Knight Bachelor is the oldest and lowest-ranking form of knighthood in the British honours system.[1] 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.[2] 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).[3]
In 1904, 68 people were appointed Knights Bachelor.
Source: William A. Shaw, The Knights of England, vol. 2 (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906), pp. 417–420.
Date | Name | Notes | |
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29 January 1904 | Walter Mytton Colvin | Barrister | |
2 May 1904 | James Aloysius Power | Mayor of Waterford | |
7 June 1904 | Thomas Rolls Warrington | Justice | |
5 July 1904 | George Barham | ||
5 July 1904 | Thomas Barclay | ||
5 July 1904 | Albert à Beckett | Formerly Assistant Accountant-General of the Army | |
5 July 1904 | Arthur Bignold, MP | ||
5 July 1904 | John Brickwood | ||
5 July 1904 | Edward Townshend Candy | Indian Civil Service (retired). Formerly Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay. | |
5 July 1904 | Professor James Dewar, FRS | Royal Institution | |
5 July 1904 | George Donaldson | ||
5 July 1904 | George Doughty, MP | ||
5 July 1904 | Edwin Harris Dunning | ||
5 July 1904 | Edward Elgar, MusDoc | ||
5 July 1904 | George Stegmann Gibb | ||
5 July 1904 | Thomas Hewitt, KC | ||
5 July 1904 | John Edward Gray Hill | ||
5 July 1904 | Constantine Holman | ||
5 July 1904 | Frank Thomas Marzials | Formerly Accountant-General of the Army | |
5 July 1904 | Capt. David Munro | Formerly Inspector of Constabulary for Scotland | |
5 July 1904 | Walter Richard Plummer, MP | ||
5 July 1904 | William Handcock Pilkington | High Sheriff of County Kildare | |
5 July 1904 | Alexander Oliver Riddell | ||
5 July 1904 | William Phillips Sawyer | ||
5 July 1904 | Benjamin Scott | ||
5 July 1904 | Edward David Stern | ||
5 July 1904 | Thomas Stevenson, MD | Scientific Analyst to the Home Office | |
5 July 1904 | Henry Tanner | of the Office of Works | |
5 July 1904 | Thomas Marchant Williams | ||
5 July 1904 | William Lloyd Wise | ||
8 July 1904 | Hugh Montagu Allan | ||
9 July 1904 | Peter Nicol Russell | ||
11 July 1904 | Pope Alexander Cooper | Chief Justice of Queensland | |
12 July 1904 | Kendall Mathew St John Franks, MD | ||
13 July 1904 | Andries Ferdinand Stockenstrom Maasdorp | Chief Justice of the Orange River Colony | |
14 July 1904 | William Herbert Greaves | Chief Judge of Barbados | |
15 July 1904 | Alfred Scott Scott-Gatty | Garter King of Arms | |
15 July 1904 | The Hon. Edward Patrick Morris | Minister of Justice of Newfoundland | |
16 July 1904 | William Thorne | Mayor of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope | |
18 July 1904 | Gooroo Dass Banarjee, MA, DL | Formerly a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William | |
19 July 1904 | Alderman Robert Aldred Hampson | Mayor of Liverpool. Invested on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of Liverpool Cathedral. | |
19 July 1904 | William Robert Burkitt | Indian Civil Service. Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces | |
20 July 1904 | Lt-Col. David Parkes Masson, VD | Commandant, 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps; Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab for Making Laws and Regulations | |
20 July 1904 | Griffith Thomas | Mayor of Swansea. Invested on the occasion of the opening of a new dock at Swansea. | |
21 July 1904 | Hallewell Rogers | Mayor of Birmingham. Invested on the occasion of the opening of new waterworks for the City of Birmingham. | |
10 August 1904 | Reginald More Bray | Judge of the High Court | |
14 November 1904 | Alfred Tristram Lawrence | Judge of the High Court | |
19 December 1904 | Theodore Vivian Samuel Angier | ||
19 December 1904 | George Washington Baxter | ||
19 December 1904 | Richard Melvill Beachcroft | ||
19 December 1904 | Joseph Arthur Bellamy | ||
19 December 1904 | Henry Cook | ||
19 December 1904 | John Tom McCraith[4] | ||
19 December 1904 | Alfred Major | ||
19 December 1904 | Charles Hayes Marriott, MD | ||
19 December 1904 | Shirley Foster Murphy | ||
19 December 1904 | Surgeon Maj. Allan Perry, MD | Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector General of the Hospitals in Ceylon | |
19 December 1904 | Thomas Pink | ||
19 December 1904 | Professor William Japp Sinclair | Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Victoria University of Manchester | |
19 December 1904 | Matthew Henry Stephen | Formerly acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales | |
19 December 1904 | Joseph Wilson Swan, FRS, DSc | ||
19 December 1904 | Aston Webb, RA | ||
19 December 1904 | George Henry Jenkins | Clerk of the Parliaments and Clerk of the Legislative Council of the State of Victoria | |
19 December 1904 | The Hon. William Henry Bundey | Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia | |
19 December 1904 | The Hon. Alfred Sandlings Cowley | Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Queensland | |
19 December 1904 | Stephen Herbert Gatty | Chief Justice of Gibraltar | |
19 December 1904 | William Henry Horwood | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland | |
19 December 1904 | William Llewellyn Lewis | Chief Justice of the Colony of British Hondorus |