Edmund Knox (English bishop)

Edmund Arbuthnott Knox (6 December 1847 – 16 January 1937) was the fourth Bishop of Manchester, from 1903 to 1921. He was described as a prominent evangelical. Born in Bangalore, the second son of Reverend George Knox and Mary Anne Reynolds and educated at St Paul's and Corpus Christi College, Oxford he was ordained in 1872 and began his ecclesiastical career with a period as Fellow, Tutor, and Dean of Merton College, Oxford. He was also rector of St Wilfrid's Church in Kibworth from 1884 to 1891, and afterwards Archdeacon of Birmingham.

Family

Bishop Knox was married twice. Firstly he married Ellen Penelope French (1854–1892) in 1878, daughter of Thomas Valpy French, Bishop of Lahore. Secondly he married Ethel Mary Newton in 1895, daughter of Canon Horace Newton of Holmwood, Redditch and Glencripesdale Estate Argyllshire.

He was father of six children by his first wife Ellen French:

• Ethel Knox (1879–1958)
• Edmund George Valpy Knox (1881–1971) was as E. V. Knox Editor of Punch magazine
• Winnifred Frances Knox (1882–1961), married James Peck and became known as an author under the name "Winifred Peck"
• Alfred Dillwyn Knox (1884–1943), known as "Dilly", a classical scholar, and a codebreaker in both World Wars
• Wilfred Lawrence Knox (1886–1950)
• Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888–1957), Roman Catholic Priest and translator of the Bible.

References

• "Anecdotal stories about St. Wilfrid's and its Rectors". http://www.stwilfs.freeserve.co.uk/past.htm#knox. Retrieved 2007-01-20. 
• The Scotsman, Monday 18 January 1937, Obituary "Bishop Knox, Death of Evangelical Leader"

External links

• Portraits of Edmund Arbuthnott Knox at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Church of England titles
Preceded by Henry Bowlby	Bishop of Coventry 1894–1903	Vacant Suffragan title ended Title next held by Huyshe Yeatman-Biggs as diocesan bishop
Preceded by James Moorhouse	Bishop of Manchester 1903–1921	Succeeded by William Temple