List of knights bachelor appointed in 1921

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 1921

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The date is that on which the knighthood was first announced, either in the New Year or Birthday honours lists, or in the official notice in the London or Edinburgh Gazette recording the actual conferral.

Date first gazetted Name Notes Ref
1 January 1921 Ivor Algernon Atkins, MusDoc, FRCO Organist of Worcester Cathedral; Conductor of the Three Choirs Festival [2]
1 January 1921 Reginald Blair, MP Member of Parliament for Bow and Bromley. Appointed "for public services". [2]
1 January 1921 Thomas Jewell Bennett, CIE, MP Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks Division; editor of The Times of India. Appointed "for public services". [2]
1 January 1921 Richard Dawson Bates, OBE Appointed "for public and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 James Bell, Jr Member of Shipping Committee of the Hull Chamber of Commerce and of Humber Conservancy Board. Appointed "for public and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 Samuel Barrow, JP Member of the Trade Committee relating to reconstruction. "For public and local services in Surrey". [2]
1 January 1921 Lt-Col. Henry Baldwin Barton, JP Mayor of Finsbury since 1911. Appointed "for public and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 James Denham[3] Author [2]
1 January 1921 John Daniel Member of Cardiff City Council and the Cardiff Education Committee; President of the Cardiff Cymmrodorion; Chairman of the Glamorganshire Branch, National Union of Welsh Societies. Appointed "for public and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 William Davies Editor, The Western Mail [2]
1 January 1921 Andrew Rae Duncan Coal Controller since 1919. [2]
1 January 1921 Henry Foreman, OBE, MP Member of Parliament for North Hammersmith; formerly Mayor of Hammersmith. Appointed "for municipal and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 John Charles Fox Senior Master, Supreme Court, Chancery Division. [2]
1 January 1921 Capt. Francis John Childs Ganzoni, MP Member of Parliament for Ipswich. Appointed "for public services". [2]
1 January 1921 Charles Frederick Gill, KC Recorder of Chichester [2]
1 January 1921 Cllr William Hopwood, JP Appointed "for public and local services in Lancashire". [2]
1 January 1921 John Martin Harvey Actor [2]
1 January 1921 William Hodgson Appointed "for public and local services in Crewe". [2]
1 January 1921 Alexander McAuseland Kennedy, JP President of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation of Great Britain; member of government advisory committees at wartime. Appointed "for public and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 Harry Vernon Kilvert, JP Appointed "for public and local services in Cheshire". [2]
1 January 1921 Professor Peter Redford Scott Lang Professor, St Andrew's University. Appointed "for public services". [2]
1 January 1921 Richard Roope Linthorne Town Clerk of Southampton. Appointed "for public and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 John Mitchell Provost of Ayr. Appointed "for municipal and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 William Edgar Nicholls, JP Director, Barclay's Bank. Appointed "for public services". [2]
1 January 1921 Ernest Fitzjohn Oldham Deputy Chairman, Federation of British Industries. Appointed "for public services". [2]
1 January 1921 Thomas David Owen Appointed "for public and local services in Merseyside in connection with the University College of North Wales". [2]
1 January 1921 Maj. William Reid, MBE Chairman, Board of Management of the Royal Glasgow Asylum for the Blind. Appointed "for public and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 Charles Ryall, CBE, FRCS Senior Surgeon to the Cancer Hospital and the Bolingbroke Hospital. Appointed "for public services". [2]
1 January 1921 John Rose, LLD Treasurer of the Carnegie University (Scotland) Trust; Chairman of Carnegie (UK) Trust and Hero Fund. Appointed "for public services". [2]
1 January 1921 Thomas Rowbotham Mayor of Stockport, 1916-18. Appointed "for public and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 His Honour Judge Walworth Howland Roberts County Court Judge, Marylebone. [2]
1 January 1921 William Peter Rylands President, Federation of British Industries [2]
1 January 1921 Edwin Savill [2]
1 January 1921 Harold Smith, MP Member of Parliament for Warrington. [2]
1 January 1921 Samuel Squire Sprigge, MD, MRCS Editor, The Lancet [2]
1 January 1921 Edwin Forsyth Stockton Governor, Manchester University. Appointed "for local and public services". [2]
1 January 1921 Alderman William Wade, JP Lord Mayor of Bradford, 1919–20; Member, Bradford Chamber of Commerce. Appointed "for public and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 Professor James Walker Professor of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh [2]
1 January 1921 Capt. Lionel de Lautour Wells, CB, CMG, CBE, RN Lately Chief Officer, Metropolitan Fire Brigade. Appointed "for public services". [2]
1 January 1921 Dawson Williams, MD, FRCP Editor, The British Medical Journal [2]
1 January 1921 Richard John Williams Mayor of Bangor, 1913-20. Appointed "for public and local services". [2]
1 January 1921 Arthur Worley, CBE General manager, North British and Mercantile Insurance Company. Appointed "for public services". [2]
1 January 1921 Edward Coey Bigger, MB, MCh Chairman, Public Health Council (Ireland); Medical Member, Local Government Board of Ireland [2]
1 January 1921 Henry Campbell Town Clerk of Dublin [2]
1 January 1921 Robert Meyer Town Clerk of Belfast [2]
1 January 1921 Ernest Godwin Swifte, KC Chief Metropolitan Police Magistrate, Dublin [2]
1 January 1921 George Herman Collier, CIE Director-General of Stores, India Office [2]
1 January 1921 Thomas Walker Arnold, CIE, LittD Lately Educational Adviser for Indian Students to the Secretary of State [2]
1 January 1921 Mr Justice Brod Bahadur Shadi Lal Barrister; Chief Justice, High Court, Punjab [2]
1 January 1921 Surendra Nath Banerjea Elected Member, Viceroy's Legislative Council [2]
1 January 1921 Gokaldas Kahandas Parekh Pleader, Bombay [2]
1 January 1921 Montagu de Pomeroy Webb, CIE, CBE Merchant, Karachi [2]
1 January 1921 Alexander Robertson Murray, CBE Senior Partner, Messrs Thomas Duff & Co., Calcutta; President, Chamber of Commerce [2]
1 January 1921 Khan Bahadur Mirza Abdul Husain Sahib Sheriff of Madras [2]
1 January 1921 Marakjee Byramjee Dadabhoy, CIE Barrister, Nagpur [2]
1 January 1921 Thomas Smith, VD Manager, Muir Mills Co., Cawnpore [2]
1 January 1921 Raj Bahadur Hari Ram Goenks, CIE Merchant and landholder in Bengal [2]
1 January 1921 Hon. Theophilus Cooper Judge, Supreme Court of New Zealand [2]
1 January 1921 Frederick Dutton Honorary Treasurer, Royal Colonial Institute [2]
1 January 1921 Henry Cowper Gollan, CBE Attorney-General, Island of Ceylon [2]
1 January 1921 Alexander Jarvis Hood, MB Senior Honorary Physician at the Prince of Wales (Military) Hospital, Randwick [2]
1 January 1921 George Hunter Member of the House of Representatives, New Zealand. The entry in The London Gazette noted that he had "rendered valuable assistance in connection with the settlement of returned soldiers". [2]
1 January 1921 Hon. Edward Lucas Agent-General in London for the State of South Australia [2]
1 January 1921 Hon. John Emanuel Mackey, LLB Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Victoria [2]
1 January 1921 Pietro James Michelli, CMG Secretary, London School of Tropical Medicine [2]
1 January 1921 Ernest Oppenheimer Honorary Secretary, South African War Memorial Fund. The London Gazette stated that he "took a leading part in recruiting, both of combatants and labourers, for various fronts during the War". [2]
1 January 1921 Michel' Angelo Refalo, CBE, LLD Chief Justice and President of the Court of Appeal for the Island of Malta [2]
