The 1860 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 Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in January 1901. Her reign of 63 year ...

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 A birthday is the anniversary of the birth of a person or figuratively of an institution. Birthdays of people are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with birthday gifts, birthday cards, a birthday party, or a rite of passage. Many religion ...

of the Queen, and were published in ''

The London Gazette ''The London Gazette'', known generally as ''The Gazette'', is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, i ...

'' on 18 May 1860. 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

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Admiral of the Fleet Sir John West *Admiral Sir William Hall Gage Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom *Admiral Sir Francis William Austen *General Sir James Douglas *General Sir George Scovell *General the Lord Downes *Admiral Sir

Thomas John Cochrane Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas John Cochrane, (5 February 1789 – 19 October 1872) was a Royal Navy officer. After serving as a junior officer during the French Revolutionary Wars, he captured the French ship ''Favourite'' off the coast of D ...

*Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour ;;Army *General Sir Frederick Stovin *General Sir James Fergusson *Lieutenant-General Sir John Bell

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Vice-Admiral Arthur Fanshawe *Vice-Admiral Provo William Parry Wallis *Rear-Admiral Robert Lambert Baynes ;;Army *General the Honourable

Henry Murray Henry Alexander Murray (May 13, 1893 – June 23, 1988) was an American psychologist at Harvard University. From 1959 to 1962, he conducted a series of psychologically damaging and purposefully abusive experiments on minors and undergradua ...

*Lieutenant-General Philip Bainbrigge *Lieutenant-General Thomas Erskine Napier *Lieutenant-General the Honourable

Charles Gore Charles Gore (22 January 1853 – 17 January 1932) was a Church of England bishop, first of Worcester, then Birmingham, and finally of Oxford. He was one of the most influential Anglican theologians of the 19th century, helping reconcile the ...

*Lieutenant-General

Edward Charles Whinyates General Sir Edward Charles Whinyates, (6 May 1782 – 25 December 1865) was a senior British Army artillery officer. Biography Whinyates was the son of Major Thomas Whinyates of Abbotsleigh, Devon, and his wife Katharine Frankland, and was e ...

*Lieutenant-General George Judd Harding ;;Royal Marines *Lieutenant-General Samuel Burdon Ellis

=Civil Division

= ;;Indian Service * Frederick James Halliday, late Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal *Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton late Political Agent in Central India *Major-General Richard James Holwell Birch Secretary to the Government of India in the Military Department *Colonel Peter Melvill Melvill, Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Military and Naval Departments *Lieutenant-Colonel

Herbert Benjamin Edwardes Major-General Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes DCL (12 November 1819 – 23 December 1868) was a British administrator, soldier, and statesman active in the Punjab region of British India. He is best known as the "Hero of Multan" for his pivot ...

Commissioner of Peshawur

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

=Civil Division

= * Thomas Erskine May, Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons ;;Colonial Service * Philip Edmond Wodehouse, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Colony of British Guiana * James Walker, Colonial Secretary for the Island of Barbados *Colonel Stephen John Hill, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the Colony of Sierra Leone *Edward Jordan, President of the Privy Council of the Island of Jamaica *Major Mathew Richmond, sometime Superintendent at Wellington and Nelson, in New Zealand ;;Indian Service * Edward Anderton Reade, Bengal Civil Service, Member of the Sudder Board of Revenue *

Donald Friell McLeod Sir Donald Friell McLeod (6 May 1810 – 28 November 1872) was an Anglo-Indian civil servant who served as Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab between 1865 and 1870. He was one of the founders of Lahore Oriental College, now part of the Pun ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Punjab * John Cracroft Wilson, Bengal Civil Service, Judge of Moradabad *Edward Thornton, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of the Jhelum Division, Punjab *Henry Carre Tucker, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Benares *George Udny Yule, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Bhaugulpore *Edward Alexander Samuells, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Patna *Robert Alexander, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Rohilcund *Frederick Bebb Gubbins, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Benares *Arthur Austin Roberts, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Lahore * George Carnac Barnes, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of the Cis-Sutlej States * Arthur Herbert Cocks, Bengal Civil Service, Judge of Mynpoorie * Charles John Wingfield, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Goruckpore *Samuel Wauchope, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Police, Calcutta * Brand Sapte, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of

Bulandshahr Bulandshahr, formerly Baran, is a city and a municipal board in Bulandshahr district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bulandshahr district and part of Delhi NCR region. According to the Governme ...

* Alonzo Money, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Shahabad and Gya *Francis Otway Mayne, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Banda * George Ebenezer Wilson Couper, Bengal Civil Service, Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Oude *Robert Henry Dunlop, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Meerut *William Ashburner Forbes, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Oude * Frederick Henry Cooper, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Umritsur *George Henry Mildmay Ricketts, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Loodianah *John Henry Bax, Bengal Civil Service, Joint Magistrate, Ghazeepore * Thomas Douglas Forsyth, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Umballah *

Allan Octavian Hume Allan Octavian Hume, Order of the Bath, CB Indian Civil Service, ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British Raj, British India and was the founding spirit ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Etawah *Herwald Craufurd Wake, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Shahabad *Brigadier-General George St. Patrick Lawrence, Bengal Cavalry, Agent to Her Majesty's Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Rajpootana *Colonel Sir Richard Campbell Shakespear Bengal Artillery, Resident at Baroda *Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthbert Davidson, Bengal Infantry, Resident at Hyderabad *Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Carleton Marsden, Bengal Retired List, Deputy Commissioner, Ferozepore *Major Walter Coningsby Erskine, Bengal Infantry, Commissioner of Saugor *Major John Reid Becher, Bengal Engineers, Deputy Commissioner, Hazara *Major Henry Ramsay, Bengal Infantry, Commissioner of Kumaon *Major George Walter Williams, Bengal Infantry, Commanding Meerut Volunteers *Major Richard Charles Lawrence, Bengal Infantry, Commanding the Lahore Police and Cashmere Contingent *Major John William Carnegie, Bengal Infantry, Deputy Commissioner, Oude *Major William Wilberforce Harris Greathed, Bengal Engineers *Captain Hugh Rees James, Bengal Infantry, Deputy Commissioner, Peshawur *Captain Benjamin Henderson, Bengal Infantry, Deputy Commissioner, Kohat * Robert Staunton Ellis, Madras Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Nagpore *Major Samuel Charters Macpherson, Madras Infantry, Political Agent, Gwalior *Major Francis Wingrave Pinkney, Madras Infantry, Commissioner of Jhansi *Captain William Hindley Crichton, Madras Infantry, Deputy Commissioner, Nagpore *Captain Charles Eliot, Madras Artillery, Deputy Commissioner, Nagpore *Lieutenant John William Willoughby Osborne, Madras Infantry, Political Agent in Rewah *John Nugent Rose, Bombay Civil Service, Chief Civil Officer, Sattara *Major William Lockyer Merewether, Bombay Infantry, Political Agent, Scinde Frontier

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