Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821) was an English essayist, headmaster and Anglican priest. Knox was born 8 December 1752, at Newington Green, Middlesex, the son...
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seventeen. His son and namesake, Vicesimus Knox, was to take his father's place in 1779. School numbers under the young Knox rose to 85, and pupils began...
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Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science Vicesimus Knox – Elegant Extracts Mémoires secrets (anonymous) Moses Mendelssohn –...
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player Uchter Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly, Governor of New Zealand Vicesimus Knox (1752-1821), English essayist and minister Victor A. Knox (1899–1976),...
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Treatise on the Methods of acquiring Useful and Polite Learning (1781) by Vicesimus Knox. Essay on Misanthropy, 1783 Sermons on Important and Interesting Subjects...
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Personnel. Liverpool University Press. p. 302. ISBN 978-0-85323-838-6. Vicesimus Knox (1807). Elegant Epistles. W. Flint. p. 144. Franklin Henry Hooper (1937)...
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opinion of contemporary writers of very different schools, such as Vicesimus Knox and Joseph Milner. His works show some research and careful writing...
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(begins publication) Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro – Idea dell'Universo Vicesimus Knox – Essays Moral and Literary Francisco Javier Llampillas – Saggio apologetic...
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Britain (d. 1818) Placidus a Spescha, Swiss mountain climber (d. 1833) Vicesimus Knox, English essayist, minister (d. 1821) December 9 – Antoine Étienne de...
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the Quaker physician John Coakley Lettsome and the Anglican pacifist Vicesimus Knox. One such academy was set up on north of the Green, run by Charles Morton...
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David Wilcox Kenneth Woollcombe Frederick Copleston Edward Drax Free Vicesimus Knox Peter Thomson George Austen James Austen Henry Thomas Austen Mark Abley...
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a private tutor, and at the age of 13 joined Tonbridge School under Vicesimus Knox II, where he was placed in the sixth form. In 1807, having obtained...
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Gen. Henry Roxby Benson). Another sister, Fanny Meux, was the wife of Vicesimus Knox. Meux was descended from an old Isle of Wight family. The elder brother...
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was his younger brother. He was educated at Tunbridge School, under Vicesimus Knox, and in 1815 entered Wadham College, Oxford, where he held two exhibitions...
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Lettsome (physician, philanthropist, and abolitionist) or the Anglicans Vicesimus Knox (pacifist and writer) and George Gaskin (minister and long-time secretary...
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associated with the "Friends of Peace", an anti-war network, such as Vicesimus Knox. Theophilus Lindsey offered to help Bigge by soliciting contributions...
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(1916–2002), playwright and screenwriter Ronald Knox (1888–1957), writer, translator and theologian Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821), essayist and cleric Dorothy Koomson...
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Bernal, third daughter of Ralph Bernal, and widow of Vicesimus Knox III, son of Vicesimus Knox. She died on 7 October 1872, leaving two daughters, Florence...
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Maternity Hospital B (buried in Hove Cemetery in Hove, East Sussex) Vicesimus Knox Anglican pacifist Hoxton L Isaac Watts Theologian, logician, and hymn...
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Sir Henry Meux, 1st Baronet. A sister, Fanny Meux, was the wife of Vicesimus Knox. Together, William and Mary were the parents of: Richard Arabin (1812–1865)...
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school at Richmond, and for a time he was at Tonbridge school, under Vicesimus Knox. But he was mostly brought up in the diocese of Winchester, where the...
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frequent guests were Richard Cumberland, Oliver Goldsmith, John Hoole, Vicesimus Knox, Samuel Parr, Joseph Priestley, Isaac Reed, Samuel Rogers, Sutton Sharpe...
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was educated at Uckfield School and then at Tonbridge School under Vicesimus Knox. Matriculating at St John's College, Cambridge in 1784, he did not complete...
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Poems’ (ed. 1775, ii. 321), and again in ‘Elegant Extracts,’ edited by Vicesimus Knox (ed. 1796, p. 838), is also addressed to Wray, but this has been doubted...
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Eminent Painter, published anonymously; addressed to George Romney Vicesimus Knox, Cursory Thoughts on Satire and Satirists, a critical essay John Scott...
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sermons were reprinted in Family Lectures, London, 1791, edited by Vicesimus Knox. A high church man, he was yet interested in overcoming religious divisions...
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T. Kendall (Regent's Park) Minister of Westminster Chapel 1977-2002 Vicesimus Knox (St John's) essayist and sometime Head Master of Tonbridge School Christopher...
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mathematics and Latin, and made such rapid progress in Latin that in 1842 Dr. Vicesimus Knox appointed him second master at Tunbridge grammar school. While at Tunbridge...
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Baronet; the songwriter Charles Morris; Robert Morris; the minister Vicesimus Knox; and the solicitor Robert Blake. In 1803-4 he exhibited some portraits...
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barrister and politician, and the theologian George Vicesimus Wigram (1805–79). Wigram's eldest son, William Knox Wigram, born on 13 September 1825, became a...
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