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).
Knights bachelor appointed in 1909 DateNameNotesRef1 February 1909Rai Bahadur Pratul Chandra Chatterji, CIEVice-Chancellor of the University of the Punjab, lately a Judge of the Chief Court of the PunjabThe London Gazette, 19 February 1909 (issue 28225), p. 1306.1 February 1909Basil ScottChief Justice of the High Court of Judicature, Bomba1 February 1909Ernest John Trevelyan, DCLBarrister-at-Law, Reader in Indian Law at the University of Oxford, lately one of the Judges of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal1 February 1909William Egelric BiggeLately a Judge of the Chief Court of Lower Burma1 February 1909Frederick Charles HolidayLately Auditor of the Accounts of the Secretary of State for India in Council15 February 1909John Andrew HamiltonJustice of the High Court of Justices26 June 1909Thomas Edward Thorpe, CB, FRSPrincipal of the Government LaboratoriesThe London Gazette, 30 July 1909 (issue 28275), pp. 5805-5806.26 June 1909John James BaddeleySheriff of the City of London26 June 1909Thomas Arthur Bramsdon, MP26 June 1909Francis Joseph Campbell, LLDPrincipal of the Royal Normal College for the Blind26 June 1909Arthur ChapmanFormerly Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro26 June 1909Merton Russell Cotes26 June 1909Samuel Dill, LittD, LLDMember of the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland26 June 1909John Duncan26 June 1909Francis Stanhope HansonAlderman and Sheriff of the City of London26 June 1909Lt-Col. George Kemp26 June 1909Hugh Percy LaneHonorary Director, Municipal Art Gallery, Dublin, and Governor of National Gallery, Ireland26 June 1909Joseph Larmor, DSc, FRSSecretary of the Royal Society; Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge26 June 1909Lt-Col. William Boog Leishman, MB, RAMC26 June 1909Henry William Lucy26 June 1909Richard Mackie26 June 1909Thomas Mason26 June 1909Thomas MatthewsChief Engineer of the Trinity House26 June 1909Walter Menzies, MP26 June 1909Mark Oldroyd26 June 1909Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, FRS26 June 1909Edwin Pears26 June 1909Arthur Wing Pinero26 June 1909William Edward Briggs Priestley, MP26 June 1909George Allardice Riddell26 June 1909William Alexander SmithFounder and Organizer of the Boys' Brigade26 June 1909Arthur John TedderChief Inspector of Excise26 June 1909John Edward ThriftChief Inspector of Stamps and Taxes, Inland Revenue Department26 June 1909Herbert Beerbohm Tree26 June 1909Maj. Henry Francis Trippel26 June 1909James Henry Yoxall, MP26 June 1909The Hon. Arthur Hay Stewart ReidChief Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab26 June 1909Edwin Grant Burls, CSIDirector-General of Stores, India Office26 June 1909The Hon. Cornthwaite Hector RasonAgent-General in London for the State of Western Australia26 June 1909Charles Frederick Lumb, LLDlately Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Jamaica26 June 1909Walter Kennaway, CMGSecretary, Office of the High Commissioner in London for the Dominion of New Zealand26 June 1909Francis Galton, ScD, FRSHonorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge26 June 1909Thomas Carlaw Martin, LLD26 June 1909Charles Robert TyserChief Justice of the Supreme Court of Cyprus26 June 1909The Hon. Richard William Scott, KC, LLDMember of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada, and lately Secretary of State for Canada26 June 1909George Bowen SimpsonActing Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales26 June 1909Thomas à BeckettPuisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria26 June 1909Frederick George DumayneVice-chairman of the Calcutta Port Trust26 June 1909Cecil Harcourt SmithDirector and Secretary of the Art Museum at the Victoria and Albert Museum. On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to South Kensington to open the museum's new buildings.6 July 1909William CobbettChairman of the Board of Management of the Manchester Royal Infirmary. On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to Manchester to opening the infirmary's new buildings.7 July 1909George Hamilton KenrickLord Mayor of the City of Birmingham. On the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to Birmingham to open the new city's new university buildings.4 November 1909Frederick Orridge MacmillanChairman of the Board of Management of the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. On the occasion of the opening of the hospital's Jubilee Extension Buildings.The London Gazette, 12 November 1909 (issue 28307), p. 8344.9 November 1909Alfred Richard Pennefather, CBReceiver for the Metropolitan Police DistrictThe London Gazette, 24 December 1909 (issue 28321), pp. 9763–9764.9 November 1909Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO9 November 1909James Humphreys Harrison, MVOLate Deputy Clerk of the Council9 November 1909Francis Flint Belsey9 November 1909John Brigg, MP9 November 1909Arthur Trevor Dawson9 November 1909Charles Friswell9 November 1909Robert Laidlaw, MP9 November 1909James Lemon9 November 1909Frederick Low, KC9 November 1909James Matthew Moody, MRCS9 November 1909Walter John Napier, DCLAttorney-General, Straits Settlements9 November 1909Henry William Newton9 November 1909Arthur Nicholson9 November 1909William Robertson Nicoll, LLD9 November 1909David Paulin9 November 1909George Herbert Pollard, MD, MP9 November 1909William Augustus Tilden, DSc, FRS9 November 1909Henry Whitaker Trickettsometime Mayor of Rawtenstall. 9 November 1909Evan Vincent-Evans9 November 1909Daniel Tupper, MVO9 November 1909The Hon. George McLeanMember the Legislative Council of the Dominion of New Zealand9 November 1909Johannes Wilhelmus WesselsPuisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal9 November 1909Robert Townley Scott, ISOSecretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia9 November 1909Jesse Boot9 November 1909The Hon. John William TavernerAgent General for VictoriaThe London Gazette, 24 June 1910 (issue 28389), p. 4485.
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