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List Of Knights Bachelor Appointed In 1918
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. ''''. 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
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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] |
Andrew Macphail
Sir John Andrew Macphail, (November 24, 1864 – September 23, 1938) was a Canadian physician, author, professor of medicine, and soldier. Macphail was a prolific writer, and an influential intellectual during the early twentieth century.Damien-Claude Bélanger,John Andrew Macphail (1864-1938)" Quebec History, Marianopolis College, Web, Apr. 6, 2011. Life and work Macphail was born in Orwell, Prince Edward Island, on the family's newly purchased 100-acre farm. His father was William Macphail, a schoolmaster; his mother was Catherine Moore Smith formerly of Newton, P.E.I. Macphail was educated at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, and then at McGill University in Montreal, where he received his medical degree in 1891. While studying at McGill, Macphail wrote a number of reviews and articles for the ''Montreal Gazette'', the '' Chicago Times'' and other newspapers. Some of the money from this work was spent on a trip around the world. Mcphail resumed his studies in Engla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Salmond (judge)
Sir John William Salmond (3 December 1862 – 19 September 1924) was a legal scholar, public servant and judge in New Zealand. Biography Salmond was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England, the eldest son of William Salmond (died 1917), a Presbyterian minister and professor. His family emigrated to Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1876 where he attended Otago Boys' High School (1876–79). Salmond graduated from the University of Otago in 1882 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and later a Master of Arts. He then obtained a Gilchrist scholarship to study at University College, London, where he graduated in law and became a fellow. Returning to New Zealand in 1887, he was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court, and practised in Temuka in South Canterbury. In 1897 he was appointed professor of law at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and in 1906 he returned to New Zealand to take up the founding chair in law at Victoria University College, Wellingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Roden
Sir Robert Blair Roden (21 April 1860 – 5 February 1939) was a British colonial judge. He was Chief Justice of St Vincent from 1912 to 1915 and Chief Justice of British Honduras from 1915 to 1921. Biography Roden was born in Antigua, the son of J. James Roden, a sugar planter. He was educated at the Ewart Institute in Newton Stewart, Scotland. Roden joined the Colonial Service in 1880. He was Magistrate of Nevis from 1890, Private Secretary to successive governors of the Leeward Islands in 1883, 1890, 1895, and 1896, He was a member of the St Kitt’s and Nevis Legislative Council from 1891, of the Federal Legislative Council of the Leeward Islands from 1898. In 1903, he was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn and was appointed Police Magistrate of Bridgetown, Barbados the same year. He acted on several occasions as Judge of the Bridgetown Petty Debt Court and of the Barbados Assistant Court of Appeal. He was appointed Chief Justice of St Vincent, 1912, administered the Governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hormisdas Laporte
Sir Hormisdas Laporte, (7 November 1850 – 20 February 1934) was a Canadian businessman and financier. He served as Mayor of Montreal from 1904 to 1906. His first name is given as Hormidas in some sources. Biography Laporte began working at the age of 17 in a nail factory and studied at night with a tutor. By the age of 20, he was working in a grocery and set up his own business within six months. He established Laporte, Martin and Co., a wholesale grocery, in 1881. The enterprise was successful despite instances of flooding and fire and he developed it into a chain. In 1892 he became the first president of the ''Alliance Nationale'', a mutual aid society which evolved into a major Quebec insurance company. He was elected to city council as an alderman in 1896 and became mayor eight years later. He was a reformer on council and wanted to curtail the growth of public expenditures and eliminate patronage and corruption. As mayor, he campaigned to abolish the public utilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Wild (politician)
Sir Ernest Wild, KC (1 January 1869 – 13 September 1934) was a barrister, Judge and Conservative Party politician who served first on the London County Council, and then as a Member of Parliament. Ernest Edward Wild was born on 1 January 1869 in Norwich, and was educated at Norwich School and Jesus College, Oxford University, before qualifying as a barrister in 1893. Practising at the bar, he was also a Judge of the Norwich Guildhall Court of Record from 1897 to 1922. He became King's Counsel in 1912. Ernest Wild stood unsuccessfully as a Conservative Party Parliamentary candidate on four occasions, twice in Norwich, at the 1904 by-election and at the 1906 general election, and twice in West Ham North, in the December 1910 general election and in the July 1911 by-election. From 1907 to 1910 he sat as a Municipal Reform Party member of the London County Council representing the Finsbury division of Holborn. He was knighted “for public services” in the June 1918 Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Adolphus Rattigan
