The 1873 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

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of the Queen, and were published in ''

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'' on 24 May 1873. 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 Sir Provo William Parry Wallis *Admiral Sir

William Fanshawe Martin Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin, 4th Baronet, (5 December 180124 March 1895), was a Royal Navy officer. As a commander, he provided valuable support to British merchants at Callao in Peru in the early 1820s during the Peruvian War of Indepe ...

*Admiral Thomas, Earl of Lauderdale *Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones ;;Army *General Sir Henry George Andrew Taylor *General Sir George Bowles *General Sir

Abraham Roberts General Sir Abraham Roberts (11 April 1784 – 28 December 1873) was a British East India Company Army general who served nearly 50 years in India. Roberts had two sons, who both obtained the highest ranks in the British Army. One son and a gra ...

*General Sir James Charles Chatterton *General Sir

William Henry Elliott Sir William Henry Elliott, (1792 – 27 March 1874) was a British Army general. Origins Born in 1792 in Spennithorne, Yorkshire, he was the fourth son of Commander John Elliott, Royal Navy, R.N. (1759–1834), who as a midshipman had sailed on ...

*Lieutenant-General Sir

Sydney John Cotton Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney John Cotton (2 December 1792 – 19 February 1874) was a British Army officer. He was the commandment of the Moreton Bay penal colony in Australia. Military career Born the second son of Henry Calveley Cotton of Wo ...

*Lieutenant-General Sir John Bloomfield *Lieutenant-General Sir

Duncan Alexander Cameron General (United Kingdom), General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, (20 May 18088 June 1888) was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War and part of the New Zealand Wars. He was later a List of Governors and Commandants of Sandhurst, ...

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Admiral Henry Smith *Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley *Vice-Admiral George St. Vincent King *Admiral Charles Eden *Vice-Admiral the Honourable

James Robert Drummond Admiral Sir James Robert Drummond (15 September 1812 – 7 October 1895) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded several ships in the Black Sea Fleet during the Crimean War and who commanded the Mediterranean Fleet from 1874 to 1877 before going o ...

*Rear-Admiral John Walter Tarleton *Rear-Admiral Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell *Rear-Admiral

Astley Cooper Key Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key, (18 January 1821 – 3 March 1888) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado in November 1845 during the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata and too ...

;;Army *Lieutenant-General Francis Warde *Lieutenant-General

Frederick William Hamilton General Sir Frederick William Hamilton, (8 July 1815 – 4 October 1890) was a British Army officer who served as Major General commanding the Brigade of Guards from 1868 to 1870. Early life Hamilton was born in London in 1815, the son of Will ...

*Lieutenant-General Arthur Mitford Becher *Lieutenant-General Charles Trollope *Lieutenant-General Edward Cooper Hodge *Lieutenant-General the Honourable Alexander Hamilton-Gordon *Lieutenant-General John Fordyce *Lieutenant-General

Philip Melmoth Nelson Guy Lieutenant General Sir Philip Melmoth Nelson Guy (1804–1878) was Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong and Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. Military career Guy was commissioned into the 5th Regiment of Foot in 1824. He went on to ...

*Major-General Lord Henry Hugh Manvers Percy *Major-General Charles Henry Ellice *Major-General

Richard Wilbraham General Sir Richard Wilbraham (12 April 1811 – 30 April 1900) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Fusiliers, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Early life He was a son of Randle Bootle-Wilbraham (1773–1861) of ...

*Major-General James Duncan Macpherson *Major-General Edmund Haythorne *Major-General

Henry Drury Harness General Sir Henry Drury Harness (29 April 1804 – 10 February 1883) was a British soldier who held several notable civil posts during his career. Early life Henry Drury Harness was son of John Harness, M.D., commissioner of the Transport Boar ...

*Major-General

Henry Wylie Norman Field Marshal Sir Henry Wylie Norman, (2 December 1826 – 26 October 1904) was a senior Indian Army officer and colonial administrator. He served in the Second Anglo-Sikh War, the campaign against the Kohat Pass Afridis, the suppression of the ...

*Colonel

John Miller Adye General Sir John Miller Adye (1 November 181926 August 1900) was a British soldier and amateur artist. Military career Adye was the son of Major James P. Adye, born at Sevenoaks, Kent, on 1 November 1819. He studied at the Royal Military Aca ...

*Surgeon-General William Mure Muir

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Rear-Admiral Edwin Clayton Tennyson d'Eyncourt *Rear-Admiral Arthur Mellersh *Rear-Admiral

Robert Coote Robert Coote (4 February 1909 – 26 November 1982) was an English actor. He played aristocrats or British military types in many films, and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of ''My Fai ...

*Captain Julian Foulston Slight *Captain

Thomas Saumarez General Sir Thomas Saumarez (1 July 1760 – 4 March 1845) was a British General who served in the American Revolutionary War. Early life: 1760–1776 Thomas Saumarez was born in Guernsey on 1 July 1760 to Matthew Saumarez (1718–1778) an ...

*Captain William Andrew James Heath *Captain Cornelius Thomas Augustus Noddall *Captain Robert Gibson *Captain Augustus Chetham Strode ;;Army *General Edward Armstrong, Madras Infantry *Lieutenant-General Maurice Barlow *Lieutenant-General Matthew Smith *Lieutenant-General Henry Bates *Lieutenant-General George Staunton *Lieutenant-General

James Travers General James Travers (6 October 1820 – 1 April 1884) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Milita ...

Bengal Infantry *Major-General John Leslie Dennis *Major-General James Abbott, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery *Major-General John Stafford Paton, Bengal Staff Corps *Major-General Charles Elmhirst *Major-General Sir

James Edward Alexander General Sir James Edward Alexander (16 October 1803 – 2 April 1885) was a Scottish traveller, author and soldier in the British Army. Alexander was the driving force behind the placement of Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment. Bac ...

*Major-General Charles Arthur Barwell, Bengal Staff Corps *Major-General William Henry March, retired, Royal Marines *Colonel Charles Tyrwhitt *Colonel George Calvert Clarke, late 2nd Dragoons *Colonel Frederick Amelius Whimper *Colonel Edmund Augustus Whitmore *Colonel John Josiah Hort, Brigade Depot *Colonel James Croft Brooke, late 8th Regiment *Colonel Frederick Robert Elrington, Rifle Depot *Colonel Percy Archer Butler, late 28th Regiment *Colonel

William Sankey General William Sankey (died 16 November 1892) was a British Army officer who served as colonel of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). Military career Sankey was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1844. He saw action as Dep ...

, 62nd Regiment *Colonel Lord Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy *Colonel William James Loftus, late 38th Regiment *Colonel Henry Meade Hamilton, Brigade Depot *Colonel Michael Anthony Shrapnel Biddulph, Royal Artillery *Colonel Bartholomew O'Brien, Brigade Depot *Colonel Cadwallader Adams, 49th Regiment *Colonel Henry Hamilton Maxwell, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery *Colonel Robert White, Brigade Depot *Colonel Charles Edward Parke Gordon, late 75th Regiment *Colonel David Scott Dodgson, Bengal Infantry *Colonel William James Esten Grant, Royal Artillery *Colonel John Desborough, Royal Artillery *Colonel Robert Cadell, Royal (late Madras) Artillery *Colonel Charles Malcolm Barrow, Bombay Staff Corps *Colonel Alfred Bassano, late 82nd Regiment *Colonel Arthur Howlett, Madras Staff Corps *Colonel Frederick William Burroughs, 93rd Regiment *Colonel George Whittle Mackenzie Hall, Bengal Staff Corps *Colonel

Peter Stark Lumsden General Sir Peter Stark Lumsden (9 November 1829 – 9 November 1918) was a British military officer who served in India. Born in Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, he was the fourth son of Colonel Thomas Lumsden CB. He studied at Addiscombe Milita ...

Bengal Staff Corps *Colonel Shurlock Henning, 38th Regiment *Colonel John Hamilton Cox, late 75th Regiment *Colonel Arthur Bunny, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery *Colonel Charles Butler Peter Nugent Hodges Nugent, Royal Engineers *Lieutenant-Colonel William John Williams, Royal Artillery *Lieutenant-Colonel

John Irvine Murray General Sir John Irvine Murray, (31 July 1826 – 20 May 1902) was a Scottish commanding officer of the British Indian Army. Career Murray was the son of James Murray of Denholm and Margaret Irvine. He joined the British Indian Army in 1842, ...

, Bengal Staff Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Baigrie, Bombay Staff Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Dominick Sarsfield Greene, Royal Artillery *Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Richard Maunsell, Royal (late Bengal) Engineers *Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets John Rees (retired) *Inspector-General of Hospitals Richard Dane *Inspector-General of Hospitals Benjamin William Marlow *Surgeon-Major John Wyatt, Coldstream Guards *Deputy Controller Randolph Routh *Deputy Controller Henry Bartlett *Deputy Controller Alexander Crowder Crookshank

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

*His Excellency Maharajah Jung Bahadoor Kunwar Ranajee Prime Minister of Nepal *General Sir John Low Madras Infantry, formerly Political Resident at Lucknow and Hyderabad and Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India *Lieutenant-General Sir

Neville Bowles Chamberlain Field Marshal Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain (10 January 1820 – 18 February 1902) was a distinguished British military officer in British India. He served in the Bengal Army and saw action in the First Anglo-Afghan War, Gwalior Campaign, Se ...

Bengal Infantry, late Commanding Punjab Irregular Force

Knight Commander (KCSI)

*Nawab Khan Bahadoor Khwajah Muhammad Khan Khuttuk, of Kohat * George Campbell, Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal * Alexander John Arbuthnot Madras Civil Service, late Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras *Major-General

Harry Burnett Lumsden Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burnett "Joe" Lumsden (12 November 1821 – 12 August 1896) was a British military officer active in India. Biography Background Lumsden was born aboard the East India Company's ship ''Rose'' in the Bay of Bengal. ...

Bengal Staff Corps, late Envoy to Candahar

Companion (CSI)

*John Forbes David Inglis, Bengal Civil Service, Senior Member of the Board of Revenue, North-West Provinces, and additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations *Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Campbell McNeill, late Madras Staff Corps, formerly Agent to the Governor-General in Orissa *

John Ware Edgar Sir John Ware Edgar (16 September 1839 - 4 June 1902EDGAR, Sir John Ware’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014) was a British colonial administrator in Britis ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Cachar, late Political Officer attached to the Looshai Expeditionary Force

References

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