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Knapp, Arthur Rowland, 1870-1954
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1870-1954
History
Knapp, Sir Arthur Rowland, son of Lieut.-Col. Charles Barrett Knapp, of Netley, Hants, by Sophia, daughter of William Macdonnell, of Dublin; b. Dec. 10, 1870; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 25, 1884; Capt. of the School 1888; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1889, matric. Oct. 11, 1889; passed into the Indian Civil Service after the exam. of 1889; arrived in India ov. 20, 1891, and served in Madras as Asst. Collector and Magistrate; Under Secretary to the Government Feb. 1899; Sub-Collector and joint Magistrate Nov. 1904; Collector and Magistrate Nov. 1908; Secretary to the Government Revenue Dept. Jan. 1917, confirmed April 1918; Chief Secretary to the Government Aug. 1919; a Commissioner, Malabar Rebellion, 1921; Member of Executive Council of Governor of Madras 1922-5; resigned 1925; C.B.E. June 3, 1919; C. S. I. Jan. 2, 1922; K.C. l. E. Jan. 1, 1924; a great authority on the portraits of Warren Hastings and organiser of the Centenary Meeting up School and a remarkable Exhibition of Hastings' relics up Ashburnham in 1932; a Governor of the School 1953; a Busby Trustee 1939-53; m. Aug. 9, 1899, Florence Annie, second daughter of the Rev. Edward Moore, D.D., Canon of Canterbury, sometime Principal of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; d. May 22, 1954.
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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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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1883 to Election 1960, Volume 3, compiled by J.B. Whitmore, G.R.Y. Radcliffe and D.C. Simpson, Barnet, 1963