Wyndham William Knight

Wyndham William Knight (5 December 1828 – 17 September 1918), known in some sources as Wiliam Wyndham Knight,[A] 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[3] and educated at Winchester College.[4] 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.[5] He was one of the founders of the Band of Brothers, an amateur cricket club closely associated with Kent.[6][7][8]

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.[9] 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.[4][10][11][12][13] He later served with the Royal East Kent Yeomanry between 1856 and 1862, rising to the rank of captain.[4][12][14] He was a magistrate and a justice of the peace, married Henrietta Armstrong and had two children.[4][9][12][14]

Knight died at Bilting in Kent in 1918 aged 89.[2][3] His brother Philip, father Edward,[B] and uncles George, Brook and Henry all played first-class cricket.[5]

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.[16]

Notes

  1. ^ Knight is named Wiliam Wyndham in two cricket sources - CricInfo and CricketArchive both give him this name. In all other sources, including those associated with Kent County Cricket Club,[1] Winchester College, the British Army, Kelly's Directory, his death notice in The Times[2] and in genealogical sources, he is named Wyndham William.
  2. ^ Edward Knight was born Edward Austen in 1792 and was a nephew of Jane Austen.[15]

References

  1. ^ Moore D (1988) The History of Kent County Cricket Club, p.258. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 0-7470-2209-7
  2. ^ a b Deaths, The Times, 1918-09-21, p.1.
  3. ^ a b Wiliam Knight, CricInfo. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  4. ^ 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.)
  5. ^ a b Wiliam Knight, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-10. (subscription required)
  6. ^ The Band of Brothers Jubilee, The Times, 1908-12-09, p.5.
  7. ^ Moseling M, Quarrington T (2013) A Half-Forgotten Triumph: The story of Kent's County Championship title of 1913, pp. 186–189. Cheltenham: SportsBooks. ISBN 978-1-907524-40-0.
  8. ^ 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.)
  9. ^ a b Hickman A (2009) A History of Hinton House. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  10. ^ Murray J (ed) (1847) Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List, p.253. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-10.)
  11. ^ Cope WH (1877) The History of the Rifle Brigade, p.260. London: Chatto & Windus. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-10.)
  12. ^ a b c Corder J Wyndham William Knight, Akin to Jane. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
  13. ^ The London Gazette, 1846, p.3256.
  14. ^ a b 'Godmersham' in Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. (Part 1: County & Localities), pp.307–308. London: Kelly's Directories.
  15. ^ Lane M (1984) Jane Austen's Family, p.248. London: Robert Hale. (Available online. Retrieved 2018-10-10.)
  16. ^ Knight, Maj.-Gen. Sir Wyndham (Charles), (30 Nov. 1863–10 June 1942) in Who Was Who 1941–1950, (A. & C. Black, 1980 reprint). ISBN 0-7136-2131-1