The 1909 Birthday Honours for 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 ...
were announced on 28 June, to celebrate the birthday of
Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria an ...
.
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
Grand Cross is the highest class in many orders, and manifested in its insignia. Exceptionally, the highest class may be referred to as Grand Cordon or equivalent. In other cases, there may exist a rank even higher than Grand Cross, e.g. Grand ...
, ''etc.'') and then divisions (Military, Civil, ''etc.'') as appropriate.
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
;Military Division
*General
Sir Bindon Blood, K.C.B.
*General Sir
George Luck, K.C.B., Colonel,
15th (The King's) Hussars
The 15th The King's Hussars was a Cavalry regiments of the British Army, cavalry regiment in the British Army. First raised in 1759, it saw service over two centuries, including the World War I, First World War, before being amalgamated with the 19 ...
.
*General Sir
Alfred Gaselee
General Sir Alfred Gaselee, , (3 June 1844 – 29 March 1918) was a soldier who served in the Indian Army.
Early life
Gaselee was born at Little Yeldham, Essex, the eldest son of the Reverend John Gaselee, rector of Little Yeldham, and his w ...
, G.C.I.E., K.C.B., Colonel,
54th Sikhs (Frontier Force)
The 54th Sikhs (Frontier Force) were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1846 as the 4th Regiment of Infantry The Frontier Brigade. It was designated as the 54th Sikhs (Frontier Force) in 1903 and became 4th Battalio ...
.
*General Sir
John Denton Pinkstone French, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Colonel,
19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars, Inspector-General of the Forces.
*Lieutenant-General Sir
Edmund George Barrow, K.C.B., Colonel,
7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajputs
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube.
As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, s ...
, Commanding Southern Army, East Indies.
*General Sir
O'Moore Creagh
General Sir Garrett O'Moore Creagh, (2 April 1848 – 9 August 1923), known as Sir O'Moore Creagh, was a senior British Army officer and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that ca ...
, V.C., K.C.B., Colonel,
44th Merwara Infantry,
Military Secretary, India Office.
;Civil Division
*The Right Honourable Sir
Ernest Cassel
Sir Ernest Joseph Cassel, (3 March 1852 – 21 September 1921) was a British merchant banker and capitalist. Born and raised in Prussia, he moved to England at the age of 17.
Life and career
Cassel was born in Cologne, in the Rhine Province ...
, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O.
*Sir
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 ...
, K.C.B., I.S.O.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
;Military Division
*Vice-Admiral Sir
Richard Poore
Richard Poore or Poor (died 15 April 1237) was a medieval English bishop best known for his role in the establishment of Salisbury Cathedral and the City of Salisbury, moved from the nearby fortress of Old Sarum. He served as Bishop of Chic ...
, Bart., C.V.O.
*Vice-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 ...
, Bart., K.C.V.O.
*Vice-Admiral His Serene Highness
Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, G.C.B. (Civil), G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G.
*Vice-Admiral
George Neville, C.V.O.
*Vice-Admiral
Alfred Leigh Winsloe, C.V.O., C.M.G.
*Major-General
William Thompson Adair, Royal Marines.
*Lieutenant-General Sir
Edward Pemberton Leach
General Sir Edward Pemberton Leach (2 April 1847 – 27 April 1913) was an Irish 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 Commonwealth f ...
, V.C., K.C.V.O., C.B., General Officer Commanding-in-Chief,
Scottish Command
Scottish Command or Army Headquarters Scotland (from 1972) is a command of the British Army.
History Early history
Great Britain was divided into military districts on the outbreak of war with France in 1793. The Scottish District was comman ...
.
*Major-General
Vincent William Tregear Major-General Sir Vincent William Tregear, KCB (1842 - ?) was a British army officer.
The son of Vincent Tregear of the Indian Educational Department, he was educated privately. He entered the Bengal Army in 1859.
He was appointed a Major in 187 ...
, C.B., late Bengal Infantry, Unemployed Supernumerary List.
*Surgeon-General Lionel Dixon Spencer, C.B., M.D., Indian Medical Service, retired, Honorary Surgeon to His Majesty the King.
