List of knights bachelor appointed in 1903

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 1903, 58 people were appointed Knights Bachelor.

Knights bachelor appointed in 1903

Source: William A. Shaw, The Knights of England, vol. 2 (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906), pp. 414–417.

Date Name Notes
1 January 1903 Montagu Cornish Turner[2]
1 January 1903 George Watt
1 January 1903 William Ovens Clark
1 January 1903 Lt-Col. James Lewis Walker
17 April 1903 James Acworth Davies Judge of the High Court of Judicatue, Fort St George
18 April 1903 Lt-Col. William Earnshaw Cooper, CIE Commandant, Cawnpore Volunteer Rifles
20 April 1903 Hurkisondas Nurrotumdas Sheriff of Bombay
12 May 1903 Col. Robert Cranston Treasurer of the City of Edinburgh
12 May 1903 William John Menzies, WS Agent of the Church of Scotland
12 May 1903 James Guthrie President of the Royal Scottish Academy
14 May 1903 John Shearer Convenor of the Parks and Galleries Committee of the Corporation of Glasgow
18 July 1903 Patrick Heron Watson, LLD, MD, FRSE Hon. Surgeon to the King in Scotland
18 July 1903 Alfred Downing Fripp Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the King
18 July 1903 Stephen MacKenzie, MD
18 July 1903 Hiram Shaw Wilkinson Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for China and Corea
18 July 1903 William Alfred Felder Mayor of Hull
18 July 1903 Alfred Arnold
18 July 1903 Henry Fleming Hibbert
18 July 1903 Francis Charles Gore Solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue
18 July 1903 George Collard Mayor of Canterbury
18 July 1903 Edwin Cooper Perry, MD, FRCP Physician to Guy's Hospital
18 July 1903 Alexander Carmichael Bruce Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
18 July 1903 John Johnson Runtz First Mayor of Stoke Newington
18 July 1903 William Godsell
18 July 1903 George Thomas Lambert Formerly Director of Greenwich Hospital
18 July 1903 Lewis Tonna Dibdin, DCL Dean of the Arches
18 July 1903 Charles Samuel Bagot Formerly a Legal Commissioner in Lunacy
18 July 1903 Charles Petrie Formerly Lord Mayor of Liverpool
3 August 1903 The Hon. Charles Abercrombie Smith, MA Formerly Controller and Auditor-General of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
4 August 1903 Charles Peter Layard Chief Justice of Ceylon
5 August 1903 Charles John Dudgeon Chairman of the Shanghai Branch of the China Association
26 August 1903 Eyre Coote High Sheriff of County Dublin
26 August 1903 Robert Anderson High Sheriff of Belfast
26 August 1903 Abraham Sutton High Sheriff of Cork
26 August 1903 Thomas Brown Chairman of Kingstown Urban District Council
26 August 1903 James Carroll Chairman of Queenstown Urban District Council
26 August 1903 James O'Donohoe Chairman of the Galway Urban District Council
26 August 1903 Lambert Hepenstal Ormsby, MD President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
26 August 1903 Augustine FitzGerald Baker President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland
9 November 1903 Alan Reeve Manby, MD Surgeon-Apothecary to the King's Household at Sandringham and to the Prince of Wales
30 November 1903 Francis Bathurst Suttor President of the Legislative Council of the State of New South Wales
1 December 1903 Edward Dundas Holroyd Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria
18 December 1903 Thomas William Snagge County Court Judge
18 December 1903 John George Craggs
18 December 1903 Charles Holroyd Keeper of the National Gallery of British Art, Tate Gallery
18 December 1903 August Manns
18 December 1903 Henry Alexander Giffard, KC Bailiff of Guernsey
18 December 1903 John Macdonell Master of the Supreme Court
18 December 1903 Henry Katz Davson
18 December 1903 Ernest Flower, MD
18 December 1903 Professor Clement Le Neve Foster, DSc, FRS Formerly one of HM Inspectors of Mines
18 December 1903 Nathaniel Nathan
18 December 1903 Alfred James Reynolds Sheriff of the City of London
18 December 1903 Robert Kennaway Douglas of the British Museum
18 December 1903 Harry Simon Samuel, MP
18 December 1903 Charles Scarisbrick, JP
18 December 1903 William Henry Venables-Vernon Bailiff of Jersey
18 December 1903 Arthur Vernon Macan, MB President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

References

  1. ^ "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  2. ^ Shaw calls him "Montagu Charles Turner", but he is recorded as "Montagu Cornish Turner" in Who Was Who and The Times:"Turner, Sir Montagu Cornish", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019), retrieved 6 April 2020; "Sir Montagu Turner", The Times, 17 December 1934, p. 18.