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

On 17th March was created Knight of the Bath.

From Drake, Nelson and Napoleon by Runciman, Walter

Richard III. made him a Knight of the Bath, and Henry VII. visited him at Oxburgh.

From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by Stone, J. M. (Jean Mary)

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

For his exploits he received the thanks of King and Parliament, and was dubbed a Knight of the Bath.

From Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by Joy, James Richard