1 January 1921 Newton John Stabb, OBE Chief manager, Hong Kong and Shanghai Baking Corporation. Appointed "for services on behalf of British trade and interests in the Far East". [2]
1 January 1921 Henry Strakosch Appointed "for financial services to the Union of South Africa in connection with the War". [2]
11 January 1921 Maurice Craig, MD, FRCP[4] [5]
11 January 1921 Percival Horton-Smith Hartley, CVO, MD [5]
11 January 1921 William Francis Lathlain Mayor of Perth, Western Australia [5]
11 January 1921 William Mitchell Acworth [6]
11 February 1921 John Ross [7]
11 April 1921 Cuthbert William Whiteside Mayor of Grahamstown, Union of South Africa. Invested by the Governor-General "in connection with the celebration of the Centenary of the settlement of the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope" [8]
4 June 1921 Wilfred Atlay Chairman, London Stock Exchange [9]
4 June 1921 Jeffrey Browning, CBE, ISO Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise [9]
4 June 1921 William Henry Butlin Formerly Vice-Consul for Spain. Appointed "for public services". [9]
4 June 1921 James Charles Calder, CBE Formerly Director of Timber Control. Appointed "for public and national services". [9]
4 June 1921 Robert Clough, MP Member of Parliament for Keighley; Mayor of Keighley, 1907–08 [9]
4 June 1921 Thomas Henry Fleming Mayor of Harrogate, 1915–17, 1918-19. The London Gazette noted that he "rendered conspicuous services during the war in the promotion of every local effort, giving his whole time to national work". [9]
4 June 1921 Thomas Mansel Franklen Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan; Clerk to the Glamorgan County Council since 1888. Appointed "for public services". [9]
4 June 1921 Francis Gore-Browne, KC, JP Chairman, Rates Advisory Committee; Chairman, Civil Service Arbitration Board, 1918-20. [9]
4 June 1921 His Honour Judge Thomas Colpitts Granger, JP Senior County Court Judge. [9]
4 June 1921 John Roger Barrow Gregory Senior Partner, Rawle, Johnstone & Co.; Treasurer, Foundling Hospital; Past Master, Grocers' Company; Member, Council of the Law Society; "has given very great assistance to successive holders of the office of Lord Chancellor". [9]
4 June 1921 Col. James William Greig, CB, KC, VD, MP Member of Parliament for West Renfrewshire. [9]
4 June 1921 Alderman Lt-Col. Harry George Handover, JP Mayor of Paddington [9]
4 June 1921 John Henry Harrowing Alderman of North Riding County Council, formerly a councillor. Appointed "for public services". [9]
4 June 1921 William Henderson, CB Town Councillor, Dundee, 1896-1904; Chairman of Technical College; Chairman, YMCA and City of Dundee Territorial Association, 1907-19. Appointed "for public and local services". [9]
4 June 1921 Francis Hugh George Hercy, CBE, DL Appointed "for valuable voluntary services rendered for 5 years to the Ministry of National Service and War Office". [9]
4 June 1921 John Scott Hindley Commercial Advisor to the Coal Mines Department [9]
4 June 1921 Henry Hollingdrake, JP Appointed "for public and local services". [9]
4 June 1921 Charles John Holmes, MA, DLitt Director, National Gallery [9]
4 June 1921 Cllr Sidney Richard White Humphries Councillor, Bristol; President, Bristol Chamber of Commerce. Appointed "for public services". [9]
4 June 1921 Samuel Instone Founder, Askern Garden City. Appointed "for public services". [9]
4 June 1921 Arthur Keith, MD, FRCS, LLD, FRS Hunterian Professor and Conservator, Royal College of Surgeons [9]
4 June 1921 Duncan Mackenzie Kerly, KC Member, Commission on Income Tax; Chairman, Board of Referees for Excess Profits Duty [9]
4 June 1921 Leonard William Kershaw King's Coroner, Master of the Crown Office, and Registrar of the Court of Criminal Appeal [9]
4 June 1921 William Lane-Mitchell, MP Member of Parliament for Streatham; formerly Mayor of Camberwell. [9]
4 June 1921 Alfred Edward Lewis Managing Director, National Provincial and Union Bank of England Ltd [9]
