Samuel Johnes Knight

(1756 c.-1852)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Knight Samuel Johnes (1756-1852) Rector of Welwyn LBT ID: SaKnigh1852	B/BAP: 1756 DIED: 1852-07-08
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (March 1852) 318; Alumni Oxonienses; thepeerage.com
Of Henley Hall, Shropshire, England, the son of Thomas Johnes. He was fellow of All-Souls College, Oxford and the Rector at Welwyn, Hertfordshire (1797-1852). A friend of Lord Brougham, he took the name Knight in 1813 having inherited property from Richard Payne Knight.
REFERENCES TO Samuel Johnes Knight: Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 18 March, 1835 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter III. 1834-1837.