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Sir Henry Knollys of Kingsbury, Warwickshire (ca. 1542 – 21 December 1582) was an English courtier, privateer and Member of Parliament.
Sir Henry Knollys KCVO (20 June 1840 – 1 March 1930) was an officer in the Royal Artillery, British Army, and from 1896 to 1919 a private secretary to Princess Maud of Wales (from 1905 Queen of Norway).
Henry Knollys may refer to: Sir Henry Knollys (privateer) (c. 1542–1582), English privateer, courtier and MP for Reading and Oxfordshire. Henry Knollys (Portsmouth MP), MP for Portsmouth in 1547.
Sir Henry Knollys KCVO (20 June 1840 – 1 March 1930) was an officer in the Royal Artillery, British Army, and from 1896 to 1919 a private secretary to Princess Maud of Wales (from 1905 Queen of Norway). Knollys was the third and last surviving son of General the Right Hon. Sir William Thomas...
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Born: circa 1542 probably at Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire. Captain. Died: 21st December 1582 in the Netherlands. Henry Knollys was the eldest son of the Treasurer of the Royal Household, Sir Francis Knollys Senior, and his wife, Catherine Carey, a maternal cousin of Queen Elizabeth I.
Knollys succeeded in right of his wife to estates in Hemlingford, Kingsbury and Nuneaton, Warwickshire, much of it formerly monastic property, and to lands in Herefordshire and Leicestershire. He had a residence at Ewelme, Oxfordshire, and a house at Greenwich.
Major Henry Knollys surveys China as a combined inspection tour and sightseeing venture in which he looks for "faults and infractions, delineating them with his satirist's pen" (113).
