The 1905 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were
awards announced on 9 December 1905 to mark the exit of
Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour, who resigned
on 5 December.
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.
Viscounts
*The
Lord Tredegar
Baron Tredegar, of Tredegar in the County of Monmouth, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 16 April 1859 for the Welsh politician Sir Charles Morgan, 3rd Baronet, who had earlier represented Brecon in Parliament ...
*The Right Hon. Sir
Michael Hicks Beach
Barons
*The Right Hon.
C. T. Ritchie
*The Right Hon.
Sir W. H. Walrond
*
Sir H. Meysey Thompson
*
Sir H. de Stern
*
Sir A. Harmsworth
*
Edmund Beckett Faber
*
W. H. Grenfell
Privy Councillor
*The Solicitor General the Right Hon. Sir
E. H. Carson
*
J. S. Sandars
*
Victor C. W. Cavendish
*
Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, (15 October 1839 – 20 June 1916) was a Scottish Conservative politician.
Life
Born Charles Fergusson, he was the second surviving son of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, 5th Baronet, and grandson of Si ...
*Lieut.-Col.
Mark Lockwood
Baronet
*
C. Morrison-Bell
*
Benjamin Cohen
*
R. P. Cooper
*
Thomas Leigh Hare
*
Lindsay Hogg
*W. B. Hulton
*
J. Grant Lawson
*
Francis Ley
Sir Francis Ley, 1st Baronet (3 January 1846 – 27 January 1916) was an English industrialist. He founded Ley's Malleable Castings Vulcan Ironworks in Derby. He (re-)introduced baseball into the United Kingdom town of Derby with the Ley's Re ...
*Edward Mann
*John Davison Milburn
*
Herbert Praed
Knight
*W. J. Bull
*
C. Kinloch-Cooke
*Major
W. E. Evans-Gordon
*S. Faire
*Charles Frederick Claverhouse Graham
*
F. W. Lowe
*
H. E. Moss
*Col.
C. Wyndham Murray
*Major Harry North
*Henry Edward Randall
*
J. S. Randles
*J. Robinson
*W. H. Vaudrey
*Edgcombe Venning
Order of the Bath
Commander of the Order of the Bath (CB)
*Malcolm G. Ramsay, Treasury
*J. J. Taylor, Irish Office
Order of St Michael and St 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, George IV, Prince of Wales, while he was acting as prince regent for his father, George III, King George III.
...
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
*
John Henniker Heaton
Sir John Henniker Heaton, 1st Baronet, (18 May 1848 – 8 September 1914) was a United Kingdom Member of Parliament and a postal reformer and journalist in Australia.
Early life
Heaton was the only son of Lieutenant Colonel John Heaton and ...
,
Privy Councillor (Ireland)
To be sworn of the Privy Council in Ireland:
*
Sir R. Blennerhassett, Bt.
*Sir F. E. W. Macnaghten
*Sir Patrick Coll
*
J. H. M. Campbell Attorney-General for Ireland
References
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1905 in British politics
December 1905 events
Prime Minister's Resignation Honours
1905 awards
Arthur Balfour