Samuel Knight

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Samuel Knight (1675-1746) was an English clergyman and antiquary. He was a strong Prostestant, attending St. Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1702, MA 1706), and received a Cambridge DD in 1706. Knight was chaplain to King George II in 1730 and wrote biographies of John Colet and Erasmus.

In his biography of Erasmus, Knight argues, like many contemporary Protestants, that Erasmus was truly a Protestant at heart but did not fully express this during his lifetime. He focuses on Erasmus' friends in England and English universities.

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