The 1895 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 her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...

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 ''

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'' on 25 May 1895 and in ''

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'' on 25 May 1895 and on 11 June 1895. 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

Privy Councillor

The Queen appointed the following to Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council: * William Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh *Sir

Henry Brougham Loch Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch, (23 May 1827 – 20 June 1900) was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Military service Henry Loch was the son of James Loch, Member of Parliament, of Drylaw, Midlothian. He entered the Royal Navy ...

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John Tomlinson Brunner Sir John Tomlinson Brunner, 1st Baronet, (8 February 1842 – 1 July 1919) was a British chemical industrialist and Liberal Party politician. At Hutchinson's alkali works in Widnes he rose to the position of general manager. There he met Lud ...

David Dale David Dale (6 January 1739–7 March 1806) was a leading Scottish industrialist, merchant and philanthropist during the Scottish Enlightenment period at the end of the 18th century. He was a successful entrepreneur in a number of areas, m ...

, of Darlington. * William Dunn * John Watson, of Earnock, Lanarkshire.

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Walter Besant Sir Walter Besant (14 August 1836 – 9 June 1901) was an English novelist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank, was the husband of Annie Besant. Early life and education The son of wine merchant Willi ...

. *

William Conway William, Bill, or Billy Conway may refer to: * William Conway (Arkansas judge) (1805–1852), Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court * William Conway (cardinal) (1913–1977), Irish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church * William Conway (Irish rep ...

. *Dr. Joseph Ewart, of Brighton. *Dr. Christopher Furness *

Nicholas John Hannen Sir Nicholas John Hannen (24 August 1842 – 27 April 1900) was a British barrister, diplomat and judge who served in China and Japan. He was the Chief Justice of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan from 1891 to 1900 and also served ...

, Consul-General at Shanghai, and Judge of the Supreme Court for China and Japan. * Henry Hicks Hocking,

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. *

Henry Irving Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), christened John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility ( ...

. *William Wollaston Karslake *

William Hales Hingston Sir William Hales Hingston (29 June 1829 – 19 February 1907) was a Canadian physician, politician, banker, and Senator. Biography Born in Hinchinbrooke near Huntingdon, Quebec, he received his MDCM from McGill University in 1851. ...

of Montreal. * Joseph Francis Leese Recorder of Manchester. *George Charles Mason. * Lewis Morris. * Alexander Campbell Onslow, Chief Justice of tho Colony of Western Australia. * Robert Pullar. *Dr

William Howard Russell Sir William Howard Russell, (28 March 182011 February 1907) was an Irish reporter with ''The Times'', and is considered to have been one of the first modern war correspondents. He spent 22 months covering the Crimean War, including the Sieg ...

. *

Arthur Snowden Sir Arthur Snowden (29 July 1829 – 18 June 1918) was an Australian lawyer, politician and mayor of Melbourne from 1892 to 1895. Snowden was born in Dartford, Kent, England, and migrated to Australia in 1852. He joined the Melbourne City Coun ...

, Mayor of the City of Melbourne.

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

;Military Division *General Sir Michael Anthony Shrapnel Biddulph Colonel-Commandant, Royal Artillery. *General Sir Charles John Stanley Gough Indian Army. *Admiral Sir William Montagu Dowell *General Sir George Harry Smith Willis Colonel the Devonshire Regiment. *Lieutenant-General Sir

Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe Lieutenant-General Sir Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe (3 January 1830 – 6 April 1908) was a British Army officer. Biography He was born as Drury Curzon Holden on 3 January 1830 at Aston Lodge in Aston-on-Trent when he was called Drury Curzon Hold ...

Colonel 17th Lancers. *Admiral of the Fleet, Richard Meade, Earl of Clanwilliam *Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton ;Civil Division *The Rt. Hon. the Lord Playfair *The Rt. Hon.

James Stansfeld Sir James Stansfeld, (; 5 March 182017 February 1898) was a British Radical and Liberal politician and social reformer who served as Under-Secretary of State for India (1866), Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1869–71) and President ...

