1900 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1900 were announced in celebration of the 24 May birthday of Queen Victoria.

Order of the Bath

Appointments to the Order of the Bath were published in The Edinburgh Gazette on 25 May (Military Division),^[1] and in The London Gazette on 8 June 1900 (Civil Division).^[2]

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

Civil Division

The Right Honourable the Earl of Jersey, GCMG

Military Division

General Sir Charles Cooper Johnson, KCB, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-General Sir Baker Creed Russell, KCB KCMG, Colonel 13th Hussars, Commanding the Troops, Southern District.
General Sir William Olpherts, KCB VC, Colonel-Commandant Royal (late Bengal) Artillery.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Civil Division

John Samuel Purcell, Esq CB, late Controller of Stamps and Stores, and Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, Inland Revenue Department
David Gill, Esq CB, Her Majesty's Astronomer, Cape of Good Hope
William Conyngham Greene, Esq CB, of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, late British Agent at Pretoria
Henry Augustus Robinson, Esq CB, Vice-President Local Government Board, Ireland

Military Division

Colonel Frederick John Keen, CB, Indian Staff Corps.
General John Louis Nation, CB, Indian Staff Corps.
General Sir Thomas Edward-Gordon, KCIE CB CSI, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel (Honorary Major-General) John Hills, CB, Royal (late Bombay) Engineers.
Major-General Hugh McCalmont, CB, Commanding Cork District.
Lieutenant-General Edward Hopton, CB, Colonel Connaught Rangers, Lieutenant-Governor and General Officer Commanding the Troops, Jersey.
Lieutenant-General George Digby Barker, CB, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bermuda.
Lieutenant-General Henry Le Guay Geary, CB, Royal Artillery, President Ordnance Committee.
Major-General Thomas Fraser, CB CMG, Royal Engineers, Commanding Thames District.
Major-General John Frederick Maurice, CB, Royal Artillery, Commanding Woolwich District.
General Alexander George Montgomery Moore, Colonel 18th Hussars, Commanding Aldershot

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Civil Division

Alfred Bonham Carter, Esq, late Referee of Private Bills, House of Commons
William Donaldson, Esq, late of the Scottish Prison Commission
James Brown Dougherty, Esq, Assistant Under-secretary, Dublin Castle
James Gairdner, Esq, late of the Public Record Office
Edward Stafford Howard, Esq, Senior Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests
Colonel Herbert William Jackson, employed with the Egyptian Army
John Arrow Kempe, Esq, Deputy-Chairman Customs Establishment
Charles Dowson Lang, Esq, Controller Savings Bank Department, General Post Office
Alexander Carnegie Ross, Esq, British Consul at Lorenzo Marques
Major John Trenchard Tennant, Assistant Secretary, Board of Agriculture
Charles Inigo Thomas, Esq, Principal Clerk, Admiralty
Thomas Edward Thorpe, Esq FRS, Principal of the Government Laboratory, Somerset House

Military Division

Surgeon - General Henry Skey Muir, Deputy Director-General, Army Medical Service.
Major-General Edmund Smith Brook.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Vincent Rivaz, Indian Staff Corps.
Colonel Andrew McCrae Bruce, Bengal Infantry.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Celadon Charles Brownlow, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edward Molloy, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Robert Alexander Swetenham, Indian Staff Corps.
Colonel George Hand More-Molyneux, DSO, Indian Staff Corps, Colonel on the Staff, India.
Colonel William John Vousden, VC, Indian Staff Corps, Colonel on the Staff, India.
Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Henry Pipon, Colonel on the Staff for Royal Artillery, India.
Colonel (temporary Major-General) Frederick Wilson Hemming, Commanding Cavalry Brigade, Aldershot (temporarily).
Colonel Hugh Gough Grant, Regimental District.
Colonel Richard Charles Hare, Regimental District.
Colonel Charles Hervey Bagot, Royal Engineers, Deputy Inspector-General of Fortifications, Headquarters of Army.
Colonel Arthur Robert Ford Dorward, DSO, Colonel on the Staff for Royal Engineers, Wei-hai-Wei.
Colonel Edward Roberts, Army Pay Department.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Vaughan Hamilton, late Army Service Corps.
Veterinary-Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Veterinary-Colonel) Henry Thomson, Army Veterinary Department.
Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Bloomfield Connolly, Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel, late Army Medical Staff.
Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Spencer Eardley Childers, Royal Engineers.

References

↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 11200. pp. 518–519. 25 May 1900. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
↑ The London Gazette: no. 27200. pp. 3629–3630. 8 June 1900. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

Honours Lists

New Year Honours	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902† 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940† 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 †Not issued because of Birthday Honours of new king (1902) and WWII (1940)

Birthday Honours	1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887† 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897† 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911† 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937† 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953† 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 †Not issued because of Jubilee Honours (1887, 1897) and Coronation Honours (1911, 1937, 1953)

PM's Resignation Honours	1895 1945 1951 1955† 1957† 1963 1964 1970 1976 1979† 1990 1997 2007† 2010† 2016 †Not issued

Coronation Honours	1821 1831 1838 1902 1911 1937 1953

Dissolution Honours	1874 1885 1892 1895 1900 1906 1910 (January) 1910 (December) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935† 1945 1950 1951† 1955† 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (February) 1974 (October) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 †Not issued

Special Honours	2009 2013 2014 2015 2016

Additional Honours	1887 (Golden Jubilee) 1897 (Diamond Jubilee) 1923 Prime Minister 1935 (Silver Jubilee) 1977 (Silver Jubilee) 1990 (Queen Mother's 90th Birthday) 2002 (Death of Queen Mother and Princess Margaret) 2002 (Golden Jubilee) 2012 (Diamond Jubilee)

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