List of knights bachelor appointed in 1916

Knight Bachelor is the oldest and lowest-ranking form of knighthood in the British honours system; it is the rank granted to a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not inducted as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry.[1] Women are not knighted; in practice, the equivalent award for a woman is appointment as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (founded in 1917).

Knights bachelor appointed in 1916 edit

Date Name Notes Ref
1 January 1916 Milsom Rees, CVO, FRCS Laryngologist to the King's Household and to Queen Alexandra [2]
1 January 1916 Frederick Samuel Augustus Bourne, CMG Assistant Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Korea at Shanghai and Judge of His Majesty's High Court at Wei-hai-Wei [2]
1 January 1916 Marshall Reid, CIE Managing Director of the Bombay Company, Limited [2]
1 January 1916 Henry James Wakely Fry, CIE lately Director-General of Stores, India Office [2]
1 January 1916 Frederic Gorell Barnes [2]
1 January 1916 Maj. George Andreas Berry, MB, LLD Honorary Surgeon-Oculist to His Majesty in Scotland; Major, RAMC(T) [2]
1 January 1916 Arthur William Black, MP [2]
1 January 1916 John Boraston [2]
1 January 1916 William Henry Bowater ex-Lord Mayor of Birmingham [2]
1 January 1916 James Bruton Mayor of Gloucester [2]
1 January 1916 Harcourt Everard Clare Clerk of the Lancaster County Council [2]
1 January 1916 Francis Henry Dent General Manager of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway [2]
1 January 1916 Owen Morgan Edwards Chief Inspector of Education for Wales [2]
1 January 1916 Lazarus Fletcher, LLD, FRS Director of the Natural History Department of the British Museum [2]
1 January 1916 George Franklin Pro-Chancellor of Sheffield University [2]
1 January 1916 John Howard [2]
1 January 1916 Thomas John Hughes Chairman of the National Health Insurance Commission for Wales [2]
1 January 1916 Robert Keith Inches Lord Provost of Edinburgh [2]
1 January 1916 Francis Edgar Kearney [2]
1 January 1916 Horace Woodburn Kirby President of the Society of Chartered Accountants [2]
1 January 1916 Hedley Francis Le Bas [2]
1 January 1916 Daniel McCabe ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester [2]
1 January 1916 William Middlebrook, MP [2]
1 January 1916 Henry O'Shea Lord Mayor of Cork [2]
1 January 1916 Thomas Wright Parkinson, MD [2]
1 January 1916 Richard Atkinson Robinson [2]
1 January 1916 Patrick Shortall High Sheriff of Dublin [2]
1 January 1916 The Very Rev. George Adam Smith, DD, LLD, LittD Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Aberdeen University [2]
1 January 1916 Robert Wallace, KC Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the County of London [2]
1 January 1916 Thomas Beecham [2]
1 January 1916 Rai Kailash Chandra Basu Bahadur, CIE Member of the Municipal Corporation of Calcutta [2]
1 January 1916 Baba Gurbakhsh Singh Bedi, CIE Honorary Extra Assistant Commissioner in the Punjab [2]
1 January 1916 William Bernard Hunter Secretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Madras [2]
1 January 1916 Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces, designated Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature for Bihar and Orissa [2]
1 January 1916 Brig. Alexander Bertram Canadian Militia; Deputy Chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board, Canada [2]
1 January 1916 Anton Bertram, KC Attorney-General of the Island of Ceylon [2]
1 January 1916 The Hon. Henry Briggs President of the Legislative Council of the State of Western Australia [2]
1 January 1916 John Alexander Strachey Bucknill Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements [2]
1 January 1916 The Hon. Frederick William Gordon Haultaiu Chief Justice of Saskatchewan [2]
1 January 1916 William Wilson Hoy General Manager of Railways and Harbours, Union of South Africa [2]
1 January 1916 John Kennedy Consulting Engineer to the Montreal Harbour Commission [2]
1 January 1916 Lachlan Charles Mackinnon [2]
1 January 1916 William Duff Reid [2]
1 January 1916 Frank Umhlali Reynolds Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa [2]
1 January 1916 The Hon. Louis Olivier Taillon, KC Member of the King's Privy Council for Canada [2]
1 January 1916 Herbert Holmwood [3]
8 April 1916 Edmund Charles Wyldbore Smith Officer in Charge of Commercial Inquiries, Exhibitions Branch, Board of Trade [4]
2 May 1916 Francis Robert Benson "After the Shakespeare Tercentenary commemoration performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane" [5]
3 June 1916 James Tynte Agg-Gardner, MP [6]
