Emanuel Gittens Knight
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26 October 1893
Emmanuel Gitten Knight | |
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| Senior Magistrate of Grenada | |
| In office 15 September 1937 – 20 December 1944 | |
| Attorney General of Grenada | |
| Colonial Treasurer of Grenada | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Emmanuel Gittens Knight 26 October 1893 St. George's, Grenada, British West Indies |
| Died | 16 January 1961 (aged 67) St. George's, Grenada, British West Indies |
| Children | 9 |
| Alma mater | Inner Temple (LLB) |
Emmanuel Gittens Knight MBE (26 October 1893 – 16 January 1961) was a Grenadian Senior Magistrate, Attorney General, Colonial Treasurer and Competent Authority of Grenada, who compiled The Grenada Handbook and Directory (1946).[1] The handbook is a compendium of useful statistical facts about Grenada under British rule. The amount of information it contains is so immense that it has been mined for decades by scholars and researchers from many disciplines.
Knight joined the British West Indies Colonial service in 1911. He was called to the Bar in 1932. He held several Magistracies on several occasions, acted as Colonial Treasurer and acted as Attorney general for the Windward Islands at various times. He supervised Grenada's first adult-franchise elections in 1951, and assisted in revising the island laws of Dominica in 1935.
Personal life
Knight graduated from the Inner Temple, one of the four Inns of Court in London in 1932. He was a personal friend of T.A. Marryshow, who was considered the father of the West Indies Federation. Knight often hosted writers (including Wenzell Brown) and scholars (such as M. G. Smith) when they conducted research in Grenada.
