The 1890 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 1890 and in The Times on 21 May 1890.
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.
Privy Councillor
The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council:
Victor Villiers, Earl of Jersey, Paymaster-General.
William Lawes Jackson MP Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
Baronetcies
Sir Henry Wentworth Acland KCB Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford.
Lt.-Col. William Wallace Hozier of Mauldslie.
Knight Bachelor
William Arrol, of Seafield, Ayrshire, contractor for the Forth Bridge
Robert Stickney Blaine, of Path.
His Honour Judge Lloyd Reginald John Cust, Chief Commissioner of the West India Encumbered Estates Commission.
William Gray, of Hartlepool.
Francis Godschall Johnson, Chief Justice of the Superior Court, Quebec.
Henry Ludlow, Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands.
Robert John Pinsent Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, Newfoundland.
Henry Trueman Wright Wood, secretary to the Society of Arts.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Civil Division
Col. Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford KCSIAide-de-Camp to the Queen.
Henry George Calcraft CB Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Civil Division
Hugh Guion MacDonell CMG Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Copenhagen.
William Chandler Roberts-Austen, Chemist and Assayer of the Royal Mint.
Alfred Biliotti CMG Her Majesty's Consul for the Island of Crete.
George Bullen, late Keeper of the Printed Books, British Museum.
Patrick Coll, Chief Crown Solicitor for Ireland.
Lt.-Col. John Farquharson, Royal Engineers, of the Ordnance Survey Department.
Maj.-Gen. Charles Scrope Hutchinson, Royal Engineers (Retired), Inspector of Railways to the Board of Trade.
Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Chief Clerk, Exchequer and Audit Department.
Thomas Digby Pigott, Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
Lt.-Col. Edward Vincent Stace (Bombay Staff Corps), Her Majesty's Consul for the Somali Coast.
Henry Thynne, Deputy Inspector-General Royal Irish Constabulary.
Knight Commander (KCSI)
Andrew Richard Scoble CSI Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India.
Dennis Fitzpatrick CSI Bengal Civil Service, Resident at Hyderabad.
Companion (CSI)
Col. Charles Kenneth Mackenzie Walter, Bengal Staff Corps.
Frederick Barnes Peacock, Bengal Civil Service, Member of the Board of Revenue, Bengal.
James Richard Naylor, Bombay Civil Service, Remembrancer of Legal Affairs, Bombay.
Frederick William Richard Fryer, Bengal Civil Service, Financial Commissioner in Burma.
Robert Joseph Crosthwaite, Bengal Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner Central Provinces.
Surgeon-Maj. Alfred Swaine Lethbridge Bengal Medical Service.
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
The Rt. Hon. Hussey Vivian, Baron Vivian KCMG CB Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of the Belgians.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)