_b._ Windsor 15 March 1791; apprentice to his father 1805;
edited Windsor and Eton Express 1 Aug. 1812 to 1826; with
Edward Hawke Lockyer brought out the Plain Englishman 1 Feb.
1820 to Dec. 1822; editor and part proprietor of The Guardian,
London 13 June 1820 to Dec. 1822; publisher 7 Pall Mall East
1822 to 1827; started Knight’s Quarterly Magazine 1823, 7
numbers only; superintendent of publications of Society for
the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 26 July 1827 to 11 March
1846; re-established himself at 13 Pall Mall, March 1829; wrote
The Menagerie, the first vol. of The Library of Entertaining
Knowledge 1829; published Quarterly Journal of Education
1831–6; The Penny Magazine 31 March 1832 to 29 Dec. 1845, which
had a circulation of 200,000; publisher at 22 Ludgate Hill
1834–48, at 90 Fleet st. 1848 to death; publisher to the Poor
law commission 1835; brought out Pictorial History of England
8 vols. 1837–44; edited The Pictorial edition of the works of
Shakspere 1838–41; published Penny Cyclopedia 27 vols. 2 Jany.
1833 to 1844; History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace
2 vols. 1850–1; started Town and Country newspaper 1855. _d._
Addlestone, Surrey 9 March 1873. _bur._ Old Windsor churchyard
14 March. _Charles Knight, a memoir. By Alice A. Clowes_
(1892), 2 _portraits_; _C. Knight’s Passages of a working life
during half a century 3 vols._ (1865); _Illustrated Review_,
_vol. v_, _pp._ 57–67, _portrait_; _Gibson Craig’s Half length
portraits_ (1876) 241–52; _The Critic_, _xxii_ 624–28, 632
(1861) _portrait_, _xxiii_ 32–37 (1861); _Curwen’s Booksellers_
(1873) 251–66, _portrait_; _H. J. Nichol’s Great Movements_
(1881) 175–84.
NOTE.--His only son Barry Charles Henry Knight, senior partner in firm
of Knight & Co., publishers 90 Fleet st. London, _d._ Brighton 16 Aug.
1884 aged 56.
KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1794; entered R.N. 25 Dec. 1806; in
the Impregnable in the battle of Algiers 1816; in command of
Snapper gun brig went up Calabar river 60 miles in search of
slaves June 1821; commander 3 June 1822; saved the crew of the
Hound revenue cutter in Weymouth bay 1836; retired captain 28
July 1851; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837. _d._ royal naval hospital, Haslar
29 Jany. 1863.
KNIGHT, EDWARD HENRY. _b._ London 1 June 1824; patent agent
Cincinnati, Ohio 1846–53; an agriculturalist 1853–63; employed
preparing annual reports of U.S.A. patent office from 1863;
issued the Official Gazette of the United States patent office
1871, since continued weekly; LLD. of Iowa Wesleyan univ.
1876; U.S. commissioner to Paris exhibition 1878, a chevalier
of legion of honour; author of A library of poetry and song
1870; Knight’s American mechanical dictionary 3 vols. 1874–77;
The practical dictionary of mechanics 4 vols. 1877–84. _d._
Bellefontaine, Ohio 22 Jany. 1883.
NOTE.--His brain was found to weigh 64 ounces, being the second largest
on record, that of Cuvier weighing 64½ ounces.
KNIGHT, GEORGE JOSEPH. _b._ 1798; principal of Albion
international college, Broadway, South Hackney 1828; kept
private school 120 Lauriston road, Hackney. _d._ at res. of rev.
Jonah Reeve, Thorley house, 32 Powerscourt road, Clapton park 25
Nov. 1883. _The Fairlop Friday services, established by G. J.
Knight on the first Friday in July 1860_ (1870).
KNIGHT, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ Goodnestone, Kent 22 Nov. 1795; his
first match at Lord’s was England _v._ Hampshire 3 July 1820;
played for Hampshire and Kent; his place was generally middle
wicket; one of the 3 first to introduce round arm bowling, which
at first was not allowed; a very hard hitter; wrote in the
Sporting Magazine in 1827 on round arm bowling. _d._ 5 Moorfield
place, Hereford 25 Aug. 1867. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_, _i_
433, _v p. xiii_.
