The Diamond Jubilee Honours for the British Empire were announced on 22 June 1897 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria on 20 June 1897.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
Earldom
The Lord Egerton.
Baron
The Earl of Glasgow GCMG, by the name, style and title of Baron Fairlie, of Fairlie in the County of Ayr Viscount Downe, by the name, style and title of Baron Dawnay, of Danby in the North Riding of the County of York Lord Justice Lopes, by the name, style and title of Baron Ludlow, of Heywood in the County of Wiltshire Ion Trant Hamilton, by the name, style and title of Baron HolmPatrick, of HolmPatrick, in the County of Dublin Sir John Burns Bt, by the name, style and title of Baron Inverclyde, of Castle Wemyss in the county Renfrew Sir Donald Smith GCMG, by the name, style and title of Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, of Glencoe in the County of Argyll and of Mount Royal in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada
Privy Council (PC) Wilfrid Laurier. George Reid. Sir George Turner KCMG. Richard Seddon. Sir Hugh Nelson KCMG. Sir John Sprigg. Charles Kingston. Sir William Whiteway KCMG. Sir Edward Braddon KCMG. Sir John Forrest KCMG. Harry Escombe. Sir Herbert Maxwell Bt MP. W. H. Lecky MP. John Talbot MP. John Wharton MP.
Baronet The Lord Mayor. (Sir George Faudel Faudel-Phillips, 1st Baronet) Sir William MacCormac, President of the Royal College of Surgeons. Sir John Blundell Maple MP. David Gamble CB. John Gilmour, of Montrave. Hugh Ellis-Nanney. George Ernest Paget, Chairman of the Midland Railway. Theophilus Peel, worsted manufacturer James Pender MP. Cuthbert Quilter MP. Frederick Ripley. Thomas Smith FRCS, Surgeon-Extraordinary to Her Majesty. Samuel Wilks, President of the Royal College of Physicians, and Physician Extraordinary to Her Majesty. Lindsay Wood.
Knight Henry Howe Bemrose MP. Charles William Cayzer MP. Thomas George Fardell MP. John A. Willox MP. S. B. Bancroft Wyke Bayliss, President of the Royal Society of British Artists. Alexander Richardson Binnie, Engineer to the London County Council. J. Frederick Bridge MusDoc. Professor Crookes FRS. John Dunne, Chief Constable of Cumberland and Westmorland. William R. Gowers MD FRS University Hospital (Andrew) Charles Howard, Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Felix Mackenzie, Forres. George C. Martin MusDoc. Colonel Henry Oldham, Lieutenant of Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms. James Thompson Ritchie, Sheriff of London Robert Hargreaves Rogers, Sheriff of London John F. L. Rolleston, Leicester. Judge William Lucius Selfe, County Court judge. Felix Semon MD St Thomas's Hospital George John Smith of Treliske. James Thompson, General Manager of the Caledonian Railway. Lieutenant-Colonel Horatio Page Vance, Lieutenant of Her Majesty's Royal Body Guard of Yeomen of the Guard. James Vaughan, Bow Street Magistrate Henry Arthur White James Smith Lord Mayor of Birmingham The Lord Mayor of York (Christopher Annakin Milward) The Mayor of Bolton (Lt Col. Sir Benjamin Alfred Dobson) The Mayor of Brighton (John George Blaker) The Mayor of Norwich (Charles Rackham Gilman) The Mayor of Salford (Richard Mottram) The Mayor of Windsor Patrick Playfair CIE, late President of the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce. Lieutenant-Colonel George Montgomerie Moore CIE, President of the Madras Municipality. George Cotton, Businessman, Sheriff of Bombay (28 August) William Burgess Goldsmith, RN, Captain of Royal yacht HMY Alberta (31 August) John Hawkins Hagarty DCL, late Chief Justice of Ontario (15 September) George Montgomerie James Moore, President of Madras Municipality (15 September) Melbourne McTaggart Tait QC, Chief Justice, Montreal (29 September) Henry Hubert Juta QC, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Cape of Good Hope. Thomas Naghten Fitzgerald, Senior Surgeon to the Melbourne Hospital, Victoria. John Cheyne, QC, Procurator of the Church of Scotland (7 October) Andrew McDonald, Lord Provost of Edinburgh (7 October) Thomas Wardlaw Taylor QC, Chief Justice of Manitoba (22 October) John Charles Bigham, Justice of High Court (25 November) Charles John Darling, Justice of High Court (25 November) Arthur Moseley Chanell, Justice of High Court (25 November) Charles George Walpole, Chief Justice of the Bahamas (25 November)
Order of the Star of India
Knight Grand Commander (GCSI) Maharaja Vyankatesh Raman Singh Bahadur, Chief of Rewa. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker KCSI CB MD. Maharaja Sir Bir Shumsher Jang Rana Bahadur KCSI, Prime Minister of Nepal. Sir Antony Patrick MacDonnell KCSI, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces. Lieutenant Colonel Maharaj Dhiraj Sir Partab Singh Bahadur KCSI, of Jodhpur. Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey CSI, Royal Engineers.
