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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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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.