*General Robert Melvill Jennings, C.B., Unemployed Supernumerary List, Colonel,
6th King Edward's Own Cavalry
The 6th King Edward's Own Cavalry was a cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1842 and in 1921 was amalgamated with the 7th Hariana Lancers to form the 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry.
History
The 6th King Edward's Own ...
.
*Lieutenant-General
George Lloyd Reilly Richardson
Lieutenant General Sir George Lloyd Reilly Richardson (20 September 1847 – 9 April 1931) was an officer in the British Indian Army from 1866 to 1909. He served across South East Asia, becoming a veteran of the Second Anglo-Afghan War and Boxer ...
, C.B., C.S.I., C.I.E., Indian Army, retired, Colonel,
18th Prince of Wales's Own Tiwana Lancers.
*Major-General Charles Henry Scott, C.B.
*Lieutenant-General Lewis Dening, C.B., D.S.O., Colonel,
26th Punjabis, Commanding
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 ...
.
*Lieutenant-General Arthur George Frederic Browne, C.B., D.S.O., retired, Colonel,
4th Gurkha Rifles.
;Civil Division
*Honorary Commander
Charles Edward Hely Chadwyck Healey, C.B., K.C., R.N.R.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel George Coope Helme, C.B., C.M.G., late 6th Battalion,
The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1966. The regiment was formed, as the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), in 1881 as part of the Childers Ref ...
(Militia), Honorary Colonel, 6th Battalion,
.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel James Digby Legard, C.B., Honorary Colonel, The Yorkshire (Duke of York's Own) Royal Field Reserve Artillery.
*Colonel
Nathaniel Creswick
Sir Nathaniel Creswick (31 July 1831 – 20 October 1917) was an English footballer who co-founded Sheffield FC, the oldest football club in the world, in 1857. With William Prest, he established the Sheffield Rules, which were highly influ ...
, C.B., late 4th West Riding of Yorkshire
Royal Garrison Artillery
The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was formed in 1899 as a distinct arm of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the other two arms of the Regiment, the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) ...
(Volunteers).
*Honorary Colonel John Arthur Anstice, C.B., late 1st Volunteer Battalion,
Shropshire Light Infantry
The King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the Childers Reforms of 1881, but with antecedents dating back to 1755. It served in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II. In 196 ...
, Honorary. Colonel, 4th Battalion The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry).
*Sir
John Newell Jordan, K.C.M.G.
*John Arrow Kempe, Esq., C.B.
*
Charles Edward Troup
Sir Charles Edward Troup (27 March 1857 – 8 July 1941) was a British civil servant. Born in Scotland, he worked for most of his life in London. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Home Office from 1908 to 1922.
Troup was born i ...
, Esq., C.B.
*
Edward Stafford Howard
Sir Edward Stafford Howard (28 November 1851 – 8 April 1916), was a British Liberal politician and magistrate.
Background and education
A member of the influential Howard family headed by the Duke of Norfolk, Howard was the second son of Hen ...
, Esq., C.B.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
;Military Division
*Surgeon-General
Hayward Reader Whitehead
Major-General Sir Hayward Reader Whitehead (1855–1925) was a British Army surgeon who had a distinguished career in India, Malta, and during World War I.
Early life
Whitehead was born at Gawcott in Buckinghamshire on 14 July 1855, the son of th ...
, Principal Medical Officer, Southern Command.
*Colonel Richard Charles Bernard Lawrence.
*Brevet Colonel George Henry B. Coats, Indian Army.
*Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Richard Francis Johnson, C.M.G., Commanding South Irish Coast Defences, Irish Command.
*Brevet Colonel Arthur Mordaunt Murray, M.V.O., Commandant, Duke of York's Royal Military School.
*Brevet Colonel William Arthur D'Oyly O'Malley, Indian Army.
*Brevet Colonel William Tomes Fairbrother, Indian Army.
*Colonel Frederick Trenchard Thomas Fowle, Inspector-General of Ordnance, India.
*Colonel Frederick William Brooke Koe, Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, South Africa.
