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1877 Birthday Honours
The 1877 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 30 May and 2 June 1877. 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 Sir George Rodney Mundy Admiral of the Fleet Sir (George) Rodney Mundy, (19 April 1805 – 23 December 1884) was a Royal Navy officer. As a commander, he persuaded the Dutch to surrender Antwerp during the Belgian Revolution and then acted as a mediator during negotiat ... ;;Ar ... [...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] |
Daniel Lysons (British Army Officer)
General Sir Daniel Lysons (1 August 1816 – 29 January 1898) was a British Army general who achieved high office in the 1870s. Military career The son of Daniel Lysons the topographer, he was educated at Shrewsbury School. He was commissioned into the 1st Regiment of Foot in 1834. He was shipwrecked on ''The Premier'' in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in 1840 and sought help to rescue many of his comrades. He transferred to the 23rd (Welsh) Fusiliers in 1844. Lysons fought at the Battle of Alma in September 1854 and took command of the 2nd Brigade of the Light Division in October 1855 during the Crimean War. In 1869 Lysons became General Officer Commanding for Aldershot District and in 1872 he became GOC for Northern District. In 1876 he was made Quartermaster-General to the Forces. Then from 1880 to 1883 he commanded the Aldershot Division. He retired in 1883. Lysons was appointed Constable of the Tower The Constable of the Tower is the most senior appointment at the To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Calder Allen
Robert Calder Allen (8 August 1812 – 28 January 1903) was an English naval captain. Allen was the son of William Allen, a master in the navy and presumably a follower of Admiral Sir Robert Calder. He entered the navy as a second-class volunteer in July 1827. In that grade and as second master he served with credit, principally on the west coast of Africa and in China. In 1841 he was advanced to be master, and in 1842-44 was master of the ''Dido'', with Sir Henry Keppel, in her celebrated cruises against the Malay pirates of Borneo. In 1850-51, he was master of the ''Resolute'' in the Arctic, under Captain Austin, whom he followed from the '' Blenheim'', and was in charge of the magnetic observations. In 1854-55 he was master of the '' Hogue'' blockship in the Baltic, and rendered efficient service by his survey, often under fire, of the approaches to Bomarsund. In 1863 he was promoted to the then new rank of staff-commander, and in 1867 to that of staff-captain. In 1866-6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell Claye Grant Ross
General Sir Campbell Claye Grant Ross (18 May 1824 – 20 June 1892) was a Scottish officer in the British Indian Army. He fought in the Jowaki Expedition. Ross was born in Saugor, British India,''1891 England Census'' the second son of Lt Col Hugh Ross and Eliza Watson. He was descended from the chiefs of Clan Ross. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1877 Birthday Honours, at which time he was in the Bengal Staff Corps, and later rose to Knight Commander of that order in 1880. In 1856, he married Matilda Elderton, daughter of Edward Merrick Elderton. They had 10 children, the eldest of whom was the physician Sir Ronald Ross, winner of the Nobel Prize for medicine. Sir Ronald's grandson David Campbell Ross (born 1934) was named Chief of Clan Ross in 1999. He died in Eastbourne, aged 68, and was buried at Ocklynge Ocklynge is an area in Eastbourne, England. Etymology The etymology is from the Anglo-Saxon language: ''lynge'' is thought to be from link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Walker (Surveyor General)
James Thomas Walker (1 December 1826 – 16 February 1896) was an Anglo-Indian Surveyor General of India. Early life He was born at Cannanore, India, the son of John Walker of the Madras civil service and educated privately in Wales and at the military college of the East India Company in Addiscombe, Surrey. Military career In 1844 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Bombay Engineers and in 1846 sent to Sindh, India as an executive engineer at Sakkar. In 1848 he was appointed an assistant field engineer in the Bombay column, under Brigadier-General Sir Henry Dundas, sent from Bombay to co-operate with Lord Gough's army in the Second Anglo-Sikh War. At the battle of Gujrat he was in command of a detachment of sappers attached to the Bombay horse artillery, and he took part under Sir Walter Gilbert in the pursuit of the Sikhs and Afghans. After the subsequent annexation of the Punjab, he was employed from 1849 to 1853 in making a military reconnaissance of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger
Lieutenant General William Frederick Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger (30 August 1826 – 16 January 1892), was a British peer and soldier. Education Lord Abinger was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. Military career He became a Captain of the Scots Fusilier Guards regiment of the British Army. He served in the Crimean War fighting between 1854 and 1855 in the battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman. Scarlett succeeded his father Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger, in 1861. He visited the United States during the American Civil War He was promoted to Major in 1868, with promotions through the ranks at intervals of six, three and five years. In the 1877 Birthday Honours, Lord Abinger was appointed to the Order of the Bath as a Companion (CB). Family In 1863, he married Helen Magruder, daughter of Commodore George Allan Magruder, of the United States Navy, and niece of John B. Magruder. They had one son, James and two daughters, Ella, who studied medicine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Seager (British Army Officer)
