The 1912 Birthday Honours were appointments in the

British Empire The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts esta ...

of King

George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936. Born duri ...

to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published on 11 June 1912. 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

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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

;Military Division * General Sir

George Digby Barker General Sir George Digby Barker (Chinese Translated Name: 白加; 9 October 1833 – 15 April 1914) was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Military career Barker was commissioned into the 78th Regiment of Foot in 1853. He served in ...

, , Colonel,

Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, mainly associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland. The regiment existed from 1881 to 1961, and saw servic ...

. * Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Tucker, , Colonel, The

South Staffordshire Regiment The South Staffordshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for only 68 years. The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot an ...

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division ;;Royal Navy * Vice-Admiral the Honourable Stanley Cecil James Colville, . * Lieutenant-General William Charles Nicholls,

Royal Marine Artillery The history of the Royal Marines began on 28 October 1664 with the formation of the Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot soon becoming known as the Admiral's Regiment. During the War of the Spanish Succession the most historic achi ...

. ;;Army * Lieutenant-General Sir

James Bevan Edwards Lieutenant General Sir James Bevan Edwards (5 November 1834 – 8 July 1922) was a senior British Army officer and politician. Military career Edwards was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1852. He served with the Royal Engineers in ...

, , Colonel Commandant,

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 ...

. * Surgeon-Major-General Alexander Frederick Bradshaw, KHP, (Retd). * Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Thomas Henry Hutton, , Colonel Commandant, The

King's Royal Rifle Corps The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United St ...

. * Major-General Sir Ronald Bertram Lane, , (Retd). * Major-General

Robert Bellew Adams Major-General Sir Robert Bellew Adams (Muree, Punjab, India, 26 July 1856 – 13 February 1928, Inverness) was a Scottish general of the Indian Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in ...

, ,

Indian Army The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...

(Retd). * Major-General James Keith Trotter, (Retd). * Lieutenant-General Lawrence Worthington Parsons, . * Lieutenant-General William Edmund Franklyn, , Colonel,

Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment), frequently known as the Yorkshire Regiment until the 1920s, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, in the King's Division. Raised in 1688, it served under variou ...

, Military Secretary to the

Secretary of State for War The Secretary of State for War, commonly called War Secretary, was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, which existed from 1794 to 1801 and from 1854 to 1964. The Secretary of State for War headed the War Office and ...

, and Secretary of the Selection Board. * Major-General

Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready General Sir Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready, 1st Baronet, (7 May 1862 – 9 January 1946), known affectionately as Make-Ready (close to the correct pronunciation of his name), was a British Army officer. He served in senior staff appointments in ...

, , Director of Personal Services,

War Office The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the new Ministry of Defence (MoD). This article contains text from ...

. ;Civil Division *

Frederic George Kenyon Sir Frederic George Kenyon (15 January 1863 – 23 August 1952) was a British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar. He held a series of posts at the British Museum from 1889 to 1931. He was also the president of the British Academy f ...

DLitt Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., Latin: ' or ') is a terminal degree in the humanities that, depending on the country, is a higher doctorate after the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree or equivalent to a higher doctorate, such as the Doctor ...

. * William Gibbons, . * Henry James Gibson, .

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division * Major-General George Frederick Gorringe, , Brigade Commander, Bombay Brigade. * Surgeon-General

William Babtie Lieutenant General Sir William Babtie, (7 May 1859 – 11 September 1920) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwea ...

, , Deputy Director-General, Army Medical Service. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Lionel Herbert, , Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Rangoon Brigade. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General)

Henry Peregrine Leader Major-General Henry Peregrine Leader, (8 January 1865 – 22 September 1934) was a major-general in the British Army. He served in the Second Boer War, the First World War and the Third Afghan War. He rose in rank to command his regiment the 6th ...