KNIGHT, JAMES (son of Samuel Knight 1759–1827, vicar of
Halifax). _b._ 1793; scholar of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1812–15,
B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Sheffield 1824–60;
author of Discourses on the principal parables of our Lord
1829; Discourses on the principal miracles of our Lord 1831; A
short series of discourses on the Lord’s Prayer 1832; A concise
treatise on the truth and importance of the Christian religion
1856. _d._ Barton-on-Humber 30 Aug. 1863.
KNIGHT, JOHN BAVERSTOCK (2 son of John Forster Knight, land
agent). _b._ Langton parsonage near Blandford, Dorset 3 May
1785; assistant to his father; water-colour painter; exhibited
4 pictures at R.A. 1818–19; published some etchings of old
buildings in Dorset 1816. _d._ West Lodge, Piddle Hinton, Dorset
14 May 1859.
KNIGHT, John Peake. _b._ Nottingham 13 Jany. 1828; clerk in
Midland railway co. Derby 1841, in audit office of Brighton
railway 1846; superintendent South Eastern railway 1854 to 1869;
general manager London, Brighton and South Coast railway 1869
to death; adopted interlocking of signals, the block system,
the Westinghouse break 1878, Pullman cars 1877 and electric
lighting; lieut.-col. Engineer and Railway volunteer staff-corps
19 March 1870 to death; member of legion of honour 1878;
A.I.C.E. 7 May 1872. _d._ Chigwell, Epping forest 23 July 1886.
_Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii_ 456–8 (1886).
KNIGHT, JOHN PRESCOTT (son of Edward Knight, comedian
1774–1826). _b._ Stafford 1803; clerk to a West India merchant,
Mark lane, London, who failed; studied with Henry Sass and
George Clint; student at R.A. 1823; painter first of theatrical
portraits, then a fashionable portrait painter; exhibited 227
pictures at R.A., 22 at B.I. and 26 at Suffolk st. 1824–78;
A.R.A. 1836, professor of perspective 1839–60, R.A. 1844, sec.
1848 to May 1873; a knight of the legion of honour 1878; held
high office in the Catholic Apostolic church. _d._ 24 Maida Hill
West, London 26 March 1881. _Sandby’s History of royal academy_,
_ii_ 174 (1862); _Art Journal_ (1849) 209, _portrait_, (1881)
159; _I.L.N. xxx_ 418, 420 (1857), _portrait_, _and 9 April 1881
p._ 349, _portrait_.
KNIGHT, JOSEPH PHILIP (youngest son of Francis Knight, V. of
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire). _b._ Bradford-on-Avon 26 July
1812; published a set of six songs under name of Philip
Mortimer 1832; composed many songs alone and with Haynes Bayly;
went to U.S. of America 1839, where he composed his song Rocked
in the cradle of the deep 1846 which was sung by Braham; C.
of St. Agnes, Scilly 1846–50; composed about 160 songs, most
popular being She wore a wreath of roses 1840; Why chime the
bells so merrily 1844; Say, what shall my song be to-night 1844;
Melodies of leisure hours 1855, ten numbers; The abandoned 1882;
with Haynes Bayly, Of what is the old man thinking 1875. _d._
Great Yarmouth in straitened circumstances 1 June 1887.
KNIGHT, Lewis Edward. _b._ 13 March 1833; cornet 17 light
dragoons 17 Sep. 1850, lieut.-col. 19 July 1864 to 9 July 1865
when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. Cape Mounted rifles 1866–70;
lieut.-col. brigade depot 1873–78; lieut.-col. 81 foot 6 Dec.
1879 to 7 Jany. 1880; M.G. 5 Oct. 1880; brigadier general
Belfast district 19 April 1884 to death. _d._ Milgate near
Maidstone 20 Jany. 1886.
KNIGHT, MARY ANN (dau. of Mr. Povey). _b._ Birmingham 26 July
1804; sang at Drury Lane 3 June 1817; appeared as Margaretta
in No song, no supper, at Drury Lane 1819, and was long a
popular ballad singer; the first lady to sing at Dramatic Fund
dinners; went with her brother John Povey to America; appeared
as Floretta in The Cabinet, at Park theatre, New York 30 Nov.
