# List of knights bachelor appointed in 1920

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. 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 1920

| Date | Name | Notes |
| 27 February 1920 | James Kemnal, FRS | Announced on 1 January 1920 |
| 4 March 1920 | Horace Charles Mules, CSI, MVO | Announced on 6 June 1919 |
| 4 March 1920 | Alfred Waldron Smithers, MP | Announced on 12 August 1919 |
| 4 March 1920 | Andrew Beattie | Deputy Lieutenant for the City of Dublin |
| 4 March 1920 | Alfred Frederick Bird, MP | |
| 4 March 1920 | Arthur Cecil Tyrrell Beck, MP, JP | |
| 4 March 1920 | Ernest A. Wallis Budge, MA, LittD, FSA | |
| 4 March 1920 | William Carter | Mayor of Windsor during the War |
| 4 March 1920 | Harry Cartmell | Mayor of Preston, 1913–19 |
| 4 March 1920 | Samuel Chapman | |
| 4 March 1920 | Josiah Court, MRCS, LRCP, JP | |
| 4 March 1920 | Francis Chatillon Danson | |
| 4 March 1920 | Edwin Wood Thorpe Farley | Mayor of Dover, 1913–19 |
| 4 March 1920 | John Fitzgerald | Lord Mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1914–15 |
| 4 March 1920 | Norris Tildesley Foster | |
| 4 March 1920 | George Jefford Fowler | |
| 4 March 1920 | Dr Henry John Gauvain | |
| 4 March 1920 | William Valters Summers Gradwell-Goodwin, JP | Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme since 1913 |
| 4 March 1920 | Francis Nugent Greer, CB, KC | Irish Parliamentary Draughtsman |
| 4 March 1920 | Malcolm Nicholson Hogg | |
| 4 March 1920 | Thomas Jaffrey, JP | |
| 4 March 1920 | Robert Newbald Kay | Sheriff of York, 1914–15 |
| 4 March 1920 | Halford John Mackinder, MP | |
| 4 March 1920 | James Macklin | |
| 4 March 1920 | Maj. David Hughes Morgan | |
| 4 March 1920 | George William Needham | |
| 4 March 1920 | Thomas Neill, JP | |
| 4 March 1920 | Francis Grant Ogilvie, CB | |
| 4 March 1920 | Herbert John Ormond, JP | Mayor of Stoke Newington, 1914–19 |
| 4 March 1920 | Col. James Philip Reynolds, DSO, DL, JP | |
| 4 March 1920 | Hugh Malcolm Robinson, CB, ISO | Chief Inspector of Factories |
| 4 March 1920 | Thomas Robinson, OBE, JP, MP | |
| 4 March 1920 | Leonard Bromfield Rowland, JP | Mayor of Wrexham, 1915–19 |
| 4 March 1920 | Professor Arthur Schuster, FRS | |
| 4 March 1920 | Charles Stone | "Nine times Mayor of Greenwich" |
| 4 March 1920 | Alfred George Temple, FSA | |
| 4 March 1920 | William Towle | |
| 4 March 1920 | Lieutenant-Colonel William Abraham Wayland, JP | Mayor of Deptford, 1914–19 |
| 4 March 1920 | Maj. Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson, CVO | Ulster King of Arms |
| 4 March 1920 | Ralph Molyneux Combe | Chief Justice of Nigeria |
| 4 March 1920 | Hon. Thomas Lynedoch Graham | Judge President of the Eastern Districts Local Division, Capte of Good Hope Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of the Union of South Africa |
| 4 March 1920 | Reginald Gray, KC | Lately Attorney-General of the Bermundas or Somers Islands |
| 4 March 1920 | David Ernest Hutchins | |
| 4 March 1920 | Frederick Spencer Lister, MRCS | |
| 4 March 1920 | Hon. Cornelius Hermanus Wessels | Administrator of the Orange Free State Provincie in the Union of South Africa |
| 6 May 1920 | Henry Chartres Biron | Chief Magistrate of the Police Courts of the Metropolis |
| 10 June 1920 | Hon. Walter Synnot Manifold | President of the Legislative Council, State of Victoria. Announced on 1 January 1920. |
| 25 June 1920 | Col. William Alfred Churchman | Announced 1 January 1920 |