*Colonel Raymond Burlton Williams, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Gibraltar.
*Colonel John Elford Dickie, Commanding Royal Engineers, 1st (Peshawar) Division, East Indies.
*Brevet Colonel George Eusebe Even, Indian Army.
*Colonel Thomas Arthur Harkness Davies, D.S.O., half-pay.
*Brevet Colonel Robert John Tudway, D.S.O., Commanding 2nd Battalion, The Essex Regiment.
*Colonel Francis John Pink,. C.M.G., D.S.O., half-pay.
*Colonel James Laird Irvine, Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters.
*Colonel Gervase Francis Newport Tinley, Indian Army.
*Colonel (temporary-Brigadier-General)
David Henderson, D.S.O., Staff Officer to the Inspector-General of the Forces.
*Brevet Colonel Louis Augustus Gordon, Indian Army.
*Colonel Robert Pringle, D.S.O., Principal Veterinary Officer, Aldershot Command.
*Colonel Walter Adye, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, at Headquarters.
*Lieutenant-Colonel Jenico Edward Preston, D.S.O., Indian Army.
*Lieutenant-Colonel Ponsonby Glenn Huggins, D.S.O., Indian Army.
;Civil Division
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Dayrell Talbot Hammond, 4th Battalion, The
Connaught Rangers
The Connaught Rangers ("The Devil's Own") was an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army formed by the amalgamation of the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers) (which formed the ''1st Battalion'') and the 94th Regiment of Foot (which ...
.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Henry Irvine, 3rd Battalion, The
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1968. The regiment was formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot and the 108th Regiment o ...
.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel
Sir James Hamlyn Williams-Drummond, Bart., The Carmarthen Royal1 Field Reserve Artillery.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel
Claude Villiers Emilius Laurie, D.S.O., 3rd Battalion, The
King's Own Scottish Borderers
The King's Own Scottish Borderers (KOSBs) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division. On 28 March 2006 the regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Scots, the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own ...
.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel
Thomas Courtney Theydon Warner, 3rd Battalion, The
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was a light infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1881 until 1958, serving in the Second Boer War, World War I and World War II.
The regiment was formed as a consequence of th ...
.
*Colonel Thomas Sturmey Cave, Honorary Colonel, 4th Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment, Commanding South Midland Territorial Brigade, Southern Command.
*Colonel Sir
Robert Cranston, K.C.V.O., lately Commanding the Lothian Brigade.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Charles Coghlan, 1st West Riding Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Charles Joseph Hart, Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, 5th and 6th Battalions, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel John Arthur Hughes, Welsh Divisional Engineers.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Henry Denison,
Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry
The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (SRY) was a British Yeomanry regiment. In 1967 it was amalgamated with other units to form the Royal Yeomanry (RY), a light cavalry regiment of the Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Army Reserve. Originally raised as t ...
.
*Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Edward Holmes Baldock,
3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)
The 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) was a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army. It was raised in 1901 from Second Boer War veterans of the Imperial Yeomanry. During the First World War it served dismounted at Gallipoli, was remount ...
.
*Colonel de Burgh Birch, M.D., Administrative Medical Officer, West Riding Division.
*
Hay Frederick Donaldson
Brigadier-General Sir Hay Frederick Donaldson (7 July 1856 – 5 June 1916) was an Colony of New South Wales-born English mechanical engineer.
He was born at Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, son of Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson, the first ...
, Esq., M.Inst.C.E., Chief Superintendent of the Royal Ordnance Factories.
*
George Stapylton Barnes, Esq.
*Edmund Ernest Nott Bower, Esq.
*
John Swanwick Bradbury
John Swanwick Bradbury, 1st Baron Bradbury (23 September 1872 – 3 May 1950) was a British economist and public servant.
Bradbury was born in Crook Lane, Winsford, Cheshire, the son of John Bradbury and Sarah Cross. He was educated at Manches ...
, Esq.
*
James Henry Brooks, Esq.
*Robert Bruce, Esq.
*William Robert Davies, Esq.
*Henry James Hapgood, Esq.
