List of knights bachelor appointed in 1900

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."Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2020. 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).

In 1900, 51 people were invested Knights Bachelor; 11 were to Irish subjects (including Edward Carson, on his appointment as Solicitor General for England and Wales), one was from Guernsey and 13 were people in other parts of the British Empire.

Knights bachelor appointed in 1900 Source: William A. Shaw, The Knights of England, vol. 2 (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906), pp. 405–408. DateNameNotes22 January 1900The Hon. John Stokell DoddsChief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Tasmania22 January 1900Francis Henry LovellSurgeon-General and Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago22 January 1900Malcolm Donald McEacharnMayor of Melbourne2 February 1900V. Bhashyam AiyangarDiwan Bahadur acting Advocate General, Madras5 February 1900Bhalchandra Krishna Bhatawadekar, JPChairman of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Corporation, Bombay9 February 1900Gerald Raoul de Courcy-Perry, CMGHM Consul-General at Antwerp9 February 1900James Balfour PaulLyon King of Arms9 February 1900Thomas Henry Tacon, JP, DL9 February 1900William Theodore Doxford, MP9 February 1900Walter Thorburn, MP9 February 1900Thomas Launder Brunton, MD, FRS17 February 1900George Dalhouse Ramsay3 March 1900Henry Burton Buckley, QCHigh Court Judge5 March 1900Otto JafféFormerly Lord Mayor of Belfast12 March 1900The Rt Hon. Samuel James WayLieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony of South Australia; Chancellor of the University of Adelaide; Member for the Australasian Colonies of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council29 March 1900Alderman William Purdis TreloarSheriff of the City of London29 March 1900Alfred Henry BevanSheriff of the City of London15 May 1900William MacphersonJudge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William1 May 1900The Rt Hon. Edward Henry Carson, QC, MPSolicitor General for England and Wales. He was appointed to that office (which then carried a knighthood customarily) on 11 May 1900 and had been invested with the knighthood by 17 May 1900.25 May 1900Daniel Joseph HegartyLord Mayor of Cork25 May 1900William McLearnMayor of Londonderry25 May 1900Joseph DownesHigh Sheriff of the City of Dublin25 May 1900Alfred Graham DobbinHigh Sheriff of the City of Cork25 May 1900Thomas Henry CleeveHigh Sheriff of the City of Limerick25 May 1900John William Moore, MDPresident of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland25 May 1900Thomas DrewPresident of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland25 May 1900John Malcolm InglisPresident of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce25 May 1900Thomas William RobinsonChairman of Kingstown Urban District Council27 June 1900Arthur James Richens TrendellAssistant Secretary of the Science and Art Department27 June 1900John GrovesFormerly Mayor of Weymouth27 June 1900John Glover, JPChairman of the City Liberal Unionist Association and of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping27 June 1900Thomas Godfrey CareyBailiff of Guernsey27 June 1900William Wilson MitchellMember of the Legislative Council of Ceylon27 June 1900Charles Arnold WhiteChief Justice of Madras27 June 1900James WilliamsonDirector of HM Dockyards27 June 1900William WardHM Consul-General at Hamburg27 June 1900Allan ArthurMember of the Viceroy of India's Legislative Council30 June 1900Hector Clare CameronPresident of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow30 June 1900John WatneyClerk of the Mercers' Company and Hon. Secretary of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education30 June 1900Henry Homewood CrawfordSolicitor of the Corporation of London30 June 1900George Hare Philipson, MDPresident of the University of Durham College of Medicine30 June 1900Charles Clement Bowring, JP30 June 1900Alderman William Haswell StephensonAlderman of the City of Newcastle30 June 1900Richard Claverhouse Jebb, MPRegius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge30 June 1900Colin George Macrae, WSFormerly Chairman of the School Board of Edinburgh30 June 1900Riley LordMayor of Newcastle upon Tyne30 June 1900James Cornelius O'DowdFormerly Deputy Judge Advocate General16 July 1900William Bisset Berry, MD, QCSpeaker of the House of Assembly of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope16 July 1900David Palmer Ross, MDSurgeon-General of the Colony of British Guiana24 October 1900Francis Pratt WinterChief Judicial Officer of the Possession of British New Guinea14 December 1900Matthew Ingle JoyceHigh Court Judge

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