The 1914 Birthday Honours were appointments in the British Empire of King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published on 19 June 1914.
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.
British Empire
Order of the Garter Right Honourable William, Earl Beauchamp, K.C.M.G.
Order of the Thistle Arthur FitzGerald, Baron Kinnaird
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson, K.C.B., retired. General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.S.O., Sirdar, Egyptian Army, and Governor-General, Sudan Administration. General Sir Arthur Singleton Wynne, K.C.B., Retired Pay, Colonel, The King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry), and Keeper of the Jewel House, Tower of London.
Civil Division
The Right Honourable Herbert John, Viscount Gladstone, G.C.M.G.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Rear-Admiral David Beatty, C.B., M.V.O., D.S.O. Surgeon-General Arthur William May, C.B., K.H.P. Rear-Admiral Richard Henry Peirse, C.B., M.V.O. Admiral Ernest Rice, retired. Vice-Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Edward Bethell, K.C.M.G. Lieutenant-General Herbert Eversley Belfield, C.B., D.S.O., Retired Pay, Colonel, The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Lieutenant-General Ernest De Brath, C.B, C.I.E., Retired Pay, Indian Army. Lieutenant-General Sir Malcolm Henry Stanley Grover, K.C.I.E., C.B., Indian Army, Commanding 4th (Quetta) Division, India. Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) David Henderson, C.B., D.S.O., Director-General of Military Aeronautics, War Office. Colonel (local and temporary Major-General) Stanley Brenton von Donop, C.B., Master-General of the Ordnance and Fourth Military Member of the Army Council.
Civil Division Sir John Macdonell, C.B., King's Remembrancer. Richard Augustine Studdert Redmayne, Esq., C.B., Chief Inspector of Mines, Home Office. Sir Thomas William Holderness, K.C.S.I., Under-Secretary of State for India.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Herbert Guthrie Smith, Director of Artillery, War Office. Colonel Alexander William Roper, Chief Engineer, South Africa. Colonel George Francis William St. John, halfpay, late Royal Artillery. Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) The Honourable Cecil Edward Bingham, C.V.O., Commanding 4th Cavalry Brigade. Colonel William Hickie, Assistant Quartermaster-General, Irish Command. Colonel Francis John De Gex, Assistant Adjutant-General, Irish Command. Colonel Robert Scott-Kerr, M.V.O., D.S.O., Commanding Grenadier Guards and Regimental District. Colonel Archibald John Chapman, General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, Northern Command. Colonel Charles Henry Uvedale Price, D.S.O., Indian Army. Colonel Gilbert Walter Palin, C.I.E., Supply and Transport Corps, India. Colonel Courtenay Clarke Manifold, M.B., Indian Medical Service. Colonel William George Walker, V.C., Commandant, 1st Battalion, 4th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. Colonel (temporary Brigadier-General) Havelock Hudson, C.I.E., General Staff, Northern Army, India. Lieutenant-Colonel William Rice Edwards, C.M.G., M.D., Indian Medical Service.
Civil Division Rear-Admiral Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair, M.V.O. Captain Philip Wylie Dumas, C.V.O., R.N. Captain Frederic Charles Dreyer, R.N. Commander Mansfield George Smith-Cumming, R.N., retired. Commander Cecil Ryther Acklom, R.N., retired. Paymaster-in-Chief Frederick James Krabbe, R.N. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Frederick John Smith, V.D., Territorial Force Reserve, 8th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Major Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie, C.M.G., Member of the Albanian Delimitation Commission. The Honourable James Eric Drummond, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. Sir Guy Francis Laking, Bart., M.V.O., Keeper of the King's Armoury and Curator of the London Museum. The Honourable Gerald William Lascelles, Deputy Surveyor, New Forest. Herbert James Read, Esq., C.M.G., Principal Clerk, Colonial Office. William Henry Whiting, Esq., Superintendent of Construction Accounts and Contract Work, Admiralty.
Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander (KCSI) His Excellency Sardar Arfa, Amir Nuyan Sheikh Khazal Khan ibn Haji Jabir Khatij K.C.I.E., Sheikh of Mohammera. (Honorary) Sheikh Mubarak-bin-Subah, K.C.I.E., Ruler of Koweit.(Honorary) Michael William Fenton, Esq., C.S.I, Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Punjab. Sir Harold Arthur Stuart, K.C.V.O., C.S.I., Indian Civil Service, an Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor of Fort St. George. Colonel Sidney Gerald Burrard, C.S.I, F.R.S., R.E., Surveyor-General in India.
