# List of knights bachelor appointed in 1921

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 1921

The date is that on which the knighthood was first announced, either in the New Year or Birthday honours lists, or in the official notice in the London or Edinburgh Gazette recording the actual conferral.
| Date first gazetted | Name | Notes |
| 1 January 1921 | Ivor Algernon Atkins, MusDoc, FRCO | Organist of Worcester Cathedral; Conductor of the Three Choirs Festival |
| 1 January 1921 | Reginald Blair, MP | Member of Parliament for Bow and Bromley. Appointed "for public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Thomas Jewell Bennett, CIE, MP | Member of Parliament for Sevenoaks Division; editor of The Times of India. Appointed "for public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Richard Dawson Bates, OBE | Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | James Bell, Jr | Member of Shipping Committee of the Hull Chamber of Commerce and of Humber Conservancy Board. Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Samuel Barrow, JP | Member of the Trade Committee relating to reconstruction. "For public and local services in Surrey". |
| 1 January 1921 | Lt-Col. Henry Baldwin Barton, JP | Mayor of Finsbury since 1911. Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | James Denham | Author |
| 1 January 1921 | John Daniel | Member of Cardiff City Council and the Cardiff Education Committee; President of the Cardiff Cymmrodorion; Chairman of the Glamorganshire Branch, National Union of Welsh Societies. Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | William Davies | Editor, The Western Mail |
| 1 January 1921 | Andrew Rae Duncan | Coal Controller since 1919. |
| 1 January 1921 | Henry Foreman, OBE, MP | Member of Parliament for North Hammersmith; formerly Mayor of Hammersmith. Appointed "for municipal and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | John Charles Fox | Senior Master, Supreme Court, Chancery Division. |
| 1 January 1921 | Capt. Francis John Childs Ganzoni, MP | Member of Parliament for Ipswich. Appointed "for public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Charles Frederick Gill, KC | Recorder of Chichester |
| 1 January 1921 | Cllr William Hopwood, JP | Appointed "for public and local services in Lancashire". |
| 1 January 1921 | John Martin Harvey | Actor |
| 1 January 1921 | William Hodgson | Appointed "for public and local services in Crewe". |
| 1 January 1921 | Alexander McAuseland Kennedy, JP | President of the Shipbuilding Employers' Federation of Great Britain; member of government advisory committees at wartime. Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Harry Vernon Kilvert, JP | Appointed "for public and local services in Cheshire". |
| 1 January 1921 | Professor Peter Redford Scott Lang | Professor, St Andrew's University. Appointed "for public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Richard Roope Linthorne | Town Clerk of Southampton. Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | John Mitchell | Provost of Ayr. Appointed "for municipal and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | William Edgar Nicholls, JP | Director, Barclay's Bank. Appointed "for public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Ernest Fitzjohn Oldham | Deputy Chairman, Federation of British Industries. Appointed "for public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Thomas David Owen | Appointed "for public and local services in Merseyside in connection with the University College of North Wales". |
| 1 January 1921 | Maj. William Reid, MBE | Chairman, Board of Management of the Royal Glasgow Asylum for the Blind. Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Charles Ryall, CBE, FRCS | Senior Surgeon to the Cancer Hospital and the Bolingbroke Hospital. Appointed "for public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | John Rose, LLD | Treasurer of the Carnegie University (Scotland) Trust; Chairman of Carnegie (UK) Trust and Hero Fund. Appointed "for public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Thomas Rowbotham | Mayor of Stockport, 1916-18. Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | His Honour Judge Walworth Howland Roberts | County Court Judge, Marylebone. |
| 1 January 1921 | William Peter Rylands | President, Federation of British Industries |
| 1 January 1921 | Edwin Savill | |
| 1 January 1921 | Harold Smith, MP | Member of Parliament for Warrington. |
| 1 January 1921 | Samuel Squire Sprigge, MD, MRCS | Editor, The Lancet |
| 1 January 1921 | Edwin Forsyth Stockton | Governor, Manchester University. Appointed "for local and public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Alderman William Wade, JP | Lord Mayor of Bradford, 1919–20; Member, Bradford Chamber of Commerce. Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Professor James Walker | Professor of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh |
| 1 January 1921 | Capt. Lionel de Lautour Wells, CB, CMG, CBE, RN | Lately Chief Officer, Metropolitan Fire Brigade. Appointed "for public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Dawson Williams, MD, FRCP | Editor, The British Medical Journal |
| 1 January 1921 | Richard John Williams | Mayor of Bangor, 1913-20. Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Arthur Worley, CBE | General manager, North British and Mercantile Insurance Company. Appointed "for public services". |
| 1 January 1921 | Edward Coey Bigger, MB, MCh | Chairman, Public Health Council (Ireland); Medical Member, Local Government Board of Ireland |
| 1 January 1921 | Henry Campbell | Town Clerk of Dublin |
| 1 January 1921 | Robert Meyer | Town Clerk of Belfast |
| 1 January 1921 | Ernest Godwin Swifte, KC | Chief Metropolitan Police Magistrate, Dublin |
| 1 January 1921 | George Herman Collier, CIE | Director-General of Stores, India Office |
| 1 January 1921 | Thomas Walker Arnold, CIE, LittD | Lately Educational Adviser for Indian Students to the Secretary of State |
| 1 January 1921 | Mr Justice Brod Bahadur Shadi Lal | Barrister; Chief Justice, High Court, Punjab |
| 1 January 1921 | Surendra Nath Banerjea | Elected Member, Viceroy's Legislative Council |
| 1 January 1921 | Gokaldas Kahandas Parekh | Pleader, Bombay |
| 1 January 1921 | Montagu de Pomeroy Webb, CIE, CBE | Merchant, Karachi |
| 1 January 1921 | Alexander Robertson Murray, CBE | Senior Partner, Messrs Thomas Duff & Co., Calcutta; President, Chamber of Commerce |
| 1 January 1921 | Khan Bahadur Mirza Abdul Husain Sahib | Sheriff of Madras |
| 1 January 1921 | Marakjee Byramjee Dadabhoy, CIE | Barrister, Nagpur |
| 1 January 1921 | Thomas Smith, VD | Manager, Muir Mills Co., Cawnpore |
| 1 January 1921 | Raj Bahadur Hari Ram Goenks, CIE | Merchant and landholder in Bengal |
| 1 January 1921 | Hon. Theophilus Cooper | Judge, Supreme Court of New Zealand |
| 1 January 1921 | Frederick Dutton | Honorary Treasurer, Royal Colonial Institute |
| 1 January 1921 | Henry Cowper Gollan, CBE | Attorney-General, Island of Ceylon |
| 1 January 1921 | Alexander Jarvis Hood, MB | Senior Honorary Physician at the Prince of Wales (Military) Hospital, Randwick |
| 1 January 1921 | George Hunter | Member of the House of Representatives, New Zealand. The entry in The London Gazette noted that he had "rendered valuable assistance in connection with the settlement of returned soldiers". |
| 1 January 1921 | Hon. Edward Lucas | Agent-General in London for the State of South Australia |
| 1 January 1921 | Hon. John Emanuel Mackey, LLB | Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Victoria |
| 1 January 1921 | Pietro James Michelli, CMG | Secretary, London School of Tropical Medicine |
| 1 January 1921 | Ernest Oppenheimer | Honorary Secretary, South African War Memorial Fund. The London Gazette stated that he "took a leading part in recruiting, both of combatants and labourers, for various fronts during the War". |
| 1 January 1921 | Michel' Angelo Refalo, CBE, LLD | Chief Justice and President of the Court of Appeal for the Island of Malta |
| 1 January 1921 | Newton John Stabb, OBE | Chief manager, Hong Kong and Shanghai Baking Corporation. Appointed "for services on behalf of British trade and interests in the Far East". |
| 1 January 1921 | Henry Strakosch | Appointed "for financial services to the Union of South Africa in connection with the War". |
| 11 January 1921 | Maurice Craig, MD, FRCP | |
| 11 January 1921 | Percival Horton-Smith Hartley, CVO, MD | |
| 11 January 1921 | William Francis Lathlain | Mayor of Perth, Western Australia |
| 11 January 1921 | William Mitchell Acworth | |
| 11 February 1921 | John Ross | |
| 11 April 1921 | Cuthbert William Whiteside | Mayor of Grahamstown, Union of South Africa. Invested by the Governor-General "in connection with the celebration of the Centenary of the settlement of the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope" |
| 4 June 1921 | Wilfred Atlay | Chairman, London Stock Exchange |
| 4 June 1921 | Jeffrey Browning, CBE, ISO | Chief Inspector, Board of Customs and Excise |
| 4 June 1921 | William Henry Butlin | Formerly Vice-Consul for Spain. Appointed "for public services". |
