KNIGHT, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1744 (Preston's); left 1747.
KNIGHT, WILLIAM P.; b. 19 May 1802; adm. 13 Jan 1817 (Packharness'); left Whitsun 1819.
Knight, Vivian Berkeley Howard, brother of Cecil Bertie Howard Knight (q.v.); b. May 23, 1886; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (H); left July 1901; King's Coll. London; A. K.C.; an electrical engineer; chief engineer of Messrs. John Knight, Ltd., soap makers at Silvertown; m. April 15, 1914, Ida Mary, daughter of. John Scott, of Tillington, Stafford; d. April 20, 1917.
KNIGHT, THOMAS JOHN, second son of William Young Knight, St. James’s Square, Westminster, solicitor; b. 1 Nov 1805; adm. 14 Sep 1818 (Packharness'); KS 1820; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1824, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1824, scholar 1825; BA 1828; MA 1831; adm. Middle Temple 12 Jun 1826, called to bar 25 Nov 1831; special pleader; Hampshire circuit and Surrey Sessions; emigrated to Hobart, Tasmania 1845, where he continued to practice as a barrister; Solicitor-Gen., Tasmania 25 Apr 1857 – 1 Nov 1860, Attorney-Gen. 2 Nov 1860 – 4 Feb 1861; returned to England 1865; m.; d. 25 Apr 1870.
Knight, Robert Duncan, brother of David Francis Knight (q.v.); b. Dec. 26, 1903; adm. April 26, 1918 (H); left July 1920; drowned at Funchal, Madeira, June 24, 1922.
KNIGHT, HENRY; b.; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1749 (Mellisham's); in school list 1754.
Knight, Gilbert Barrett, brother of David Francis Knight (qv); b. 22 Sept. 1909; adm. Sept. 1923 (H); left July 1927; a film and TV cameraman; joined Gaumont British Film Studios 1935; RAFVR 1941-5 (Flt Lieut.), personal pilot to AOC W. Africa; cameraman for Ass. Rediffusion Ltd, later Thames TV; m. 5 Oct. 1935 Dorothv York, d. of Capt. William Hall, Marine Supt, of Calcutta; d. Dec. 1994.
KNIGHT, GEORGE ROCKLIFFE, youngest son of Finlay Knight, Stafford Terrace, Kensington, barrister; b. 7 Jan 1858; adm. 21 Jan 1870 (G); left before Whitsun 1870; at Uppingham Sch. Oct-Dec 1872; d. at Ravenswood, Illinois, USA 14 Jan 1887. [mother probably Eleanor Georgina Billinghurst (IGI) – dau. of William Billinghurst ?]
Knight, Esmond Pennington, brother of David Francis Knight (qv); b. 4 May 1906; adm. Jan. 1921 (H); left July 1925; an actor; Old Vic. Company 1925-7, Birmingham Rep. 1927-8; frequent appearances on West End stage 1928-40; RNVR 1940-1, discharged after being blinded in HMS Hood during action with Bismarck in 1941; regained partial sight 1943; returned to stage March 1945; appeared in Olivier's films Henry V, Richard lll and Hamlet, later in Sink the Bismarck and The Spy who came in from the Cold; many further stage appearances in London, Stratford and Edinburgh 1945-67; acted in BBC TV series Nicholas Nickleby and Our Mutual Friend; also a painter, one-man exhibition New Town Gallery Uckfield, Sussex; author of Seeking the Bubble (autobiog.) 1943; m. 1st 19 Jan. 1929 Frances, d. of Maj. James Sabben Clare; 2nd 1946 Nora Swinburne, actress, d. of Henry Swinburne Johnson; d. 23 Feb. 1987.
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.