Sir Norton Knatchbull, 1st Baronet (26 December 1602 – 3 February 1685) was an
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politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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at various times between 1640 and 1679.
Life
Knatchbull was born at
Mersham Hatch in
Kent
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, the second son of Thomas Knatchbull and his wife Eleanor Astley, daughter of John Astley. In April 1640, Knatchbull was elected
Member of Parliament
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for
Kent
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in the
Short Parliament
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Aft ...
. He was elected MP for
New Romney
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for the
Long Parliament
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in November 1640.
[History of Parliament Online – Knatchbull, Sir Norton, 1st Baronet]
/ref> He sat until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride's Purge
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Despite defeat in the ...
.[
In April 1660, Knatchbull was re-elected MP for New Romney in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for New Romney again in 1661 for the ]Cavalier Parliament
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and sat until 1679.[ Knatchbull was ]knighted
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, and on 4 August 1641, he was created a Baronet
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, of Mersham Hatch, in the County of Kent
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.
Works
In 1659 Knatchbull published ''Animadversiones in Libros Novi Testamenti. Paradoxæ Orthodoxæ, London. Guil. Godbid. in vico vulgo vocato Little-Brittain,'' 1659. The work consists of a large number of critical emendations, based on a knowledge of Hebrew. A second edition with appendix was published in 1672, a third, Oxford, 1677; a fourth edition, in English, appeared in 1692, entitled ''Annotations upon some difficult Texts in all the Books of the New Testament'', Cambridge, 1693; it is preceded by an ''Encomiastick upon the most Learned and Judicious Author'', by Thomas Walker of Sidney Sussex College
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. The original was reprinted at Amsterdam, and also at Frankfort, where it formed part of the supplement to Nikolaus Gürtler's edition of Brian Walton's ''Polyglot Bible''. 1695–1701. The work had a reputation for a century after its publication, and figures in a list of books annotated by Ambrose Bonwicke. John Kitto
John Kitto (4 December 1804 – 25 November 1854) was an English biblical scholar of Cornish descent.
Biography
Born in Plymouth, John Kitto was a sickly child, son of a Cornish stonemason. The drunkenness of his father and the poverty of his ...
, however, found Knatchbull's remarks superficial.
In 1680, Peter du Moulin the younger
Peter du Moulin (1601–1684) was a French-English Anglican clergyman, son of the Huguenot pastor Pierre du Moulin and brother of Lewis du Moulin. He was the anonymous author of ''Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus paricidas Anglicanos'', ...
dedicated to Knatchbull his ''Short View of the Chief Points in Controversy between the Reformed Churches and the Church of Rome'', a translation from an unprinted manuscript by his father, Peter du Moulin the elder
Pierre Du Moulin ( Latinized as Petrus Molinaeus; 16 October 1568 – 10 March 1658) was a Huguenot minister in France who also resided in England for some years.
Life
Born in Buhy in 1568, he was the son of Joachim Du Moulin, a Protestant mini ...
, which had been made over to him for purposes of publication by the baronet. James Duport
James Duport (; 1606, Cambridge17 July 1679, Peterborough) was an English classical scholar.
Life
His father, John Duport, who was descended from an old Norman family (the Du Ports of Caen, who settled in Leicestershire during the reign of Henr ...
, the tutor of his son John, addressed three Latin odes in his ''Musæ Subsecivæ'' to Knatchbull, who according to Ballard, himself acted as tutor to Dorothy, Lady Pakington
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.
Family
Knatchbull married firstly Dorothy Westtrow, daughter of Thomas Westtrow on 22 October 1630, and had by her three sons. He married secondly Dorothy Steward, widow of Sir Edward Steward and daughter of Sir Robert Honyewood at St Martin-in-the-Fields
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outside London
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on 27 November 1662.[ He was succeeded in the baronetcy successiveley by his sons ]John
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and Thomas.[
]
Legacy
The Norton Knatchbull School
The Norton Knatchbull School is a grammar school with academy status for boys located in Ashford, Kent, England. Girls are accepted into the Sixth Form. As of 2017, the school serves more than one thousand pupils aged 11 to 18.
History
The ...
, situated in Ashford, was founded by his uncle and namesake, Sir Norton Knatchbull (d.1636)
References
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1602 births
1685 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
People from Mersham
English MPs 1640 (April)
English MPs 1640–1648
English MPs 1660
English MPs 1661–1679