1894 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1894 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by members of the British Empire. They were published on 2 January 1894.^[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.

Victoria Cross (VC)

Surgeon-Major Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd

Order of the Bath

Knights Grand Cross (GCB)

Civil division

His Highness Abdul Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, Hon GCSI

Knights Commander (KCB)

Civil division

Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson, KCMG, CB, Assistant Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office.

Companions (CB)

Military division

Colonel Edmond Roche Elles, Assistant Quartermaster-General (Intelligence Branch), Head-Quarters India.

Civil division

William James Colville, Esq (commonly called the Honourable William James Colville), Colonel in the Army (Retired List)

Order of the Star of India

Knights Commander (KCSI)

Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department.

Companions (CSI)

Richard Udny, Esq., Commissioner and Superintendent, Peshawur Division.
Jervoise Athelstane Baines, Esq, Member of the Indian Civil Service.
William John Cuningham, Esq, Deputy Secretary and Acting Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department.
Thomas Salter Pyne, Esq

Order of the Indian Empire

Knights Commander (KCIE)

His Highness the Maharao Raja of Bundi
His Highness the Maharaja of Karauli
His Highness the Maharaja of Orchha
Prince Jehan Kader Mirza Bahadur, of Oudh
Colonel John Charles Ardagh, CB, CIE, Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.
Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford, CIE, VC, Military Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy.
James Lyle Mackay, Esq, CIE

Companions (CIE)

The Honourable Pherozeshah Merwanji Mehta, MA, Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India.
William Robert Brooke, Esq, Director-General of Telegraphs in India.
Paul Gregory Melitus, Esq, Deputy Secretary to the Government of India in the Home Department.
Lieutenant-Colonel George Montgomery Moore, RA, Retired, President of the Madras Municipal Commission.
Surgeon-Major Ernest Harrold Fenn.
Major Richard Carnac Temple, Indian Staff Corps.
Major John William Hogge, Indian Staff Corps.
Edward Claudius Scotney George, Esq, Officiating Deputy Commissioner of the Bhamo District.
Robert William Edward Hampe Vincent, Esq, Acting Commissioner of Police, Bombay.
Lieutenant Arthur Henry McMahon, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant John Manners Smith, VC, Indian Staff Corps.
John Stuart Donald, Esq, Assistant-Commissioner, Punjab.
Rai Bahadur Bankim Chunder Chalterjee

Order of St Michael and St George

Knights Commander

Neale Porter, Esq, CMG, Colonial Secretary of the Island of Jamaica.
The Honourable Jenkin Coles, Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Colony of South Australia.
Westby Brook Perceval, Esq, Agent-General in London for the Colony of New Zealand.

Companions (CMG)

Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, RN, for services connected with certain Islands in the Western Pacific.
John Edward Tanner, Esq, MICE, late Director of Public Works and General Superintendent of Railways in the Island of Trinidad.
Frederick William Webb, Esq, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of New South Wales.
Godfrey Yeatman Lagden, Esq, Government Secretary and Accountant of Basutoland.
George Edward Yorke Gleadowe, Esq, of Her Majesty's Treasury, for services connected with the award of compensation to British Sealers excluded from Behring Sea, under the "modus vivendi" with the United States of 1891.
(Honorary) His Highness Tungu Mohamed bin Antah, Yam Tuan Besar of Sri Menanti, President of the State Council of the Negri Sembilan Confederated States.

Distinguished Service Order (DSO)

Captain Gordon Napier Caulfeild, Indian Staff Corps.
Captain Hugh Neufville Taylor, Indian Staff Corps.
Lieutenant John Henegan, Indian Staff Corps

Promotions

Army

Captain to Major

Captain William Gore Alban, Indian Staff Corps.
Captain George Duncan Atkinson, Indian Staff Corps

Major to Lieutenant Colonel

Major Richard Menteith Greenfield, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Assistant Adjutant General, Madras.

Captain to Major

Captain Edward Robert John Presgrave, Indian Staff Corps.
Captain Henry D'Urban Keary, DSO, Indian Staff Corps.

References

↑ The London Gazette: no. 26472. pp. 1–2. 2 January 1894. Retrieved 1 April 2016.

Honours Lists

New Year Honours	1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902† 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940† 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 †Not issued because of Birthday Honours of new king (1902) and WWII (1940)

Birthday Honours	1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887† 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897† 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911† 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937† 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953† 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 †Not issued because of Jubilee Honours (1887, 1897) and Coronation Honours (1911, 1937, 1953)

PM's Resignation Honours	1895 1945 1951 1955† 1957† 1963 1964 1970 1976 1979† 1990 1997 2007† 2010† 2016 †Not issued

Coronation Honours	1821 1831 1838 1902 1911 1937 1953

Dissolution Honours	1874 1885 1892 1895 1900 1906 1910 (January) 1910 (December) 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935† 1945 1950 1951† 1955† 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (February) 1974 (October) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 †Not issued

Special Honours	2009 2013 2014 2015 2016

Additional Honours	1887 (Golden Jubilee) 1897 (Diamond Jubilee) 1923 Prime Minister 1935 (Silver Jubilee) 1977 (Silver Jubilee) 1990 (Queen Mother's 90th Birthday) 2002 (Death of Queen Mother and Princess Margaret) 2002 (Golden Jubilee) 2012 (Diamond Jubilee)

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