The King Family of Kirkby Malham, Askham, Umberslade & Chadshunt & the Knight Family of Barrells

By Walter King

The story of two very different families connected by marriage. The King family came from Yorkshire - were Protestant, parliamentarian, and active in politics, the church and the law during the eighteenth century. Edmund Burke was a close friend and mentor. In the nineteenth century they produced a bishop who is one of the few people since the Reformation to have the status of "saint" in the Church of England. The Knight family were merchants and bankers. Robert Knight was one of the architects of the South Sea Bubble. His granddaughter's affairs were the talk of the town during the 1750s and 1760s and her son was guardian of the French Royal family in the Temple prison in 1792-3, a member the Central Revolutionary Committee in Paris and narrowly escaped the guillotine. A later Robert Knight was a friend of Sir Francis Burdett, Horne Tooke and William Godwin, though the details of his disastrous marriage provided entertainment for the readers of the Morning Post during the second and third decades of the nineteenth century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1660153549
• ISBN13: 9781660153541
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"