1826; an actress in comic opera, later on played chambermaids,
country girls and elderly spinsters; played at Park theatre, New
York 1841–8, made money which she lost in American securities;
reduced to blindness by grieving for loss of her only child
1845, when she returned to England. (_m._ Edward Knight,
musician, son of Edward Knight the actor). _d._ 33 Grove place,
Brompton, London 16 Oct. 1861. _Ireland’s Records_, _i_ 511–2
(1866).
KNIGHT, ROBERT. Editor of the Bombay Times about 1860, which
became a daily journal as The Times of India, sold his interest
in it; commenced the Indian Economist a monthly serial;
established The Indian Statesman 1859; removed to Calcutta and
amalgamated The Statesman as a daily with The Friend of India;
author of The Imam commission unmasked 1859; The Indian empire
and our financial relations thereto 1866; Speech on Indian
affairs 1866; India, a review of England’s financial relations
thereto 1868; Manchester and India 1877. _d._ Calcutta 2 Feb.
1890.
KNIGHT, SAMUEL JOHNES (son of Thomas Johnes). _b._ Ludlow 1756;
ed. Christ Church, Oxford, fellow of All Souls’, B.A. 1778, M.A.
1782; V. of Allhallows, Barking, Essex, May 1783 to death; R.
of Welwyn, Herts. 11 Aug. 1797 to death; took name of Knight by
r.l. 30 Sep. 1813. _d._ Welwyn 8 July 1852.
KNIGHT, SUSAN (dau. of an actor called Williamson or
O’Shaughnessy and sister of Richard John or Obi Smith actor and
of Mrs. Sarah Bartley actress). _b._ York 26 March 1784; heroine
of the York circuit when under Tate Wilkinson; acted at Bath
some years; first appeared at Drury Lane 17 June 1813 as Ella
Rosenberg; at Milton st. theatre under John Kemble Chapman’s
management; at the Olympic under Madame Vestris. _m._ as his
second wife in 1807 Edward Knight the actor known as little
Knight, he was _b._ Birmingham 1774, _d._ London 21 Feb. 1826;
she _d._ 13 Dec. 1859. _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _ix_ 381–84
(1816), _portrait_; _Era 18 Dec. 1859 p._ 11.
KNIGHT, WILLIAM (natural son of a landed proprietor in
Aberdeenshire). _b._ near Portgordon, Banffshire 1825; ed. at
parish school of Keith and at St. Andrews where he gained a
bursary; clerk in office of A. Torrie of Aberdeen, advocate;
a shoemaker in Aberdeen 1846–51; in Edinburgh 1853–56 and in
Aberdeen again. _d._ in the infirmary, Dundee Aug. 1866. _Auld
Yule and other poems. By Wm. Knight with recollections of the
author’s life_, _pp. xxi–xl_ (1869), _portrait_; _Norrie’s
Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 271.
KNIGHT, WILLIAM (son of William Knight of Painswick, Gloucs.).
_b._ 1790; ed. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; R. of
St. Michael’s, Bristol 1816–75; hon. canon of Bristol 1864 to
death; author of Church missionary jubilee 1848. 1848; Lectures
on prophecies concerning Antichrist 1855; Psalms and hymns 1862;
The arch of Titus and the spoils of the Temple 1867. _d._ 5
Wetherill place, Grosvenor place, Clifton 5 Aug. 1878.
KNIGHT, WILLIAM HENRY (son of John Knight of Newbury, Berkshire,
schoolmaster). _b._ Newbury 26 Sep. 1823; in a solicitor’s
office at Newbury; painter in London from 1844, studied at
British museum and R. Academy; exhibited 29 pictures at R.A.,
17 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1844–64; his best known work
is The broken window. _d._ Claremont cottage, Claremont place,
Wandsworth road, Surrey 31 July 1863. _Art Journal_ (1863) 133,
191; _Sydney Armytage’s Beautiful pictures_ (1875) 51–2.
