The 1873 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

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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 24 May 1873. 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 Sir Provo William Parry Wallis *Admiral Sir William Fanshawe Martin *Admiral Thomas, Earl of Lauderdale *Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones ;;Army *General Sir Henry George Andrew Taylor *General Sir George Bowles *General Sir

Abraham Roberts General (United Kingdom), General Sir Abraham Roberts (11 April 1784 – 28 December 1873) was a British East India Company Army General (United Kingdom), general who served nearly 50 years in British Raj, India. Roberts had two sons, who both ...

*General Sir

James Charles Chatterton General Sir James Charles Chatterton, 3rd Baronet, (10 December 17945 January 1874) was a British Army officer and politician; he was the third and last of the Chatterton baronets of Castle Mahon. He fought during both the Peninsular War, Penins ...

*General Sir William Henry Elliott *Lieutenant-General Sir

Sydney John Cotton Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney John Cotton (2 December 1792 – 19 February 1874) was a British Army officer. He was the commandment of the Moreton Bay penal colony in Australia. Military career Born the second son of Henry Calveley Cotton of Wo ...

*Lieutenant-General Sir John Bloomfield *Lieutenant-General Sir

Duncan Alexander Cameron General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron, (20 May 18088 June 1888) was a British Army officer who fought in the Crimean War and part of the New Zealand Wars. He was later a governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Born into a family wit ...

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Admiral Henry Smith *Admiral Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley *Vice-Admiral George St. Vincent King *Admiral Charles Eden *Vice-Admiral the Honourable

James Robert Drummond Admiral Sir James Robert Drummond (15 September 1812 – 7 October 1895) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded several ships in the Black Sea Fleet during the Crimean War and who commanded the Mediterranean Fleet from 1874 to 1877 before going o ...

*Rear-Admiral John Walter Tarleton *Rear-Admiral Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell *Rear-Admiral

Astley Cooper Key Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key, (18 January 1821 – 3 March 1888) was a Royal Navy officer. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado in November 1845 during the Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata and took ...

;;Army *Lieutenant-General Francis Warde *Lieutenant-General

Frederick William Hamilton General Sir Frederick William Hamilton, (8 July 1815 – 4 October 1890) was a British Army officer who served as Major General commanding the Brigade of Guards from 1868 to 1870. Early life Hamilton was born in London in 1815, the son of Wil ...

*Lieutenant-General Arthur Mitford Becher *Lieutenant-General Charles Trollope *Lieutenant-General Edward Cooper Hodge *Lieutenant-General the Honourable Alexander Hamilton-Gordon *Lieutenant-General John Fordyce *Lieutenant-General

Philip Melmoth Nelson Guy Lieutenant-General Sir Philip Melmoth Nelson Guy (1804–1878) was Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong and Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. Military career Guy was commissioned into the 5th Regiment of Foot in 1824. He went on to ...

*Major-General Lord Henry Hugh Manvers Percy *Major-General Charles Henry Ellice *Major-General

Richard Wilbraham General Sir Richard Wilbraham (12 April 1811 – 30 April 1900) was a British Army officer who became colonel of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Early life He was a son of Randle Bootle-Wilbraham (1773–1861) of Rode Hall and, ...

*Major-General James Duncan Macpherson *Major-General Edmund Haythorne *Major-General Henry Drury Harness *Major-General

Henry Wylie Norman Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal Sir Henry Wylie Norman, (2 December 1826 – 26 October 1904) was a senior British Indian Army, Indian Army officer and colonial administrator. He served in the Second Anglo-Sikh War, the campaign a ...

*Colonel

John Miller Adye General Sir John Miller Adye, GCB (1 November 181926 August 1900) was a British soldier and painter. Military career Adye was the son of Major James P. Adye, born at Sevenoaks, Kent, on 1 November 1819. He studied at the Royal Military Academ ...

*Surgeon-General William Mure Muir

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

=Military Division

= ;;Royal Navy *Rear-Admiral Edwin Clayton Tennyson-d'Eyncourt *Rear-Admiral Arthur Mellersh *Rear-Admiral

Robert Coote Robert Coote (4 February 1909 – 26 November 1982) was an English actor. He played aristocrats or British military types in many films, and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of ''My Fai ...

*Captain Julian Foulston Slight *Captain

Thomas Saumarez General Sir Thomas Saumarez (1 July 1760 – 4 March 1845) was a British Army officer who served in the American Revolutionary War. Early life: 1760–1776 Thomas Saumarez was born in Guernsey on 1 July 1760 to Matthew Saumarez (1718–1778) ...

*Captain William Andrew James Heath *Captain Cornelius Thomas Augustus Noddall *Captain Robert Gibson *Captain Augustus Chetham Strode ;;Army *General Edward Armstrong, Madras Infantry *Lieutenant-General Maurice Barlow *Lieutenant-General Matthew Smith *Lieutenant-General Henry Bates *Lieutenant-General George Staunton *Lieutenant-General James Travers Bengal Infantry *Major-General John Leslie Dennis *Major-General James Abbott, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery *Major-General John Stafford Paton, Bengal Staff Corps *Major-General Charles Elmhirst *Major-General Sir

James Edward Alexander General Sir James Edward Alexander (16 October 1803 – 2 April 1885) was a Scottish traveller, writer and soldier in the British Army. Alexander was the driving force behind the placement of Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment. B ...

