The New Year Honours 1901 were appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.
The list was published in The Times on 1 January 1901, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 28 December 1900 and 8 January 1901.
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 division (Military, Civil).
Privy Council
Lewis Fry, Esq. Thomas Frederick Halsey, Esq., MP Edmund Barton, QC, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, GCMG, Lieutenant-governor and Chief Justice of Queensland, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies
Baronet
John Aird, Esq., MP
Thomas Barlow, Esq., MD, Physician Extraordinary to the Queen
Jonathan Edmund Backhouse, Esq. William Selby Church, Esq., MD, FRCS Colonel Robert Gunter, MP Wyndham Spencer Portal, Esq.
Knight Bachelor
Hugh Adcock, CMG
Edward Henry Busk, Esq., Chairman of Convocation in the University of London
Alfred Cooper, Esq., Surbiton
Robert Harvey, Esq., High Sheriff of Cornwall
Edward Wollaston Knocker, Esq., CB, Registrar of the Cinque Ports
Hiram Maxim, Esq. John Mark, Esq., former Mayor of Manchester Joseph Sykes Rymer, Esq., late Lord Mayor of York Henry Miller, Speaker of the Legislative Council, New Zealand Arthur Robert Wallace, Esq., CB, DL, Principal Chief Clerk Secretary′s Office, Dublin Castle Edward Matthew Hodgson, Esq., JP, Chairman of the Rathmines and Rathgar Urban District Council John Quick, of Victoria, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Civil Division Sir Alfred Milner, KCB, High Commissioner for South Africa Sir Francis Mowatt, KCB, Secretary to the Treasury Lord Justice Romer
Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Civil Division Edward Chandos Leigh, CB, QC, Counsel to the Speaker, House of Commons Richard Mills, Esq., CB, late Comptroller and Auditor General Sir William Turner, D.C.L.
Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB) Civil division Francis Alexander Campbell, Esq., of the Foreign Office Frederick Victor Dickins, Esq., Registrar to the University of London Lawrence Charles Edward Downing Dowdall, Esq., of the Irish Office George Vandeleur Fiddes, Esq., Colonial Office Robert O′Brien Furlong, Esq., Solicitor to the Inland Revenue Department, Ireland Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Clare Garcia, Inspector-General of Military Prisons Henry Paul Harvey, Esq., of the War Office Charles Prestwood Lucas, Esq., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office Malcolm McNeill, Esq., Chairman of the Local Government Board for Scotland Lieutenant-Colonel George Tindall Plunkett, Royal Engineers, Director of the Science and Art Department, Dublin
Order of the Star of India
Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) Charles Montgomery Rivaz, Esq., CSI, Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor General of India
Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) Frederick Styles Philpin Lely, Esq., Indian Civil Service John Ontario Miller, Esq., Indian Civil Service George Robert Irwin, Esq., Indian Civil Service William Robert Bright, Esq., Indian Civil Service
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir John Forrest, LL.D, KCMG, Premier and Colonial Treasurer of Western Australia, on the occasion of the Federation of the Australian Colonies