The 1902 Birthday Honours were announced on 10 November 1902, to celebrate the birthday of Edward VII the previous day. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and the British Empire.
The list was published in The Times 10 November 1902, and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 9 November 1902 and on 28 November 1902.
The list also included the first appointments to the Imperial Service Order, which the King had announced as a new order in the Coronation Honours list earlier the same year.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour and where appropriate by rank (Knight Grand Cross, Knight Commander, etc.) and then division (Military, Civil).
Privy Council
The Lord Revelstoke
Sir Joseph Cockfield Dimsdale, Baronet, KCVO, MP
George Henry Finch, Esq., MP
Henry Hobhouse, Esq., MP
The Honourable Sir Richard John Cartwright, GCMG, Minister of Trade and Commerce of Canada
Privy Council of Ireland
Frederick Stringer Wrench, Esq. Sir Henry Augustus Robinson, KCB
Baronet
Matthew Arthur, Esq. Frederick George Banbury, Esq., MP Alexander Hargreaves Brown, Esq., MP Samuel Chisholm, Esq., late Lord Provost of Glasgow Colonel William Thomas Makins, a former MP John Gardiner Nutting, Esq. Augustus Prevost, Esq., Governor of the Bank of England Charles Bine Renshaw, Esq., MP
Knight Bachelor
Edward Fleet Alford, Esq. Robert Rowand Anderson, Esq., LL.D., FRSE John Elijah Blunt, Esq., CB Robert Hudson Borwick, Esq. Thomas Henry Brooke-Hitching, Sheriff of the City of London John Mowlem Burt, Esq. William John Crump, Esq., lately Mayor of Islington William Thomas Dupree, Esq. Charles John Follett, Esq., CB, Solicitor to the Commissioners of Customs Walter Gray, Esq. Robert Mitton Hensley, Esq., Chairman of the Metropolitan Asylums Board John Hollams, Esq. James Hoy, Esq. Colonel Edwin Hughes, a former MP Edward Letchworth, Esq., FSA Colonel John Roper Parkinson Colonel Emil Hugo Oscar Robert Ropner, MP Henry Seton-Karr, Esq., MP John Sherburn, Esq. George Wyatt Truscott, Sheriff of the City of London Max Leonard Waechter, Esq. The Honourable William Arbuckle, President of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Natal Lewis Michell, Esq., late General Manager of the Standard Bank of South Africa and Chairman of the Martial Law Board in the Cape Colony John Winthrop Hackett, MA, Member of the Legislative Council of the State of Western Australia (included in the official list, but apparently declined the knighthood) William Meigh Goodman, Esq., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Hong Kong Henry Alleyne Bovell, Esq., Chief Justice of British Guiana The Honourable William Jukes Steward, late Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Colony of New Zealand
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir Robert Henry More-Molyneux, KCB. Admiral Sir Charles Frederick Hotham, GCVO, KCB. Admiral the Lord Charles Thomas Montagu Douglas-Scott, KCB. Civil Division (Honorary) His Imperial Highness Prince Arisugawa of Japan.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division (Honorary) His Excellency General R. Gorjão, of the Portuguese Army, Governor-General of the Province of Mozambique. Civil Division Sir Charles Howard, CB, late Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. George Christopher Trout Bartley, Esq., MP. Robert William Arbuthnot Holmes, Esq., CB, Treasury Remembrancer in Ireland.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Civil Division Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets Henry Charles Woods, CVO, MD. James Stewart Davy, Esq., General Inspector of the Local Government Board. Harry de la Rose Burrard Farnall, Esq., CMG, Foreign Office. Arthur Wilson Fox, Esq., Board of Trade, late Secretary of the Royal Commission on Local Taxation. Walter Jack Howell, Esq., Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. Lieutenant-General John Wimburn Laurie, MP. Gordon William Miller, Esq., Director of Navy Contracts. George Martineau, Esq. Colonel Charles Wyndham Murray, MP. William Henry Power, Esq., FRS, MRCS, Principal Medical Officer to the Local Government Board. John Struthers, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary, Scotch Education Department. Arthur Theodore Thring, Esq., Parliamentary Counsel John White, Esq., Principal Assistant Secretary of the Elementary Branch of the Board of Education. Percy Woods, Esq., late Treasury Officer of Accounts.