The London Gazette 28275. Whitehall, July 28, 1909.

The KING was pleased on Thursday, the 22nd July, to confer the honour of Knighthood upon the following Gentlemen at Buckingham Palace:

Thomas Edward Thorpe, Esq., C.B., F.R.S., Principal of the Government Laboratories;

John James Baddeley, Esq., Sheriff of the City of London.

Thomas Arthur Bramsdon, Esq., M.P.;

Francis Joseph Campbell, Esq., LL.D., Principal of the Royal Normal College for the Blind;

Arthur Chapman, Esq., formerly Consul General at Rio de Janeiro;

Merton Russell Cotes, Esq., East Cliff Hall, Bournemouth;

Samuel Dill, Esq., LittD., LL.D., Member of the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland;

John Duncan, Esq., Dros-y-Mor, Penarth, Cardiff;

Francis Stanhope Hanson, Esq., Alderman and Sheriff of the City of London;

Lieutenant-Colonel George Kemp, Beechwood, Rochdale;

Hugh Percy Lane, Esq., Honorary Director, Municipal Art Gallery, Dublin, and Governor of National Gallery, Ireland;

Joseph Larmor, Esq., D.Sc., F.R.S., Secretary of the Royal Society, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge;

Lieutenant-Colonel William Boog Leishman, M.B., R.A.M.C.;

Henry William Lucy, Esq.;

Richard Mackie, Esq., Leith;

Thomas Mason, Esq., Glasgow;

Thomas Matthews, Esq., Chief Engineer of the Trinity House

Walter Menzies, Esq., M.P.;

Mark Oldroyd, Esq., Dewsbury;

Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Esq., F.R.S., Henstead Hall, near Wrentham;

Edwin Pears, Esq.;

Arthur Wing Pinero, Esq.;

William Edward Briggs Priestley, Esq., M.P.;

George Allardice Riddell (age 44), Esq.;

William Alexander Smith, Esq., Founder and Organizer of the Boys' Brigade;

Arthur John Tedder, Esq., Chief Inspector of Excise;

John Edward Thrift, Esq., Chief Inspector of Stamps and Taxes, Inland Revenue Department;

Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Esq.;

Major Henry Francis Trippel, Onslow Hall, The Green, Richmond, Surrey;

James Henry Yoxall, Esq., M.P.;