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Acland Home (Oxford), 189
Acton, Lady (Daphne Strutt), 214–215, 217, 218, 239, 240, 256, 262, 265
Acton, Lord, 256, 265–266
Adcock, Frank, 126
Addenbrooke’s Hospital (Cambridge), 262
Admiralty, British, 124–125, 128, 141, 180, 24
Room 40 (Cryptographic Department of British Naval Intelligence), 124–127, 133–134, 141, 162
A.D.S. See Amateur Dramatic Society
Aeschylus, 64, 66, 76
Afghan Wars, 15
Africa, 12. See also North Africa; Rhodesia
Agnew, Lawrence, 200
Agnew, Philip, 160
Agra, 13
Aladdin (pantomime), 190
Aldenham (Shropshire), 217–218, 250, 252–253, 255
Alexander, C. H. O’D., 229
Alice (Bishop Knox’s cook), 37, 54, 93, 147, 173
Alitat (goddess; name of R.A.K.’s overcoat), 45
Allen, William, 216
All Russian Co-operative Society (ARCOS), 178, 180–181
Alnwick Gazette, 161
Amateur Dramatic Society (A.D.S.), Cambridge, 64
Amiens, 147
AMTORG (Soviet trading organization), 178, 179
Anglo-Catholic movement, 86–88, 92
Apostles (Cambridge Conversazione Society), 59, 60, 71, 82
Arbuthnott, David, 5
Arbuthnott, Mary Ann Reynolds, 5
ARCOS. See All Russian Co-operative Society
Arnold, Matthew, 36, 41
Arnold, Thomas, 35
Arnott, W. G., 163–164
Arras, 142
Arrow River (Herefordshire), 156, 198, 211, 263
Art of Dying, The, 249
Asquith family, 257
Assumption Convent (Kensington Square), 239
Aston-juxta-Birmingham, 23–25, 28, 50, 264
Aston Villa (football club), 23, 39
Athenaeum Club, 201
Atkinson, Angel (great-great-grandmother), 4
Austen, Jane, 10
Australasia, 152
Austria, 180
Bacchus Restaurant, 227–228
Baedeker’s guidebooks, 51, 67–68
Bagley, Jack, O.G.S., 153, 155
Baker, Susan, 170
Balcombe (Sussex), 157–158
Baldwin, Stanley, 178
Balfour, Arthur James, 53, 77
Balliol College (Oxford), 46, 67, 76, 109
Bank of England, 255
Barber, D. H., 205
Baring, Maurice, 169–170
Barlow, Alan, 47
Barrie, James, 73–74, 160
Basileon (King’s College magazine), 60, 80
Batey, Mavis Lever, 230, 248
B.B.C. See British Broadcasting Corporation
Beardsley, Aubrey, 74, 191
Beaufort Castle (Beaumont), 169
Beaverbrook, Lord, 175–176
Beazley, John, 126
Beckenham Grove (Shortlands), 147, 255
Beckett, Samuel, 6
Beech, Peggy, 75, 104
Beerbohm, Max, 105, 159
Beggar’s Opera, The (Lovat Fraser settings), 171
Belgian refugees (1914), 117
Belgium, 115
Belloc, Hilaire, 115, 157, 158–159, 241
Benedictines, 123, 168, 215
Benson, A. C., 52, 77
Benson family, 79
Benson, R. H., 52, 67, 111, 123, 167, 183, 257
Bertrand, General Gustave, 226–227, 230
Bible, 215–218, 239
Authorized Version, 61, 122, 215, 241
Douai, 216
Douai-Challoner, 216
Jerusalem, 254
Knox Version, 215–218, 239, 240–244, 252–254, 265
New Testament (MS), 217
Revised Standard Version, 254
Sixto-Clementine Vulgate, 216
Vulgate, 216, 217, 240
Westminster, 217
Birch, Francis Lyall, 82, 124, 127, 129, 161–162, 190, 233
“Bird, William.” See Yeats, Jack
Birmingham, 13, 23
Bishopscourt (Manchester), 54
Bismarck (German battleship), 248
Blackpool Mission, 53
Blakiston, Dr, 63
Bletchley Park (Station X), 228–229, 247, 249, 250
Blitz (London 1940–41), 244–247
Blomer, Miss, 156
Bloomsbury, 124, 152
Bodger, The. See James, H. A.
