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Knollys' contribution reappeared as 'Speeches used in the Parliament by Sir Francis Knoles' in William Stoughton's 'Assertion for True and Christian Church Policie' (London, 1642). Throughout 1589 and 1590, Sir Francis was seeking, in correspondence with Burghley , to convince the latter of the impolicy of adopting Whitgift 's theory of the divine right of bishops.
When Sir Francis Knollys I was born in 1514, in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England, his father, Sir Robert Knollys, was 33 and his mother, Lady Lettice Peniston, was 33. He married Lady Catherine Carey on 26 April 1540, in England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 8 daughters.
Sir Francis Knollys was fifth in decent from him. Henry VIII extended to Francis Knollys the favour that he had shown to his father and, in 1538, secured for him his the estate of Rotherfield Greys. Acts of Parliament in 1541 and in 1546 attested to this grant, in the second act making his wife joint-tenant with him.
When Sir Francis Knollys I was born in 1514, in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England, his father, Sir Robert Knollys, was 33 and his mother, Lady Lettice Peniston, was 33. He married Lady Catherine Carey on 26 April 1540, in England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 8 daughters.
Francis was the sixth son of the Treasurer of England, Sir Francis Knollys Senior of Greys' Court in Oxfordshire, and his wife, Catherine Carey, a maternal cousin of Queen Elizabeth I. From the age of about twenty-two, Francis was elected MP for Oxford, where his father was high steward, and he served the city in Parliament for the next twenty years.
Sir Francis Knollys, 1 st Viscount Knollys (1837-1924), was Private Secretary and keeper of secrets for King Edward VII as Prince of Wales and monarch. A Sandhurst man, Knollys became Secretary to the Treasurer of the Prince of Wales in 1862. His father General William Knollys had been appointed by Queen Victoria as Comptroller and Treasurer of ...
Viscount Knollys. Francis Knollys, 1. Viscount Knollys, GCB, GCVO, KCMG, ISO, PC (* 16. Juli 1837; † 15. August 1924) war von 1901 bis 1913 der Privatsekretär der britischen Könige Eduard VII. und Georg V.