, Brigade Commander, Sialkot Brigade. * Colonel Edward Hume Armitage, Colonel-in-charge of Records, Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery. * Colonel Herbert Edward Watts, Commanding No.9 District, Eastern Command. * Colonel Gerald James Cuthbert, Commanding

Scots Guards The Scots Guards (SG) is one of the five Foot Guards regiments of the British Army. Its origins are as the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland. Its lineage can be traced back to 1642, although it was only placed on the ...

and Regimental District. * Colonel Felix Frederic Hill, , Commanding No.11 District, Irish Command. * Colonel George Francis Milne, , General Staff Officer, 1st grade, 6th Division, Irish Command. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Hubert de la Poer Gough, Brigade Commander, 3rd Cavalry Brigade, Irish Command. * Colonel Turville Douglas Foster, , Assistant Quartermaster-General, Staff College. * Colonel Colquhoun Grant Roche Thackwell, , Indian Army. * Colonel Francis Patrick Hutchinson, Indian Army. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) William Hugh Dobbie, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Mandalay Brigade. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Raleigh Gilbert Egerton, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Ferozepore Brigade. * Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Herbert Vaughan Cox, , Indian Army, Brigade Commander, Rawalpindi Infantry Brigade. * Colonel Arnold Henry Grant Kemball, Indian Army. * Colonel Robert Maximilian Rainey-Robinson, Indian Army. * Colonel Robert Neil Campbell, ,

Indian Medical Service The Indian Medical Service (IMS) was a military medical service in British India, which also had some civilian functions. It served during the two World Wars, and remained in existence until the independence of India in 1947. Many of its officer ...

. ;Civil Division * Colonel Herman Le Roy-Lewis, , Brigade Commander, 1st South Western Mounted Brigade, Southern Command. * John Webster Cawston. * Frederick John Dryhurst. * Edmund Waterton Farnall. *

Edmund Gosse Sir Edmund William Gosse (; 21 September 184916 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of his childhoo ...

, LLD. * Captain Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Royal Marine Artillery. * William Vesey Harrel, . * Louis John Hewby. * Walter Tapper Jerred. * Thomas Milvain, . * Alexander Pulling. * Frank Pullinger. * Herbert Vincent Reade. * Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne. * Robert Henry Rew. * John Shuckburgh Risley. * Thomas William Leisk Spence. * George Joshua Stanley, . * Thomas Lonsdale Webster. * Roland Field Wilkins.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

Knight Commander (KCSI)

* John Nathaniel Atkinson, ,

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 ...

, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George. * William Thomson Morison, , Indian Civil Service (Retd.), lately an Ordinary Member of the Council of the

Governor of Bombay Until the 18th century, Bombay consisted of seven islands separated by shallow sea. These seven islands were part of a larger archipelago in the Arabian sea, off the western coast of India. The date of city's founding is unclear—historians tr ...

Companion (CSI)

* Abbas Ali Baig, Member of the

Council of India The Council of India was the name given at different times to two separate bodies associated with British rule in India. The original Council of India was established by the Charter Act of 1833 as a council of four formal advisors to the Governor ...

. * Oswald Campbell Lees, late Chief Engineer and Secretary to the

Government of Burma Myanmar (Names of Myanmar, also known as Burma) operates ''de jure'' as a unitary state, unitary List of countries by system of government#Assembly-independent republican systems, assembly-independent republic under its 2008 Constitution of My ...

, Public Works Department. * Paul Gregory Melitus, , Indian Civil Service, lately Member of the Board of Revenue,

Eastern Bengal and Assam Eastern Bengal and Assam was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India between 1905 and 1912. Headquartered in the city of Dacca, it covered territories in what are now Bangladesh, Northeast India and Northern West Bengal. Hist ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Edward Woods, Indian Army, Deputy Commissioner, Naga Hills. * William Exall Tempest Bennett, Chief Engineer to the Government of the Punjab, Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch. * Honorary Major Sahibzada Obaidullah Khan, Commandant,

Bhopal Bhopal (; ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes'' due to its various natural and artificial lakes. It i ...

Imperial Service Troops The Imperial Service Troops were forces raised by the princely states of the British Indian Empire. These troops were available for service alongside the Indian Army when such service was requested by the British government. At the beginning of ...

. * William Ogilvie Home, Indian Civil Service, Acting Third Member of the Board of Revenue and Commissioner of Land Revenue and Forests, and a Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George for making Laws and Regulations. * Pazhamarneri Sundaram Aiyar Sivaswami Aiyar, , an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George. * William Harrison Moreland, , Indian Civil Service, lately Director of Land Records and Agriculture,

United Provinces of Agra and Oudh The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 1902 to 1921; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces (UP), by which the province had been ...

