Henry Gally Knight
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Henry Gally Knight, FRS (December 2, 1786 – February 9, 1846), a country gentleman of Yorkshire, educated at Eton and Cambridge, was the author of several Oriental tales, Ilderim, a Syrian Tale (1816), Phrosyne, a Grecian Tale, and Alashtar, an Arabian Tale (1817). He was also an authority on architecture, and wrote various works on the subject, including The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy, and The Normans in Sicily, which brought him more reputation than his novels.
He owned Firbeck Hall in Rotherham. Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe is set nearby, and Knight may have been Scott's source of local information when he was writing the book. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society on 20 May 1841.[1]
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| Preceded by Henry Dawkins Henry Fynes |
Member of Parliament for Aldborough with Henry Fynes 1814–1815 |
Succeeded by Granville Venables Vernon Henry Fynes |
| Preceded by Francis Jeffrey John Charles Ramsden |
Member of Parliament for Malton with Francis Jeffrey 1831 William Cavendish 1831 Charles Pepys 1831–1832 1831–1832 |
Succeeded by William FitzWilliam Sir Charles Pepys, Bt |
This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
