the Royal Irish Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Alexander Hill, 3rd Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Thomas Warne Lemmon, 3rd Battalion the, East Surrey Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel John Andrew Macdonald, 3rd Battalion the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Lewis Mansergh Buchanan, 4th Battalion the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Sir Fitzroy Maclean Bt, the West Kent (Queen's Own) Yeomanry Cavalry. Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant and Honorary Colonel Thomas Wilson, 2nd Lancashire Volunteer Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel Henry Montague Hozier, 3rd Kent (Royal Arsenal) Volunteer Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel John Strick, 1st Shropshire and Staffordshire Volunteer Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Frederick Filter, the Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery (Western Division, Royal Artillery). Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Edmund Carter Plant, 2nd Gloucestershire (the Bristol) Royal Engineers (Volunteers). Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel George Drew, 1st London Royal Engineers (Volunteers). Colonel William Earle Gascoigne Lytton Bulwer, Commanding the Norfolk Volunteer Infantry Brigade. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Somers Reginald Lewis, 4th Middlesex (West London) Volunteer Rifle Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel John Ormsby Vandeleur, 4th Volunteer Battalion the Hampshire Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Samuel Smith Crosland Richards, 19th Middlesex (St. Giles' and St. George's, Bloomsbury) Volunteer Rifle Corps. Colonel Henry Bethune Patton, Commanding the Severn Volunteer Infantry Brigade. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel Arthur Maurice Blake, 1st (Hertfordshire) Volunteer Battalion the Bedfordshire Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel and Honorary Colonel William Macfie, 3rd Volunteer Battalion the King's (Liverpool Regiment). Honours for cities and boroughs The Queen has also been pleased to direct that the Chief Magistrates of the cities of Leeds and Sheffield shall in future bear the title of Lord Mayor. Her Majesty has also been pleased to direct that the following boroughs shall be raised to the rank of cities :— Nottingham. Bradford. Kingston upon Hull. References British honours system 1897 awards 1897 in the United Kingdom