Honours
Edmund Monson was appointed CB in 1878, knighted KCMG in 1886 and promoted to GCMG in 1892. He received the additional honours of GCB in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1896 and GCVO in 1903 when King Edward VII visited Paris. He was sworn to the Privy Council in 1893 and made a baronet in 1905. The French government awarded him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.
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