Edmund Knox (English Bishop)
Edmund Arbuthnott Knox (6 December 1847 – 16 January 1937) was the fourth Bishop of Manchester, from 1903 to 1921. He was described as a prominent evangelical. Born in Bangalore, the second son of Reverend George Knox and Mary Anne Reynolds and educated at St Paul's and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1872 and began his ecclesiastical career with a period as Fellow, Tutor, and Dean of Merton College, Oxford. He was also rector of St Wilfrid's Church in Kibworth from 1884 to 1891, and afterwards Archdeacon of Birmingham. Knox was the author of a distinguished history of the Oxford Movement written from an unsympathetic Evangelical viewpoint.
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