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. 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 1909
| Date | Name | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 February 1909 | Rai Bahadur Pratul Chandra Chatterji, CIE | Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Punjab, lately a Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab | |
| 1 February 1909 | Basil Scott | Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature, Bomba | |
| 1 February 1909 | Ernest John Trevelyan, DCL | Barrister-at-Law, Reader in Indian Law at the University of Oxford, lately one of the Judges of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal | |
| 1 February 1909 | William Egelric Bigge | Lately a Judge of the Chief Court of Lower Burma | |
| 1 February 1909 | Frederick Charles Holiday | Lately Auditor of the Accounts of the Secretary of State for India in Council | |
| 15 February 1909 | John Andrew Hamilton | Justice of the High Court of Justices | |
| 26 June 1909 | Thomas Edward Thorpe, CB, FRS | Principal of the Government Laboratories | |
| 26 June 1909 | John James Baddeley | Sheriff of the City of London | |
| 26 June 1909 | Thomas Arthur Bramsdon, MP | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Francis Joseph Campbell, LLD | Principal of the Royal Normal College for the Blind | |
| 26 June 1909 | Arthur Chapman | Formerly Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro | |
| 26 June 1909 | Merton Russell Cotes | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Samuel Dill, LittD, LLD | Member of the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland | |
| 26 June 1909 | John Duncan | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Francis Stanhope Hanson | Alderman and Sheriff of the City of London | |
| 26 June 1909 | Lt-Col. George Kemp | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Hugh Percy Lane | Honorary Director, Municipal Art Gallery, Dublin, and Governor of National Gallery, Ireland | |
| 26 June 1909 | Joseph Larmor, DSc, FRS | Secretary of the Royal Society; Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge | |
| 26 June 1909 | Lt-Col. William Boog Leishman, MB, RAMC | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Henry William Lucy | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Richard Mackie | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Thomas Mason | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Thomas Matthews | Chief Engineer of the Trinity House | |
| 26 June 1909 | Walter Menzies, MP | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Mark Oldroyd | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, FRS | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Edwin Pears | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Arthur Wing Pinero | ||
| 26 June 1909 | William Edward Briggs Priestley, MP | ||
| 26 June 1909 | George Allardice Riddell | ||
| 26 June 1909 | William Alexander Smith | Founder and Organizer of the Boys' Brigade | |
| 26 June 1909 | Arthur John Tedder | Chief Inspector of Excise | |
| 26 June 1909 | John Edward Thrift | Chief Inspector of Stamps and Taxes, Inland Revenue Department | |
| 26 June 1909 | Herbert Beerbohm Tree | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Maj. Henry Francis Trippel | ||
| 26 June 1909 | James Henry Yoxall, MP | ||
| 26 June 1909 | The Hon. Arthur Hay Stewart Reid | Chief Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab | |
| 26 June 1909 | Edwin Grant Burls, CSI | Director-General of Stores, India Office | |
| 26 June 1909 | The Hon. Cornthwaite Hector Rason | Agent-General in London for the State of Western Australia | |
| 26 June 1909 | Charles Frederick Lumb, LLD | lately Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Jamaica | |
| 26 June 1909 | Walter Kennaway, CMG | Secretary, Office of the High Commissioner in London for the Dominion of New Zealand | |
| 26 June 1909 | Francis Galton, ScD, FRS | Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge | |
| 26 June 1909 | Thomas Carlaw Martin, LLD | ||
| 26 June 1909 | Charles Robert Tyser | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Cyprus | |
| 26 June 1909 | The Hon. Richard William Scott, KC, LLD | Member of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada, and lately Secretary of State for Canada | |
| 26 June 1909 | George Bowen Simpson | Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales | |
| 26 June 1909 | Thomas à Beckett | Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria | |
| 26 June 1909 | Frederick George Dumayne | Vice-chairman of the Calcutta Port Trust | |
| 26 June 1909 | Cecil Harcourt Smith | Director and Secretary of the Art Museum at the Victoria and Albert Museum. On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to South Kensington to open the museum's new buildings. | |
| 6 July 1909 | William Cobbett | Chairman of the Board of Management of the Manchester Royal Infirmary. On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to Manchester to opening the infirmary's new buildings. | |
| 7 July 1909 | George Hamilton Kenrick | Lord Mayor of the City of Birmingham. On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to Birmingham to open the new city's new university buildings. | |
| 4 November 1909 | Frederick Orridge Macmillan | Chairman of the Board of Management of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. On the occasion of the opening of the hospital's Jubilee Extension Buildings. | |
| 9 November 1909 | Alfred Richard Pennefather, CB | Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District | |
| 9 November 1909 | Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO | ||
| 9 November 1909 | James Humphreys Harrison, MVO | Late Deputy Clerk of the Council | |
| 9 November 1909 | Francis Flint Belsey | ||
| 9 November 1909 | John Brigg, MP | ||
| 9 November 1909 | Arthur Trevor Dawson | ||
| 9 November 1909 | Charles Friswell | ||
| 9 November 1909 | Robert Laidlaw, MP | ||
| 9 November 1909 | James Lemon | ||
| 9 November 1909 | Frederick Low, KC | ||
| 9 November 1909 | James Matthew Moody, MRCS | ||
| 9 November 1909 | Walter John Napier, DCL | Attorney-General, Straits Settlements | |
| 9 November 1909 | Henry William Newton | ||
| 9 November 1909 | Arthur Nicholson | ||
| 9 November 1909 | William Robertson Nicoll, LLD | ||
| 9 November 1909 | David Paulin | ||
| 9 November 1909 | George Herbert Pollard, MD, MP | ||
| 9 November 1909 | William Augustus Tilden, DSc, FRS | ||
| 9 November 1909 | Henry Whitaker Trickett | sometime Mayor of Rawtenstall. | |
| 9 November 1909 | Evan Vincent-Evans | ||
| 9 November 1909 | Daniel Tupper, MVO | ||
| 9 November 1909 | The Hon. George McLean | Member the Legislative Council of the Dominion of New Zealand | |
| 9 November 1909 | Johannes Wilhelmus Wessels | Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal | |
| 9 November 1909 | Robert Townley Scott, ISO | Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia | |
| 9 November 1909 | Jesse Boot | ||
| 9 November 1909 | The Hon. John William Taverner | Agent General for Victoria |
References
- "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ The London Gazette, 19 February 1909 (issue 28225), p. 1306.
- ^ The London Gazette, 30 July 1909 (issue 28275), pp. 5805-5806.
- The London Gazette, 12 November 1909 (issue 28307), p. 8344.
- ^ The London Gazette, 24 December 1909 (issue 28321), pp. 9763–9764.
- The London Gazette, 24 June 1910 (issue 28389), p. 4485.
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