Boer Wars, 36, 46, 104
Bolliday Bango, 38
Bone, James, 68, 69
Bookman, 72
Bosworth, battle of, 156
Bourne, Cardinal, 141, 167, 176–177, 178
Bowen, Elizabeth, 260
Bowlby, Canon, 55
Bradshaw, Henry, 57
Bradshaw’s Railway Guide, 18, 108, 183, 256
Brandreth, Henry, O.G. S., 259
Brest, 248
Bridlington, 29
British Broadcasting Corporation (B.B.C.), 176
British Museum, 65, 66, 98, 233
Brittain, Frederick, 153, 154
Brooke, Dorothy Lamb (later Lady Nicholson), 101, 170
Brooke, Reeve, 170
Brooke, Rupert, 36, 64, 187
Browning, Oscar, 60
Bruford, W. H., 126
Bruges, 51
Bunyan, John, 4, 242
Burkitt, F. C., 195
Burlington Arcade, 84, 112
Burne-Jones, Edward, 40, 45, 257
Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 254
Burns, T. F., 186
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 159
Burton, Richard, 58
Butler, R. A., 258
Caesar (E.V.K.’s dog), 115
Café Royal, 115, 191
Calcutta, 12
Calverley, C. S., 105
Cam, River, 61
Cambridge, 55–56, 83, 195, 112, 124, 153–154, 234, 236, 238, 263
Mission, 155
Union, 146
University Press, 163, 263 See also King’s College; Pembroke College
Cambridge Review, 80
Campion Hall (Oxford), 177
Canada, 7, 51, 183
Cantor, Georg, 84
Caraman, Philip, S.J., 122
Caroline St. (Stratford), 120
Carroll, Lewis (C. L. Dodgson), 41, 46, 192
Carter, Howard, 175
Catullus, 41
Cavendish, Richard, 269
Cercidas, 164, 188
Chadwick, Henry, 263
Chaplin, Charles, 160
Chavasse, F. J., 9, 10, 45
Cheshire Cheese (Fleet St.), 69
Chesterton, G. K., 84, 169, 182, 183, 209
Chilterns, 162
China, 180
Christ Church Meadows (Oxford), 10, 11, 184, 210
Christian Socialism, 50, 90–91
Christian Students’ Union, 94
Christie, Agatha, 182
Church of England, 22, 86, 213. See also Anglo-Catholic movement; Evangelicalism
Church Missionary Society, 6, 12–13, 14
Churchill, Winston, 125, 248
Clarence Terrace (Regent’s Park), 208
Classical Club (Cambridge), 83
Codes and ciphers, 133–134. See also Enigma; Hagelin
Committee for Christian Doctrine, 196
Communism, 176–177
Communist Party, 180
Conrad, Joseph, 70
Conversion of England, or Apostolate to Non-Catholics, 168
Converts Aid Society, 166
Copenhagen, 243
Coppard, A. E., 203
Corbishley, Thomas, S.J., 141, 214, 268
Cornford, Frances, 85
Corpus Christi College (Oxford), 8–9, 43, 45, 68, 102–103
Cory, William (William Johnson): “Heraclitus”, 41, 193, 268–269
Coterie (descendants of the Souls), 84–85
Courn’s Wood (Bucks), 162–163. 186–187, 221, 247, 249, 250
Court Theatre, 73
Coventry, 40
Creighton, Marian, 75
Creighton, Mrs, 75
Crewe junction, 165, 256
Crooks, Will (M.P.), 50
Crown Hotel (Everleigh), 101
“Crum, Paul.” See Pettiward, Roger
Crystal Palace Demobilization Centre, 144
Crystal Restaurant (Warsaw), 227
Cuddalore, 6
Cunningham, Andrew, 248
Cunningham, Ian, 83
Curzon, Lord, 5
Czechoslovakia, 219
Daily Chronicle, 148
Daily Despatch, 72–73
Daily Express, 175
Daily Mail, 165, 175
Dammers, Dean Horace, 236, 237
Daniell, Sophia. See Reynolds, Sophia
Dardanelles landings (1915), 121
Dartmoor, 42
Davies, Eddie, 198–199
de la Mare, Walter, 159
Denmark, invasion of (1940), 243
Denniston, A. G., 162, 227
Detection Club, 182
Dewey, Meredith, 234, 258, 262
Dickens, Charles, 169
Dickinson, G. Lowes, 57, 60
Doctor (family horse), 16, 17, 24
Dodds, C. F., 235
Dogger Bank action, 126
Dominicans, 254
Donoghue, Steve, 166
Downside Abbey, 257
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 38, 74, 95–96
Dryden, John, 97
Eastbourne, 26
East India Company, 4
