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1871 Birthday Honours
The 1871 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 1871. 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. United Kingdom and British Empire The Most Honourable Order of the Bath Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) =Military Division= ;;Royal Navy *Admiral the Honourable Sir Henry Keppel *Admiral Sir Alexander Milne *Admiral Sir Sydney Colpoys Dacres *General Sir Robert John Hussey Vivian ;;Army *General Sir William Fenwick Williams *Lieutenant-General Sir John Michel *Lieutenant-General Lord William Paulet Knight Commander of the Order o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, any previous British monarch and is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British Parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After the deaths of her father and grandfather in 1820, she was Kensington System, raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sackville-West, 6th Earl De La Warr
Major-General Charles Richard Sackville-West, 6th Earl De La Warr (13 November 1815 – 23 April 1873), styled Lord West following the untimely death of his elder brother thus between 1850 and 1869, was a British soldier officer, rising to Major-General for the last 8 years of his life. He was a peer for the last years of his life, as his father died aged 77. After he killed himself, unmarried, the title and main estates including Ashdown Forest and Buckhurst Park, Sussex passed to his brother through whom the title descended. Early life Sackville-West was the second son of George Sackville-West, 5th Earl De La Warr, and Lady Elizabeth Sackville, daughter of John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset. He was notably brother of: *George West, Viscount Cantelupe (whom he outlived) *Reginald Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr (who outlived and inherited the key estates) *Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford *Mortimer Sackville-West, 1st Baron Sackville, and *Lionel Sackville-West, 2nd Baron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Keane
Baron Keane, of Ghuznee in Afghanistan and of Cappoquin in the County of Waterford, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 December 1839 for the military commander John Keane. He was the second son of Sir John Keane, 1st Baronet, of Cappoquin (see Keane Baronets for earlier history of the family). The third Baron was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army. The title became extinct on his death in 1901. Barons Keane (1839) *John Keane, 1st Baron Keane (6 February 1781 – 26 August 1844), Lieutenant General British Army. He married firstly Grace Smith (d. 14 July 1838) daughter of Sir John Smith on 1 August 1806. They had six children: **Edward Arthur Wellington Keane (1815–1882), 2nd Baron **John Manly Arbuthnot Keane (1816–1901), 3rd Baron **George Disney Keane (26 September 1817 – 19 October 1891) a Royal Navy Admiral, he married 13 July 1881 Katherine Mary Langford Brooke daughter of Alexander McLeod and widow of Thomas Langford Brooke. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Blick Spurgin
Sir John Blick Spurgin (1821–1903) was a British army officer, a prominent figure of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Early life He was the son of John Spurgin and his first wife, Eliza(beth) Walsham (or Walshman) Dax. He joined the Madras Army in 1842, and served with the Royal Madras Fusiliers. Entering at the rank of ensign, he became 2nd lieutenant in 1847. He was posted for a year's duty at Warley Barracks; and during this period he married. With the Royal Madras Fusiliers, Spurgin took part in the Second Anglo-Burmese War and the capture of Pegu (Bago). He was promoted to captain in 1856. Rebellion of 1857 At the outbreak in May 1857 of the Indian Rebellion, the upper command echelons of the Madras Fusiliers were sparse. The colonels were absent: Scudamore Winde Steel had returned permanently to the United Kingdom in 1856, and John Laurie (died 1861 at age 69) was officially on furlough. Morden Carthew, one of the lieutenant colonels, fought in Bengal as a Brigadier-Genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert William Lowry (British Army Officer)
Lieutenant-General Robert William Lowry (20 March 1824 – 8 June 1905) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). Military career Educated in Dungannon and Belfast, Lowry was commissioned into the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot and served with his regiment in the Crimean War in Winter 1854 and then in Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ... in January 1857. He commanded field forces in the Fenian raids in 1866. He became colonel of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) in 1894 and died in 1905. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lowry, Robert William People of the Fenian raids British Army personnel of the Crimean War Military personnel from County Tyrone British Army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Higginson
General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, (21 June 1826 – 1 February 1927) was a British Army officer and veteran of the Crimean War who served more than 30 years in the Grenadier Guards. Early life Higginson was born in 1826 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England. He was the son of General George Powell Higginson, Grenadier Guards, who distinguished himself at the Battle of Corunna, and Lady Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey. His paternal grandmother was the painter Martha Isaacs, wife of Alexander Higginson, of the East India Company, chief of the provincial council at Burdwan, West Bengal, and member of the Board of Trade. The Higginsons were a military family, and owned a large timber wharf on the Thames and land in Essex and at Marlow, Buckinghamshire. He spent his childhood in West London, which at that time consisted of villages and fields, and was educated at Eton College. Military career On 14 February 1845, Higginson was commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Willis (British Army Officer)
