The 1892 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 of The Queen, and were published in the ''

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'' on 24 May 1892 and in ''

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'' on 25 May 1892. 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 ...

*The Right Hon. Sir Henry Selwin-Ibbetson *Sir Evelyn Baring Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Cairo.

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The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: * Alexander Bruce, Lord Balfour of Burleigh.

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* Francis Sharp Powell * Henry Wiggin

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*Frederick Bateman *William James Bell * William James Richmond Cotton, City Remembrancer. *John Gardner Engleheart Clerk of the Council of the

Duchy of Lancaster The Duchy of Lancaster is the private estate of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, British sovereign as Duke of Lancaster. The principal purpose of the estate is to provide a source of independent income to the sovereign. The estate consists of ...

. * George Findlay, General Manager of the

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. * George Johnson Physician Extraordinary to her Majesty. *Robert Micks, Secretary of the Excise Department, Inland Revenue Board. *

Joseph Palmer Abbott Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott, (29 September 184215 September 1901) was an Australian politician, pastoralist and solicitor. Early life Joseph Palmer Abbott was born on 29 September 1842 at Muswellbrook, New South Wales, to John Kingsmill Abbo ...

, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. *

Alexandre Lacoste Sir Alexandre Lacoste, (January 13, 1842 – August 17, 1923) was a Canadian lawyer, professor, and politician. He was born in Boucherville, Canada East (now Quebec) in 1842, the son of Louis Lacoste. From 1880 to 1923, he was a professor o ...

, Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, Quebec. *George Clarke Pill, President of the Legislative Council of the Island of Barbados.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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

;Military Division *Admiral Sir

George Ommanney Willes Admiral Sir George Ommanney Willes (19 June 1823 – 18 February 1901) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. Early life Born at Hythe, Hampshire in 1823, Willes was the son of Captain George Willes, RN, by ...

;Civil Division *Sir Julian Pauncefote Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division *Vice-Admiral John Ommanney Hopkins. *Vice-Admiral

Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage Admiral (Royal Navy), Admiral Sir Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage (19 March 1833 – 10 June 1915) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore. Dubbed "Pompo," he was known for his immaculate dress and his white-glo ...

. *General John William Collman Williams, Royal Marine Artillery. ;Civil Division * Godfrey Lushington Under Secretary of State, Home Office. *Lieutenant-General

Richard Hieram Sankey Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Hieram Sankey (22 March 1829 – 11 November 1908) was an officer in the Royal (Madras) Engineers in the East India Company's army in British India, later transferring to the British Army after the Indian Rebellio ...

(Military Division), Chairman Board of Public Works, Ireland. *

Henry Jenkyns Sir Henry Jenkyns (2 September 1838 – 10 December 1899) was an English lawyer and parliamentary counsel. Jenkyns was the son of Rev. Canon Henry Jenkyns, D.D., of Durham. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford; B.A., 1860 (First Class ...

Parliamentary Counsel. *Courtenay Boyle Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade (Railway Department). *Lieutenant-Colonel George Archibald Leach late Royal Engineers, late Secretary to the Board of Agriculture. *Admiral William Windham Hornby, Commissioner, Prison Department, Home Office. * John Evans President of the Society of Antiquaries.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division *Capt. Uvedale Corbet Singleton *Capt. Rodney Maclaine Lloyd *Capt. Tynte Ford Hammill *Capt. Sir William Cecil Henry Domville *Capt.

Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson Admiral Sir Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson, (20 November 1846 – 12 July 1932) was a British Royal Navy officer who was Captain Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard 1899–1902, Admiral-superintendent, Portsmouth, Admiral Superintendent of Port ...

*Capt. Henry John May *Commander

Robert Archibald James Montgomerie Rear-Admiral Robert Archibald James Montgomerie, (11 September 1855 – 1 September 1908) was a British Royal Navy officer, who received the Albert Medal for Lifesaving. Naval career Montgomerie joined the Royal Navy, and served on the roya ...

