Queen Victoria's appointments
The New Year Honours 1900 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.
The list was published in The Times on 1 January 1900,[1] and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 2 January 1900[2] and 16 January 1900.[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 divisions (Military, Civil).
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
- Civil Division
Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney, CB, FRS, Director of the Science and Art Department.
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)
- Civil Division
- John George Barton, Esq., Commissioner of Valuation, Ireland.
- George Buchanan, Esq., for services on the Venezuelan Boundary Commission.
- Robert Chalmers, Esq., of HM Treasury.
- Henry Hardinge Samuel Cunynghame, Esq., of the Home Office.
- Major-General Edward Robert Festing, FRS, late Royal Engineers, Director of the Science Museum.
- Everard im Thurn, Esq., CMG, for services on the Venezuelan Boundary Commission.
- John Lowndes Gorst, Esq., Financial Advisor to His Highness the Khedive.
- Colonel James Leslie Macdonald, RE.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Burness McHardy, RE, Chairman, Prison Commission, Scotland.