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John Knowles (1810–1880) was an English businessman who is well known as the proprietor of the Theatre Royal on Peter Street, Manchester from 1844 to 1875. He was also a manufacturer of marble chimneypieces. ==Biography== John Knowles was born in Chapel Street, London Road, Manchester.〔'The Visual Arts: Artists and Architects around Manchester', http://www.manchester2002-uk.com/celebs/artists2.html〕 He was the son of a successful businessman, whose many business interests included, as well as that of a coal merchant, the manufacturing of "British and Italian marble chimney-pieces by machinery" and the proprietorship of the Peacock Office at 105 Market Street, from which the famous "Peveril of the Peak" coach made its journey from Manchester to London.〔"Men and Women of Manchester", (UK: William Morris Press, 1978), p. 18〕 His greatest business venture was that of the Theatre Royal, in which he was the proprietor for more thirty years. In later life, Knowles lived at Trafford Bank House, Old Trafford. He was married to Susan and had three children.〔1861 Census, http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1861&indiv=try&h=9207134〕 Knowles died in February 1880, aged sixty-nine years old.〔'Theatrical Obituaries 1844 – 1889', http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rogers/Genealogy/Obituaries2.html, taken from, C. Scott and C. Howard, "The Life and Reminiscences of E. L. Blanchard, Vol 2 (1891)" (USA: Kissinger Publishing, 2007)〕
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