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The 1908 Birthday Honours for the
British Empire The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, colonies, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, mandates, and other Dependent territory, territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It bega ...
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 and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until Death and state funeral of Edward VII, his death in 1910. The second child ...
. 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 A knight is a person granted an honorary title of a knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church, or the country, especially in a military capacity. The concept of a knighthood ...
, ''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 William Gustavus Nicholson, K.C.B.,
Chief of the General Staff The Chief of the General Staff (CGS) is a post in many armed forces (militaries), the head of the military staff. List * Chief of the General Staff (Abkhazia) * Chief of General Staff (Afghanistan) * Chief of the General Staff (Albania) * C ...
(1st Military Member, Army Council.) *General Sir John James Hood Gordon, K.C.B., Indian Army, Colonel 29th Punjabis. ;Civil Division * Francis, Lord Knollys, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., I.S.O., Private Secretary to The King. *The Right Honourable Sir Francis Leveson Bertie, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Paris. *Sir George Herbert Murray, K.C.B., Permanent Secretary, Treasury. *Sir Arthur Godley, K.C.B., Under Secretary of State, India Office.


Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

;Military Division *Admiral Sir Reginald Neville Custance, K.C.M.G., C.V.O. *Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Samuel Poë, K.C.V.O. *Vice-Admiral The Honourable Sir Hedworth Lambton, K.C.V.O., C.B. *Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman Bridgeman, K.C.V.O. *Major-General Henry Augustus Bushman, C.B., Colonel
9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers The 9th Queen's Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1715. It saw service for three centuries, including the First and Second World Wars. The regiment survived the immediate post-war reduction in forces, bu ...
. *Lieutenant-General Henry Fane Grant, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta. *Major-General Harcourt Mortimer Bengough, C.B. (Retired). *Major-General Thomas Graham, C.B., Royal (late Bengal) Artillery (Retired). *Major-General John Munro Sym, C.B., Indian Army. *Lieutenant-General Frederick Lance, C.B., Indian Army, Colonel 22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry (Frontier Force). *Lieutenant-General William Henry Mackinnon, C.V.O., C.B., Director General of the
Territorial Force The Territorial Force was a part-time volunteer component of the British Army, created in 1908 to augment British land forces without resorting to conscription. The new organisation consolidated the 19th-century Volunteer Force and yeomanry in ...
. *Major-General Herbert Scott Gould Miles, C.V.O., C.B.,
Quartermaster-General to the Forces The Quartermaster-General to the Forces (QMG) is a senior general in the British Army. The post has become symbolic: the Ministry of Defence organisation charts since 2011 have not used the term "Quartermaster-General to the Forces"; they simply ...
(3rd Military Member, Army Council). *Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General The Honourable Somerset John Gough Calthorpe, C.B., Colonel 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards. ;Civil Division *Colonel (temporary Major-General) Charles Frederic Hadden, C.B.,
Master-General of the Ordnance The Master-General of the Ordnance (MGO) was a very senior British military position from 1415 to 2013 (except 1855–1895 and 1939–1958) with some changes to the name, usually held by a serving general. The Master-General of the Ordnance was ...
(4th Military Member, Army Council.) *Henry Hardinge Samuel Cunynghame, Esq., C.B. * Robert Chalmers, Esq., C.B. *Edward Stanley Hope, Esq., C.B. * William Henry Power, Esq., C.B., F.R.S. *
Henry Babington Smith Sir Henry Babington Smith (29 January 1863 – 29 September 1923) was a senior British civil servant, who served in a wide range of posts overseas, mostly financial, before becoming a director of the Bank of England. He was related to the B ...
, Esq., C.B., C.S.I. * Hubert Llewellyn Smith, Esq., C.B.


Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

;Military Division *Major-General Henry Bulckley Burlton Watkis, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India. *Major-General Frederick Augustus Bowles, Commander, Coast Defences, Plymouth. *Colonel Henry Vivian Cowan, C.V.O., A.D.C., Commandant (General Staff Officer, 1st Grade), Royal Military Academy. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) John Lindesay Keir, Brigade Commander, India. *Colonel Robert Whyte Melville Jackson, C.M.G., Chief Ordnance Officer, Royal Army Clothing Factory. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Francis Henry Kelly, Brigade Commander, India. *Colonel Charles Conyngham Ellis. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Francis Charles Carter, Brigadier-General Sub-District, South Africa. *Colonel Edward Hegan. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Frederick Hammersley, Brigadier-General 3rd Brigade, Aldershot Command. *Colonel Henry Richard Beadon Donne, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters of Army. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Charles Herbert Powell, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Francis Garnett Atkinson, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India. *Major and Brevet Colonel Augustus de Segur McKerrell, Cameron Highlanders. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) William Edward Blewitt, C.M.G., Director of Artillery, Headquarters of Army. *Colonel Francis Seymour Inglefield, D.S.O., General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, 5th Division, Irish Command. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Lovick Bransby Friend, Commander, Coast Defences, Scottish Command. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Charles Henry Westmorland, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Walter Fullarton Lodovic Lindsay, D.S.O., Commanding Royal Artillery, 3rd Division, Southern Command. *Colonel Raymond Northland Revell Reade, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Malta. *Colonel William Douglas, D.S.O., General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, 6th Division, Irish Command. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Francis Henry Rutherford Drummond, C.I.E., Indian Army, Inspector-General, Imperial Service Troops, India. *Colonel Edward Robert John Presgrave, D.S.O., Indian. Army. *Colonel Alfred James Whitacre Allen, half-pay. *Colonel Henry Newport Charles Heath, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, Headquarters of Army. *Colonel William Henry Sitwell, D.S.O., half-pay. *Colonel George Osbaldeston Welch, Assistant Director of Transport, Headquarters of Army. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Alexander Wallace, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India. *Colonel William Richard Yielding, C.I.E., D.S.O., Indian Army. *Colonel (Brigadier-General) Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe, Brigadier-General 2nd Cavalry Brigade, Eastern Command. *Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Kenneth Stewart Davison, Indian Army, Commandant 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse). *Colonel (Brigadier-General)
Henry Hughes Wilson Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician. Wilson served as Commandant of the ...
, D.S.O., Commandant (Brigadier-General, General Staff) Staff College. *Colonel Launcelot Edward Kiggell, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, Headquarters of Army. *Colonel John Townshend St Aubyn, Baron St Levan, C.V.O., Commanding Grenadier Guards and Regimental District and Commander, 2nd London Territorial Brigade, London District. *Lieutenant-Colonel Johnston Shearer, D.S.O., Indian Medical Service. ''In commemoration of the Military Operations in India in 1857 and 1858.'' *Colonel Arthur Moffatt Lang, Royal (late Bengal) Engineers (Retired). *Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Aylmer McIver Campbell, Indian Staff Corps (Retired). ;Civil Division *Lionel Abraham, Esq. *Arthur Wellesley Anstruther, Esq. *Frederick W. Black, Esq. * Richard Durnford, Esq. *William Evans, Esq. * Alfred Eyles, Esq. * Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay, Esq., C.M.G. *Alexander Freeman King, Esq. *William Algernon Law, Esq. *Adolphus George Charles Liddell, Esq. *Robert Philpot, Esq. *Harry Butler Simpson, Esq. *George Augustus Stevenson, Esq., M.V.O. *John Charles Gabriel Sykes, Esq. *Herbert Preston-Thomas, Esq. *R. Eustre Yerburgh, Esq.


Order of Merit

* Henry Jackson, Esq., D.Litt., Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge.


Order of the Star of India


Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

* Charles Stuart Bayley, Esq., C.S.I, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Lieutenant-Governor, Eastern Bengal and Assam. *Edward Norman Baker, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General. *His Highness Raj Rajeshwar Maharaja Dhiraj Sardar Singh Bahadur, of Jodhpur. *His Highness Raj Rana Bhavvaui Singh, of Jhalawar. *Raja Tasadduk Rasul Khan, C.S.I., of
Jahangirabad Jahangirabad is a town in Bulandshahr district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The town is named after mughal emperor Jahangir, who is said to have stayed here for a couple of days. It has various holy places like Binner Devi, Dhaka Dev ...
, Oudh.


Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

* Michael Francis O'Dwyer, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Officiating Resident,
Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...
. * James Scorgie Meston, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department. * George Watson Shaw, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner,
Upper Burma Upper Myanmar ( or , also called Upper Burma) is one of two geographic regions in Myanmar, the other being Lower Myanmar. Located in the country's centre and north stretches, Upper Myanmar encompasses six inland states and regions, including ...
. *William Arbuthnot Inglis, Esq., Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Public Works Department (Irrigation, Marine, and Railway Branches), and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for making Laws and Regulations. *Romer Edward Younghusband, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner Lahore Division, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab 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)

*Sir
Henry Moore Jackson Captain Sir Henry Moore Jackson, (bapt. 13 August 1849 – 29 August 1908) was a British Army officer and colonial governor. Biography Jackson was born in Barbados to Walrond Jackson, who became the Anglican Bishop of Antigua, and Mary Sheph ...
, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.


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

* Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda Protectorate. *Sir Pope Alexander Cooper, Knight, the Chief Justice of Queensland. *The Honourable
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,
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, Treasurer, and Minister of Railways of the State of Victoria. *The Honourable Joseph Hector Carruthers, lately
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and Colonial Treasurer of the State of New South Wales. *Frederick Evans, Esq., C.V.O., C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of
Gibraltar Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the A ...
. *Thomas Rees Price, Esq., C.M.G., General Manager of the
Central South African Railways The Central South African Railways (CSAR) was from 1902 to 1910 the operator of public railways in the Transvaal Colony and Orange River Colony in what is now South Africa. During the Anglo-Boer War, as British forces moved into the territory of ...
. *Henry Francis Wilson, Esq., M.A.., C.M.G., lately Colonial Secretary of the
Orange River Colony The Orange River Colony was the British colony created after Britain first occupied (1900) and then annexed (1902) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War. The colony ceased to exist in 1910, when it was absorbed into the Unio ...
.


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

*Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Newton James Moore,
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and Minister for Lands of the State of Western Australia. * Charles Calvert Bowring, Esq., Treasurer of the
East Africa Protectorate East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was a British protectorate in the African Great Lakes, occupying roughly the same area as present-day Kenya, from the Indian Ocean inland to the border with Uganda in the west. Cont ...
. * Edward Lewis Brockman, Esq., Federal Secretary,
Federated Malay States The Federated Malay States (FMS, , Jawi script, Jawi: ) was a federation of four protectorate, protected states in the Malay Peninsula — Selangor, Perak, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang — established in 1895 by the British government, and whi ...
. *John William Honey, Esq., Director of Customs for the Transvaal, and Customs Adviser to the High Commissioner for South Africa. *
Philip David Warren Philip David Warren (c. 1851–?) was the 12th Surveyor General of Ceylon Surveyor General of Sri Lanka is the head of Department of Survey (Sri Lanka), Department of Survey of Sri Lanka. The post was established on 2 August 1800 with the forma ...
, Esq., Surveyor-General of the Island of Ceylon. * William Frederick King, Esq., LLD., Chief Astronomer, Department of the Interior, Dominion of Canada. * Edward Howard Marsh, Esq., M.A., of the Colonial Office. *James Jonathan Thomas, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Sierra Leone. * Wei Yuk, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong. *Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien, late Deputy-Commissioner, Transvaal Town Police. *Captain William Hartley Maud, for services in connection with the West African Frontier Force. *Captain Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, R.E., for services in connection with the Survey of the Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti. *Sydney Thirlwall Harrisson, Esq., lately Treasurer of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria.


Order of the Indian Empire


Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

*Honorary Colonel
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Muhammad Aslam Khan,
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Bahadur, C.I.E., Honorary Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty The King, 5th Bengal Cavalry (retired). *
Thomas Henry Holland Sir Thomas Henry Holland (22 November 1868 – 15 May 1947) was a British geologist who worked in India with the Geological Survey of India, serving as its director from 1903 to 1910. He later worked as an educational administrator at Ed ...
, Esq., F.R.S., Director of the
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. *Nawab Afsar-i-Jang Afsar-ud-Daula Bahadur Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Muhammad Ali Beg, C.I.E., M.V.O., of Hyderabad.


Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

* Alfred Gibbs Bourne, Esq., D.Sc., F.R.S, Director of Public Instruction, Madras, and an additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George for making Laws and Regulations. *Arthur Milford Ker, Esq., a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab for making Laws and Regulations. *Captain George Hayley Hewett, R.N., Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy, Director of the Royal Indian Marine. *Evasio Hampden Radice, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate, and Collector of
Benares Varanasi (, also Benares, Banaras ) or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges, Ganges river in North India, northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hinduism, Hindu world.* * * * The city ...
. *Ralph Buller Hughes-Buller, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Bakarganj. *Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Binning, V.D., Commandant, 2nd (Presidency) Battalion, Calcutta Volunteer Rifles. *Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Frederic Perry, F.R.C.S., Indian Medical Service, Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy, Principal of the Medical College, Lahore. *Major Francis Granville Beville, Political Agent in Bhopawar. *Michael Filose, Esq., Chief Secretary to His Highness the Maharaja Scindhia of Gwalior. *Rai Sahib Diwan Daya Kishen Kaal, Private Secretary to His Highness the Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu.


Royal Victorian Order


Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

*Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart. *Rear-Admiral James Edward Clifford Goodrich, M.V.O., Admiral Superintendent and in charge of all His Majesty's Naval Establishments at Gibraltar. *Commodore Colin Richard Keppel, C.V.O.. C.B., D.S.O., Ad.C., Commanding His Majesty's Yachts.


Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

* François Flameng, Membre de l'
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. (Honorary) *Colonel Sir John Smith Young, M.V.O., late Secretary, Royal Patriotic Fund. * John David Rees, Esq., C.I.E., M.P.


Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class

*The Reverend Walter Boyce, Head Master, King Edward VII Grammar School, King's Lynn. * Percy John de Paravicini, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of King Edward VII Hospital and Dispensary, Windsor.


Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class

*Lieutenant Thomas Ready, RN, retired, late His Majesty's Yacht "Osborne." *Carpenter-Lieutenant James Rice RN, His Majesty's Yacht "Victoria and Albert." *Second Lieutenant John Mackenzie Rogan, Mus.Doc., Bandmaster,
Coldstream Guards The Coldstream Guards is the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army. As part of the Household Division, one of its principal roles is the protection of the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, monarchy; due to this, it often ...
. *Second Lieutenant Charles William Hemphill Hall, Bandmaster, 2nd Life Guards. *Second Lieutenant Albert Williams, Mus.Doc., Bandmaster,
Grenadier Guards The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior infantry regiment of the British Army, being at the top of the Infantry Order of Precedence. It can trace its lineage back to 1656 when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised in Bruges to protect ...
.


Imperial Service Order

*Thomas Allchiii, Esq., Assistant Commissioner, Charity Commission. *Justin Charles William Alvarez, Esq., Consul-General, Tripoli.. *George Nealon Babbit, Esq., Deputy Receiver-General of the Province of New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada. *John Walter Bailey. Esq., late Assistant Chief Inspector of Excise. *James Dyer-Ball, Esq., Chief Interpreter to the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong Kong. *John Redman Bovell, Esq., Agricultural Superintendent, Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, and Superintendent of the Botanic Station, Barbados. *George Andrew Breading, Esq., Clerk, Higher Division, War Office. *James Edwin Christoffelsz, Esq., Chief Clerk, Secretariat, Island of Ceylon. *Adolphus Philip Clapin, Esq., late Clerk Assistant of the Legislative Council of the State of .New South- W ales. *Miss Margaret Susan Creswell, late Postmistress, Post Office and Savings Bank Department, Gibraltar. *David Dolton, Esq., Principal Clerk, Legal Department, Local Government Board. *Richard Uriah Falkus, Esq., Staff Clerk, Secretary's Department, Admiralty. *John Fraser, Esq., Auditor-General of the Dominion of Canada. *William George Lewis, Esq., Chief Surveyor General, Customs. *Redmond Nash, Esq., Accountant, Office of National Education, Ireland. *Jasper Alexander Redgrave, Esq., Superintending Inspector of Factories, Midland Division), Home Office. *Johannes Smuts, Esq., Registrar of Deeds, Transvaal. *Alexander George Denison Taylor. Esq., Clerk of English Journals, House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada. *James Arthur Thompson, Esq., Accountant to the Department of Defence, Commonwealth of Australia. *John Henry Richard West, Esq.. Assistant Controller, Savings Bank Department, Post Office.


References

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