William Knollys (died 1834)
William Knollys may refer to: * William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury (1544–1632), English nobleman * William Knollys (Oxfordshire MP, died 1664), MP for Oxfordshire, 1663–1664 * William Knollys (Banbury MP) (1694–1740), MP for Banbury, 1733–40, who claimed the courtesy title of Viscount Wallingford * Sir William Knollys (British Army officer) (1797–1883), British general and courtier See also * Knollys family Knollys, Knolles or Knowles (), the name of an English family descended from Sir Thomas Knollys (died 1435), Lord Mayor of London, possibly a kinsman of the celebrated general Sir Robert Knolles. The next distinguished member of the family was Sir ...

William Knollys, 1st Earl Of Banbury
William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury, KG, PC (1544 – 25 May 1632) was an English nobleman at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Biography He was the son of Sir Francis Knollys, of Greys Court in Oxfordshire, and of Reading, in Berkshire, and his wife, Catherine Carey. Knollys was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Stafford in 1571, Tregony from 1572–81 and 1583–84 and for Oxfordshire from 1584–1586, 1592–1593 and 1601. In 1584 he was made castellan of Wallingford Castle. In 1596 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, a position he held until his death. In 1586 he served as a captain in the Netherlands under his brother-in-law Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who knighted him. William inherited both Greys Court and the rebuilt Caversham Park mansion on the death of his father in 1596. He often resided at Caversham, entertaining both Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Anne of Denmark there. He was first married to Dorothy Bray, daughter of Edmund Bra ...
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William Knollys (Oxfordshire MP, Died 1664)
William Knollys may refer to: * William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury (1544–1632), English nobleman * William Knollys (Oxfordshire MP, died 1664), MP for Oxfordshire, 1663–1664 * William Knollys (Banbury MP) (1694–1740), MP for Banbury, 1733–40, who claimed the courtesy title of Viscount Wallingford * Sir William Knollys (British Army officer) (1797–1883), British general and courtier See also * Knollys family Knollys, Knolles or Knowles (), the name of an English family descended from Sir Thomas Knollys (died 1435), Lord Mayor of London, possibly a kinsman of the celebrated general Sir Robert Knolles. The next distinguished member of the family was Sir ...

Oxfordshire (UK Parliament Constituency)
Oxfordshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It was represented by two Members of Parliament. In 1832 this was increased to three Members of Parliament. The constituency was abolished in 1885, being split into three single member divisions. The bitterly contested Oxfordshire election of 1754 was the main inspiration for Hogarth's famous series of paintings and engravings, ''The Election''. Boundaries The constituency comprised the whole of the historic county of Oxfordshire, in the northern part of South East England. (Although Oxfordshire contained three parliamentary boroughs for part of this period – Oxford (from 1295), Woodstock (or New Woodstock) (1302–1555 and from 1571) and Banbury (from 1554) – each of which elected MPs in their own right, these were not excluded from the county constituency, a ...
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William Knollys (Banbury MP)
William Knollys (15 October 1694 – 6 June 1740), known as Viscount Wallingford, of St George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1733 to 1740. Knollys was the eldest surviving son of Charles Knollys of Oxfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Lister, daughter of Michael Lister of Burwell, Lincolnshire. He joined the army and was ensign in Colonel Pocock's regiment in 1715 and cornet in the 2nd Dragoon Guards in 1718 of which he was lieutenant in 1727. He married his first cousin, Mary Catherine Law, daughter of John Law, director general of the French finances, and his aunt Catherine Knollys. Knollys' father claimed to be descended from William Knollys MP, the 1st Earl of Banbury, and called himself the 4th Earl, while his son took the courtesy title of Viscount Wallingford. However, the father's claim had been rejected by the House of Lords in 1697. Knollys stood unsuccessfully for Banbury at a by-election ...
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William Knollys (British Army Officer)
General Sir William Thomas Knollys (1 August 1797 – 23 June 1883) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the 1860s. Military career Born into the Knollys family, he was the son of General William Woods Knollys and Charlotte Martha Blackwell. He was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was styled Viscount Wallingford until 1813, when his father's claim to the Earldom of Banbury was rejected. Knollys was commissioned into the 3rd Foot Guards in 1813 and fought in the Peninsular War later that year. In 1854 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey and then in 1855 he became the first General Officer Commanding Aldershot Division and was allocated the task of organising his troops into Divisions and Brigades. Having achieved this task he was made President of the Council of Military Education in 1861. He held the colonelcy of the 62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot from 1858 until its amalgamation into the Duke o ...
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