# 1885 Birthday Honours

The Queen's Birthday Honours 1885 are the birthday honours announced in 1885 in celebration of the birthday of Queen Victoria.

## The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Appointments to the Order of the Bath were published in The London Gazette on 15 June 1885.

### Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
#### Civil Division

* Sir John Savile Lumley KCB, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Rome.

### Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
#### Civil Division

* Nathaniel Barnaby CB, Director of Naval Construction.

### Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
#### Civil Division

* The Right Honourable Marquess of Hamilton
* Hugh Owen, Permanent Secretary to the Local Government Board.
* Colonel Richard Hugh Stotherd, Royal Engineers, Director of the Survey Department.
* Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Owen Jones, Head of the Boundary Division of the Survey Department.
* Courtenay Boyle, Assistant Secretary to the Local Government Board.
* William Fraser LLD, Deputy Keeper of Records, Scotland.
* Charles Benjamin Forsey, Joint Secretary to the Board of the Inland Revenue.
* Frederick Ebenezer Baines, Assistant Secretary of the General Post Office and Inspector General of Mails.

## Order of St Michael and St George

Appointments to the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George were published in The London Gazette on 6 June 1885.

### Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG)

* The Right Honourable Lord Carrington, on appointment as Governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
* Major-General Sir Andrew Clarke, RE, KCMG, CB, CIE, Inspector General of Fortifications and Director of Works.
* Sir Anthony Musgrave KCMG, Governor of the Colony of Queensland.
* Sir Frederick Aloysius Weld KCMG, Governor General of the Straight Settlements.

### Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG)

* Adams George Archibald CMG, late Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Nova Scotia, in the Dominion of Canada.
* Charles Mills CMG, Agent-General in London for the Cape of Good Hope.
* Major-General Peter Henry Scratchley RE, CMG, Her Majesty's Special Commissioner for the Protected Territory in New Guinea.
* Alexander Stuart, Premier and Colonial Secretary of New South Wales.

### Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (CMG)

* James Francis Garrick, Agent-General in London for Queensland.
* Edward Noel Walker, Colonial Secretary of the Island of Jamaica.
* Lorenzo, Marquis Cassar Dessain, lately a Member of the Council Government of Malta.
* Edward Fairfield, of the Colonial Office.
* Frederick Thomas Sargood, Minister of Defence of the Colony of Victoria.
* Major-General Major Francis Downes RA, Commandant of the Volunteer Forces of the Colony of South Australia.
* Colonel Charles Fyshe Roberts, late Major in the Royal Artillery, in command of the Artillery forces of the Colony of New South Wales.
* Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Robert Drury, late Acting-Commandant of the Volunteer Forces of the Colony of Queensland.

## Order of the Star of India

Appointments to the Order of the Star of India were published in The London Gazette on 6 June 1885.

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

* Colonel Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford CSI, Madras Staff Corps, Agent to the Governor-General.

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

* Herbert John Reynolds, Bengal Civil Service.
* James Macnabb Cuningham MD, Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department.
* The Nawab Surfuraz Khan of Dera.
* Colonel Michael Weekes Willoughby, Bombay Staff Corps.
* Major Frederick Mercer Hunter, Bombay Staff Corps.

## Order of the Indian Empire

Appointments to the Order of the Indian Empire were published in The London Gazette on 6 June 1885.

### Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

* Major Robert Parry Nisbet, Bengal Staff Corps.
* Francis Day, Deputy Surgeon-General (Retired), Medical Department, Madras.
* James Baboneau Nickterlien Hennessey, late Deputy Superintendent, Indian Survey Department.
* Duluptram Dayabhoy.
* Captain Adalbert Cecil Talbot, Bengal Staff Corps, Political Agent, Bikanir State.
* James Burgess, Archaeological Surveyor and Reporter to Government, Bombay.
* George Hamnett, Inspector-General, Registration Department, Madras.
* Ramaswami Mudaliar.

## Knight Bachelor

Appointments of Knight Bachelor were published in Times, London on 6 June 1885.
* Henry Christopher Mance, inventor of the heliograph.
* Peter Eade, late Mayor of Norwich.
* George Clement Bertram, Bailiff of the Island of Jersey.
* Captain Edward Walter, Commanding Officer of the Corps of Commissionaires.
* Mr Willis, Accountant-General to the Navy.