1900 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1900 were announced in celebration of the 24 May birthday of Queen Victoria.

Order of the Bath

Appointments to the Order of the Bath were published in The Edinburgh Gazette on 25 May (Military Division), and in The London Gazette on 8 June 1900 (Civil Division).

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

Civil Division

• The Right Honourable the Earl of Jersey, GCMG

Military Division

• General Sir Charles Cooper Johnson, KCB, Indian Staff Corps.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Baker Creed Russell, KCB KCMG, Colonel 13th Hussars, Commanding the Troops, Southern District.
• General Sir William Olpherts, KCB VC, Colonel-Commandant Royal (late Bengal) Artillery.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Civil Division

• John Samuel Purcell, Esq CB, late Controller of Stamps and Stores, and Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, Inland Revenue Department
• David Gill, Esq CB, Her Majesty's Astronomer, Cape of Good Hope
• William Conyngham Greene, Esq CB, of Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service, late British Agent at Pretoria
• Henry Augustus Robinson, Esq CB, Vice-President Local Government Board, Ireland

Military Division

• Colonel Frederick John Keen, CB, Indian Staff Corps.
• General John Louis Nation, CB, Indian Staff Corps.
• General Sir Thomas Edward-Gordon, KCIE CB CSI, Indian Staff Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel (Honorary Major-General) John Hills, CB, Royal (late Bombay) Engineers.
• Major-General Hugh McCalmont, CB, Commanding Cork District.
• Lieutenant-General Edward Hopton, CB, Colonel Connaught Rangers, Lieutenant-Governor and General Officer Commanding the Troops, Jersey.
• Lieutenant-General George Digby Barker, CB, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Bermuda.
• Lieutenant-General Henry Le Guay Geary, CB, Royal Artillery, President Ordnance Committee.
• Major-General Thomas Fraser, CB CMG, Royal Engineers, Commanding Thames District.
• Major-General John Frederick Maurice, CB, Royal Artillery, Commanding Woolwich District.
• General Alexander George Montgomery Moore, Colonel 18th Hussars, Commanding Aldershot

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Civil Division

• Alfred Bonham Carter, Esq, late Referee of Private Bills, House of Commons
• William Donaldson, Esq, late of the Scottish Prison Commission
• James Brown Dougherty, Esq, Assistant Under-secretary, Dublin Castle
• James Gairdner, Esq, late of the Public Record Office
• Edward Stafford Howard, Esq, Senior Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests
• Colonel Herbert William Jackson, employed with the Egyptian Army
• John Arrow Kempe, Esq, Deputy-Chairman Customs Establishment
• Charles Dowson Lang, Esq, Controller Savings Bank Department, General Post Office
• Alexander Carnegie Ross, Esq, British Consul at Lorenzo Marques
• Major John Trenchard Tennant, Assistant Secretary, Board of Agriculture
• Charles Inigo Thomas, Esq, Principal Clerk, Admiralty
• Thomas Edward Thorpe, Esq FRS, Principal of the Government Laboratory, Somerset House

Military Division

• Surgeon - General Henry Skey Muir, Deputy Director-General, Army Medical Service.
• Major-General Edmund Smith Brook.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Vincent Rivaz, Indian Staff Corps.
• Colonel Andrew McCrae Bruce, Bengal Infantry.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Celadon Charles Brownlow, Indian Staff Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Edward Molloy, Indian Staff Corps.
• Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet Colonel Robert Alexander Swetenham, Indian Staff Corps.
• Colonel George Hand More-Molyneux, DSO, Indian Staff Corps, Colonel on the Staff, India.
• Colonel William John Vousden, VC, Indian Staff Corps, Colonel on the Staff, India.
• Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Henry Pipon, Colonel on the Staff for Royal Artillery, India.
• Colonel (temporary Major-General) Frederick Wilson Hemming, Commanding Cavalry Brigade, Aldershot (temporarily).
• Colonel Hugh Gough Grant, Regimental District.
• Colonel Richard Charles Hare, Regimental District.
• Colonel Charles Hervey Bagot, Royal Engineers, Deputy Inspector-General of Fortifications, Headquarters of Army.
• Colonel Arthur Robert Ford Dorward, DSO, Colonel on the Staff for Royal Engineers, Wei-hai-Wei.
• Colonel Edward Roberts, Army Pay Department.
• Lieutenant-Colonel George Vaughan Hamilton, late Army Service Corps.
• Veterinary-Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary Veterinary-Colonel) Henry Thomson, Army Veterinary Department.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Bloomfield Connolly, Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel, late Army Medical Staff.
• Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Spencer Eardley Childers, Royal Engineers.