The New Year Honours 1893 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 members of the British Empire. They were published on 2 January 1893.
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.
British Empire
Knight Bachelor
*
John Tankerville Goldney
Sir John Tankerville Goldney (15 June 1846 – 11 April 1920) was a British barrister who rose to be Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, and was also High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1910. He is also notable for introducing golf to Singapore in 18 ...
,
Chief Justice of Trinidad The Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago is the highest judge of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and presides over its Supreme Court of Judicature. He is appointed by a common decision of the president, the prime minister and the leader of the m ...
.
Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander (KCSI)
*
Anthony Patrick MacDonnell, ,
Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.
Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...
, Chief Commissioner of the
Central Provinces
The Central Provinces was a province of British India. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states. Its capital was Nagpur. ...
.
*
Kumarapuram Sheshadri Aiyar, ,
Dewan
''Dewan'' (also known as ''diwan'', sometimes spelled ''devan'' or ''divan'') designated a powerful government official, minister, or ruler. A ''dewan'' was the head of a state institution of the same name (see Divan). Diwans belonged to the el ...
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)
* Trevor John Chichele Plowden, Indian Civil Service,
Resident
Resident may refer to:
People and functions
* Resident minister, a representative of a government in a foreign country
* Resident (medicine), a stage of postgraduate medical training
* Resident (pharmacy), a stage of postgraduate pharmaceuti ...
at
Hyderabad
Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part ...
.
* Raja
Udai Pratap Singh, of Bhinga in Oudh.
*
George Robert Elsmie
George Robert Elsmie (31 October 1838 – 26 March 1909) was a Scottish civil servant and judge in India, known also as an author.
Early life
Born at Aberdeen on 31 October 1838, he was only child of George Elsmie, a ship-owner there and from 1 ...
, Indian Civil Service, Senior Financial Commissioner in the
Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
.
*
John Frederick Price, Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Madras.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
*
Hubert Edward Henry Jerningham, ,
Lieutenant-Governor and Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Mauritius.
*
Anthony Colling Brownless, , Chancellor of the
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...
.
* Major
George Sydenham Clarke,
Royal Engineers
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the ''Sappers'', is a corps of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces and is heade ...
, , late Secretary to the
Colonial Defence Committee
The Colonial Defence Committee (CDC) was a standing committee of the British Colonial Office between 1885 and 1908. During the second half of the 19th century British Army troops were being progressively withdrawn from colonial garrisons, with t ...
.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
* Captain Sir
Baldwin Wake Walker
Admiral Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, 1st Baronet, (6 January 1802 – 12 February 1876) was Surveyor of the Navy from 1848 to 1861. and was responsible for the Royal Navy's warship construction programme during the 1850s naval arms race and at th ...
, , Royal Navy, for services as Senior Naval Officer engaged in the protection of the Newfoundland Fisheries.
* Francesco Vella, Collector of Customs and Superintendent of the Ports of the
Island of Malta.
*
William Robinson Boothby, , Sheriff of South Australia.
*
Charles Anthony King-Harman, , Auditor-General of the Island of
Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). ...
.
* Samuel Yardley, Secretary to the
Agent-General in London for the
Colony of New South Wales
The Colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia. At its greatest extent, the colony of New South Wales included the present-day Australian states of New ...
.
* Major Arthur Herbert Kenney, Royal Engineers, for services as British Representative on the Joint Commissions for the delimitation of the Boundaries between the Colonies of the
Gambia
The Gambia,, ff, Gammbi, ar, غامبيا officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. It is the smallest country within mainland AfricaHoare, Ben. (2002) ''The Kingfisher A-Z Encyclopedia'', Kingfisher Publicatio ...
and
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...
, respectively, and the adjoining French Possessions, under the Anglo-French Agreement of 10 August 1889.
Order of the Indian Empire
Knight Commander (KCIE)
* His Highness Sher Mahomed Khanji Jorawar Khanji Lohani, Dewan of
Palanpur State, Pahlanpur.
* Mir Jam Ali Khan, ,
Jam of Las Bela.
* Major-General Edwin Henry Hayter Collen, , Indian Staff Corps, Secretary to the Government of India in the Military Department.
* Raja Amir Hassan of
Mahmoodabad.
* Lieutenant-Colonel William Brereton Hudson, , Commandant of the
Bihar Light Horse
The Bihar Light Horse was a mounted infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised on 8 December 1862 as the Soubah Behar Mounted Rifles Volunteer Corps by indigo planters of the Tirhoot and Chapra districts in Bihar in the aftermat ...
.
Companion (CIE)
* William Benjamin Oldham, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of
Chittagong
Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B ...
