# Kenneth Knowles

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'''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](/source/The_Times)'', 12 December 1944, p. 1.</ref>) was a priest of the [Church of England](/source/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](/source/Archdeacon) of [Huntingdon](/source/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](/source/The_King's_School%2C_Canterbury), at [Bedford School](/source/Bedford_School), and at [Worcester College, Oxford](/source/Worcester_College%2C_Oxford).<ref>''[Who was Who 1897–2007](/source/Who's_Who)'', London, [A & C Black](/source/A_%26_C_Black), 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> He was admitted as a [solicitor](/source/solicitor) in 1900<ref>''[The Times](/source/The_Times)'', 3 February 1900, p. 4, "The Law Society".</ref> before entering [Ely Theological College](/source/Ely_Theological_College) in 1905. He was [ordained](/source/ordained) the following year and his first curacy was at [Ramsey, Huntingdonshire](/source/Ramsey%2C_Cambridgeshire) after which he was [Rector](/source/Rector_(ecclesiastical)) of [Woodwalton](/source/Woodwalton). He was a temporary [chaplain](/source/chaplain)<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29769/pages/9479/page.pdf 29 September 1916]</ref> to the [British Armed Forces](/source/British_Armed_Forces) during [World War I](/source/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](/source/Brampton%2C_Cambridgeshire), then [Upton](/source/Upton%2C_Huntingdonshire) and finally [Diddington](/source/Diddington).<ref>''[Crockford's Clerical Directory](/source/Crockford's_Clerical_Directory) 1940–41'', Oxford, [OUP](/source/OUP), 1941</ref>

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