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 1917
| Date | Name | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 February 1917 | William Frederick Alphonse Archibald | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Robert Armstrong-Jones, MD | (Major, Royal Army Medical Corps) | |
| 21 February 1917 | Archibald Henry Bodkin | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Walter MacGeough Bond | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Joseph Guinness Broodbank | ||
| 21 February 1917 | George T. Buckham | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Arthur Carkeek | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Julian Corbett | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Leonard Dunning | Inspector of Constabulary | |
| 21 February 1917 | Hugh Fraser, LLD | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Harry Edwin Haward | ||
| 21 February 1917 | The Very Rev. John Herkless, DD | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Henry Holloway | ||
| 21 February 1917 | James Hope-Simpson | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Christopher Nicholson Johnston, KC | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Prof. Richard Lodge | ||
| 21 February 1917 | William Lorimer | ||
| 21 February 1917 | John Lonsdale Otter | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Edward Ernest Pearson | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Keith William Price | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Vincent Litchfield Raven | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Harry Ross Skinner | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Samuel George Shead | (Temporary Second Lieutenant, Army Service Corps) | |
| 21 February 1917 | Edward Smith | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Evan Spicer | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Lt-Col. Owen Thomas | ||
| 21 February 1917 | George Alexander Touche, MP | ||
| 21 February 1917 | William Ashbee Tritton | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Daniel Harold Ryan Twomey | Indian Civil Service, Judge, Chief Court of Lower Burma | |
| 21 February 1917 | George Vanston | ||
| 21 February 1917 | William Weir | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Ernest Michael Clarke | Director, Motor Ambulance Department, British Red Cross Society | |
| 21 February 1917 | James Gallagher | late Lord Mayor of Dublin | |
| 21 February 1917 | Prof. Paul Vinogradoff | ||
| 21 February 1917 | The Hon. Walter Gibson Pringle Cassels | Senior Judge of the Exchequer Court of Canada | |
| 21 February 1917 | Mortimer Barnett Davis | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Charles Simon Davson | Chief Justice of Fiji and Chief Judicial Commissioner of the Western Pacific | |
| 21 February 1917 | The Hon. John Edward Denniston | a Judge of the Supreme Court of the Dominion of New Zealand | |
| 21 February 1917 | Thomas Allwright Dibbs | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Robert Randolph Garran, CMG | Solicitor-General, Commonwealth of Australia | |
| 21 February 1917 | John Grice | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Ambalawanar Kanagasabai | ||
| 21 February 1917 | The Hon. John Gilbert Kotze | Puisne Judge, Cape Provincial Division, Supreme Court of South Africa | |
| 21 February 1917 | The Hon. Ezekiel McLeod | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick | |
| 21 February 1917 | Daniel Thomas Tudor | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bahama Islands | |
| 21 February 1917 | Reginald Arthur Gamble | Indian Civil Service, Comptroller and Auditor-General, an Additional Member of the Indian Legislative Council | |
| 21 February 1917 | Archibald Birkmyre | an Additional Member of the Legislative Council of the Governor of Bengal | |
| 21 February 1917 | Sundar Lal, CIE, DLL, Rai Bahadur | An Additional Member of the Legislative Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh | |
| 21 February 1917 | Jagadish Chandra Bose, CSI, CIE, DSc | Formerly of the Indian Educational Service | |
| 21 February 1917 | Norcot Hastings Yeeles Warren | Secretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Bengal, Calcutta | |
| 21 February 1917 | Naoroji Pestanji Vakil, CIE, Khan. Bahadur | ||
| 21 February 1917 | Duncan Carmichael | ||
| 13 June 1917 | William James Ashley | Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at Birmingham | |
| 13 June 1917 | John Audley Frederick Aspinall | General Manager of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway | |
| 13 June 1917 | Graham Balfour | Secretary to the Staffordshire Education Committee | |
| 13 June 1917 | Francis Henry Barker | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Rowland Barran, MP | ||
| 13 June 1917 | William Barton, MP | ||
| 13 June 1917 | William Cain | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Frederick William Alfred Clarke | Accountant and Comptroller-General of Customs and Excise | |
| 13 June 1917 | Arthur Stockdale Cope, RA | ||
| 13 June 1917 | William Henry Cowan, MP | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Col. Thomas Kennedy Dalziel | RAMC | |
| 13 June 1917 | Henry Davies, CB | Controller of the Post Office Savings Bank | |
| 13 June 1917 | George Samuel Elliott, JP | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Thomas Gregory Foster | Provost of University College, London | |
| 13 June 1917 | John Foster Fraser, FRGS, FZS | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Richard Tetley Glazebrook, CB, FRS | Director of the National Physical Laboratory | |
