Sir Henry Knollys KCVO (20 June 1840 – 1 March 1930) was an officer in the Royal Artillery, British Army, and from 1896 to 1919 a private secretary to...
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William Thomas Knollys KCB PC (1 August 1797 – 23 June 1883) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the 1860s. Born into the Knollys family, he...
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Henry Knollys, 1st Baronet (c. 1611–1648), of the Knollys baronets Henry Knollys (St Ives MP) (1689–1747), MP for St Ives 1722–24 Sir Henry Knollys (British...
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Gordon Sherwin Knight Brigadier-General Henry Lewkenor Knight General William Knollys General Sir William Thomas Knollys Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Edwin...
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generals in the British Army since the Acts of Union 1707. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the...
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Duke of Newcastle, then secretary of state for war, with William Thomas Knollys and Sir George Maclean, to report on the organisation of the French ministère...
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Hope Grant (category British Army generals)
General Sir James Hope Grant, GCB (22 July 1808 – 7 March 1875) was a British Army officer. He served in the First Opium War, First Anglo-Sikh War, Indian Rebellion...
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Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (category British Army personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars)
November 1773 – 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer, he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in...
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Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham (category British Army personnel of the Anglo-Zulu War)
GCVO, KCSI, KCMG, ISO, PC (18 June 1849 – 31 March 1931) was a British Army officer and courtier. He was Private Secretary to Queen Victoria during the...
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(Coldstream Guards) Norton Knatchbull, 6th Baron Brabourne Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore Anthony Lowther, Viscount...
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1868) 4 February Armine Simcoe Henry Mountain, British Army officer, Adjutant-General in India (died 1854) Frederick Henry Yates, actor and theatre manager...
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Edward VII (redirect from Edward VII of Britain)
public knowledge and had forbidden Knollys, who was an active Liberal peer, from voting for the budget, although Knollys had suggested that this would be...
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was a Home Command of the British Army. After the success of the Chobham Manoeuvres of 1853, reformers of the British Army decided to create a permanent...
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George V (redirect from George V of Great Britain and Ireland)
private secretaries, the Liberal Lord Knollys and the Unionist Lord Stamfordham, gave George conflicting advice. Knollys advised George to accept the Cabinet's...
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Scots Guards (category British Army)
1841–1844: Col. William Henry Scott 1844–1850: Col. Berkeley Drummond 1850–1853: Col. William Thomas Knollys 1853–1854: Col. Henry Robert Colville 1854–1854:...
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Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (category British bisexual men)
Lord Knollys, 27 November 1904, Journals and Letters Arnold-Foster, Diary, 25 January 1905 Edward VII to Balfour, RA R 25/68, 69 Esher to Knollys, 18 October...
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H. H. Asquith (redirect from Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith)
Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith KG, PC, KC, FRS (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British...
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Tyrwhitt (1860–1922), who married Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, the son of Sir William Thomas Knollys, of Blount's Court. Hon. Philip Bourchier...
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List of Old Harrovians (category Use British English from November 2019)
Henry Wilbraham (1825–1883), English mathematician Arthur Kett Barclay (1806–1869), British astronomer James Capper (1743–1825), British army officer...
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Bishop of the Isles and commendator of Arbroath and Iona Sir William Knollys, Lord St. John, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, prior of Torphichen Preceptory...
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Simonds d'Ewes (category Use British English from November 2012)
daughter of Sir Henry Willoughby, 1st Baronet of Risley, Derbyshire and his first wife Elizabeth Knollys, daughter of Sir Henry Knollys. By Elizabeth,...
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Black Rod (redirect from Serjeant at Arms of the British House of Lords)
retired senior officers from the Royal Navy, the British Army and the Royal Air Force. It is now advertised openly. Black Rod is an officer of the English...
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Carlisle Castle (category Use British English from March 2017)
Scots was imprisoned within the castle, in the Warden's Tower. Francis Knollys described her watching two football matches on a playing green outside...
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Jasper Nicolls (category British East India Company Army generals)
they went on to have one son and eight daughters. Knollys & Lunt 2004. Knollys 1895, p. 50. Knollys 1895, pp. 50–51. "93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment...
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Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet (category British Life Guards officers)
Rich, 4th Baronet (3 July 1685 – 1 February 1768) was a British cavalry officer. As a junior officer he fought at the Battle of Schellenberg and at the Battle...
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Charles Augustus FitzRoy (category British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
16 February 1858) was a British Army officer, politician and colonial administrator who held governorships in several British colonies during the 19th...
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Kuwait, British protectorate Emirs Mubarak al-Lahab Al Sabah, Emir (1896–1915) British political agents William Henry Irvine Shakespear, British political...
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The 2nd Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was formed and disestablished numerous times between 1809 and 2012. It was...
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George Maclean (commissary general) (category British Army Commissariat officers)
Sir George Maclean KCB (1795-1861) was a Commissary General in the British Army. Born in Dysart, Fife, in 1795, George Maclean was the son of William Maclean...
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Licence Officer, Worcestershire County Council. Henry Benjamin Stone, Chairman, Nottingham Food Control Committee. Ross Lewis Stubbs, Secretary, British Non-Ferrous...
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