Wyndham William Knight

Wyndham William Knight (5 December 1828 – 17 September 1918), known in some sources as Wiliam Wyndham Knight,[upper-alpha 1] was an English amateur cricketer who played in one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1862.

Knight was born at Chawton in Hampshire in 1828[3] and educated at Winchester College.[4] He is known to have played cricket twice for the amateur Gentlemen of Kent side in the 1850s before making his only first-class appearance for the county side in 1862 against Sussex.[5] He was one of the founders of the Band of Brothers, an amateur cricket club closely associated with Kent.[6][7][8]

Knight lived at Bilting House near Godmersham in Kent for most of his adult life, although he is known to have owned property in Hampshire.[9] In 1846 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, serving in the regiment until 1854, commanding a company at the Battle of Boomplaats in South Africa in 1848 and rising to the rank of lieutenant.[4][10][11][12][13] He later served with the Royal East Kent Yeomanry between 1856 and 1862, rising to the rank of captain.[4][12][14] He was a magistrate and a justice of the peace, married Henrietta Armstrong and had two children.[4][9][12][14]

Knight died at Bilting in Kent in 1918 aged 89.[2][3] His brother Philip, father Edward,[upper-alpha 2] and uncles George, Brook and Henry all played first-class cricket.[5]

He was the father of Captain William Brodnax Knight, of the Queen's Bays, and the grandfather of Major-General Sir Wyndham Charles Knight, of the Indian Army.[16]