. *

Edward Albert Gait Sir Edward Albert Gait (1863–1950) was an administrator in the Indian Civil Service who rose to serve as Lieutenant-Governor of the Bihar and Orissa Province in the Bengal Presidency of British India. He held that office for the years 1915–1 ...

, Indian Civil Service, Census Commissioner for India. * Dewan Bahadur Chaube Raghunath Das, Dewan of the Kotah State, Rajputana. * Colonel Lestock Hamilton Reid, Judge Advocate-General in India. * Surgeon-General Henry Wickham Stevenson, Indian Medical Service, Surgeon General to the Government of Bombay, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

* The Right Honourable

Lord Chelmsford Viscount Chelmsford, of Chelmsford in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1921 for Frederic Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford, the former Viceroy of India. The title of Baron Chelmsford, of Chelm ...

, , Governor of the State of New South Wales. ;Honorary Knights Grand Cross * Muhammad Said Pasha, President of the Council and

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

, Egypt.

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

* The Honourable Sir

William Portus Cullen Sir William Portus Cullen (28 May 1855 – 6 April 1935) was an Australian barrister, the 7th Chief Justice of New South Wales, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, and Chancellor of the University of Sydney. Early life and education Cull ...

, LLD, Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New South Wales and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. * The Honourable

Rodmond Roblin Sir Rodmond Palen Roblin (February 15, 1853 – February 16, 1937) was a businessman and politician in Manitoba, Canada. Early life and career Roblin was born in Sophiasburgh Township, Ontario, Sophiasburgh, in Prince Edward County, Ontario, ...

, Premier and President of Council of the Province of Manitoba. * The Honourable

Richard McBride Sir Richard McBride, (December 15, 1870 – August 6, 1917) was a British Columbia politician and is often considered the founder of the British Columbia Conservative Party. McBride was first elected to the provincial legislature in the 1898 e ...

, , Premier of the Province of British Columbia. * Harry Newton Phillips Wollaston, , lately Comptroller-General, Department of Trade and Customs, Commonwealth of Australia. * Lionel Edward Gresley Garden, His Majesty's

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary An envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, usually known as a minister, was a diplomatic head of mission who was ranked below ambassador. A diplomatic mission headed by an envoy was known as a legation rather than an embassy. Under the ...

to the Republics of Guatemala, Honduras and Salvador. * Everard Duncan Home Fraser, , His Majesty's

Consul-General A consul is an official representative of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, as well as to facilitate trade and friendship between the people ...

, at

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

. * Colonel George Bohun Macauley, Royal Engineers, , Director-General of

Egyptian State Railways Egyptian National Railways (ENR; ar, السكك الحديدية المصرية, Al-Sikak al-Ḥadīdiyyah al-Miṣriyyah) is the national railway of Egypt and managed by the parastatal Egyptian Railway Authority (ERA; ar, الهيئة الق� ...

. * His Honour Sir Thomas William Snagge, British Delegate at the International Conferences at Paris on the White Slave Traffic, 1902 and 1906. *

Louis Mallet Sir Louis Mallet CB PC (14 March 1823 – 16 February 1890) was a British civil servant who was an advocate of free trade and served on the Council of India. Career Louis Mallet was born in Hampstead, grandson of Jacques Mallet du Pan an ...

, , Assistant

Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is a vacant junior position in the British government, subordinate to both the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and since 1945 also to the Minister of State for Foreign Affair ...

. * Walter Louis Frederick Goltz Langley, , Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

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

* Major Walter Guy, Baron Bentinck, , lately Assistant Imperial Secretary to the High Commissioner for South Africa. * William Geoffrey Cahill, Commissioner of Police of the State of Queensland. * Edward Cleather Fraser, Nominated Member of the Council of Government of the Colony of Mauritius. * Herbert Symond Goldsmith, First Class

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 ...

Protectorate of Northern Nigeria Northern Nigeria (Hausa: ''Arewacin Najeriya'') was a British protectorate which lasted from 1900 until 1914 and covered the northern part of what is now Nigeria. The protectorate spanned and included the emirates of the Sokoto Caliphate a ...

