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. The closest equivalent award for a woman is appointment as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (founded in 1917).
In 1904, 68 people were appointed Knights Bachelor.
Knights bachelor appointed in 1904 Source: William A. Shaw, The Knights of England, vol. 2 (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906), pp. 417–420. DateNameNotes29 January 1904Walter Mytton ColvinBarrister2 May 1904James Aloysius PowerMayor of Waterford7 June 1904Thomas Rolls WarringtonJustice5 July 1904George Barham5 July 1904Thomas Barclay5 July 1904Albert à BeckettFormerly Assistant Accountant-General of the Army5 July 1904Arthur Bignold, MP5 July 1904John Brickwood5 July 1904Edward Townshend CandyIndian Civil Service (retired). Formerly Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay.5 July 1904Professor James Dewar, FRSRoyal Institution5 July 1904George Donaldson5 July 1904George Doughty, MP5 July 1904Edwin Harris Dunning5 July 1904Edward Elgar, MusDoc5 July 1904George Stegmann Gibb5 July 1904Thomas Hewitt, KC5 July 1904John Edward Gray Hill5 July 1904Constantine Holman5 July 1904Frank Thomas MarzialsFormerly Accountant-General of the Army5 July 1904Capt. David MunroFormerly Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland5 July 1904Walter Richard Plummer, MP5 July 1904William Handcock PilkingtonHigh Sheriff of County Kildare5 July 1904Alexander Oliver Riddell5 July 1904William Phillips Sawyer5 July 1904Benjamin Scott5 July 1904Edward David Stern5 July 1904Thomas Stevenson, MDScientific Analyst to the Home Office5 July 1904Henry Tannerof the Office of Works5 July 1904Thomas Marchant Williams5 July 1904William Lloyd Wise8 July 1904Hugh Montagu Allan9 July 1904Peter Nicol Russell11 July 1904Pope Alexander CooperChief Justice of Queensland12 July 1904Kendall Mathew St John Franks, MD13 July 1904Andries Ferdinand Stockenstrom MaasdorpChief Justice of the Orange River Colony14 July 1904William Herbert GreavesChief Judge of Barbados15 July 1904Alfred Scott Scott-GattyGarter King of Arms15 July 1904The Hon. Edward Patrick MorrisMinister of Justice of Newfoundland16 July 1904William ThorneMayor of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope18 July 1904Gooroo Dass Banarjee, MA, DLFormerly a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William19 July 1904Alderman Robert Aldred HampsonMayor of Liverpool. Invested on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of Liverpool Cathedral.19 July 1904William Robert BurkittIndian Civil Service. Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces20 July 1904Lt-Col. David Parkes Masson, VDCommandant, 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps; Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab for Making Laws and Regulations20 July 1904Griffith ThomasMayor of Swansea. Invested on the occasion of the opening of a new dock at Swansea.21 July 1904Hallewell RogersMayor of Birmingham. Invested on the occasion of the opening of new waterworks for the City of Birmingham.10 August 1904Reginald More BrayJudge of the High Court14 November 1904Alfred Tristram LawrenceJudge of the High Court19 December 1904Theodore Vivian Samuel Angier19 December 1904George Washington Baxter19 December 1904Richard Melvill Beachcroft19 December 1904Joseph Arthur Bellamy19 December 1904Henry Cook19 December 1904John Tom McCraithShaw records his name as "John Lowe McCraith", but he is "John Tom" in Walford's County Families (1919, p. 861); see also "The New Local Knights: Mr J. T. McCraith", Nottingham Evening Post, 9 November 1904, p. 3.19 December 1904Alfred Major19 December 1904Charles Hayes Marriott, MD19 December 1904Shirley Foster Murphy19 December 1904Surgeon Maj. Allan Perry, MDPrincipal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector General of the Hospitals in Ceylon19 December 1904Thomas Pink19 December 1904Professor William Japp SinclairProfessor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Victoria University of Manchester19 December 1904Matthew Henry StephenFormerly acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales19 December 1904Joseph Wilson Swan, FRS, DSc19 December 1904Aston Webb, RA19 December 1904George Henry JenkinsClerk of the Parliaments and Clerk of the Legislative Council of the State of Victoria19 December 1904The Hon. William Henry BundeyJudge of the Supreme Court of South Australia19 December 1904The Hon. Alfred Sandlings CowleySpeaker of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Queensland19 December 1904Stephen Herbert GattyChief Justice of Gibraltar19 December 1904William Henry HorwoodChief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland19 December 1904William Llewellyn LewisChief Justice of the Colony of British Hondorus
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