Knight, Samuel, 1677-1746 (Church of England clergyman and antiquary)
Dates
- Existence: 1677 - 1746
Biography
Samuel Knight (1677-1746), Canon of Ely and rector of Bluntisham, Hunts was born in London and educated at St Paul's School and Trinty College, Cambridge. He graduated BA during the year 1702-3, MA in 1706, and DD in 1717, and was later incorporated at Oxford in 1740. He was ordained priest in 1704 and held a number of church positions in East Anglia. He was a keen collector of manuscripts and antiquary and counted amongst his acquaintances many of the foremost antiquarian scholars of the age, including William Cole, Edmund Gibson, Thomas Tanner, White Kennett and Thomas Baker. He died in 1746.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of sermons in various hands, including those of Simon Patrick and Samuel Knight.
Henry Smyth: Commonplace Book
John Patrick and Simon Patrick: List of texts of sermons
John Patrick: Collections and miscellaneous works
John Patrick: Notes on and extracts from classical and other authors
Miscellaneous collection of documents chiefly relating to the Cathedral and Diocese of Ely, and to the University of Cambridge
Compiled by Samuel Knight DD. Includes statutes, copies of surveys, rentals, plans, notes on Robert Grossteste, charters, list of churches, biographical notes and lists of members of the church, notes on tenants and rents, testimonials to college figures, wills relating to College benefactions, orations, speeches to University of Cambridge Senate, lists of College fellows, copies of decrees relating to University of Cambridge.
Richard Hollwaye: Collection of 1,000 numbered theological extracts.
Samuel Knight: biography of John Strype
Autograph.
Samuel Knight: Collection of sermons
Samuel Knight: Collection of sermons
Samuel Knight: Collection of various biographies
Samuel Knight: Collections for a life of Simon Patrick, bishop of Ely
Samuel Knight: Life of Dr John Colet
Samuel Knight: Notes on Cambridgeshire churches
Simon Patrick: Commonplace Book
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- Sermons 7
- Cambridgeshire 1
- Churches 1
- Ely, Cambridgeshire 1
- Poetry 1