. * Noel Janisch, Provincial Secretary,

Cape of Good Hope Province The Province of the Cape of Good Hope ( af, Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop), commonly referred to as the Cape Province ( af, Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape ( af, Die Kaap), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequen ...

Union of South Africa The Union of South Africa ( nl, Unie van Zuid-Afrika; af, Unie van Suid-Afrika; ) was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. It came into existence on 31 May 1910 with the unification of the Cape, Natal, Trans ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel

James Gordon Legge Lieutenant General James Gordon Legge, (15 August 1863 – 18 September 1947) was an Australian Army senior officer who served in the First World War and was the Chief of the General Staff, Australia's highest ranking army officer between 1914 ...

, of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth of Australia. * John McDougald, Commissioner, Department of Customs, Dominion of Canada. * James Melville Macoun, Assistant Botanist and Naturalist, Geological Survey, Department of Mines, Dominion of Canada. * Major Percy Morris Robinson,

Royal West Kent Regiment The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army based in the county of Kent in existence from 1881 to 1961. The regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, originally as the Quee ...

, in recognition of services in connection with the

West African Frontier Force The West African Frontier Force (WAFF) was a multi-battalion field force, formed by the British Colonial Office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia. In 1928, it received royal recognition ...

. * Frederic George Thomas, in recognition of services in connection with the reception of the Prime Ministers of the Self-Governing Dominions, 1911. *

Richard James Wilkinson Richard James Wilkinson (29 May 1867 – 5 December 1941) was a British Colonial administrator, scholar of Malay, and historian. The son of a British Consul, Richard James Wilkinson was born in 1867 in Salonika (Thessaloniki) in the Ottoman E ...

, Colonial Secretary of the

Straits Settlements The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Headquartered in Singapore for more than a century, it was originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Comp ...

. *

Charles Morris Woodford Charles Morris Woodford (30 October 1852 – 4 October 1927) was a British naturalist and government minister active in the Solomon Islands. He became the first Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, serving from 1896 (three ...

, Deputy Commissioner and Resident,

British Solomon Islands Protectorate The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was first declared over the southern Solomons in 1893, when Captain Gibson, R.N., of , declared the southern islands a British protectorate. Other islands were subsequently declared to form part ...

. *

Andrew Balfour Sir Andrew Balfour (21 March 1873 – 30 January 1931) was a Scottish Medical Officer who specialised in tropical medicine. Balfour spent twelve years in Khartoum, Sudan and was the Medical Officer of Health in the city. As well as writing m ...

, MD, Director of Government Research Laboratories,

Gordon Memorial College Gordon Memorial College was an educational institution in Sudan. It was built between 1899 and 1902 as part of Lord Kitchener's wide-ranging educational reforms. Named for General 'Chinese' Charles George Gordon of the British army, who was kill ...

, Khartoum. *

Andrew Percy Bennett Andrew Percy Bennett (30 July 1866 – 3 November 1943) was a British diplomat. Early life Andrew Percy Bennett was born in Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, where his father, the Reverend Augustus F. Bennett, was an Anglican clergyman. He attended Bl ...

, Commercial Attaché to His Majesty's Embassies at Vienna and Rome, and to His Majesty's

Legation A legation was a diplomatic representative office of lower rank than an embassy. Where an embassy was headed by an ambassador, a legation was headed by a Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, minister. Ambassadors diplomatic rank, out ...

at Athens. * Henry Alfred Constant Bonar, His Majesty's Consul-General at

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...

. * Francis Edward Crow, His Majesty's Consul at

Basrah Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is hand ...

. * James Currie, Principal of the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. * William James Downer, , Assistant Secretary, His Majesty's

Office of Works The Office of Works was established in the England, English Royal Household, royal household in 1378 to oversee the building and maintenance of the royal castles and residences. In 1832 it became the Works Department forces within the Office of W ...

. * Herbert Goffe, lately Acting Consul General at

Hankow Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow (), was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers whe ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wolseley Haig, Indian Army, His Majesty's Consul at

Kerman Kerman ( fa, كرمان, Kermân ; also romanization of Persian, romanized as Kermun and Karmana), known in ancient times as the satrapy of Carmania, is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,394, in ...

