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 1919 DateNameNotesRef14 February 1919Paul Ogden LawrenceJustice of the High Court of JusticeThe London Gazette, 18 February 1919 (issue 31187), p. 2427.18 February 1919Edward BrayJudge of the Bloomsbury County Court; Chairman of the Council of County Court JudgesThe London Gazette, 4 April 1919 (issue 31271), p. 4414.18 February 1919Thomas Willes ChittyMaster of the Supreme Court of Justice, King's Bench Division18 February 1919Sigmund Dannreuther, CBController and Accounting Officer, Ministry of Munitions 18 February 1919Edward Rae DavsonPresident of the Associated Chamber of Commerce, British West Indies 18 February 1919Robert Blyth Greig, LLDScottish Board of Agriculture18 February 1919William Leslie Mackenzie, MD, LLDMedical Member of the Local Government Board for Scotland18 February 1919Hugh William Orange, CB, CIEAccountant-General, Board of Education18 February 1919Alfred Walter Soward, CBA Commissioner of Inland Revenue; Secretary, Estate Duty Office18 February 1919Richard Stephens TaylorPresident of the Law Society; Chairman of the Law Society Advisory Committee; and Chairman of the Civil Liabilities Committee18 February 1919George Danvers Thane, LLD, FRCSPrincipal Inspector under Cruelty to Animals Act, Home Office18 February 1919Lucas White King, CSI, LLD18 February 1919Leicester Paul Beaufort, BCLlately Judge of the High Court of Northern Rhodesia18 February 1919The Hon. Worley Bassett Edwardsa Judge of the Supreme Court of the Dominion of New Zealand18 February 1919Walter Edwin Gurneylately Controller and Auditor-General of the Union of South Africa18 February 1919Thomas Wagstaffe HaycraftChief Justice of Grenada18 February 1919Lt-Col. John Hewat, MBLieutenant-Colonel, South African Defence Force; Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa; and Assistant Director of Medical Services of the said Union18 February 1919Samuel HordernPresident of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales18 February 1919Henry Jones18 February 1919Joseph James Kinsey18 February 1919James William Murison, LLBJudge of the Court for Zanzibar18 February 1919Boshan Wei Yuk, CMGformerly Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong18 February 1919Ernest Edward Fletchera Puisne Judge of the High Court at Calcutta18 February 1919Chimanlal Harilal SetalvadVice-Chancellor, Bombay University18 February 1919Joseph Henry Stone, CIEDirector of Public Instruction, Madras18 February 1919William Arthur BeardsellSheriff of Madras18 February 1919Praphulla Chandra Roy, CIE, DSclate Provincial Educational Service, Bengal18 February 1919Robert Herriot Henderson, CIE18 February 1919George Cochrane GodfreyCoal Controller in India18 March 1919Patrick Quinn, MVO19 March 1919Frederick Arthur GreerJustice of the High Court of Justice19 May 1919Thomas William AllenChairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative CongressThe London Gazette, 27 May 1919 (ssue 31361), p. 6508.19 May 1919Charles Barrie, JP, DLex-Lord Provost of Dundee19 May 1919George Bean19 May 1919Lewis BeardTown Clerk of Blackburn19 May 1919Reginald Theodore Blomfieldpast President of the Royal Institute of British Architects19 May 1919George Moore Chamberlin, JP, DLLord Mayor of Norwich, 1916–1917; President of Norwich Chamber of Commerce19 May 1919John Coode-Adams19 May 1919Lt-Col. Joseph Montagu Cotterill, CMGRAMC(T)19 May 1919Arthur Lowes Dickinson, MA19 May 1919David Duncan, JP19 May 1919Col. Henry Arthur Fletcher, CVO19 May 1919William Croft Forrest, JP19 May 1919Capt. John Malcolm Fraser, RNVR19 May 1919William Samuel Glyn-Jones19 May 1919Israel Gollancz, LittDProfessor of English Language and