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List Of Knights Bachelor Appointed In 1909
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). Knights Bachelor appointed in 1909 References {{Knights Bachelor Knights Bachelor Lists of knights and dames British honours system ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Merton Russell-Cotes
Sir Merton Russell-Cotes (Wolverhampton 8 May 1835 – 27 January 1921 Bournemouth) was Mayor of Bournemouth, England, 1894–95. During his Mayoralty, Meyrick Park, two free libraries, and the first two schools of art in the borough were opened. Although his name is usually hyphenated today, there is no hyphen in his Who's Who entry or the London Gazette entry for his knighthood, and he is described on the plaque marking the opening of the Undercliff Drive and Promenade as Cllr. ''Cotes'', not Cllr. ''Russell-Cotes''. Royal Bath Hotel He moved to Bournemouth in 1876 with his wife Annie. Soon after this, they bought the Bath Hotel. They quickly enlarged the hotel and renamed it the Royal Bath Hotel because the Prince of Wales had stayed there in 1856. Civic activities Russell-Cotes was elected to the Board of Commissioners in 1883 and fought hard to enhance the town's reputation as a health resort. He called for a direct railway link from Brockenhurst to Bournem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Oldroyd
Sir Mark Oldroyd (30 May 1843 – 5 July 1927) was a British woollen manufacturer and Liberal Party politician from West Riding of Yorkshire. He was born the youngest of three sons and two daughters of Mark Oldroyd and his wife Rachel. He was educated initially at a small school in Dewsbury, followed by a spell at Batley Grammar School. He then trained as a minister at New College London, but he did not pursue his vocation and returned to Dewsbury in 1862, getting a job at the family woollen firm. In 1871 he married Maria Mewburn, with whom he had no children however, he did have illegitimate children with a single mistress who was one of his mill girls and now has many descendants. In 1874 the family company was publicly floated for £750,000 in £10 shares, with Mark and his brother John running the firm as life directors, presiding over a merger with Blakeley & Latta, a blanket company. In 1877 John got into financial difficulties and was forced to leave the company, puttin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Menzies
Sir Walter Menzies (24 July 1856 – 26 October 1913) was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Southern Lanarkshire from 1906 to 1913. He unsuccessfully contested the Glasgow Central constituency at the 1892 general election. He switched to the Southern Division of Lanarkshire for the 1900 election, a Conservative-Liberal marginal seat. He lost by 452 votes, but in the Liberal landslide at the 1906 election he won the seat with a majority of 1,275. He was re-elected at both the January 1910 and December 1910 elections, and held his seat in the House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. T ... until his death in 1913, aged 57. References External links * 1856 births 1913 deaths Scottish Libe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Matthews (engineer)
Sir Thomas Matthews (8 August 1849 – 13 January 1930) was a British civil engineer, who was a notable builder of lighthouses. He was the brother of Sir William Matthews, also a prominent civil engineer. During the late 19th and early 20th century Thomas Matthews was the Engineer-in-Chief of Trinity House. Biography Thomas Matthews was born in Penzance, Cornwall, where he was the son of the Borough Surveyor, John Matthews. From 1868 to 1871 he assisted his father in providing drinking water for Penzance and the sea and harbour defences. For the following two years he practised as an architect and surveyor in Penzance and in 1874, he entered the employment of the United Kingdom's lighthouse service, Trinity House, as an assistant engineer. He succeeded Sir James Nicholas Douglass as Engineer-in-Chief when the latter retired in 1892. Matthews went on to design over a dozen lighthouses for Trinity House. He also worked on illumination systems, notably a lamp designed to bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Mason (died 1924)
Thomas, Tom or Tommy Mason may refer to: Politicians * Stevens T. Mason (Stevens Thomson Mason, 1811–1843), also known Tom Mason, founding Governor of Michigan, 1835–1840 * Thomas Mason (1770–1800), American businessman, planter, and politician, youngest son of George Mason * Thomas Mason (New Zealand politician) (1818–1903), New Zealand politician * Tom Mason (Ontario politician), Green Party candidate * Tom Mason (Scottish politician) (born 1942), Conservative MSP * Thomas Mason (MP), MP for Salisbury * Thomas Mason (burgess), member of the House of Burgesses Sports * Tom Mason (footballer) (1886–1954), English football forward (Tottenham Hotspur) * Tommy Mason (1939–2015), American football player * Tommy Mason (English footballer) (born 1953), English football midfielder (Brighton & Hove Albion) * Tommy Mason (New Zealand footballer) (born 1960), New Zealand international footballer (Fulham) * Tom Mason (American football) (born 1956), American football coach Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mackie
