Order of the Bath Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never
Thomas Bere (1652–1725) Thomas Bere (1652–1725) Thomas Bere (1652 – 22 June 1725) of Huntsham, near Tiverton, in Devon, was a landowner and politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons in two periods between 1690 and 1725. Bere was the eldest son of Thomas Bere (1631–1680) lord of the manor of Huntsham, Devon, by his first wife Margaret Davie, daughter of Sir John Davie, 1st Baronet. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford in 1670. He married. Mary Stedman, widow of George Stedman of Midsomer Norton, Somerset and daughter of Robert Lang of Stanton Prior, Dorset. A Whig, Bere was