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. The closest equivalent award for a woman is appointment as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (founded in 1917).
In 1904, 68 people were appointed Knights Bachelor.
Knights bachelor appointed in 1904
Source: William A. Shaw, The Knights of England, vol. 2 (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906), pp. 417–420.
| Date | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 29 January 1904 | Walter Mytton Colvin | Barrister |
| 2 May 1904 | James Aloysius Power | Mayor of Waterford |
| 7 June 1904 | Thomas Rolls Warrington | Justice |
| 5 July 1904 | George Barham | |
| 5 July 1904 | Thomas Barclay | |
| 5 July 1904 | Albert à Beckett | Formerly Assistant Accountant-General of the Army |
| 5 July 1904 | Arthur Bignold, MP | |
| 5 July 1904 | John Brickwood | |
| 5 July 1904 | Edward Townshend Candy | Indian Civil Service (retired). Formerly Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay. |
| 5 July 1904 | Professor James Dewar, FRS | Royal Institution |
| 5 July 1904 | George Donaldson | |
| 5 July 1904 | George Doughty, MP | |
| 5 July 1904 | Edwin Harris Dunning | |
| 5 July 1904 | Edward Elgar, MusDoc | |
| 5 July 1904 | George Stegmann Gibb | |
| 5 July 1904 | Thomas Hewitt, KC | |
| 5 July 1904 | John Edward Gray Hill | |
| 5 July 1904 | Constantine Holman | |
| 5 July 1904 | Frank Thomas Marzials | Formerly Accountant-General of the Army |
| 5 July 1904 | Capt. David Munro | Formerly Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland |
| 5 July 1904 | Walter Richard Plummer, MP | |
| 5 July 1904 | William Handcock Pilkington | High Sheriff of County Kildare |
| 5 July 1904 | Alexander Oliver Riddell | |
| 5 July 1904 | William Phillips Sawyer | |
| 5 July 1904 | Benjamin Scott | |
| 5 July 1904 | Edward David Stern | |
| 5 July 1904 | Thomas Stevenson, MD | Scientific Analyst to the Home Office |
| 5 July 1904 | Henry Tanner | of the Office of Works |
| 5 July 1904 | Thomas Marchant Williams | |
| 5 July 1904 | William Lloyd Wise | |
| 8 July 1904 | Hugh Montagu Allan | |
| 9 July 1904 | Peter Nicol Russell | |
| 11 July 1904 | Pope Alexander Cooper | Chief Justice of Queensland |
| 12 July 1904 | Kendall Mathew St John Franks, MD | |
| 13 July 1904 | Andries Ferdinand Stockenstrom Maasdorp | Chief Justice of the Orange River Colony |
| 14 July 1904 | William Herbert Greaves | Chief Judge of Barbados |
| 15 July 1904 | Alfred Scott Scott-Gatty | Garter King of Arms |
| 15 July 1904 | The Hon. Edward Patrick Morris | Minister of Justice of Newfoundland |
| 16 July 1904 | William Thorne | Mayor of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope |
| 18 July 1904 | Gooroo Dass Banarjee, MA, DL | Formerly a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William |
| 19 July 1904 | Alderman Robert Aldred Hampson | Mayor of Liverpool. Invested on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of Liverpool Cathedral. |
| 19 July 1904 | William Robert Burkitt | Indian Civil Service. Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces |
| 20 July 1904 | Lt-Col. David Parkes Masson, VD | Commandant, 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps; Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab for Making Laws and Regulations |
| 20 July 1904 | Griffith Thomas | Mayor of Swansea. Invested on the occasion of the opening of a new dock at Swansea. |
| 21 July 1904 | Hallewell Rogers | Mayor of Birmingham. Invested on the occasion of the opening of new waterworks for the City of Birmingham. |
| 10 August 1904 | Reginald More Bray | Judge of the High Court |
| 14 November 1904 | Alfred Tristram Lawrence | Judge of the High Court |
| 19 December 1904 | Theodore Vivian Samuel Angier | |
| 19 December 1904 | George Washington Baxter | |
| 19 December 1904 | Richard Melvill Beachcroft | |
| 19 December 1904 | Joseph Arthur Bellamy | |
| 19 December 1904 | Henry Cook | |
| 19 December 1904 | John Tom McCraith | |
| 19 December 1904 | Alfred Major | |
| 19 December 1904 | Charles Hayes Marriott, MD | |
| 19 December 1904 | Shirley Foster Murphy | |
| 19 December 1904 | Surgeon Maj. Allan Perry, MD | Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector General of the Hospitals in Ceylon |
| 19 December 1904 | Thomas Pink | |
| 19 December 1904 | Professor William Japp Sinclair | Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Victoria University of Manchester |
| 19 December 1904 | Matthew Henry Stephen | Formerly acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales |
| 19 December 1904 | Joseph Wilson Swan, FRS, DSc | |
| 19 December 1904 | Aston Webb, RA | |
| 19 December 1904 | George Henry Jenkins | Clerk of the Parliaments and Clerk of the Legislative Council of the State of Victoria |
| 19 December 1904 | The Hon. William Henry Bundey | Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia |
| 19 December 1904 | The Hon. Alfred Sandlings Cowley | Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Queensland |
| 19 December 1904 | Stephen Herbert Gatty | Chief Justice of Gibraltar |
| 19 December 1904 | William Henry Horwood | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland |
| 19 December 1904 | William Llewellyn Lewis | Chief Justice of the Colony of British Hondorus |
References
- "The British Honours System". www.churchill-society-london.org.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- "Guide to the Honours". BBC News. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- Shaw records his name as "John Lowe McCraith", but he is "John Tom" in Walford's County Families (1919, p. 861); see also "The New Local Knights: Mr J. T. McCraith", Nottingham Evening Post, 9 November 1904, p. 3.
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