Kenneth Davenport Knowles[1] (9 March 1874 – 9 December 1944[2]) was a priest of the Church of England.[3] He was the Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 1921 to 1943.[4]
Knowles was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, at Bedford School, and at Worcester College, Oxford.[5] He was admitted as a solicitor in 1900[6] before entering Ely Theological College in 1905. He was ordained the following year and his first curacy was at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire after which he was Rector of Woodwalton. He was a temporary chaplain[7] to the British Armed Forces during World War I.[8] Later he was Rector of Brampton, then Upton and finally Diddington.[9]
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- ↑ genealogical website
- ↑ "Deaths", The Times, 12 December 1944, p1.
- ↑ London Gazette, 29 June 1926
- ↑ "Cambridgeshire Archives". http://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ArchiveCatalogue/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Browse2.tcl&dsqItem=KAH%2F26%2F242%2F33&dsqKey=RefNo.
- ↑ Who was Who 1897-2007, London, A & C Black, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- ↑ The Times, 3 February 1900, p4, "The Law Society".
- ↑ 29 September 1916
- ↑ "war time memories". http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/greatwar/allied/huntingdonshirecyclistbattalion.html.
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41, Oxford, OUP, 1941
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