The New Year Honours 1894 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 2 January 1894.
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.
Knights Grand Cross (GCB)
Civil division
His Highness Abdul Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, Hon GCSI
Knights Commander (KCB)
Civil division
Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson, KCMG, CB, Assistant Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office.
Military division
Colonel Edmond Roche Elles, Assistant Quartermaster-General (Intelligence Branch), Head-Quarters India.
Civil division
William James Colville, Esq (commonly called the Honourable William James Colville), Colonel in the Army (Retired List).
Knights Commander (KCSI)
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department.
Richard Udny, Esq., Commissioner and Superintendent, Peshawur Division.
Jervoise Athelstane Baines, Esq, Member of the Indian Civil Service.
William John Cuningham, Esq, Deputy Secretary and Acting Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department.
Thomas Salter Pyne, Esq
Knights Commander (KCIE)
His Highness the Maharao Raja of Bundi
His Highness the Maharaja of Karauli
His Highness the Maharaja of Orchha
Prince Jehan Kader Mirza Bahadur, of Oudh
Colonel John Charles Ardagh, CB, CIE, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.
Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford, CIE, VC, Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.
James Lyle Mackay, Esq, CIE
The Honourable Pherozeshah Merwanji Mehta, MA, Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India.
William Robert Brooke, Esq, Director-General of Telegraphs in India.
Paul Gregory Melitus, Esq, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Montgomery Moore, RA, Retired, President of the Madras Municipal Commission.
Surgeon-Major Ernest Harrold Fenn.
Major Richard Carnac Temple, Indian Staff Corps.
Major John William Hogge, Indian Staff Corps.
Edward Claudius Scotney George, Esq, Officiating Deputy Commissioner of the Bhamo District.
Robert William Edward Hampe Vincent, Esq, Acting Commissioner of Police, Bombay.
Lieutenant Arthur Henry McMahon, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant John Manners Smith, VC, Indian Staff Corps.
John Stuart Donald, Esq, Assistant-Commissioner, Punjab.
Rai Bahadur Bankim Chunder Chalterjee
Knights Commander
Neale Porter, Esq, CMG, Colonial Secretary of the Island of Jamaica.
The Honourable Jenkin Coles, Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Colony of South Australia.
Westby Brook Perceval, Esq, Agent-General in London for the Colony of New Zealand.
Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, RN, for services connected with certain Islands in the Western Pacific.
John Edward Tanner, Esq, MICE, late Director of Public Works and General Superintendent of Railways in the Island of Trinidad.
Frederick William Webb, Esq, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of New South Wales.
Godfrey Yeatman Lagden, Esq, Government Secretary and Accountant of Basutoland.
George Edward Yorke Gleadowe, Esq, of Her Majesty's Treasury, for services connected with the award of compensation to British Sealers excluded from Behring Sea, under the "modus vivendi" with the United States of 1891.
(Honorary) His Highness Tungu Mohamed bin Antah, Yam Tuan Besar of Sri Menanti, President of the State Council of the Negri Sembilan Confederated States.
Captain Gordon Napier Caulfeild, Indian Staff Corps.
Captain Hugh Neufville Taylor, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant John Henegan, Indian Staff Corps
Captain William Gore Alban, Indian Staff Corps.
Captain George Duncan Atkinson, Indian Staff Corps
Major Richard Menteith Greenfield, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Assistant Adjutant General, Madras.
Captain Edward Robert John Presgrave, Indian Staff Corps.
Captain Henry D'Urban Keary, DSO, Indian Staff Corps.
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