| 4 June 1921 | James Charles Calder, CBE | Formerly Director of Timber Control. Appointed "for public and national services". |
| 4 June 1921 | Robert Clough, MP | Member of Parliament for Keighley; Mayor of Keighley, 1907–08 |
| 4 June 1921 | Thomas Henry Fleming | Mayor of Harrogate, 1915–17, 1918-19. The London Gazette noted that he "rendered conspicuous services during the war in the promotion of every local effort, giving his whole time to national work". |
| 4 June 1921 | Thomas Mansel Franklen | Clerk of the Peace for Glamorgan; Clerk to the Glamorgan County Council since 1888. Appointed "for public services". |
| 4 June 1921 | Francis Gore-Browne, KC, JP | Chairman, Rates Advisory Committee; Chairman, Civil Service Arbitration Board, 1918-20. |
| 4 June 1921 | His Honour Judge Thomas Colpitts Granger, JP | Senior County Court Judge. |
| 4 June 1921 | John Roger Barrow Gregory | Senior Partner, Rawle, Johnstone & Co.; Treasurer, Foundling Hospital; Past Master, Grocers' Company; Member, Council of the Law Society; "has given very great assistance to successive holders of the office of Lord Chancellor". |
| 4 June 1921 | Col. James William Greig, CB, KC, VD, MP | Member of Parliament for West Renfrewshire. |
| 4 June 1921 | Alderman Lt-Col. Harry George Handover, JP | Mayor of Paddington |
| 4 June 1921 | John Henry Harrowing | Alderman of North Riding County Council, formerly a councillor. Appointed "for public services". |
| 4 June 1921 | William Henderson, CB | Town Councillor, Dundee, 1896-1904; Chairman of Technical College; Chairman, YMCA and City of Dundee Territorial Association, 1907-19. Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 4 June 1921 | Francis Hugh George Hercy, CBE, DL | Appointed "for valuable voluntary services rendered for 5 years to the Ministry of National Service and War Office". |
| 4 June 1921 | John Scott Hindley | Commercial Advisor to the Coal Mines Department |
| 4 June 1921 | Henry Hollingdrake, JP | Appointed "for public and local services". |
| 4 June 1921 | Charles John Holmes, MA, DLitt | Director, National Gallery |
| 4 June 1921 | Cllr Sidney Richard White Humphries | Councillor, Bristol; President, Bristol Chamber of Commerce. Appointed "for public services". |
| 4 June 1921 | Samuel Instone | Founder, Askern Garden City. Appointed "for public services". |
| 4 June 1921 | Arthur Keith, MD, FRCS, LLD, FRS | Hunterian Professor and Conservator, Royal College of Surgeons |
| 4 June 1921 | Duncan Mackenzie Kerly, KC | Member, Commission on Income Tax; Chairman, Board of Referees for Excess Profits Duty |
| 4 June 1921 | Leonard William Kershaw | King's Coroner, Master of the Crown Office, and Registrar of the Court of Criminal Appeal |
| 4 June 1921 | William Lane-Mitchell, MP | Member of Parliament for Streatham; formerly Mayor of Camberwell. |
| 4 June 1921 | Alfred Edward Lewis | Managing Director, National Provincial and Union Bank of England Ltd |
| 4 June 1921 | Thomas Lewis, CBE, MD, FRCP, DSc, FRS | Honorary Consulting Physician to the Ministry of Pensions. Conferred on 10 February 1922. |
| 4 June 1921 | Dyson Mallinson | Appointed "for public services"; he had "rendered valuable services in connection with various colleges and institutions". |
| 4 June 1921 | Brig. Charles Philip Martel, CB | Chief Superintendent, Ordnance Factories, Woolwich. |
| 4 June 1921 | Richard Martin, JP | Formerly Mayor of Swansea |
| 4 June 1921 | George Mellor, JP | Appointed "for public and national services, particularly in connection with the King's Lancashire Military Convalescent Hospital". |
| 4 June 1921 | Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock | City Chamberlain and Treasurer |
| 4 June 1921 | Walter Renton Preston, MP | Member of Parliament for Stepney (Mile End Division) |
| 4 June 1921 | William Henry Purchase | Appointed "for valuable services rendered since the Armistance to the Appointments Department of the Ministry of Labour". |
| 4 June 1921 | Professor John Rankine, KC, LLD, JP | Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh |
| 4 June 1921 | Francis Jubal Reynolds, JP | Appointed "for public services". |
| 4 June 1921 | Edward Rhodes | Chairman, Lancashire and Cheshire Coalition Liberal Committee; Chairman, Manchester Reform Club. |
| 4 June 1921 | Frederick Gill Rice | Past President, London Master Builders' Association; Past President, Institution of Public Builders. Appointed "for public services". |
| 4 June 1921 | Col. Philip Wigham Richardson, OBE, VD | Appointed "for services rendered throughout the Empire for 40 years in connection with rifle shooting". |
