KNATCHBULL, William Francis (2 son of Wyndham Knatchbull, merchant 1750–1833). b. Russell place, London 30 July 1804; sheriff of Somerset 1841; M.P. East Somerset 1852–65. d. 11 Cavendish sq. London 2 May 1871. I.L.N. lviii 475 (1871).
KNATCHBULL, Wyndham (brother of Henry Edward Knatchbull 1808–76). b. 23 Aug. 1786; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1808, of All Souls’ coll., M.A. 1812, B.D. 1820, D.D. 1823; R. of Westbere, Kent 5 Sep. 1811 to death; R. of Bircholt, Kent 1821–1836; Laudian professor of Arabic at Oxford 1823–40; R. of Aldington with Smeath, Kent 31 July 1823 till decease; author of Kalila and Dimna, or the fables of Bidpai translated 1819; Harethi Moallakah. Arabic and Latin 1820. d. Smeath rectory 5 April 1868.
KNELL, William Adolphus. Painter of shipping and sea pieces; exhibited 29 pictures at R.A., 44 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. 1825–74; his picture The Landing of Prince Albert was purchased for the royal collection and engraved by Miller for the Art Journal 1857. d. 10 July 1875. bur. Abney park cemet.
KNIGHT, Adela M’Culloch. b. South Australia; passed matric. exam. of univ. of London at Adelaide, attended Adelaide univ. and took sir Thomas Elder prize for physiology 1883; entered London sch. of medicine for women and the Royal Free hospital, London 1885; M.B. Lond. Nov. 1889, the first Australian woman who took the degree there; resident medical officer at New hospital for women 1890, removed the hospital from 222 Marylebone road to 144 Euston road 1890; took Helen Prideaux prize June 1890 and went to Vienna to study. d. of typhlitis at Vienna 8 May 1891.
KNIGHT, Sir Arnold James (youngest son of Alexander Knight). b. Six Hills Grange, Lincs. 1789; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D. 1811; a physician at Sheffield; knighted at St. James’ palace 24 March 1841. d. The Priory, Little Malvern 12 Jany. 1871. I.L.N. lviii 115, 267 (1871); Times 20 Jany. 1871 p. 12.
KNIGHT, Charles (son of Charles Knight, bookseller, Windsor). 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.