Sentence examples for knight bachelor from inspiring English sources
noun
A man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organized Orders of Chivalry; the lowest rank of knight in the British honours system.
He was knighted as a Knight Bachelor by King Edward VII in 1909, for his services to blind people.
On 31 December 2008 it was announced that Pratchett was to be knighted (as a Knight Bachelor) in the Queen's 2009 New Year Honours.
Also, its original statutes required that each member of the Order already be a knight (what would now be referred to as a knight bachelor) and some of the initial members listed were only knighted that year.
Or, at any rate, a knight bachelor.
In 2013 he was named a knight bachelor.
Day-Lewis was named a knight bachelor in 2014.
Knights Bachelor Professor Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz, Professor of Medicine, University of Wales.
On his easel is a painting he has just returned to, a commission from the Knights Bachelor.
James I of Great Britain created a registry in the 17th century for knights bachelor, but this eventually lapsed.
These landless knights were the forerunners of the knights bachelor, usually poor and often young, and fought under the command of a more senior knight.
The medieval "knights of the bath," as they were called, took precedence over knights bachelor, from whose ranks they had been promoted, but they never formed an order of chivalry.
