Knight, AG

Lieutenant Arthur George Knight

Arthur was born on October 2^nd 1889 to mechanical engineer Edward Martin and his wife, Emily, a British couple who were at that point resident in San Francisco, California; he was their second child, although he did have four half-siblings from his father’s previous marriage. Having spent four years at Dulwich, between September 1904 and the summer of 1908, he went on to Magdalen College, Oxford. Despite having been on the Science side during his time at the College, he studied history at Magdalen, earning a 2^nd Class B.A. in the subject in 1911. During his time in Oxford he had also become a distinguished runner, earning a half blue in the cross-country in 1909, and the mile race the following year. Having graduated, he spent time as a private tutor, before, in 1913, joining Rossall School in Lancashire as an Assistant Master.

The outbreak of war saw Arthur enlist in the military, at first as a member of the London Rifle Brigade. In October 1914, however, after just two months, he took up a commission in the Royal Fusiliers, and was promoted to Lieutenant the following March. That June he won the individual cross country event during the Army Sports meeting at Folkestone, mere days before he was transferred to the front for the first time. Later that same month he was dead, having been killed by a sniper at Le Bizet on June 29^th. At the time of his death he had been working on a book entitled Comparative Thought in England during the French Revolution, which as a result was never published.