Kenneth Knowles

'''Kenneth Davenport Knowles'''<ref>[http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-18856.html genealogical website]</ref> (9 March 1874 – 9 December 1944<ref>"Deaths", ''The Times'', 12 December 1944, p. 1.</ref>) was a priest of the Church of England.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33177/pages/4227/page.pdf ''London Gazette'', 29 June 1926]</ref> He was the Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 1921 to 1943.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ArchiveCatalogue/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Browse2.tcl&dsqItem=KAH%2F26%2F242%2F33&dsqKey=RefNo |title=Cambridgeshire Archives |access-date=15 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405140849/http://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ArchiveCatalogue/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Browse2.tcl&dsqItem=KAH%2F26%2F242%2F33&dsqKey=RefNo |archive-date=5 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Knowles was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, at Bedford School, and at Worcester College, Oxford.<ref>''Who was Who 1897–2007'', London, A & C Black, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> He was admitted as a solicitor in 1900<ref>''The Times'', 3 February 1900, p. 4, "The Law Society".</ref> before entering Ely Theological College in 1905. He was ordained the following year and his first curacy was at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire after which he was Rector of Woodwalton. He was a temporary chaplain<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29769/pages/9479/page.pdf 29 September 1916]</ref> to the British Armed Forces during World War I.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/greatwar/allied/huntingdonshirecyclistbattalion.html |title=war time memories |access-date=21 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330062136/http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/greatwar/allied/huntingdonshirecyclistbattalion.html |archive-date=30 March 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later he was Rector of Brampton, then Upton and finally Diddington.<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940–41'', Oxford, OUP, 1941</ref>

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