The 1902 Coronation Honours were announced on 26 June 1902, the date originally set for the coronation of King Edward VII . The coronation was postponed because the King had been taken ill two days before, but he ordered that the honours list should be published on that day anyway.
The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India , and the creation of two new decorations:
The first Companions of the Imperial Service Orders were not announced until the following November Birthday Honours list , however.
There were also some promotions and appointments in the British Army announced in the list.
The honours were covered in the press at the time, including in The Times on the day,[1] but formal announcements in the London Gazette were spread out over the following months, in gazettes dated 26 June 1902,[2] 11 July 1902,[3] 18 July 1902,[4] 22 July 1902,[5] 25 July 1902,[6] and 2 September 1902.[7]
A South African list, honouring people for their service during the Second Boer War , was published on the same day.
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The King has been pleased to institute an Order of Merit , to which His Majesty, as Sovereign of the Order, has made the following appointments:
Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts , KG , KP , VC
Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley , KP , GCB
General Herbert Kitchener, Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum , GCB , GCMG
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh , FRS
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , GCVO , FRS
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister , FRS
Admiral of the Fleet the Honourable Sir Henry Keppel , GCB
The Right Honourable John Morley , MP
The Right Honourable William Edward Hartpole Lecky , MP
Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour , GCB
Sir William Huggins , KCB , PRS
George Frederic Watts , Esq., RA
Order of St Michael and St George ribbon
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
Major Matthew Nathan , Royal Engineers , CMG, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast Colony
His Honour Daniel Hunter McMillan , Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Manitoba , in Canada
The Honourable Neil Elliot Lewis , MA , BCL , CMG, Prime Minister of the State of Tasmania
The Honourable Frederick William Holder , Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia
The Honourable John See , Prime Minister of the State of New South Wales
The Honourable Alexander James Peacock , late Prime Minister of the State of Victoria
The Honourable Frederick William Borden , MD , Minister of Militia and Defence of the Dominion of Canada
The Honourable William Mulock , KC , LLD , MA , Postmaster General of the Dominion of Canada
Edmund Constantine Henry Phipps , Esq., CB , His Majesty's Minister at Brussels , for services in connection with the Sugar conference
The Honourable Michael Henry Herbert , CB , His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington
Commodore Francis Powell , CB , Royal Navy , for services in China
Pelham Laird Warren , Esq., CMG, His Majesty's Consul-General at Shanghai , for services in China
Surgeon-General Horace Henderson Pinching , Head of the Sanitary Department in Cairo
George Mackenzie , Esq., CB , for services in connection with Persia
Francis Langford O'Callaghan , Esq., CSI , CIE , managing director of the Uganda Railway
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)
Robert Armitage Sterndale , Esq., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of St Helena
William Lamond Allardyce , Esq., Administrator of the Government of Fiji , assistant Colonial Secretary and Receiver-General
Brevet Colonel (local Major-General) Sir John Grenfell Maxwell , KCB , DSO , for services rendered while Military Governor of Pretoria
The Honourable William McCulloch , late Minister of Health and public Works of the State of Victoria
Captain George Augustus Giffard , Royal Navy for services as Senior Naval Officer engaged in the protection of the Newfoundland Fisheries
Arthur Ashley Parson, Esq., of the Colonial Office , for services as one of the British Delegates at the Sugar Bounties Conference, 1901-02
William Hepworth Mercer, Esq., one of the Crown Agents for the Colonies , for services as Secretary of the Pacific Cable Committees
Henry Francis Wilson, Esq., MA , Secretary to the Administration of the Orange River Colony
Edward Rawle Drayton, Esq., Colonial Secretary and registrar-General of the Island of Grenada
Anthony Musgrave, Esq., Government Secretary of the Possession of British New Guinea
John Kemys George Thomas Spencer-Churchill , Esq., Colonial Secretary of the Bahama Islands
