List of knights bachelor appointed in 1919

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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).

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Knights bachelor appointed in 1919

DateNameNotesRef
14 February 1919 Paul Ogden Lawrence Justice of the High Court of Justice [2]
18 February 1919 Edward Bray Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court; Chairman of the Council of County Court Judges [3]
18 February 1919 Thomas Willes Chitty Master of the Supreme Court of Justice, King's Bench Division [3]
18 February 1919 Sigmund Dannreuther, CBController and Accounting Officer, Ministry of Munitions [3]
18 February 1919 Edward Rae Davson President of the Associated Chamber of Commerce, British West Indies [3]
18 February 1919 Robert Blyth Greig, LLDScottish Board of Agriculture [3]
18 February 1919 William Leslie Mackenzie, MD, LLDMedical Member of the Local Government Board for Scotland [3]
18 February 1919 Hugh William Orange, CB, CIEAcoountant-General, Board of Education [3]
18 February 1919 Alfred Walter Soward, CBA Commissioner of Inland Revenue; Secretary, Estate Duty Office [3]
18 February 1919 Richard Stephens Taylor President of the Law Society; Chairman of the Law Society Advisory Committee; and Chairman of the Civil Liabilities Committee [3]
18 February 1919 George Danvers Thane, LLD, FRCSPrincipal Inspector under Cruelty to Animals Act, Home Office [3]
18 February 1919 Lucas White King, CSI, LLD [3]
18 February 1919 Leicester Paul Beaufort, BCLlately Judge of the High Court of Northern Rhodesia [3]
18 February 1919The Hon. Worley Bassett Edwards a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Dominion of New Zealand [3]
18 February 1919 Walter Edwin Gurney lately Controller and Auditor-General of the Union of South Africa [3]
18 February 1919 Thomas Wagstaffe Haycraft Chief Justice of Grenada [3]
18 February 1919Lt-Col. John Hewat, MBLieutenant-Colonel, South African Defence Force; Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa; and Assistant Director of Medical Services of the said Union [3]
18 February 1919 Samuel Hordern President of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales [3]
18 February 1919 Henry Jones [3]
18 February 1919 Joseph James Kinsey [3]
18 February 1919 James William Murison, LLBJudge of the Court for Zanzibar [3]
18 February 1919 Boshan Wei Yuk, CMGformerly Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong [3]
18 February 1919 Ernest Edward Fletcher a Puisne Judge of the High Court at Calcutta [3]
18 February 1919 Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad Vice-Chancellor, Bombay University [3]
18 February 1919 Joseph Henry Stone, CIEDirector of Public Instruction, Madras [3]
18 February 1919 William Arthur Beardsell Sheriff of Madras [3]
18 February 1919 Praphulla Chandra Roy, CIE, DSclate Provincial Educational Service, Bengal [3]
18 February 1919 Robert Herriot Henderson, CIE [3]
18 February 1919 George Cochrane Godfrey Coal Controller in India [3]
18 March 1919 Patrick Quinn, MVO [3]
19 March 1919 Frederick Arthur Greer Justice of the High Court of Justice [3]
19 May 1919 Thomas William Allen Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative Congress [4]
19 May 1919 Charles Barrie, JP, DLex-Lord Provost of Dundee [4]
19 May 1919 George Bean [4]
19 May 1919 Lewis Beard Town Clerk of Blackburn [4]
19 May 1919 Reginald Theodore Blomfield past President of the Royal Institute of British Architects [4]
19 May 1919 George Moore Chamberlin, JP, DLLord Mayor of Norwich, 1916–1917; President of Norwich Chamber of Commerce [4]
19 May 1919 John Coode-Adams [4]
19 May 1919Lt-Col. Joseph Montagu Cotterill, CMGRAMC(T) [4]
19 May 1919 Arthur Lowes Dickinson, MA [4]
19 May 1919 David Duncan, JP [4]
19 May 1919Col. Henry Arthur Fletcher, CVO [4]
19 May 1919 William Croft Forrest, JP [4]
19 May 1919Capt. John Malcolm Fraser, RNVR [4]
19 May 1919 William Samuel Glyn-Jones [4]
19 May 1919 Israel Gollancz, LittDProfessor of English Language and Literature, King's College, London; Secretary of the British Academy [4]
19 May 1919 John Little Green, OBE [4]
19 May 1919 Richard Armand Gregory, FRASProfessor of Astronomy, Queen's College, London [4]
19 May 1919 Henry James Hall [4]
19 May 1919 Walter Henry Harris, CMGSenior Sheriff of the City of London [4]
19 May 1919 John Harrison, JPMayor of Stockton-on-Tees, 1915–19 [4]
19 May 1919Col. Joseph Hewitt [4]
19 May 1919 Francis Adams Hyett Chairman of the Gloucestershire Education Committee [4]
19 May 1919 Alfred Jermyn, JP [4]
19 May 1919 William George Yarworth-Jones [4]
19 May 1919 Arthur Lucas Chairman of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children "for forty years" [4]
19 May 1919 Edward Malins, MD, FRCP [4]
19 May 1919 James Martin, JPChairman of the London Chamber of Commerce [4]
19 May 1919 William Martin, JP, FSA(Scot)Glasgow City Councillor [4]
19 May 1919 Christopher Thomas Needham, MP [4]
19 May 1919 Walter Powell Nicholas Chairman of the Rhondda local tribunal and of the County of Glamorgan National Insurance Committee [4]
19 May 1919 John Hubert Oakley President of the Surveyors' Institution [4]
19 May 1919 Robert Peacock Chief Constable of Manchester since 1898 [4]
