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Colonel Sir Frederick Winn Knight KCB (9 May 1812 – 3 May 1897) was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1841 to 1885. ==Origins== Frederick Knight was the eldest son of John Knight II (d.1850) of Lea Castle, Wolverley, (2 miles north of Kidderminster) Worcestershire and 26 miles east of Downton Castle) (built by his father John Knight I) and 52 Portland Place〔(Harvey, Nigel. The Farmsteads of the Exmoor Reclamation, p.45 )〕 in London, by his wife Hon. Jane Elizabeth Allanson-Winn, daughter of George Allanson-Winn, 1st Baron Headley (1725–1798). His grandfather, John Knight I of Lea Castle was an ironmaster and the grandson of Richard Knight of Downton Castle, Downton on the Rock, Herefordshire, (about five miles west of Ludlow, Shropshire) a magnate in the iron industry. He had at least two brothers: *Charles Allanson Knight (1814–1879) who married Jessie Ramsay (1828–1922), daughter of William Ramsay (1800–1881) (a.k.a. Innes) of Barra, Inverurie, and widow of Count Alexander de Polignac(d.pre-1862).〔(thepeerage.com )〕 His children were under the guardianship of the Fane Family of Fulbeck Hall, Lincolnshire, between 1876-87. W.D. Fane wrote in his correspondence of Summer 1855 of visiting his friend "Knight" in Rome,〔(Lincolnshire Archives 1 FANE 5/33 ): Guardianship of children of Charles Allanson Knight of Wolverley, Worcs., 1876-87; 1 FANE 6/10/8/C/3, Correspondence 1855〕 probably at the house of John Knight II who had retired to Rome. *Edward Lewis Knight (1817–1882), of Hornacott Manor, Boyton, Cornwall. He married thrice: * *Firstly to Elizabeth Harris * *Secondly in 1868 to Henrietta Mary Sanford,〔Marriage settlement dated 1868 held by Cornwall Archives BRA1901/23, also referred to in BRA1901/27 ()〕 by whom he had issue, see section below, heir. * *Thirdly 1877 to Edith Emma Butler (1851–1936) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frederick Knight (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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