Knight Commander (KCSI) William Mackworth Young CSI, Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab. Sri Raja Rama Varma of Cochin. Charles James Lyall CSI CIE, Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces. Robert Joseph Crosthwaite CSI, Agent to the Governor-General in Rajputana. William John Cuningham CSI, Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department. Major-General Montagu Gilbert Gerard CB CSI, Indian Staff Corps. Raja Jagatjit Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala. Richard Udny CSI, Indian Civil Service. Colonel Howard Melliss CSI, Inspector-General of Imperial Service Troops.
Companion (CSI) Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan. Clement Sneyd Colvin, Secretary in the Public Works Department, India Office. Surgeon-Major-General William Roe Hooper, President of the Medical Board, India Office. John Molesworth Macpherson, Secretary to the Government of India in the Legislative Department. James Monteath, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay. Charles Walter Bolton, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal Horace Frederick D'Oyly Moule, Indian Civil Service. Surgeon-Major-General James Cleghorn MD, Director-General of the Indian Medical Service. Colonel Thomas Gracey, Royal Engineers, Director-General of Railways in India. Colonel James Aloysius Miley, Deputy Secretary in the Military Department, India. Colonel Andrew Wilson Baird, Royal Engineers, late Master of the Calcutta Mint. Kachar Ala Chela, Chief of Jasdan. Henry Babington Smith, Private Secretary to The Viceroy. Henry Aiken Anderson, Indian Civil Service. Captain Arthur Henry MacMahon CIE, Indian Staff Corps. Robert Steel Sardar Bahadur Kashi Rao Sarve, Commander-in-Chief of The Maharaja Sindhia's Army.
Order of the Indian Empire
Knight Grand Commander (GCIE) Sir Banwar Pal Deo Bahadur Yadukul Chandra Bhal KCIE, Maharaja of Karauli. Faiz Muhammad Khan, Talpur, Mir of Khairpur in Sind. Sir Lakshmeshwar Singh Bahadur KCIE, Maharaja of Darbhanga. Sir Bhagwut Singh KCIE, Thakur Saheb of Gondal. General Crawford Trotter Chamberlain CSI.
Knight Commander (KCIE) Henry William Bliss CIE. Nawab Amir-ud-din Ahmad Khan Bahadur CIE, Chief of Loharu. Colonel William Sinclair Smith Bisset CIE, Royal Engineers, Secretary to the Government of India in the Public Works Department. Major-General Edward Stedman CB, Indian Staff Corps. John Jardine, Indian Civil Service (retired). Rear-Admiral John Hext CIE, Royal Navy (retired), Director of the Royal Indian Marine. Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree CIE. Colonel Thomas Hungerford Holdich CB CIE, Royal Engineers. James MacNab Campbell CIE, Indian Civil Service. Muhammad Munawwar Ali, Khan Bahadur, Prince of Arcot. George William Allen CIE. Nawab Bahadur Khwaja Ahsan-ulla CIE, of Dacca.
