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 1915 DateNameNotesRef1 January 1915Horatio BrevittTown Clerk of WolverhamptonThe London Gazette, 9 March 1915 (issue 29094), pp. 2363–2364.1 January 1915William CareyBailiff of Guernsey1 January 1915Arthur Wakefield ChapmanChairman of the Surrey County Council1 January 1915John Cowan1 January 1915James Johnston Dobbie, FRS, DScPrincipal of the Government Laboratories1 January 1915Frank Watson Dyson, FRSAstronomer Royal1 January 1915Alfred Lassam Goodson1 January 1915Thomas Duncombe Mann"Mann, Sir (Thomas) Duncombe", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019). Retrieved 15 April 2020.Clerk to the Metropolitan Asylums Board 1 January 1915Perceval Alleyn NairneChairman of the Committee of the London School of Tropical Medicine1 January 1915Henry John Newbolt, DLitt1 January 1915Douglas William OwenThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), p. 1025.1 January 1915Lt-Col. Stephen PenfoldMayor of Folkestone1 January 1915Walter Trower1 January 1915Henry Urwick1 January 1915Herbert Ashcombe WalkerGeneral Manager of the London and South Western Railway1 January 1915Alfred William Watson1 January 1915John Gibson1 January 1915James Thomson BroomChairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce1 January 1915William Kellman Chandler, CMG, LLDMaster in Chancery and Judge of the Assistant Court of Appeal, Barbados1 January 1915The Rt Hon. David Valentine HennessyLord Mayor of the City of Melbourne1 January 1915Herbert Samuel Holt1 January 1915The Hon. François Xavier LemieuxActing Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada1 January 1915Herbert Lethington Maitland, MB, ChM1 January 1915Capt Clive Oldnall Long Phillipps-Wolley1 January 1915William Price1 January 1915James Glenny WilsonPresident of the Board of Agriculture in the Dominion of New Zealand1 January 1915Joseph John HeatonIndian Civil Service; a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature in Bombay1 January 1915George Cunningham Buchanan, CIEChairman and Chief Engineer of the Commissioners for the Port of Rangoon, Burma1 January 1915Donald Campbell JohnstoneIndian Civil Service; Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab1 January 1915Loraine Geddes DunbarSecretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Bengal, Calcutta1 January 1915John Hubert Marshall, CIEDirector-General of Archaeology in India1 January 1915Satyendra Prasanna SinhaBarrister-at-Law; a Member of the Legislative Council of the Governor of Bengal1 January 1915Robert Stewart Johnstonelately Chief Justice of GrenadaThe Edinburgh Gazette, 20 July 1915 (issue 12831), pp. 1094–1095.13 February 1915Edward O'Farrell, CBAssistant Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland13 February 1915Alfred Callaghan, LLD13 February 1915William Fry13 February 1915John Irwin9 June 1915The Rt Hon. Frederick Edwin Smith, KCSolicitor-GeneralThe London Gazette, 11 June 1915 (issue 29189), p. 5632.18 June 1915Henry DoranMember of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland18 June 1915Hon. Cdr Edward Lionel Fletcher, RNR18 June 1915Lt-Col. William ForbesCommandant, Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, General Manager of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway18 June 1915Charles Edward Fryer, ISOSuperintending Inspector of Fisheries, Board of Agriculture18 June 1915Joseph Aloysius GlynnThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), p. 539.Chairman, National Health Insurance Commission (Ireland)18 June 1915Henry Ledgard18 June 1915John Lindsay18 June 1915James Mackenzie, MD, FRS, FRCP, LLD18 June 1915John Henry MadenHigh Sheriff of Lancashire18 June 1915The Hon. Peter McBrideAgent-General in London for the State of Victoria 18 June 1915Leo George Chiozza Money, MP18 June 1915Ruthven Grey Monteath18 June 1915Frederick Needham, MDCommissioner, Board of Control18 June 1915Walter Palmer NevillThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), p. 987.18 June 1915Erik Olof OhlsonDebrett's Peerage and Baronetage (2011), p. 758.18 June 1915William Pearce, MP18 June 1915Edward Rigg, CB, ISOSuperintendent, Operative Department, Royal Mint18 June 1915Edward George Saltmarsh18 June 1915William Napier Shaw, FRSDirector of the Meteorological Office18 June 1915William Capel Slaughter18 June 1915William SIingoEngineer-in-Chief, General Post Office18 June 1915Charles Stewart Loch18 June 1915Herbert Brown AmesMember of the House of Commons of Canada; Honorary Secrctary of the Canadian Patriotic Fund18 June 1915The Hon. Edgar Rennie BowringMember of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland18 June 1915Henry Lumley Drayton, KCChief Commissioner, Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada18 June 1915John Craig Eaton18 June 1915Charles Frederick Fraser, LLDSuperintendent of the School for the Blind, Halifax, Canada18 June 1915Robert Ho Tung18 June 1915The Hon. Thomas HughesMember of the Legislative Council of the State of New South Wales18 June 1915Thomas Muir, CMG, LLD, MASuperintendent-General of Education. Province of the Cape of Good Hope, Union of South Africa18 June 1915Alexander Wood Rentonthe Chief Justice of the Island of Ceylon18 June 1915Rash Behari Ghose, CSI, CIE18 June 1915John George Woodroffea Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal18 June 1915Rabindranath Tagore18 June 1915Robert Richard GalesIndian Public Works Department18 June 1915Haji Muhammad Yusuf18 June 1915James MurrayThe Edinburgh Gazette, 10 August 1915 (issue 12840), p. 1173.5 August 1915Lancelot Sanderson, KC, MPOn his appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature, Calcutta2 December 1915The Rt Hon. George Cave, KCSolicitor-GeneralThe London Gazette, 3 December 1915 (issue 29390), p. 12054.2 December 1915Arthur Frederic PetersonJustice of the High Court of Justice

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