*Colonel Arthur French Royal Marine Artillery. *Lieutenant-Colonel William Guise Tucker, Royal Marine Artillery. *Fleet Surgeon Edward Elphinstone Mahon *William Castle Chief Inspector of Machinery ;Civil Division *James Caulfeild,

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, late Comptroller of the Household to the Viceroy of Ireland. *George Culley, Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests. * Joseph Brown Chairman of the

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. *William Patrick O'Brien, General Prisons Board, Ireland. *Henry Nicol, late Superintendent, Treasury County Court Department. *Charles S. Murdoch, Home Office. *William Clayton Pickersgill, Her Majesty's Vice-Consul in Madagascar. *

Louis Brennan Louis Brennan (28 January 1852 – 17 January 1932) was an Irish-Australian mechanical engineer and inventor. Biography Brennan was born in Castlebar, Ireland, and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1861 with his parents. He started his caree ...

, Superintendent of the Brennan Torpedo Factory.

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

*Colonel His Highness Maharaja

Pratap Singh Pratap Singh (also known as Partap Singh, Pratab Singh, Partab Singh, Pratapsingh, or Partapsingh) may refer to: *Maharana Pratap Singh of Mewar (1540–1597), Rajasthan *Partap Singh Kairon, Chief Minister of Panjab *Partap Singh (1904–1984), Jat ...

, Indar Mahindar Bahadur, Sipar-i-Sultanat of

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Knight Commander (KCSI)

*Sir Auckland Colvin Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant Governor of the North-Western Provinces and Chief Commissioner of Oudh. * Henry Edward Stokes Madras Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras. *His Excellency Maharaja

Bir Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana Commanding General Shree 3 Maharaja Sir Bir Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana (10 December 1852 – 5 March 1901) was the 11th Prime Minister of Nepal. He is remembered as a statesman who made reforms and infrastructure improvements. Bir Shamsher Jung ...

, Prime Minister of Nepal. *Maharaja Mana Vikrama Bahadur Zamorin of

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Companion (CSI)

*Sir Edward Charles Buck, Bengal Civil Service, Secretary to Government of India, Revenue and Agriculture Department. * Henry John Stedman Cotton, Bengal Civil Service, Officiating Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Member of the Legislative Council of Bengal. *Surgeon-Major-General William Roche Rice Indian Medical Service, Surgeon-General and Sanitary Commissioner with Government of India. *Colonel Frederick Jervis Home, Royal Engineers, Inspector-General of Irrigation and Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, Public Works Department. *Major Henry St. Patrick Maxwell, Indian Staff Corps, Deputy Commissioner, Assam, and Political Agent and Superintendent of the

Manipur State Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of Myanm ...

. *Surgeon-Major

George Scott Robertson Sir George Scott Robertson, (22 October 1852 – 1 January 1916) was a British soldier, author, and administrator who was best known for his arduous journey to the remote and rugged region of Kafiristan in what is now northeastern Afghanistan an ...

, Bengal Establishment, Agency Surgeon, Gilgit.

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George IV, Prince of Wales, while he was acting as prince regent for his father, King George III. It is named in honour ...

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

*Major-General Sir

Francis Wallace Grenfell Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, (29 April 1841 – 27 January 1925) was a British Army officer. After serving as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, he fought in the 9th Xhosa War, the Anglo-Zul ...

for services rendered in Egypt. *Sir Horace Rumbold Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague.

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

* John Joseph Caldwell Abbott Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada and President of the Queen's Privy Council for the Dominion. *

Chaloner Alabaster Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster (1838–1898) was an English administrator in China. Early life He was born in Bournemouth and was the son of Mr. J.C. Alabaster. He attended King's College London and matriculated at London University in 1 ...

, Her Majesty's Consul-General at Canton. *

Patrick Alphonsus Buckley Sir Patrick Alphonsus Buckley ( – 18 May 1896) was a New Zealand soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge who held several high government posts in Wellington in the early 1890s. Early life Buckley was probably born in 1840 or 1841, near Cast ...

, Attorney-General and Colonial Secretary of the Colony of New Zealand. *Ferdinando Vincenzo Inglott late Postmaster-General of the Island of Malta. * Oliver Mowat Attorney-General and Premier of the Province of Ontario in the Dominion of Canada. *Sir

William Montagu Manning Sir William Montagu Manning (20 June 1811 – 27 February 1895) was an English-born Australian politician, judge and University of Sydney chancellor. Early life Manning was born in June 1811 at Alphington, near Exeter, Devon, the second son o ...

Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New South Wales. * Elwin Mitford Palmer for services rendered in Egypt. *Sir David Tennant Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

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

* Alfred Edmund Bateman, of the Board of Trade, for services in connection with British Commercial interests abroad. *

Lewis Adolphus Bernays Lewis Adolphus Bernays (3 May 1831 – 22 August 1908) was a public servant and agricultural writer in Queensland, Australia. Early life Bernays was the son of Dr Adolphus Bernays (a brother of Chakam Isaac Bernays), a professor of German lang ...

, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Queensland. * George Mercer Dawson Assistant Director and Geologist of the Geological and Natural History Survey of the Dominion of Canada, one of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Behring's Sea Fishery. *Robert William Span Mitchell, Government Emigration Agent in Calcutta for the Colonies of British Guiana and Natal. *Morice Pasha, for services rendered in Egypt. *Joseph Henry Phillips, Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of the Colony of British Honduras. *Thomas Shelford, an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements. * Walter Ernest Mortimer Stanford, Chief Magistrate of Griqualand East, in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. *

James Alexander Swettenham Sir James Alexander Swettenham (1846 – 19 April 1933) was a British colonial administrator who was Governor of British Guiana (1901–1904) and Governor of Jamaica (1904–1907). Early life Alexander was born the son of James Oldham Swetten ...

, Auditor-General and Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Island of Ceylon. * Everard Ferdinand im Thurn Government Agent of the North-Western District of the Colony of British Guiana. *Francis Pratt Winter, Chief Judicial Officer and Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Possession of British New Guinea.

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

*Sir James Broadwood Lyall Bengal Civil Service, late Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab. *Maharaja Mirza Sir

Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju (31 December 1850 – 23 May 1897) was the Maharaja of the Vizianagaram kingdom. Royal Family The house of Pusapati claims lineage from the Sisodias of Mewar. According to Edward B. Eastwick, The Maharajah ...

Mani Sultan Bahadur Garu Zamindar of

Vizianagram Vizianagaram is a city and the headquarters of Vizianagaram district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is central Eastern Ghats, about west of the Bay of Bengal and north-northeast of Visakhapatnam. The city has a population of 228,02 ...

Knight Commander (KCIE)

* Thiruvarur Muthuswamy Iyer one of the Puisne Judges, High Court of Judicature, Madras. *Griffith Humphrey Pugh Evans, Additional Member of the Council of the Viceroy of India for making Laws and Regulations. * Edward Charles Kayll Ollivant Bombay Civil Service, Political Agent and Collector of Stamp Revenue, Kathiawar. *

Charles Pontifex Sir Charles Pontifex (5 June 1831 – 27 July 1912) was an English lawyer and colonial administrator and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University and amateur status in first-class c ...

, late Legal Adviser and Solicitor to the Secretary of State for India. * Henry Hoyle Howorth * Henry Seymour KingGreat Britain. India Office

Companion (CIE)

*Lieutenant-Colonel John Walter Ottley, Royal Engineers, Chief Engineer and Joint Secretary to the Government of the Punjab. *Frederick Ewart Robertson, Chief Engineer of the

East India Railway The East Indian Railway Company, operating as the East Indian Railway (reporting mark EIR), introduced railways to East India and North India, while the Companies such as the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, South Indian Railway, Bombay, Barod ...

. * Romesh Chunder Dutt, Bengal Civil Service. *Arthur John Hughes, Superintending Engineer, North Western Provinces and Oudh. *William John Bird Clerke, Civil Engineer *Loudoun Francis MacLean, Civil Engineer *Lieutenant Hugh Daly, Indian Staff Corps, Superintendent, Northern Shan States. * James George Scott, Officiating Superintendent of the Northern Shan States. *George Pringle Rose, Officiating Deputy Manager, North Western Railway. *Raj Bahadur Jai Prakash Lal, Diwan of the Maharaja of Dumraon. *Raj Bahadur Kadir Dad Khan, Gul Khan, Deputy Collector, Sind. *Diwan Ganpat Rai, Extra Assistant-Commissioner, Baluchistan. * William Turner Thiselton-Dyer Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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