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 1915
| Date | Name | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January 1915 | Horatio Brevitt | Town Clerk of Wolverhampton | |
| 1 January 1915 | William Carey | Bailiff of Guernsey | |
| 1 January 1915 | Arthur Wakefield Chapman | Chairman of the Surrey County Council | |
| 1 January 1915 | John Cowan | ||
| 1 January 1915 | James Johnston Dobbie, FRS, DSc | Principal of the Government Laboratories | |
| 1 January 1915 | Frank Watson Dyson, FRS | Astronomer Royal | |
| 1 January 1915 | Alfred Lassam Goodson | ||
| 1 January 1915 | Thomas Duncombe Mann | Clerk to the Metropolitan Asylums Board | |
| 1 January 1915 | Perceval Alleyn Nairne | Chairman of the Committee of the London School of Tropical Medicine | |
| 1 January 1915 | Henry John Newbolt, DLitt | ||
| 1 January 1915 | Douglas William Owen | ||
| 1 January 1915 | Lt-Col. Stephen Penfold | Mayor of Folkestone | |
| 1 January 1915 | Walter Trower | ||
| 1 January 1915 | Henry Urwick | ||
| 1 January 1915 | Herbert Ashcombe Walker | General Manager of the London and South Western Railway | |
| 1 January 1915 | Alfred William Watson | ||
| 1 January 1915 | John Gibson | ||
| 1 January 1915 | James Thomson Broom | Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce | |
| 1 January 1915 | William Kellman Chandler, CMG, LLD | Master in Chancery and Judge of the Assistant Court of Appeal, Barbados | |
| 1 January 1915 | The Rt Hon. David Valentine Hennessy | Lord Mayor of the City of Melbourne | |
| 1 January 1915 | Herbert Samuel Holt | ||
| 1 January 1915 | The Hon. François Xavier Lemieux | Acting Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada | |
| 1 January 1915 | Herbert Lethington Maitland, MB, ChM | ||
| 1 January 1915 | Capt Clive Oldnall Long Phillipps-Wolley | ||
| 1 January 1915 | William Price | ||
| 1 January 1915 | James Glenny Wilson | President of the Board of Agriculture in the Dominion of New Zealand | |
| 1 January 1915 | Joseph John Heaton | Indian Civil Service; a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature in Bombay | |
| 1 January 1915 | George Cunningham Buchanan, CIE | Chairman and Chief Engineer of the Commissioners for the Port of Rangoon, Burma | |
| 1 January 1915 | Donald Campbell Johnstone | Indian Civil Service; Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab | |
| 1 January 1915 | Loraine Geddes Dunbar | Secretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Bengal, Calcutta | |
| 1 January 1915 | John Hubert Marshall, CIE | Director-General of Archaeology in India | |
| 1 January 1915 | Satyendra Prasanna Sinha | Barrister-at-Law; a Member of the Legislative Council of the Governor of Bengal | |
| 1 January 1915 | Robert Stewart Johnstone | lately Chief Justice of Grenada | |
| 13 February 1915 | Edward O'Farrell, CB | Assistant Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland | |
| 13 February 1915 | Alfred Callaghan, LLD | ||
| 13 February 1915 | William Fry | ||
| 13 February 1915 | John Irwin | ||
| 9 June 1915 | The Rt Hon. Frederick Edwin Smith, KC | Solicitor-General | |
| 18 June 1915 | Henry Doran | Member of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland | |
| 18 June 1915 | Hon. Cdr Edward Lionel Fletcher, RNR | ||
| 18 June 1915 | Lt-Col. William Forbes | Commandant, Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, General Manager of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway | |
| 18 June 1915 | Charles Edward Fryer, ISO | Superintending Inspector of Fisheries, Board of Agriculture | |
| 18 June 1915 | Joseph Aloysius Glynn | Chairman, National Health Insurance Commission (Ireland) | |
| 18 June 1915 | Henry Ledgard | ||
| 18 June 1915 | John Lindsay | ||
| 18 June 1915 | James Mackenzie, MD, FRS, FRCP, LLD | ||
| 18 June 1915 | John Henry Maden | High Sheriff of Lancashire | |
| 18 June 1915 | The Hon. Peter McBride | Agent-General in London for the State of Victoria | |
| 18 June 1915 | Leo George Chiozza Money, MP | ||
| 18 June 1915 | Ruthven Grey Monteath | ||
| 18 June 1915 | Frederick Needham, MD | Commissioner, Board of Control | |
| 18 June 1915 | Walter Palmer Nevill | ||
| 18 June 1915 | Erik Olof Ohlson | ||
| 18 June 1915 | William Pearce, MP | ||
| 18 June 1915 | Edward Rigg, CB, ISO | Superintendent, Operative Department, Royal Mint | |
| 18 June 1915 | Edward George Saltmarsh | ||
| 18 June 1915 | William Napier Shaw, FRS | Director of the Meteorological Office | |
| 18 June 1915 | William Capel Slaughter | ||
| 18 June 1915 | William SIingo | Engineer-in-Chief, General Post Office | |
| 18 June 1915 | Charles Stewart Loch | ||
| 18 June 1915 | Herbert Brown Ames | Member of the House of Commons of Canada; Honorary Secrctary of the Canadian Patriotic Fund | |
| 18 June 1915 | The Hon. Edgar Rennie Bowring | Member of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland | |
| 18 June 1915 | Henry Lumley Drayton, KC | Chief Commissioner, Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada | |
| 18 June 1915 | John Craig Eaton | ||
| 18 June 1915 | Charles Frederick Fraser, LLD | Superintendent of the School for the Blind, Halifax, Canada | |
| 18 June 1915 | Robert Ho Tung | ||
| 18 June 1915 | The Hon. Thomas Hughes | Member of the Legislative Council of the State of New South Wales | |
| 18 June 1915 | Thomas Muir, CMG, LLD, MA | Superintendent-General of Education. Province of the Cape of Good Hope, Union of South Africa | |
| 18 June 1915 | Alexander Wood Renton | the Chief Justice of the Island of Ceylon | |
| 18 June 1915 | Rash Behari Ghose, CSI, CIE | ||
| 18 June 1915 | John George Woodroffe | a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal | |
| 18 June 1915 | Rabindranath Tagore | ||
| 18 June 1915 | Robert Richard Gales | Indian Public Works Department | |
| 18 June 1915 | Haji Muhammad Yusuf | ||
| 18 June 1915 | James Murray | ||
| 5 August 1915 | Lancelot Sanderson, KC, MP | On his appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature, Calcutta | |
| 2 December 1915 | The Rt Hon. George Cave, KC | Solicitor-General | |
| 2 December 1915 | Arthur Frederic Peterson | Justice of the High Court of Justice |
References
- "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ The London Gazette, 9 March 1915 (issue 29094), pp. 2363–2364.
- "Mann, Sir (Thomas) Duncombe", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), p. 1025.
- ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, 20 July 1915 (issue 12831), pp. 1094–1095.
- The London Gazette, 11 June 1915 (issue 29189), p. 5632.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), p. 539.
- The County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), p. 987.
- Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2011), p. 758.
- ^ The Edinburgh Gazette, 10 August 1915 (issue 12840), p. 1173.
- ^ The London Gazette, 3 December 1915 (issue 29390), p. 12054.
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