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 1907
| Date | Name | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January 1907 | Charles Edmund Fox | Chief Justice of the Chief Court of Lower Burma | |
| 1 January 1907 | Adamjee Peerbhoy, JP | ||
| 23 February 1907 | Captain Pieter Canzius van Blommestein Bam, JP | Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope; Chairman of the General Executive Committee of the South African Products Exhibition. On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to the Royal Horticultural Hall for the opening of the Exhibition. | |
| 27 February 1907 | Frederick Albert Bosanquet, KC | Common Serjeant of London. On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to the City of London to open the new Central Criminal Court building. | |
| 27 February 1907 | Charles Willie Mathews, KC | On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to the City of London to open the new Central Criminal Court building. | |
| 1 June 1907 | William Pickford | Justice of the High Court of Justices | |
| 28 June 1907 | Professor Hubert von Herkomer, CVO, RA | ||
| 28 June 1907 | John Gavey, CB | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Colonel William Charles Eldon Serjeant, CB | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Edmund McGildowny Hope Fulton, CSI | Indian Civil Service (retired) | |
| 28 June 1907 | William Angus | ||
| 28 June 1907 | William James Baxter | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Robert Buckell | ||
| 28 June 1907 | William Randal Cremer, MP | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Thomas Boor Crosby, MD | Sheriff of the City of London | |
| 28 June 1907 | James Donaldson | Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of St. Andrews | |
| 28 June 1907 | Nathaniel Dunlop | ||
| 28 June 1907 | William Henry Dunn | Sheriff of the City of London | |
| 28 June 1907 | Whately Eliot, MICE | ||
| 28 June 1907 | William Schwenck Gilbert | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Stanley Harrington | Commissioner of National Education in Ireland | |
| 28 June 1907 | Nathaniel Joseph Highmore | Solicitor to His Majesty's Board of Customs | |
| 28 June 1907 | George Judd | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Professor John Knox Laughton | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Maurice Levy, MP | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Melville Leslie Macnaghten | Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Police | |
| 28 June 1907 | James Mills | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Francis Oppenheimer | Consul-General, Frankfort-on-Main | |
| 28 June 1907 | Horace Grece Regnart | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Professor John Rhys | of Jesus College, Oxford | |
| 28 June 1907 | Henry Robson | ||
| 28 June 1907 | James Brown Smith | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Henry Rosborough Swanzy, MD | ||
| 28 June 1907 | John Thomas | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Frederick William Wilson | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Rai Bahadur Bipin Krishna Bose, CIE | ||
| 28 June 1907 | David Brand | Sheriff of Ayr | |
| 28 June 1907 | Alexander Hosie | ||
| 28 June 1907 | William Quiller Orchardson, RA | ||
| 28 June 1907 | Colonel Richard George Ellison, CVO | Ensign, His Majesty's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard | |
| 9 July 1907 | Dr Henry Rudolf Reichel | Principal of the University College of North Wales. On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to Bangor to lay the foundation stone of the University College's new buildings. | |
| 13 July 1907 | William Crossman | Lord Mayor of the City of Cardiff. On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to Cardiff to open a new dock. | |
| 15 August 1907 | Thomas Mitchell, CVO | Manager, Constructive Department, Portsmouth Dockyard | |
| 9 November 1907 | William Adamson, CMG | Chairman of the Straits Settlements Association | |
| 9 November 1907 | Colonel John Smith Young, MVO | Secretary, Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation | |
| 9 November 1907 | William Henry Allchin, MD | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Alfred Apperly | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Joseph Compton Compton-Rickett, MP | ||
| 9 November 1907 | John Irving Courtenay | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Frank Crisp | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Daniel Ford Goddard, MP | ||
| 9 November 1907 | John Hare | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Edward Thomas Holden, JP | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Robert Edwin Matheson, LLD | Registrar General for Ireland | |
| 9 November 1907 | Francis Beaufort Palmer | ||
| 9 November 1907 | John Pilter | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Charles Horace Radford | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Charles Santley | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Augustus Charles Scovell | ||
| 9 November 1907 | William John Thompson, MD | ||
| 9 November 1907 | George White, MP | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Charles Whitehead | ||
| 9 November 1907 | Charles Moss | Chief Justice of Ontario | |
| 9 November 1907 | James Wilson Southern | ||
| 21 December 1907 | Harry Trelawney Eve | Justice of the High Court of Justice |
Notes
It was announced in the 1907 Birthday Honours that a knighthood was to be bestowed on Alfred Billson (the serving MP for North West Staffordshire), but he died before he received the accolade. On 19 August 1907, Edward VII declared that his widow, Lilla Billson, "shall have, hold and enjoy the style, title, place and precedence to which she would have been entitled had her husband survived to receive the honour of Knight Bachelor at the hands of His Majesty".
References
- "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ The London Gazette, 8 January 1907 (issue 27984), p. 188.
- The London Gazette, 26 February 1907 (issue 27999), p. 1390.
- ^ The London Gazette, 1 March 1907 (issue 28000), p. 1462.
- The London Gazette, 4 June 1907 (issue 28027), p. 3831.
- ^ The London Gazette, 26 July 1907 (issue 28044), p. 5118.
- "Baxter, Sir William James", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019). Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- "Smith, Sir James Brown", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019). Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- The London Gazette, 31 December 1907 (issue 28094), p. 9095.
- The London Gazette, 16 August 1907 (issue 28051), p. 5595.
- ^ The London Gazette, 24 December 1907 (issue 28092), p. 8979.
- "Sudden Death of Sir Alfred Billson", Shrewsbury Chronicle, 12 July 1907, p. 7.
- The London Gazette, 1 October 1907 (issue 28065), p. 6575.
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