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Joseph Knight (pastor)
Joseph Knight may refer to: * Joseph Knight (cricketer) (1896–1974), English cricketer * Joseph Knight (critic) (1829–1907), English dramatic critic and theatre historian * Joseph Knight (horticulturist) (1778–1855), gardener * Joseph Knight (slave), slave brought from Jamaica to Scotland ** ''Joseph Knight'' (novel), a 2003 historical novel by James Robertson * Joseph Knight (Royal Navy officer) (c. 1708–1775) * Joseph Knight Sr. (1772–1847), associate of Joseph Smith, early member of the Latter Day Saint movement * Joseph Philip Knight (1812–1887), British composer * Joseph Knight (vegetarian) (–1928), English activist and writer * Joe Knight (baseball) (1859–1938), Major League Baseball left fielder and pitcher * Joe Knight (boxer) (1909–1976), American boxer * For the plane crash victim and subject of an internet hoax, see Alaska Airlines Flight 261 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Licenciado Gustavo Día ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Knight (cricketer)
Joseph William Knight (20 September 1896 – 3 March 1974) was an English first-class cricketer. Knight was born at Highworth, Wiltshire in September 1896. While studying at the University of Cambridge he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Cambridge University against the British Army cricket team at Fenner's in 1921. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for a single run in the Cambridge first-innings by William Dickinson, while in their second-innings he was dismissed without scoring by Tom Jameson. Across the match he bowled 19 wicketless overs, conceding 53 runs. In addition to playing first-class cricket, Knight also played minor counties cricket for Wiltshire in 1920–23, making sixteen appearances in the Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship or National County Championship is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Knight (critic)
(John) Joseph Knight (1829–1907) was an English dramatic critic and theatre historian. Life Born at Leeds on 24 May 1829, he was elder son of Joseph Knight, a cloth merchant from Carlisle, Cumbria, Carlisle, and Marianne, daughter of Joseph Wheelwright. He was educated at Bramham College near Tadcaster. Joining his father in business at age 19, Knight began collecting books. With Alfred Austin, his junior by six years, he helped to found a Mechanics' Institute at Leeds, at which he lectured on literary subjects. On 7 April 1854 he lectured on ''The Fairies of English Poetry'' to the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. At Leeds, too, he made the acquaintance of William Edward Forster, who stayed at Knight's house while he was parliamentary candidate for the constituency in 1859. Knight seconded Forster's nomination. In 1860 Knight moved to London as a journalist. He found early employment as dramatic critic for the ''Literary Gazette'', through a chance meeting with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Knight (horticulturist)
Joseph Knight (7 October 1778 – 20 July 1855), gardener to George Hibbert, was one of the first people in England to successfully propagate Proteaceae. He is remembered as the nominal author of a publication that caused one of the biggest controversies of 19th-century English botany. Career Born in Brindle, Lancashire, he became head gardener to George Hibbert, who was an enthusiastic amateur botanist. Hibbert became caught up in the craze for cultivating Proteaceae, and as a result Knight became adept at their cultivation and propagation. He eventually set himself to write a book on their cultivation, which would be published in 1809 under the title ''On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae''. Despite the title, this book contained only 13 pages related to cultivation techniques, but over 100 pages of taxonomic revision. Although not explicitly attributed, this 100 page revision is known to have been contributed by Richard Anthony Salisbury, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Knight (slave)
Joseph Knight (''fl.'' 1769–1778) was a man born in Guinea (the general name of West Africa) and there seized into slavery. It appears that the captain of the ship which brought him to Jamaica there sold him to John Wedderburn of Ballindean, Scotland. Wedderburn had Knight serve in his household, and took him along when he returned to Scotland in 1769. On Knight leaving his service, Wedderburn had him arrested and brought before the local justices of the peace. Inspired by Somersett's Case (1772) in which the courts had held that slavery did not exist under English common law, Knight resisted his claim. Knight won his claim after two appeals in a case that established the principle that Scots law would not uphold the institution of slavery (except in the case of enslaved colliers and salters, who had to wait until 1799 for emancipation). Early life Joseph Knight was born in Guinea, according to the pleadings submitted on his behalf in the Court of Session; it is not known t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Knight (novel)
''Joseph Knight'' is a historical novel by Scottish author James Robertson published in 2003 by Fourth Estate. It was the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year in 2003 and won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award in 2004. The novel is based on the true story of Joseph Knight, an enslaved African man brought from Jamaica to Scotland, and the novel revolves primarily around the cities of Dundee, near where Robertson was then living, and Edinburgh. Plot introduction The narrative begins in 1802 with elderly John Wedderburn on his Ballindean estate, near Inchture in Perthshire, who has been unsuccessfully trying to find the whereabouts of Joseph Knight, a slave he brought back to Scotland with him from his Sugar plantations in Westmoreland, Jamaica. Joseph had successfully gained his freedom from Wedderburn in a famous court case settled in 1778 in which it was decided that the slave laws of Jamaica did not apply in Scotland. After gaining his freedom though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Knight (Royal Navy Officer)
