Knight Bachelor
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In the United Kingdom a Knight Bachelor is a man who is a knight (has the title Sir) but who is not both a
- a senior member of one of the orders of chivalry, sometimes called orders of knighthood, and
- a baronet.
In the 1920s the Society of Knights Bachelor were allowed to wear a special badge on the days when other knights would wear their insignia.
The title is not hereditary so it cannot be passed on to the knight's children, but a baronet's title can be inherited.
Men who get some jobs, such as senior judges, are made Knights Bachelor. Women cannot be knights bachelor, so if they get a one of those jobs they are made Dames of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Knights Bachelor have no post-nominal letters (letters after their name to show they are a knight), unlike knights of the orders of knighthood, who use letters like KBE, or GBE etc, or baronets who put Bt or Bart after their name.