The 1881 Birthday Honours were appointments by

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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 1881. 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 *Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour ;;Army *General the

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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Admiral the Honourable Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot *Admiral Edward Gennys Fanshawe *Vice-Admiral the Right Honourable Lord John Hay *Captain Frederick William Richards ;;Army *General

George Colt Langley General Sir George Colt Langley, (8 November 1810 – 28 December 1896) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines. Military career Langley was born in Bristol, the eighth of 12 children born to John Langley ...

*General William Montagu Scott McMurdo *General Lord Mark Kerr *General His Serene Highness

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*General John Thornton Grant *Lieutenant-General George Vaughan Maxwell *Lieutenant-General Alexander Macdonell *Lieutenant-General

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*Lieutenant-General John Forbes *Honorary Major-General

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*Colonel Charles George Arbuthnot *Colonel Charles Cooper Johnson Bengal Staff Corps

=Civil Division

= *Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham, Londonderry Militia *Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Hambleton Francis Custance, West Norfolk Militia *Lieutenant-Colonel

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, 2nd (South) Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel

Robert Loyd-Lindsay Brigadier General Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, (17 April 1832 – 10 June 1901) was a British soldier, politician, philanthropist, benefactor to Wantage, and first chairman and co-founder of the British National Society for Aid ...

First Berkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps *

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, Honorary Commander of the Liverpool Brigade of Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers *Captain

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Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Vice-Admiral Richard Dunning White *Vice-Admiral Edward Bridges Rice *Captain Sholto Douglas *Captain William Arthur ;;Army *Lieutenant-General

Joseph Henry Laye Lieutenant General Joseph Henry Laye, (4 February 1849 – 26 June 1938) was a British Army officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces. Military career Laye served in both the Ninth Xhosa War from 1877 to 1878 and the Anglo-Zul ...

*Major-General Francis Peyton *Major-General John Henry Ford Elkington *Major-General James Gubbins *Major-General John Gordon *Major-General George Godfrey Pearse *Colonel

Reginald Gipps General Sir Reginald Ramsay Gipps, (14 May 1831 – 10 September 1908) was a senior British Army officer who served as Military Secretary from 1892 until his retirement in 1896. Military career Born the only son of Major Sir George Gipps and e ...

, Scots Guards *Colonel George Byng Harman, late Brigade Depot *Colonel Allen Bayard Johnson, Bengal Staff Corps *Colonel John Alexander Mathew Macdonald, Bombay Staff Corps *Colonel George Scougall Macbean, Bengal Staff Corps *Colonel Robert Crosse Stewart, late 2nd Foot *Colonel

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, late 29th Foot *Colonel the Honourable

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, late 13th Foot *Colonel Rowley Sale Hill, Bengal Infantry *Colonel Charles Edward Cumberland, Royal Engineers *Colonel William French, Royal Artillery *Colonel John William Hoggan, Bengal Staff Corps *Colonel Thomas Gaily Ross, Bengal Staff Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Macnaghten Armstrong, Bengal Staff Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Dawson Stockley Warren, 14th Regiment *Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Donald Malcolm, Royal Engineers *Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Copland, Bengal Staff Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel

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, 60th Regiment *Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Augustus Bushman, 9th Lancers *Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Montizambert Stockwell, 72nd Regiment *Lieutenant-Colonel John Frederick Crease, Royal Marine Artillery *Major Joseph Philips, Royal Marine Light Infantry *Major

John Ramsay Slade Major-General Sir John Ramsay Slade (16 March 1843 – 4 September 1913) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding the British Troops in Egypt. Early life and education Slade was born at Berwick House in Berwick St Leona ...

