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2024 (Creation)
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1 volume
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KNIGHT, EDWARD FREDERICK, son of Edward Knight, Papcastle, Cumberland, Army officer, and Catherine Pemberton; b. 23 Apr 1852; adm. 26 Sep 1867 (James'); left Dec 1869; Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 1 Oct 1873; BA 1877; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Jan 1876, called to bar 7 May 1879; a journalist with The Morning Post; travelled in South America, South Africa, Central Asia; Times correspondent in Hunza-Nagar campaign 1891, Matabeleland 1893-5, Madagascar 1895, Sudan 1896 and 1897-8, Greece 1897, Cuba 1898 and Spain 1899; Morning Post correspondent in South African War 1899-1900; severely wounded at Belmont and had right arm amputated; with the Ophit tour round the world 1901; with Kuroki’s army in Russian-Japanese war 1904, in Turkey 1908, and with Harwich Naval Forces in 1914-18 war; a keen sailor; author, Where Three Empires Meet, 1893, The Cruise of the Falcon, and other works; his Reminiscences, 1923, give some account of his school days at Westminster; m. Miriam [Mariane ?], widow of Cosmo Rose-Innes, barrister, and dau. of William Bowen Rowlands KC, County Court Judge; d. 3 Jul 1925.
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A translation into Spanish of Edward Frederick Knight's (OW 1867-1869) The Cruise of the Falcon by Ernesto Inouye.
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Donated to the Archive by the translator, Ernesto Inouye
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