Economist, 246
Edentrellick (Co. Down), 3, 6
Edgbaston Ladies’ College, 24
Edinburgh, 108, 214
Edith Grove (Chelsea), 129, 161
Edmundthorpe (Lincs), 26–28
Edward VII, 209
Eliot, T. S., 70, 86, 203
Ellis, H. F., 202, 244
El Vino (Fleet St.), 206
Emmett, Rowland, 203
Enigma (German electro-mechanical enciphering system), 195, 220, 222–224, 227, 231, 247
Eno’s Fruit Salts, 175
Eton College, 34, 43, 44
Evangelicalism, 88
Evans, Horace, 269
Ewing, Alfred, 125–126, 162
Exton, Rutland, 15
Farnborough Abbey, 131
Fenny Compton (Warwickshire), 103, 104
Field, Guy, 77
Finsberg, H. J., 254
Fisher, Admiral Lord, 125
Fitzbillies (cake shop), 236, 238
Fitzwilliam House (Cambridge), 234
Flecker, Elroy, 171
Fleet Air Arm, 248
Fleet Street, 69–70, 166–167, 174, 175, 207, 260–261
Foreign Office (F.O.), 141, 162, 165, 187, 190, 224–226
at Bletchley, 228–229, 247, 249, 250
in Broadway, 221–222
cryptography between wars, 165, 178
Department of Communications, 225
Form criticism, 263
Forster, E. M., 59, 100
Fothergill, John, 180, 191–192
Foundations (by Seven Oxford Men), 97–98
Fowler, Thomas, 45–46, 47, 48, 54
France, 118–119, 226, 228, 230
Franciscans, 234, 262
French, Ellen. See Knox, Ellen Penelope
French, Peter (“Goosefair” French, great-grandfather), 12
French, Bishop Thomas (father-in-law of Edmund Knox), 11–13, 14, 15, 18, 19–20, 21, 65
French, Mary Anne Jansen, 13
Gaiety Theatre, 72
Gallipoli, 121, 124, 130, 213
Garrick Club, 160
Garvin, J. L., 71, 105
Gatti’s Restaurant, 139
General Strike (1926), 178
George V, 113, 209
Georgian movement, 157
Germany. See Enigma; Nazi Government
Gibbs, Philip, 69
Gibraltar, Straits of, 248
Gilbert, W. S., 247
Gill, Eric, 164
Gilling, John, 120
Gimson, Ernest, 32
Glasgow, 212–213
Glencrippsdale (Scotland), 30, 34, 47
Goby, Mr, 204
Golden Bough, The (Frazer), 43, 58
Golden Treasury, The (Palgrave), 70, 108
Golombek, H., 229
Gompertz, Miss, 159–160, 183
Goodhart, A. M., 44–45, 51
Government Code and Cypher School, 162
Grant, Duncan, 80, 81, 101
Greek Anthology, 47
Greene, Graham, 183
Greenfield, Laetitia. See Knox, Laetitia
Grenfell, Julian, 77, 85, 119, 162, 265
Griffin, Cardinal, 265
Grooneboom, P., 189
Grove Cottage (Hampstead), 260, 266
Gunter’s (tea shop), 171
Gwynne, H. A., 70
“Gyp” (French lady novelist), 100
Hagelin (enciphering system), 195
Halifax, Lord, 3, 64, 122
Hall, Reginald (“Blinker”), 126, 136, 228
Hamilton, Eric, 97
Hamley’s (toy shop), 173
Hampstead, 107, 144, 160, 170–172, 260–261, 266
Hardy, Thomas, 70, 74
Hare Street House, 167, 257
Harrod, Roy, 55
Harwich, 141
Havant (Hants), 136–137
Havergal College (Toronto), 7, 183
Haynes, E. S. P., 162, 181, 233, 244
Headlam, Walter, 57–59, 60, 61, 64, 66, 68, 74–75, 99, 263
Health foods, 72, 164
Hellenic cruises, 213–214
Henry VI, 45
Henry VII, 156
Herbert, A. P. (M.P.), 173
Herodas
Crusius edition, 81
Headlam-Knox edition, 98–99, 163–164
Knox translation in Loeb Classics, 188
Mimiambi, 65, 66, 99–100
Herodotus, 45, 48, 165
Hickleton (Yorks), 122–123
Hicks, Agnes, 103
Hicks, Bede, 103
Hicks, Christina. See Knox, Christina Frances
Hicks, Bishop Edward, 104, 117, 137
Hicks, Edward, 102–103, 117
Hicks, Edwin, 103, 116, 137
Hierarchy (English Catholic bishops), 242, 252–253
High Wycombe (Bucks), 162, 191
Hill, Raven, 174–175, 178, 202
Hindenburg Line, 137
Hinsley, Cardinal, 218, 240
Hipponax, 83, 188
Hiroshima, 255
Hitler, Adolf, 206
Hobbs, Jack, 166
Holbein, Hans, 102
Holmwood (Newtons’ house at Redditch), 30–32
Homer, 209
