Family. When on a visit to her and King Edward VII at Sandringham in 1903 he was made K.C.V.O. In his last years he had a house at Brighton as well an in London. He died at Brighton of heart failure on 13 Feb. 1908, and was buried in the extramural cemetery there.
Knowles was twice married: (1) in 1861 to Jane Emma, daughter of the Rev. Abraham Borradaile; (2) in 1865 to Isabel Mary, daughter of Henry William Hewlett. His second wife survived him with three daughters. His pictures and works of art were dispersed by sale at Christie's 26–29 May 1908.
[A short autobiographical MS. kindly lent by Lady Knowles; The Times, 14 Feb. 1908; Journal Roy. Institute Brit. Architects, Feb. 1908; Tennyson and his Friends, ed. Lord Tennyson, 1911; Lord Ronald Gower's Old Diaries, 1902. For the Metaphysical Society see Knowles's prefatory note to R. H. Hutton's paper, The Metaphysical Society, a Reminiscence (Nineteenth Century, Aug. 1885); Ruskin's Works, ed. E. T. Cook and Wedderburn, xxxiv. pp. xxviii–xxix; Macdonald's Life of W. C. Magee, i. 284; Tennyson's Life, 2 vols. 1897; Leslie Stephen's Life of Sir J. Fitzjames Stephen, 1895.]
KNOX, Mrs. ISA, born Craig (1831–1903), poetical writer, only child of John Craig, hosier and glover, was born in Edinburgh, 17 Oct. 1831. In childhood she lost both parents, and was reared by her grandmother, leaving school in her tenth year. A close study of standard English authors developed literary tastes; and, after contributing verses to the 'Scotsman' with the signature 'Isa,' she was regularly employed on the paper in 1853. Coming to London in 1857 she was appointed secretary to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, and held the position till she married, in May 1866, her cousin, John Knox, an iron merchant of London. In 1858 she won with a resonant ode a prize of 50l. offered at the Crystal Palace for a centenary poem on Burns. There were 621 candidates, among them being Frederic William Henry Myers [q. v. Suppl. I], Gerald Massey [q. v. Suppl. II], and Arthur Joseph Munby [q. v. Suppl. II]. After her marriage she contributed occasionally to 'Fraser,' 'Good Words,' and the 'Quiver,' edited the 'Argosy' for a short time, and published some volumes of poems and juvenile histories. She died at Brockley, Suffolk, on Dec. 1903.
In verse Mrs. Knox produced nothing that surpassed the Burns ode. Her first volume, 'Poems by Isa' (1866), showed some promise, and some lyric Quality appeared in 'Poems: an Offering to Lancashire' (1863); 'Duchess Agnes, a Drama and other Poems' (1864); and 'Songs of Consolation' (1874). Dr. A. H. Japp edited a 'Selection from Mrs. Knox's Poems' in 1892. Of Mrs. Knox's prose work 'The Essence of Slavery' (1863) summarised F. A. Kemble's 'Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation,' and 'Esther West' (1870; 6th edit. 1884) was a well-constructed story. Mrs. Knox's 'Little Folk's History of England' (1872) reached its 30th thousand in 1899, and the author adapted from it a successful 'Easy History for Upper Standards' (1884). 'Tales on the Parables,' two series, appeared in 1872–7.
[Rogers's Modern Scottish Minstrel; Grant Wilson's Poets and Poetry of Scotland; Edwards's Modern Scottish Poets, 2nd series, Brechin, 1881; Burns Centenary Poems, 1859; Miles's Poets and Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, vol. ix.; information from Dr. A. H. Millar, Dundee; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
KYNASTON (formerly Snow), HERBERT (1835–1910), canon of Durham and classical scholar, born in London on 29 June 1835, was second son of Robert Snow by his wife Georgina, daughter of Roger Kynaston and sister of Herbert Kynaston [q. v.], high-master of St. Paul's school. His maternal grandmother was Georgina, daughter of Sir Charles Oakeley [q. v.], governor of Madras. From 1844 to 1847 Herbert Snow was at a private school at Beaconsfield, and from 1847 to 1853 was an oppidan at Eton, where he was among the selected candidates for the Newcastle scholarship, and made his mark on the football field and the river, rowing in both the Britannia and Monarch. In 1853 he gained a scholarship at St. John's College, Cambridge. His university career was brilliant and exceptionally versatile. In 1855 he won the Porson scholarship, which was then awarded for the first time, together with Camden's gold medal for Latin hexameters and Browne's gold medal for Latin alcaic ode, and in 1867 he was bracketed senior classic with (Sir) John Robert Seeley [q. v.] and two others. He became fellow of St. John's college on 22 March 1858, graduating B.A. in 1857 and proceeding M.A. in 1860 when he vacated the fellowship on his marriage. Nor was it only in scholarship that Snow excelled as an undergraduate. He rowed seven in the university boat in the Oxford
