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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ^ 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.