19 May 1919 George Phillips-Parker Mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn 1913-17 [4]
19 May 1919 Harold Rufus Pink, JPMayor of Portsmouth "for several years" [4]
19 May 1919 Alfred Henry Read [4]
19 May 1919 Albion Henry Herbert Richardson, CBE [4]
19 May 1919 Oswald Stoll [4]
19 May 1919 Alfred Aspinall Tobin, KC [4]
19 May 1919 Charles Sissmore Tomes, MA, LLD, FRS, FRCS [4]
19 May 1919Lt-Col. Francis William Towle, CBE [4]
19 May 1919 Thomas Jenner Verrall, LLDChairman of the Central Medical War Committee for the past four years [4]
19 May 1919 Fenwick Shadforth Watts Chairman of the Shipping Federation and a former President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom [4]
19 May 1919 John Ernest Hodder-Williams [4]
19 May 1919 Harry Lauder Not formally conferred until 23 February 1921. [5] [4]
19 May 1919 Jonathan North, JPMayor of Leicester 1914-18 [4]
19 May 1919 William Ridgeway, DScProfessor of Archaeology, Cambridge University [4]
19 May 1919 John Stavridi Consul-General of Greece in London [4]
19 May 1919 James Gadesden Wainwright, JPlate Treasurer of St. Thomas' Hospital [4]
19 May 1919 Thomas Wilton, JP [4]
3 June 1919 George Fenwick, JPFounder and for over thirty years Director of the New Zealand Press Association. Public services. [6]
6 June 1919 Henry Capel Cure If he were dubbed, the event does not appear to have been gazetted. [7]
10 July 1919 John Baker, MDSuperintendent of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum [8]
10 July 1919Lt-Col. John George Beharrel, DSO [8]
10 July 1919 Charles Bright [8]
10 July 1919 Isaac Connell Secretary to the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture [8]
10 July 1919 Harry Courthorpe-Munroe, KC [8]
10 July 1919 Charles Davidson [8]
10 July 1919 Walter de Frece [8]
10 July 1919 John S. Henry [8]
10 July 1919 Sydney George Higgins, CBEAssistant Accountant-General, Ministry of Shipping [8]
10 July 1919 James Allan Horne Controller of Munitions, Bombay [8]
10 July 1919 John Henry MacFarland [8]
10 July 1919 John Charles Miles Solicitor to the Ministry of Labour [8]
10 July 1919 Francis George Newbolt, KC [8]
10 July 1919 John Rumney Nicholson [8]
10 July 1919Lt-Col. Hugh Arthur Rose, DSO [8]
10 July 1919 Charles Tamlin Ruthen, OBEDeputy Controller of Accommodation, H.M. Office of Works [8]
10 July 1919 Douglas Shields [8]
10 July 1919 Thomas Sims, CBDirector of Works, Admiralty [8]
10 July 1919 William Henry Wells [8]
10 July 1919 William Howard Winterbotham Official Solicitor since 1895 [8]
10 July 1919 Henry Arthur Wynne, LLDChief Crown Solicitor for Ireland [8]
29 July 1919 Banister Flight Fletcher Sheriff of the City of London [8]
29 July 1919Col. William Robert Smith, MDSheriff of the City of London [8]
18 August 1919Capt. Robert Henry Muirhead Collins, CMG [8]
18 August 1919 Robert Charles Brown, MB, FRCP, FRCSConsulting Medical Officer of Preston Royal Infirmary [8]
18 August 1919 Henry Busby Bird, JPMayor of Shoreditch [8]
18 August 1919Ald. George Edmund Davies, JP [8]
18 August 1919 William Boyd Dawkins, MA, DSc, FRSHonorary Professor of Geology and Palaeontology in Victoria University, Manchester [8]
18 August 1919 Knowles Edge, JPMayor of Bolton, 1917–18 [8]
18 August 1919 Robert Vaughan Gower, OBE, FRGSMayor of Tunbridge Wells, 1917–19 [8]
18 August 1919 Cuthbert Cartwright Grundy, JPPresident Royal Cambrian Art Society [8]
18 August 1919 Thomas Henderson, JP [8]
18 August 1919 Charles James Jackson, JP, FSA [8]
18 August 1919 Leon Levison [8]
18 August 1919 John Young Walker MacAlister, FSA, FRGSPresident of Library Association and Secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine [8]
18 August 1919 William Maxwell President of the International Co-operation Alliance [8]
18 August 1919 Henry Francis New Mayor of St Marylebone, 1917–19 [8]
18 August 1919 Julian Walter Orde Secretary of the Royal Automobile Club [8]
18 August 1919 James Wallace Paton, JPMayor of Southport, 1908-9 [8]
18 August 1919Maj. John Theodore Prestige [8]
18 August 1919 Francis Watson, JP [8]
18 August 1919 William Ireland De Courcy Wheeler, MD, FRCS [8]
18 August 1919 Thomas Williams General Manager, London and North-Western Railway [8]
18 August 1919Col. Augustus Charles Woolley, VD [8]
18 August 1919 Joseph Duveen The honour was conferred on 5 November 1919. [9] [8]
18 August 1919 Leon Levison [8]
18 August 1919 Alfred Waldron Smithers, JP, MP [8]
18 August 1919 Joshua Kelley Waddilove [8]
18 August 1919 William Morris Carter, CBEChief Justice oif the High Court of Uganda [8]
18 August 1919 Frederick Alan Van der Meulen, OBEJudge of the Supreme Court, Colony of the Gambia [8]
18 August 1919 Joseph Cooke Verco, MD [8]
18 August 1919 Abdur Rahim Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Madras [8]
18 August 1919 Khan Zulfikar Ali Khan, CSIAdditional Member of the Imperial Legislative Council [8]
18 August 1919 Frank Willington Carter, CIE, CBEAdditional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bengal [8]
18 August 1919Col. Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, RESuperintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey, Dehra Dun, United Provinces [8]
18 August 1919 Norman Cranstoun Macleod Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay [8]

Knights who died before they could receive the accolade

It was announced in the 1919 Birthday Honours that a knighthood was to be bestowed on William Allan Ironside (an additional Member of the Indian Legislative Council), [10] but he died before he received the accolade. By a royal warrant gazetted on 22 July 1919, George V declared that his widow, Ellen Ironside, "shall have, hold and enjoy the same style; title, place and precedence to which she would have been entitled had her said husband survived and received either personally or by Letters-Patent under the Great Seal the degree, style and title of a Knight Bachelor". [11]

The London Gazette also reported that the King intended to bestow a knighthood on Ernest Adolphus O'Bryen, formerly the mayor of Hampstead, but he died before he received the accolade. By a royal warrant gazetted with the date 30 May 1919, George V declared that his widow, Gertrude Mary O'Bryen, should also be afforded the style of a knight's widow. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette, 18 February 1919 (issue 31187), p. 2427.
  3. 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 The London Gazette, 4 April 1919 (issue 31271), p. 4414.
  4. 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 46 47 48 49 The London Gazette , 27 May 1919 (ssue 31361), p. 6508.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette , issue 32243 (1 March 1921), p. 1692.
  6. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette, 15 July 1919 (issue 13487), p. 2786
  7. ↑ The London Gazette, 6 June 1919 (issue 31391), p. 7297.
  8. 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 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 The London Gazette, 7 October 1919 (issue 31587), pp. 12418–12419.
  9. ↑ The London Gazette , 19 March 1920 (issue 31830), p. 3431.
  10. ↑ The London Gazette , 6 June 1919 (issue 31391), p. 7297.
  11. ↑ The London Gazette , 22 August 1919 (issue 31517), p. 10652.
  12. ↑ The London Gazette, 29 August 1919 (issue 31527), p. 10873.
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