William Knight

(1756-1814)

LBT ID: WiKnigh1814	B/BAP: 1756 DIED: 1814-02-17
SOURCES: The Friends' Library (1843) 435; Edwin W. Marrs, Jr. The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb (1976) 2:258n; DNB ["Anne Knight"]
Wholesale grocer and Quaker philanthropist of Chelmsford, Essex; he was the father of the abolitionist Anne Knight (1786-1862).
REFERENCES TO William Knight: Charles Lamb to Thomas and Catherine Clarkson, June 1807 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1807