Hong Kong, 237
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 193
Horner, Frances, 257
Housman, A. E., 41, 49, 70, 82–84, 183, 193–194, 239
Howell, J. C., 92, 120, 122, 149
Hoxton, 262
Hulton, Edward, 72–73
Humorist, 204
Hyde Park Hotel, 265
I.D.25. See Admiralty, British: Room 40
Immortal Hour, The, 171
India, 7, 11, 12
Indian Civil Service, 49
Inge, W. R., 84, 166
Ireland, 117–118. See also Ulster
Irish Stage Society, 73
Irving, Henry, 202
Isis, River, 186, 211
Italy, 24
Izvestia, 179
Jackson, Henry, 66
Jackson, Thomas, 128
James, H. A. (“The Bodger”), 35–36, 37
James, M. R., 79, 124, 187
James, William (Admiral), 128–129
James (A.D.K.’s dog), 207, 250
Jansen family, 147
Jansen, Mary Anne. See French, Mary Anne
Jellicoe, Admiral Lord, 128
Jesuits, 121, 123, 168, 177
Johnson, Vernon, 94, 242, 257
Jones, Miss (royal claimant), 5
Jowett, Benjamin, 46, 76
Joyce, James, 70, 264
Kahn, David, 179
Kairouan, 19
Karsavina, Tamara, 260
Keats, John, 171
Keble, John, 5
Kensington Unique Laundry, 161
Kenyon, Frank, 65–66, 101
Keynes, John Maynard, 55, 56, 59, 61, 62, 64, 76, 79–80, 101, 124, 161, 194, 250
Keynesian economics, 152
Khinchuk (head of Soviet trade delegation), 181
Kibworth Rectory (Leicestershire), 15–16
King, Robert, 184
King Edward’s School (Birmingham), 25
King’s College (Cambridge), 55, 56–57, 76, 79–80, 114, 141, 162, 241
Founders’ Feast, 194
Mission, 88
Kington (Herefordshire), 156
Kipling, Rudyard, 70, 74, 157, 158, 174, 201
Kitchener’s Army, 115–116
Knill (Herefordshire), 198, 235–236, 247
Knox, Alexander (great-great-grandfather), 3
Knox, Alexander (great-uncle), 4
Knox, Alfred Dillwyn (2nd Knox brother):
born (1884), 15
childhood, 15–21
a mathematician, 20
wretchedness at Eastbourne, 26
at Summer Fields, 34–35
first cipher, 38
at Eton, 34, 44, 55–56
at Cambridge, 55–56
becomes agnostic, 60–61
friendship with Maynard Keynes, 55, 56
influenced by Walter Headlam, 57–59
first motor-bike, 61
to Rome, teaches at St Paul’s, 67–68
Fellow of King’s (1909), 76, 79, 83
begins work on Herodas, 66, 76
“Young Turk”, 80
Lytton Strachey in love with, 80–82
further work on Herodas, strains eyesight, 81–82, 98–100, 114, 163–164
“Erm”, 60, 102, 114, 124
unused to young ladies, 102
not a success as tutor to Harold Macmillan, 109–110
cryptographer in Room 40 (1915), 126, 127–128, 134–136, 165
shares house with Frank Birch, 129, 162
rescues R.A.K., 129
breaks German C.-in-C.’s flag code, 136
“embarrassment of the bath”, 136
in love, 136
marriage (1920), buys Courn’s Wood House, uneasy landed proprietor, 160, 162–163, 186–187, 247, 249, 250
Herodas edition published (1922), 188
refuses professorship at Leeds, remains at F.O., 164
at work on Soviet diplomatic ciphers, 179
buys North Dean, 181
worried by religious leanings at King’s, 187–188
Loeb Herodas translation, 188
motor-bike accident, limp, 189
50th-birthday lunch, 191
begins writing Pentelopes, 193–194
starts work on Enigma, 195, 220, 222–224, 227, 231–233, 247
threatened by cancer, 220, 248–249
secret visit to Poland (1938), 227–228
at Bletchley (1939), 228–229, 247, 249, 250
his staff, recruitment of pretty girls, 230–231
finds the “way in” to the Enigma Variations, 231, 247
major operation, calmly prepares to die, 249
awarded C.M.G., 250
“is Ronnie still bothering God?” 250–251
death (Feb. 1943), 250–251
CHARACTERISTICS:
absent-minded, 61, 161, 229–232
argumentative, 55
athletic, 26, 164
belief in disbelief, 84, 250
bites clean through pipe, 83