Sir Richard Mackie KONS COCI (1851–1923) was a 19th-century Scottish businessman involved in ship brokerage and coal exporter who served as Provost of Leith from 1899 to 1908. He owned the shipping companies of Richard Mackie & Company and New Line Ltd. Life He was born in Carnock in Fife on 23 April 1851Grave of Sir Richard Mackie, Warriston Cemetery the son of George Mackie (b.1799) and his wife Janet. In his youth his family moved to Woodhead Street in Dunfermline and he was educated there. In 1881 he lived at Jessfield House in the Newhaven district of Edinburgh. In 1891 he was living at Clarebank House on Claremont Road in Leith and was operating a steamship company based at 56 Bernard Street. His export works brought his creation as a Knight of the Order of the North Star from the King of Sweden and Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Italy. He died at Trinity Grove in the Trinity district of Edinburgh on 30 June 1923. He is buried in Warriston Cemetery. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lucy
Sir Henry William Lucy JP, (5 December 1842 – 20 February 1924) was a famed English political journalist of the Victorian era In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardia ..., acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. He wrote for ''Punch (magazine), Punch'', ''The Strand Magazine'', ''The Observer'', ''The New York Times'' and many other papers. He also wrote books, detailing the workings of the Houses of Parliament and two autobiographies. He was knight, knighted in 1909. Lucy was widely known also in North America. President Woodrow Wilson said Lucy's articles in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' inspired his mind and propelled him into public life. Lucy was a serious parliamentary commentator, but also an accomplished humorist and a Parliamentary sketch writing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Boog Leishman
Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman, (, 6 November 1865 – 2 June 1926) was a Scottish pathologist and British Army medical officer. He was Director-General of Army Medical Services from 1923 to 1926. Biography Leishman was born in Glasgow and attended Westminster School and the University of Glasgow and entered the Royal Army Medical Corps. He served in India, where he did research on enteric fever and kala-azar. He returned to the United Kingdom and was stationed at the Victoria Hospital in Netley in 1897. In 1900 he was made Assistant Professor of Pathology in the Army Medical School, and described a method of staining blood for malaria and other parasites—a modification and simplification of the existing Romanowsky method using a compound of methylene blue and eosin, which became known as Leishman's stain. In 1901, while examining pathologic specimens of a spleen from a patient who had died of kala azar (now called "visceral leishmaniasis"), he observed ova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Larmor
Sir Joseph Larmor (11 July 1857 – 19 May 1942) was an Irish and British physicist and mathematician who made breakthroughs in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. His most influential work was ''Aether and Matter'', a theoretical physics book published in 1900. Biography He was born in Magheragall in County Antrim the son of Hugh Larmor, a Belfast shopkeeper and his wife, Anna Wright. The family moved to Belfast circa 1860, and he was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and then studied mathematics and experimental science at Queen's College, Belfast (BA 1874, MA 1875), where one of his teachers was John Purser. He subsequently studied at St John's College, Cambridge, where in 1880 he was Senior Wrangler (J. J. Thomson was second wrangler that year) and Smith's Prizeman, getting his MA in 1883. After teaching physics for a few years at Queen's College, Galway, he accepted a lectureship in mathema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Lane
Sir Hugh Percy Lane (9 November 1875 – 7 May 1915) was an Irish art dealer, collector and gallery director. He is best known for establishing Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art (the first known public gallery of modern art in the world) and for his contribution to the visual arts in Ireland, including the Lane Bequest. Hugh Lane died on board the RMS ''Lusitania''. Family Hugh Percy Lane was born in County Cork, Ireland, on 9 November 1875. He was the son of a rector father, and his mother Adelaide was a daughter of Dudley Persse, of Roxburgh, Co Galway and her sister was the dramatist Augusta, Lady Gregory, of Coole, Co Galway. He was brought up in Cornwall, England, and began his career as an apprentice painting restorer with Martin Henry Colnaghi in London, then worked as an art dealer at the Colnaghi's Marlborough Gallery for some years, before becoming a dealer in his own right and opening a gallery in Dublin in 1908. Through regular visits to Coole (near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale
George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale, (9 June 1866 – 24 March 1945) was a British politician, soldier, businessman and cricketer. Education and business career Kemp was born at Beechwood, Rochdale, Lancashire, and educated at Shrewsbury and Mill Hill Schools.Published under Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Matriculating at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1883, aged 16, Kemp transferred to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1884, where he graduated B.A. in the Classical Tripos in 1888. In business, Kemp went into the woollen industry eventually becoming Chairman of Kelsall & Kemp, flannel manufacturers. Cricket From 1885 to 1892, Kemp played first-class cricket for Lancashire and Cambridge University. A batsman, he scored three centuries all against Yorkshire - 109 in the Roses Match, at Huddersfield, in 1885 whilst still a teenager and 125 and 103 within 18 days of each other in 1886 at Fenner's and Sheffield respectively. While at Shrewsbury School he appeared in one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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