*Major-General Charles Arthur Barwell, Bengal Staff Corps *Major-General William Henry March, retired, Royal Marines *Colonel Charles Tyrwhitt *Colonel

George Calvert Clarke General George Calvert Clarke, (23 July 1814''UK, British Army Lists, 1882–1962'' – 9 February 1900), was a British Army officer who served in the Crimean War. Clarke was born in 1814, and commissioned a cornet in the 2nd (Royal North B ...

, late 2nd Dragoons *Colonel Frederick Amelius Whimper *Colonel Edmund Augustus Whitmore *Colonel John Josiah Hort, Brigade Depot *Colonel James Croft Brooke, late 8th Regiment *Colonel Frederick Robert Elrington, Rifle Depot *Colonel Percy Archer Butler, late 28th Regiment *Colonel

William Sankey General William Sankey (died 16 November 1892) was a British Army officer who served as colonel of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). Military career Sankey was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1844. He saw action as Dep ...

, 62nd Regiment *Colonel Lord Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy *Colonel William James Loftus, late 38th Regiment *Colonel Henry Meade Hamilton, Brigade Depot *Colonel Michael Anthony Shrapnel Biddulph, Royal Artillery *Colonel Bartholomew O'Brien, Brigade Depot *Colonel Cadwallader Adams, 49th Regiment *Colonel Henry Hamilton Maxwell, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery *Colonel Robert White, Brigade Depot *Colonel Charles Edward Parke Gordon, late 75th Regiment *Colonel David Scott Dodgson, Bengal Infantry *Colonel William James Esten Grant, Royal Artillery *Colonel John Desborough, Royal Artillery *Colonel Robert Cadell, Royal (late Madras) Artillery *Colonel Charles Malcolm Barrow, Bombay Staff Corps *Colonel Alfred Bassano, late 82nd Regiment *Colonel Arthur Howlett, Madras Staff Corps *Colonel Frederick William Burroughs, 93rd Regiment *Colonel George Whittle Mackenzie Hall, Bengal Staff Corps *Colonel Peter Stark Lumsden Bengal Staff Corps *Colonel Shurlock Henning, 38th Regiment *Colonel John Hamilton Cox, late 75th Regiment *Colonel Arthur Bunny, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery *Colonel Charles Butler Peter Nugent Hodges Nugent, Royal Engineers *Lieutenant-Colonel William John Williams, Royal Artillery *Lieutenant-Colonel John Irvine Murray, Bengal Staff Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Baigrie, Bombay Staff Corps *Lieutenant-Colonel Dominick Sarsfield Greene, Royal Artillery *Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Richard Maunsell, Royal (late Bengal) Engineers *Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets John Rees (retired) *Inspector-General of Hospitals Richard Dane *Inspector-General of Hospitals Benjamin William Marlow *Surgeon-Major John Wyatt, Coldstream Guards *Deputy Controller Randolph Routh *Deputy Controller Henry Bartlett *Deputy Controller Alexander Crowder Crookshank

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

*His Excellency Maharajah Jung Bahadoor Kunwar Ranajee Prime Minister of Nepal *General Sir John Low Madras Infantry, formerly Political Resident at Lucknow and Hyderabad and Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India *Lieutenant-General Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain Bengal Infantry, late Commanding Punjab Irregular Force

Knight Commander (KCSI)

*Nawab Khan Bahadoor Khwajah Muhammad Khan Khuttuk, of Kohat *

George Campbell George Campbell may refer to: Sportsmen *George Campbell (rugby union) (1872–1924), Scotland international rugby union player * George Campbell (footballer, born 1957), Scottish footballer * George Campbell (footballer, born 1864) (1864–1898) ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal *

Alexander John Arbuthnot Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot (11 October 1822 – 10 June 1907) was a British official and writer. Early life He was born at Farmhill, County Mayo, the third son of Alexander Arbuthnot and his second wife Margaret Phoebe Bingham, daughter of ...

Madras Civil Service, late Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras *Major-General

Harry Burnett Lumsden Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burnett "Joe" Lumsden (12 November 1821 – 12 August 1896) was a British military officer active in the British Raj. Biography Background Lumsden was born aboard the East India Company's ship ''Rose'' in the Bay o ...

Bengal Staff Corps, late Envoy to Candahar

Companion (CSI)

*John Forbes David Inglis, Bengal Civil Service, Senior Member of the Board of Revenue, North-West Provinces, and additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations *Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Campbell McNeill, late Madras Staff Corps, formerly Agent to the Governor-General in Orissa *

John Ware Edgar Sir John Ware Edgar (16 September 1839 – 4 June 1902EDGAR, Sir John Ware’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014) was a British colonial administrator in B ...

, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Cachar, late Political Officer attached to the Looshai Expeditionary Force

References

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