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 1912
| Date | Name | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January 1912 | Edward Pigott William Redford, CB | Secretary to the General Post Office for Scotland | |
| 1 January 1912 | John Anderson | Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council, Straits Settlements, 1905–9 | |
| 1 January 1912 | William Fletcher Barrett, FRS | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Reuben Vincent Barrow | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Joseph Beecham | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Charles Behrens | Ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester | |
| 1 January 1912 | John Hawtrey Benson, MD | President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland | |
| 1 January 1912 | Thomas Henry Devereux Berridge | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Valentine Chirol | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Robert John Collie, MD, CM | Medical Examiner to the London County Council | |
| 1 January 1912 | James Mackenzie Davidson, MB, CM | ||
| 1 January 1912 | William Duff Gibbon | Acted as Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon "on several occasions" | |
| 1 January 1912 | Henry Rider Haggard | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Thomas Henry Hepburn | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Henry Jones, LLD, DLitt | Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow | |
| 1 January 1912 | Samuel Robert Keightley, LLD | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Alfred Bray Kempe, DCL, FRS | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Henry Alexander Miers, DSc, FRS | Principal of the University of London | |
| 1 January 1912 | Herbert James Francis Parsons | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Sidney Job Pocock | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Alexander Porter | ||
| 1 January 1912 | George Henry Savage, MD, FRCP | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Courtauld Thomson | ||
| 1 January 1912 | William Wilkins Vincent | ||
| 1 January 1912 | John Tudor Walters, MP | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Robert Walton | Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris | |
| 1 January 1912 | Frederick Wedmore | ||
| 1 January 1912 | Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, LLD, FRS, FSA | President of University College, Cork | |
| 1 January 1912 | Edward Burnett Tylor, DCL, LLD, FRS | Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the University of Oxford | |
| 1 January 1912 | Anthony Michael Coll | Chief Justice of Jamaica | |
| 1 January 1912 | The Hon. Charles Kinnaird Mackellar | Member of the Legislative Council of the State of New South Wales and President of the State Children's Relief Board | |
| 1 January 1912 | Edmund Boyd Osler | Member of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada | |
| 1 January 1912 | Rodolphe Forget | Member of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada | |
| 1 January 1912 | Charles Henry Goode | ||
| 4 January 1912 | Frederick Loch Halliday, CIE, MVO | ||
| 4 January 1912 | David Yule | ||
| 26 January 1912 | Vincenzo Frendo Azopardi, CMG, LLD | Crown Advocate in Malta. Appointed during the King's visit to the island. | |
| 6 March 1912 | William Maurice Abbot-Anderson, MVO | Surgeon to the Princess Royal and Household | |
| 9 March 1912 | Edward White | Chairman of the London County Council. On the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the new London County Hall. | |
| 9 March 1912 | Maurice Fitzmaurice, CMG | Chief Engineer to the London County Council. On the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the new London County Hall. | |
| 11 March 1912 | Ho Kai, CMG | Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong. On the occasion of the opening of the University of Hong Kong. | |
| 28 May 1912 | Harry James Veitch | ||
| 14 June 1912 | John Edward Power Wallis | A Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras | |
| 14 June 1912 | John Page Middleton | A Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon, Ceylon | |
| 14 June 1912 | Laurence Charles Edward Downing Dowdall, CB | Principal Clerk, Chief Secretary's Office, Ireland | |
| 14 June 1912 | Charles Albert King, CB | Comptroller and Accountant-General, General Post Office | |
| 14 June 1912 | Lt-Col. David Prain, CIE, FRS | Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew | |
| 14 June 1912 | Francis Sowerby Bennett | ||
| 14 June 1912 | Edward Tyas Cook | ||
| 14 June 1912 | Frederick Green | Director of the Orient Steam Navigation Company and the Suez Canal Company | |
| 14 June 1912 | William Stowell Haldane | Crown Agent for Scotland | |
| 14 June 1912 | Norval Watson Helme, MP | ||
| 14 June 1912 | George Thompson Hutchinson, FRGS | Chairman of Hursfa and Blackett (Limited) | |
| 14 June 1912 | Malachi Kelly | Chief Crown Solicitor for Ireland | |
| 14 June 1912 | John Mills McCallum, MP | ||
| 14 June 1912 | Henry John Manton | ||
| 14 June 1912 | Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, FRCS | Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Leeds | |
| 14 June 1912 | George Paish | ||
| 14 June 1912 | Edward Partington | Director of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank | |
| 14 June 1912 | William Barclay Peat | ||
| 14 June 1912 | George Pragnell | ||
| 14 June 1912 | William Pick Raynor | ||
| 14 June 1912 | Charles Hercules Read | President of the Society of Antiquaries; Keeper of British and Mediaeval Antiquities in the British Museum | |
| 14 June 1912 | John Bland-Sutton, FRCS | ||
| 14 June 1912 | Abraham Garrod Thomas, MD | ||
| 14 June 1912 | St Clair Thomson, MD | ||
| 14 June 1912 | Charles Waldstein, DLitt | ||
| 14 June 1912 | Whitworth Wallis, FSA | Director of the Birmingham Art Gallery | |
| 14 June 1912 | Joseph Dubuc, LLD, BCL | Formerly Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench for the Province of Manitoba | |
| 14 June 1912 | The Hon. John James Duncan | Member of the Legislative Council of the State of South Australia | |
| 14 June 1912 | Jan Willem Stuckeris Langerman | Member of the House of Assembly, Union of South Africa | |
| 14 June 1912 | Reginald Sothern Holland | ||
| 14 June 1912 | Jagmohandas Varjivandas | Justice of the Peace, Bombay | |
| 14 June 1912 | Chettur Sankaran Nair, CIE | A Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras | |
| 14 June 1912 | Campbell Kirkman Finlay | ||
| 25 June 1912 | John Wesley Courtis | Lord Mayor of the City of Cardiff | |
| 28 June 1912 | Frank William Wills | Lord Mayor of the City of Bristol | |
| 22 July 1912 | Sam Fay | General manager of the Great Central Railway Company. On the occasion of the opening of the new Dock at Immingham. | |
| 25 July 1912 | Francis Fox | Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers | |
| 10 October 1912 | Sidney Arthur Taylor Rowlatt | Justice of the High Court of Justice | |
| 18 November 1912 | Clement Meacher Bailhache | Justice of the High Court of Justice |
References
- "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ The London Gazette, 8 March 1912 (issue 28588), pp. 1745–1746.
- Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland (1923), p. 426.
- Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland (1921), p. 671.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1919), p. 1079.
- ^ The London Gazette, 4 June 1912 (issue 28614), p. 4036.
- ^ The London Gazette, 12 March 1912 (issue 28589), p. 1827.
- ^ The London Gazette, 12 July 1912 (supplement, no. 28626), pp. 5081–5082.
- The London Gazette, 2 August 1912 (issue 28632), p. 5722.
- The London Gazette, 29 October 1912 (issue 28658), p. 7940.
- The London Gazette, 18 October 1912 (issue 28654), p. 7684.
- The London Gazette, 19 November 1912 (issue 28664), p. 8459.
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