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* KNIGHT. 548 KNIGHT. ALRY) Bachelor; Banneret; Tournament.s ; iind scpiinitc ordois. siieli as I'EiMPLARS, K.NloilTS; HO.SI'ITAI.ERS; etc. KNIGHT, Charles (1791-187:!). An Eng- lisli author, born in 1791 at Windsor, where liis father was a book.seller. Kiii>;ht was sent to school at Ealing, where lie gained some l;nowl- edge of the classics; but he was educated mostly in his father's bookshop. When a. young man he set himself to educate the masses by raising the tone of popular literature. In conjunction with ilawke Locker, he founded the I'laiii Eni/- linhiiiuii, a magazine of original and selecteil articles (1820-22): edited the (lidiidiaii. a lit- erary and political miscellany (1820-22); and, with the encouragement of ilacaulay and others, started hiiifihl's Quarterly ilmjazinc (182.'{-24). In 182.5 Brougham established the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The iilea originated with Knight, who was subsequently called in to take charge of the society's publica- tions. For the rest of his life Knight wielded immense inllucnce as a popular instructor, .mong the works which he published or edited are the Penny Mugazine ( 18.S2-4.'5), which at one time enjoyed a circulation of nearlv 200.000 copies weekly; Penny Vyclopadia (30'vols,, 18.3;j-44) ; Library of Kntertaining KnoiiIr<l(ic. the volume on the elephant (IS.'ll) being written by him- self; Piclurial History of Eiiylnud (18;!7-44); Jjondon Pirlcyrially Illustrated (tl vols., 1841-44) ; Old Knyliind. a I'ietorial Muxeiini of yational Antiquities (2 vols., 184.')) ; Half Hours villi the Pest Authors (4 vols.. 1847-48); The Enylish Cyelopadia (22 vols., 18.54-61) ; Pietorial f<hake- speare (8 vols., 1838-41) ; Life of Ceij-lon { 1844) ; Knoiilcdfie is Power (18.55); and. above all, the Popular History of Enolirnd (18.5fi-62). Knight died at Addlestone, ' March 9, 1873. Consult his autobiographv, entitled Passages of a Worliny Life During Half a Century (1864-6.5). KNIGHT, Chakles Parsox.s (1829-97). An English artist born at Bristcd. and a pupil of the Academy there. His first works were studies of scenery iic Somerset and Dc(in; afterwards he painted "Durham from the Nortli" (18.57), and "The Stone Walls of Old England" (1861). KNIGHT, CvRu.s Frederick (1831-91). An American Protestant Episcopal bishop. He was Lorn at Marblehead, Mass. ; was educated at Burlington College. N. J., at Harvard, and at the General Theological Seminary; and after acting as rector in Boston, Hartford, and Lancaster. Pa., became Bishop of Milwaukee in 1889. He wrote Charges in the Communion Kerrice (1886). KNIGHT, Daniel RiDOW AY (c.18.50— ). An .American figure and landscape painter, born in Philadelphia. He was a pupil of Cileyre in Paris, and a student at the Ecole des IJeaux- Arts. in 1872; he also studied with Meissonicr in 1S76. He established his studio at Poissy, France, and usually exhibited in the Paris Salon, but also in America. He was awarded a medal at the Salon in 1888, and at the Columbia Exposi- tion in 1893; and received the cross of the Legion of Honor (1889K Knight is an idealist who interprets French peasant life with great charm. His color is delicate and refined, his drawing is good, and his paintings have a fine decorative quality. Among his chief paintings are: "The Veter.in" (1870); "The Old Beau" (1873): "Washer Women" (1875); "Harvest Scene" (1877); "Sans dot" (1883); "Chatterboxes;" "L'app(d au passeur." KNIGHT, Edward Henry (1824-83). An American mechanical expert. He was born in liOndon, England, studied surgery, engraving, me- chanics, and civil engineering, and came to the United Slates in 1845. He settled in Cincinnati, where he became a patent lawyer. In 18G3 he accepted a position in the Government patent ollice in Washington. He was a member of the international juries at the World's Fairs in Phila- dclpliia and .Ulanta. was United Slates commis- sioner to the World's Fair in Paris in 1878, and was made a chevalier of the l^cgion of Honor by the French Government. He founded the O/fieiul (lasctte of the United States Patent Office; edited the Reports of the Paris Exposition; and pub- lished, besides many ollicial reports of value, the ,4nicric«H Meehnnienl Dietionnry (1876) and the .c(c Meehanieal Dictionary (1884). KNIGHT, Ellis Cornelia (1757-1837). An English author, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir .lo.scph Knight. At his death (1775) his widow .and child went to live in Italy, and when her mother also died. Cornelia returned to England in charge of her friends. Lady Hamilton and Admiral Nelson (1799). ,She was companion to Queen Charlotte (180513), afterwards .to the Princess of Wales, and her autobiography, not written to gratify the craving for details of Court life, is valuable on account of its reliable narration of facts. It was edited and published posthumously (1861), and her other books, are: Dinarbns (1790); two hc.nvy romances, Marcus Fhiminins (1792) and Sir (Juy de Lusignan ( 1833) ; her chief work, .4 Description of Latium or La Campagna di h'orna (1,805) ; besides a vol- ume of prayer and hymns from the German (1832), The last twenty years of her life were spent abroad, and she died in Paris. KNIGHT, .John Prescott (1803-81), An English portrait painter, born at Stafford. After studying privately, he entered the Royal Acad- emy as a student in 1823, and exhibited two portraits there the following jcar. In 1828 ids "Whist Party" and "List, ye Landsmen" were hung at the British Institution. In 1835 he appeared with "Tam o' Shanter" at the Royal Academy, of which he became an associate in "1836, and professor of perspective (1839-60), From such subjects as "The Pedlar" (1831); "Auld Robin Gray" (1829 and 1833) ; and "Sun- set" (1834), he returned to portraits in large groups, such as the "Waterloo Banquet" (1842) and "Peninsular Heroes" (1848). as well as single portraits of the "Duke of Wellington" for the London City Club, "Duke of Cambridge" for Christ's Hospital, and "Sir George Burrows" for Saint Bartholomew's Hospital. He was secretary of the Roval Academy (1848-73), and exhibited there for the last tinie in 1878, "A Sandy Hill- side." KNIGHT, Richard Payne (17.50-1824), An English archaeologist and philologist. Owing to ill health, he had but a few years of actual school- ing, which, however, his vast fortune enabled him to supplement by extensive travel. In Italy (1767 and subsequently) he interested himself in the study of art and of classical antiquities, and upon his return devoted himself to the enlarging of Iiis archaeological collection made there, and to publishing his memoirs. He was returned to