KNIGHT, VALENTINE. _b._ 1792; gold and silver dial maker and
engine-turner 4 Newcastle place, Clerkenwell 1828–51, Knight’s
dials were long in demand particularly by Americans; took Thomas
Burr into partnership 1842; retired with a large fortune 1851;
chairman of meeting to establish British Horological Institute
15 June 1858, president to death; an early director of Mutual
life assurance co.; president of Watch and clock makers’ asylum;
satirised in an engraving published by Askew & Co. 5 Butcher
hall lane, entitled Sir Stultus Walentine, knight and champion
of St. James’ Herriddittaries. d. Thornycroft, Leatherhead,
Middlesex 17 Nov. 1867. _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_ (1881) 318, 753;
_Horological Journal 1 Dec. 1867 pp._ 37–38.
KNIGHT, W. H. _b._ 29 Nov. 1812; on the staff of The Sporting
Life; connected with several daily newspapers; edited John
Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac some years to death; resided at 46
George st. Hampstead road, London a long time. _d._ Middlesex
hospital, Berner’s st. London 16 Aug. 1879.
KNIGHTLEY, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (1 son of rev. Charles
Knightley 1753–87, R. of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire). b.
Preston Capes 30 Jany. 1781; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
D.C.L. 1834; succeeded his uncle 29 Jany. 1812; on his mare
Benvolio cleared 31 feet over a fence and a brook at Brixworth
hill, a spot since known as Knightley’s leap; a breeder of
hounds and short horns and a great farmer; contested Northhants.
1831; M.P. Southern division of Northhants. 1834–52; master
of the Pytchley hunt 1817–18; wrote in Post and Paddock pp.
322–5 Auld Lang Syne, and in Silk and Scarlet, pp. 70–82 Olden
Times. _d._ Fawsley court near Daventry 30 Aug. 1864. _Sporting
Review_, _xxxvi_ 1–7 (1856), _portrait_, _lii_ 320 (1864);
_H. O. Nethercote’s Pytchley Hunt_ (1888) 45–47, _portrait_;
_Northamptonshire election_ (1831).
KNILL, RICHARD (4 child of Richard Knill, carpenter, _d._ 1826).
_b._ Braunton near Barnstaple 14 April 1787; congregational
missionary in Madras 1816–19 and at St. Petersburg 1820–33;
travelled in United Kingdom advocating claims of the foreign
missions 1833–41; minister at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucs. 1 Jany.
1842 to 1848, at Chester 1848 to death; author of The farmer
and his family 1814; some account of John Knill 1830; The happy
death-bed 1833; Memoirs of female labourers in the missionary
cause 1839; A Scotchman abroad 1841. _d._ 28 Queen st. Chester
2 Jany. 1857. _Birrell’s Life of R. Knill_ (1878), _portrait_;
_Waddington’s Congregational history_, _v_ 185–96 (1880).
KNOCKER, EDWARD (youngest son of Wm. Knocker of Dover,
solicitor). _b._ Dover 1804; solicitor at Dover 1826–74, member
of the common council 1827–35, town clerk 1860–8, alderman
several times, mayor 1871; registrar of the Cinque Ports many
years; hon. librarian to Dover corporation; F.S.A. 5 March 1874;
author of On the antiquities of Dover 1858; An account of the
grand court of Shepway, held on Bredenstone hill, Dover for the
installation of viscount Palmerston as constable of Dover and
warden of the Cinque ports Aug. 25, 1861. 1862; The footsteps
of the Lord: being a continuous narrative 1870. _d._ Torquay 25
Dec. 1884.
KNOLLIS, FRANCIS MINDEN (eld. son of rev. James Knollis of
Donnington, Berkshire). _b._ Donnington 14 Nov. 1816; ed. at
Lincoln coll. Oxf.; demy Magd. coll. 1836–9, fellow 1839 to
death, bursar 1846; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1850, D.D. 1851;
R. of Congerstone, Leics. 1840–2; R. of Brandeston, Norfolk
1847–8; domestic chaplain to Lord Ribblesdale 1849 to death;
P.C. of Horspath, Oxon. 1849–50; Inc. of Fitzhead near Taunton
1856–61; author of The sophistry of words, or the cause and
effects of inadequate appellations of sin considered. Oxford
1837, anon.; A wreath for the altar. Leicester 1838; A short
explanation of all the holydays of the church 2 ed. 1839; The
silver trumpet, or the child’s companion to the christian
year. Norwich 1849; A tutor’s counsels to his old pupils, or a
week’s hints for a quiet life 1863, and 14 other books. _d._
Bournemouth 26 Aug. 1863. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen
college_, _vii_ 340–2 (1881).
