The 1860 Birthday Honours were appointments by

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 21 ...

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 A birthday is the anniversary of the birth of a person, or figuratively of an institution. Birthdays of people are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with birthday gifts, birthday cards, a birthday party, or a rite of passage. Many relig ...

of the Queen, and were published in ''

The London Gazette ''The London Gazette'' is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are ...

'' on 18 May 1860. 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

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

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Admiral of the Fleet Sir John West *Admiral Sir

William Hall Gage Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Hall Gage (2 October 1777 – 4 January 1864) was Second Sea Lord in the British Navy. He took part in the Battle of Cape St Vincent and the Siege of French-held Malta during the French Revolutionary Wars. He a ...

Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom *Admiral Sir Francis William Austen *General Sir James Douglas *General Sir

George Scovell General Sir George Scovell, (21 March 1774 – 17 January 1861) was a member of the quartermaster's staff of the British Army in Iberia during the Peninsular War. Military career Scovell's parents were George Scovell of Cirencester and the da ...

*General the

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*Admiral Sir

Thomas John Cochrane Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas John Cochrane (5 February 1789 – 19 October 1872) was a Royal Navy officer. After serving as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars, he captured the HMS Favourit ...

*Admiral Sir

George Francis Seymour Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Francis Seymour, (17 September 1787 – 20 January 1870) was a Royal Navy officer. After serving as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars, Seymour commanded the third-rate under Admiral Sir John ...

;;Army *General Sir

Frederick Stovin General Sir Frederick Stovin (bapt. 27 November 1783''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975'' – 16 August 1865) was a British Army officer who served throughout the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. After the end of the wars ...

*General Sir James Fergusson *Lieutenant-General Sir John Bell

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Vice-Admiral

Arthur Fanshawe Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe (5 February 1794 – 14 June 1864) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth. Naval career Born the son of Robert Fanshawe, Fanshawe joined the Royal Navy in 1804. Promoted to Capta ...

*Vice-Admiral Provo William Parry Wallis *Rear-Admiral

Robert Lambert Baynes Admiral Sir Robert Lambert Baynes (4 September 1796 – 7 September 1869) was a British Royal Navy admiral who as Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station prevented the 1859 Pig War from escalating to a major conflict between the United States a ...

;;Army *General the Honourable

Henry Murray Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893 – June 23, 1988) was an American psychologist at Harvard University, where from 1959 to 1962 he conducted a series of psychologically damaging and purposefully abusive experiments on minors and underg ...

*Lieutenant-General

Philip Bainbrigge Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Bainbrigge (4 February 1786 – 20 December 1862) was a British Army officer. He was present at the sieges and storming of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz, and later the advance to Madrid. He later joined the British a ...

*Lieutenant-General Thomas Erskine Napier *Lieutenant-General the Honourable

Charles Gore Charles Gore (22 January 1853 – 17 January 1932) was a Church of England bishop, first of Worcester, then Birmingham, and finally of Oxford. He was one of the most influential Anglican theologians of the 19th century, helping reconcile the c ...

*Lieutenant-General

Edward Charles Whinyates General Sir Edward Charles Whinyates, (6 May 1782 – 25 December 1865) was a senior British Army artillery officer. Biography Whinyates was the son of Major Thomas Whinyates of Abbotsleigh, Devon, and his wife Katharine Frankland, and was edu ...

*Lieutenant-General George Judd Harding ;;Royal Marines *Lieutenant-General

Samuel Burdon Ellis General Sir Samuel Burdon Ellis (bapt. 10 March 1782 – 10 March 1865) was a senior Royal Marines officer. Early life Ellis was born in 1782, the son of Captain Charles Ellis, R.N. and his wife Susanna. Life Ellis entered the Royal Marine Li ...

=Civil Division

= ;;Indian Service *

Frederick James Halliday Sir Frederick James Halliday (25 December 1806 – 22 October 1901) was a British civil servant and the first Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. Early life and career Frederick James Halliday was born on 25 December 1806 at Ewell, Surrey. Acc ...

, late Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal *Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton late Political Agent in Central India *Major-General

Richard James Holwell Birch General Sir Richard James Holwell Birch (26 January 1803 – 25 February 1875) was a British officer of the Bengal Army of the East India Company, who served during the Sikh Wars and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Life He came from a well-known ...

Secretary to the Government of India in the Military Department *Colonel

Peter Melvill Melvill Major-General Sir Peter Melvill Melvill (2 July 1803''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975'' – 5 November 1895) was a British military commander in the Bombay Army who was military and naval secretary to the Governor of Bombay. ...

, Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Military and Naval Departments *Lieutenant-Colonel

Herbert Benjamin Edwardes Major-General Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes DCL (12 November 1819 – 23 December 1868) was a British administrator, soldier, and statesman active in the Punjab region of British India. He is best known as the "Hero of Multan" for his pivotal ...

Commissioner of Peshawur

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

=Civil Division

= *

Thomas Erskine May Thomas Erskine May, 1st Baron Farnborough, (8 February 1815 – 17 May 1886) was a British constitutional theorist and Clerk of the House of Commons. His seminal work, ''A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliam ...

, Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons ;;Colonial Service *

Philip Edmond Wodehouse Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse (27 February 1811 – 25 October 1887) was a British colonial administrator. Biography Wodehouse was the eldest child of Edmond Wodehouse and his wife and first cousin Lucy Wodehouse. His paternal grandfather Tho ...

, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of British Guiana * James Walker, Colonial Secretary for the Island of Barbados *Colonel

Stephen John Hill Sir Stephen John Hill, , (June 10, 1809 – 20 October 1891) was a governor of, in turn, four British colonial possessions. Born in the West Indies, Hill began his colonial service in Africa, becoming governor of the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) ...

, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Sierra Leone *Edward Jordan, President of the Privy Council of the Island of Jamaica *Major

Mathew Richmond Major Mathew Richmond (1801 – 5 March 1887) was a New Zealand colonial administrator and a politician. He was the first Chairman of Committees of the Legislative Council. Born in England to Scottish parents, he had a military career sp ...

, sometime Superintendent at Wellington and Nelson, in New Zealand ;;Indian Service *

Edward Anderton Reade Edward Anderton Reade, (15 March 1807 – 12 February 1886), was a British civil servant in India who served in Bengal from 1826 to 1860. Career On 10 February 1835 Reade was appointed as Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector of Belah. On 8 ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Member of the Sudder Board of Revenue *

Donald Friell McLeod Sir Donald Friell McLeod (6 May 1810 – 28 November 1872) was an Anglo-Indian civil servant who served as Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab between 1865 and 1870. He was one of the founders of Lahore Oriental College, now part of the Punjab ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Punjab *

John Cracroft Wilson Sir John Cracroft Wilson (21 May 1808 – 2 March 1881), also known as Nabob Wilson, was a British-educated civil servant in India, farmer and politician in New Zealand. Early life John Cracroft Wilson was born in Onamore, India, the son of Al ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Judge of Moradabad * Edward Thornton, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of the Jhelum Division, Punjab *Henry Carre Tucker, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Benares *George Udny Yule, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Bhaugulpore *Edward Alexander Samuells, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Patna *Robert Alexander, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Rohilcund *Frederick Bebb Gubbins, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Benares *Arthur Austin Roberts, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Lahore * George Carnac Barnes, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of the Cis-Sutlej States *Arthur Herbert Cocks, Bengal Civil Service, Judge of Mynpoorie *

Charles John Wingfield Sir Charles John Wingfield (16 April 1820 – 27 January 1892) was a British civil servant and politician. He had a distinguished career with the Bengal Civil Service, was later elected as the first Member of Parliament for the United Kingdom ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Goruckpore *Samuel Wauchope, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Police, Calcutta *Brand Sapte, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Boluridshuhur * Alonzo Money, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Shahabad and Gya *Francis Otway Mayne, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Banda * George Ebenezer Wilson Couper, Bengal Civil Service, Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Oude *Robert Henry Dunlop, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Meerut *William Ashburner Forbes, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Oude *

Frederick Henry Cooper Frederick Henry Cooper (1827–1869) was a British civil servant who worked with the East India Company. He served as Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar, Punjab, during the Indian rebellion of 1857. Along with James Neill, John Nicholson and Will ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Umritsur *George Henry Mildmay Ricketts, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Loodianah *John Henry Bax, Bengal Civil Service, Joint Magistrate, Ghazeepore *

Thomas Douglas Forsyth Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth (7 October 1827 – 17 December 1886) was an Anglo-Indian administrator and diplomat. Early life Forsyth was born in Birkenhead on 7 October 1827. He was the tenth child of Thomas Forsyth, a Liverpool merchant. His ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Umballah *

Allan Octavian Hume Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British civil servant, political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India. He was the founder of the Indian National Congress. A notable ornithologist, Hum ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Etawah *Herwald Craufurd Wake, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Shahabad *Brigadier-General George St. Patrick Lawrence, Bengal Cavalry, Agent to Her Majesty's Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Rajpootana *Colonel Sir Richard Campbell Shakespear Bengal Artillery, Resident at Baroda *Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert Davidson, Bengal Infantry, Resident at Hyderabad *Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Carleton Marsden, Bengal Retired List, Deputy Commissioner, Ferozepore *Major Walter Coningsby Erskine, Bengal Infantry, Commissioner of Saugor *Major John Reid Becher, Bengal Engineers, Deputy Commissioner, Hazara *Major Henry Ramsay, Bengal Infantry, Commissioner of Kumaon *Major George Walter Williams, Bengal Infantry, Commanding Meerut Volunteers *Major Richard Charles Lawrence, Bengal Infantry, Commanding the Lahore Police and Cashmere Contingent *Major John William Carnegie, Bengal Infantry, Deputy Commissioner, Oude *Major William Wilberforce Harris Greathed, Bengal Engineers *Captain Hugh Rees James, Bengal Infantry, Deputy Commissioner, Peshawur *Captain Benjamin Henderson, Bengal Infantry, Deputy Commissioner, Kohat * Robert Staunton Ellis, Madras Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Nagpore *Major Samuel Charters Macpherson, Madras Infantry, Political Agent, Gwalior *Major Francis Wingrave Pinkney, Madras Infantry, Commissioner of Jhansi *Captain William Hindley Crichton, Madras Infantry, Deputy Commissioner, Nagpore *Captain Charles Eliot, Madras Artillery, Deputy Commissioner, Nagpore *Lieutenant John William Willoughby Osborne, Madras Infantry, Political Agent in Rewah *John Nugent Rose, Bombay Civil Service, Chief Civil Officer, Sattara *Major William Lockyer Merewether, Bombay Infantry, Political Agent, Scinde Frontier

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