The 1884 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 ''

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 ...

'' in May and June 1884. 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

Baron Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knig ...

* James, Earl of Seafield, by the name, style, and title of Baron Strathspey, of. Strathspey, in the counties of Inverness and Moray

Knight Bachelor The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system. Knights Bachelor are the ...

*Richard Dickeson, late Mayor of Dover *

Frederick William Burton Sir Frederic William Burton (8 April 1816 in Wicklow – 16 March 1900 in London) was an Irish painter who was born in County Wicklow and taken by his parents to live in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland at the age of six. He was t ...

Director of the

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of London *

Samuel Davenport Sir Samuel Davenport (5 March 1818 – 3 September 1906) was one of the early settlers of Australia and became a landowner and parliamentarian in South Australia. Davenport was fourth son of George Davenport, a wealthy English banker, an ...

, of South Australia

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one ...

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

=Military Division

= ;;Army *General Sir Charles William Dunbar Staveley *General Sir

Collingwood Dickson General Sir Collingwood Dickson (20 November 1817 – 28 November 1904) was a senior British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwe ...

*General Sir

Arthur Borton Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Drummond Borton (1 July 1883 – 5 January 1933) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Biogra ...

*General Sir Henry Charles Barnston Daubeny *General Sir James Brind

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Admiral Alfred Phillipps Ryder *Vice-Admiral George Ommanney Willes ;;Army *Lieutenant-General Frederick Charles Arthur Stephenson *Colonel

Herbert Stewart Major-General Sir Herbert Stewart (30 June 1843 – 16 February 1885) was a British soldier. Early life Stewart, the eldest son of the Rev. Edward Stewart, was born at Sparsholt, Hampshire. He was the grandson of Edward Richard Stewart an ...

''Aide-de-Camp'' to the Queen

=Civil Division

= *The Honourable Spencer Cecil Brabazon Ponsonby-Fane Comptroller of Accounts, Lord Chamberlain's Department *

Henry Wentworth Acland Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, (23 August 181516 October 1900) was an English physician and educator. Life Henry Acland was born in Killerton, Exeter, the fourth son of Sir Thomas Acland and Lydia Elizabeth Hoare, and educat ...

Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Captain Hilary Gustavus Andoe *Captain Ernest Neville Rolfe ;;Army *Major-General John Davis *Colonel Edward Alexander Wood, 10th Hussars *Colonel Barnes Slyfield Robinson, Princess Victoria's' (Royal Irish Fusiliers) *Colonel Cornelius Francis Clery *Brigade Surgeon Edmund Greswold McDowell, Army Medical Department *Lieutenant-Colonel William Green, the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) *Lieutenant-Colonel William Byam, York and Lancaster Regiment *Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur George Webster, 19th Hussars *Lieutenant-Colonel

John Charles Ardagh Major-General Sir John Charles Ardagh (9 August 1840 – 30 September 1907), was an Anglo-Irish officer of the British Army, who served as a military engineer, surveyor, intelligence officer, and colonial administrator. Biography Early life an ...

(Civil), Royal Engineers *Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Harry Stanley Barrow 19th Hussars *Assistant Commissary-General Robert Arthur

=Civil Division

= *The Honourable William Nassau Jocelyn, Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Darmstadt *John Gardner Dillman Engleheart, Clerk of the Council cf the Ducliy of Lancaster *

Francis Mowatt Sir Francis Mowatt (28 April 1837 – 20 November 1919) was a British civil servant. He was a radical and Liberal civil servant at the Head of the Treasury. His influence was felt at a time of expansion in governmental activities. Personal li ...

, Principal Clerk in Her Majesty's Treasury

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

*His Highness Chama Rajendra Wadeir, Maharajah of

Mysore Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...

Companion (CSI)

*Sir

Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet Jejeebhoy of Bombay CMG (15 July 1783 – 14 April 1859), also spelt Jeejeebhoy or Jeejebhoy, was an Indian-Parsi merchant and philanthropist. He made a huge fortune in cotton and the opium trade with Ch ...

Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations *Charles Gonne, Bombay Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations *

William Wilson Hunter Sir William Wilson Hunter (15 July 18406 February 1900) was a Scottish historian, statistician, a compiler and a member of the Indian Civil Service. He is most known for ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' on which he started working in 1869, ...

Bengal Civil Service, Director-General of Statistics to the Government of India, Additional Member of the Council of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations *Colonel Robert Murray, Bengal Staff Corps, late Director-General of Telegraphs to the Government of India

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

*Sir

Robert Richard Torrens Sir Robert Richard Torrens, (31 May 1812Croucher, Rosalind F. (2008) 'Delenda Est Carthago!' Sir Robert Richard Torrens and his attack on the evils of conveyancing and dependent land titles: a reflection on the sesquicentenary of the introdu ...

*Sir

Alfred Stephen Sir Alfred Stephen (20 August 180215 October 1894) was an Australian judge and Chief Justice of New South Wales. Early life Stephen was born at St Christopher in the West Indies. His father, John Stephen (1771–1833), was related to James S ...

formerly Chief Justice of New South Wales, now Lieutenant-Governor of that Colony

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

Thomas Charles Scanlen Sir Thomas Charles Scanlen (9 July 1834 – 15 December 1912) was a politician and administrator of the Cape Colony. He was briefly Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, from 1881 to 1884, during an especially turbulent period in the Cape's histo ...

, late First Minister of the Cape of Good Hope *Colonel William Crossman Royal Engineers, one of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed in 1882 to inquire into the Revenue and Expenditure, &c., of certain of the West Indian Colonies *

Frederick Napier Broome Sir Frederick Napier Broome (18 November 1842 – 26 November 1896) was a colonial administrator in the British Empire, serving in Natal, Mauritius, Western Australia, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago. The Western Australian towns of Broom ...

Governor of Western Australia * Arthur Elibank Havelock Governor of the West Africa Settlements

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

*Colonel Charles John Moysey, Royal Engineers, for services rendered in connection with South Africa *John Glasgow Grant, formerly Speaker of the House of Assembly and Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Barbados *Edward Barnett Anderson Taylor, Colonial Secretary of the Bahama Islands and Administrator of the Government in the absence of the Governor *Augustus John Adderley, for many years Member of the Legislature of the Bahama Islands, and Commissioner for the Bahamas at the International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883 * George Smyth Baden-Powell, one of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed in 1882 to inquire into the Revenue and Expenditure, &c., of certain of the West Indian Colonies *Frederick Charles Heidenstam, Chief Medical Officer of the Government of Cyprus *William Crofton Twynam, Government Agent, Northern Province, Ceylon * William Alexander Pickering, Protector of Chinese in the Straits Settlements

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire

Companion (CIE)

Alfred Woodley Croft Sir Alfred Woodley Croft (7 February 1841 – 29 October 1925) was a British educationist and administrator who spent most of his career in India. From 1877 until his retirement in 1897 he was Director of Public Instruction in Bengal, and was a ...

, Director of Public Instruction, Bengal *The Reverend William Miller, Principal of the Christian College, Madras *

Kashinath Trimbak Telang Kashinath Trimbak Telang (20 August 1850, Bombay – 1 September 1893, Bombay) was an Indologist and Indian judge at Bombay High Court. Early life and education Telang was born in a Gaud Saraswat Brahmin family. At the age of five Telang was se ...

, Barrister-at-Law, Bombay *

Benjamin Lewis Rice Benjamin Lewis Rice (17 July 1837 – 10 July 1927), popularly known as B. L. Rice, was a British historian, archaeologist and educationist. He is known for his pioneering work in deciphering inscriptions, especially in Kannada, and in Sansk ...

, Director of Public Instruction, Mysore and Coorg *Captain George O'Brien Theodore Carew (late Indian Navy), Deputy-Director of Indian Marine *Sheikh Shuruf-ud-din, Raees of Sheikhupur *Rai Bahadur Kanai Lai Dé *Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, employed on a special mission on the Perso-Afghan frontier *Durga Charan Laha, late Member of the Council of the Viceroy and Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations * Edward Thomas, Bengal Civil Service (Retired)

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