*
Sir Robert Hunter.
*
Vaughan Nash, Esq.
*
William George Tyrrell, Esq.
*Major
Edwin Frederick Wodehouse, R.A. (retired).
*Albert Charles Wratislaw, Esq., C.M.G.
Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)
*His Excellency General The Right Honourable
Horatio Herbert Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., Royal Engineers,
Commander-in-Chief, India
During the period of the Company rule in India and the British Raj, the Commander-in-Chief, India (often "Commander-in-Chief ''in'' or ''of'' India") was the supreme commander of the British Indian Army. The Commander-in-Chief and most of his ...
.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)
*
George Stuart Forbes, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George.
*Captain His Highness Raja
Sajjan Singh of Ratlam
Major-General Maharaja Sir Sajjan Singh Bahadur (13 January 1880 – 3 February 1947) was a British Indian Army officer and the Maharaja of Ratlam State, ruling from 1893 until 1947.
Life and career
The only son of Ranjit Singh, Sajjan S ...
.
Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)
*
Krishna Gobinda Gupta, Esq., Indian Civil Service (retired), a Member of the
Council of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India.
*
Ashutosh Mukharji, Esq., M.A., D.L.. a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...
.
*Richard Amphlett Lamb, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Revenue, Financial and Separate Departments, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations.
*Major-General Henry Montague Pakington Hawkes, C.B., Indian Army, Director of Supplies and Transports.
*Dr.
Rash Behary Ghose, C.I.E., D.L., lately an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General for making Laws and Regulations.
*
Francis Capel Harrison
Francis Capel Harrison (21 June 1863 – 10 September 1938) was a British civil servant and Conservative Party politician.
The second son of Edward Francis Harrison of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), he was educated at Rugby School and Balliol ...
, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Officiating Comptroller and Auditor-General.
*Hewling Luson, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner of a Division, Eastern Bengal and Assam.
*Major
Percy Zachariah Cox
Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (20 November 1864 – 20 February 1937) was a British Indian Army officer and Colonial Office administrator in the Middle East. He was one of the major figures in the creation of the current Middle East.
...
, C.I.E., Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
*Sir
John Anderson John Anderson may refer to:
Business
*John Anderson (Scottish businessman) (1747–1820), Scottish merchant and founder of Fermoy, Ireland
* John Byers Anderson (1817–1897), American educator, military officer and railroad executive, mentor of ...
, K.C.M.G.,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements and their Dependencies.
*The Right Honourable Sir
William Edward Goschen, G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G.,
His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Berlin.
*The Right Honourable Sir
Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen, G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., C.B.,
His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Madrid.
*Monsieur
Louis Renault, Minister Plenipotentiary in the French Diplomatic Service, Professor at the "Faculte de Droit," Paris, Legal Adviser to the
French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Member of the
Institute of France
The (; ) is a French learned society, grouping five , including the Académie Française. It was established in 1795 at the direction of the National Convention. Located on the Quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the institute m ...
, Member of the
Permanent Court of Arbitration
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is a non-UN intergovernmental organization located in The Hague, Netherlands. Unlike a judicial court in the traditional sense, the PCA provides services of arbitral tribunal to resolve disputes that arise ...
at the Hague. (Honorary)
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
*Major-General
Harry Barron
Major General Sir Harry Barron, (11 August 1847 – 27 March 1921) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917.
Life
Barron was born in 1847 and attended S ...
, C.V.O.,
Governor designate of the State of Tasmania.
*
Hugh Charles Clifford
Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, (5 March 1866 – 18 December 1941) was a British colonial administrator.
Early life
Clifford was born in Roehampton, London, the sixth of the eight children of Major-General Sir Henry Hugh Clifford and his wife Jos ...
, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of the Island of Ceylon.
*Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable
John George Davies
Sir John George Davies (17 February 1846 – 12 November 1913), generally known as (Sir) George Davies, was a Tasmanian politician, newspaper proprietor and first-class cricketer.
Davies' Jewish father John Snr. and grandfather had been tran ...
, C.M.G.,
Speaker of the House of Assembly of the State of Tasmania.