3 June 1916 John Anthony [6]
3 June 1916 George Thomas Beilby, FRS [6]
3 June 1916 Arthur William Binning [6]
3 June 1916 Thomas Collins Chief Inspector, Board of Inland Revenue [6]
3 June 1916 Theodore Andrea Cook Editor of The Field [6]
3 June 1916 John Henry Cork Mayor of Portsmouth [6]
3 June 1916 George Philip Doolette[7] President of the Australian Voluntary Hospital at Wimereux [6]
3 June 1916 Arthur Isaac Durrant, MVO Comptroller of the Supplies Division, Office of Works [6]
3 June 1916 Francis Mark Farmer [6]
3 June 1916 William Gallagher, ISO Chief Inspector, Board of Customs [6]
3 June 1916 Eric Campbell Geddes[8] Deputy Director-General of Munitions Supply [6]
3 June 1916 William Benjamin Gentle[9] Chief Constable of Brighton [6]
3 June 1916 George Greenwood, MP [6]
3 June 1916 William Peter Griggs [6]
3 June 1916 Maurice Hill, KC [6]
3 June 1916 Robert Morris Liddell, JP High Sheriff of County Down [6]
3 June 1916 Alfred Henry Herbert Matthews Secretary of the Central Chamber of Agriculture [6]
3 June 1916 Cdr Edward Nicholl, RNR [6]
3 June 1916 John James Oddy [6]
3 June 1916 Robert Pearce, MP [6]
3 June 1916 Alexander William Prince [6]
3 June 1916 George Radford, MP [6]
3 June 1916 Archibald Tutton Salvidge [6]
3 June 1916 Clement Bell Simpson [6]
3 June 1916 Henry Smith Deputy Lieutenant for the City of London [6]
3 June 1916 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall, FRS, DSc [6]
3 June 1916 Prof. Nestor Tirard, MD, FRCP [6]
3 June 1916 Glynn Hamilton West[10] Deputy Director-General of Munitions Supply [6]
3 June 1916 Frederick Whitley Whitley-Thomson [6]
3 June 1916 Armand Marc Ruffer, CMG, MD President of the International Quarantine Board in Egypt. He could attend the investiture in July; if his dubbing ever took place, it does not appear to have been gazetted.
3 June 1916 Alexander Forbes Proctor Roger[11] Director-General of Trench Warfare Supplies [12]
3 June 1916 David Hope Kyd, LLD [6]
3 June 1916 The Hon. Marshall Campbell Senator of the Union of South Africa [6]
3 June 1916 The Hon. Wallace Graham Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia [6]
3 June 1916 The Hon. Pierre Armand Landry Chief Justice of the King's Bench Division of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick [6]
3 June 1916 The Hon. Frederic William Lang Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Dominion of New Zealand [6]
3 June 1916 The Hon. Robert Furse McMillan Chief Justice of Western Australia [6]
3 June 1916 The Hon. Herbert Nicholls Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania [6]
3 June 1916 Gilbert Kenelm Treffry Purcell Chief Justice of the Colony of Sierra Leone [6]
3 June 1916 Robert Frederic Stupart Director of the Meteorological Service of Canada [6]
3 June 1916 The Hon. Antonie Gysbert Viljoen Senator of tihe Union of South Africa [6]
3 June 1916 Stanley Reed, LLD [6]
3 June 1916 Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, JP [6]
3 June 1916 Francis Hugh Stewart, CIE [6]
3 June 1916 Charles William Chitty a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal [6]
3 June 1916 Robert Swan Highet [6]
23 October 1916 Henry Alfred McCardie Justice of the High Court of Justice [13]
29 December 1916 Gordon Hewart, KC Solicitor-General [14]

References edit

  1. ^ "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as The London Gazette, 22 February 1916 (issue 29483), pp. 1946–1947.
  3. ^ The London Gazette, 26 May 1916 (issue 29596), p. 5201.
  4. ^ The London Gazette, 18 April 1916 (issue 29552), pp. 4017.
  5. ^ The London Gazette, 5 May 1916 (issue 29568), p. 4450.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as The London Gazette, 18 July 1916 (issue 29671), pp. 7093–7094.
  7. ^ R. M. Gibbs and A. McLeary, "Doolette, Sir George Philip (1840–1924)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8 (1981); online edition, retrieved 16 April 2020.
  8. ^ Cameron Hazlehurst, Sally Whitehead and Christine Woodland (ed.), A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, no. 19 (London: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1996), p. 150.
  9. ^ The County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), p. 525.
  10. ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain (1923), p. 908.
  11. ^ The County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), p. 1151.
  12. ^ The London Gazette, 17 April 1917 (issue 30022), p. 3596.
  13. ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, 31 October 1916 (issue 13006), p. 1980.
  14. ^ The London Gazette, 29 December 1916 (issue 29883), p. 12655.