{{Short description|British sportsman, amateur naturalist and author (1808-1886)}} '''Arthur Edward Knox''' (28 December 1808, Dublin – 23 December 1886) was a British sportsman, amateur naturalist, author of three books, and one of the founders of the British Ornithological Union.<ref name=IbisSuppl>{{cite journal|title=Obituary: Mr. A. E. Knox|journal=Ibis |volume=2|issue=Supplement|year=1908|series=Ninth Series|pages=103–104|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3977188;view=1up;seq=137}}</ref>
A. E. Knox graduated M.A. from Brasenose College in the University of Oxford. He obtained a commission in the Second Regiment of Life Guards, from which he resigned about 1835 when he married Lady Jane Parsons, a daughter of Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse. The marriage produced three daughters and two sons, one of whom was Lawrence E. Knox.
A. E. Knox was a country gentleman who lived in Sussex and Surrey and contributed notes to ''The Zoologist''. His 1849 book ''Ornithological Rambles in Sussex'' received a favourable review from his friend and country-neighbour, Bishop Wilberforce, helping the sale of the book so that a second edition appeared in 1850 and a third edition in 1855. In November 1858 Knox became one of the founders of the British Ornithological Union.<ref name=IbisSuppl/> There were favourable reviews for his 1872 book ''Autumns on the Spey'' dealing with salmon-fishing and deer-stalking in the vicinity of the River Spey;<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''Autumns on the Spey'' by A. E. Knox|journal=The Quarterly Review|volume=134|date=April 1873|pages=391–415|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mXw-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA391|last1=Gifford|first1=William|last2=Coleridge|first2=Sir John Taylor|last3=Lockhart|first3=John Gibson|last4=Elwin|first4=Whitwell|last5=MacPherson|first5=William|last6=Smith|first6=William|last7=(Iv)|first7=Sir John Murray|last8=Ernle)|first8=Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron|last9=Prothero|first9=George Walter}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Knox's ''Autumns on the Spey''|journal=The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance|volume=34|pages=371–372|date=7 September 1872|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6F4wAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA321}}</ref> the book is based upon letters written by Knox to friends in England when he was staying, during several autumns, at Gordon Castle as a guest of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond.
==Selected publications== *{{cite book|title=Ornithological Rambles in Sussex|year=1849|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007924275}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of '' Ornithological Rambles in Sussex, with a Systematic Catalogue of the Birds of that County, and Remarks on their local Distribution'' by A. E. Knox|journal=The Quarterly Review|volume=85|date=June 1849|pages=475–490|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000020227531;view=1up;seq=487}}</ref> *{{cite book|title=Game birds and wild fowl, their friends and their foes|year=1850|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006519634}} *{{cite book|title=Autumns on the Spey|year=1872|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006515834}}
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