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 1903, 58 people were appointed Knights Bachelor.
Knights bachelor appointed in 1903 Source: William A. Shaw, The Knights of England, vol. 2 (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906), pp. 414–417. DateNameNotes1 January 1903Montagu Cornish TurnerShaw calls him "Montagu Charles Turner", but he is recorded as "Montagu Cornish Turner" in Who Was Who and The Times:"Turner, Sir Montagu Cornish", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019), retrieved 6 April 2020; "Sir Montagu Turner", The Times, 17 December 1934, p. 18.1 January 1903George Watt1 January 1903William Ovens Clark1 January 1903Lt-Col. James Lewis Walker17 April 1903James Acworth DaviesJudge of the High Court of Judicatue, Fort St George18 April 1903Lt-Col. William Earnshaw Cooper, CIECommandant, Cawnpore Volunteer Rifles20 April 1903Hurkisondas NurrotumdasSheriff of Bombay12 May 1903Col. Robert CranstonTreasurer of the City of Edinburgh12 May 1903William John Menzies, WSAgent of the Church of Scotland12 May 1903James GuthriePresident of the Royal Scottish Academy14 May 1903John ShearerConvenor of the Parks and Galleries Committee of the Corporation of Glasgow18 July 1903Patrick Heron Watson, LLD, MD, FRSEHon. Surgeon to the King in Scotland18 July 1903Alfred Downing FrippSurgeon-in-Ordinary to the King18 July 1903Stephen MacKenzie, MD18 July 1903Hiram Shaw WilkinsonChief Justice of the Supreme Court for China and Corea18 July 1903William Alfred FelderMayor of Hull18 July 1903Alfred Arnold18 July 1903Henry Fleming Hibbert18 July 1903Francis Charles GoreSolicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue18 July 1903George CollardMayor of Canterbury18 July 1903Edwin Cooper Perry, MD, FRCPPhysician to Guy's Hospital18 July 1903Alexander Carmichael BruceAssistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis18 July 1903John Johnson RuntzFirst Mayor of Stoke Newington18 July 1903William Godsell18 July 1903George Thomas LambertFormerly Director of Greenwich Hospital18 July 1903Lewis Tonna Dibdin, DCLDean of the Arches18 July 1903Charles Samuel BagotFormerly a Legal Commissioner in Lunacy18 July 1903Charles PetrieFormerly Lord Mayor of Liverpool3 August 1903The Hon. Charles Abercrombie Smith, MAFormerly Controller and Auditor-General of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope4 August 1903Charles Peter LayardChief Justice of Ceylon5 August 1903Charles John DudgeonChairman of the Shanghai Branch of the China Association26 August 1903Eyre CooteHigh Sheriff of County Dublin26 August 1903Robert AndersonHigh Sheriff of Belfast26 August 1903Abraham SuttonHigh Sheriff of Cork26 August 1903Thomas BrownChairman of Kingstown Urban District Council26 August 1903James CarrollChairman of Queenstown Urban District Council26 August 1903James O'DonohoeChairman of the Galway Urban District Council26 August 1903Lambert Hepenstal Ormsby, MDPresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland26 August 1903Augustine FitzGerald BakerPresident of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland9 November 1903Alan Reeve Manby, MDSurgeon-Apothecary to the King's Household at Sandringham and to the Prince of Wales30 November 1903Francis Bathurst SuttorPresident of the Legislative Council of the State of New South Wales1 December 1903Edward Dundas HolroydPuisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria18 December 1903Thomas William SnaggeCounty Court Judge18 December 1903John George Craggs18 December 1903Charles HolroydKeeper of the National Gallery of British Art, Tate Gallery18 December 1903August Manns18 December 1903Henry Alexander Giffard, KCBailiff of Guernsey18 December 1903John MacdonellMaster of the Supreme Court18 December 1903Henry Katz Davson18 December 1903Ernest Flower, MD18 December 1903Professor Clement Le Neve Foster, DSc, FRSFormerly one of HM Inspectors of Mines18 December 1903Nathaniel Nathan18 December 1903Alfred James ReynoldsSheriff of the City of London18 December 1903Robert Kennaway Douglasof the British Museum18 December 1903Harry Simon Samuel, MP18 December 1903Charles Scarisbrick, JP18 December 1903William Henry Venables-VernonBailiff of Jersey18 December 1903Arthur Vernon Macan, MBPresident of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
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