The 1891 New Year Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by people of the United Kingdom, British India and in the British Empire.

They were announced in The Times on 1 January 1891,^[1] and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 1 January 1891,^[2] 7 January 1891,^[3] and 13 January 1891.^[4]

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).

Peerages

Baron

Baronet

The Right Honourable Sir Hercules George Robinson, GCMG.
Major-General Sir Henry Rawlinson, GCB.
Thomas Brooks, Esq., Rawtenstall.
Richard Quain, Esq., M.D., FRS.

Knight Bachelor

Colonel James Godfray, ADC.
Francis Ringler Drummond Hay, Esq., late Consul-General in Tripoli.
Alfred Hickman, Esq., Wolverhampton.
Professor George Murray Humphry, Cambridge.
George Samuel Measom, Esq., Chairman Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Henry John Waring, Esq., late Mayor of Plymouth.
Josiah Rees, Esq., Chief Justice of Bermuda.
Edward Loughlin O'Malley, Esq., Chief Justice, Straits Settlements.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

Civil division

Colonel Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, KCSI, CB, Permanent Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Civil division

Professor Ball, Director of the Museum of Science and Art, Dublin.
Charles John Follett, Esq., BCL, Solicitor to Her Majesty's Customs.
Thomas C. March, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Green Cloth.
Edward James Standen, Esq., British Representative on the Council of the Suez Canal Company.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Commander (KCSI)

Alexander Mackenzie, Esq., CSI, Bengal Civil Service, Chief Commissioner of Burma.

Companion (CSI)

William Young, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, Judicial Commissioner of Oudh.
David Robert Lyall, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Chittagong.
Sirdar Jiwan Singh of Patiala.
Colonel Percy William Powlett, Bengal Staff Corps.

Order of Saint Michael and Saint George

Knight Commander (KCMG)

Thomas Sutherland, Esq., MP, Chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Major-General James Bevan Edwards, RE, CB, for services rendered in connection with the Australasian Military Forces.
James Arndell Youl, Esq., CMG, of the Colony of Tasmania.
Frederick McCoy, Esq., CMG, Professor of Natural Science in the University of Melbourne, in the Colony of Victoria.
Giuseppe Carbone, Esq., LL.D., CMG, Crown Advocate of the Island of Malta.
Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon, Esq., Agent-General in London for the Colony of Tasmania.

Companion (CMG)

Frederic Bernal, Esq., Her Majesty's Consul-General at Havre.
Henry James Burford-Hancock, Chief Justice of Gibraltar.
Tom Francis Odling, Esq., MRCSE, Assistant Medical Superintendent of Indian Government Telegraphs at Teheran.
Everard William Wylde, Esq., of the Foreign Office.
George Melville, Esq., Colonial Secretary of British Honduras, at present administering the Government of that Colony.
Richard Cornelius Critchett Walker, Esq., Principal Under-Secretary in the Colony of New South Wales.
Allan Maclean Skinner, Esq., Resident Councillor of Penang, Straits Settlements.
Walter Kennaway, Esq., Secretary to the Agent General in London for the Colony of New Zealand.
James Desmond McCarthy, Esq., M.D., Chief Medical Officer of the Gold Coast Colony.
Major and Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Sandilands Frowd Walker, Commandant of the 1st Battalion of Perak Sikhs, Straits Settlements.
George Henry Jenkins, Esq., Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Victoria.
John Roberts, Esq., President of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, held at Dunedin, 1889.
William Philip Schreiner, Esq., Legal Adviser to the High Commissioner for South Africa.
George Mansel, Esq., Commandant of the Zululand Police Force.

Order of the Indian Empire

Knight Commander (KCIE)

His Highness Parbhu Narayan Singh, Maharaja Bahadur of Benares.

Companion (CIE)

James Lyle Mackay, Esq.
T. Rama Rao, Dewan of the Travancore State.
Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Henry Emile Tucker, Bengal Infantry, Deputy Inspector-General of Police in the Punjab.
Raja Jag Mohun Singh.
Theodore Cooke, Esq., M.A., LL.D., Principal of the College of Science at Poona.
Brigade Surgeon Thomas Edwin Burton Brown, M.D.
James Edward O'Conor, Esq., Assistant Secretary to the Government of India in the Finance and Commerce Department.
Walter Roper Lawrence, Esq., Bengal Civil Service.
Surgeon-Major Thomas Holbein Hendley.
William Watt Daly, Esq.
Charles Stewart Murray, Esq.
Ernest Octavius Walker, Esq.

Order of the Crown of India

Her Highness Maharani Sakhiya Raja Sahiba Sindia Alijah Bahadur, Regent of Gwalior.

References

^ "New Year Honours". The Times. No. 33210. London. 1 January 1891. p. 9.
^ "No. 26120". The London Gazette. 1 January 1891. pp. 1–2.
^ "No. 26123". The London Gazette. 9 January 1891. p. 165.
^ "No. 26124". The London Gazette. 13 January 1891. p. 225.

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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 1923 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 1990 1991 1992 1993 1999 2004 2006 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Additional Honours	1911 (Delhi Durbar) 1953 (Korea) 1969 (Investiture of The Prince of Wales) 1990 (Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's 90th Birthday)
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