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."Knight Bachelor", 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 1912 DateNameNotesRef1 January 1912Edward Pigott William Redford, CBSecretary to the General Post Office for ScotlandThe London Gazette, 8 March 1912 (issue 28588), pp. 1745–1746.1 January 1912John AndersonUnofficial Member of the Legislative Council, Straits Settlements, 1905–91 January 1912William Fletcher Barrett, FRS1 January 1912Reuben Vincent Barrow1 January 1912Joseph Beecham1 January 1912Charles BehrensEx-Lord Mayor of Manchester1 January 1912John Hawtrey Benson, MDPresident of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland 1 January 1912Thomas Henry Devereux Berridge1 January 1912Valentine Chirol1 January 1912Robert John Collie, MD, CMMedical Examiner to the London County Council1 January 1912James Mackenzie Davidson, MB, CM1 January 1912William Duff GibbonActed as Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon "on several occasions"1 January 1912Henry Rider Haggard1 January 1912Thomas Henry HepburnDod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland (1923), p. 426.1 January 1912Henry Jones, LLD, DLittProfessor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow1 January 1912Samuel Robert Keightley, LLD1 January 1912Alfred Bray Kempe, DCL, FRS1 January 1912Henry Alexander Miers, DSc, FRSPrincipal of the University of London1 January 1912Herbert James Francis ParsonsDod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland (1921), p. 671.1 January 1912Sidney Job PocockThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1919), p. 1079.1 January 1912Alexander Porter1 January 1912George Henry Savage, MD, FRCP1 January 1912Courtauld Thomson1 January 1912William Wilkins Vincent1 January 1912John Tudor Walters, MP1 January 1912Robert WaltonChairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Paris1 January 1912Frederick Wedmore1 January 1912Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, LLD, FRS, FSAPresident of University College, Cork1 January 1912Edward Burnett Tylor, DCL, LLD, FRSEmeritus Professor of Anthropology in the University of Oxford1 January 1912Anthony Michael CollChief Justice of Jamaica1 January 1912The Hon. Charles Kinnaird MackellarMember of the Legislative Council of the State of New South Wales and President of the State Children's Relief Board1 January 1912Edmund Boyd OslerMember of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada1 January 1912Rodolphe ForgetMember of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada1 January 1912Charles Henry Goode4 January 1912Frederick Loch Halliday, CIE, MVOThe London Gazette, 4 June 1912 (issue 28614), p. 4036.4 January 1912David Yule26 January 1912Vincenzo Frendo Azopardi, CMG, LLDCrown Advocate in Malta. Appointed during the King's visit to the island.6 March 1912William Maurice Abbot-Anderson, MVOSurgeon to the Princess Royal and Household9 March 1912Edward WhiteChairman of the London County Council. On the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the new London County Hall.The London Gazette, 12 March 1912 (issue 28589), p. 1827.9 March 1912Maurice Fitzmaurice, CMGChief Engineer to the London County Council. On the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the new London County Hall.11 March 1912Ho Kai, CMGUnofficial Member of the Legislative Council of the Colony of Hong Kong. On the occasion of the opening of the University of Hong Kong.28 May 1912Harry James VeitchThe London Gazette, 12 July 1912 (supplement, no. 28626), pp. 5081–5082.14 June 1912John Edward Power WallisA Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras14 June 1912John Page MiddletonA Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of the Island of Ceylon, Ceylon14 June 1912Laurence Charles Edward Downing Dowdall, CBPrincipal Clerk, Chief Secretary's Office, Ireland14 June 1912Charles Albert King, CBComptroller and Accountant-General, General Post Office14 June 1912Lt-Col. David Prain, CIE, FRSDirector of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew14 June 1912Francis Sowerby Bennett14 June 1912Edward Tyas Cook14 June 1912Frederick GreenDirector of the Orient Steam Navigation Company and the Suez Canal Company14 June 1912William Stowell HaldaneCrown Agent for Scotland 14 June 1912Norval Watson Helme, MP14 June 1912George Thompson Hutchinson, FRGSChairman of Hursfa and Blackett (Limited)14 June 1912Malachi KellyChief Crown Solicitor for Ireland14 June 1912John Mills McCallum, MP14 June 1912Henry John Manton14 June 1912Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, FRCSProfessor of Clinical Surgery, University of Leeds14 June 1912George Paish14 June 1912Edward PartingtonDirector of the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank14 June 1912William Barclay Peat14 June 1912George Pragnell14 June 1912William Pick Raynor14 June 1912Charles Hercules ReadPresident of the Society of Antiquaries; Keeper of British and Mediaeval Antiquities in the British Museum14 June 1912John Bland-Sutton, FRCS14 June 1912Abraham Garrod Thomas, MD14 June 1912St Clair Thomson, MD14 June 1912Charles Waldstein, DLitt14 June 1912Whitworth Wallis, FSADirector of the Birmingham Art Gallery14 June 1912Joseph Dubuc, LLD, BCLFormerly Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench for the Province of Manitoba14 June 1912The Hon. John James DuncanMember of the Legislative Council of the State of South Australia14 June 1912Jan Willem Stuckeris LangermanMember of the House of Assembly, Union of South Africa14 June 1912Reginald Sothern Holland14 June 1912Jagmohandas VarjivandasJustice of the Peace, Bombay14 June 1912Chettur Sankaran Nair, CIEA Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort St. George, Madras14 June 1912Campbell Kirkman Finlay25 June 1912John Wesley CourtisLord Mayor of the City of Cardiff28 June 1912Frank William WillsLord Mayor of the City of Bristol22 July 1912Sam FayGeneral manager of the Great Central Railway Company. On the occasion of the opening of the new Dock at Immingham.The London Gazette, 2 August 1912 (issue 28632), p. 5722.25 July 1912Francis FoxMember of the Institution of Civil EngineersThe London Gazette, 29 October 1912 (issue 28658), p. 7940.10 October 1912Sidney Arthur Taylor RowlattJustice of the High Court of JusticeThe London Gazette, 18 October 1912 (issue 28654), p. 7684.18 November 1912Clement Meacher BailhacheJustice of the High Court of JusticeThe London Gazette, 19 November 1912 (issue 28664), p. 8459.

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