1904 Birthday Honours
National awards given by King Edward VII
The 1904 Birthday Honours were announced on 9 November 1904, to celebrate the birthday of King Edward VII that day. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and the British Empire .
The list was published in The Times on 9 November 1904,[ 1] and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 8 November 1904[ 2] and 11 November 1904.[ 3]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander, etc. ) and then divisions (Military, Civil).
Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood , Bart. , Member of Parliament (MP)
Theodore V. S. Angier, Esq.
George W. Baxter, Esq.
Richard M. Beachcroft, Esq.
J. A. Bellamy, Esq.
Henry Cook, Esq., Secretary to the Royal Company of Archers
John Thomas McCraith , Esq.
Malcolm McNeill, Esq., CB , vice-president of the Local Government Board for Scotland
A. Major, Esq.. late Director of Army Contracts
Charles H. Marriott, Esq., MD
Shirley F. Murphy, Esq., MD
Thomas Pink, Esq.
Professor W. J. Sinclair
Dr. Joseph Wilson Swan , FRS
Aston Webb , Esq., RA
Colonies
William Henry Horwood , Esq., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland
Stephen Herbert Gatty , Esq., Chief Justice of Gibraltar
Walter Llewellyn Lewis, Esq., Chief Justice of the Colony of British Honduras
The Honourable Alfred Sandlings Cowley , Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Queensland
The Honourable William Henry Bundey , late Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
Matthew Henry Stephen , Esq., lately Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
George Henry Jenkins , Esq., CMG , Clerk of the Parliaments and Clerk of the Legislative Council of the State of Victoria
Major Allan Perry , MD, Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals of the Island of Ceylon
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Military Division
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Military Division
Civil Division
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Military Division
Major-General William Campbell
Civil Division
Chief Inspector of Machinery James Melrose, Royal Navy
Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux , Esq., CMG , His Majesty's Consul, Berbera
R. Gundry, Esq.
Charles Alexander Harris , Esq., CMG, Colonial Office
The Honourable Charles Algernon Parsons , D.Sc., FRS
Order of Saint Michael and Saint 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)
John Pickersgill Rodger , Esq., CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast Colony
William Grey-Wilson , Esq., CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands
Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott , Esq., CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of British Honduras
Thomas Ekins Fuller , Esq., CMG, Agent General in London for the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
Vice-Admiral Reginald Neville Custance , CVO
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Captain Robert Archibald James Montgomerie , RN, CB, ADC, late Senior Naval Officer, engaged in the protection of the Newfoundland Fisheries.
The Honourable Alfred Dobson , Agent-General in London for the State of Tasmania.
Philip Clarke Cork, Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Colony of British Honduras.
Charles Gavan Duffy, Esq., Clerk of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Major John Alder Burdon , First Class Resident , Protectorate of Northern Nigeria .
Francis Watts, Esq., Director of Agriculture in the Island of Antigua, and Analytical and Agricultural Chemist for the Colony of the Leeward Islands .
Major Dudley Henry Alexander, Private Secretary to the Right Honourable the Earl of Ranfurly , GCMG, while Governor of the Colony of New Zealand.
Charles Walter Boyd, Esq., Joint Secretary, the Rhodes Trust .
Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay , Esq., a Councillor of Embassy in His Majesty's Diplomatic Service, attached to His Majesty's Agency at Cairo.
Colonel Wallscourt Hely-Hutchinson Waters, CVO, formerly Military Attaché to His Majesty's Embassies at St. Petersburg and Berlin.
Honorary
John Gerolimato, Esq., His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Harar . For services during the operations in Somaliland .
Royal Victorian Order
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO)
Honorary
Henri Charles Joseph, Marquis de Breteuil.
Alfred Therese Armand, Marquis du Lau d'Allemand.
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
Honorary
Member of the Royal Victorian Order, 4th class (MVO)
References
^ "Birthday Honours". The Times . No. 37547. London. 9 November 1904. p. 10.
^ "No. 27732" . The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 November 1904. pp. 7255–7256.
^ "No. 27734" . The London Gazette . 11 November 1904. p. 7261.