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KNOLLYS, SIR HENRY, third son of Gen. Right Hon. Sir William Thomas Knollys KCB, Treasurer and Comptroller of the Household to Prince of Wales, Receiver-Gen., Duchy of Cornwall, and Elizabeth, fifth dau. of Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart. (qv); b. 20 Jun 1840; adm. Jan 1854 (G); QS Oct 1855; left 1856; RMC Sandhurst and RMA Woolwich; Gent. Cadet, Royal Artillery 2 Aug 1858; Lieut., 1 Nov 1860; Capt., 16 Apr 1873; Brevet Maj., 1 Jul 1881; Maj., 30 Jul 1881; Lieut. -Col., 29 Jan 1888; commanded Royal Artillery in South Africa 1889-91; half-pay 26 Apr 1893; Brevet Col., 29 Sep 1893; retd. 20 Jun 1897; Comptroller and Private Secretary to HRH Princess Maud as Princess Charles of Denmark 1896-1905 and as Queen of Norway 1906-19; MVO 16 Aug 1901; CVO 26 Nov 1905; KCVO 26 Nov 1906; Knight, Order of St. Olav (Norway); Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark); Busby Trustee 16 May 1916; author, English Life in China, 1885, and other works; m. 1st, 8 Aug 1876 Louise Elizabeth, second dau. of Rev. Edward Eyre, Rector of Larling, Norfolk; m. 2nd, 22 Jan 1909 Flora, dau. of Louis Arthur Goodeve (qv); d. 1 Mar 1930.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.