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 1917 DateNameNotesRef21 February 1917William Frederick Alphonse ArchibaldThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 33.The Edinburgh Gazette, 20 April 1917 (issue 13080), pp. 775–776.21 February 1917Robert Armstrong-Jones, MD(Major, Royal Army Medical Corps)21 February 1917Archibald Henry BodkinThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 130.21 February 1917Walter MacGeough Bond21 February 1917Joseph Guinness Broodbank21 February 1917George T. Buckham21 February 1917Arthur Carkeek21 February 1917Julian Corbett21 February 1917Leonard DunningInspector of Constabulary 21 February 1917Hugh Fraser, LLD21 February 1917Harry Edwin HawardThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 628.21 February 1917The Very Rev. John Herkless, DD21 February 1917Henry Holloway21 February 1917James Hope-Simpson 21 February 1917Christopher Nicholson Johnston, KCThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 730. 21 February 1917Prof. Richard Lodge21 February 1917William Lorimer21 February 1917John Lonsdale OtterDebrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage (1931), p. 1173.21 February 1917Edward Ernest Pearson21 February 1917Keith William Price21 February 1917Vincent Litchfield RavenKelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes (1918), p. 1282.21 February 1917Harry Ross Skinner21 February 1917Samuel George Shead(Temporary Second Lieutenant, Army Service Corps) 21 February 1917Edward Smith21 February 1917Evan Spicer21 February 1917Lt-Col. Owen Thomas21 February 1917George Alexander Touche, MP21 February 1917William Ashbee TrittonThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 1343.21 February 1917Daniel Harold Ryan TwomeyIndian Civil Service, Judge, Chief Court of Lower Burma 21 February 1917George Vanston21 February 1917William Weir21 February 1917Ernest Michael ClarkeThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 266.Director, Motor Ambulance Department, British Red Cross SocietyThe London Gazette, 19 June 1917 (issue 30138), pp. 6047–6048.21 February 1917James Gallagherlate Lord Mayor of Dublin21 February 1917Prof. Paul Vinogradoff21 February 1917The Hon. Walter Gibson Pringle CasselsSenior Judge of the Exchequer Court of Canada21 February 1917Mortimer Barnett Davis21 February 1917Charles Simon DavsonChief Justice of Fiji and Chief Judicial Commissioner of the Western Pacific21 February 1917The Hon. John Edward Dennistona Judge of the Supreme Court of the Dominion of New Zealand21 February 1917Thomas Allwright Dibbs21 February 1917Robert Randolph Garran, CMGSolicitor-General, Commonwealth of Australia21 February 1917John Grice21 February 1917Ambalawanar Kanagasabai21 February 1917The Hon. John Gilbert Kotze Puisne Judge, Cape Provincial Division, Supreme Court of South Africa21 February 1917The Hon. Ezekiel McLeodChief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick21 February 1917Daniel Thomas TudorChief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Bahama Islands21 February 1917Reginald Arthur GambleIndian Civil Service, Comptroller and Auditor-General, an Additional Member of the Indian Legislative Council21 February 1917Archibald Birkmyrean Additional Member of the Legislative Council of the Governor of Bengal21 February 1917Sundar Lal, CIE, DLL, Rai BahadurAn Additional Member of the Legislative Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh21 February 1917Jagadish Chandra Bose, CSI, CIE, DScFormerly of the Indian Educational Service21 February 1917Norcot Hastings Yeeles WarrenSecretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Bengal, Calcutta21 February 1917Naoroji Pestanji Vakil, CIE, Khan. Bahadur21 February 1917Duncan Carmichael13 June 1917William James AshleyThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 40.Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at Birmingham13 June 1917John Audley Frederick AspinallGeneral Manager of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway13 June 1917Graham BalfourSecretary to the Staffordshire Education Committee13 June 1917Francis Henry BarkerThe County Families of the United Kingdom (1922), p. 68.13 June 1917Rowland Barran, MP13 June 1917William Barton, MP13 June 1917William Cain13 June 1917Frederick William Alfred ClarkeAccountant and Comptroller-General of Customs and Excise13 June 1917Arthur Stockdale Cope, RA13 June 1917William Henry Cowan, MP13 June 1917Col. Thomas Kennedy DalzielRAMC13 June 1917Henry Davies, CBController of the Post Office Savings Bank13 June 1917George Samuel Elliott, JP13 June 1917Thomas Gregory FosterProvost of University College, London13 June 1917John Foster Fraser, FRGS, FZS13 June 1917Richard Tetley Glazebrook, CB, FRSDirector of the National Physical Laboratory13 June 1917Robert Graham, DL, JP13 June 1917Henry Herbert Hambling13 June 1917George HaysomSheriff of the City of London13 June 1917Thomas Erskine Holland, KC, DCL, LLD13 June 1917Lt-Col. William Henry Houghton-Gastrell, MP13 June 1917Robert Murray Hyslop13 June 1917Lt-Col. Robert Jones, CB, FRCSLecturer on Orthopaedic Surgery at Liverpool University13 June 1917John Lome McLeodLord Provost of Edinburgh13 June 1917Alexander Herbert Maguire13 June 1917Charles Edward Mallet13 June 1917Edward Marshall-Hall, KC, MPRecorder of Guildford 13 June 1917Ernest Martin13 June 1917Grimwood Mears13 June 1917Maj. Lewis Arthur NewtonSheriff of the City of London13 June 1917Henry George Norris Mayor of Fulham 13 June 1917Ebenezer Parkes, MP13 June 1917William Peck, FRSE, FRASDirector of the City Observatory, Calton Hill, Edinburgh13 June 1917Robert Leonard Powell, JP13 June 1917William Beddoe ReesWhittaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage (1922), p. 471.13 June 1917Alfred Farthing Robbins13 June 1917Samuel Roberts, MP13 June 1917Charles Walter Starmer, JP13 June 1917Dudley Stewart-Smith, KCVice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster13 June 1917William Hamo Thornycroft, RA13 June 1917Herbert Furnival Waterhouse, MD, FRCSMember of Council and Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons13 June 1917William Watson, LLD13 June 1917Edward Graham WoodHigh Sheriff of Lancashire13 June 1917John AirdAird was unable to attend his investiture; if he was ever dubbed, the event was not gazetted.13 June 1917George BurnBurn was unable to attend his investiture; if he was ever dubbed, the event was not gazetted.13 June 1917George BuryBury was unable to attend his investiture; if he was ever dubbed, the event was not gazetted.13 June 1917Eugene Fiset, CMG, DSO, MDSurgeon-General, Canadian Militia, Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence, of the Dominion of CanadaThe London Gazette, 10 August 1917 (issue 30224), p. 8130.13 June 1917Ellis Kadoorie13 June 1917The Hon. Johannes Henricus Lange, LLBPuisne Judge, Griqualand West Local Division, Cape of Good Hope Provisional Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa13 June 1917The Hon. Edward MillerTreasurer for the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society13 June 1917Augustus Meredith Nanton13 June 1917James Patrick SandsPresident of the Legislative Council of the Bahama Islands 13 June 1917Edward Charles Stirling, CMG, MD, DScProfessor of Physiology in the University of Adelaide13 June 1917Frank Clement Offley Beaman13 June 1917Ashutosh Chaudhuri13 June 1917Dinshah Fdalji Vachha13 June 1917Edward Hugh Bray13 June 1917Henry John Stanyon, CIE, VD13 June 1917Michael Nethersole, CSI2 November 1917Arthur Clavell SalterJustice of the High Court of JusticeThe London Gazette, 6 November 1917 (issue 30369), p. 11470.2 November 1917Alexander Adair RocheJustice of the High Court of Justice

Notes It was announced in the 1917 New Year Honours that a knighthood was to be bestowed on William Gundry, JP (a magistrate for Middlesex, the president of the Enfield Liberal Association and a director of Messrs Morris, Ashby Ltd, a firm of city merchants), but he died before he received the accolade.The County Families of the United Kingdom (1921), pp. 586–587."Sir William Gundry", The Times, 12 January 1917, p. 9. By a royal warrant dated 9 January 1918, George V declared that his widow, Florence Eugenie Barwell Gundry, "shall have, hold and enjoy the style, title, place and precedence to which she would have been entitled had her husband survived to receive the honour of Knight Bachelor at the hands of His Majesty".The Edinburgh Gazette, 29 January 1918 (issue 13201), p. 503.

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