The 1884 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 in May and June 1884.
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
General Sir Charles William Dunbar Staveley KCB
General Sir Collingwood Dickson KCB VC
General Sir Arthur Borton GCMG KCB
General Sir Henry Charles Barnston Daubeny KCB
General Sir James Brind KCB
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division
Admiral Alfred Phillipps Ryder
Vice-Admiral George Ommanney Willes CB
Lieutenant-General Frederick Charles Arthur Stephenson CB
Colonel Herbert Stewart CB Aide-de-Camp to the Queen
Civil Division
The Honourable Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane CB Comptroller of Accounts, Lord Chamberlain's Department
Henry Wentworth Acland CB Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford
Military Division
Captain Hilary Gustavus Andoe
Captain Ernest Neville Rolfe
Major-General John Davis
Colonel Edward Alexander Wood, 10th Hussars
Colonel Barnes Slyfield Robinson, Princess Victoria's' (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
Colonel Cornelius Francis Clery
Brigade Surgeon Edmund Greswold McDowell, Army Medical Department
Lieutenant-Colonel William Green, the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Lieutenant-Colonel William Byam, York and Lancaster Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur George Webster, 19th Hussars
Lieutenant-Colonel John Charles Ardagh CB (Civil), Royal Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Harry Stanley Barrow CMG 19th Hussars
Assistant Commissary-General Robert Arthur
Civil Division
The Honourable William Nassau Jocelyn, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Darmstadt
John Gardner Dillman Engleheart, Clerk of the Council cf the Ducliy of Lancaster
Francis Mowatt, Principal Clerk in Her Majesty's Treasury
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)
His Highness Chama Rajendra Wadeir, Maharajah of Mysore
Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Bt Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations
Charles Gonne, Bombay Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations
William Wilson Hunter CIE Bengal Civil Service, Director-General of Statistics to the Government of India, Additional Member of the Council of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations
Colonel Robert Murray, Bengal Staff Corps, late Director-General of Telegraphs to the Government of India
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
Sir Robert Richard Torrens KCMG
Sir Alfred Stephen KCMG CB formerly Chief Justice of New South Wales, now Lieutenant-Governor of that Colony
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
Thomas Charles Scanlen, late First Minister of the Cape of Good Hope
Colonel William Crossman CMG Royal Engineers, one of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed in 1882 to inquire into the Revenue and Expenditure, &c., of certain of the West Indian Colonies
Frederick Napier Broome CMG Governor of Western Australia
Arthur Elibank Havelock CMG Governor of the West Africa Settlements
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Colonel Charles John Moysey, Royal Engineers, for services rendered in connection with South Africa
John Glasgow Grant, formerly Speaker of the House of Assembly and Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Barbados
Edward Barnett Anderson Taylor, Colonial Secretary of the Bahama Islands and Administrator of the Government in the absence of the Governor
Augustus John Adderley, for many years Member of the Legislature of the Bahama Islands, and Commissioner for the Bahamas at the International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883
George Smyth Baden-Powell, one of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed in 1882 to inquire into the Revenue and Expenditure, &c., of certain of the West Indian Colonies
Frederick Charles Heidenstam, Chief Medical Officer of the Government of Cyprus
William Crofton Twynam, Government Agent, Northern Province, Ceylon
William Alexander Pickering, Protector of Chinese in the Straits Settlements
Alfred Woodley Croft, Director of Public Instruction, Bengal
The Reverend William Miller, Principal of the Christian College, Madras
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, Barrister-at-Law, Bombay
Benjamin Lewis Rice, Director of Public Instruction, Mysore and Coorg
Captain George O'Brien Theodore Carew (late Indian Navy), Deputy-Director of Indian Marine
Sheikh Shuruf-ud-din, Raees of Sheikhupur
Rai Bahadur Kanai Lai Dé
Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, employed on a special mission on the Perso-Afghan frontier
Durga Charan Laha, late Member of the Council of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations
Edward Thomas, Bengal Civil Service (Retired)
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