Edmund Arbuthnott Knox
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Edmund Arbuthnott Knox (6 December 1847 – 16 January 1937) was the fourth Bishop of Manchester, from 1903 to 1921. He was described as a prominent evangelical [1].
Born in Bangalore, the second son of Reverend George Knox and Mary Anne Reynolds, he served in India and had close connexions with the Church Missionary Society; he lived for a short time in Surrey and was Sub-Warden of Merton College, Oxford. He was rector of St Wilfrid's Church in Kibworth from 1884 to 1891, and afterwards rector of Aston in Birmingham.
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| Preceded by James Moorhouse |
Bishop of Manchester 1903–1921 |
Succeeded by William Temple |
He married Ellen Penelope French (1854–1892), daughter of Thomas Valpy French, Bishop of Lahore. He was father of six children:
- Ethel Knox (1879–1958)
- Edmund George Valpy Knox (1881–1971) was as E. V. Knox Editor of Punch magazine
- Winnifred Frances Knox (1882–1961)
- Alfred Dillwyn Knox (1883–1943), known as "Dilly", a classical scholar, and a codebreaker in both World Wars
- Wilfred Lawrence Knox (1886–1950)
- Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888–1957), Roman Catholic Priest and translator of the Bible.
[edit] References
- ^ Cross & Livingstone (1984). The Oxford Dictionary of The Christian Church, 786.
- Anecdotal stories about St. Wilfrid's and its Rectors. Retrieved on 2007-01-20.
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