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List Of Knights Bachelor Appointed In 1901
Knight Bachelor is the oldest and lowest-ranking form of knighthood in the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, 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 Chivalric order, orders of chivalry. ''Encyclopædia Britannica, 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). In 1901, 30 people were appointed Knights Bachelor. Knights Bachelor appointed in 1901 Source: William A. Shaw, ''iarchive:knightsofengland02shawuoft/page/408/mode/2up, The Knights of England'', vol. 2 (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1906), pp. 408–409. ...
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Knight Bachelor
The title of Knight Bachelor is the basic 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; it is a part of the British honours system. Knights Bachelor are the most ancient sort of British knight (the rank existed during the 13th-century reign of King Henry III), but Knights Bachelor rank below knights of chivalric orders. A man who is knighted is formally addressed as "Sir irst Name urname or "Sir irst Name and his wife as "Lady urname. Criteria Knighthood is usually conferred for public service; amongst its recipients are all male judges of His Majesty's High Court of Justice in England. It is possible to be a Knight Bachelor and a junior member of an order of chivalry without being a knight of that order; this situation has become rather common, especially among those recognized for achievements in entertainment. For instance, Sir Michael Gambon, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Quick (politician)
Sir John Quick (22 April 1852 – 17 June 1932) was an Australian lawyer, politician and judge. He played a prominent role in the movement for Federation and the drafting of the Australian constitution, later writing several works on Australian constitutional law. He began his political career in the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1880–1889) and later won election to the House of Representatives at the first federal election in 1901. He served as Postmaster-General in the third Deakin Government (1909–1910). He lost his seat in 1913 and ended his public service as deputy president of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (1922–1930). Early life He was born in the parish of Towednack, near St Ives in Cornwall, England, the son of John Sr and Mary Quick. His life changed when he was 2 when his family migrated to Australia in 1854, where his father, a farmer, began prospecting at the Bendigo goldfields but died a few months later of a fever. Quick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Anderson Critchett, 1st Baronet
Sir George Anderson Critchett, 1st Baronet, (18 December 1845 – 9 February 1925) was a British surgeon.{{cite journal, last1=Laios, first1=Konstantinos, last2=Moschos, first2=Marilita M., last3=Androutsos, first3=George, date=February 2017, title=George Critchett (1817-1882) and His Son George Anderson Critchett (1845-1925), url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27815340/, journal=Surgical Innovation, volume=24, issue=1, pages=89–91, doi=10.1177/1553350616677501, issn=1553-3514, pmid=27815340, s2cid=11676677 He was Surgeon-Oculist to Edward VII from 1901 to 1910 and to George V from 1910 to 1918 and Surgeon-Oculist-in-Ordinary to George V from 1918 to 1925. Critchett was knighted in 1901, appointed CVO in 1905, and promoted KCVO in 1919. He was created a Baronet, of Harley Street in the Borough of St Marylebone in 1908. His brother was the actor and playwright R. C. Carton. See also * List of honorary medical staff at King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers * Critchett baron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bullough
Sir George Bullough, 1st Baronet (28 February 1870 – 26 July 1939) was a late Victorian playboy and was an owner and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses. Biography Early life Born in Accrington, Lancashire, George Bullough was educated at Harrow School. In 1891, the 21-year-old George Bullough and half-brother Ian each inherited a half interest in Howard & Bullough, their father's successful textile machinery manufacturing company. George also inherited the island of Rùm, the family's sporting estate in the Inner Hebrides where he had Kinloch Castle built between 1898 and 1901. In 1903, George Bullough married Monique Lilly de la Pasture whose family had an estate at Montreuil-sur-Mer in northern France. Known as Lady Monica, she obtained a divorce in order to marry Bullough. She was the eldest daughter of the 4th Marquis de la Pasture whose aristocrat ancestors had fled the French Revolution and Leontine Standish (1843–1869), daughter of Lord Charles Strickland Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gough Arbuthnot
Sir George Gough Arbuthnot (28 August 1848 – 3 May 1929) was a businessman and civic leader in British India. Arbuthnot, the son of Archibald Francis Arbuthnot (son of Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet) and Gertrude Sophia Gough was six times a member of the Madras Legislative Council. He was seven times made chairman of the Madras Chamber of Commerce, several times President of the board of directors of the Bank of Madras, and in 1900 became chairman of the Famine Relief Fund. Grandson of a Baronet, he was made a Knight Bachelor on 10 December 1901 for services to the British Empire. He became partner of Arbuthnot & Co of Madras 1871 and was senior partner in the firm at the time of its spectacular crash in 1906, as a result of which he was sentenced to 18 months rigorous imprisonment. The charges against him were (1) Cheating in respect of a fixed deposit in the name of the Rajah Krishna Badahur; (2) breach of trust respecting the Madras Equitable Assurance Society; and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen
Charles Swinfen Eady, 1st Baron Swinfen, (31 July 1851 – 15 November 1919) was a British lawyer and judge. Biography Eady was the son of George John Eady of Chertsey, Surrey, and his wife Laura Maria Smith, daughter of Richard Smith. He was educated privately and at the University of London, and was admitted a solicitor in 1874. In 1879 Eady was called to the Bar, Inner Temple. He built a successful legal practice and became a Queen's Counsel in 1893. He was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) in November 1901, and knighted the following month. He held this office until 1913, when he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal, serving until 1918. The latter year he succeeded Lord Cozens-Hardy as Master of the Rolls. However, Eady's health soon began to decline and he resigned in the autumn of 1919. He had been admitted to the Privy Council in 1913 and on 1 November 1919 was raised to the peerage as Baron Swinfen, of Chertsey in the County of Surrey. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stanley (judge)
