Arthur Edward Knox (28 December 1808, Dublin – 23 December 1886) was a British sportsman, amateur naturalist, author of three books, and one of the founders of the British Ornithological Union.[1]

A. E. Knox graduated M.A. from Brasenose College in the University of Oxford. He obtained a commission in the Second Regiment of Life Guards, from which he resigned about 1835 when he married Lady Jane Parsons, a daughter of Lawrence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse. The marriage produced three daughters and two sons, one of whom was Lawrence E. Knox.

A. E. Knox was a country gentleman who lived in Sussex and Surrey and contributed notes to The Zoologist. His 1849 book Ornithological Rambles in Sussex received a favourable review from his friend and country-neighbour, Bishop Wilberforce, helping the sale of the book so that a second edition appeared in 1850 and a third edition in 1855. In November 1858 Knox became one of the founders of the British Ornithological Union.[1] There were favourable reviews for his 1872 book Autumns on the Spey dealing with salmon-fishing and deer-stalking in the vicinity of the River Spey;[2][3] the book is based upon letters written by Knox to friends in England when he was staying, during several autumns, at Gordon Castle as a guest of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond.

Selected publications

  • Ornithological Rambles in Sussex. 1849.[4]
  • Game birds and wild fowl, their friends and their foes. 1850.
  • Autumns on the Spey. 1872.

References

  1. 1 2 "Obituary: Mr. A. E. Knox". Ibis. Ninth Series. 2 (Supplement): 103–104. 1908.
  2. ↑ Gifford, William; Coleridge, Sir John Taylor; Lockhart, John Gibson; Elwin, Whitwell; MacPherson, William; Smith, William; (Iv), Sir John Murray; Ernle), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron; Prothero, George Walter (April 1873). "Review of Autumns on the Spey by A. E. Knox". The Quarterly Review. 134: 391–415.
  3. ↑ "Knox's Autumns on the Spey". The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance. 34: 371–372. 7 September 1872.
  4. ↑ "Review of Ornithological Rambles in Sussex, with a Systematic Catalogue of the Birds of that County, and Remarks on their local Distribution by A. E. Knox". The Quarterly Review. 85: 475–490. June 1849.
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