The 1873 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 24 May 1873.
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 Sir Provo William Parry Wallis KCB
Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin Bt KCB
Admiral Thomas, Earl of Lauderdale KCB
Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones KCB
General Sir Henry George Andrew Taylor KCB
General Sir George Bowles KCB
General Sir Abraham Roberts KCB
General Sir James Charles Chatterton Bt KCB
General Sir William Henry Elliott KCB
Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney John Cotton KCB
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bloomfield KCB
Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron KCB
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division
Admiral Henry Smith CB
Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley Bt
Vice-Admiral George St. Vincent King CB
Admiral Charles Eden CB
Vice-Admiral the Honourable James Robert Drummond CB
Rear-Admiral John Walter Tarleton CB
Rear-Admiral Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell CB
Rear-Admiral Astley Cooper Key CB
Lieutenant-General Francis Warde
Lieutenant-General Frederick William Hamilton CB
Lieutenant-General Arthur Mitford Becher CB
Lieutenant-General Charles Trollope CB
Lieutenant-General Edward Cooper Hodge CB
Lieutenant-General the Honourable Alexander Hamilton-Gordon CB
Lieutenant-General John Fordyce
Lieutenant-General Philip Melmoth Nelson Guy CB
Major-General Lord Henry Hugh Manvers Percy
Major-General Charles Henry Ellice CB
Major-General Richard Wilbraham CB
Major-General James Duncan Macpherson CB
Major-General Edmund Haythorne
Major-General Henry Drury Harness CB
Major-General Henry Wylie Norman CB
Colonel John Miller Adye CB
Surgeon-General William Mure Muir CB
Military Division
Rear-Admiral Edwin Clayton Tennyson d'Eyncourt
Rear-Admiral Arthur Mellersh
Rear-Admiral Robert Coote
Captain Julian Foulston Slight
Captain Thomas Saumarez
Captain William Andrew James Heath
Captain Cornelius Thomas Augustus Noddall
Captain Robert Gibson
Captain Augustus Chetham Strode
General Edward Armstrong, Madras Infantry
Lieutenant-General Maurice Barlow
Lieutenant-General Matthew Smith
Lieutenant-General Henry Bates
Lieutenant-General George Staunton
Lieutenant-General James Travers VC Bengal Infantry
Major-General John Leslie Dennis
Major-General James Abbott, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery
Major-General John Stafford Paton, Bengal Staff Corps
Major-General Charles Elmhirst
Major-General Sir James Edward Alexander
Major-General Charles Arthur Barwell, Bengal Staff Corps
Major-General William Henry March, retired, Royal Marines
Colonel Charles Tyrwhitt
Colonel George Calvert Clarke, late 2nd Dragoons
Colonel Frederick Amelius Whimper
Colonel Edmund Augustus Whitmore
Colonel John Josiah Hort, Brigade Depot
Colonel James Croft Brooke, late 8th Regiment
Colonel Frederick Robert Elrington, Rifle Depot
Colonel Percy Archer Butler, late 28th Regiment
Colonel William Sankey, 62nd Regiment
Colonel Lord Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy
Colonel William James Loftus, late 38th Regiment
Colonel Henry Meade Hamilton, Brigade Depot
Colonel Michael Anthony Shrapnel Biddulph, Royal Artillery
Colonel Bartholomew O'Brien, Brigade Depot
Colonel Cadwallader Adams, 49th Regiment
Colonel Henry Hamilton Maxwell, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery
Colonel Robert White, Brigade Depot
Colonel Charles Edward Parke Gordon, late 75th Regiment
Colonel David Scott Dodgson, Bengal Infantry
Colonel William James Esten Grant, Royal Artillery
Colonel John Desborough, Royal Artillery
Colonel Robert Cadell, Royal (late Madras) Artillery
Colonel Charles Malcolm Barrow, Bombay Staff Corps
Colonel Alfred Bassano, late 82nd Regiment
Colonel Arthur Howlett, Madras Staff Corps
Colonel Frederick William Burroughs, 93rd Regiment
Colonel George Whittle Mackenzie Hall, Bengal Staff Corps
Colonel Peter Stark Lumsden CSI Bengal Staff Corps
Colonel Shurlock Henning, 38th Regiment
Colonel John Hamilton Cox, late 75th Regiment
Colonel Arthur Bunny, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery
Colonel Charles Butler Peter Nugent Hodges Nugent, Royal Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel William John Williams, Royal Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel John Irvine Murray, Bengal Staff Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Baigrie, Bombay Staff Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel Dominick Sarsfield Greene, Royal Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Richard Maunsell, Royal (late Bengal) Engineers
Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets John Rees (retired)
Inspector-General of Hospitals Richard Dane
Inspector-General of Hospitals Benjamin William Marlow
Surgeon-Major John Wyatt, Coldstream Guards
Deputy Controller Randolph Routh
Deputy Controller Henry Bartlett
Deputy Controller Alexander Crowder Crookshank
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)
His Excellency Maharajah Jung Bahadoor Kunwar Ranajee GCB Prime Minister of Nepal
General Sir John Low KCB Madras Infantry, formerly Political Resident at Lucknow and Hyderabad and Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India
Lieutenant-General Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain KCB KCSI Bengal Infantry, late Commanding Punjab Irregular Force
Knight Commander (KCSI)
Nawab Khan Bahadoor Khwajah Muhammad Khan Khuttuk, of Kohat
George Campbell, Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
Alexander John Arbuthnot CSI Madras Civil Service, late Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras
Major-General Harry Burnett Lumsden CB Bengal Staff Corps, late Envoy to Candahar
John Forbes David Inglis, Bengal Civil Service, Senior Member of the Board of Revenue, North-West Provinces, and additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Campbell McNeill, late Madras Staff Corps, formerly Agent to the Governor-General in Orissa
John Ware Edgar, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Cachar, late Political Officer attached to the Looshai Expeditionary Force
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