, Royal Artillery *Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Daniel John Duigan *Deputy Surgeon-General John O'Nial, Army Medical Department *Surgeon-Major Samuel Black Roe Army Medical Department *Deputy Commissary-General Henry John Brownrigg, Commissariat and Transport Staff *Assistant Commissary-General Henry Spencer Edward Reeves, Commissariat and Transport Staff

=Civil Division

= *Colonel

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, the (King's Own) 2nd Stafford Militia *Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise, West Essex Militia *Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel David Carrick Robert Carrick Buchanan, 2nd Royal Lanark Militia *Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel John Williams Wallington, Royal North Gloucester Militia *Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir John Stephen Robinson Louth Militia *Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir Thomas Oriel Forster Monaghan Militia *Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Winn Knight, 1st Worcester Rifle Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel David Davidson, 1st (The Queen's City of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade) *Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Watkin Shakerley 5th Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Barttelot Barttelot 2nd Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable

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, 6th Middlesex (St. George's) Rifle Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel and Vice-Admiral Thomas Chaloner, 1st North Riding of Yorkshire Artillery Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Ewen Macpherson, 1st Inverness (Highland) Rifle Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Addison Potter, 1st Northumberland and Durham Artillery Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Sagar Hirst, 3rd West Riding of Yorkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir

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Royal Lancashire Artillery Militia *Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Edwards 2nd West Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry *Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Wilmot 1st Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Robert John Tilney, 5th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Stock Hill, 1st Glamorgan Artillery Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Matheson, 1st Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteer Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Leopold George Frederick Keane, Waterford Artillery, Militia *Sir Allen William Young, Commanding the London Brigade of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers *Ernest Hobart Inman, Commanding the Liverpool Brigade of the Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers *

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, Assistant Comptroller and Auditor-General *Frederick James Fegen, Paymaster in the Royal Navy *Captain Andrew Noble, late Royal Artillery

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

*His Highness Sujjun Singh, Maharana of

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Knight Commander (KCSI)

*General

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, Bengal Staff Corps *

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Bengal Civil Service, Chief Commissioner British Burmah *His Highness Tukht Singh, Thakur Saheb of Bhavnagur *

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Bengal Civil Service, Resident at Mysore *John Forsyth Inspector-General of Hospitals (Retired), Bengal Medical Service * Lepel Henry Griffin Bengal Civil Service, Agent to the Governor-General in Central India

Companion (CSI)

*Donald Campbell Macnabb, Bengal Civil Service (Retired), late Commissioner Punjab *Wazirzadah Muhammad Afzal Khan, late Political Assistant in Afghanistan *Major-General John Salusbury Trevor (Retired), Royal (late Bombay) Engineers, lately Director-General of State Railways *Horace Abel Cockerell, Bengal Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, in the Judicial and Political Department *Colonel Samuel Black, Bengal Staff Corps, Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Military Department

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

*Sir

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Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Queensland *Major-General Sir Harry St George Ord Royal Engineers

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

*Sir

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Agent-General in England for New Zealand, and late Speaker of the House of Representatives in that Colony *

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Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the

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Minister of Public Works in the Dominion of Canada *Major-General George Richards Greaves late Chief Secretary and Chief of the Staff in Cyprus *

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, Colonial Secretary, and lately Premier of Queensland

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

*Augustus Frederick Gore, Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Saint Vincent *Major-General James Robert Mann, Royal Engineers, Director of Roads and Surveyor-General, Jamaica *William Warren Streeten, Chief Justice of the West Africa Settlements *

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, Surveyor-General and Commissioner of Crown Lands, of Western Australia *

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, Colonial Secretary and Auditor-General, Hong Kong *Major John George Dartnell, Commandant of the Natal Mounted Police *

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Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the McGill University, Montreal, Canada *

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Librarian to the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada *William Dealtry, late Chief Clerk of the Colonial Office * Charles John Irving, Resident Councillor at Malacca, Straits Settlements *Henry Nicholas Duverger Beyts, Receiver-General of Mauritius *

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, Collector of Customs, New South Wales * Charles Bruce, Director of Public Instruction, Ceylon *

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Chief Medical Officer and Receiver-General, Fiji

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