The Hon. William Stuart Knox
DL,
JP (11 March 1826 – 16 February 1900), was an Irish politician.
Background
Knox was a younger son of
Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly
Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly (19 April 1786 – 21 March 1858), styled Viscount Northland between 1831 and 1840, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.
Background
Ranfurly was the eldest son of Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly, and the Ho ...
, and Mary Juliana, daughter of the Most Reverend
William Stuart,
Archbishop of Armagh.
Political and military career
Knox was elected
Member of Parliament
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for
Dungannon in 1851 (succeeding his elder brother
Viscount Northland), a seat he held until 1874. He was a
Groom in Waiting The office of Groom in Waiting (sometimes hyphenated as Groom-in-Waiting) was a post in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, which in earlier times was usually held by more than one person at a time – in the late Middle Ages there might be d ...
to
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
in 1852 and 1853.
Commissioned into the
51st Foot, he retired as a
major in 1855. From 1867 he was Honorary Colonel in the Mid Ulster Artillery, and he served as a
Deputy Lieutenant and
Justice of the Peace for
County Tyrone
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.
Family
Knox married in 1856 Georgiana Rooper, daughter of
John Bonfoy Rooper
John Bonfoy Rooper (8 August 1778 – March 1855) was a British Member of Parliament.
Life
He was born the eldest son of John Rooper of Berkhampstead Castle, Hertfordshire and Abbots Ripton Hall, Huntingdonshire, and was educated at Rugby School ...
, of Ripton Hall,
Huntingdon
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. They had several children. He died at
Cheltenham on 16 February 1900, aged 73.
His wife survived him by 26 years and died in November 1926.
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1826 births
1900 deaths
Younger sons of earls
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tyrone constituencies (1801–1922)
UK MPs 1852–1857
UK MPs 1857–1859
UK MPs 1859–1865
UK MPs 1865–1868
UK MPs 1868–1874
Deputy Lieutenants of Tyrone
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