Literature, King's College, London; Secretary of the British Academy19 May 1919John Little Green, OBE 19 May 1919Richard Armand Gregory, FRASProfessor of Astronomy, Queen's College, London19 May 1919Henry James Hall19 May 1919Walter Henry Harris, CMGSenior Sheriff of the City of London19 May 1919John Harrison, JPMayor of Stockton-on-Tees, 1915–1919 May 1919Col. Joseph Hewitt19 May 1919Francis Adams HyettChairman of the Gloucestershire Education Committee19 May 1919Alfred Jermyn, JP19 May 1919William George Yarworth-Jones19 May 1919Arthur LucasChairman of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children "for forty years"19 May 1919Edward Malins, MD, FRCP19 May 1919James Martin, JPChairman of the London Chamber of Commerce19 May 1919William Martin, JP, FSA(Scot)Glasgow City Councillor19 May 1919Christopher Thomas Needham, MP19 May 1919Walter Powell NicholasChairman of the Rhondda local tribunal and of the County of Glamorgan National Insurance Committee19 May 1919John Hubert OakleyPresident of the Surveyors' Institution19 May 1919Robert PeacockChief Constable of Manchester since 189819 May 1919George Phillips-ParkerMayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Holborn 1913-1719 May 1919Harold Rufus Pink, JPMayor of Portsmouth "for several years"19 May 1919Alfred Henry Read19 May 1919Albion Henry Herbert Richardson, CBE19 May 1919Oswald Stoll19 May 1919Alfred Aspinall Tobin, KC19 May 1919Charles Sissmore Tomes, MA, LLD, FRS, FRCS 19 May 1919Lt-Col. Francis William Towle, CBE19 May 1919Thomas Jenner Verrall, LLDChairman of the Central Medical War Committee for the past four years19 May 1919Fenwick Shadforth WattsChairman of the Shipping Federation and a former President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom19 May 1919John Ernest Hodder-Williams19 May 1919Harry LauderNot formally conferred until 23 February 1921.The London Gazette, issue 32243 (1 March 1921), p. 1692.19 May 1919Jonathan North, JPMayor of Leicester 1914-1819 May 1919William Ridgeway, DScProfessor of Archaeology, Cambridge University19 May 1919John StavridiConsul-General of Greece in London19 May 1919James Gadesden Wainwright, JPlate Treasurer of St. Thomas' Hospital19 May 1919Thomas Wilton, JP3 June 1919George Fenwick, JPFounder and for over thirty years Director of the New Zealand Press Association. Public services.The Edinburgh Gazette, 15 July 1919 (issue 13487), p. 27866 June 1919Henry Capel CureIf he were dubbed, the event does not appear to have been gazetted.The London Gazette, 6 June 1919 (issue 31391), p. 7297.10 July 1919John Baker, MDSuperintendent of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic AsylumThe London Gazette, 7 October 1919 (issue 31587), pp. 12418–12419.10 July 1919Lt-Col. John George Beharrel, DSO10 July 1919Charles Bright10 July 1919Isaac ConnellSecretary to the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture10 July 1919Harry Courthorpe-Munroe, KC 10 July 1919Charles Davidson10 July 1919Walter de Frece10 July 1919John S. Henry10 July 1919Sydney George Higgins, CBEAssistant Accountant-General, Ministry of Shipping10 July 1919James Allan HorneController of Munitions, Bombay10 July 1919John Henry MacFarland10 July 1919John Charles MilesSolicitor to the Ministry of Labour10 July 1919Francis George Newbolt, KC10 July 1919John Rumney Nicholson10 July 1919Lt-Col. Hugh Arthur Rose, DSO10 July 1919Charles Tamlin Ruthen, OBEDeputy Controller of Accommodation, H.M. Office of Works 10 July 1919Douglas Shields10 July 1919Thomas Sims, CBDirector of Works, Admiralty10 July 1919William Henry Wells10 July 1919William Howard WinterbothamOfficial Solicitor since 189510 July 1919Henry Arthur Wynne, LLDChief Crown Solicitor