.
*
Nawab
Nawab (Balochi language, Balochi: نواب; ar, نواب;
bn, নবাব/নওয়াব;
hi, नवाब;
Punjabi language, Punjabi : ਨਵਾਬ;
Persian language, Persian,
Punjabi language, Punjabi ,
Sindhi language, Sindhi,
Urd ...
Amir-ud-din Ahmed Khan Bahadur, Fakhar-ud-Daula, Chief of
Loharu
Loharu (also known as Luharu) is a city, municipal committee and assembly constituency in the Bhiwani district of the Indian state of Haryana. It is the administrative headquarters of one of the four administrative sub-divisions of the distric ...
.
*
Maharaja
Mahārāja (; also spelled Maharajah, Maharaj) is a Sanskrit title for a "great ruler", "great king" or " high king".
A few ruled states informally called empires, including ruler raja Sri Gupta, founder of the ancient Indian Gupta Empire, an ...
Harbullub Narayan Singh, of Sonbarsa, Bengal.
* Colonel Kenneth James Loch Mackenzie, Indian Staff Corps, Commissioner of
Berar Berar may refer to:
*Vidarbha, the eastern region of Maharashtra Province, India, historically known as Berar
*Berar Sultanate (1490–1596), one of the Deccan sultanates
*Berar Subah (1596–1724), a Subah of the Mughal Empire
*Berar Province (1724 ...
.
* Colonel William Gordon Cumming, Royal Engineers, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
.
* Lieutenant-Colonel
George Frederick Leycester Marshall
Major-General George Frederick Leycester Marshall (27 March 1843 Bridgnorth, Salop – 7 March 1934) was the son of William Marshall (a clergyman) and his wife Louisa Sophia, also brother of C. H. T. Marshall and uncle of Guy Anstruther Knox Mar ...
, Royal Engineers, Chief Engineer and Joint Secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab.
* Sardar Jagat Singh, Sardar Bahadur, of Kalalwala.
*
Edward Horace Man
Edward Horace Man (1846 – 28 September 1929) was a British administrator and anthropologist who studied the Andaman and Nicobar tribes in the 19th century. His collections of artefacts and photographs are held in the Pitt Rivers Museum.
Man wa ...
, Deputy Superintendent of the
Andamans
The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between the ...
.
* Nourojee Maneckjee Wadia.
Promotions
;Royal Navy
;;Captains to the rank of Rear-Admiral
* Edmund John Church, .
* Walter Stewart, .
*
John Reginald Thomas Fullerton, .
*
Charles Barstow Theobald.
;;Commanders to Captain
* Henry Hart Dyke.
* Richard Penrose Humpage.
*
Frank Finnis.
* Vernon Archibald Tisdall.
* William Leckie Hamilton Browne.
* Arthur William Edward Prothero.
*
Percy Moreton Scott.
*
George Le Clerc Egerton.
* His Royal Highness
George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of York, .
;;Lieutenants to Commander
* Ewen Francis Domville.
* Ernest Duncombe.
* Stanley Talbot Dean-Pitt.
* Alfred Fulling Welldon.
* Charles William Thomas.
* Reginald Purves Cochran.
* William Francis Tunnard.
* Frederick Rigaud Gransmore.
*
Douglas Austin Gamble.
*
Cecil Burney
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney, 1st Baronet, (15 May 1858 – 5 June 1929) was a Royal Navy officer. After seeing action as a junior office in naval brigades during both the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Mahdist War, he commanded a cruiser ...
.
* Thomas Philip Walker.
*
Frederic Edward Errington Brock
Admiral Sir Frederic Edward Errington Brock, (15 October 1854 – 1 November 1929) was a Royal Navy officer.
Naval career
Brock was promoted to lieutenant in the Royal Navy on 8 December 1879. Promoted to captain on 30 June 1898, he was given ...
.
* Ian Mackenzie Fraser.
* Frederick Henry Peere Williams Freeman.
* Robert Henry Simpson Stokes.
*
Richard Henry Peirse.
;;Sub-Lieutenants to Lieutenant
* Harry Owens Tracey.
* Eustace Le Trebe Leatham
* John Richard Le Hunte Ward.
* Godfrey Edwin Corbett.
*
Walter Henry Cowan.
* John Garnet Armstrong.
* Cecil John Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.
* Robert Sterling.
* Ernest Kindersley Loring.
* Llewellyn Griffiths.
* Lawrence Hill Richardson.
* Edward Stafford Houseman.
* Francis Gerard St. George Brooker.
* Thomas Drummond Pratt.
* Godfrey Tuke.
References
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