1908 Birthday Honours

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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

• General Sir William Gustavus Nicholson, K.C.B., Chief of the General Staff
• General Sir John James Hood Gordon, K.C.B., Indian Army, Colonel 29th Punjabis.

• Francis, Lord Knollys, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., I.S.O., Private Secretary to The King.
• The Right Honourable Sir Francis Leveson Bertie, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Paris.
• Sir George Herbert Murray, K.C.B., Permanent Secretary, Treasury.
• Sir Arthur Godley, K.C.B., Under Secretary of State, India Office.

  Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Admiral Sir Reginald Neville Custance, K.C.M.G., C.V.O.
• Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Samuel Poë, K.C.V.O.
• Vice-Admiral The Honourable Sir Hedworth Lambton, K.C.V.O., C.B.
• Vice-Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman Bridgeman, K.C.V.O.
• Major-General Henry Augustus Bushman, C.B., Colonel 9th Lancers.
• Lieutenant-General Henry Fane Grant, C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Malta.
• Major-General Harcourt Mortimer Bengough, C.B..
• Major-General Thomas Graham, C.B., Royal Artillery.
• Major-General John Munro Sym, C.B., Indian Army.
• Lieutenant-General Frederick Lance, C.B., Indian Army, Colonel 22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry.
• Lieutenant-General William Henry Mackinnon, C.V.O., C.B., Director General of the Territorial Force.
• Major-General Herbert Scott Gould Miles, C.V.O., C.B., Quartermaster-General to the Forces.
• Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General The Honourable Somerset John Gough Calthorpe, C.B., Colonel 5th Dragoon Guards.

• Colonel Charles Frederic Hadden, C.B., Master-General of the Ordnance
• Henry Hardinge Samuel Cunynghame, Esq., C.B.
• Robert Chalmers, Esq., C.B.
• Edward Stanley Hope, Esq., C.B.
• William Henry Power, Esq.,C.B., F.R.S.
• Henry Babington Smith, Esq., C.B., C.S.I.
• Hubert Llewellyn Smith, Esq., C.B.

  Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

• Major-General Henry Bulckley Burlton Watkis, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India.
• Major-General Frederick Augustus Bowles, Commander, Coast Defences, Plymouth.
• Colonel Henry Vivian Cowan, C.V.O., A.D.C., Commandant, Royal Military Academy.
• Colonel John Lindesay Keir, Brigade Commander, India.
• Colonel Robert Whyte Melville Jackson, C.M.G., Chief Ordnance Officer, Royal Army Clothing Factory.
• Colonel Francis Henry Kelly, Brigade Commander, India.
• Colonel Charles Conyngham Ellis.
• Colonel Francis Charles Carter, Brigadier-General Sub-District, South Africa.
• Colonel Edward Hegan.
• Colonel Frederick Hammersley, Brigadier-General 3rd Brigade, Aldershot Command.
• Colonel Henry Richard Beadon Donne, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters of Army.
• Colonel Charles Herbert Powell, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India.
• Colonel Francis Garnett Atkinson, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India.
• Major and Brevet Colonel Augustus de Segur McKerrell, Cameron Highlanders.
• Colonel William Edward Blewitt, C.M.G., Director of Artillery, Headquarters of Army.
• Colonel Francis Seymour Inglefield, D.S.O., General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, 5th Division, Irish Command.
• Colonel Lovick Bransby Friend, Commander, Coast Defences, Scottish Command.
• Colonel Charles Henry Westmorland, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India.
• Colonel Walter Fullarton Lodovic Lindsay, D.S.O., Commanding Royal Artillery, 3rd Division, Southern Command.
• Colonel Raymond Northland Revell Reade, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Malta.
• Colonel William Douglas, D.S.O., General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, 6th Division, Irish Command.
• Colonel Francis Henry Rutherford Drummond, C.I.E., Indian Army, Inspector-General, Imperial Service Troops, India.
• Colonel Edward Robert John Presgrave, D.S.O., Indian. Army.
• Colonel Alfred James Whitacre Allen, half-pay.
• Colonel Henry Newport Charles Heath, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, Headquarters of Army.
• Colonel William Henry Sitwell, D.S.O., half-pay.
• Colonel George Osbaldeston Welch, Assistant Director of Transport, Headquarters of Army.
• Colonel Alexander Wallace, Indian Army, Brigade Commander, India.
• Colonel William Richard Yielding, C.I.E., D.S.O., Indian Army.
• Colonel Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe, Brigadier-General 2nd Cavalry Brigade, Eastern Command.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Kenneth Stewart Davison, Indian Army, Commandant 2nd Lancers.
• Colonel Henry Hughes Wilson, D.S.O., Commandant Staff College.
• Colonel Launcelot Edward Kiggell, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, Headquarters of Army.
• Colonel John Townshend St Aubyn, Baron St Levan, C.V.O., Commanding Grenadier Guards and Regimental District and Commander, 2nd London Territorial Brigade, London District.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Johnston Shearer, D.S.O., Indian Medical Service.