| 4 June 1921 | Alderman Alfred Read Sergent, BA, JP | Mayor of Hove during the First World War |
| 4 June 1921 | Henry White Smith, CBE | Chairman, Bristol Aircraft Factory. Appointed "for services to Civil Aviation". |
| 4 June 1921 | William Henry Thomas, MBE | Member, City Corporation; Depury of Ward of Cheape. |
| 4 June 1921 | John Turner, DL | Formerly High Sheriff of Leicestershire. Appointed "for public services". |
| 4 June 1921 | Francis Minchin Voules, CBE, KStJ | Appointed "For services rendered to British Prisoners of War". |
| 4 June 1921 | Robert Woolley Walden | Chairman, Metropolitan Asylums Board; Alderman, City of Westminster Council; Mayor of Westminster, 1908-9. Appointed "for public services." |
| 4 June 1921 | Sydney Russell Wells, MD, BSc, MRCP, MRCS | Vice-Chancellor, University of London. Representative of the University of London on the General Medical Council. Appointed "for public services". |
| 4 June 1921 | Howell James Williams, DL, JP | Deputy Chairman, London County Council |
| 4 June 1921 | Robert Wilson | Formerly Provost of Pollokshaws |
| 4 June 1921 | Alfred Woodgate, CBE | Director-General of Establishments, Ministry of Health |
| 4 June 1921 | Bernard Swanwick Wright | Alderman, City of Nottingham. Appointed "for public services". |
| 4 June 1921 | George Beresford Butler | Senior Resident Magistrate in Ireland. Conferred on 10 February 1922. |
| 4 June 1921 | Frederick Conway Dwyer, MD | Formerly President, College of Surgeons in Ireland; Lt-Col, Royal Army Medical Corps; Operating Suergeon to the King George V Military Hospital, Dublin; Honorary Surgeon to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Chairman, House of Industry Hospitals; HM Inspector of Anatomy, Ireland. |
| 4 June 1921 | James Campbell Percy, DL, JP | Honorary Lt, Royal Navy; Proprietor, Motor News, Irish Builder and Irish Cyclist and Motor Cyclist; Chairman, Sackville Press |
| 4 June 1921 | Henry James Forde, JP | Appointed "for services in connection with the grain trade in Ireland and as member of the Royal Commission on Wheat Supplies". |
| 4 June 1921 | Mr Justice Theagaraja Ayyar Sadasiva Ayyar, Diwan Bahadur | Puisne Judge of the High Court, Madras |
| 4 June 1921 | Mr Justice William Teunon | Indian Civil Service; Puisne Judge of the High Court, Calcutta |
| 4 June 1921 | Mr Justice William Tudball | Indian Civil Service; Puisne Judge of the High Court, Allahabad |
| 4 June 1921 | Khan Bahadur Muhammad Israr Hasan Khan, CIE | Judicial Minister, Bhopal State |
| 4 June 1921 | Alfred Donald Pickford | Senior Partner, Messrs Begg, Dunlop & Co., Calcutta |
| 4 June 1921 | Edgar Joseph Holberton, CBE | Manager, Bombay-Burma Trading Corporation; lately President of the Chamber of Commerce, Burma |
| 4 June 1921 | Jehangir Hormasji Kothari, OBE | Landlord in Sind, Bombay |
| 4 June 1921 | Rai Bahadur Seth Bisheshar Das | Banker in Nagpur |
| 22 June 1921 | John Walton Browne, MD, LLD, DL | |
| 22 June 1921 | Alderman Joseph Davison | High Sheriff of the City of Belfast |
| 22 June 1921 | John Burke, JP, DL | |
| 25 June 1921 | Edgar Stanford London, CBE | Chief Inspector, Stamps and Taxes |
| 25 June 1921 | Lewis Richardson, CBE | |
| 25 June 1921 | Brig. Donald Johnstone McGavin, CMG, DSO, MD | In the Army Medical Department of the Military Forces of New Zealand |
| 25 June 1921 | John Pearce Luke, CMG | Member, House of Representatives of New Zealand; Mayor, Wellington |
| 25 June 1921 | Sidney Kidman | |
| 25 June 1921 | Benjamin John Fuller | |
| 25 June 1921 | Hugh Dixson | |
| 25 June 1921 | Ponnambalam Ramanathan, CMG, KC | Unofficial Member, Legislative Council of Ceylon |
| 25 June 1921 | John Burchmore Harrison, CMG | Director and Government Analyst, Department of Science and Agriculture, Colony of British Guiana |
| 25 June 1921 | Walter Sydney Shaw | Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements |
| 25 June 1921 | Brevet Lt-Col. Wyndham Henry Deedes, CMG, DSO | Civil Secretary to the Administration, Palestine |
| 10 August 1921 | Hon. Mr Justice George Arthur Harwin Branson | |
| 3 November 1921 | William Robert Pryke | Sheriff of the City of London |
| 23 December 1921 | Charles Frederick Higham, MP | Appointed "for services rendered to the Ministry of Transport". Conferred on 10 February 1922. |
| 23 December 1921 | Henry Allen Holden Steward | Appointed "for services rendered to the Ministry of Transport". Conferred on 10 February 1922. |
Colonel Sidney Wishart, VD, DL, JP, an outgoing Sheriff of London, was unable to attend the investiture ceremony in November 1921 and so was invested in 1922.