George Wilfrid Holford Knight (23 April 1877 – 26 April 1936) was Liberal parliamentary candidate and later Labour Party then National Labour MP for

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. Knight was educated at the

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before becoming a barrister with

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. He was attached to the Central Criminal Court from 1911 to 1930, and then served as Recorder of

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from 1930 to 1937. He first fought

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in January 1910, and

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in 1918, both as a Liberal. He then moved to the Labour Party, contesting Hackney South twice in 1922, and Plymouth Devonport in 1924. He won Nottingham South for Labour from the Conservatives in 1929, held the seat as a National Labour candidate in 1931, but stood down in 1935.

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