| 13 June 1917 | Robert Graham, DL, JP | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Henry Herbert Hambling | ||
| 13 June 1917 | George Haysom | Sheriff of the City of London | |
| 13 June 1917 | Thomas Erskine Holland, KC, DCL, LLD | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Lt-Col. William Henry Houghton-Gastrell, MP | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Robert Murray Hyslop | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Lt-Col. Robert Jones, CB, FRCS | Lecturer on Orthopaedic Surgery at Liverpool University | |
| 13 June 1917 | John Lome McLeod | Lord Provost of Edinburgh | |
| 13 June 1917 | Alexander Herbert Maguire | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Charles Edward Mallet | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Edward Marshall-Hall, KC, MP | Recorder of Guildford | |
| 13 June 1917 | Ernest Martin | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Grimwood Mears | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Maj. Lewis Arthur Newton | Sheriff of the City of London | |
| 13 June 1917 | Henry George Norris | Mayor of Fulham | |
| 13 June 1917 | Ebenezer Parkes, MP | ||
| 13 June 1917 | William Peck, FRSE, FRAS | Director of the City Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh | |
| 13 June 1917 | Robert Leonard Powell, JP | ||
| 13 June 1917 | William Beddoe Rees | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Alfred Farthing Robbins | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Samuel Roberts, MP | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Charles Walter Starmer, JP | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Dudley Stewart-Smith, KC | Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster | |
| 13 June 1917 | William Hamo Thornycroft, RA | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Herbert Furnival Waterhouse, MD, FRCS | Member of Council and Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons | |
| 13 June 1917 | William Watson, LLD | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Edward Graham Wood | High Sheriff of Lancashire | |
| 13 June 1917 | John Aird | Aird was unable to attend his investiture; if he was ever dubbed, the event was not gazetted. | |
| 13 June 1917 | George Burn | Burn was unable to attend his investiture; if he was ever dubbed, the event was not gazetted. | |
| 13 June 1917 | George Bury | Bury was unable to attend his investiture; if he was ever dubbed, the event was not gazetted. | |
| 13 June 1917 | Eugene Fiset, CMG, DSO, MD | Surgeon-General, Canadian Militia, Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence, of the Dominion of Canada | |
| 13 June 1917 | Ellis Kadoorie | ||
| 13 June 1917 | The Hon. Johannes Henricus Lange, LLB | Puisne Judge, Griqualand West Local Division, Cape of Good Hope Provisional Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa | |
| 13 June 1917 | The Hon. Edward Miller | Treasurer for the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society | |
| 13 June 1917 | Augustus Meredith Nanton | ||
| 13 June 1917 | James Patrick Sands | President of the Legislative Council of the Bahama Islands | |
| 13 June 1917 | Edward Charles Stirling, CMG, MD, DSc | Professor of Physiology in the University of Adelaide | |
| 13 June 1917 | Frank Clement Offley Beaman | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Ashutosh Chaudhuri | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Dinshah Fdalji Vachha | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Edward Hugh Bray | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Henry John Stanyon, CIE, VD | ||
| 13 June 1917 | Michael Nethersole, CSI | ||
| 2 November 1917 | Arthur Clavell Salter | Justice of the High Court of Justice | |
| 2 November 1917 | Alexander Adair Roche | Justice of the High Court of Justice |
Notes
It was announced in the 1917 New Year Honours that a knighthood was to be bestowed on William Gundry, JP (a magistrate for Middlesex, the president of the Enfield Liberal Association and a director of Messrs Morris, Ashby Ltd, a firm of city merchants), but he died before he received the accolade. By a royal warrant dated 9 January 1918, George V declared that his widow, Florence Eugenie Barwell Gundry, "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 County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 33.
- ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, 20 April 1917 (issue 13080), pp. 775–776.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 130.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 628.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 730.
- Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage (1931), p. 1173.
- Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes (1918), p. 1282.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 1343.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 266.
- ^ The London Gazette, 19 June 1917 (issue 30138), pp. 6047–6048.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 40.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 68.
- Whittaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage (1922), p. 471.
- ^ The London Gazette, 10 August 1917 (issue 30224), p. 8130.
- ^ The London Gazette, 6 November 1917 (issue 30369), p. 11470.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), pp. 586–587.
- "Sir William Gundry", The Times, 12 January 1917, p. 9.
- The Edinburgh Gazette, 29 January 1918 (issue 13201), p. 503.
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