for Ireland29 July 1919Banister Flight FletcherSheriff of the City of London29 July 1919Col. William Robert Smith, MDSheriff of the City of London18 August 1919Capt. Robert Henry Muirhead Collins, CMG18 August 1919Robert Charles Brown, MB, FRCP, FRCSConsulting Medical Officer of Preston Royal Infirmary18 August 1919Henry Busby Bird, JPMayor of Shoreditch18 August 1919Ald. George Edmund Davies, JP18 August 1919William Boyd Dawkins, MA, DSc, FRSHonorary Professor of Geology and Palaeontology in Victoria University, Manchester18 August 1919Knowles Edge, JPMayor of Bolton, 1917–1818 August 1919Robert Vaughan Gower, OBE, FRGSMayor of Tunbridge Wells, 1917–1918 August 1919Cuthbert Cartwright Grundy, JPPresident Royal Cambrian Art Society18 August 1919Thomas Henderson, JP18 August 1919Charles James Jackson, JP, FSA18 August 1919Leon Levison18 August 1919John Young Walker MacAlister, FSA, FRGSPresident of Library Association and Secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine18 August 1919William MaxwellPresident of the International Co-operation Alliance18 August 1919Henry Francis NewMayor of St Marylebone, 1917–1918 August 1919Julian Walter OrdeSecretary of the Royal Automobile Club18 August 1919James Wallace Paton, JPMayor of Southport, 1908-918 August 1919Maj. John Theodore Prestige18 August 1919Francis Watson, JP18 August 1919William Ireland De Courcy Wheeler, MD, FRCS18 August 1919Thomas WilliamsGeneral Manager, London and North-Western Railway18 August 1919Col. Augustus Charles Woolley, VD18 August 1919Joseph DuveenThe honour was conferred on 5 November 1919.The London Gazette, 19 March 1920 (issue 31830), p. 3431.18 August 1919Leon Levison18 August 1919Alfred Waldron Smithers, JP, MP18 August 1919Joshua Kelley Waddilove18 August 1919William Morris Carter, CBEChief Justice of the High Court of Uganda18 August 1919Frederick Alan Van der Meulen, OBEJudge of the Supreme Court, Colony of the Gambia18 August 1919Joseph Cooke Verco, MD18 August 1919Abdur RahimJudge of the High Court of Judicature at Madras18 August 1919Khan Zulfikar Ali Khan, CSIAdditional Member of the Imperial Legislative Council18 August 1919Frank Willington Carter, CIE, CBEAdditional Member of the Council of the Governor of Bengal18 August 1919Col. Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham, RESuperintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey, Dehra Dun, United Provinces18 August 1919Norman Cranstoun MacleodChief Justice of the High Court of Bombay

Knights who died before they could receive the accolade It was announced in the 1919 Birthday Honours that a knighthood was to be bestowed on William Allan Ironside (an additional Member of the Indian Legislative Council),The London Gazette, 6 June 1919 (issue 31391), p. 7297. but he died before he received the accolade. By a royal warrant gazetted on 22 July 1919, George V declared that his widow, Ellen Ironside, "shall have, hold and enjoy the same style; title, place and precedence to which she would have been entitled had her said husband survived and received either personally or by Letters-Patent under the Great Seal the degree, style and title of a Knight Bachelor".The London Gazette, 22 August 1919 (issue 31517), p. 10652.

The London Gazette also reported that the King intended to bestow a knighthood on Ernest Adolphus O'Bryen, formerly the mayor of Hampstead, but he died before he received the accolade. By a royal warrant gazetted with the date 30 May 1919, George V declared that his widow, Gertrude Mary O'Bryen, should also be afforded the style of a knight's widow.The London Gazette, 29 August 1919 (issue 31527), p. 10873.

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