1873 Birthday Honours
National awards given by Queen Victoria
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 [ 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
Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Military Division
Royal Navy Army
Military Division
Royal Navy Army
Military Division
Royal Navy 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 VC
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 CSI
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
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 Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India
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
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