. *

John Carey Hall John Carey Hall (22 January 1844 – 21 October 1921) was a leading British diplomat who served in Japan in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His last position was as British Consul-General in Yokohama. Early life Hall was born on 22 January 18 ...

, , His Majesty's Consul-General at Yokohama. * Captain George Gillett Hunter, Director General of the Coastguard Administration in Egypt. * Alfred Irwin, Interpreter and

Dragoman A dragoman or Interpretation was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish-, Arabic-, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts. A ...

to His Majesty's Legation at

Tangier Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the cap ...

. * Captain Macdougall Ralston Kennedy, late Royal Engineers, , Director of the Public Works Department of the Sudan Government. * The Honourable Ernest Stowell Scott, , First Secretary to His Majesty's Legation at

Peking } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

. * Frederick Edgar Wilkinson, His Majesty's Consul at

Nanking Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

. * Lieutenant

Arnold Talbot Wilson Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson (18 July 1884 – 31 May 1940) was a British soldier, colonial administrator, Conservative politician, writer and editor. Wilson served under Percy Cox, the colonial administrator of Mesopotamia ( Mandatory Iraq ...

, Indian Army, recently Acting British Consul at Mohammerah. ;Honorary Companion: * Dato Mohamed bin Mahbob, State Secretary,

Johore Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the northwest. Johor shares maritime bor ...

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Grand Commander (GCIE)

Knight Commander (KCIE)

* John Twigg, Indian Civil Service (Retd.), lately Acting First Member of the Board of Revenue and Commissioner of Salt, Abkari and Separate Revenue. *

George Abraham Grierson Sir George Abraham Grierson (7 January 1851 – 9 March 1941) was an Irish administrator and linguist in British India. He worked in the Indian Civil Service but an interest in philology and linguistics led him to pursue studies in the languag ...

, , Indian Civil Service (Retd.) *

Marc Aurel Stein Sir Marc Aurel Stein, ( hu, Stein Márk Aurél; 26 November 1862 – 26 October 1943) was a Hungarian-born British archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia. He was also a professor at ...

, D.Sc, Archaeological Department, Superintendent, North-West Frontier Circle. * Major-General Francis Henry Rutherford Drummond, , Indian Army (Retd.), lately Inspector-General of

. * His Highness Rai-i-Rayan Maharawal-Sri Bijaya Singh Bahadur, of

Dungarpur Dungarpur is a city in the southernmost part of Rajasthan, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Dungarpur District. It is the fastest developing town in the southern part of Rajasthan, alongside Aspur ''tehsil''. History Dungarpu ...

, Rajputana. * Nawab Bahrain Khan, , Head of the Mazari Tribe in

Dera Ghazi Khan Dera Ghazi Khan (), abbreviated as D.G. Khan, is a city in the southwestern part of Punjab, Pakistan. It is the 19th largest city of Pakistan by population. Lying west of the Indus River, it is the headquarters of Dera Ghazi Khan District and ...

, a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab for making Laws and Regulations. * Henry Alexander Kirk, , India Office, Director-in-Chief, Indo-European Telegraph Department.

Companion (CIE)

* Pierce Langrishe Moore, Indian Civil Service, President of the Municipal Corporation of Madras. * Alfred Chatterton, Indian Educational Service, Superintendent of Industrial Education, Madras. * Major Arthur Abercromby Duff, lately Military Secretary to the Governor of Madras. * Major John Lawrence William ffrench-Mullen, Indian Army, Commandant, Myitikyina Military Police Battalion, Burma. *

Bernard Coventry Bernard Coventry (10 December 1859 – 26 January 1929) was a British agronomist who served as the founding director of the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa, Bengal Presidency, India from 1904. Coventry was the son of Reverend J ...