Sir John Stanley (22 November 1846 – 7 December 1931) was a Chief Justice of the North-Western Provinces in British India at the High Court of Allahabad. He was born in Armagh to the Stanley family of Derryhale, County Armagh, Ulster. He was educated at The Royal School, Armagh and at Trinity College Dublin. On his retirement from Allahabad, the ''Allahabad Pioneer'' newspaper reported:As a judge Sir John Stanley was one of the hardest workers the Allahabad Court had ever had. A trained lawyer quick to form and to formulate his conclusions, his unfailing sincerity and the zeal with which he strove to reduce, as far as might be, the law's delays, were recognized on all hands; and with the leaders of the Bar he was on the best of terms. Sir John Stanley's crowning achievement had been the extraction from a somewhat reluctant Government of an undertaking to construct a new High Court building.Last month he had the pleasure of laying the foundation stone of the new building, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Walton (judge)
Sir Joseph Walton (25 September 1845 – 12 August 1910) was an English lawyer and judge. He was a Justice of the High Court from 1901 until his sudden death in 1910. Born in a Catholic family in Liverpool, Walton's progress at the bar was slow. He acquired a reputation in commercial work, first in Liverpool's local courts, then in the Commercial Court in London, which he dominated from its creation in 1895. As a judge, however, he disappointed many by not fulfilling expectations, owing to his over-conscientiousness and diffidence about his abilities. Nevertheless, he was very popular among the legal profession, who held him in high esteem. Early life and career Joseph Walton was born in Liverpool in a Roman Catholic family, the eldest son of Joseph Walton of Fazakerley, Lancashire, by his wife Winifred Cowley. After being educated at St. Francis Xavier's College, Salisbury Street, and the Jesuit Stonyhurst College, he passed to London University, and graduated in 1865 with fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Richard Jelf
Sir Arthur Richard Jelf (10 September 1837 in Pankow, near Berlin – 24 July 1917 in Putney) was an English judge. He was the son of the Rev. Richard William Jelf, principal of King's College, London, by his wife Countess Emmy Schlippenbach, at one time maid of honour to the queen of Hanover. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1860. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in April 1863, became a Q.C. in 1880, and was elected a Bencher of his Inn in 1883. From 1879 to 1901 he was recorder of Shrewsbury, and in November 1901 was raised to the bench as a justice of the High Court of Justice and knighted A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the Christian denomination, church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood .... He resigned in 1910 and died in 1917. Notes References * {{DEFAUL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy
Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy, (6 October 1853 – 10 December 1923) was an American-Canadian railway administrator who rose from modest beginnings as a clerk and bookkeeper for the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad (a predecessor of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad) to become the president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, serving in that capacity from 1899 to 1918. In recognition of his stewardship of the CPR and its contributions to the war effort during the Great War, Shaughnessy was elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1916 as Baron Shaughnessy, of the City of Montreal in the Dominion of Canada and of Ashford in the County of Limerick. Biography Shaughnessy was born 6 October 1853, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the son of Irish Catholics, Lieutenant Tom Shaughnessy (1818–1903), "one of the shrewdest detectives and patrolmen" in the early Milwaukee Police Department, and his wife Mary Kennedy (1826–1905). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Wesley Greenacre
Sir Benjamin Wesley Greenacre (24 December 1833 – 22 April 1911) was an English-born South African politician and businessman who was member of the Legislative Assembly of the Colony of Natal. He was a three-time Mayor of Durban. He was knighted in 1901. Greenacre was born into "humble circumstances" in Caistor, Norfolk, the son of Benjamin Greenacre, a shoemaker,''1841 England Census'' and Jemima Mallet. In the 1850s, he moved to Durbana and opened a hardware store. He ran a successful trading business with his department store Harvey, Greenacre, & Co. In 1905, he cofounded another business that would become Defy Appliances, South Africa's largest appliance company. In 1863, he married Mary Stott, with whom he had two sons, Walter and Edwin. Walter Greenacre also served as Mayor of Durban, in 1909–10. Sir Benjamin died in Durban. References External links * 1832 births 1911 deaths Colony of Natal people South African knights South African politicians Peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebenezer John Buchanan
Sir Ebenezer John Buchanan (8 March 1844 – 11 October 1930) was a journalist, politician and judge of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. He was knighted in 1901. Early life Buchanan was the second son of the missionary Ebenezer Buchanan and his wife Jane Cowan. He received his schooling in Pietermaritzburg, after which he began his journalistic career with ''The Natal Witness''. He also worked at ''The Times of Natal'' and ''The Natal Mercury'', where he was the parliamentary reporter. In 1866, Buchanan moved to the Cape Colony and joined the staff of '' The Cape Argus''. Judicial career In the late 1860s, Buchanan went to London to read law. He entered the Inner Temple in 1869 and was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1873. Buchanan returned to Cape Town and was admitted as an advocate. He also entered politics and in 1877 he became the member for the Worcester in the Cape Legislative Assembly. In 1880, Buchanan was appointed an acting judge of the Eastern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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