Robert Wilson Levers, Esq., MA , Government Agent of the Northern Province of the Island of Ceylon
Charles Riby Williams, Esq., Treasurer of the Gold Coast colony
Horace Major Brandford Griffith, Esq.,Treasurer of the Colony of The Gambia
Edward Deshon, Esq., Auditor-General of the State of Queensland
Edmund Fosbery , Esq., Inspector-General of Police of the State of New South Wales
George Thompson Hare , Esq., Secretary for Chinese Affairs for the Federation of the Protected States of the Malay Peninsula
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick White , Comptroller of the North-West Mounted Police in Canada
Edward Fortescue Wright , Esq., Inspector-General of Police and Prisons of the Island of Jamaica
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Percy Sherwood , Commissioner of Police in Canada
George Lancelot Eyles, Esq., Consulting Engineer for Railways to the Government of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope , and to the Crown Agents for the Colonies
John Brown, Esq., M.Inst.C.E. , Engineer-in-Chief, Government Railways of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
Haslitt Michael Beatty, Esq., Chief Locomotive Superintendent, Government Railways of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
William Petch Hewby, Esq., Resident of the First Class in the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria
Frederick Seton James, Esq., Divisional Commissioner in the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria
Lieutenant Francis Bartley Henderson, Royal Navy , DSO , District Commissioner in Ashanti Protectorate
Charles George Harland Bell, Esq., late Civil Commissioner and resident Magistrate, Mafeking , in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
Solomon Dias Bandaranaike , Esq., Maha Mudaliyar of the Island of Ceylon
Ricardo Micallef, Esq., Comptroller of Charitable Institutions in the Island of Malta
Joseph Baynes, Esq., Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Natal
Robert Harris , Esq., President of the Royal Canadian Academy
Richard Darrell Darrell, Esq., Assistant Justice of the Court of General Assize of the Bermuda Islands
William Kellman Chandler, Esq., LLD , Master in Chancery and Senior Judge of the Assistant Court of Appeal of the Island of Barbados
Ernest Leslie Acutt, Esq., Mayor of Durban
John William Leonard, Esq., on retirement as Chief Clerk and Chief Accountant in the office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies
Gustave Albert Ritter, Esq., Unofficial Member of the Council of Government of the Colony of Mauritius
Ho Kai , Esq., Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong
James Miller Farquharson, Esq., Custos of the Parish of St. James, in the Island of Jamaica
John Emrys Evans, Esq., formerly British Vice-Consul at Johannesburg , for services rendered in South Africa
James Donnan, Esq., on retirement as Master Attendant, Colombo , in the Island of Ceylon
Henry Mitchell Hull, Esq., Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast Colony
James Bryant Lindley, Esq., in recognition of services rendered in connection with Refugees in South Africa
George Francis Birt Jenner, Esq., His Majesty's Minister in Central America
Colonel James Moncrieff Grierson , Royal Artillery , CB , MVO , late Military Attaché to His Majesty's Embassy in Berlin
Robert Drummond Hay, Esq., His Majesty's Consul-General at Beirut
Henri Angst, His Majesty's Consul-General at Zurich
William John Archer , Esq., His Majesty's Consul at Bangkok
Frederick John Jackson , Esq., CB , Deputy-Commissioner in the East Africa Protectorate
Captain Harry Edward Spiller Cordeaux , His Majesty's Vice-Consul at Berbera
Major Percy Molesworth Sykes , 2nd Dragoon Guards , for services rendered while His Majesty's Consul for Kerman and Balochistan
Captain Arthur Calvert Clarke, Royal Navy , for services in China
Captain Chapman James Clare , South Australian Naval Defence Force, for services in China
Commander Ernest Frederic Augustus Gaunt , Royal Navy , for services in China
Commander Percy Cullen, Royal Navy , for services in the British Central Africa Protectorate
It had been the King's intention to have conferred the Companionship of the Order of St Michael and St George on the late Honourable George Leake , KC , Premier of the State of Western Australia
Honorary Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
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His Majesty has been pleased to institute a Decoration for Members of the Civil Service to be conferred after Long and Meritorious Service, and to be known as the Imperial Service Order .