Rear-Admiral Sir Joseph Knight (c.1708 – 8 September 1775) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station from 1752 to 1754. Naval career Knight joined the Royal Navy in 1727. Promoted to captain on 31 July 1746, he was given command of the fourth-rate and then, later that year, the fourth-rate , in which he took part in the raid on Lorient in September 1746 and then sailed out to the far east and served as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station from 1752 to 1754. He went on to command, successively, the fifth-rate , the third-rate (in which he took part in the capture of Gorée in 1758), the fourth-rate , the third-rate (in which he took part in the siege of Havana in 1762), the third-rate and the second-rate In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a second-rate was a ship of the line which by the start of the 18th century mounted 90 to 98 guns on three gun decks; earlier 17th-century second rates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Knight Sr
Joseph is a common male name, derived from the Hebrew (). "Joseph" is used, along with " Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled , . In Kurdish (''Kurdî''), the name is , Persian, the name is , and in Turkish it is . In Pashto the name is spelled ''Esaf'' (ايسپ) and in Malayalam it is spelled ''Ousep'' (ഔസേപ്പ്). In Tamil, it is spelled as ''Yosepu'' (யோசேப்பு). The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Philip Knight
Joseph Philip Knight (Bradford-on-Avon, 26 July 1812 – Great Yarmouth, 1 June 1887) was a British clergyman, singer and one of Britain's most popular song composers. He published over 200 songs, first under the name Philip Mortimer then under his own name. Knight was the son of an Anglican clergyman, Rev. Francis Knight, and went to America in 1829 to sing and teach music.Daniel Mendoza de Arce - Music in North America and the West Indies from the ... 2006 0810852527 Page 191 "Joseph Philip Knight (1812-1887) was a singer and Anglican minister, and a very successful composer of songs in England, such as "The Grecian Daughter" and "She Wore a ..." He set many of the lyrics of Thomas Haynes Bayly, and Thomas Moore Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852), was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist who was widely regarded as Ireland's "National poet, national bard" during the late Georgian era. The acclaim rested primarily on the popularity of his ''I ... wrote the words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Knight (vegetarian)
Joseph Knight (1854 – January 1928) was an English activist, writer, and lecturer. He played a prominent role in the late 19th and early 20th-century vegetarian and temperance movements in the United Kingdom. He served as secretary of the Vegetarian Society from 1885 to 1895 and founded the Scottish Vegetarian Society in 1883. A prolific pamphleteer and public speaker, Knight advocated a plant-based diet on ethical, health, and economic grounds. He also edited ''The Daisy Basket'', the first British vegetarian magazine for children, and contributed widely to vegetarian and reformist periodicals. Biography Early life Knight was born around 1854 in Spitalfields, Middlesex, the son of William and Eliza Knight. He was a member of the Band of Hope from the age of six. Activism As an adult, Knight became a passionate and well-known promoter of temperance and vegetarianism. He defined vegetarianism as the practice of living on products of the vegetable kingdom with or with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Knight (baseball)
Jonah William "Quiet Joe" Knight (September 28, 1859 – October 16, 1938) was a professional baseball player. He played two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Quakers (NL), Philadelphia Quakers (1884) and Cincinnati Reds (1890), primarily as a left fielder. A native of Port Stanley, Ontario, Knight came up to the big leagues as a pitcher in 1884. In six starts for the Quakers he won 2, lost 4, and had an earned run average of 5.47 in 51 innings. He strikeouts, struck out 8 and bases on balls, walked 21. Six years later he returned to the major leagues, this time as an outfielder. As the everyday left fielder for the 77–55 Reds, he finished sixth in the National League (baseball), National League with a .312 batting average (baseball), batting average, hit 4 home runs, and drove in 67 run (baseball), runs. He also ranked sixth in the league with 26 double (baseball), doubles. His final major league appearance was October 3, 1890 at the age of 31. His two-sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Knight (boxer)
Joe Knight, (January 15, 1909 – July 1, 1976) was an American boxer born in Cairo, GA. The National Boxing Association awarded Knight the World Light Heavyweight title in 1933. Early life Knight was born on January 15, 1909, in Cairo, Georgia. He turned pro in 1927, and knocked out "Battleship Sword" in the fall of that year. Early career, 1931-2 On May 22, 1931, New York native Yale Okun became his fifth round knockout victim in Miami. The final blow was a straight right to the jaw. Knight battered Okun with his left for four rounds before ending the bout in the fifth. Knight gained revenge against Spike Webb in ten rounds in Miami on August 7, though knocked to the mat in the fourth. He had lost to Webb the previous month, taking a knockdown in the first. Knight won an unpopular decision over Tony Cancela on January 7, 1932, in Miami. Cancela drilled staggering rights to the head of a groggy Knight in the closing round. Many ringside believed Cancela, the bout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
