Major-General George Williams Knox CB (18 January 1838"Births". ''The Belfast Newsletter'' 30 January 1838. p. 4. – 6 March 1894) was a British soldier. Knox was born in

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the son of Brownlow Knox and Louisa Sutton. He was commissioned in the

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in January 1855 and served in the

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with the

. He commanded the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards during the Anglo-Egyptian War 1882. Knox was present at the

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and received a mention in despatches. Knox was created a

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in November 1882. On 30 April 1886, in Cottesmore, Rutland, Knox married Lady Sybil Emily Lowther, eldest daughter of

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. He died at

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in London on 6 March 1894. A stained glass window in the Church of St Nicholas, Cottesmore was "erected by his sorrowing and broken hearted wife" to his memory. The

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of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards were gifted to the church by his widow and hang in the nave.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Know, George Williams Scots Guards officers Companions of the Order of the Bath 1838 births 1894 deaths People from Leamington Spa British military personnel of the Crimean War