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 1916 DateNameNotesRef1 January 1916Milsom Rees, CVO, FRCSLaryngologist to the King's Household and to Queen AlexandraThe London Gazette, 22 February 1916 (issue 29483), pp. 1946–1947.1 January 1916Frederick Samuel Augustus Bourne, CMGAssistant Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Korea at Shanghai and Judge of His Majesty's High Court at Wei-hai-Wei1 January 1916Marshall Reid, CIEManaging Director of the Bombay Company, Limited1 January 1916Henry James Wakely Fry, CIElately Director-General of Stores, India Office1 January 1916Frederic Gorell Barnes1 January 1916Maj. George Andreas Berry, MB, LLDHonorary Surgeon-Oculist to His Majesty in Scotland; Major, RAMC(T)1 January 1916Arthur William Black, MP1 January 1916John Boraston1 January 1916William Henry Bowaterex-Lord Mayor of Birmingham1 January 1916James BrutonMayor of Gloucester1 January 1916Harcourt Everard ClareClerk of the Lancaster County Council1 January 1916Francis Henry DentGeneral Manager of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway1 January 1916Owen Morgan EdwardsChief Inspector of Education for Wales1 January 1916Lazarus Fletcher, LLD, FRSDirector of the Natural History Department of the British Museum 1 January 1916George FranklinPro-Chancellor of Sheffield University1 January 1916John Howard1 January 1916Thomas John HughesChairman of the National Health Insurance Commission for Wales1 January 1916Robert Keith InchesLord Provost of Edinburgh1 January 1916Francis Edgar Kearney1 January 1916Horace Woodburn KirbyPresident of the Society of Chartered Accountants1 January 1916Hedley Francis Le Bas1 January 1916Daniel McCabeex-Lord Mayor of Manchester1 January 1916William Middlebrook, MP1 January 1916Henry O'SheaLord Mayor of Cork1 January 1916Thomas Wright Parkinson, MD1 January 1916Richard Atkinson Robinson1 January 1916Patrick ShortallHigh Sheriff of Dublin1 January 1916The Very Rev. George Adam Smith, DD, LLD, LittDPrincipal and Vice-Chancellor of Aberdeen University1 January 1916Robert Wallace, KCChairman of Quarter Sessions for the County of London1 January 1916Thomas Beecham1 January 1916Rai Kailash Chandra Basu Bahadur, CIEMember of the Municipal Corporation of Calcutta1 January 1916Baba Gurbakhsh Singh Bedi, CIEHonorary Extra Assistant Commissioner in the Punjab1 January 1916William Bernard HunterSecretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Madras1 January 1916Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamiera Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces, designated Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature for Bihar and Orissa1 January 1916Brig. Alexander BertramCanadian Militia; Deputy Chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board, Canada1 January 1916Anton Bertram, KCAttorney-General of the Island of Ceylon1 January 1916The Hon. Henry Briggs President of the Legislative Council of the State of Western Australia1 January 1916John Alexander Strachey Bucknill Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements1 January 1916The Hon. Frederick William Gordon Haultaiu Chief Justice of Saskatchewan1 January 1916William Wilson HoyGeneral Manager of Railways and Harbours, Union of South Africa1 January 1916John Kennedy Consulting Engineer to the Montreal Harbour Commission1 January 1916Lachlan Charles Mackinnon1 January 1916William Duff Reid1 January 1916Frank Umhlali ReynoldsMember of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa1 January 1916The Hon. Louis Olivier Taillon, KCMember of the King's Privy Council for Canada1 January 1916Herbert HolmwoodThe London Gazette, 26 May 1916 (issue 29596), p. 5201.8 April 1916Edmund Charles Wyldbore SmithOfficer in Charge of Commercial Inquiries, Exhibitions Branch, Board of TradeThe London Gazette, 18 April 1916 (issue 29552), pp. 4017.2 May 1916Francis Robert Benson"After the Shakespeare Tercentenary commemoration performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane"The London Gazette, 5 May 1916 (issue 29568), p. 4450.3 June 1916James Tynte Agg-Gardner, MPThe London Gazette, 18 July 1916 (issue 29671), pp. 7093–7094.3 June 1916John Anthony3 June 1916George Thomas Beilby, FRS3 June 1916Arthur William Binning3 June 1916Thomas CollinsChief Inspector, Board of Inland Revenue 3 June 1916Theodore Andrea CookEditor of The Field3 June 1916John Henry CorkMayor of Portsmouth3 June 1916George Philip DooletteR. M. Gibbs and A. McLeary, "Doolette, Sir George Philip (1840–1924)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 8 (1981); online edition, retrieved 16 April 2020.President of the Australian Voluntary Hospital at Wimereux3 June 1916Arthur Isaac Durrant, MVOComptroller of the Supplies Division, Office of Works3 June 1916Francis Mark Farmer3 June 1916William Gallagher, ISOChief Inspector, Board of Customs3 June 1916Eric Campbell GeddesCameron Hazlehurst, Sally Whitehead and Christine Woodland (ed.), A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, no. 19 (London: Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 1996), p. 150.Deputy Director-General of Munitions Supply3 June 1916William Benjamin GentleThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), p. 525.Chief Constable of Brighton3 June 1916George Greenwood, MP3 June 1916William Peter Griggs3 June 1916Maurice Hill, KC3 June 1916Robert Morris Liddell, JPHigh Sheriff of County Down3 June 1916Alfred Henry Herbert MatthewsSecretary of the Central Chamber of Agriculture3 June 1916Cdr Edward Nicholl, RNR3 June 1916John James Oddy3 June 1916Robert Pearce, MP3 June 1916Alexander William Prince3 June 1916George Radford, MP3 June 1916Archibald Tutton Salvidge3 June 1916Clement Bell Simpson3 June 1916Henry SmithDeputy Lieutenant for the City of London3 June 1916Jethro Justinian Harris Teall, FRS, DSc3 June 1916Prof. Nestor Tirard, MD, FRCP3 June 1916Glynn Hamilton WestDod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain (1923), p. 908.Deputy Director-General of Munitions Supply3 June 1916Frederick Whitley Whitley-Thomson3 June 1916Armand Marc Ruffer, CMG, MDPresident of the International Quarantine Board in Egypt. He could attend the investiture in July; if his dubbing ever took place, it does not appear to have been gazetted.3 June 1916Alexander Forbes Proctor RogerThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), p. 1151.Director-General of Trench Warfare SuppliesThe London Gazette, 17 April 1917 (issue 30022), p. 3596.3 June 1916David Hope Kyd, LLD3 June 1916The Hon. Marshall CampbellSenator of the Union of South Africa3 June 1916The Hon. Wallace GrahamChief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia3 June 1916The Hon. Pierre Armand LandryChief Justice of the King's Bench Division of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick 3 June 1916The Hon. Frederic William LangSpeaker of the House of Representatives of the Dominion of New Zealand3 June 1916The Hon. Robert Furse McMillanChief Justice of Western Australia3 June 1916The Hon. Herbert NichollsChief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania3 June 1916Gilbert Kenelm Treffry PurcellChief Justice of the Colony of Sierra Leone3 June 1916Robert Frederic StupartDirector of the Meteorological Service of Canada3 June 1916The Hon. Antonie Gysbert ViljoenSenator of tihe Union of South Africa3 June 1916Stanley Reed, LLD3 June 1916Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, JP3 June 1916Francis Hugh Stewart, CIE3 June 1916Charles William Chittya Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal 3 June 1916Robert Swan Highet23 October 1916Henry Alfred McCardieJustice of the High Court of JusticeThe Edinburgh Gazette, 31 October 1916 (issue 13006), p. 1980.29 December 1916Gordon Hewart, KCSolicitor-GeneralThe London Gazette, 29 December 1916 (issue 29883), p. 12655.
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