1899 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1899 were announced in celebration of the 24 May birthday of Queen Victoria.

Order of the Bath

Appointments to the Order of the Bath were published in The London Gazette on 3 June 1899 (Military Division),^[1] and in The Edinburgh Gazette on 13 June (Civil Division).^[2]

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

Civil Division

Charles Scott, GCMG CB, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Saint Petersburg.
Henry Morton Stanley, Esq MP

Military Division

General John Forbes, KCB, Bombay Cavalry.
Admiral Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, KCB.
Admiral Edmund Fremantle, KCB CMG.
Admiral Sir John Ommanney Hopkins, KCB.
General Sir Robert Biddulph, GCMG KCB, Royal Artillery, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Civil Division

John Farquharson, CB, Royal Engineers, late Director-General of the Ordnance Survey.
George Murray, Esq CB, Secretary to the General Post Office.
William Henry Preece, Esq CB, Consulting Engineer to the General Post Office.
Michael Foster, Esq, Secretary to the Royal Society.

Military Division

Lieutenant-General Frederick Arthur Willis, CB (since deceased).
Major-General Henry Radford Norman, CB
Major-General Alexander Hugh Cobbe, CB
Lieutenant-General Robert Gordon Rogers, CB, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-General Benjamin Lumsden Gordon, CB, Royal (late Madras) Artillery.
Major-General Cornelius Francis Clery, CB, Deputy-Adjutant-General to the Forces.
Vice-Admiral Cyprian Arthur George Bridge.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Civil Division

James Samuel Gibbons, Esq, Chairman of the Prison Commissioners, Ireland.
William Graham Greene, Esq, Admiralty.
Thomas John Pittar, Esq, Principal of the Statistical Department of the Custom House.
William Tucker, Esq, Assistant-Secretary to the Education Department.
Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Royal Navy.

Military Division

Surgeon-General Albert Augustus Gore, late-Principal Medical Officer in India.
Colonel Hugh Sutlej Gough, CMG, half-pay.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel James Hay, Indian Staff Corps.
Colonel Morgan Samuel Crofton, DSO, Assistant Adjutant-General in South Africa.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel James Cook, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Samuel Job Lea, Army Service Corps, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters, Ireland.

Order of the Star of India

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

Henry Farrington Evans, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Muir Hunter, Indian Staff Corps.

Order of St Michael and St George

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

Sir Walter Joseph Sendall, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Guiana.

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

Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast Colony.
David Wilson Esq,. C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Honduras.
Major Henry George Elliot, Chief Magistrate of Tembuland, Transkei, and Pondoland, in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Henry Moore Jackson, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Gibraltar.

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

Colonel Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate, C.B., lately Commandant of the West African Regiment, for services rendered while in command of the Forces on the occasion of the Expeditions (1898) against the Sierra Leone insurgents.
Captain the Honourable Maurice Archibald Bourke, R.N., for services as Senior Naval Officer engaged in the protection of the Newfoundland Fisheries.
John Pickersgill Rodger, Esq., British Resident, Selangor.
John James Graham, Esq., Secretary to the Law Department of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

Order of the Indian Empire

Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

Robert Giles, Esq.
Frederick Augustus Nicholson, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
Vishwanathi Patankar Madhava Rao, Member of the Mysore State Council.
Henry Blois Hawkins Turner, Esq.
Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Gawen King, M.B., Indian Medical Service.
James Sykes Gamble, Esq.
Khan Bahadur Cursetji Rustamji Thanawala, Diwan of Ratlam.
George William Forrest, Esq.
Captain Frank Popham Young, Indian Staff Corps.
Reginald Hawkins Greenstreet, Esq.
Khan Bahadur Kazi Jalal-ud-Din Khan, Akhundzada of Kandahar.
Charles Leslie Sutherland, Esq.

References

↑ "No. 27086". The London Gazette. 3 June 1899. pp. 3585–3586.
↑ "No. 11101". The Edinburgh Gazette. 13 June 1899. p. 589.

Honours Lists
New Year Honours	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902† 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940† 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 †Not issued because of Birthday Honours of new king (1902) and WWII (1940)
Birthday Honours	1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887† 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897† 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911† 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937† 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953† 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 †Not issued because of Jubilee Honours (1887, 1897) and Coronation Honours (1911, 1937, 1953)
PM's Resignation Honours	1895 1945 1951 1955† 1957† 1963 1964 1970 1976 1979† 1990 1997 2007† 2010† 2016 †Not issued
Coronation Honours	1821 1831 1838 1902 1911 1937 1953
Dissolution Honours	1874 1885 1892 1895 1900 1906 1910 (January) 1910 (December) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935† 1945 1950 1951† 1955† 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (February) 1974 (October) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017† †Not issued
Special Honours	2009 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Additional Honours	1887 (Golden Jubilee) 1897 (Diamond Jubilee) 1911 (Delhi Durbar) 1923 Prime Minister 1935 (Silver Jubilee) 1977 (Silver Jubilee) 1990 (Queen Mother's 90th Birthday) 2002 (Death of Queen Mother and Princess Margaret) 2002 (Golden Jubilee) 2012 (Diamond Jubilee)
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