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1900 Birthday Honours

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The Queen's Birthday Honours 1900 were announced on 23 May 1900 in celebration of the birthday of Queen Victoria. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.

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The list was published in The Times on 23 May 1900 and on 24 May 1900 (Irish honours), and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 23 May 1900, on 1 June 1900 and on 8 June 1900.

The recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil).

Baron

  • The Right Honourable Michael Morris, Lord Morris
  • The Right Honourable SirPeter O'Brien, Bart.
  • Sir Richard Webster, Bart., GCMG, QC, MP

    • Her Majesty has also approved the grant to Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal of a new Patent, with remainder to his daughter.

    Privy Council

  • Lord Justice Gerald FitzGibbon
  • Sir Frederick Milner, Bart., MP

    • Privy Council of Ireland

  • Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo

    • Baronet

  • Sir George Hayter Chubb
  • James Timmins Chance, Esq.
  • Edward Walter Greene, Esq.
  • Arthur Tredgold Lawson, Esq.
  • Thomas Wrightson, Esq., MP

    • Knight Bachelor

  • Charles Clement Bowring, Esq.
  • Professor Hector Clare Cameron, Esq., MD, University of Glasgow
  • Henry Homewood Crawford, Esq.
  • John Glover, Esq., Chairman of Lloyd's Shipping Registry
  • Thomas Godfrey Carey, Esq., Bailiff of Guernsey
  • John Groves, Esq.
  • Professor Richard Claverhouse Jebb, MP
  • Colin George Macrae, Esq., late Chairman Edinburgh School Board
  • James C. O′Dowd, Esq., CB
  • Alderman William Haswell Stephenson, former Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • Arthur James Richens Trendell, Esq., CMG
  • William Ward, Esq., Her Majesty′s Consul-General at Hamburg
  • John Watney, Esq., FSA
  • James Williamson, Esq., Director of Dockyards to the Admiralty
    • British Empire
  • Honourable William Bisset Berry, MD, QC, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Cape of Good Hope
  • William Wilson Mitchell, Esq., CMG, Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon
  • David Palmer Ross, Esq., MD, CMG, Surgeon-General of British Guiana
  • Francis Pratt Winter, Esq., CMG, Chief Judicial Officer of British New Guinea
  • Allan Arthur, Esq., President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, late Sheriff of Calcutta and a Member of the Council of the Viceroy of India
  • Charles Arnold White, Esq., Chief Justice of Madras
    • Ireland
  • Daniel Hegarty, Lord Mayor of Cork
  • William McLearn, Mayor of Londonderry
  • Joseph Downes, High Sheriff for the City of Dublin
  • Alfred Graham Dobbin, High Sheriff for the City of Cork
  • Thomas Henry Cleeve, High Sheriff for the City of Limerick
  • Thomas W. Robinson, Esq., Chairman of the Kingstown Urban District Council
  • John William Moore, Esq., President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
  • John Malcolm Inglis, Esq., President of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce
  • Thomas Drew, Esq., President of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland

    • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

    Military Division
  • General Sir Charles Cooper Johnson, KCB, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Baker Creed Russell, KCB KCMG, Colonel 13th Hussars, Commanding the Troops, Southern District.
  • General Sir William Olpherts, KCB VC, Colonel-Commandant Royal (late Bengal) Artillery.
    • Civil Division
  • The Right Honourable the Earl of Jersey, GCMG

    • Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

    Military Division
  • Colonel Frederick John Keen, CB, Indian Staff Corps.
  • General John Louis Nation, CB, Indian Staff Corps.
  • General Sir Thomas Edward-Gordon, KCIE CB CSI, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel (Honorary Major-General) John Hills, CB, Royal (late Bombay) Engineers.
  • Major-General Hugh McCalmont, CB, Commanding Cork District.
  • Lieutenant-General Edward Hopton, CB, Colonel Connaught Rangers, Lieutenant-Governor and General Officer Commanding the Troops, Jersey.
  • Lieutenant-General George Digby Barker, CB, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bermuda.
  • Lieutenant-General Henry Le Guay Geary, CB, Royal Artillery, President Ordnance Committee.
  • Major-General Thomas Fraser, CB CMG, Royal Engineers, Commanding Thames District.
  • Major-General John Frederick Maurice, CB, Royal Artillery, Commanding Woolwich District.
  • General Alexander George Montgomery Moore, Colonel 18th Hussars, Commanding Aldershot
    • Civil Division
  • John Samuel Purcell, Esq., CB, late Controller of Stamps and Stores, and Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, Inland Revenue Department
  • David Gill, Esq., CB, Her Majesty's Astronomer, Cape of Good Hope
  • William Conyngham Greene, Esq., CB, of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, late British Agent at Pretoria
  • Henry Augustus Robinson, Esq., CB, Vice-President Local Government Board, Ireland

    • Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

    Military Division
  • Surgeon - General Henry Skey Muir, Deputy Director-General, Army Medical Service.
  • Major-General Edmund Smith Brook.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Vincent Rivaz, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Colonel Andrew McCrae Bruce, Bengal Infantry.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Celadon Charles Brownlow, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edward Molloy, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Robert Alexander Swetenham, Indian Staff Corps.
  • Colonel George Hand More-Molyneux, DSO, Indian Staff Corps, Colonel on the Staff, India.
  • Colonel William John Vousden, VC, Indian Staff Corps, Colonel on the Staff, India.
  • Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Henry Pipon, Colonel on the Staff for Royal Artillery, India.
  • Colonel (temporary Major-General) Frederick Wilson Hemming, Commanding Cavalry Brigade, Aldershot (temporarily).
  • Colonel Hugh Gough Grant, Regimental District.
  • Colonel Richard Charles Hare, Regimental District.
  • Colonel Charles Hervey Bagot, Royal Engineers, Deputy Inspector-General of Fortifications, Headquarters of Army.
  • Colonel Arthur Robert Ford Dorward, DSO, Colonel on the Staff for Royal Engineers, Wei-hai-Wei.
  • Colonel Edward Roberts, Army Pay Department.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel George Vaughan Hamilton, late Army Service Corps.
  • Veterinary-Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Veterinary-Colonel) Henry Thomson, Army Veterinary Department.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Bloomfield Connolly, Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel, late Army Medical Staff.
  • Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Spencer Eardley Childers, Royal Engineers.
    • Civil Division
  • Alfred Bonham Carter, Esq, late Referee of Private Bills, House of Commons
  • William Donaldson, Esq, late of the Scottish Prison Commission
  • James Brown Dougherty, Esq, Assistant Under-secretary, Dublin Castle
  • James Gairdner, Esq, late of the Public Record Office
  • Edward Stafford Howard, Esq, Senior Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests
  • Colonel Herbert William Jackson, employed with the Egyptian Army
  • John Arrow Kempe, Esq, Deputy-Chairman Customs Establishment
  • Charles Dowson Lang, Esq, Controller Savings Bank Department, General Post Office
  • Alexander Carnegie Ross, Esq, British Consul at Lorenzo Marques
  • Major John Trenchard Tennant, Assistant Secretary, Board of Agriculture
  • Charles Inigo Thomas, Esq, Principal Clerk, Admiralty
  • Thomas Edward Thorpe, Esq FRS, Principal of the Government Laboratory, Somerset House

    • Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

  • Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, KCSI, KCIE, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of China, for his services in China.
  • Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald, KCB, KCMG, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Shah of Persia, for his services in Persia.

    • Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

  • Alfred Edmund Bateman, Esq., CMG, Comptroller-General of the Commercia, Labour and Stratistical Department of the Board of Trade, for services in connection with commercial negotiations with foreign countries.
  • Ewen Cameron, Esq., Managing Director of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, for services to Her Majesty's Government with regards to affairs in China

    • Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

  • Joseph Flint, Esq., Agent-General for Nigeria
  • Harry English Fulford, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul at Newchwang
  • Alfred St. John, Esq., Esq., Her Majesty's Consul-General at Callao
  • Hamilton Hunter, Esq., Acting British Counsul at Samoa
  • Claude William Kinder, Esq., MICE, for services in connection with Railways in North China
  • Charles Coles, Esq. (Coles Pasha), Director-General of the Egyptian Prisons Department

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