Knowles baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for the Knowles family, originally a branch of the Knollys family known as Knollys of Stanford. One is in the Baronetage of Great Britain, which is extant, and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, which is extinct.

Arms of Knowles baronets, of Lovell Hill: Azure a naval crown between four cross-crosslets in cross, all within a cross recercelée disjoined between as many crosses, all or. The naval crown, to honour the admirals, was adopted at some point after the third baronet.[1]

History

Earlier arms of Knowles baronets: Per pale, azure and gules, crusilly of nine cross-crosslets, a cross moline, voided or[2]

Ad Sir Charles Henry Knowles 2nd Bt

Ad. Sir Charles Knowles, 4th Bt

The Knowles Baronetcy, of Lovell Hill in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 31 October 1765 for Charles Knowles, Admiral of the White, Rear-Admiral of Great Britain, Governor of Jamaica and Member of Parliament for Gatton.[1]

He was a descendant of Charles Knowles or Knollys, titular fourth Earl of Banbury. The second Baronet was an admiral in the Royal Navy and created GCB. The third Baronet was a mathematician and Fellow of the Royal Society. The fourth Baronet was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy. The fifth Baronet was a prehistorian of note. The sixth Baronet was a Fellow of the Royal Society, Professor of Comparative Endocrinology at the University of Birmingham and Professor of Anatomy at King's College London. The seventh Baronet is a chartered architect whose London practice was established in 1984 as Charles Knowles Design, Architects.[1]

The Knowles Baronetcy, of Westwood and Turton Tower in the County of Lancaster, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 14 December 1903 for Lees Knowles, Conservative Member of Parliament for Salford West from 1886 to 1906. The title became extinct on his death in 1928.[3]

Knowles baronets, of Lovell Hill (1765)

Lovell Hill was the family residence at Cranbourne in Berkshire.[4]

• Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet (1704–1777)[1]
• Sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2nd Baronet (1754–1831)[1]
• Sir Francis Charles Knowles, 3rd Baronet (1802–1892)[1]
• Sir Charles George Frederick Knowles, 4th Baronet (1832–1917)[1]
• Sir Francis Howe Seymour Knowles, 5th Baronet (1886–1953)[1]
• Sir Francis Gerald William Knowles, 6th Baronet (1915–1974)[1]
• Sir Charles Francis Knowles, 7th Baronet (born 1951)[1]
  • (Charles) William Frederick Lance Knowles (born 1985), heir apparent[1]

Knowles baronets, of Westwood and Turton Tower (1903)

• Sir Lees Knowles, 1st Baronet (1857–1928)[3]

See also

• Earl of Banbury
• Viscount Knollys
• Knollys family

References

1. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2213. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
2. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1884. p. 302.
3. Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. pp. 1145–1146. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
4. Royal Berkshire History: Sir Charles Knowles 1697–1777