, Imperial Agricultural Service, Director of the Agricultural Research Institute, Officiating Inspector General of Agriculture. * Albert John Harrison. * Richard Hamilton Campbell, Indian Civil Service, Private Secretary to His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore. * Rao Bahadur Bangalore Perumal Annaswami Mudaliar, Member of the Municipal Commission of the Civil and Military Station of

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

. * Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats, Accountant-General, Posts and Telegraphs, India. * Frederick George Wigley, Barrister-at-Law, Assistant Secretary, Legislative Department, Bengal Government. *

Prafulla Chandra Ray Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray, CIE, FNI, FRASB, FIAS, FCS (also spelled Prafulla Chandra Rây and Prafulla Chandra Roy; bn, প্রফুল্ল চন্দ্র রায় ''Praphulla Chandra Rāy''; 2 August 1861 – 16 June 1944 ...

, D.Sc, Educational Service, Professor,

Presidency College, Calcutta Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly known as Presidency College, Kolkata) is a second major public state aided research university located in College Street, Kolkata. Considered as one of best colleges when Presidency College was affili ...

. * Colonel Francis Raymond, Principal, Veterinary College,

Belgachia Belgachia is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. History The East India Company obtained from the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar, in 1717, the right to rent from 38 villages surrounding their ...

, Bengal. * Colonel Michael Joseph Tighe, , Commandant,

56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force) The 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force) was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1849 as the 2nd Regiment of Punjab Infantry. It was designated as the 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force) in 1906 and became 2nd Battal ...

. * Lieutenant-Colonel William Bernard James, , lately on duty with the

Coronation Durbar The Delhi Durbar ( lit. "Court of Delhi") was an Indian imperial-style mass assembly organized by the British at Coronation Park, Delhi, India, to mark the succession of an Emperor or Empress of India. Also known as the Imperial Durbar, it wa ...

Committee. * Major Sydney D'Aguilar Crookshank, , Royal Engineers, Executive Engineer, Public Works Department, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. * Edward Denison Boss, in charge of the Records of the Government of India, and ex-officio Assistant Secretary, Education Department, Government of India. * John Hugh Cox, Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of Excise in Central India. * Khan Bahadur Muhammad Israr Hasan Khan, Provincial Civil Service, Judicial Minister, Bhopal State, Central India. * Major Reginald O'Bryan Taylor, lately Commandant of the Imperial Cadet Corps. * David Wann Aikman, Public Works Department, Sanitary Engineer, Punjab. * Rai Bahadur Pandit Hari Kishan Kaul, Uncovenanted Civil Service, Punjab, Deputy Commissioner, 3rd Grade, and Superintendent of Census Operations. * Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick William Wodehouse, Bombay Political Department, Resident at

Kolhapur Kolhapur () is a city on the banks of the Panchganga River in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarter of the Kolhapur district. In, around 2 C.E. Kolapur's name was 'Kuntal'. Kolhapur is kn ...

, and Political Agent, Southern Mahratta Country. * Colonel Richard Henry Ewart, , Indian Army, lately Director of Farms. * Colonel Maitland Cowper, Indian Army, late General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, 1st

Burma Division The Burma Division was a static formation of the British Indian Army. It was created as part of the 1903 reforms of the Indian Army by Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener then Commander-in-Chief, India. The task of such formations was to over ...

. *

Thomas Walker Arnold Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (19 April 1864 – 9 June 1930) was a British orientalist and historian of Islamic art. He taught at Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College, later Aligarh Muslim University, and Government College University, Lahore. ...

, India Office, Educational Adviser to Indian Students. * Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Henry James, Indian Medical Service, Medical Adviser,

Patiala State Patiala State was a self-governing princely state A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Raj, British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but ra ...

Royal Victorian Order

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

* Admiral Sir

Archibald Berkeley Milne Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, 2nd Baronet, (2 June 1855 – 4 July 1938) was a senior Royal Navy officer who commanded the Mediterranean Fleet at the outbreak of the First World War. Naval career Milne was the son of distinguished admi ...

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Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

* Professor

Alexander Ogston Sir Alexander Ogston MD CM LLD (19 April 1844 – 1 February 1929) was a British surgeon, famous for his discovery of ''Staphylococcus''. Life Ogston was the eldest son of Amelia Cadenhead and her husband Prof. Francis Ogston (1803– ...

, MD.

Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

* George Lenthal Cheatle, . * Colonel

Henry Streatfeild Henry Streatfeild (1706 - 1762) was a substantial British landowner and member of the prominent Chiddingstone, Kent Streatfeild family. Henry Streatfeild was born on 3 June 1706 in Chiddingstone. He was the son of Henry Streatfeild (1679-1747) an ...

