Wyndham William Knight

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 team in the 1850s before making his only first-class appearance for the county team 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 spent most of his adult life at Bilting House near Godmersham in Kent, though he also 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.

He 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,^[b] 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]