Appointments by Queen Victoria
The 1878 Birthday Honours were appointments by Queen Victoria to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of the Queen, and were published in The London Gazette [ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc. ) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc. ) as appropriate.
United Kingdom and British Empire [ edit ] The Right Honourable Thomas George, Lord Northbrook GCB GCSI by the names, styles, and titles of Viscount Baring , of Lee, in the county of Kent, and Earl of Northbrook , in the county of Southampton Civilian star of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath [ edit ] [ edit ] Star of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India [ edit ] [ edit ] The Honourable Ashley Eden CSI
Stuart Colvin Bayley CSI James Gibbs, Bombay Civil Service, Member of the Council of the Governor of Bombay
Colonel Charles James Merriman, Royal (late Bombay) Engineers, Superintending Engineer for Irrigation in Sind
James Bellett Richey , Bombay Civil Service, Extra First Assistant to the Collector and Magistrate of Kaira for the Panch MahalsLieutenant-Colonel William Scott Drever, Madras Staff Corps, Commissioner, Madras Town Police
John Henry Garstin , Madras Civil Service, Collector and Magistrate, South ArcotRobert Davidson, Madras Civil Service, District and Sessions Judge, Chingleput
Charles Alfred Elliott , Bengal Civil Service, Commissioner of Revenue and Circuit, North-Western ProvincesMajor Colin Campbell Scott Moncrieff , Royal (late Bengal) Engineers, Chief Engineer, Mysore and CoorgStar of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George [ edit ] [ edit ] Albert Smith , Minister of the Marine for the Dominion of Canada, and lately employed in connection with the Halifax Fisheries CommissionHenry Turner Irving CMG Sanford Freeling CMG
Sir James Milne Wilson Kt
John Hay , President of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New South WalesArchibald Michie QC Frederick B. T. Carter , late Premier and Attorney-General of the Island of Newfoundland[ edit ] Anthony O'Grady Lefroy , Treasurer of the Colony of Western AustraliaDoctor Francis Reid, Chief Medical Officer of the Island of Mauritius
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites , Director of the Botanical Gardens in the Island of CeylonColonel William Acland Douglas Anderson , in Command of the Local Military Forces in the Colony of Victoria
Henry Halloran, Principal Under-Secretary for the Colony of New South Wales
Timothy Darling, Senior Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of the Bahama Islands
Colville Arthur Durell Barclay , formerly of Mauritius, and lately Auditor-General of the Island of CeylonColonel George Pomeroy Colley CB
Captain Francis W. Sullivan CB RN
Captain Warren, Royal Engineers, Boundary Commissioner, Griqualand West
Captain Matthew J. Blyth, Resident Magistrate, Griqualand East
Captain Charles Mills, Assistant Colonial Secretary, Cape of Good Hope 
