1883 Birthday Honours

United Kingdom and British Empire

[Knight Bachelor]

• Jacobus Petrus de Wet, formerly Recorder of Griqualand West and Chief Justice of the Transvaal, and lately Acting Chief Justice of the Island of Ceylon
• Roderick William Cameron, Commissioner for Canada to the Australian International Exhibitions
• Alfred Roberts, honorary secretary and consulting surgeon to Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales

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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

• The Right Honourable Lord Blachford formerly Under Secretary of State for the Colonies
• Sir Henry Ernest Bulwer Governor of the Colony of Natal
• Sir James Robert Longden Governor of the Island of Ceylon

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

• Colonel Charles Warren, Royal Engineers in recognition of his services in connection with the bringing to justice the murderers of the late Professor Palmer and his party
• William Robinson Governor of the Windward Islands
• George William Des Vœux Governor of the Colony of Fiji
• Colonel Robert William Harley Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of British Honduras
• Charles Cameron Lees Governor of the Bahama Islands
• Frederick Palgrave Barlee lately Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of British Honduras
• John Douglas Lieutenant-Governor and Colonial Secretary of the Island of Ceylon
• Charles Hutton Gregory Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Consulting Engineer to several Colonial Governments
• Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell, Royal Marines, Colonial Secretary, and lately Administrator of the Government of Natal
• Hugh Low British Resident at Perak, in the Malay Peninsula
• William Morgan, for some time First Minister of the Colony of South Australia
• Ambrose Shea, for many years Member, and sometime Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Newfoundland

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

• Michael Henry Gallwey, Attorney-General of Natal
• Major-General Saverio Gatt, late of the Royal Malta Fencible Artillery
• Colonel Edward Osborne Hewett, Royal Engineers, Commandant of the Royal Military College in the Dominion of Canada
• The Honourable Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta
• John Francis Julius Von Haast Member of the Senate of the University of New Zealand
• Edward Laborde, Colonial Secretary and Administrator of the Government of the Island of Tobago
• Macnamara Dix, Colonial Treasurer of Saint Lucia
• Charles Brownlee, Chief Magistrate, Griqualand East
• John Frederick Dickson, Government Agent and Fiscal for the North Central Province of the Island of Ceylon
• Charles Bright, of the Colony of Victoria