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Percival Horton-Smith Hartley Sir Percival Horton-Smith Hartley (''né'' Horton-Smith; 2 December 1867 – 30 June 1952) was an English physician and authority on tuberculosis. Early life and education Hartley was born Percival Horton-Smith in Paddington, the eldest son of ...

, MD. * Major James Evan Baillie Martin, . * Inspector-General

Belgrave Ninnis Inspector-General Belgrave Ninnis (1 September 1837 – 18 June 1922) was a Royal Navy surgeon, surveyor, Arctic explorer, and leading Freemason, from London. He graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from the University of St Andrews in 1861, and ...

, Royal Navy (Retd.), MD.

Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)

* Willie Netterville Barren, . * Major Edward Boustead Cuthbertson.

Companions of the
Imperial Service Order The Imperial Service Order was established by King Edward VII in August 1902. It was awarded on retirement to the administration and clerical staff of the Civil Service throughout the British Empire for long and meritorious service. Normally a pe ...
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Home Civil Service His Majesty's Home Civil Service, also known as His Majesty's Civil Service, the Home Civil Service, or colloquially as the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, whic ...

: * William David Barber, Chief Civil Assistant to the

Hydrographer Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes and rivers, as well as with the prediction of their change over time, for the primary p ...

, Admiralty. * Frederick Charles Davison, late Chief Accountant,

. * John Duff, Consul,

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

. * Charles Edward Fagan, Assistant Secretary,

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

. * Lumley Arnold Marshall, Principal Clerk,

Post Office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...

. * John Thomas Mulqueen, Collector of Customs and Excise, Dublin. *

Hugh Malcolm Robinson Sir Hugh Malcolm Robinson (12 February 1857 – 27 August 1933) was Factory inspector#H.M. Chief Inspector of Factories, Chief Inspector of Factories of the British Government from 1917 to 1920. Robinson was born in York, the son of Canon H. ...

, Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories. * John Emilius Ernest Steigen Berger Sharp, Assistant Record Keeper, Record Office. * Joseph Simpson, Assistant Secretary and Comptroller, Dublin Inland Revenue. ;Colonial Civil Service: * Louis Adams, Chief Cashier, Office of the

Crown Agents for the Colonies A crown agency was an administrative body of the British Empire, distinct from the Civil Service Commission of Great Britain or the government administration of the national entity in which it operated. These enterprises were overseen from 1833 ...

. * Edward Ernest Evelyn, Senior Assistant Colonial Secretary, Colony of Sierra Leone. * Algernon Bernard Harcourt, Assistant Provincial Commissioner and Provincial Secretary, Eastern Province,

Southern Nigeria Southern Nigeria may refer to: *The southern part of Nigeria, which tends to be more Christian and animist than the Muslim north; also where most of the country's oil is located *Southern Nigeria Protectorate Southern Nigeria was a British Empi ...

. * John William Holliman, Under Secretary for Finance and Trade, State of New South Wales. * Robert Johnstone, Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Island of Jamaica. * Charles William Langford, Excise Officer, Colony of Trinidad and Tobago. * Edwin Faunce Lonsdale, Secretary for Justice (Legal), Department of Justice, Union of South Africa. * Donald Robertson, Secretary, Post Office and Telegraph Department, Dominion of New Zealand. * John Strauchon, Surveyor-General, Lands and Survey Department, Dominion of New Zealand. * William Henry Walker, Chief Clerk, Department of External Affairs, Dominion of Canada. ; Office of the Secretary of State for India: * Thomas Charles Fenton, Barrister-at Law, Staff Clerk-in-charge of the Parliamentary Branch of the Record Department. * William Edmondson Phelps, Deputy Superintendent of the India Store Depot. * Sir Richmond Thackeray Ritchie, , Permanent

Under-Secretary of State for India This is a list of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State and Permanent Under-Secretaries of State at the India Office during the period of British rule between 1858 and 1937 for India(and Burma by extension), and for India and Burma from 193 ...

