Wright Knox

(1823 fl.)

LBT ID: WrKnox1823
SOURCES: Charles Rogers, Genealogical Memoirs of John Knox and of the Family of Knox (1879) 49-50
The son of the Rev. William Knox, he was Captain of the 87th Fusiliers, with whom he fought at Talavera; he was British Resident at Vathy in Ithaca when Byron visited. In 1848 the Gentleman's Magazine refers to him as ”the late” in their notice of his daughter's marriage.
REFERENCES TO Wright Knox: Pietro Gamba, A Narrative of Lord Byron’s Last Journey to Greece. Extracted from the Journal of Count Peter Gamba, who attended that Expedition. (London: John Murray, 1825) Chapter I Found 2: ¶ 42 ¶ 43 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 63 Julius Millingen, Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece (London: John Rodwell, 1831) Chapter III Found 3: ¶ 6 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 James Hamilton Browne, “Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 35 (September 1834) 392-407 Found 5: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter XIX. Found 1: ¶ 9