1895 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours Explained

The 1895 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were announced in the British national press on 1 July 1895^[1] following the resignation of Lord Rosebery's government on 22 June. The appointments to the Order of the Bath appeared officially in the London Gazette of 2 July.

Earl

• Lord Houghton
• Lord Carrington

Baron

• The Right Hon. Sir H. B. Loch, G.C.B.
• The Right Hon. Herbert Gardner, M.P.
• Mr Sydney Stern, M.P.
• Mr James Williamson, M.P.

Baronet

• Mr James Blyth, a Governor of the Royal Agricultural Society.
• Mr William Agnew.
• Captain Naylor Leyland.
• Sir Joseph Renals, Lord Mayor of London.
• Mr James Bell, Lord Provost of Glasgow.

Knight Bachelor

• Mr Arthur Arnold, Chairman of the London County Council.
• Colonel E. T. Gourley, M.P.
• Mr Clarence Smith, M.P. for Kingston upon Hull East
• Mr Frederick Howard.
• Dr H. D. Littlejohn.
• Mr Cowasjee Jehanghir.
• Mr James Low, Lord Provost of Dundee.

Privy Counsellor

• Sir Ralph Thompson, K.C.B., late Under-Secretary of State for War.
• Sir Bernhard Samuelson, Bart., M.P.

Order of the Star of India

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of India (GCSI)

• The Right Hon. Henry Hartley Fowler, M.P.

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)

• The Right Hon. Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)

• Colonel Vivian Dering Majendie, C.B., Inspector of Explosives, Home Office.
• Robert Giffen, Esq., C.B., Comptroller-General of the Commercial, Labour, and Statistical Department, Board of Trade.
• Alfred Milner, Esq., C.B., Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue.

Commander of the Order of the Bath (CB)

• William John Courthope, Esq., First Commissioner, Civil Service Commission.
• John Roche Dasent, Esq., Education Department.
• Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen, Esq., Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General, Siam.
• Colonel Robert Bruce Fellows, retired, late 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, Deputy Clerk of Council and Chief Clerk, Privy Council.
• Henry John Lowndes Graham, Esq., Clerk of the Parliaments.
• Arthur Henry Hardinge, Esq., Political Agent and Consul-General, Zanzibar.
• Charles Hardinge, Esq., commonly called the Honourable Charles Hardinge, a Second Secretary in the Diplomatic Service.
• Edward Stanley Hope, Esq., one of the Charity Commissioners.
• Francis John Stephens Hopwood, Esq., C.M.G., one of the Assistant Secretaries, Board of Trade.
• John Wesley Judd, Esq., Professor of Geology, Royal College of Science.
• Edward Chandos Leigh, Esq., Q.C., commonly called the Honourable Edward Chandos Leigh, Q.C., Counsel to the Speaker.
• Captain Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, D.S.O., Norfolk Regiment.
• Reginald MacLeod, Esq., the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, Scotland.
• Alfred Richard Pennefather, Esq., Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, and for the Police Courts of the *Metropolis.
• Alfred de Bock Porter, Esq., Secretary to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
• Stephen Edward Spring-Rice, Esq., one of the Principal Clerks in the Treasury.
• Armine Wodehouse, Esq., commonly called the Honourable Armine Wodehouse, Private Secretary to the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Notes and References

1. "Honours and Appointments", The Times, London, 1 July 1895, page 6