Colony of British Guiana.
  • Frank Stewart Checkley, Esq.; Chief of School Lands Branch,.Department of the Interior, Dominion of Canada.
  • Narcisse Omer Cote, Esq., Chief of Land Patents Branch, Department of the Interior, Dominion of Canada.
  • William Andrew Cuscaden, Esq., Inspector-General of Police, Straits Settlements.
  • Eusebio Horiorato d'Aquino, Esq., First Clerk, Stamp Office, Colony of Hong Kong.
  • William Davidson, Esq., Inspector General of Public' Works of the. State.. of Victoria.
  • John Alfred Ernst Dickinson, Esq., Comptroller of Housing and Town Planning, Local Government Board.
  • Edward David Dobbie, Esq., Solicitor-General and Crown Solicitor; State of Tasmania.
  • John Macrae Ferguson, Esq., Collector of Customs and Excise, Edinburgh.
  • Frederick George Fray ling, Esq., First Class Clerk in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
  • Charles Thomas Griffin, Esq., lately Assistant Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals, Island of Ceylon.
  • Charles Edgar Hewlett, Esq., Principal Clerk, Office of Woods.
  • Thomas Fair Husband, Esq., Chief Clerk, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
  • Edward Odium Johnson, Esq., Colonial Treasurer, Colony of Sierra Leone.
  • James William Jones, Esq., Secretary, Office of the Commissioner of Public Works, and Chairman, Supply and Tender Board, State of South Australia.
  • John Charles King., Esq., Assistant Colonial Secretary, Gibraltar.
  • John Mackay, Esq., Portmaster, Harbour Master and Chairman of the Marine Board, State of Queensland.
  • Clayton Turner Mason, Esq., late Collector of Customs, Department of Trade and Customs, Commonwealth of Australia.
  • George Morgan, Esq., Controller of Stores, General Post Office.
  • Alfred Young Nutt, Esq., M.V.O., Architect, Office of Works.
  • Michael Pithie, Esq., Chief Clerk in the Law Department of the Inland Revenue Office, Edinburgh.
  • William Henry Porter, Esq., Treasurer, Presidency of Dominica.
  • William George Roff, Esq., Inspector of Dockyard Accounts, Admiralty.
  • Francis Salisbury, Esq., ' Postmaster Surveyor, General Post Office, Liverpool.
  • Sidney Smith, Esq., Controller of Postal Stores, Post Office Department, Dominion of Canada.
  • William Smith, Esq., Secretary and Archivist, Post Office Department, Dominion of Canada.
  • Thomas Talbot, Esq., late Chief Valuer, General Valuation and Boundary Survey of Ireland.
  • Harry Travis, Esq., Superintending Engineer and Constructor of Shipping, Royal Arsenal.
  • Edward Tregear, Esq., lately Secretary, Department of Labour, Dominion of New Zealand.
  • Charles William Annesley Trollope, Esq., Principal Clerk, Exchequer and Audit Department.
  • Edward Henry Silberstein Von Arnheim, Esq., Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Sydney.

[Royal Red Cross]