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division *Vice-Admiral

Charles Frederick Hotham Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Frederick Hotham (20 March 1843 – 22 March 1925) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer, he was a member of the naval brigade that fought the Māori people at the Battle of Rangiriri during the inva ...

*Vice-Admiral Robert O'Brien FitzRoy *Lieutenant-General Henry Brasnell Tuson Royal Marine Artillery. *James Nicholas Dick Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets, and Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy. ;Civil Division * Ralph Henry Knox Accountant-General of the Army. *

Stair Agnew Sir Stair Agnew (6 December 1831 – 12 July 1916) was a Scottish public official. He served as Registrar General for Scotland. Life He was born at Lochnaw Castle in the parish of Leswalt in Dumfries and Galloway, the fifth son of Sir And ...

Registrar-General and Deputy Keeper of Records, Scotland. *Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur John Bigge Private Secretary to the Queen. * Nicholas Roderick O'Conor Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Peking. *Sir

David Harrel Sir David Harrel (25 March 1841 – 12 May 1939) was an Ireland, Irish police officer and civil servant. Harrel was born in Mount Pleasant, County Down, the son of a land agent. He was educated at the Royal Naval School, Gosport, but was too o ...

Under Secretary for Ireland. *

Edward Maunde Thompson Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (4 May 1840 – 14 September 1929) was a British palaeographer and Principal Librarian and first Director of the British Museum. He is noted for his handbook of Greek and Latin palaeography and for his study of Will ...

Principal Librarian and Secretary, British Museum. ;Honorary *Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Raja Ram Singh, C.B. (Honorary), Commander-in-Chief, Kashmir State Troops.

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division *Alfred Douglas Adrian, Assistant-Secretary, Local Government Board. *Honorary Colonel the Hon. Henry William John Byng, Equerry to the Queen. *Edward Fairfield Assistant Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office. *Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Ford, late Royal Artillery, Inspector of Explosives, Home Office. *Ralph Milbanke, Secretary of Embassy, Diplomatic Service. *Richard Edward Sprague Oram, Chief Inspector, Factory Department, Home Office. *Robert Barrett Stokes, late Capt., 16th Regiment of Foot, Divisional Commissioner, Ireland (Cork Division). *John Taylor, Surveyor, Office of Works. *Major

Francis Reginald Wingate General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet, (25 June 1861 – 29 January 1953) was a British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan. He earned the ''nom de guerre'' Wingate of the Sudan. Early life Wingate was born at Port G ...

Royal Artillery. ;Civil Division *Rear-Admiral William James Lloyd Wharton, Hydrographer of the Navy. *Albert John Durston, Engineer-in-Chief of the Navy. *Major Henry Pilkington, retired pay, late Royal Engineers, Director of Engineering and Architectural Works, Admiralty. *Lieutenant Lawrence Hugh Crawford, Royal Naval Reserve.

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

*His Highness the Maharaja Scindia of

Gwalior Gwalior() is a major city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; it lies in northern part of Madhya Pradesh and is one of the Counter-magnet cities. Located south of Delhi, the capital city of India, from Agra and from Bhopal, the s ...

. *The Rt. Hon. George Robert Canning, Baron Harris

Knight Commander (KCSI)

*Lieutenant-General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart

Companion (CSI)

*Alan Caddell, Indian Civil Service. *Sir Alexander Edward Miller Member of the Council of the Governor-General. *

Charles Montgomery Rivaz Sir Charles Montgomery Rivaz (11 March 1845 - 7 October 1926) was a colonial administrator in British India, and Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab 1902-1907. Biography Rivaz was born in 1845, the son of John Theophilus Rivaz, of Watford Hall, Wat ...

, Indian Civil Service. *Arthur Forbes, Indian Civil Service. *

Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran ( ml, കേരളവർമ്മ വലിയ കോയിത്തമ്പുരാൻ; 19 February 1845 – 22 September 1914) also spelt Kerala Varma Valiya Koilthampuran and known as Kerala Varma, w ...

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

*The Rt. Hon. John Hamilton-Gordon, the Earl of Aberdeen Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada. *Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements and their Dependencies.

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

*Sir

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on appointment as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of South Australia. *The Hon. Sir

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 Abb ...