*
Kenneth Skelton Anderson, Esq.
*
James Beethom Whitehead
Sir James Beethom Whitehead (31 July 1858 – 19 September 1928) was a British diplomat, who was British Minister to Serbia 1906–1910.
Early life
Whitehead was the second son of the engineer Robert Whitehead (1823–1905) by his wife Frances ...
, Esq.,
His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgrade.
*Sir
George William Buchanan, G.C.V.O., C.B.,
His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague and Luxemburg.
*
Ralph Spencer Paget, Esq., C.V.O., C.M.G.,
His Majesty's Minister Resident at Munich and
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
.
*Major Sir John Lane Harrington, K.C.V.O., C.B., late
His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Adis Abeba.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
*The Honourable
George Throssell
George Lionel Throssell (23 May 1840 – 30 August 1910) was the second Premier of Western Australia. He served for just three months, from 15 February to 27 May 1901, during a period of great instability in Western Australian politics.
Georg ...
, Member of the Legislative Council of the State of Western Australia.
*
Edmund Leslie Newcombe
Edmund Leslie Newcombe, (February 17, 1859 – December 9, 1931) was a Canadian lawyer, civil servant, and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Early life
Born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, the son of John Cumming Newcombe and Abigai ...
, Esq., K.C., LL.B.. Deputy Minister of Justice of the Dominion of Canada.
*
Matthew Joseph Butler, Esq., Deputy Minister and Chief Engineer of Government Railways and Canals, Dominion of Canada.
*Professor William John Ritchie Simpson, M.D.; for services on various missions in connection with plague and the promotion of public health in the Colonies.
*
Henry Conway Belfield
Sir Henry Conway Belfield, (29 November 1855 – 8 January 1923) was an English colonial administrator.
The son of John Belfield, Justice of the peace, JP, of Primley Hill, South Devon, and of Eliza Conway Bridges, daughter of Captain George Br ...
, Esq., British Resident,
Selangor
Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east ...
.
*
William Hart Bennett, Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Bahama Islands.
*Colonel
William Throsby Bridges
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, (18 February 1861 – 18 May 1915) was a senior Australian Army officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Military College, Duntroon and who served as the first Australian Chief of the ...
,
Chief of the General Staff of the Military Forces of the Commonwealth of Australia.
*
Alexander Bain Moncrieff, Esq., Engineer-in-Chief and Engineer of Harbours and Jetties, State of
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
.
*Major George Edward Smith, R.E., Director of Surveys,
East Africa Protectorate
East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was an area in the African Great Lakes occupying roughly the same terrain as present-day Kenya from the Indian Ocean inland to the border with Uganda in the west. Controlled by Britai ...
.
*Major George Charles Thomas Steward, Secretary to the Executive Council and
Official Secretary to the Governor-General, Commonwealth of Australia.
*Patrick Joseph Garland, Esq., Deputy Principal Medical Officer,
Gold Coast
Gold Coast may refer to:
Places Africa
* Gold Coast (region), in West Africa, which was made up of the following colonies, before being established as the independent nation of Ghana:
** Portuguese Gold Coast (Portuguese, 1482–1642)
** Dutch G ...
; in recognition of services in connection with the outbreak of plague at Accra.
*Oreste Grech Mifsud, Esq., LL.D., President of the Chamber of Advocates of the Island of Malta.
*Captain William Alexander Gordon, lately Private Secretary to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
*
John Francis Charles, Count de Salis, C.V.O., Councillor in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service.
*
Frederick Samuel Augustus Bourne
Sir Frederick Samuel August Bourne (1854–1940) was a British judge, diplomat and botanist who served in China. His last positions before retirement were concurrently as Assistant Judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Judge of th ...
, Esq., Assistant Judge of
His Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Corea.
*Walter Ralph Durie Beckett, Esq., His Majesty's Consul at Bangkok.
*Major
Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hotham Montagu "Richard" Doughty-Wylie, (23 July 1868 – 26 April 1915) was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be ...
, Acting British Vice-Consul at
Konieh and
Mersina; in recognition of his services during the
recent disturbances in Asia Minor.
