The New Year Honours 1892 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 of the

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and

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. They were announced in ''

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'' on 1 January 1892, and the various honours were gazetted in ''

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'' on 1 January 1892. The recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil).

Peerage

*General Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Bart., VC, GCB,

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*Admiral Sir Arthur William Acland Hood, GCB *Sir William Thomson, DCL,

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*Colonel Sir

Walter Barttelot Sir Walter Barttelot, 1st Baronet, (10 October 1820 – 2 February 1893) was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for several con ...

, Bart., CB, MP * Arthur Bower Forwood, Esq., MP,

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*Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Law Durand, CB * Thomas Dawson Brodie, Esq., of Idvies

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*Colonel Edward Charles Ross, CSI, formerly British Resident and Consul-General for the Persian Gulf *Principal

William Duguid Geddes Sir William Duguid Geddes (21 November 1828''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950''9 February 1900) was a Scottish scholar and educationalist, who promoted the cause of classical Greek at the University of Aberdeen and later became ...

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* John Charles Samuel Grenier, Esq., Attorney-General of Ceylon *Honourable William Hollingworth Quayle Jones,

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Companions of the Order of the Bath

*Richard Powney Ebden, Esq. *Joseph John Henley, Esq. *

George William Kekewich Sir George William Kekewich (1 April 1841 – 5 July 1921) was a British Civil Servant and Liberal Party politician. Family and education He was the son of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich by his second wife Louisa Buck, and the half-brother of the j ...

, Esq. * Henry Austin Lee, Esq. *Jacob Luard Pattisson, Esq.

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Companions of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

* John Woodburn, Bengal Civil Service. * William Lee-Warner, Bombay Civil Service.

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)

* Sir

Cecil Clementi Smith Sir Cecil Clementi Smith (23 December 1840 – 6 February 1916),. was a British colonial administrator. Background The son of an Essex rector, John Smith, and his wife Cecilia Susanna Clementi (daughter of Muzio Clementi), Cecil Clementi Smi ...

, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements, and Her Majesty's Consul-General and High Commissioner for

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and

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

* Commander Graham John Bower, , late Royal Navy, Imperial Secretary and Accountant to the High Commissioner for South Africa. *

Francis Fleming Sir Francis Fleming (31 July 1842 – 4 December 1922) ( Chinese: 菲林明) was a British administrator who held appointments in eleven colonies. The son of James Fleming (1812–1887), Q.C. of Dorset Square and Julia Matilda (1811–18 ...

, ,

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. *

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, formerly Premier of the Colony of South Australia. * Henry John Wrixon, Member of the Executive Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Victoria. ;Honorary Knight Commander * His Highness Idris bin Almarhom Bandhara Iskander Shah, ,

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

Charles Vandeleur Creagh Charles Vandeleur Creagh (4 October 1842 – 18 September 1917) was Governor of North Borneo from 1888 to 1895. Career Creagh was educated at the Royal Naval School, New Cross and Eastman’s Royal Naval Academy at Southsea. He was a barrister ...

, Governor of the Colony of Labuan and of

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. * Irwin Charles Maling, Administrator of the Island of Saint Vincent. * Thomas Risely Griffith, Administrator of the Seychelles Islands. * Captain

Arthur William Moore Arthur William Moore, CVO, SHK, JP, MA (6 February 1853 – 12 November 1909) was a Manx antiquarian, historian, linguist, folklorist, and former Speaker of the House of Keys in the Isle of Man. He published under the sobriquet A. W. Moore. ...

, Royal Navy, for services rendered in connection with the defences of Australasia. * Dudley Francis Amelius Hervey, Resident Councillor of

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. *

Henry Moore Jackson Sir Henry Moore Jackson, (bapt. 13 August 1849 – 29 August 1908) was a British Army, British army officer and colonial governor. Biography Jackson was born in Barbados to Walrond Jackson, who became the Anglican Bishop of Antigua, and Mary S ...

, Colonial Secretary of the

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. * Francis James Newton, Colonial Secretary and

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. * John Fraser, Member of the Council of Government of the Colony of Mauritius. *

Edmond Gerald FitzGibbon Edmund Gerald FitzGibbon (1 November 1825 – 12 December 1905) was a barrister and Town clerk of Melbourne.Bernard Barrett,FitzGibbon, Edmund Gerald (1825 - 1905), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 4, MUP, 1972, pp 181-182. FitzGibbo ...

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of the City of

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, in the Colony of Victoria. * Dr Peter Daniel Anthonisz, MD, an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Ceylon.

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Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)

* His Highness Maharaj Adhiraj Sardul Singh Bahadur,

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of Kishengarh.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

* His Excellency Ali Kuli Khan, Mukhbar-ud-Dowla of Persia, .

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

* Colonel

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, , Royal Engineers. * Frederick Clendon Daukes, Bengal Civil Service. * Raja Ramachandra Vittal Rao Saheb, Raja of Sandur. * Major Henry Percy Poingdestre Leigh,

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. * Raja Gajapati Rao, of

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. *

Herbert Hope Risley Sir Herbert Hope Risley (4 January 1851 – 30 September 1911) was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator, a member of the Indian Civil Service who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of the Bengal Presidency. ...

, Bengal Civil Service. * Muhammad Abdullah Khan,

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, of

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. *

Joseph Bampfylde Fuller Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller (20 March 1854 – 29 November 1935) was a British inventor, writer and first Lieutenant Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam, knighted for his service in India. Early life and career Fuller studied ...

, Bengal Civil Service. * Mir Gholam Baba, Khan Bahadur, of

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. * Herbert Thirkell White, Bengal Civil Service.

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