KNOLLYS, SIR WILLIAM THOMAS (eld. son of general Wm. Knollys
who claimed to be 8 earl of Banbury 1763–1834). _b._ 1 Aug.
1797; styled Viscount Wallingford 1797–1813; ed. at Harrow and
Sandhurst; ensign 3 foot guards 9 Dec. 1813, adjutant 1821–7;
lieut.-col. Scots fusilier guards 1850 to 25 March 1853 when
placed on h.p., col. 20 June 1883; taught prince Albert his
military duties 1850; governor of Guernsey 1 Aug. 1854 to 10
May 1855; commanded the camp at Aldershot 1855–60; col. of 62
foot 16 Nov. 1858 to 20 June 1883; general 17 June 1866; vice
pres. of council of military education 1861–2; treasurer and
comptroller of household of prince of Wales 1862–77, groom of
the stole to the prince 22 March 1877 to death; gentleman usher
of the black rod to House of Lords 22 March 1877 to death;
receiver general of duchy of Cornwall 14 Oct. 1878 to death;
LL.D. Oxf. 1863, D.C.L. Camb. 1864; K.C.B. 23 April 1867; P.C.
19 March 1872; author of A translation of the Odes of Horace,
privately printed; Some remarks on the claim to the earldom
of Banbury 1835; A journal of the Russian campaign of 1812 by
R. E. P. J. De Frezensac, a translation 1852. _d._ House of
Lords 23 June 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 28 June. _Biograph_,
_ii_ 507–10 (1879); _I.L.N. xlii_ 399, 400 (1863), _portrait_,
_lxxxiii_ 5 (1883), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 652 (1883),
_portrait_.
NOTE.--In his will which was proved 30 Aug. 1883 he styles himself “by
hereditary descent and by the law of the land Earl of Banbury, Viscount
Wallingford and Baron Knollys of Greys co. Oxon.”
KNOTT, ROBERT ROWE. _b._ 1796; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1819, M.A. 1824; lecturer at Rye and head master Rye gram. sch.
1822–35; C. and lecturer at St. Peter-upon-Cornhill, London
1835–38; V. of Helidan, Northants. 1838–49; chaplain of Donative
of Tarrant Crawford, Dorset 1849–65; chaplain of West London
union 1865–70; author of The new aid to memory. Parts 1 and 2
By A Cambridge M.A., Part 3 by the rev. R. R. Knight 1839–42, 2
ed. 1841–42; Part 1 Events of the history of England, and Part 2
Events of the history of Rome, were separately printed 1845 and
1846. _d._ Bayswater, London 11 Jany. 1879.
KNOWLES, CHARLES JAMES (2 son of James Knowles of Greenhead,
Yorkshire). _b._ Greenhead 1798; barrister M.T. 7 Nov. 1823,
bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1841; attorney general for
Duchy of Lancaster, Feb. 1846 to 1861. _d._ Hurst Green, Sussex
12 Feb. 1867.
KNOWLES, EDWARD. _b._ Gravesend; captain of the Northfleet 895
tons, emigrant ship which was run down about two miles off
Dungeness on her way from London to Hobart Town by the Spanish
steamer Murillo 22 Jany. 1873, when only 85 persons were saved
out of 412 passengers and crew; _m._ 4 Dec. 1872 Frederica
Louisa Markham, she was granted civil list pension of £50 1
March 1873; he went down in the Northfleet 22 Jany. 1873.
_Annual Register_ (1873) 9–15.
