NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Knight Samuel Johnes (1756-1852) Rector of Welwyn LBT ID: SaKnigh1852 | B/BAP: 1756 DIED: 1852-07-08 |
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (March 1852) 318; Alumni Oxonienses; thepeerage.com | |
Of Henley Hall, Shropshire, England, the son of Thomas Johnes. He was fellow of All-Souls
College, Oxford and the Rector at Welwyn, Hertfordshire (1797-1852). A friend of Lord
Brougham, he took the name Knight in 1813 having inherited property from Richard Payne
Knight. | |
REFERENCES TO Samuel Johnes Knight: Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 18 March, 1835 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
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