List of knights bachelor appointed in 1916

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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

DateNameNotesRef
1 January 1916 Milsom Rees, CVO, FRCSLaryngologist to the King's Household and to Queen Alexandra [2]
1 January 1916 Frederick Samuel Augustus Bourne, CMGAssistant 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, CIEManaging Director of the Bombay Company, Limited [2]
1 January 1916 Henry James Wakely Fry, CIElately Director-General of Stores, India Office [2]
1 January 1916 Frederic Gorell Barnes [2]
1 January 1916Maj. George Andreas Berry, MB, LLDHonorary 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, FRSDirector 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 1916The Very Rev. George Adam Smith, DD, LLD, LittDPrincipal and Vice-Chancellor of Aberdeen University [2]
1 January 1916 Robert Wallace, KCChairman of Quarter Sessions for the County of London [2]
1 January 1916 Thomas Beecham [2]
1 January 1916Rai Kailash Chandra Basu Bahadur, CIEMember of the Municipal Corporation of Calcutta [2]
1 January 1916Baba Gurbakhsh Singh Bedi, CIEHonorary 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 1916Brig. Alexander Bertram Canadian Militia; Deputy Chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board, Canada [2]
1 January 1916 Anton Bertram, KCAttorney-General of the Island of Ceylon [2]
1 January 1916The 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 1916The 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 1916The Hon. Louis Olivier Taillon, KCMember 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, MVOComptroller of the Supplies Division, Office of Works [6]
3 June 1916 Francis Mark Farmer [6]
3 June 1916 William Gallagher, ISOChief 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, JPHigh Sheriff of County Down [6]
3 June 1916 Alfred Henry Herbert Matthews Secretary of the Central Chamber of Agriculture [6]
3 June 1916Cdr 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 1916Prof. 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, MDPresident 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 1916The Hon. Marshall Campbell Senator of the Union of South Africa [6]
3 June 1916The Hon. Wallace Graham Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia [6]
3 June 1916The Hon. Pierre Armand Landry Chief Justice of the King's Bench Division of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick [6]
3 June 1916The Hon. Frederic William Lang Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Dominion of New Zealand [6]
3 June 1916The Hon. Robert Furse McMillan Chief Justice of Western Australia [6]
3 June 1916The 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 1916The 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, KCSolicitor-General [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 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.
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