The 1871 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 20 May 1871.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division
Admiral the Honourable Sir Henry Keppel KCB
Admiral Sir Alexander Milne KCB
Admiral Sir Sydney Colpoys Dacres KCB
General Sir Robert John Hussey Vivian KCB
General Sir William Fenwick Williams Bt KCB
Lieutenant-General Sir John Michel KCB
Lieutenant-General Lord William Paulet KCB
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division
Rear-Admiral William Robert Mends CB
Rear-Admiral William King-Hall CB
Lieutenant-General James Alexander CB
Lieutenant-General Edward Walter Forestier-Walker CB
Lieutenant-General John Fowler Bradford CB
Major-General David Russell CB
Major-General Henry William Stisted CB
Major-General Charles Richard, Earl De La Warr CB
Major-General Frederick Paul Haines
Major-General Thomas Montagu Steele CB
Major-General Collingwood Dickson CB VC
Major-General Charles Reid CB
Major-General James William Fitzmayer CB
Major-General Henry Charles Barnston Daubeney CB
David Dumbreck CB Inspector-General of Hospitals
Controller William Henry Drake CB
Military Division
Vice-Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe
Rear-Admiral John Bourmaster Dickson
Captain the Honourable George Disney Keane
Captain Alan Henry Gardner
Captain William Rae Rolland
Captain Edward Winterton Turnour
Captain Arthur William Acland Hood
Captain Charles Fellowes
Captain Charles Codrington Forsyth
Colonel Edward Herbert Maxwell, 88th Regiment
Colonel Edward Kaye, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery
Colonel William Gordon
Colonel George Harry Smith Willis
Colonel Charles Vyvyan Cox, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery
Colonel George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, Grenadier Guards
Colonel William Boyle, 89th Regiment
Colonel Robert William Lowry, 47th Regiment
Colonel John Black Spurgin CSI 102nd Regiment
Colonel Robert John Eagar, 31st Regiment
Colonel the Honourable Hussey Fane Keane, Royal Engineers
Colonel Alexander Caesar Hawkins, Royal Artillery
Colonel Richard Parke, Royal Marines
Colonel Fairfax Charles Hassard, Royal Engineers
Colonel George Shaw, Royal Artillery
Colonel John Chetham McLeod, 42nd Regiment
Colonel Sir Seymour John Blane Bt late Rifle Brigade
Colonel James Clerk Rattray, 90th Regiment
Colonel Thomas Wright, Bengal Staff Corps
Colonel Charles George Arbuthnot, Royal Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Craufurd Elphinstone CB (Civil)CMG VC Royal Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry Palliser, Bengal Staff Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Fane, Madras Staff Corps
Inspector-General of Hospitals Joshua Paynter
Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Richard James O'Flaherty
Surgeon-Major John Ashton Bostock Scots Fusilier Guards
Civil Division
Controller William Henry Maturin
Colonel William Manley Hall Dixon, of the Royal Artillery, Superintendent of the Royal Small Arms Factory
Deputy Controller Ben Hay Martindale
Assistant Controller Joseph Osbertus Hamley
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)
His Highness Dheraj Sumbho Sing, Maharana of Oodeypore
His Highness The Rao Pragmuljee of Cutch
Knight Commander (KCSI)
The Nawab Mohsin-ood-Dowlah Bahadoor of Oude
His Highness Mohubut Khan, Nawab of Joonaghur
Major-General George Inglis Jameson, Bombay Army, late President of the Military Finance Commission for India, Auditor of the Accounts of the Department of the Secretary of State for India in Council
John William Kaye, formerly of the Bengal Artillery, now Secretary in the Political and Secret Department of the Office of the Secretary of State for India in Council
Henry Sumner Maine, late Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India
Khajah Abdool Gunny, of Dacca, late Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for making Laws and Regulations
Vembankum Ramiergar, Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras for making Laws and Regulations
Istakant Shungoony Menon, Dewan of His Highness the Rajah of Cochin
Mir Shaharaut Ali, Superintendent of the State of Rutlam in Central India
Mahomed Akram Khan, Nawab of Amb
Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Bt late Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations
Munguldass Nuthoobhoy, Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations
Lionel Robert Ashburner, Bombay Civil Service, Collector and Magistrate of Kandeish
Major-General Alexander Cunningham, late Bengal Army, Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India
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