Knight of the Bath

American  

noun

1. a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.

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Etymology

Origin of Knight of the Bath

So called because of the bath new knights took before initiation into the order

Example Sentences

Richard became a Knight of the Bath and of the Garter.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been restored to his honours as Knight of the Bath by the Queen in 1854.

From With Cochrane the Dauntless by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

In 1600, he came to London, and being introduced at court, he became a Knight of the Bath soon after the accession of James the First. 

From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Williams, Robert

But Lord Essendine lived for many years after the termination of the Crimean war, and McKay was a general officer and a Knight of the Bath before he became the fifteenth Earl of Essendine.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur

The very year he was made Knight of the Bath, Coke was sent to the Bread Street Compter, afterwards to the Bench, and illegally fined £8,000 to the king and £800 to the queen.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter