1898 Birthday Honours

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The Queen's Birthday Honours 1898 were granted in celebration of the 24 May birthday of Queen Victoria. Some were announced in the London Gazette on 21 May 1898[1] and some on 3 June but backdated to 21 May.[2]

Order of the Bath

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

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Civil Division

Military Division

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Civil Division

  • Victor Arthur Wellington Drummond, Esq., Minister Resident at Munich.
  • Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot, Esq., a Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service.
  • John Fergusson, Esq., Chief Inspector, Stamps and Taxes Department, Inland Revenue.
  • Edward Henry French, Esq., late of the Consular Service.
  • George William Hervey, Esq., Secretary and Comptroller-General, National Debt Office.
  • John Macdonell, Esq.
  • Richmond Ritchie, Esq., India Office.
  • Horace Alfred Damer Seymour, Esq., Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Mint.
  • Charles Malcolm Wood, Esq.

Military Division

  • Surgeon-Major-General Robert Harvey, D.S.O., Indian Medical Service.
  • Colonel (Brigadier-General) Donald James Sim McLeod, D.S.O., Commanding a Second Class District in India.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Henry Hamilton Settle, D.S.O., Royal Engineers, Assistant Inspector-General of Fortifications.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Reginald Chalmer, half-pay.
  • Colonel the Honourable Frederick William Stopford, Assistant Adjutant-General (Officer in charge of Mobilization Services), Headquarters.
  • Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Charles Edward Beckett, 3rd Hussars.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)

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

  • William Lee-Warner, Esq., C.S.I., Political Secretary, India Office.
  • Trevor John Chichele Chichele-Plowden, Esq., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service.

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

  • Thomas Stoker, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
  • Colonel Maule Campbell Brackenbury, Royal Engineers.
  • Edward Richard Henry, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
  • Lucas White King, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
  • Khan Bahadur Yar Muhammad Khan.

Order of the Indian Empire

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

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

  • Alexander Pennycuick, Esq.
  • Philip Chicheley Hyde Snow, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
  • Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Mudge Branfoot, M.B.
  • Edward Fountaine Jacob, Esq.
  • Major Robert Irvin Scallon, D.S.O., Indian Staff Corps.
  • Lieutenant Kunwar Bir Bikram Singh.
  • Lieutenant Alfred Beckett Minchin, Indian Staff Corps.
  • William Taylor Van Someren, Esq.
  • Charles Still, Esq.
  • Tahilram Khemchand.

Order of St Michael and St George

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

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

  • The Honourable Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier, C.M.G., Speaker of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada.
  • The Honourable James David Edgar, Q.C., Speaker of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada.
  • John George Bourinot, Esq., LL.D., D.C.L., C.M.G., Clerk of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada.
  • James Alexander Swettenham, Esq., C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements.

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

  • Henry Martyn Herbert Orpen, Esq., Assistant Treasurer, Accountant-General, Receiver-General, and Paymaster-General of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
  • David Hunter, Esq., General Manager of the Government Railways of the Colony of Natal.
  • George Ruthven Le Hunte, Esq., M.A., Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Mauritius.
  • James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, Esq., Colonial Secretary and Registrar-General of the Colony of Hong Kong.
  • George Robert Parkin, Esq., LL.D., Principal of Upper Canada College, Toronto, in the Dominion of Canada.
  • Sydney Olivier, Esq., B.A., of the Colonial Department.

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