The 1882 Birthday Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the Queen, and were published in The London Gazette on 23 May, 24 May and 2 June 1882.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

United Kingdom and British Empire

Baronetcies

The Right Honourable John Whittaker Ellis, Lord Mayor of the City of London

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Civil Division

James Caird CB Senior Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe Commissioner
Ralph Wood Thompson CB Undersecretary of State for the War Department

Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Civil Division

Robert George Wyndham Herbert, Undersecretary of State for the Colonies
Charles Lennox Peel, Clerk of the Councils Colonel Thomas Inglis, of the Royal Engineers
Henry Jenkyns, Assistant Parliamentary Counsel

The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Commander (GCSI)

His Highness the Maharajah of Travancore
His Highness Nawab Ikbal-ud-dowlah of Oudh (Baghdad)

Knight Commander (KCSI)

The Maharajah Jotendro Mohun Tagore CSI
Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John CSI Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, late Resident at Kandahar

Companion (CSI)

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Bombay Staff Corps, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
William Hudleston, Madras Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor of Madras
Charles Paget Carmichael, Bengal Civil Service, Senior Member of the Board of Revenue, North Western Provinces
Edward Francis Harrison, late Bengal Civil Service, formerly Comptroller-General, Calcutta

The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

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

Cornelius Hendricksen Kortright CMG late Governor of the Colony of British Guiana
William Brampton Gurdon CB for services on Special Missions in 1879 and 1881 to South Africa for the Settlement of Financial Questions
Colonel William Bellairs CB for services in South Africa
Colonel George Stoddart Whitmore CMG formerly Commandant of Local Forces in New Zealand, and Member of the Legislative Council of that Colony
Saul Samuel CMG Agent-General in London for New South Wales, and previously Member of several Administrations in that Colony
Count Giorgio Serafino Ciantar (Paleologo), Barone di San Giovanni CMG President of the Assembly of the Maltese Nobility
John Hall, lately First Minister in New Zealand

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

Alfred Patrick, lately Clerk of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Lieutenant-Colonel John Stoughton Dennis, late Deputy of the Minister of the Interior in the Dominion of Canada
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Walter de Winton RA Military Secretary to the Governor-General of Canada
Montague Frederick Ommanney, one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer FRS Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for services rendered to Colonial Governments
Saverio Marchese di Piro, Major of the Royal Malta Fencible Artillery
Henry Heylyn Hayter, Government Statist in the Colony of Victoria
Cornelius Alfred Moloney, Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast Colony
Gerhardus M. Rudolf, Resident Magistrate in Natal
Melmoth Osborn, British Resident in Zululand
John Forrest, Deputy Surveyor-General of Western Australia, for distinguished services in exploration
Victor Alexander Williamson, for special services in Mauritius and Fiji

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire

Companion (CIE)

William Mackinnon
Syud Lutf Ali Khan
Moung Shway Kyee, Police Department, British Burmah
Rana Shankar Bakhsh Singh Bahadur, Honorary Assistant Commissioner in Oudh
Deputy Surgeon-General William James Moore, Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy of India
Edward Ronald Douglas, Deputy Director-General of the Post Office of India

References

^ "No. 25110". The London Gazette. 23 May 1882. p. 2409.
^ "No. 25111". The London Gazette. 24 May 1882. p. 2461.
^ "No. 25114". The London Gazette. 2 June 1882. p. 2589.
^ "The Birthday Honours". The Evening Post. 26 May 1882. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

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Birthday Honours	1860 1861 1862 1863§ 1864§ 1865§ 1866 1867 1868§ 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876§ 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887† 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897† 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911† 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937† 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953† 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 § Not issued † Not issued because of Jubilee Honours (1887, 1897) and Coronation Honours (1911, 1937, 1953)
Coronation Honours	1821 1831 1838 1902 1911 1937 1953 2023† † Not issued
Jubilee Honours	1887 (Golden) 1897 (Diamond) 1935 (Silver) 1977 (Silver) 2002 (Golden) 2012 (Diamond) 2022 (Platinum)† † Not issued
Demise Honours	2002 (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret) 2021 (The Duke of Edinburgh) 2023 (Queen Elizabeth II)
Dissolution Honours	1874 1885 1892 1895 1900† 1906† 1910† 1918† 1922 1923† 1924 1929 1931 1935† 1945 1950 1951† 1955† 1959 1964 1966 1970 1974 (February) 1974 (October) 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017† 2019 † Not issued
Prime Minister's Resignation Honours	1895 1905 1916 1924 1945 1951 1955† 1957† 1963 1964 1970 1976 1979† 1990 1997 2007† 2010† 2016 2019 2022 (Johnson) 2022 (Truss) † Not issued
Special Honours	1923 1952 1972 1973 1974 1985 1991 1992 1993 1999 2004 2006 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Additional Honours	1911 (Delhi Durbar) 1969 (Investiture of The Prince of Wales) 1990 (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's 90th Birthday)
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