page_title: Frederick Knight (politician)
section_title: Marriage and progeny
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Knight (politician) / Marriage and progeny
caption_attribution_description: English: Christie's catalogue entry: "English School, 19th Century Portrait of a gentleman of the Knight family, bust-length, in a black coat and white shirt, an extensive landscape beyond". Sold with lots 132-136, portraits of Knight family, property of the Sebright Educational Trust. Possibly a portrait of Frederic Sebright Winn Knight (1851-1879), son of Sir Frederic Winn Knight (d.1879) whose portrait was sold as lot 134. oil on canvas 30 x 24½ in. (76.2 x 62.2 cm.)
context_page_description: Colonel Sir Frederick Winn Knight KCB was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1841 to 1885.
context_section_description: In 1850 Knight married Maria Louisa Couling Gibbs (d.1900), daughter of E. Gibbs.
  They had one son, who predeceased both his parents aged only 28. They do not appear to have had any daughters as is suggested by the selection of his nephew as Knight's heir.  Progeny:
  Frederic Sebright Winn Knight (1851–1879), JP, DL, who pre-deceased his parents. He was born at Wolverley and was appointed one of two Deputy Lieutenants for Somerset on 16 September 1878.
caption: "Portrait of a gentleman of the Knight family, bust-length, in a black coat and white shirt, an extensive landscape beyond"; English School, 19th century. (Christie's catalogue entry). Sold 8 January 2008 with four other portraits of Knight family, property of the Sebright Educational Trust. Possibly a portrait of one of the brothers of Sir Frederic Winn Knight (d.1897)
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