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of New South Wales. *The Hon.

Richard Chaffey Baker Sir Richard Chaffey Baker (22 June 1842 – 18 March 1911) was an Australian politician. A barrister by trade, he embarked on a successful career in South Australian colonial politics, serving as Attorney-General of South Australia from 1870 to ...

President of the Legislative Council of the Colony of South Australia. *Colonel Richard Edward Rowley Martin British Representative on the late Provisional Government Committee in Swaziland. *

Ernest Mason Satow Sir Ernest Mason Satow, (30 June 1843 – 26 August 1929), was a British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist. Satow is better known in Japan than in Britain or the other countries in which he served, where he was known as . He was a key figu ...

, Ksq., C.M.G., Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tangier. *

John Christian Schultz Sir John Christian Schultz (January 1, 1840 – April 13, 1896) was a Manitoba politician and businessman.Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker, Vol. II: pg. 100. Vintage Canada, 2012. Print. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1871 t ...

late Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Manitoba, in the Dominion of Canada. *

Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, (December 5, 1829 – November 16, 1908) lawyer, businessman and politician served as the fourth premier of Quebec, a federal Cabinet minister, and the seventh Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. ...

, formerly Premier of the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada. *The Hon. William Austin Zeal, President of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Victoria.

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

*Leopold Marquard, late Surveyor-General of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. *Charles Boughton Hamilton, Receiver-General of the Colony of British Guiana. *Archibald Jones Pile, Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Island of Barbados. *

Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott (20 August 1857 – 9 April 1941) was a British colonial administrator who was in turn governor of the British Seychelles, British Honduras, British Leeward Islands and British Fiji. Early years Sweet-Escott w ...

, Colonial Secretary of the Colony of British Honduras. *William Wilson Mitchell, Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Ceylon. *Henrique Charles Shepstone, late Secretary for Native Affairs in the Colony of Natal. *

Joseph Anderson Panton Joseph Anderson Panton (2 June 1831 – 25 October 1913) was a Scottish-born Australian magistrate and goldfields commissioner. Panton was born in Knockiemil, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of John Panton (of the Hudson's Bay Company servi ...

, Police Magistrate in the city of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria. *

Francis Henry May Sir Francis Henry May (; 14 March 1860 – 6 February 1922) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Fiji from 1911 to 1912 and Governor of Hong Kong from 1912 to 1918. Early life and education May was born in Dublin, Ire ...

, Captain Superintendent of Police in the Colony of Hong Kong. *Alexander Roland Milne, Collector of Customs at the Port of Victoria, British Columbia, for services in connection with the Bering Sea negotiations. *Salvatore Luigi Pisani Chief Medical Officer in the Island of Malta. * Joseph Sylvester O'Halloran, Secretary to the Royal Colonial Institute. *George Greville, Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Rio de Janeiro. *Raphael Borg, Her Majesty's Consul at Cairo.

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Commander (KCIE)

* Henry Ravenshaw ThuillierGreat Britain. India Office *William Robert Brooke late Director-General of Telegraphs in India *Maharaja Pratap Narayan Singh of Ayudhya *Maharaja Ravaneshwar Prasad Singh, Bahadur of Gidhaur *Sirdar Krishna Rao Bapu Saheb Jadu

Companion (CIE)

* Gangadhar Rao Madhav Chitnavis * Rao Bahadur Bashyam lyengar *Charles Edward Buckland, Indian Civil Service *Alexander Blackley Patterson, Indian Civil Service *Henry Arbuthnot Acworth, Indian Civil Service *Colonel Charles Arkcoll Porteous, Indian Staff Corps *Colonel Clayton Turner Lane, Indian Staff Corps *Saw Saing, the Sawbwa of Thibaw *Steyning William Edgerley, Indian Civil Service *Trichinopoly Rayalu Arakiaswamy Thumboo Chetty, Member of the Council of Regency, Mysore *Moulvi Abdul Jubbar, Khan Bahadur *Captain William Richard Yielding Indian Staff Corps *Henry John Stanyon * Munshi Hafiz Abdul Karim

References

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