Wyndham William Knight
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Wyndham William Knight (5 December 1828 – 17 September 1918), known in some sources as Wiliam Wyndham Knight,Template:Efn-ua was an English amateur cricketer who played in one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1862.
Knight was born at Chawton in Hampshire in 1828[1] and educated at Winchester College.[2] He is known to have played cricket twice for the amateur Gentlemen of Kent side in the 1850s before making his only first-class appearance for the county side in 1862 against Sussex.[3] He was one of the founders of the Band of Brothers, an amateur cricket club closely associated with Kent.[4][5][6]
Knight lived at Bilting House near Godmersham in Kent for most of his adult life, although he is known to have owned property in Hampshire.[7] In 1846 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, serving in the regiment until 1854, commanding a company at the Battle of Boomplaats in South Africa in 1848 and rising to the rank of lieutenant.[2][8][9][10][11] He later served with the Royal East Kent Yeomanry between 1856 and 1862, rising to the rank of captain.[2][10][12] He was a magistrate and a justice of the peace, married Henrietta Armstrong and had two children.[2][7][10][12]
Knight died at Bilting in Kent in 1918 aged 89.[13][1] His brother Philip, father Edward,Template:Efn-ua and uncles George, Brook and Henry all played first-class cricket.[3]
He was the father of Captain William Brodnax Knight, of the Queen's Bays, and the grandfather of Major-General Sir Wyndham Charles Knight, of the Indian Army.[14]
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- ↑ a b Wiliam Knight, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
- ↑ a b c d Wainewright JB (ed) (1907) Winchester College 1836–1906: a register, p.76. Winchester: P & G Wells. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-10.)
- ↑ a b Wiliam Knight, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-10. Template:Link note
- ↑ The Band of Brothers Jubilee, The Times, 1908-12-09, p.5.
- ↑ Moseling M, Quarrington T (2013) A Half-Forgotten Triumph: The story of Kent's County Championship title of 1913, pp. 186–189. Cheltenham: SportsBooks. Template:Isbn.
- ↑ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 317. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- ↑ a b Hickman A (2009) A History of Hinton House. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
- ↑ Murray J (ed) (1847) Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List, p.253. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-10.)
- ↑ Cope WH (1877) The History of the Rifle Brigade, p.260. London: Chatto & Windus. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-10.)
- ↑ a b c Corder J Wyndham William Knight, Akin to Jane. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
- ↑ The London Gazette, 1846, p.3256.
- ↑ a b 'Godmersham' in Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. (Part 1: County & Localities), pp.307–308. London: Kelly's Directories.
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- ↑ Knight, Maj.-Gen. Sir Wyndham (Charles), (30 Nov. 1863–10 June 1942) in Who Was Who 1941–1950, (A. & C. Black, 1980 reprint). Template:ISBN
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