4 June 1921 Thomas Lewis, CBE, MD, FRCP, DSc, FRS Honorary Consulting Physician to the Ministry of Pensions. Conferred on 10 February 1922. [9][10]
4 June 1921 Dyson Mallinson Appointed "for public services"; he had "rendered valuable services in connection with various colleges and institutions". [9]
4 June 1921 Brig. Charles Philip Martel, CB Chief Superintendent, Ordnance Factories, Woolwich. [9]
4 June 1921 Richard Martin, JP Formerly Mayor of Swansea [9]
4 June 1921 George Mellor, JP Appointed "for public and national services, particularly in connection with the King's Lancashire Military Convalescent Hospital". [9]
4 June 1921 Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock City Chamberlain and Treasurer [9]
4 June 1921 Walter Renton Preston, MP Member of Parliament for Stepney (Mile End Division) [9]
4 June 1921 William Henry Purchase Appointed "for valuable services rendered since the Armistance to the Appointments Department of the Ministry of Labour". [9]
4 June 1921 Professor John Rankine, KC, LLD, JP Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh [9]
4 June 1921 Francis Jubal Reynolds, JP Appointed "for public services". [9]
4 June 1921 Edward Rhodes Chairman, Lancashire and Cheshire Coalition Liberal Committee; Chairman, Manchester Reform Club. [9]
4 June 1921 Frederick Gill Rice Past President, London Master Builders' Association; Past President, Institution of Public Builders. Appointed "for public services". [9]
4 June 1921 Col. Philip Wigham Richardson, OBE, VD Appointed "for services rendered throughout the Empire for 40 years in connection with rifle shooting". [9]
4 June 1921 Alderman Alfred Read Sergent, BA, JP Mayor of Hove during the First World War [9]
4 June 1921 Henry White Smith, CBE Chairman, Bristol Aircraft Factory. Appointed "for services to Civil Aviation". [9]
4 June 1921 William Henry Thomas, MBE Member, City Corporation; Depury of Ward of Cheape. [9]
4 June 1921 John Turner, DL Formerly High Sheriff of Leicestershire. Appointed "for public services". [9]
4 June 1921 Francis Minchin Voules, CBE, KStJ Appointed "For services rendered to British Prisoners of War". [9]
4 June 1921 Robert Woolley Walden Chairman, Metropolitan Asylums Board; Alderman, City of Westminster Council; Mayor of Westminster, 1908-9. Appointed "for public services." [9]
4 June 1921 Sydney Russell Wells, MD, BSc, MRCP, MRCS Vice-Chancellor, University of London. Representative of the University of London on the General Medical Council. Appointed "for public services". [9]
4 June 1921 Howell James Williams, DL, JP Deputy Chairman, London County Council [9]
4 June 1921 Robert Wilson Formerly Provost of Pollokshaws [9]
4 June 1921 Alfred Woodgate, CBE Director-General of Establishments, Ministry of Health [9]
4 June 1921 Bernard Swanwick Wright Alderman, City of Nottingham. Appointed "for public services". [9]
4 June 1921 George Beresford Butler Senior Resident Magistrate in Ireland. Conferred on 10 February 1922. [9][10]
4 June 1921 Frederick Conway Dwyer, MD Formerly President, College of Surgeons in Ireland; Lt-Col, Royal Army Medical Corps; Operating Suergeon to the King George V Military Hospital, Dublin; Honorary Surgeon to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Chairman, House of Industry Hospitals; HM Inspector of Anatomy, Ireland. [9]
4 June 1921 James Campbell Percy, DL, JP Honorary Lt, Royal Navy; Proprietor, Motor News, Irish Builder and Irish Cyclist and Motor Cyclist; Chairman, Sackville Press [9]
4 June 1921 Henry James Forde, JP Appointed "for services in connection with the grain trade in Ireland and as member of the Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies". [9]
4 June 1921 Mr Justice Theagaraja Ayyar Sadasiva Ayyar, Diwan Bahadur Puisne Judge of the High Court, Madras [9]
4 June 1921 Mr Justice William Teunon Indian Civil Service; Puisne Judge of the High Court, Calcutta [9]
4 June 1921 Mr Justice William Tudball Indian Civil Service; Puisne Judge of the High Court, Allahabad [9]
4 June 1921 Khan Bahadur Muhammad Israr Hasan Khan, CIE Judicial Minister, Bhopal State [9]