Companion (CSI) Sheikh Esa bin Ali al Khalifa, Chief of Bahrein. (Honorary) Sardar Daljit Singh of Jullundur, Honorary Magistrate and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India for making Laws and Regulations. Lieutenant-Colonel Raj Kumar Bir Bikram Singh, C.I.E., Commandant of the Imperial Service Sappers of the Sirmur State, Punjab. Walter Maude, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Temporary Member of the Executive Council of the Lieutenant-Governor, Bihar and Orissa. Bertram Sausmarez Carey, Esq., C.I.E., V.D., Burma Commission, Commissioner of the Sagaing Division, Burma. Michael Nethersole, Esq., Public Works Department, Inspector-General of Irrigation, Government of India. Henry Ashbrooke Crump, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Financial Commissioner, Central Provinces, India. William James Reid, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Assam, and a Member of the Council of the Chief Commissioner of Assam for making Laws and Regulations. Mysore Kantharaj Urs, Esq., Member of the Mysore State Council. Oswald Vivian Bosanquet, Esq., C.I.E., Indian Civil Service, Political Department, Government of India, Agent to the Governor-General in Central India. Walter Gunnell Wood, Esq., Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government in the Public Works Department, Buildings, Roads and Railways Branches, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor for making Laws and Regulations. John Cornwallis Godley, Esq., M.A., Indian Educational Department, Director of Public Instruction, Punjab, and a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab for making Laws and Regulations.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) The Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool, K.C.M.G., M.V.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand. The Right Honourable Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada. General Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle, R.A., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., D.S.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Malta. Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquet, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., late Governor of the State of South Australia. His Excellency the Right Honourable Sir William Conyngham Greene, K.C.B., His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Walter Edward Davidson, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Newfoundland. George Smith, Esq., C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Nyasaland Protectorate. The Honourable George Eulas Foster, LL.D., Minister of Trade and Commerce of the Dominion of Canada. The Honourable William Hill Irvine, LL.D., K.C., Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. Sir Benjamin Robertson, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces of India; in recognition of his services in connection with the Indian Enquiry Commission in the Union of South Africa. Major-General Alexander John Godley, C.B., General Officer Commanding the Military Forces of the Dominion of New Zealand. The Honourable Charles Eugene Boucher De Boucherville, C.M.G., Senator of the Dominion of Canada. William Hepworth Mercer, Esq., C.M.G., one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies. Lieutenant-Colonel George Lancelot Eyles, C.M.G., M.Inst.C.E., Consulting Engineer for Railways to the Crown Agents for the Colonies. Murdoch Macdonald, Esq., C.M.G., M.Inst.C.E., Under Secretary of State for Public Works, Egypt.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
William Barlow, Esq., LL.D., Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide. Gilbert Edmund Augustine Grindle, Esq., M.A., of the Colonial Office. Gysbert Reitz Hofmeyr, Esq., Clerk of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa. James Rankine Leisk, Esq., Secretary for Finance, Union of South Africa. Reginald Popham Lobb, Esq., Colonial Secretary and Registrar-General of the Bermudas or Somers Islands. William Kirkpatrick McNaught, Esq., Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario. Major Harry Claude Moorhouse, D.S.O., Secretary, Southern Provinces, Nigeria. Colonel John William Parnell, District Commandant, 3rd Military District, Commonwealth of Australia. Christopher James Parr, Esq., Mayor of the City of Auckland, in the Dominion of New Zealand. Albert Edward Stephenson, Esq., Director of Colonial Audit. Reginald Edward Stubbs, Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Island of Ceylon. Lieutenant-Colonel George Llewellyn Douglas Swain, Inspector-General of Constabulary, and Commandant of Local Forces of the Trinidad and Tobago. Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Nigeria. His Highness Mohamed Jemalulalam bin Almerhum Sultan Hashim Jalilulalam Akamuddin, Sultan of Brunei. (Honorary) Frank Gerard Clemow, Esq., M.D., British Delegate to the Ottoman Board of Health. Harry Halton Fox, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Chengtu. Ernest Miles Hobart-Hampden, Esq., Japanese Secretary to His Majesty's Embassy at Tokio. Thomas Beaumont Hohler, Esq., First Secretary in His Majesty's Legation in Mexico. Arthur King Lewis, Esq., Director-General, Egyptian Customs Administration. Henry Edward Sly, Esq., His Majesty's Consul at Harbin. Major Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, Civil Secretary to the Soudan Government.
Order of the Indian Empire
Knight Commander (KCIE) Brian Egerton, Esq., C.I.E., Controller-General of Paigahs, Hyderabad. Maharaja Girija Nath Ray Bahadur of Dinajpur, Bengal. Stephen George Sale, Esq., M.A., Barrister-at-Law, Legal Adviser and Solicitor to the Secretary of State for India.
Companion (CIE) Lieutenant-Colonel William Molesworth, M.B., B.Sc., Indian Medical Service, Surgeon, 1st District, and Superintendent, Medical School, Rayapuram, Madras. Phillip Glynn Messent, Esq., M.I.C.E., Chief Engineer to the Bombay Port Trust. Lalubhai Samaldas Mehta, Esq., an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay for making Laws and Regulations. Leonard Birley, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector of Dacca, Bengal. Babu Mohendra Nath Ray, Vakil of the High Court of Judicature in Fort William, Bengal, and an Additional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bengal for making Laws and Regulations. Frank Frederick Lyall, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Magistrate and Collector of Muzaffarpur, Bihar and Orissa. Lieutenant-Colonel George James Hamilton Bell, M.B., Indian Medical Service, Inspector-General of Prisons, Burma. Frank Currie Lowie, Esq., Public Works Department, India, Executive Engineer, Seniku-Htawgaw Road Extension, Burma. Lewis French, Esq., Indian Civil Service, Chief Minister, Kapurthala State, Punjab. Colonel Sidney Mercer Renny, R.A., Director of Ordnance Factories, India.