General Sir George Harry Smith Willis (11 November 1823 – 29 November 1900) was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1880s. He was born at Sopley Park in Sopley, Hampshire. Military career Willis was commissioned into the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment in 1841. He served in the Crimean War and at the Battle of Inkerman he led the charge of a Grenadier company. He returned to England in 1857 to become Commanding Officer of 2nd Bn 6th (Warwickshire) Regiment. He was appointed Assistant Quartermaster-General at the War Office in 1873 and then General Officer Commanding Northern District in April 1878. In 1882 he was dispatched to Egypt and commanded troops at Al-Magfar and Tell al-Mahuta during the Anglo-Egyptian War. He was involved in the capture of Mahsama and the Second battle of Kassassin. In 1884 he was appointed GOC Southern District, retiring in 1890. Later in that year he was made Colonel of the Devonshire Regiment, but transferred in 1897 as Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fellowes
Vice Admiral Charles Fellowes (19 October 1823 – 8 March 1886) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet. Naval career Fellowes joined the Royal Navy in 1836. He fought in the Second Opium War, and as Commander of HMS ''Cruizer'', is credited with having been the first person to climb the walls of Canton in 1856 before any other officer or man of the Naval Brigade. The flag he seized was presented to Greenwich Hospital by Queen Victoria in 1859. National Maritime Museum Promoted to in 1858, he was given command of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Hood, 1st Baron Hood Of Avalon
Admiral Arthur William Acland Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon, (14 July 182416 November 1901) was an officer of the Royal Navy. As a junior officer he took part in the capture of Acre during the Oriental Crisis in 1840 and went ashore with the naval brigade at the defence of Eupatoria in November 1854 during the Crimean War. He became First Naval Lord in June 1885 and in that role was primarily concerned with enshrining into law the recommendations contained in a report on the disposition of the ships of the Royal Navy many of which were unarmoured and together incapable of meeting the combined threat from any two of the other naval powers ("the Two-power Standard"): these recommendations were contained in the Naval Defence Act 1889. Early career Hood was born the younger son of Sir Alexander Hood, 2nd Baronet and Amelia Anne Hood (née Bateman). His grandfather, Captain Alexander Hood, had been killed in action during the French Revolutionary Wars; he fell whilst in comma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Fanshawe
Admiral Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe, (27 November 1814 – 21 October 1906) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. He was a gifted amateur artist, with much of his work in the National Maritime Museum, London. Naval career Born the eldest surviving son of General Sir Edward Fanshawe, and the nephew of Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, Fanshawe was educated at the Royal Naval Academy, Portsmouth where he came second from the top in a very talented year and was commended for both his artistic and writing ability.''Admiral Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe GCB'', published 1904 Fanshawe joined the Royal Navy in 1828. During the Oriental Crisis of 1840 he took part in the capture of Acre. He was subsequently given command of and then . He took part in the Crimean War as captain of . Later he commanded , and then . He suffered some health problems from the 1850s, which curtailed his Mediterranean command of HMS ''Centurion''. He was made Superintendent o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Drake
Sir William Henry Drake, , (29 September 1812 – 28 January 1882) was a British public servant and Colonial Treasurer of Western Australia. Drake was the son of John Drake of Exmouth, Devon, Deputy Commissary-General, by Maria, daughter of George Story, of Silksworth Hall, County Durham, and entered the War Office in 1831. Drake was Colonial Treasurer of Western Australia from 1838 to 1848, appointed Assistant Commissary-General in 1845, and four years later was advanced to the post of Commissary-General. In this capacity he served in various colonies, as well as in the Crimea and at Kerch. He also had charge of the Turkish contingent. In 1867, Drake was appointed Controller for Ireland, and two years afterwards Controller for Great Britain in the War Office. From 1871 to 1877 he held the office of Director of Supplies and Transports. Drake was nominated a Companion of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Dumbreck
Sir David Dumbreck KCB (25 October 1805''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950'' – 24 January 1876) was a Scottish surgeon and British Army medical officer. Life Dumbreck, the only son of Thomas Dumbreck, collector of inland revenue at Glasgow, by Elizabeth, youngest daughter of David Sutherland of the same service, was born in Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeenshire in 1805 and educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. in 1830, having previously, in 1825, passed as a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. He entered the British Army as a hospital assistant on 3 November 1825, became assistant surgeon in 1826, surgeon in 1841, surgeon-major in 1847, and deputy inspector-general on 28 March 1854. Prior to the breaking out of hostilities with Russia he was despatched on a special mission early in 1854 to the expected seat of war, and traversed on his mission Serbia, Bulgaria, and part of Roumelia, crossing the Balkans on his rout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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