4 June 1921 Alfred Donald Pickford Senior Partner, Messrs Begg, Dunlop & Co., Calcutta [9]
4 June 1921 Edgar Joseph Holberton, CBE Manager, Bombay-Burma Trading Corporation; lately President of the Chamber of Commerce, Burma [9]
4 June 1921 Jehangir Hormasji Kothari, OBE Landlord in Sind, Bombay [9]
4 June 1921 Rai Bahadur Seth Bisheshar Das Banker in Nagpur [9]
22 June 1921 John Walton Browne, MD, LLD, DL [11][12]
22 June 1921 Alderman Joseph Davison High Sheriff of the City of Belfast [11][12]
22 June 1921 John Burke, JP, DL [11][12]
25 June 1921 Edgar Stanford London, CBE Chief Inspector, Stamps and Taxes [13]
25 June 1921 Lewis Richardson, CBE [13]
25 June 1921 Brig. Donald Johnstone McGavin, CMG, DSO, MD In the Army Medical Department of the Military Forces of New Zealand [13]
25 June 1921 John Pearce Luke, CMG Member, House of Representatives of New Zealand; Mayor, Wellington [13]
25 June 1921 Sidney Kidman [13]
25 June 1921 Benjamin John Fuller [13]
25 June 1921 Hugh Dixson [13]
25 June 1921 Ponnambalam Ramanathan, CMG, KC Unofficial Member, Legislative Council of Ceylon [13]
25 June 1921 John Burchmore Harrison, CMG Director and Government Analyst, Department of Science and Agriculture, Colony of British Guiana [13]
25 June 1921 Walter Sydney Shaw Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements [13]
25 June 1921 Brevet Lt-Col. Wyndham Henry Deedes, CMG, DSO Civil Secretary to the Administration, Palestine [13]
10 August 1921 Hon. Mr Justice George Arthur Harwin Branson [13]
3 November 1921 William Robert Pryke Sheriff of the City of London [14]
23 December 1921 Charles Frederick Higham, MP Appointed "for services rendered to the Ministry of Transport". Conferred on 10 February 1922. [15][10]
23 December 1921 Henry Allen Holden Steward Appointed "for services rendered to the Ministry of Transport". Conferred on 10 February 1922. [15][10]

Colonel Sidney Wishart, VD, DL, JP, an outgoing Sheriff of London, was unable to attend the investiture ceremony in November 1921 and so was invested in 1922.[10]

References

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  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 at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq Supplement to the London Gazette, issue 32178 (1 January 1921), pp. 2-3.
  3. ^ In the original notice in The London Gazette, he was called Wilfred Denham; as The Times later noted, this led to much confusion as readers attempted to find Denham ("Sir James Denham", The Times, 4 October 1927, p. 16). As it happened, he was actually born James William Gilbart Denham-Smith, later used the surname Denham alone (Linde Lunney, "Smith, Joseph Denham", Dictionary of Irish Biography, 2009, retrieved 8 July 2021). Finally, he called himself James Denham ("Sir James Denham", The Times, 4 October 1927, p. 16).
  4. ^ The knighthood was actually conferred on 25 June, though was gazetted under the name "James Craig, MD, FRCP(Ire)": The London Gazette, issue 32461 (20 September 1921), p. 7381.
  5. ^ a b c The London Gazette, issue 32188 (11 January 1921), p. 277.
  6. ^ The London Gazette, issue 32188 (11 January 1921), p. 278.
  7. ^ The London Gazette, issue 32243 (1 March 2021), p. 1693.
  8. ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, issue 13700 (22 April 1921), p. 645.
  9. ^ 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 at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi Supplement to the London Gazette, issue 32346 (4 June 1921), pp. 4529-4531.
  10. ^ a b c d e The London Gazette, issue 32668 (11 April 1922), pp. 2916-2917.
  11. ^ a b c The Edinburgh Gazette, issue 13721 (1 July 1921), p. 1112.
  12. ^ a b c The London Gazette, 32387 (12 July 2021), p. 5553.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l The London Gazette, issue 32461 (20 September 1921), p. 7382.
  14. ^ The London Gazette, issue 32508 (4 November 1921), p. 8721.
  15. ^ a b The London Gazette, issue 32558 (23 December 1921), p. 10485.