# List of knights bachelor appointed in 1916

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 1916

| Date | Name | Notes |
| 1 January 1916 | Milsom Rees, CVO, FRCS | Laryngologist to the King's Household and to Queen Alexandra |
| 1 January 1916 | Frederick Samuel Augustus Bourne, CMG | Assistant Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court for China and Korea at Shanghai and Judge of His Majesty's High Court at Wei-hai-Wei |
| 1 January 1916 | Marshall Reid, CIE | Managing Director of the Bombay Company, Limited |
| 1 January 1916 | Henry James Wakely Fry, CIE | lately Director-General of Stores, India Office |
| 1 January 1916 | Frederic Gorell Barnes | |
| 1 January 1916 | Maj. George Andreas Berry, MB, LLD | Honorary Surgeon-Oculist to His Majesty in Scotland; Major, RAMC(T) |
| 1 January 1916 | Arthur William Black, MP | |
| 1 January 1916 | John Boraston | |
| 1 January 1916 | William Henry Bowater | ex-Lord Mayor of Birmingham |
| 1 January 1916 | James Bruton | Mayor of Gloucester |
| 1 January 1916 | Harcourt Everard Clare | Clerk of the Lancaster County Council |
| 1 January 1916 | Francis Henry Dent | General Manager of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway |
| 1 January 1916 | Owen Morgan Edwards | Chief Inspector of Education for Wales |
| 1 January 1916 | Lazarus Fletcher, LLD, FRS | Director of the Natural History Department of the British Museum |
| 1 January 1916 | George Franklin | Pro-Chancellor of Sheffield University |
| 1 January 1916 | John Howard | |
| 1 January 1916 | Thomas John Hughes | Chairman of the National Health Insurance Commission for Wales |
| 1 January 1916 | Robert Keith Inches | Lord Provost of Edinburgh |
| 1 January 1916 | Francis Edgar Kearney | |
| 1 January 1916 | Horace Woodburn Kirby | President of the Society of Chartered Accountants |
| 1 January 1916 | Hedley Francis Le Bas | |
| 1 January 1916 | Daniel McCabe | ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester |
| 1 January 1916 | William Middlebrook, MP | |
| 1 January 1916 | Henry O'Shea | Lord Mayor of Cork |
| 1 January 1916 | Thomas Wright Parkinson, MD | |
| 1 January 1916 | Richard Atkinson Robinson | |
| 1 January 1916 | Patrick Shortall | High Sheriff of Dublin |
| 1 January 1916 | The Very Rev. George Adam Smith, DD, LLD, LittD | Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Aberdeen University |
| 1 January 1916 | Robert Wallace, KC | Chairman of Quarter Sessions for the County of London |
| 1 January 1916 | Thomas Beecham | |
| 1 January 1916 | Rai Kailash Chandra Basu Bahadur, CIE | Member of the Municipal Corporation of Calcutta |
| 1 January 1916 | Baba Gurbakhsh Singh Bedi, CIE | Honorary Extra Assistant Commissioner in the Punjab |
| 1 January 1916 | William Bernard Hunter | Secretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Madras |
| 1 January 1916 | Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier | a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces, designated Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature for Bihar and Orissa |
| 1 January 1916 | Brig. Alexander Bertram | Canadian Militia; Deputy Chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board, Canada |
| 1 January 1916 | Anton Bertram, KC | Attorney-General of the Island of Ceylon |
| 1 January 1916 | The Hon. Henry Briggs | President of the Legislative Council of the State of Western Australia |
| 1 January 1916 | John Alexander Strachey Bucknill | Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements |
| 1 January 1916 | The Hon. Frederick William Gordon Haultaiu | Chief Justice of Saskatchewan |
| 1 January 1916 | William Wilson Hoy | General Manager of Railways and Harbours, Union of South Africa |
| 1 January 1916 | John Kennedy | Consulting Engineer to the Montreal Harbour Commission |
| 1 January 1916 | Lachlan Charles Mackinnon | |
| 1 January 1916 | William Duff Reid | |
| 1 January 1916 | Frank Umhlali Reynolds | Member of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa |
| 1 January 1916 | The Hon. Louis Olivier Taillon, KC | Member of the King's Privy Council for Canada |
| 1 January 1916 | Herbert Holmwood | |
| 8 April 1916 | Edmund Charles Wyldbore Smith | Officer in Charge of Commercial Inquiries, Exhibitions Branch, Board of Trade |
| 2 May 1916 | Francis Robert Benson | "After the Shakespeare Tercentenary commemoration performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane" |
| 3 June 1916 | James Tynte Agg-Gardner, MP | |
| 3 June 1916 | John Anthony | |
| 3 June 1916 | George Thomas Beilby, FRS | |
| 3 June 1916 | Arthur William Binning | |
| 3 June 1916 | Thomas Collins | Chief Inspector, Board of Inland Revenue |
| 3 June 1916 | Theodore Andrea Cook | Editor of The Field |
| 3 June 1916 | John Henry Cork | Mayor of Portsmouth |
| 3 June 1916 | George Philip Doolette | President of the Australian Voluntary Hospital at Wimereux |
| 3 June 1916 | Arthur Isaac Durrant, MVO | Comptroller of the Supplies Division, Office of Works |
| 3 June 1916 | Francis Mark Farmer | |
| 3 June 1916 | William Gallagher, ISO | Chief Inspector, Board of Customs |
| 3 June 1916 | Eric Campbell Geddes | Deputy Director-General of Munitions Supply |
| 3 June 1916 | William Benjamin Gentle | Chief Constable of Brighton |
| 3 June 1916 | George Greenwood, MP | |
| 3 June 1916 | William Peter Griggs | |
| 3 June 1916 | Maurice Hill, KC | |
| 3 June 1916 | Robert Morris Liddell, JP | High Sheriff of County Down |
| 3 June 1916 | Alfred Henry Herbert Matthews | Secretary of the Central Chamber of Agriculture |
| 3 June 1916 | Cdr Edward Nicholl, RNR | |
| 3 June 1916 | John James Oddy | |
| 3 June 1916 | Robert Pearce, MP | |
| 3 June 1916 | Alexander William Prince | |
| 3 June 1916 | George Radford, MP | |
| 3 June 1916 | Archibald Tutton Salvidge | |
| 3 June 1916 | Clement Bell Simpson | |
| 3 June 1916 | Henry Smith | Deputy Lieutenant for the City of London |
| 3 June 1916 | Jethro Justinian Harris Teall, FRS, DSc | |
| 3 June 1916 | Prof. Nestor Tirard, MD, FRCP | |
| 3 June 1916 | Glynn Hamilton West | Deputy Director-General of Munitions Supply |
| 3 June 1916 | Frederick Whitley Whitley-Thomson | |
| 3 June 1916 | Armand Marc Ruffer, CMG, MD | President of the International Quarantine Board in Egypt. He could attend the investiture in July; if his dubbing ever took place, it does not appear to have been gazetted. |
| 3 June 1916 | Alexander Forbes Proctor Roger | Director-General of Trench Warfare Supplies |
| 3 June 1916 | David Hope Kyd, LLD | |
| 3 June 1916 | The Hon. Marshall Campbell | Senator of the Union of South Africa |
| 3 June 1916 | The Hon. Wallace Graham | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia |
| 3 June 1916 | The Hon. Pierre Armand Landry | Chief Justice of the King's Bench Division of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick |
| 3 June 1916 | The Hon. Frederic William Lang | Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Dominion of New Zealand |
| 3 June 1916 | The Hon. Robert Furse McMillan | Chief Justice of Western Australia |
| 3 June 1916 | The Hon. Herbert Nicholls | Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania |
| 3 June 1916 | Gilbert Kenelm Treffry Purcell | Chief Justice of the Colony of Sierra Leone |
| 3 June 1916 | Robert Frederic Stupart | Director of the Meteorological Service of Canada |
| 3 June 1916 | The Hon. Antonie Gysbert Viljoen | Senator of tihe Union of South Africa |
| 3 June 1916 | Stanley Reed, LLD | |
| 3 June 1916 | Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, JP | |
| 3 June 1916 | Francis Hugh Stewart, CIE | |
| 3 June 1916 | Charles William Chitty | a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal a Puisne Judge of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal |
| 3 June 1916 | Robert Swan Highet | |
| 23 October 1916 | Henry Alfred McCardie | Justice of the High Court of Justice |
| 29 December 1916 | Gordon Hewart, KC | Solicitor-General |