Sir Henry Adolphus Byden Rattigan (11 October 1864 – 11 January 1920) was a barrister and judge in British India. He served as the Chief Justice of the Chief Court of the Punjab, which became the Lahore High Court. Biography He was born in Delhi, British India, the son of Sir William Henry Rattigan and Teresa Higgins. He was educated in England at Harrow School and later Balliol College, Oxford. Thereafter he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1874. In 1889, he returned to India and enrolled as an advocate at the Chief Court of the Punjab. In 1900 he was made Legal Remembrancer to the Punjab government. He served as a Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab from 1909 and in 1917 was made Chief Justice. He was knighted in 1918 and remained as Chief Justice until 1920 when he died in Lahore. He published a number of notable works including ''Tribal Laws of the Punjab'' (1895) and ''Laws of Divorce in India'' (1897). His brother was the first-class cricketer Cyril Stanley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartle Henry Temple Frere
Sir Bartle Henry Temple Frere (26 August 1862 – 20 February 1953) was a British barrister and colonial judge who served as Chief Justice of Gibraltar from 1914 to 1922. Biography The son of the Rev. Henry Temple Frere, rector of Burstow, Norfolk, Frere was educated at Charterhouse School, where he was a junior a senior scholar, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read law and graduated in 1884. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1887 and joined the South-Eastern Circuit. Having decided to enter colonial service, he was first sent to Cyprus, where he became president of the district court at Famagusta in 1897 and of the court in Nicosia in 1899. In 1902, he was transferred to Gibraltar, where he spent the remainder his legal career. He was police magistrate and coroner from 1902 until 1911, when he was made Attorney-General of Gibraltar and a KC for the colony. As Attorney-General, he also acted as legal adviser to the British minister in Morocco and to the Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sinclair (New Zealand Politician)
Sir John Robert Sinclair (1850 – 3 December 1940) was a lawyer and a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1907 to 1914, and from 1918 to 1932. Sinclair was born in Anglesey in Wales in 1850. His father was Scottish and had moved to Anglesey in the 1830s. He received his early education in Wales before coming with his family to Port Chalmers in New Zealand in the early 1860s. Sinclair continued his secondary school education in Dunedin and the University of Otago, from where he graduated in 1875. Based in Dunedin, he worked as a solicitor for the Dunedin City Council, other municipal bodies, and the Dunedin Drainage Board. Prior to his appointment to the Legislative Council, he took no part in political life, but had been chairman of the Otago High Schools Board, and held several directorships with finance companies. He became a partner in a firm in Dunedin and two of his other partners, Frederick Chapman and William Cunningham MacGregor later became judges of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fraser (New Zealand Politician, Born 1840)
Sir William Fraser (1840 – 16 July 1923) was an Independent Conservative then Reform Party member of parliament in New Zealand. Biography Early life Fraser was born in India, the son of Captain Hugh Fraser of the 5th Madras Light Cavalry. He received his education at Elizabeth College in Guernsey, Victoria College in Jersey, and the Lycée de St Brieuc in Brittany, France. He came to New Zealand in September 1858 for farming. Together with Alfred Rowland Chetham-Strode, he took up Earnscleugh Station on the Earnscleugh River. In 1874, he married Ellen Isabel Strode, the daughter of his business partner, in 1874. Political career Fraser was a member of the Otago Provincial Council (1867–1870). He was a member of the inaugural Vincent County from 1877 until 1893, the last ten years as chairman. He won the Wakatipu electorate in the 1893 general election, and retired in 1919. He served on the Legislative Council from 1919 to 1923 when he died. Under Prime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Fraser (Australian Politician)
Sir Simon Fraser (21 August 1832 – 30 July 1919) was a Canadian-Australian businessman, pastoralist, and politician. He served as a Senator for Victoria from 1901 to 1913, having previously been a member of the colonial Parliament of Victoria. Early life Fraser was born on 21 August 1832 in Big Brook (now known as Lorne), a small rural township in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was the youngest son of Jane (née Fraser) and William Fraser. His parents shared the same surname, although no familial connection has been noted between the two. Fraser's father was born in Beauly, Inverness-shire, Scotland, and claimed descent from Clan Fraser of Lovat. He arrived in Nova Scotia in 1801, as a small child. According to Fraser, his mother spoke fluent Scottish Gaelic and one of his grandfathers spoke "very little English". In 1906, he would become the inaugural patron of the Gaelic Society of Victoria, an organisation devoted to keeping the Gaelic language and customs alive i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William Young
Sir Frederick William Young (5 January 1876 – 26 August 1948) was an Australian agent-general, barrister, liberal/conservative politician and member of the South Australian House of Assembly. Young was born in Blyth, South Australia and represented Stanley in the House of Assembly from 3 May 1902 to 26 May 1905. He later represented Wooroora from 13 February 1909 to 26 March 1915. From 17 February 1912 until 19 November 1914, Young was Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration for South Australia. He married Florence, daughter of John Darling Jr. (1852–1914). In 1918 he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Swindon in the United Kingdom Parliament. He stood down at the 1922 election. He was knighted in 1918. Young died in Buckingham Gate, London, England. External links * See also * Walter James Young * Randolph Isham Stow * John Darling Sr. * Archibald Peake Archibald Henry Peake (15 January 1859 – 6 April 1920) was an Australian politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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