*
Edgar Bonham Carter, Esq., Legal Secretary to the Soudan Government.
Order of the Indian Empire
Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)
*
William Stevenson Meyer
Sir William Stevenson Meyer (13 February 1860 – 19 October 1922) was an Indian Civil Service officer. From 1920 until his death two years later, he served as the first High Commissioner for India.
Biography
Meyer was born to a Presbyterian mi ...
, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department.
*
Wilhelm Schlich, Esq., C.I.E., Ph.D., late Indian Forest Department.
Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)
*Henry Parsall Burt, Esq., A.M.I.C.E., Manager,
North-Western Railway.
*Godfrey Butler Hunter Fell, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department.
*John Newlands, Esq., Officer on Special Duty in connection with the re-organisation of the Telegraph Department.
*Colonel James Henry Elias Beer, V.D., Commandant, Mussoorie Volunteer Rifles.
*Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Parkin, Indian Army, Deputy Inspector-General of Military Police, Burma.
*Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Neil Campbell, M.B., Indian Medical Service, Officiating Inspector- General of Civil Hospitals, Eastern Bengal and Assam.
*Montagu Sherard Dawes Butler, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner of Lahore, and lately Settlement Officer, Kota, Rajputana.
*Major Stuart George Knox, lately Political Agent at Koweit.
*Captain Cecil Godfrey Bawling, Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light Infantry.
*
Edgar Thurston
Edgar Thurston CIE (1855– 12 October 1935) was the British Superintendent at the Madras Government Museum from 1885 to 1908 who contributed to research studies in the fields of zoology, ethnology and botany of India, and later also publish ...
, Esq., L.R.C.P., Superintendent, Government Central Museum, and Superintendent of Ethnography, Madras.
*Diwan Bahadur Seth Kastur Chand Daga, Rai Bahadur, of Bikaner, Rajputaria.
*Rai Natthi Mai Bahadur of Khurja in the Bulandshahr District, United Provinces.
*Rai Bahadur Buta Singh of Rawalpindi, Punjab.
*Henry Alexander Kirk, Esq., India Office, late India Telegraph Department, Director-in-Chief, Indo-European Telegraph Department.
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
*Major-General The Honourable Sir
Frederick William Stopford, K.C.M.G., C.B.,
General Officer Commanding London District.
*
Almeric William Fitzroy, Esq., C.V.O.,
Clerk to the Privy Council.
*Major-General
Douglas Haig
Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, (; 19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928) was a senior Officer (armed forces), officer of the British Army. During the First World War, he commanded the British Expeditionar ...
, C.V.O.. C.B., Director of Staff Duties at Headquarters.
*The Very Reverend
James Cameron Lees
James Cameron Lees KCVO (1835–1913) was a Church of Scotland minister and author at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
Life
Lees was born in London on 24 July 1834 the son of James Lees a Perth gun-maker who had r ...
, C.V.O., D.D., Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty in Scotland and
Dean of the Order of the Thistle.
*Lieutenant-Colonel FitzRoy Augustus Talbot Clayton, Chairman,
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, as well as on some inland waterways. It i ...
.
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
*Professor
Laurits Regner Tuxen. (Honorary)
*Colonel The
Lord William Cecil, M.V.O., Gentleman Usher to His Majesty, and Comptroller to Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice (Princess Henry of Battenberg).
*Colonel The Honourable
Cecil Edward Bingham
Major-General Sir Cecil Edward Bingham (7 December 1861 – 31 May 1934) was a British Army officer who held high command during World War I.
Military career
Born the son of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan,''Burke's Peerage and Barone ...
, M.V.O., Commanding 1st Life Guards.
*The Honourable John Hubert Ward, M.V.O., Equerry to His Majesty.
*The Honourable Henry Julian Stonor, M.V.O., Groom in Waiting and
Gentleman Usher to His Majesty.
*
Sir Duncan Alexander Dundas Campbell, of Baraldine, Bart., Secretary to the
Order of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle is an order of chivalry associated with Scotland. The current version of the Order was founded in 1687 by King James VII of Scotland, who asserted that he was reviving an earlier Order. The ...