KNOWLES, EMMA MARIAN MAUDE (dau. of Mr. Elphinstone). _b._
London about 1808; pupil of James Sheridan Knowles the actor;
first appeared in America 26 Aug. 1834 at Arch st. theatre,
Philadelphia as Juliet; returned to England 1836; played in
William Tell, The Hunchback and several other of J. S. Knowles’s
plays at T.R. Dublin from 4 April 1836; played at Glasgow 1837
and 1838; played Meeta in J. S. Knowles’s drama The Maid of
Mariendorpt at Haymarket theatre, London 9 Oct. 1838; (_m._ 1842
J. S. Knowles the dramatist); left all her husband’s manuscripts
to Mary Knowles Rice. She _d._ 29 North bank, Regent’s park,
London 10 May 1888. _R. B. Knowles’s Life of J. S. Knowles_
(1872) 133; _F. Harvey’s Genealogical table of the families of
... Knowles_ (1875).
KNOWLES, SIR FRANCIS CHARLES, 3 Baronet (only son of admiral
sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2 baronet 1754–1831). _b._ 10 June
1802; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., 22 wrangler and B.A. 1825, M.A.
1828; F.R.S. 4 March 1830; F.S.A.; barrister L.I. 28 Jany.
1834; gained Telford prize 1872 for an intricate mathematical
problem; author of History of the Shaftesbury election 1830;
The supplement to the reform act of 1832, a proposal for the
extension of the representation 1864. _d._ 50 York st. Portman
sq. London 19 March 1892. _bur._ cemetery of St. Nicholas,
Guildford 25 March. _The Daily Graphic 24 March 1892 p._ 9,
_portrait_.
KNOWLES, JAMES SHERIDAN (only son of James Knowles the
lexicographer 1759–1840). _b._ Anne st. Cork 12 May 1784;
removed with his parents to London 1793; wrote the Welsh Harper,
one of the popular ballads of the day 1798; ensign in 2nd
regiment of Tower Hamlets militia 25 Jany. 1805 to 25 July 1806;
M.D. Aberdeen 1806; vaccinator of Jennerian Soc. Salisbury sq.
London 1806; first appeared on the stage at Crow st. theatre,
Dublin 1808; acted in Cherry’s company at Waterford and Swansea
1809–11; taught elocution at Mrs. Chapman’s school, Belfast
1813–5; kept a school at Glasgow 1817–29; partner with Mr.
Northhouse in the Free Press newspaper, Glasgow 1821–4; first
appeared in London at Covent Garden 5 April 1832 as Master
Walter in The Hunchback, made his début in U.S. of A. 29 Sep.
1834 in the same part; lectured at various places on rhetoric,
&c.; granted civil list pension of £200, 14 July 1848; converted
and became a Baptist preacher June 1853, drew large audiences to
Exeter Hall; his best known plays were Cains Gracchus produced
at Belfast 13 Feb. 1815, Virginius at Glasgow 1819 and at
Covent Garden 17 May 1820, The Hunchback at Covent Garden 5
April 1832, The Wife at Covent Garden 24 April 1833 in which he
played Julian St. Pierre, The Love Chase at Haymarket 10 Oct.
1837, Woman’s Wit or love’s disguises at Covent Garden 23 May
1838; author of The Magdalen and other tales 1832; The life of
Edmund Kean, Esq. tragedian 1833; George Lovell, a novel 3 vols.
1846; Fortescue, a novel 3 vols. 1847; The Rock of Rome or the
arch-heresy 1849; The Idol demolished by its own priest 1851;
The Gospel attributed to Matthew is the record of the whole
original apostlehood 1855. _d._ Higher terrace, Torquay 30 Nov.
1862. _bur._ necropolis, Glasgow 5 Dec. _Life of J. S. Knowles.
By R. B. Knowles_ (1872), _portrait_; _Genealogical table of the
families of ... Knowles. By F. Harvey_ (1875); _W. Marston’s Our
Recent Actors_, _ii_ 122–38 (1888); _Traits of Character. By A
Contemporary_, _ii_ 131–58 (1860); _James Grant’s Portraits of
public characters_, _ii_ 251–61 (1841); _J. E. Ritchie’s London
Pulpit_, _2 ed._ (1858) 141–7; _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait
gallery_ (1883) 397–402, _portrait_; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit
of the age_, _ii_ 85–90 (1844); _G. Hodder’s Memories of my
time_ (1870) 170–5; _Cumberland’s British Theatre_, _vol. xlii_,
_portrait_; _Men of the time_ (1857) 428–31.
