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Charles Knowles (golfer)
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Charles Knowles is the name of: * Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet (1704–1777), Royal Navy admiral *Sir Charles Knowles, 2nd Baronet (1754–1831), Royal Navy admiral *Sir Charles Knowles, 4th Baronet (1832–1917), Royal Navy admiral *Charles Knowles (British Army officer) (1835–1924), British general See also * Knollys family * Baron Knollys, subsidiary title to the Earl of Banbury created in the Peerage of England * Viscount Knollys, title created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom * Knollys baronets, two Baronetcies created in the Baronetage of Great Britain * Knowles (other) Knowles may refer to: People * Knowles (surname) Places in the United States * Knowles, California * Knowles, Oklahoma * Knowles, Wisconsin See also * Knowles Baronets There have been two baronetcies created for the Knowles family, originally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet
Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet (c. 1704 – 9 December 1777) was a British naval officer who served in the Royal Navy, seeing service during the War of Jenkins' Ear, the wider War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years' War. He also briefly served under the Imperial Russian Navy during the Russo-Turkish War. He rose to the rank of Admiral in a long and varied career, crowned with both success, and at times, controversy. He was highly educated, and particularly skilled in building and destroying fortifications. His career was mainly centred on the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea, where he commanded ships and squadrons in actions against both Spanish and French ships and settlements. Despite an active naval career in which he reached the rank of Rear-Admiral, Knowles found time to continue his studies. He translated foreign scientific studies, and developed his own inventions. His career at sea was blighted, however, by several failures. This may have been the catalyst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Knowles, 2nd Baronet
Sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2nd Baronet, GCB (24 August 1754 – 28 November 1831) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who saw service during the American War of Independence, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, eventually rising to the rank of Admiral. He was an extraordinary figure and a great tactical innovator. Highly intellectual, he authored a number of signal books and had the chance to put his ideas into practice during his naval career. Knowles was at times beset by problems with discipline aboard his ships, often due to large proportions of raw recruits and untrained seamen. This may have been a factor in his rocky relationship with his superior, Sir John Jervis, which eventually led to Knowles's retirement from active service after the Battle of Cape St Vincent, and his concentration on scholarly studies of the issues affecting the naval service. Family and early life Knowles was born at Kingston, Jamaica on 24 August 1754, the second son of the Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Knowles, 4th Baronet
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles George Frederick Knowles, 4th Baronet (14 March 1832 – 3 March 1917) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who saw service during the Second Burmese War and in command on the Niger expedition and quelling uprising at Santa Cruz, eventually rising to the rank of vice-admiral. Family and early life This family is descended from Charles Knollys, titular 4th Earl of Banbury temp James II. Knowles was born on 14 March 1832 at Vaynor Park, Berriew, Montgomeryshire, Wales, the son of Sir Francis Charles Knowles 3rd Baronet and his wife Emma Pocock, daughter of Sir George Pocock, 2nd Baronet. He was the fourth of his line since his great grandfather, Sir Charles Knowles, admiral, was created a baronet for purely naval services in 1765. His grandfather, Sir Charles Knowles, followed his own father's career, rising to Admiral, though his son, Knowles' father Sir Francis Charles Knowles, discarded a life in the service to devote himself to the pursuit of science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Knowles (British Army Officer)
Major-General Sir Charles Benjamin Knowles (1835–1924) was a British Army officer. Military career The son of John Knowles of Rugby, Warwickshire, he was commissioned into the 77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot in February 1855. He saw action in the Crimean War in 1855 and served as commanding officer of the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Charasiab in October 1879 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. In April 1886 Knowles became Adjutant-General of the Bombay Army, where he was succeeded in 1890 by William Forbes Gatacre. That year he was promoted Major-General. He was commander of British troops in Malta in January 1892. In October 1895 Knowles was made commander of the British Troops in Egypt. The appointment had a social dimension, and the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, had recommended Knowles or Reginald Thynne, on the grounds that they both had "very nice wives". In 1897 Knowles retired from the army. Knowles was knighted in 1903. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knollys Family
Knollys, Knolles or Knowles (), the name of an English family descended from Sir Thomas Knollys (died 1435), Lord Mayor of London, possibly a kinsman of the celebrated general Sir Robert Knolles. The next distinguished member of the family was Sir Francis Knollys or Knowles (c. 1514–1596), English statesman, son of Sir Robert Knollys, or Knolles (died 1521), a courtier in the service and favour of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Robert had also a younger son, Sir Henry, who took part in public life during the reign of Elizabeth I and who died in 1583. From the time of Sir Francis, the family were associated with Greys Court at Rotherfield Greys and Caversham Park, then in Oxfordshire, as well as the nearby town of Reading in Berkshire, where the family's private chapel could once be seen in the church of St Laurence. Lettice Knollys was pronounced the most prominent member of the family, from her birth in 1543 until her death in 1634 Sir Francis Knollys (c.1514–1596) Francis K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Knollys
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knight, but lower than a viscount or count. Often, barons hold their fief – their lands and income – directly from the monarch. Barons are less often the vassals of other nobles. In many kingdoms, they were entitled to wear a smaller form of a crown called a '' coronet''. The term originates from the Latin term , via Old French. The use of the title ''baron'' came to England via the Norman Conquest of 1066, then the Normans brought the title to Scotland and Italy. It later spread to Scandinavia and Slavic lands. Etymology The word ''baron'' comes from the Old French , from a Late Latin "man; servant, soldier, mercenary" (so used in Salic law; Alemannic law has in the same sense). The scholar Isidore of Seville in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
