Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor


The Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor was formed in 1908 in the United Kingdom and received royal recognition in 1912. Its patron is Queen Elizabeth II. It is a registered charity and seeks to uphold and advise on the dignity and rights of Knight Bachelor and knighthood, and to register every duly authenticated knighthood.
Its charitable objectives include the relief of poverty, the advancement of education, support for hospitals, the elderly, and the needy. A particular objective is to assist Knights Bachelors to encourage and develop understanding and cooperation between the citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations.
In 1962, the society established its own chapel in the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London. In 2005, the chapel was moved to the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. The society's badge may be worn in the form of a brooch by wives and daughters of knights.

Publications

Periodically, the Society published lists of living recipients of awards, with the subtitle A list of the existing recipients of the honour of Knighthood together with a short account of the origin, objects and work of...the society.
The editions published by the Society included the Order of General Precedence extant in England at the time, so that the 1939-1946 edition, and the subsequent 1949-1950, indicated pre-war and post-war precedence.

List of Knights Principal

  1. The Rt Hon Sir Bargrave Deane
  2. Major-General Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, CVO
  3. The Rt Hon Sir William Bull, Bt, MP
  4. Commander Sir Arthur Trevor Dawson, Bt
  5. Sir Gerald Wollaston, KCB, KCVO
  6. The Hon Sir George Bellew, KCB, KCVO
  7. Sir Anthony Wagner, KCB, KCVO
  8. Sir Colin Cole, KCB, KCVO, TD
  9. Sir Conrad Swan, KCVO
  10. Sir Richard Gaskell
  11. The Lord Lingfield, Kt, DL
  12. Sir Colin Berry
  13. The Rt. Hon Sir Gary Hickinbottom

    List of Registrars

  14. Sir William Bull, Bt
  15. Sir Harry North
  16. Sir Park Goff, Bt, KC
  17. Sir Malcolm Fraser, Bt, GBE
  18. Sir Edwin Lutyens, OM, KCIE
  19. Sir Thomas Lumley-Smith, DSO
  20. Sir John Russell
  21. Sir Arthur Driver
  22. Sir Roger Falk, OBE
  23. Sir Kenneth Newman, GBE, QPM
  24. Sir Robert Balchin, DL
  25. Alderman Sir Paul Judge
  26. His Honour Sir Gavyn Arthur
  27. Sir Jeremy Elwes,
  28. Sir Michael Hirst