1896 Birthday Honours

United Kingdom and British Empire

[Baron]

• Marquess of Granby
• The Rt Hon. Edward Heneage
• Colonel John Wingfield Malcolm

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• Professor Max Miller

  [Baronet]cies

• Robert Uniacke-Penrose-Fitzgerald
• Charles Cave
• William Ogilvy Dalgleish
• Lewis McIver
• Joseph Verdin

  [Knight Bachelor]

• John Cass
• Vincent Caillard
• Joshua Girling Fitch
• Joseph Sebag-Montefiore
• Peter le Page Renouf
• Allen Lanyon Carle
• David Stewart
• Charles Cecil Trevor
• The Hon. George Arthur Parker, late Judge of the High Court, Madras.
• William Ralph Meredith Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Ontario.
• William Henry Cox, Chief Justice, Straits Settlements.
• Henry Spencer Berkeley, Chief Justice, Fiji.
• William John Anderson, Chief Justice, British Honduras.

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

• General Sir Hugh Henry Gough Indian Staff Corps.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Gerald Graham Royal Engineers.
• General Sir George Richards Greaves

• The Rt Hon. Sir Edmund John Monson Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Vienna.

  Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General John William Cox Colonel, the Bedfordshire Regiment.
• General George Augustus Schomberg Royal Marine Artillery.
• General David Scott Dodgson Bengal Infantry.
• General Arthur Hewlett Indian Staff Corps.
• Vice-Admiral Alexander Buller
• General Sir Robert Biddulph Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar.
• Lieutenant-General Charles Mansfield Clarke commanding the Forces, Madras.
• Vice-Admiral Henry Fairfax
• Major-General Robert Grant Royal Engineers, Inspector-General of Fortifications.
• Admiral Richard Wells
• Vice-Admiral Lord Walter Talbot Kerr

• Clements Robert Markham President of the Royal Geographical Society.

  Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

• Surgeon-Major-General Charles Dodgson Madden late Army Medical Staff.
• Major-General William Walters Biscoe, Bengal Cavalry.
• Major-General Revell Eardley-Wilmot, Bengal Infantry.
• Major-General Robert Melvill Jennings, Bengal Cavalry, commanding a Second Class District in India.
• Major-General Hugh Richard Hope, Madras Cavalry.
• Colonel George Augustus Way, Indian Staff Corps.
• Colonel John Robert Collins
• Colonel George Tindal Pretyman, Royal Artillery.
• Colonel Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly Assistant Adjutant-General, Belfast District.
• Colonel Ronald Bertram Lane, Assistant Military Secretary, Headquarters.
• Colonel Euston Henry Sartorius
• Colonel Reginald Clare Hart
• Colonel Alexander Ferrier Kidston, Regimental District.
• Colonel Dudley North, Assistant Adjutant-General, Canada.
• Colonel George Crawford Hogg, Bombay Cavalry, commanding a Second Class District in India.
• Colonel Elphinstone Waters Begbie Madras Infantry.
• Colonel Henry Fyers Turner, Deputy Inspector-General of Fortifications.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton, Earl of Dundonald. 2nd Life Guards.
• Colonel Patrick Douglas Jeffreys, Assistant Adjutant-General, Headquarters, India.
• Colonel Robert Patch, Indian Staff Corps.
• Colonel Pelham James Maitland, Indian Staff Corps, Deputy Secretary, Military Department, Government of India.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Robert Hunter Murray, Seaforth Highlanders.
• Major and Brevet Colonel Arthur Gethin Creagh, Royal Artillery.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Alphonsus Dunne, Army Service Corps, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, North-Eastern District.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Marcus Edward Read Rainsford, Army Service Corps, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, Egypt.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Willis Duncan Ward, Army Service Corps, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General, Home District.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate, the King's Own Royal Regiment.

• Sir Henry Neville Dering Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary, and Consul-Gencral in Mexico.
• John Hamilton Franks, Secretary to the Irish Lord Commission.
• David Gill, Her Majesty's Astronomer, Cape of Good Hope.
• Henry Arthur William Hervey, late Chief Clerk, Foreign Office.
• Edward Leigh Pemberton, late Assistant Under Secretary of State, Home Office.
• Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Smith, Commissioner of the City of London Police.
• William Jameson Soulsby, Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor.
• Josiah Vavasseur

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Knight Commander (KCSI)

• William Erskine Ward Chief Commissioner of Assam.
• Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Swaine Lethbridge

  Companion (CSI)

• James Fairbairn Finlay, Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance and Commerce Department.

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Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

• The Most Noble William John Arthur Charles James, Duke of Portland, Master of the Horse to Her Majesty.
• The Rt Hon. Sidney, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Lord Steward of Her Majesty's Household.
• The Rt Hon. Charles John, Baron Colville of Culross Chamberlain to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.
• General Sir Dighton Macnaghten Probyn Comptroller and Treasurer of the Household of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

  Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Colonel the Hon. William James Colville Her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies.

  Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• Rear-Admiral John Reginald Thomas Fullerton Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Commanding Her Majesty's Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert.
• Capt. The Hon. Debonnaire John Monson, Comptroller of the Household of His Royal Highness the Reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

  Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)

• Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Collins, Gentleman Usher to the Queen, Equerry and Comptroller to Her Royal Highness Princess Louise.
• Major Wallscourt Hely-Hutchinson Waters Military Attaché to the Embassy at Saint Petersburg.

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

• Sir Donald Alexander Smith High Commissioner in London for the Dominion of Canada.

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

• The Hon. Hugh Muir Nelson, Premier Chief Secretary, and Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of Queensland.
• The Hon. Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada.

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

• Somerset Richard French, Postmaster-General of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

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Companion (CIE)

• Henry O'Connell Cardozo, Superintendent of Revenue Survey, Madras.
• Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Franklin
• Thomas Higham, Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab in the Public Works Department, Irrigation Branch.
• Major John Shakespear Leinster Regiment.
• Sardar Ratan Singh, President of the Council of Regency of the Jind State.
• Raja Bhup Indra Bikram Singh, of Piagpur.
• Major James John Macleod, Officiating Commandant, Bihar Light Horse.
• Captain Norman Franks
• Arthur Henry Plunkett
• Rao Bahadur Chunilal Venilal