The Queen's Birthday Honours 1899 were announced on 3 June 1899 in celebration of the birthday of Queen Victoria. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and British India.
The list was published in The Times on 3 June 1899 and the various honours were gazetted in The London Gazette on 3 June 1899, and on 13 June 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 division (Military, Civil).
It was announced in the list that The Queen had been pleased to confer the title of Lord Mayor upon the Mayor of the City of Bristol.
Baronet
The Right Honourable Samuel James Way, Chief Justice of South Australia
Thomas Brooke, Esq. Samuel Hoare, Esq., MP Thomas Salt, Esq. Professor John Scott Burdon Sanderson John Usher, Esq.
Knight Bachelor
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, RA
Walter Armstrong, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland
William Mitchell Banks, MD, FRCS
John Edmund Barry, President of Dublin Chamber of Commerce
Herbert Hardy Cozens-Hardy, one of the Justices of Her Majesty's High Court of Justice Alured Dumbell, Judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice and Clerk of the Rolls for the Isle of Man Charles Bowman Logan, W.S., Society of Writers, Deputy-Keeper of the Signet of Scotland James Creed Meredith, LL.D, Secretary of the Royal University of Ireland Thomas Morel, ship- and coalowner and Mayor of Cardiff Walter Murton, CB, solicitor to the Board of Trade Henry Evelyn Oakeley, late Chief Inspector of Schools, Education Department William Pollitt, Railway Company Manager John Francis Rotton, QC, Legal Adviser to the Local Government Board John Sibbald, physician, Lunacy Commissioner in Scotland Joseph Frizelle, late Chief Justice of the High Court of the Punjab William Fischer Agnew, Recorder of Rangoon Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay John Alexander Boyd, Chancellor of the High Court of the Province of Ontario Thomas Crossley Rayner, Chief Justice of the Colony of Lagos Robert Alexander Taylor of Coleraine Matthew Harris, Mayor of the City of Sydney, New South Wales Thomas Jackson, Hong Kong
Other 1899 Knights Bachelor
Herbert Ashman, Lord Mayor of Bristol (15 November) George Farwell, judge of the High Court (28 November) Franklin Lushington, Chief Magistrate, Metropolitan Police courts (28 November)
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB)
Civil division
The Right Honourable Sir Charles Stewart Scott, , Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Saint Petersburg. Henry Morton Stanley,
Military division
General Sir John Forbes, , Bombay Cavalry. Admiral Sir Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, . Admiral the Honourable Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle, . Admiral Sir John Ommanney Hopkins, . General Sir Robert Biddulph, , Royal Artillery, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar.
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Civil division
Colonel John Farquharson, , Royal Engineers, late Director-General of the Ordnance Survey. George Herbert Murray, , Secretary to the General Post Office. William Henry Preece, , Consulting Engineer to the General Post Office. Michael Foster, , Secretary to the Royal Society.
Military division
Lieutenant-General Frederick Arthur Willis, (since deceased). Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General Henry Radford Norman, Major-General and Honorary Lieutenant-General Alexander Hugh Cobbe, Lieutenant-General Robert Gordon Rogers, , Indian Staff Corps. Lieutenant-General Benjamin Lumsden Gordon, , Royal (late Madras) Artillery. Major-General Cornelius Francis Clery, , Deputy-Adjutant-General to the Forces. Vice-Admiral Cyprian Arthur George Bridge.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Civil Division James Samuel Gibbons, , Chairman of the Prison Commissioners, Ireland. William Graham Greene, , Admiralty. Thomas John Pittar, , Principal of the Statistical Department of the Custom House. William Tucker, , Assistant-Secretary to the Education Department. Captain Thomas Henry Tizard, Royal Navy.