The New Year Honours 1899 were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.
They were published in The Times on 2 January 1899, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 2 January 1899, 10 January 1899, and on 13 January 1899.
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).
Peerages
Viscount
Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Cromer
Baron
The Right Honourable Sir Philip Currie, GCB
Sir Joseph Russell Bailey, Bart. Sir Henry Hawkins Robert Thornhagh Gurdon, Esq.
Privy Council
Sir William Walrond, Bart., MP
Sir Charles Hall, KCMG, MP, Recorder of London
Colonel Edward James Saunderson, MP
William Kenrick, Esq., MP
Privy Council of Ireland
Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, KP
Colonel Edward Henry Cooper, Her Majesty′s Lord Lieutenant for County Sligo
Baronetcy
Sir Henry Thompson, FRCS
William Henry Hornby, Esq., MP
Francis Tress Barry, MP
John Murray Scott
Knight Bachelor
Thomas Townsend Bucknill, QC, justice of the High Court
Fortescue Flannery, MP
John Furley, Commissioner to National Aid Society
Edward Lawrence, JP and Mayor of Liverpool in 1864-65
Henry Evelyn Oakeley, lately Chief Inspector of Schools at the Education Department David Richmond, Lord Provost of Glasgow Hermann Weber, MD Arthur Strachey, LLD, Chief Justice of the High Court, Allahabad William Mure, late Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Mauritius James Henderson, Lord Mayor of Belfast John Barr Johnston, the Mayor of Londonderry John Chute Neligan, Recorder of Cork Dr. Plunkett O′Farrell, Commissioner of Control and Inspector of Lunatic Asylums in Ireland
Other 1899 Knights Bachelor
John Thomas Soundby, JP and Mayor of Windsor (May 24)
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Civil Division Sir Hugh Owen, KCB, late Permanent Secretary to the Local Government Board Sir Charles Lennox Peel, KCB, late Clerk of the Council
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Civil Division Carey John Knyvett, Esq., CB, late Principal Clerk, Home Office Henry Primrose, Esq., CB, CSI William Chandler Roberts-Austen, CB, FRS, Chemist and Assayer to the Royal Mint Edward Wingfield, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB) Civil division Charles Henry Alderson, Esq., Charity Commissioner Jasper Capper Badcock, Esq., Controller of London Postal Service Robert Henry Boyce, Esq., Office of Works Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, Esq., Chairman of the Prison Commission Sir Charles Cameron, Bart., MD Henry Cockburn, Chinese Secretary to Legation, Peking Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Collins, MVO Honourable Sidney Robert Greville, Esq. Frederick John Jackson, Esq., Her Majesty′s Vice Consul and First Class Assistant, Uganda John Joseph Casimer Jones, Esq., Chief Commissioner, Dublin Metropolitan Police Walter Loois Frederick Goltz Langley, Esq., Foreign Office Henry Walrond Simpkinson, Esq., Education Department John Steele, Chief Inspector of Excise George Wilson, Her Majesty′s Vice Consul and First Class Assistant, Uganda
Order of the Star of India
Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) His Highness Rasul Khanji Mahabat Khanji, Nawab of Junagarh Charles Cecil Stevens, Esq., CSI, Indian Civil Service
Companions of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers, Esq., Member of the Governor-General's Council. Arundel Tagg Arundel, Esq, Indian Civil Service. Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Robertson, Indian Staff Corps. His Highness Raja Kirti Sah of Tehri Garhwal John Prescott Hewett, Esq., CIE, Indian Civil Service. Colonel William Pleace Warburton, MD, Indian Medical Service. Colonel David Sinclair, MB, Indian Medical Service.