1873 Birthday Honours

The 1873 Birthday Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria 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 of the Queen, and were published in The London Gazette on 24 May 1873.^[1]

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[]

Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the 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 Sir James Charles Chatterton
General Sir William Henry Elliott
Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney John Cotton
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bloomfield
Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan Alexander Cameron

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
Rear-Admiral John Walter Tarleton
Rear-Admiral Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell
Rear-Admiral Astley Cooper Key

Army

Lieutenant-General Francis Warde
Lieutenant-General Frederick William Hamilton
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
Major-General Lord Henry Hugh Manvers Percy
Major-General Charles Henry Ellice
Major-General Richard Wilbraham
Major-General James Duncan Macpherson
Major-General Edmund Haythorne
Major-General Henry Drury Harness
Major-General Henry Wylie Norman
Colonel John Miller Adye
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
Captain Julian Foulston Slight
Captain Thomas Saumarez
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
Major-General Charles Arthur Barwell, Bengal Staff Corps
Major-General William Henry March, retired, Royal Marines
Colonel Charles Tyrwhitt
Colonel George Calvert Clarke, 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, 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[]

Star of a Knight Grand Commander of 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, Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal
Alexander John Arbuthnot Madras Civil Service, late Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras
Major-General Harry Burnett Lumsden 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, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commissioner, Cachar, late Political Officer attached to the Looshai Expeditionary Force

References[]

^ "No. 23979". The London Gazette. 24 May 1873. pp. 2583–2584.

[1] "No. 23979". The London Gazette. 24 May 1873. pp. 2583–2584.

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