| 25 June 1920 | Philip Herbert Hanson, CB | Announced 1 January 1920 |
| 25 June 1920 | James Richard Thursfield, MA | Announced 1 January 1920 |
| 25 June 1920 | Sidney Robert Alexander, MD | Mayor of Faversham, 1908–19 |
| 25 June 1920 | Hugh Percy Allen, MA, MusDoc | Director of the Royal College of Music |
| 25 June 1920 | Professor Frederick William Andrewes, MD, FRS | Pathologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital |
| 25 June 1920 | Capt. David Wilson Barker | Captain Superintendent of the Training Ship Worcester |
| 25 June 1920 | Sydney Beauchamp | "Resident Medical Officer to the British Delegation during nearly the whole of the Peace Conference in Paris" |
| 25 June 1920 | William Barrott Montfort Bird | |
| 25 June 1920 | John Brown, JP | |
| 25 June 1920 | Francis Morgan Bryant, CBE, MVO, ISO | |
| 25 June 1920 | Arthur Benjamin Bryceson | "Town Clerk of Woolwich for over 18 years" |
| 25 June 1920 | Maj. Gerald Arthur Fowler Burton | |
| 25 June 1920 | Robert Burton Chadwick, MP | |
| 25 June 1920 | Ernest Clark, CBE | Secretary of the Royal Commission on the Income Tax |
| 25 June 1920 | Hon. James Daniel Connolly | Agent-General for the State of Western Australia |
| 25 June 1920 | His Honour Judge John Walker Craig, KC | |
| 25 June 1920 | Walter Erskine Crum, OBE | |
| 25 June 1920 | Philip Dawson | Member of the Disposal Board, Ministry of Munitions |
| 25 June 1920 | Joseph Dobbie | |
| 25 June 1920 | Robert Henry Glanfield | President of the Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers' Federation |
| 25 June 1920 | Wemyss Grant-Wilson, MA, LLM, JP | |
| 25 June 1920 | Henry Gregg | Mayor of Tynemouth, 1913–18 |
| 25 June 1920 | Alderman Charles O'Brien Harding, JP, LRCP | Mayor of Eastbourne in 1903 and from 1916 to 1919 |
| 25 June 1920 | Edgar Josiah Harper, FSI | Chief Valuer, Inland Revenue Department |
| 25 June 1920 | Professor James Blacklock Henderson, DSc | |
| 25 June 1920 | Lt-Col. Maxwell Hicks, CBE | |
| 25 June 1920 | Alderman James Peace Hinchliffe, JP | Chairman of West Riding of Yorkshire County Council |
| 25 June 1920 | Harry Hope, MP | |
| 25 June 1920 | Louis Stanley Johnson, MP | |
| 25 June 1920 | Henry S. Keith, JP | Provost of Hamilton |
| 25 June 1920 | Walter Guy Coffin Kirkwood | Lately Secretary of the Post Office, Edinburgh |
| 25 June 1920 | Thomas Joseph Lennard | Vice-President of the Royal Colonial Institute |
| 25 June 1920 | Maj. Charles McIver | |
| 25 June 1920 | Maj. George Espec John Manners, DL, JP | |
| 25 June 1920 | Samuel Meeson Morris | Mayor of Shrewsbury, 1901–02, and 1916–18 |
| 25 June 1920 | William Noble | Chief Engineer, General Post Office |
| 25 June 1920 | William Payne Perry, CB | Director of Finance, War Office |
| 25 June 1920 | Ernest Romey | Solicitor |
| 25 June 1920 | George Royle | Mayor of Bedford, 1903 |
| 25 June 1920 | James Simpson, LLB | |
| 25 June 1920 | Albert Frederick Stephenson, JP | |
| 25 June 1920 | William Henry Veno | |
| 25 June 1920 | Henry William Verey | |
| 25 June 1920 | William Howell Walters | |
| 25 June 1920 | Zachariah Wheatley | Mayor of Abergavenny |
| 25 June 1920 | Henry Alexander Wickham | |
| 25 June 1920 | Jeremiah Wilson, CMG | Lately Postmaster-General of the Union of South Africa |
| 25 June 1920 | James Lawton Wingate | President of the Royal Scottish Academy |
| 25 June 1920 | John Carruthers Beattie, DSc | Principal of the University of Cape Town in the Union of South Africa |