• Colonel Arthur Moffatt Lang, Royal Engineers.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Aylmer Mclver Campbell, Indian Staff Corps.

• Lionel Abraham, Esq.
• Arthur Wellesley Anstruther, Esq.
• Frederick W. Black, Esq.
• Richard Durnford, Esq.
• William Evans, Esq.
• Alfred Eyles, Esq.
• Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay, Esq., C.M.G.
• Alexander Freeman King, Esq.
• William Algernon Law, Esq.
• Adolphus George Charles Liddell, Esq.
• Robert Philpot, Esq.
• Harry Butler Simpson, Esq.
• George Augustus Stevenson, Esq., M.V.O.
• John Charles Gabriel Sykes, Esq.
• Herbert Preston-Thomas, Esq.
• R. Eustre Yerburgh, Esq.

  Order of Merit

• Henry Jackson, Esq., D.Litt., Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge.

  Order of the Star of India

Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI)

• Charles Stuart Bayley, Esq., C.S.I, Indian Civil Service, Officiating Lieutenant-Governor, Eastern Bengal and Assam.
• Edward Norman Baker, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General.
• His Highness Raj Rajeshwar Maharaja Dhiraj Sardar Singh Bahadur, of Jodhpur.
• His Highness Raj Rana Bhavvaui Singh, of Jhalawar.
• Raja Tasadduk Rasul Khan, C.S.I., of Jahangirabad, Oudh.

  Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI)

• Michael Francis O'Dwyer, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Officiating Resident, Hyderabad.
• James Scorgie Meston, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance Department.
• George Watson Shaw, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner, Upper Burma.
• William Arbuthnot Inglis, Esq., Chief Engineer and Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Public Works Department, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for making Laws and Regulations.
• Romer Edward Younghusband, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Commissioner Lahore Division, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab for making Laws and Regulations.

  Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

• Sir Henry Moore Jackson, K.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

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

• Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda Protectorate.
• Sir Pope Alexander Cooper, Knight, the Chief Justice of Queensland.
• The Honourable Thomas Bent, Premier, Treasurer, and Minister of Railways of the State of Victoria.
• The Honourable Joseph Hector Carruthers, lately Premier and Colonial Treasurer of the State of New South Wales.
• Frederick Evans, Esq., C.V.O., C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Gibraltar.
• Thomas Rees Price, Esq., C.M.G., General Manager of the Central South African Railways.
• Henry Francis Wilson, Esq., M.A.., C.M.G., lately Colonial Secretary of the Orange River Colony.

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

• Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Newton James Moore, Premier and Minister for Lands of the State of Western Australia.
• Charles Calvert Bowring, Esq., Treasurer of the East Africa Protectorate.
• Edward Lewis Brockman, Esq., Federal Secretary, Federated Malay States.
• John William Honey, Esq., Director of Customs for the Transvaal, and Customs Adviser to the High Commissioner for South Africa.
• Philip David Warren, Esq., Surveyor-General of the Island of Ceylon.
• William Frederick King, Esq., LLD., Chief Astronomer, Department of the Interior, Dominion of Canada.
• Edward Howard Marsh, Esq., M.A., of the Colonial Office.
• James Jonathan Thomas, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Sierra Leone.
• Wei Yuk, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong.
• Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien, late Deputy-Commissioner, Transvaal Town Police.
• Captain William Hartley Maud, for services in connection with the West African Frontier Force.
• Captain Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, R.E., for services in connection with the Survey of the Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti.
• Sydney Thirlwall Harrisson, Esq., lately Treasurer of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria.

  Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

• Honorary Colonel Nawab Muhammad Aslam Khan, Sardar Bahadur, C.I.E., Honorary Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty The King, 5th Bengal Cavalry.
• Thomas Henry Holland, Esq., F.R.S., Director of the Geological Survey of India.
• Nawab Afsar-i-Jang Afsar-ud-Daula Bahadur Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Muhammad Ali Beg, C.I.E., M.V.O., of Hyderabad.

  Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

• Alfred Gibbs Bourne, Esq., D.Sc., F.R.S, Director of Public Instruction, Madras, and an additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George for making Laws and Regulations.
• Arthur Milford Ker, Esq., a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab for making Laws and Regulations.
• Captain George Hayley-Hewett, R.N., Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy, Director of the Royal Indian Marine.
• Evasio Hampden Radice, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate, and Collector of Benares.
• Ralph Buller Hughes-Buller, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector, Bakarganj.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Binning, V.D., Commandant, 2nd Battalion, Calcutta Volunteer Rifles.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Frederic Perry, F.R.C.S., Indian Medical Service, Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy, Principal of the Medical College, Lahore.
• Major Francis Granville Beville, Political Agent in Bhopawar.
• Michael Filose, Esq., Chief Secretary to His Highness the Maharaja Scindhia of Gwalior.
• Rai Sahib Diwan Daya Kishen Kaal, Private Secretary to His Highness the Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu.

  Royal Victorian Order

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)

• Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart.
• Rear-Admiral James Edward Clifford Goodrich, M.V.O., Admiral Superintendent and in charge of all His Majesty's Naval Establishments at Gibraltar.
• Commodore Colin Richard Keppel, C.V.O.. C.B., D.S.O., Ad.C., Commanding His Majesty's Yachts.

  Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)

• François Flameng, Membre de l'Institut de France.
• Colonel Sir John Smith Young, M.V.O., late Secretary, Royal Patriotic Fund.
• John David Rees, Esq., C.I.E., M.P.

  Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class

• The Reverend Walter Boyce, Head Master, King Edward VII Grammar School, King's Lynn.
• Percy John de Paravicini, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of King Edward VII Hospital and Dispensary, Windsor.

  Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 5th class

• Lieutenant Thomas Ready, RN, retired, late His Majesty's Yacht "Osborne."
• Carpenter-Lieutenant James Rice RN, His Majesty's Yacht "Victoria and Albert."
• Second Lieutenant John Mackenzie Rogan, Mus.Doc., Bandmaster, Coldstream Guards.
• Second Lieutenant Charles William Hemphill Hall, Bandmaster, 2nd Life Guards.
• Second Lieutenant Albert Williams, Mus.Doc., Bandmaster, Grenadier Guards.

  Imperial Service Order

• Thomas Allchiii, Esq., Assistant Commissioner, Charity Commission.
• Justin Charles William Alvarez, Esq., Consul-General, Tripoli..
• George Nealon Babbit, Esq., Deputy Receiver-General of the Province of New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada.
• John Walter Bailey. Esq., late Assistant Chief Inspector of Excise.
• James Dyer-Ball, Esq., Chief Interpreter to the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong Kong.
• John Redman Bovell, Esq., Agricultural Superintendent, Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, and Superintendent of the Botanic Station, Barbados.
• George Andrew Breading, Esq., Clerk, Higher Division, War Office.
• James Edwin Christoffelsz, Esq., Chief Clerk, Secretariat, Island of Ceylon.
• Adolphus Philip Clapin, Esq., late Clerk Assistant of the Legislative Council of the State of.New South- W ales.
• Miss Margaret Susan Creswell, late Postmistress, Post Office and Savings Bank Department, Gibraltar.
• David Dolton, Esq., Principal Clerk, Legal Department, Local Government Board.
• Richard Uriah Falkus, Esq., Staff Clerk, Secretary's Department, Admiralty.
• John Fraser, Esq., Auditor-General of the Dominion of Canada.
• William George Lewis, Esq., Chief Surveyor General, Customs.
• Redmond Nash, Esq., Accountant, Office of National Education, Ireland.
• Jasper Alexander Redgrave, Esq., Superintending Inspector of Factories, Midland Division), Home Office.
• Johannes Smuts, Esq., Registrar of Deeds, Transvaal.
• Alexander George Denison Taylor. Esq., Clerk of English Journals, House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada.
• James Arthur Thompson, Esq., Accountant to the Department of Defence, Commonwealth of Australia.
• John Henry Richard West, Esq.. Assistant Controller, Savings Bank Department, Post Office.