1897 New Year Honours

Order of the Bath

Knights Grand Cross (GCB)

• The Right Honourable Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles, GCMG, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin.

  Knights Commander (KCB)

• Sir Elwin Mitford Palmer, KCMG, Financial Adviser to His Highness the Khedive of Egypt.
• William Anderson, Esq., CB, Director-General of Ordnance Factories.
• Honorary Colonel the Honourable Wellington Patrick Manvers Chetwynd-Talbot, Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Lords.

  Companions (CB)

• Basil Cave, Esq., Consul at Zanzibar.
• William Edward Davidson, Esq., QC, Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office.
• William Conyngham Greene, Esq., British Resident, South African Republic.
• William John Mure, Esq., Legal Secretary to the Lord Advocate for Scotland.
• Richard Thomas Prowse, Esq., Secretary to the Board of Customs.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Lothian Kerr Scott, retired pay, late Royal Engineers.
• Edmond Henry Wodehouse, Esq., Commissioner of Inland Revenue.

  Order of the Star of India

Knights Commander (KCSI)

• John Woodburn, Esq., CSI, Member of the Council of the Governor-General of India.
• His Highness Maharao Raja Raghubir Singh Bahadur, Chief of Bundi.
• Sir Edward Charles Buck, CSI, Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Revenue and Agriculture.

  Companions (CSI)

• John Nugent, Esq., Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay.
• Charles Lewis Tupper, Esq., Officiating Second Financial Commissioner of the Punjab.
• Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser, Esq., Commissioner of the Nagpur Division, Central Provinces.

  Order of the Indian Empire

Knights Grand Commander (GCIE)

• Major-General Sir Owen Tudor Burne, KCSI, CIE.

  Knights Commander (KCIE)

• His Highness Maharaja Sawai Ranjor Singh Bahadur, of Ajaigarh.

  Companions (CIE)

• William Earnshaw Cooper, Esq.
• Alexander Anderson, Esq., Indian Civil Service.
• John Eliot, Esq., FRS, Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India.
• Maharaj Rajeshwari Sankara Stibbaiyar, Diwan of Travancore.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Lake Wells, RE.
• Lieutenant Eaton Wallace Petley, RN
• Rui Bahadur Pandit Bhag Ram.
• Khan Bahadur Naoroji Pestonji Vakil.

  Order of St Michael and St George

Knights Commander (KCMG)

• The Honourable George Turner, Premier and Treasurer of the Colony of Victoria.

  Companions (CMG)

• Charles Benjamin Mosse, Esq., CB, Deputy Surgeon-General, AMD, Superintending Medical Officer for the Island of Jamaica.
• Captain Robert Lister Bower, Resident of Ibadan.
• Henry Cloete, Esq., lately Acting British Agent in the South African Republic.