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.