page_title: Frederick Knight (politician)
section_title: Origins
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Knight (politician) / Origins
caption_attribution_description: Lea Castle, Wolverley, Worcestershire
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: Frederick Knight was the eldest son of John Knight II (d.1850) of Lea Castle, Wolverley, (2 miles north of Kidderminster) Worcestershire and 26 miles east of Downton Castle) (built by his father John Knight I) and 52 Portland Place in London, by his wife Hon. Jane Elizabeth Allanson-Winn, daughter of George Allanson-Winn, 1st Baron Headley (1725–1798). His grandfather, John Knight I of Lea Castle was an ironmaster and the grandson of Richard Knight of 
  Downton Castle, Downton on the Rock, Herefordshire, (about five miles west of Ludlow, Shropshire) a magnate in the iron industry. He had at least two brothers:
  Charles Allanson Knight (1814–1879) who married Jessie Ramsay (1828–1922), daughter of William Ramsay (1800–1881) (a.k.a. Innes) of Barra, Inverurie, and widow of Count Alexander de Polignac(d.pre-1862). His children were under the guardianship of the Fane Family of Fulbeck Hall, Lincolnshire, between 1876–87. W.D. Fane wrote in his correspondence of Summer 1855 of visiting his friend "Knight" in Rome, probably at the house of John Knight II who had retired to Rome.
  Edward Lewis Knight (1817–1882), of Hornacott Manor, Boyton, Cornwall. He married three times:
  Firstly to Elizabeth Harris
  Secondly in 1868 to Henrietta Mary Sanford, by whom he had issue, see section below, heir.
  Thirdly 1877 to Edith Emma Butler (1851–1936)
caption: Lea Castle, Wolverley, postcard photograph c. 1900. Built after 1809 by John Knight I, ironmaster. Sold by his son John Knight II (1765-1850) in about 1818[2] to finance his purchase of Exmoor Forest. Demolished 1945 with the exception of the gatehouse which still stands. A series of watercolours c. 1816 of the interiors of Lea Castle attributed to the painter John Carter (1748-1817) is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Elisha Whittelsey Collection, no. 56.601(4)[3]
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