.
*The Reverend
Bertram Pollock
Bertram Pollock (6 December 186317 October 1943) was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.
Born in Hanworth, Middlesex, on 6 December 1863 to George Frederick Pollock — a barrister and Remembrancer to Queen Victoria and E ...
, M.V.O., D.D., Master of
Wellington College Wellington College may refer to:
*Wellington College, Berkshire, an independent school in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England
** Wellington College International Shanghai
** Wellington College International Tianjin
* Wellington College, Wellington, Ne ...
and
Chaplain to His Majesty.
*Major
Malcolm Donald Murray
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Malcolm Donald Murray (9 July 1867 – 2 August 1938) was a British Army officer and courtier.
Background
Murray was the younger son of Brigadier-General Alexander Henry Murray (1829-1885) by his wife Martha Frances ...
, M.V.O., Comptroller and Equerry to Field Marshal His Royal Highness The Duke of Connaught.
*Brigadier-General
Charles Toler McMorrough Kavanagh, M.V.O., D.S.O., Commanding 1st Cavalry Brigade, Aldershot Command.
*The Reverend
Hermann Adler
Hermann Adler HaKohen CVO (30 May 1839 – 18 July 1911;
Hebrew נפתלי צבי הירש הכהן אדלר
) was the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911. The son (and successor as Chief Rabbi) of Nathan Marcus Adler, the 1911 ' ...
, Ph.D., Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class
*
Sir George Compton Archibald Arthur, Bart.
*Admiral Henry Christian, Chief Constable of Gloucestershire.
*Major James Evan Baillie Martin, Comptroller and Treasurer to Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig Holstein.
Imperial Service Order
*Charles Wilgress Anderson, Esq.., First Class Officer, Department of Lands and Mines of the Colony, of British Guiana.
*Edward Jordon Andrews, Esq., Public Treasurer of the Island of Jamaica.
*William Douglas Auchinleck, Esq., Auditor-General of the Leeward Islands,
*John Charles Aylan, Esq., late Manager of the East Laboratory, Royal Arsenal.
*Seymour John Bennett, Esq., Inspector af Stamping, Inland Revenue.
*Thomas Briggs, Esq., Vice-Controller, London Postal Service.
*Joseph Brown, Esq., Superintendent of Police of the Colony of the Gambia.
*George Cole, Esq., Inspector and General Superintendent of Schools, Bahama Islands.
*Colonel Robert Joseph Collins, Secretary to the Treasury, Receiver-General and Paymaster-General, Dominion of New Zealand.
*Thomas Garvin, Esq., Inspector-General of Police of the State of New South Wales.
*William John Gerald, Esq., Deputy Minister of Inland Revenue of the Dominion of Canada.
*Arthur Hill, Esq., First Class Assistant Clerk, Board of Trade.
*Robert Hobbins, Esq., Collector of Customs and Excise, Belfast.
*Lionel Charles Hopkins, Esq, late Consul-General, Tientsin.
*John Robert Jarman, Esq., Sub-Inspector, Board of Education.
*William Charles Kensington, Esq., Under Secretary for Crown Lands, Dominion of New Zealand.
*Seymour Henry Knyvett, Esq., Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Home Office.
*James Kennedy Logan, Esq., Superintendent of Electric Lines, Post Office and Telegraph Department, Dominion of New Zealand.
*Charles Long, Esq., lately Postmaster, Pretoria, The Transvaal.
*Edward John March, Esq., Government Printer of the Colony of Fiji.
*Joseph O'Reilly, Esq., Inspector, Revenue Preventive Service, Island of Newfoundland.
*George Ross, Esq., Chief Post Office Superintendent for the Post Office Department, Dominion of Canada.
*William James Scott, Esq., Under Secretary, Department of Public Lands, State of Queensland.
*Francis Ellis Tucker, Esq., late Assistant Secretary, British Museum.
*Alfred Charles Waters, Esq., Chief Clerk, General Register Office.
References
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Birthday Honours
1909 in the United Kingdom
1909 awards