Companion (CIE) M. R. Ry Paiiappakharn Ananda Charlu, Vidia Vinodha, Rai Bahadur. Colonel Russell Richard Pulford, Royal Engineers. Colonel Algernon George Arnold Durand CB, Indian Staff Corps. Benjamin Traill ffinch, Director-in-Chief, Indo-European Telegraph Department. Frederick Shore Bullock, Indian Civil Service. Charles Henry Reynolds, Director-General of Telegraphs in India. Lieutenant-Colonel Beauchamp Duff, Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief in India. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab, Royal Engineers. Major Nawab Muhammad Ali Beg, Afsar-i-Jang, Bahadur, Commandant of the Hyderabad Imperial Service Lancers. Edwin Darlington, late Chief Collector of Customs in Burma. James Strachan, Engineer and Secretary to the Karachi Municipality. Poona Nursingarow Krishna Murti, Mysore State Council. The Revd Dr John Husband FRCS, Chairman of the Ajmere Municipal Committee. Dr Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine. Dr Augustus Frederick Rudolf Hoernle, Principal of the Calcutta Madrasa. Edward Nicholl, Secretary to the Amritsar Municipality. Rustamjee Dhanjibhai Mehta, ex-Sheriff of Calcutta. Charles Godolphin William Hastings, Punjab Police. Khan Bahadur Mancherjee Rustomji Dholu, Political Department, Aden. Commander Arthur Whatley Chitty, late Indian Navy. Rai Daulat Ram, Bahadur, Superintendent of Post Offices, Simla Division of the Punjab.
Order of St Michael and St George
Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) Viscount Gormanston KCMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Tasmania. Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson KCMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Natal. Sir Alfred Milner KCB, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and Her Majesty's High Commissioner for South Africa. Wilfrid Laurier, President of the Privy Council and Premier of the Dominion of Canada. Sir Richard John Cartwright KCMG, Minister of Trade and Commerce for the Dominion of Canada. Sir William Robinson KCMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong. Sir Henry Arthur Blake KCMG, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Island of Jamaica. Sir Oliver Mowat KCMG, Minister of Justice fur the Dominion of Canada.
Knight Commander (KCMG) Sir William Lambert Dobson, Chief Justice of the Colony of Tasmania, who has on several occasions administered the Government of the Colony in the absence of the Governor. Sir Frederick Matthew Darley, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of New South Wales and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that Colony. Colonel Frederick Cardew CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Sierra Leone. George Airey Kirkpatrick, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada. William Alexander Baillie Hamilton CB CMG, Chief Clerk of the Colonial Department. Sandford Fleming CMG, for services connected with the Dominion of Canada. Frederick Richard Saunders CMG, Treasurer of the Island of Ceylon. Frank Athelstane Swettenham CMG, Resident-General for the Federation of the Protected States of the Malay Peninsula. Clement Courtenay Knollys CMG, Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago. Count Strickland della Catena CMG, Chief Secretary to the Government of the Island of Malta. Cavendish Boyle CMG, Government Secretary of the Colony of British Guiana. Charles Gage Brown MD CMG, Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office. Walter Peace CMG, Agent-General in London for the Colony of Natal. Godfrey Yeatman Lagden CMG, Government Secretary and Accountant of Basutoland. Horace Tozer, Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Queensland. Lewis Henry Davies, Minister of Marine and Fisheries for the Dominion of Canada. Henry Cuthbert, Solicitor-General of the Colony of Victoria. Edward Montague Nelson, for services in connection with the Australasian Colonies.
Honorary Ibrahim, Sultan of the State and Territory of Johore
Companion (CMG) Henry Cockburn Stewart, Administrator of the Seychelles Islands. Philip Arthur Templer, Administrator of the Presidency of Dominica. Harry Langhorne Thompson, Administrator of the Island of St; Vincent. James Robert Dickson, Secretary for Railways of the Colony of Queensland. Colonel Richard Henry Jelf RE, in recognition of services as Chairman of the Sanitary Commission, Gibraltar.