Colonel Sir Frederick Winn Knight was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1841 to 1885.
Portrait of Frederic Winn Knight as a young man
Lea Castle, Wolverley, postcard photograph c. 1900. Built after 1809 by John Knight I, ironmaster. Sold by his son John Knight II (1765-1850) in about 1818 to finance his purchase of Exmoor Forest. Demolished 1945 with the exception of the gatehouse which still stands. A series of watercolours c. 1816 of the interiors of Lea Castle attributed to the painter John Carter (1748-1817) is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Elisha Whittelsey Collection, no. 56.601(4)
"Has sat for three and forty years". Caricature of Frederick Winn Knight, MP, by Spy published in Vanity Fair, 1884
Simonsbath House, today the Simonsbath House Hotel
John Knight (Exmoor pioneer)
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John Knight of Lea Castle, Wolverley, of 52 Portland Place in London, and of Simonsbath House, Exmoor, Somerset, was an agricultural pioneer who commenced the reclamation of the barren moorland of the
Stock-proof hedgebank erected circa 1824 by John Knight, this particularly well-preserved section separating the Forest of Exmoor from the manor of North Molton, to the west (left)
1st of 21 sketches by Edward Lear, documenting his Italian tour with his friend Charles Knight. Caption: "L & K leave Frascati, July 28th 1842, Villa Taverna. L contemplates a ferocious horse with feelings of distrust". British Museum, London