NOTE.--There was a tavern at 12 Brydges st. Covent Garden called after
him the Sheridan Knowles tavern, it lasted from 1840 to 1860, here met
the worshipful society of “The Owls,” some 200 strong with Augustine
Wade as president and J. S. Knowles as patron and chancellor. There
was a splendid edition of Knowles’ works privately printed 1872–4 at
expense of James M’Henry, edited by Francis Harvey 6 vols. 4^o., 25
copies only, the last vol. is a life of him by his son R. B. Knowles.
KNOWLES, JOHN. _b._ Manchester 1810; stage coach proprietor;
succeeded his father in the coal and marble trade; proprietor
of a corn and flour mill at Nuneaton; lessee of the old theatre
royal, Manchester 29 Nov. 1842 to 1844; built the new theatre
royal, Peter st. Manchester, opened 29 Sep. 1845, lessee until
1875, his representations have never been surpassed in the
provinces; formed a fine collection of works of art. _d._ The
Lawn, Rugby 18 Feb. 1880.
KNOWLES, JOHN. _b._ Bow, London 1823; emigrated 1841 and was
in service of New Zealand Co. 1841–44; in business in New
Zealand 1853; under sec. public works department New Zealand
1871–83; edited Wellington Independent for 9 years, the Wanganui
Chronicle, and the New Zealand Spectator; own correspondent of
the London Times 1864–69; founder and first sec. of Wellington
mechanics’ institution 1842; author of The Canterbury settlement
of New Zealand a field for emigration 1851. _d._ Wellington 3
Dec. 1891.
KNOWLES, RICHARD BRINSLEY (son of J. S. Knowles the dramatist
1784–1862). _b._ Glasgow 17 Jany. 1820; clerk in general
register office 7 and 8 Somerset place, London 1838–41;
barrister M.T. 26 May 1843; edited Joe Miller the Younger 2
vols. 1845; Mephistopheles 16 numbers 1845–6; produced The
Maiden Aunt, a comedy at Haymarket theatre 19 Nov. 1845;
joined Church of Rome 1849; edited The Catholic Standard
1849; Illustrated London Magazine 5 vols. 1853–5; a writer on
the Standard 1857–60, afterwards on the Morning Post; edited
Chronicles of John of Oxenedes. Rolls Series 1859; engaged under
royal commission on historical manuscripts 1871 to death; author
of The life of James Sheridan Knowles 1872, 25 copies only
privately printed. _d._ 29 North Bank, Regent’s park, London 28
Jany. 1882. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 402.
KNOWLES, THOMAS (son of John Knowles of Ince near Wigan). _b._
Ince 30 May 1824; a collier boy at a pit in Ince 1833 where his
father was an overman; partner with John Pearson in a colliery
at Ince; chairman of the Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron co.;
member of Wigan town council 1863–73, mayor of Wigan 1864 and
1865; M.P. for Wigan 3 Feb. 1874 to death; one of royal comrs.
to inquire into working of factory and workshops acts 25 March
1875, their report is dated 10 Feb. 1876; pres. of Mining
association of Great Britain 13 Feb. 1878. _d._ Darnhall hall,
Winsford, Cheshire 3 Dec. 1883.
KNOX, ALEXANDER ANDREW (2 son of George Knox of Jamaica, landed
proprietor). _b._ London 5 Feb. 1818; ed. at Tiverton and Trin.
coll. Camb., scholar, third in the classical tripos and second
chancellor’s medallist 1844; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; barrister
L.I. 23 Nov. 1847; wrote leading articles for The Times 1846–60;
magistrate at Worship st. police court London 17 Aug. 1860, at
Marlborough st. 1862–78; wrote articles in Edinburgh Review,
Blackwood’s Mag. and other periodicals; author of The new
playground, or wanderings in Algeria 1881, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ 125
Victoria st. Westminster 5 Oct. 1891. _Temple Bar_, _April 1892
pp._ 495–517.