Edmund Knight (27 August 1827 – 9 June 1905) was an

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of the

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. He served as the Bishop of Shrewsbury from 1882 to 1895. Born in

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on 27 August 1827, he was

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to the priesthood on 19 December 1857. He was appointed an auxiliary bishop of

Diocese of Shrewsbury The Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury is a Roman Catholic diocese in the Province of Birmingham which encompasses the pre-1974 counties of Shropshire and Cheshire in the North West and West Midlands of England. The diocese includes rural are ...

and

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of ''Corycus'' on 30 May 1879. His

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to the

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took place on 27 July 1879, the principal

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was Cardinal

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, and the principal co-consecrators were

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, and

Edward Gilpin Bagshawe Edward Gilpin Bagshawe (12 January 1829 – 6 February 1915) was the third Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham. Life Bagshawe was born in London, 12 January 1829, the son of Henry Ridgard Bagshawe, a Judge of County Courts in Wales, and a con ...

, Bishop of Nottingham. Nearly three years later, he was appointed the Bishop of Shrewsbury on 25 April 1882. He resigned as Bishop of Shrewsbury on 28 May 1895, and appointed Titular Bishop of ''Flavias''. He died on 9 June 1905 at 25 Kensington Court, Kensington, London, aged 77, and was buried at

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