List of knights bachelor appointed in 1900

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.[1] 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).

In 1900, 51 people were invested Knights Bachelor; 11 were to Irish subjects (including Edward Carson, on his appointment as Solicitor General for England and Wales), one was from Guernsey and 13 were people in other parts of the British Empire.

Knights bachelor appointed in 1900

Source: William A. Shaw, The Knights of England, vol. 2 (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906), pp. 405–408.

Date Name Notes
22 January 1900 The Hon. John Stokell Dodds Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Tasmania
22 January 1900 Francis Henry Lovell Surgeon-General and Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago
22 January 1900 Malcolm Donald McEacharn Mayor of Melbourne
2 February 1900 V. Bhashyam Aiyangar Diwan Bahadur acting Advocate General, Madras
5 February 1900 Bhalchandra Krishna Bhatawadekar, JP Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Corporation, Bombay
9 February 1900 Gerald Raoul de Courcy-Perry, CMG HM Consul-General at Antwerp
9 February 1900 James Balfour Paul Lyon King of Arms
9 February 1900 Thomas Henry Tacon, JP, DL
9 February 1900 William Theodore Doxford, MP
9 February 1900 Walter Thorburn, MP
9 February 1900 Thomas Launder Brunton, MD, FRS
17 February 1900 George Dalhouse Ramsay
3 March 1900 Henry Burton Buckley, QC High Court Judge
5 March 1900 Otto Jaffé Formerly Lord Mayor of Belfast
12 March 1900 The Rt Hon. Samuel James Way Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Colony of South Australia; Chancellor of the University of Adelaide; Member for the Australasian Colonies of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
29 March 1900 Alderman William Purdis Treloar Sheriff of the City of London
29 March 1900 Alfred Henry Bevan Sheriff of the City of London
15 May 1900 William Macpherson Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William
1 May 1900 The Rt Hon. Edward Henry Carson, QC, MP Solicitor General for England and Wales. He was appointed to that office (which then carried a knighthood customarily) on 11 May 1900 and had been invested with the knighthood by 17 May 1900.
25 May 1900 Daniel Joseph Hegarty Lord Mayor of Cork
25 May 1900 William McLearn Mayor of Londonderry
25 May 1900 Joseph Downes High Sheriff of the City of Dublin
25 May 1900 Alfred Graham Dobbin High Sheriff of the City of Cork
25 May 1900 Thomas Henry Cleeve High Sheriff of the City of Limerick
25 May 1900 John William Moore, MD President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
25 May 1900 Thomas Drew President of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland
25 May 1900 John Malcolm Inglis President of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce
25 May 1900 Thomas William Robinson Chairman of Kingstown Urban District Council
27 June 1900 Arthur James Richens Trendell Assistant Secretary of the Science and Art Department
27 June 1900 John Groves Formerly Mayor of Weymouth
27 June 1900 John Glover, JP Chairman of the City Liberal Unionist Association and of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping
27 June 1900 Thomas Godfrey Carey Bailiff of Guernsey
27 June 1900 William Wilson Mitchell Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon
27 June 1900 Charles Arnold White Chief Justice of Madras
27 June 1900 James Williamson Director of HM Dockyards
27 June 1900 William Ward HM Consul-General at Hamburg
27 June 1900 Allan Arthur Member of the Viceroy of India's Legislative Council
30 June 1900 Hector Clare Cameron President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow
30 June 1900 John Watney Clerk of the Mercers' Company and Hon. Secretary of the City and Guilds of London Institute for the Advancement of Technical Education
30 June 1900 Henry Homewood Crawford Solicitor of the Corporation of London
30 June 1900 George Hare Philipson, MD President of the University of Durham College of Medicine
30 June 1900 Charles Clement Bowring, JP
30 June 1900 Alderman William Haswell Stephenson Alderman of the City of Newcastle
30 June 1900 Richard Claverhouse Jebb, MP Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge
30 June 1900 Colin George Macrae, WS Formerly Chairman of the School Board of Edinburgh
30 June 1900 Riley Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne
30 June 1900 James Cornelius O'Dowd Formerly Deputy Judge Advocate General
16 July 1900 William Bisset Berry, MD, QC Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
16 July 1900 David Palmer Ross, MD Surgeon-General of the Colony of British Guiana
24 October 1900 Francis Pratt Winter Chief Judicial Officer of the Possession of British New Guinea
14 December 1900 Matthew Ingle Joyce High Court Judge

References

  1. ^ "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2020.