| 25 June 1920 | Colin Rees Davies | Chief Justice of the Bermudas or Somers Islands |
| 25 June 1920 | Lt-Col. Herman Melville Heyman | Rhodesian Reserve Volunteers, Bulawayo; Member of the Legislative Council of Souther Rhodesia |
| 25 June 1920 | Hon. Joseph Henry Hood | Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria |
| 25 June 1920 | Capt. (brevet Maj.) Edward Humphrey Manisty Leggett, DSO | Chairman, East Africa Section, London Chamber of Commerce |
| 25 June 1920 | John Roberts, CMG | |
| 19 July 1920 | Hon. Walter Henry Lee | Premier of the State of Tasmania. Announced 1 January 1920. |
| 23 July 1920 | Charles Henry Kesteven | Solicitor to the Government of India. Announced 1 January 1920. |
| 23 July 1920 | Henry Hubert Hayden, CSI, CIE, DSc | Director, Geological Survey of India. Announced 5 June 1920. |
| 12 August 1920 | William Arthur Beardsell | Sheriff of Madras. Announced 1 January 1919. |
| 12 August 1920 | Mr Justice Rigby Philip Watson Smith | |
| 12 August 1920 | Mr Justice Edward Acton | |
| 14 October 1920 | Maj. George Alexander Dolby | Mayor of Poole, 1917–20 |
| 14 October 1920 | Curtis George Ashdown | |
| 14 October 1920 | Charles Eves | |

## Knighthoods announced in 1920 but where the date of investiture is unknown or after 1921

It was announced on 1 January 1920 that Gerald Aubrey Goodman was to be knighted, but he was unable to attend the investiture ceremonies held before late March. He was styled as a knight in The Edinburgh Gazette in December 1920, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the Straits Settlement.
The Rt Hon. Richard Watkins Richards, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, was also included in the 1920 New Year Honours published on 1 January 1920, but no record of his investiture has been found in The London Gazette.
The following were announced in the New Year Honours for India on 1 January 1920; they were to be dubbed by the Viceroy of India at a later date, an event which was not recorded in The London Gazette; some were later dubbed by the king in 1921.
| Date conferred | Name | Notes |
| | Mr Justice Nalini Ranjan Chatterji | Judge, High Court, Calcutta |
| 25 June 1921 | Mr Justice Basanta Kumar Mullick | Indian Civil Service; Judge, Patna High Court, Bihar and Orissa. Dubbed by the King on 25 June 1921. |
| | Malcolm Nicholson Hogg | Partner in Forbes, Forbes, Campbell & Co., Bombay |
| 25 June 1921 | Thomas Joseph Strangman | Advocate-General, Bombay. Dubbed by the King on 25 June 1921. |
| | Robert Stanes | Merchant, Madras |
| 25 June 1921 | Percy Wilson Newson | Senior Partner, Jardine, Skinner & Co., Calcutta. Dubbed by the King on 25 June 1921. |
| | Robert Taylor | Senior Partner, John Taylor and Sons, London, and Director of the Mysore Gold Mining Company Ltd, London |
The following were announced in the New Year Honours for India on 5 January 1920; they were to be dubbed by the Viceroy of India at a later date, an event which was also not recorded in The London Gazette:
| Name | Notes |
| Col. Hormasjee Eduljee Banatvala, CSI (Indian Medical Service) | Lately Inspector-General, Civil Hospitals, Assam |
| Diwan Bahadur Pitti Thyagaraya Chetti Garu | President of the Corporation, Madras |
| Abdul Karim Abdul Shakur Jamal | Merchant of Burma |
| Lallubhai Asharam Shah | A Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature, Bombay |
| Thomas Robert John Ward, CIE, MVO | Inspector-General of Irrigation, Punjab |