. ;Civil Services in India: * Sir Charles Bayley, , Lieutenant Governor of Behar and Orissa. * Babu Charu Chandra Goswami, Registrar, Assam Secretariat, Revenue and General Departments. * William James Drake, Registrar to the Government of India, Public Works Department. * Maung Po Sa, Additional District Judge,

Thaton Thaton (; mnw, သဓီု ) is a town in Mon State, in southern Myanmar on the Tenasserim plains. Thaton lies along the National Highway 8 and is also connected by the National Road 85. It is 230 km south east of Yangon and 70 km n ...

, Burma. * John Charles Clancey, , Assistant Director of Land Records, Burma. * Nawab Saiyid Mahammad, Khan Bahadur, Provincial Executive Service, Inspector General of Registration, Bengal. * George Joseph Rogers, Extra Assistant Resident, Kashmir, and Superintendent, Kashmir Residency Office. * Mohammad Aziz-ud-din Hussain Sahib Bahadur, Khan Bahadur, Collector and Magistrate of South Arcot, Madras Presidency. * Francis George Marshall, Deputy Commissioner of Salt, Abkari and Customs, Central Division, Madras Presidency. * M. R. Ry. Chingleput Ratna Mudaliar Avergal, Chief Interpreter, Presidency Magistrate's Court,

Egmore Egmore is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India. Situated on the northern banks of the Coovum River, Egmore is an important residential area as well as a commercial and transportation hub. The Egmore Railway Station was the main terminus of the Madr ...

, Madras. * Andrew Peter Mitchell, Provincial Educational Service, Inspector of Schools,

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. ...

. * Babu Ram Smaran Lai, Provincial Executive Service, Deputy Collector, Farrakhabad, United Provinces. * Leonard Charles Dixon Bean, Traffic Superintendent, North-Western State Railway. * Rao Bahadur Kashinath Keshav Thakur, MA, LLB, Provincial Civil Service, Divisional and Sessions Judge,

Nagpur Nagpur (pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, aːɡpuːɾ is the third largest city and the winter capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the 13th largest city in India by population and according to an Oxford's Economics report, Nag ...

. * Conly James Dease, Superintendent of Post Offices,

North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ps, شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت, ) was a Chief Commissioner's Province of British India, established on 9 November 1901 from the north-western districts of the Punjab Province. Followin ...

. * Isa Charan Chandu Lal, Punjab, Provincial Civil Service, Settlement Officer,

Gujranwala Gujranwala ( ur, , label=none; ) is a city and capital of Gujranwala Division located in Pakistan. It is also known as "City of Wrestlers" and is quite famous for its food. It is the 5th most populous city proper after Karachi, Lahore, Faisala ...

, Punjab. * Henry Raynor Goulding, , Assistant Secretary to the Financial Commissioners, Punjab. * Rao Bahadur Vithalrai Himatram, Daftardar,

Kathiawar Kathiawar () is a peninsula, near the far north of India's west coast, of about bordering the Arabian Sea. It is bounded by the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest and by the Gulf of Khambhat (Gulf of Cambay) in the east. In the northeast, it is ...

Agency, Bombay Presidency. * Henry Alfred Hall, late Superintendent, Deccan Extramural Gang, Bombay Presidency. * Khan Bahadur Saiyed Shams-ud-din Saiyed Mian Kadri, Provincial Service, Oriental Translator to Government, Bombay Presidency. * Robert George Girard, Collector of Income Tax, Bengal. * Godrez Dorabjee Pudumjee, Deputy Accountant-General, Bombay.

Royal Red Cross (RRC)

* Amy Nixon, Matron,

Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC; known as ''the QAs'') is the nursing branch of the British Army Medical Services. History Although an "official" nursing service was not established until 1881, the corps traces its heritage t ...

. * Mary Wilson, Matron, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service.

Honorary Ranks

;Honorary Major: * Nawab Muhammad Nasrulla Khan of Bhopal ;Honorary Chaplain to His Majesty: * Reverend Philip Foster Raymond, MA, Senior

Chaplain to the Forces The Royal Army Chaplains' Department (RAChD) is an all-officer department that provides ordained clergy to minister to the British Army. History The Army Chaplains' Department (AChD) was formed by Royal Warrant of 23 September 1796; until the ...

, Aldershot, and Chaplain, First Class.

References

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