1901 New Year Honours

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The 1901 New Year Honours were appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.

The list was published in The Times on 1 January 1901,^[1] and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 28 December 1900^[2] and 8 January 1901.^[3]

The recipients of honours are displayed or referred to as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander etc.) then division (Military, Civil).

Privy Council

Lewis Fry, Esq.
Thomas Frederick Halsey, Esq., MP
Edmund Barton, QC, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, GCMG, Lieutenant-governor and Chief Justice of Queensland, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies

Baronet

John Aird, Esq., MP
Thomas Barlow, Esq., MD, Physician Extraordinary to the Queen
Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, Esq.
William Selby Church, Esq., MD, FRCS
Colonel Robert Gunter, MP
Wyndham Spencer Portal, Esq.

Knight Bachelor

Hugh Adcock, CMG
Edward Henry Busk, Esq., Chairman of Convocation in the University of London
Alfred Cooper, Esq., Surbiton
Robert Harvey, Esq., High Sheriff of Cornwall
Edward Wollaston Knocker, Esq., CB, Registrar of the Cinque Ports
Hiram Maxim, Esq.
John Mark, Esq., former Mayor of Manchester
Joseph Sykes Rymer, Esq., late Lord Mayor of York
Henry Miller, Speaker of the Legislative Council, New Zealand
Arthur Robert Wallace, Esq., CB, DL, Principal Chief Clerk Secretaryâ²s Office, Dublin Castle
Edward Matthew Hodgson, Esq., JP, Chairman of the Rathmines and Rathgar Urban District Council
John Quick, of Victoria, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

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

Civil Division

Sir Alfred Milner, KCB, High Commissioner for South Africa
Sir Francis Mowatt, KCB, Secretary to the Treasury
Lord Justice Romer

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Civil Division

Edward Chandos Leigh, CB, QC, Counsel to the Speaker, House of Commons
Richard Mills, Esq., CB, late Comptroller and Auditor General
Sir William Turner, D.C.L.

Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Civil division

Francis Alexander Campbell, Esq., of the Foreign Office
Frederick Victor Dickins, Esq., Registrar to the University of London
Lawrence Charles Edward Downing Dowdall, Esq., of the Irish Office
George Vandeleur Fiddes, Esq., Colonial Office
Robert Oâ²Brien Furlong, Esq., Solicitor to the Inland Revenue Department, Ireland
Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Clare Garcia, Inspector-General of Military Prisons
Henry Paul Harvey, Esq., of the War Office
Charles Prestwood Lucas, Esq., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office
Malcolm McNeill, Esq., Chairman of the Local Government Board for Scotland
Lieutenant-Colonel George Tindall Plunkett, Royal Engineers, Director of the Science and Art Department, Dublin

Order of the Star of India

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

Charles Montgomery Rivaz, Esq., CSI, Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor General of India

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

Frederick Styles Philpin Lely, Esq., Indian Civil Service
John Ontario Miller, Esq., Indian Civil Service
George Robert Irwin, Esq., Indian Civil Service
William Robert Bright, Esq., Indian Civil Service

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

Sir John Forrest, LL.D, KCMG, Premier and Colonial Treasurer of Western Australia, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies

Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)

Brigadier-General Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, CB, DSO, High Commissioner for the Northern Nigeria Protectorate
Sir Henry Nevill Dering, Baronet, CB, Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of Brazil
The Honourable William Augustus Curzon Barrington, Her Majesty's Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic
John Gordon Kennedy, Esq., Her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of His Majesty the King of Romania
Colonel Herbert Jekyll, Royal Engineers, CMG, Secretary to the Royal Commission for the Paris Universal International Exhibition of 1900
The Honourable Sir James Robert Dickson, DCL, CMG, Chief Secretary of Queensland, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies
William McMillan, Esq., formerly Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Australian Federal Convention, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies
Josiah Henry Symon, Esq., QC, formerly Attorney-General of South Australia, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Australian Federal Convention, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)

Donald Keith McDowell, Esq., Principal Medical Officer of the West Africa Frontier Force^[4]
Colonel Gerald Charles Kitson, lately Commandant of the Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada
Lieutenant-Colonel D la Cherois Thomas Irwin, formerly Inspector of Artillery in Canada, Secretary of the Canadian Patriotic Fund
Maximilian Frank Simon, Esq., MD, on retirement as Principal Civil Medical Officer of the Straits Settlements
William Shelford, Esq., MICE, Consulting Engineer for West African Railways
William Matthews, Esq., MICE, Consulting Engineer for Harbour Work in the Colonies
Francis Alfred Cooper, Esq., Director of Public Works of the Island of Ceylon
Ralph Champneys Williams, Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Island of Barbados
Alfredo Naudi, Esq., LL.D, Crown Advocate of the Island of Malta
Thomas Robertson Marsh, Esq., on retirement as Head of the Engineering and Contract Branches of the Office for the Crown Agents for the Colonies
Charles William Campbell, Esq., Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Shanghai, attached to Admiral Seymour's force
Pelham Laird Warren, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul-General at Hankou
William Richard Carles, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul at Tianjin
Everard Duncan Home Fraser, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul at Zhenjiang
Edmund Robert Spearman, Esq., Assistant Secretary to the Royal Commission for the Paris Universal International Exhibition of 1900
Lionel Earle, Esq., Assistant Secretary to the Royal Commission for the Paris Universal International Exhibition of 1900
Herbert Hughes, Esq., for services in connection with International Industrial Conferences
Edwin Gordon Blackmore, Esq., Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of the Parliaments of South Australia, Clerk of the Australian Federal Convention, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies
Robert Randolph Garran, Esq., MA, Barrister, New South Wales, Secretary to the Drafting Committee of the Australian Federal Convention, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies

Order of the Indian Empire

Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE)

Major General Sir Edwin Henry Hayter Collen, KCIE, CB, Military Member of the Council of the Governor General of India
Maharao Raja Sir Raghubir Singh Bahadur, of Bundi

Knights Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE)

Alexander Frederick Douglas Cunningham, Esq., CIE, Indian Civil Service
Henry Evan Murchison James, Esq., CIE, Indian Civil Service

Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire

Colonel Eduardo Augusto Rodrigues Galhardo, Governor-General of Portuguese India

Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)

Mian Bhure Singh, of Chamba
Captain Walter Somerville Goodridge, Royal Navy, Director of the Royal Indian Marine
Lieutenant-Colonel Solomon Charles Frederick Peile, Indian Staff Corps
Bertram Prior Standen, Esq., Indian Civil Service
Henry Alexander Sim, Esq., Indian Civil Service
Major James Robert Dunlop Smith, Indian Staff Corps
Major John Crimmin, VC, Indian Medical Service
Major Granville Henry Loch, Indian Staff Corps
Fardunji Kuvarji Tarapurvala, Public Works Department, Executive Engineer, Ahmedabad
Babu Kalinath Mitter, laletly Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal for making Laws and Regulations
Frederick William Latimer Esq., Assistant Private Secretary to His Excellency the Viceroy of India
William Jameson Soulsby, Esq., CB, Secretary to the Mansion House Indian Famine Relief Funds in 1877, 1897, and 1900