Lieutenant-General Edward Seager (1812–1883) was a British Army officer who served in the Crimean War and in the Indian Mutiny. Seager, was born on 11 June 1812, and, after serving in the ranks for nine years and one hundred and eighty-eight days from 1832, became a cornet of the 8th Light Dragoons on 17 September 1841. He was adjutant from 5 October 1841 to 25 October 1854, being gazetted lieutenant on 29 June 1843, captain on 26 October 1851, and major 31 January 1858. Seager was married to Jane Emily Smith and had three children, George William, Jane Emily Sophia and Florence Wallena. His daughter Emily married Charles Edwin Paynter, president of the Liverpool Timber Trade Association, who was lost in the 1915 sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania''. He served with his regiment in the Crimean War of 1854, and up to February 1855, and was present at the battles of Alma, Balaclava (where he was wounded), Inkerman, and the siege of Sebastopol. On 28 June 1855 he was appointed ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Alexander Russell
General Lord Alexander George Russell (16 September 1821 – 10 January 1907) was a British Army general. He served during the Siege of Sevastapol in the Crimean War. Background Russell was born at Woburn, Bedfordshire, the son of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford and his second wife, Lady Georgina (or Georgiana) Gordon, daughter of Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, although it has been claimed that Russell's father was actually the Victorian painter Sir Edwin Landseer, who conducted a lengthy affair with the Duchess of Bedford. He was the half-brother of Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford, Lord George Russell and John Russell, 1st Earl Russell and the full brother of Lord Edward Russell and Lord Charles Russell. Military career Russell joined the Army on 11 July 1839 when he purchased a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade. Russell was a Colonel in the Rifle Brigade and served during the Siege of Sevastapol in the Crimean War. He became General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple
General John Hamilton Elphinstone Dalrymple, (5 January 1819 – 28 June 1888) was a senior British Army officer. He was born the son of Sir Robert Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone of Horn and Westhall, 1st Baronet. He joined the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1837 and was sent with the 1st Battalion to the Crimea, where he was wounded at the Battle of Alma in 1854. He was awarded the Order of the Medjidie in 1858. In 1861 the 2nd Battalion were sent to Canada with the Grenadier Guards to protect the border during the American Civil War. Dalrymple commanded the 2nd Battalion as they marched through New Brunswick after the Trent affair, a diplomatic incident in 1861 which threatened to bring about war between the United States and the United Kingdom. In 1863 he was the Commanding Officer of the Scots Fusilier Guards for a year and retired on half pay the following year. In 1877 he was promoted to the rank of General and made CB. He was appointed Colonel of 108th Foot from 1875 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Hoskins
Admiral Sir Anthony Hiley Hoskins, (1 September 1828 – 21 June 1901) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, he took part in the Cape Frontier War of 1851 and then saw action at the Battle of Canton in December 1857 and the Battle of Taku Forts in May 1858 during Second Opium War. Once promoted to flag officer rank, he acted as Second-in-Command of the Fleet at the bombardment of Alexandria in July 1882 during the Anglo-Egyptian War. He went on to be First Naval Lord in September 1891 but in that role took a relaxed view of the size of the Fleet and did not see the need for a large shipbuilding effort on the scale envisaged by some of his colleagues, such as Admiral Sir Frederick Richards and Admiral Sir John Fisher who were concerned about French and German naval expansion. Early career Born the son of Henry Hoskins and Mary Hoskins (née Phelips) and educated at Winchester College, Hoskins entered the Royal Navy in April 1842. During his early career he served in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Graham (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir William Graham, (10 September 1826 – 31 May 1907) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Naval Lord and Controller of the Navy. Naval career Graham was appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1849 and served in the Baltic Sea during the Crimean War in 1855 and at the capture of Canton during the Second Opium War in 1857. Promoted to Captain in 1863, he was given command of HMS ''Danae'', HMS ''Immortalité'', HMS ''Resistance'', HMS ''Black Prince'' and then HMS ''Aurora''. He was appointed Captain of the training school HMS ''Britannia'' in 1875, Admiral-Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1882 and Third Naval Lord and Controller of the Navy in 1886. His last appointment was as President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was a Royal Navy training establishment between 1873 and 1998, providing courses for naval officers. It was the home of the Royal Navy's staff college, which provided advanced trainin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gore Jones
Admiral William Gore Jones (12 March 1826 – 28 May 1888) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station. Naval career Jones became a lieutenant in 1848. For his service in the Black Sea during the Crimean War, he given the Légion d'honneur, 5th class and the Order of the Medjidie, 5th class. Promoted to captain in 1861, he took command of HMS ''Princess Royal'', Flagship of Sir George King George King may refer to: Politics * George King (Australian politician) (1814–1894), New South Wales and Queensland politician * George King, 3rd Earl of Kingston (1771–1839), Irish nobleman and MP for County Roscommon * George Clift King (184 ..., in 1864. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station in 1879 and retired in 1887. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, William Gore 1826 births 1888 deaths Royal Navy admirals Companions of the Order of the Bath Royal Navy personnel of the Crimean War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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