The 1872 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 reli ...

of the Queen, and were published in ''

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'' on 31 May 1872 and 4 June 1872. 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 Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

*Her Highness the Nawab Shah Jehan,

Begum of Bhopal The Nawabs of Bhopal were the Muslim rulers of Bhopal, now part of Madhya Pradesh, India. The nawabs first ruled under the Mughal Empire from 1707 to 1737, under the Maratha Empire from 1737 to 1818, then under British rule from 1818 to 1947, an ...

Knight Commander (KCSI)

* John Strachey, Bengal Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India * John Cracroft Wilson Bengal Civi Service (Retired), late Civil and Sessions Judge at Moradabad, and Special Commissioner for the Trial of Rebels and Mutineers in 1857-58

Companion (CSI)

*Major

Owen Tudor Burne Sir Owen Tudor Burne, (1837–1909) was a British major-general known for his contributed volume ''Clyde and Strathnairn'' for the Rulers of India series published in 1891. Born at Plymouth on 12 April 1837, he was eleventh child in a family of ...

, 20th Regiment of Foot, Private Secretary to the late Viceroy and Governor-General of India *Lieutenant-Colonel

George Bruce Malleson Colonel George Bruce Malleson (8 May 1825 – 1 March 1898) was an English officer in India and author. Biography Malleson was born in Wimbledon. Educated at Winchester, he obtained a cadetship in the Bengal infantry in 1842, and served t ...

, Bengal Staff Corps, Guardian to His Highness the Maharajah of Mysore * Mahomed Hyat Khan, Assistant Commissioner Punjab *Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Thomas Etheridge, Bombay Staff Corps, late Inam Commissioner, Southern Mabratta Country

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

John Pope Hennessy Sir John Pope Hennessy (; 8 August 1834 – 7 October 1891), was an Irish and British politician and colonial administrator who served as the eighth Governor of Hong Kong and the fifteenth Governor of Mauritius. Early life John Pope Henness ...

, late Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Labuan and its Dependencies, and now administering the Government of Her Majesty's West Africa Settlements, *

Herbert Taylor Ussher Herbert Taylor John Ussher (22 April 1836 – 2 December 1880) was a British colonial administrator who became Governor of the Gold Coast (now Ghana). In private life, he was a keen naturalist and wrote ''"Notes on the ornithology of the Gold Coa ...

, Administrator of the Government of Her Majesty's Settlement on the Gold Coast in Western Africa

References

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