1866 Birthday Honours
Appointments by Queen Victoria
The 1866 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 [ 1] [ 2]
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
Earl
The Right Honourable John, Baron Wodehouse , by the name, style, and title of Earl of Kimberley , of Kimberley, in the county of Norfolk Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
The Rajah Shreemun Maharajah Chuttroputtee Shahabe Dam Altafhoo , of Kolhapoor
Cecil Beadon , Bengal Civil Service, Lieutenant-Governor of BengalThe Nawab Salar Jung Bahadoor , of Hyderabad, in the Deccan
Donald Friell McLeod CB The Maharajah Jeypercash Singh Bahadoor, of Deo, in Behar
Henry Ricketts, Bengal Civil Service (Retired), late Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India
The Maharajah Mirza Gajapati Raz Maune Sultan
Bahadoor, Zemindar of Vizianagram, Member of Council of the Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations
Henry Byng Harington, Bengal Civil Service (Retired), late Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India
The Maharajah Dig Bijye Singh, of Bulrampoor
Walter Elliot, Madras Civil Service (Retired), late Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras
Sharf-ul-Omrah Bahadoor, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations
Thomas Pycroft , Madras Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor of MadrasThe Rajah Jymungul Singh, of Gidhore, in Monghyr
John Macpherson Macleod, Madras Civil Service (Retired), Member of the Indian Law Commission
The Rajah Dinkur Rao , late Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations
Major-General Isaac Campbell Coffin , Madras Army, late Commanding the Hyderabad Subsidiary Force
The Rajah Radhakanth Deb
Major-General George St Patrick Lawrence CB
The Rajah of Drangadra
Major-General George Moyle Sherer, late Bengal Army, sometime commanding the 73rd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
The Rajah Deo Narain Singh, of Benares
Major-General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton Kt
Meer Shere Mahomed, of Meerpoor
Major-General Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain KCB
The Rajah Sahib Dyal Missar, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations
George Udny Yule CB
Tanjore Madava Rao Dewan, of Travancore
Charles John Wingfield CB The Thakoor Rawul Jeswunt Singjee, of Bhownuggur
Colonel Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes KCB
Colonel Arnold Burrowes Kemball CB
Sirdar Nihal Singh Chachi
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wilkinson, late Bengal Army, sometime resident at Nagpoor
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Wallace, Bombay Staff Corps, late resident at Baroda
Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Rodes Green CB
Major George Wingate, late Bombay Engineers, sometime Member of the Survey Commission at Bombay
The Nawab Syed Asghur Ali Khan
Fleetwood Williams, Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit for the Meerut Division
The Nawab Foujdar Khan
Charles Raikes, Bengal Civil Service (retired), late Judge of the Sudder Dewannee and Nizamut Adawlut, North West Provinces
The Rajah Bindessery Pershad, of Sirgooja and Oodeypoor
Samuel Mansfield , Bombay Civil Service, Commissioner in ScindeThe Rajah Pertab Chund Singh
Arthur Austin Roberts CB
The Rajah Sutto Chund Ghosal
Cudbert Bensley Thornhill, Bengal Civi Service, Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit at Allahabad
The Rajah Yelugoti Kumara Yachamu Nayuda Bahadoor, Zemindar of Veukatagiri
William Ford, Bengal Civil Service Commissioner at Mooltan
The Rajah Bhowanee Singh, of Mynpoorie
William Rose Robinson , Madras Civil Service, Inspector-General of Police, Madras PresidencyColonel Crawford Trotter Chamberlain , Bengal Staff Corps, Commandant of the 1st Bengal Cavalry
The Rajah Sheoraj Singh, of Kasheepoor
Colonel Richard Strachey , Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, late Secretary in the Public Works Department, Government of India
The Rajah Teekum Singh, of Morsan
Colonel Reynell George Taylor CB
The Rajah Jeswunt Rao, of Etawah
Colonel Alfred Thomas Wilde CB
Dhe Rajah of Bansee, Goruckpoor
Colonel William Frederick Marriott, Bombay Staff Corps, Military Secretary to Government at Bombay
The Rajah Hurdeo Bux Bahadoor, of Kutyaree
Richard Temple , Bengal Civil Service, Chief Commissioner in the Central ProvincesThe Rajah Dig Bijye Singh, of Morarmow
John Walter Sherer, Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector in Bundlecund
The Dewan Cheeboo Lama
James Davidson Gordon , Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector at PubnaThe Dewan Moolla Buksh, of Patna
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward John Lake , Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, Financial Commissioner in the Punjab
Sirdar Soorut Singh, of Benares
Lieutenant-Colonel John Colpoys Haughton, Bengal Staff Corps, Commissioner at Cooch-Behar
Syud Azimooddeen Hussun Khan Bahadoor
William Mackenzie CB
Syud Hussun al Edroos, of Surat
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard John Meade , Bengal Army, Agent for the Governor-General of India in Central India
Ruggonath Row Wittul, Chief of Vinchoor
Major Richard Harte Keatinge VC
Ghulam Ali Khan, Jaghirdar of Bunganapalle
Major William McNeile, Bengal Staff Corps, Deputy Commissioner in the Punjab
Baboo Prosunno Comar Tagne
Major John William Younghusband, Bombay Staff Corps, Inspector-General of Police in the Hyderabad Districts
Baboo Amendanath Roy, of Nattore
Eyre Burton Powell , Director of Public Instruction at MadrasMadanna Juggah Rao, of Rajahmundry
Sheth Maomull, of Kurrachee
John Fleming, of Bombay
Gajalu Lakshminarasu Seth
Abdoollah David Sassoon , of Bombay
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