Wyndham William Knight
English cricketer (1828-1918)
Wyndham William Knight (5 December 1828 – 17 September 1918), known in some sources as Wiliam Wyndham Knight, was an English amateur cricketer who played in one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1862.
Life
Knight was born at Chawton in Hampshire in 1828 and educated at Winchester College. 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. He was one of the founders of the Band of Brothers, an amateur cricket club closely associated with Kent.
Knight spent most of his adult life at Bilting House near Godmersham in Kent, though he also owned property in Hampshire.
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. He later served with the Royal East Kent Yeomanry between 1856 and 1862, rising to the rank of captain.
He was a magistrate and a justice of the peace.
He married Henrietta Armstrong and had two children.
Knight died at Bilting in Kent in 1918 aged 89.
“Wyndham William Knight” enters the record as english cricketer (1828-1918). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wyndham, William and Knight can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Wyndham William Knight” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wyndham, William and Knight provides the most credible route into that argument.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8002409. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1828, 1918, 1862 and 1846.
A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Wyndham William Knight”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Wyndham William Knight primary sources, Wyndham William Knight archive and Wyndham research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Wyndham William Knight”?
- What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Wyndham William Knight” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.