Author: Knight, Henry Gally
Biography:
KNIGHT, Henry Gally (1786-1846: WBIS)
He was the only child of Selina (Fitzherbert) and Henry Gally Knight of Langold Hall, Yorkshire. His father was a barrister whose own father had added the surname Knight to his original name of Gally. They were landed gentry, well connected. Henry the younger was sent to Eton and Cambridge but left the university without a degree in 1808 when his father died and he inherited the family estates. He served as MP briefly 1814-15 and 1831-2, then settled into a North Nottinghamshire seat from 1835 until his death, shifting over time from liberal to conservative positions. In 1825 he married Henrietta (Eyre) Eyre, a widow; they had no children. In the 1830s he turned his attention to architecture and archaeology and produced his most influential works in prose, based on travels in Normandy and Italy. His last verse publication was a collection of Poems on Various Subjects (1837). He died in London, bequeathing most of his estates to charity. (ODNB 21 July 2019) HJ
Other Names:
- H. G. Knight