brilliance, 55, 61, 128
Christianity, hostility to, 60–61
cricket, passion for, 191
“dismaying silences”, 192
disorganized, 55
drink, attitude to, 56
driver, disconcerting as, 189–190, 221
indirect approach to problems, 194–195
intimidating at times, 26, 227, 232
“nothing is impossible”, 17, 135, 250
“noxian”, 60
patience, inventor of new, 188
shy and helpless, 60, 102
strange mental processes, 61–62, 231–232, 247
tenderheartedness, 56
unable to explain himself, 129, 221, 231
untidy, 127, 232
“why do you say that?”, 190, 192
women, attitude to, 102, 230–231
WORKS:
Herodas and Choliambic Fragments of Hipponax and Cercidas, 188
The Limit, 67, 80, 124
“Some Floating Pebbles”, 98
Knox brothers
COLLECTIVE CHARACTERISTICS:
bath, inspiration in, 176
Bible, knowledge of, 60–61, 241
critical spirit, 28
Edwardian, 253–254
emotion at war with intellect, 17
family feeling, 41
fearlessness, 17
foreign travel, distrust of, 212
games, love of inventing rules for, 16–17
generosity, 166
honesty, 17
intellectual severity, 16, 39
love, need for, 111
pipe-smoking, 39, 43
poetry, love of, 41
rhyming, skill at, 70, 106
speaking ability, 146
temper, loss of, 28, 207, 232
tenderheartedness, 131
transport, passion for forms of: railways, 16
trams, 24, 43
bicycles, 37–38
motor-bikes, 164–165
understatement, tendency to, 253–254
Knox, Christina Frances Hicks (first wife of E.V.K.), 102, 103–104, 106–107, 112, 113, 117, 118, 137, 142, 144–145, 155, 160, 207–208
Knox, Christopher Maynard (elder son of A.D.K.), 163
Knox, Edmund Arbuthnott (father):
hard childhood, 6
cheerful character, 7–8
religious beliefs, 8
to St Paul’s (1857), 8
at Oxford, 9–10, 45
ordained (1870), 9–10
Merton Fellowship, 10–11, 15
in love, engaged, 11–12
married (1878), 15, 32–33
rector of Kibworth, 15
rector of Aston, 23–24
widower (1891), 25, 29–30
family out of control, 28–29
Bishop Suffragan of Coventry, 29
remarries (1895), 32–33
Bishop of Manchester, 52–53
worries over his sons, 130–131
Blackpool mission, 53
fight for Lancashire Church Schools, 63–64
“loses” his favourite son, R.A.K., 143–144
in retirement at Shortlands (1921), 147–148
battle over Book of Common Prayer, 148, 161
death (Jan. 1937), 208–209
Knox, Edmund George Valpy (eldest Knox brother):
born (1881), 15
early childhood, 15–21
not a pious child, 24
loneliness after mother’s death, 25–26
at Rugby, 34, 35–37
edits schoolroom paper, 38
a fisherman, 34, 155–156, 198, 263
at Oxford, 45–49
elegant but unsatisfactory, 47–48
to Rome, 67–68
determines to write, 68–75
first appearance in Punch, 68
schoolteaching, 68
to Fleet Street (1906), 69–70
early struggles, 70–73
on Pall Mall, 74–75
engaged, 107
early work for Punch, 104–106
as “Evoe”, 106, 159, 261
marriage (1912), 107
foresees war, 113
with Lincolns in Ireland, 116–118, 136–140
drafted overseas, 136–137
trench warfare, 137–138
wounded at Passchendaele, 139–140
demobilized and homeless, 144
at Ministry of Labour, 144
to Balcombe, Sussex, 157–160
parodies of the ’20s, 159
struggles with the motor-car, 159–160
on staff of Punch (1932), 159–160
to Hampstead, 160, 170–171
hard-working journalist, 171
editor of Punch (1932), 173–174, 199–207
early days, the great Hippo joke, 204
opposition to dictators, 205–206
to Regent’s Park, 207–208
death of Christina (1935), 207–208
second marriage (1937), 245
in the Blitz, 244–246
wartime editorship (1939–45), 244–247
“you’re paid to be funny”, 247
retirement, 259–260
“I live by my wits”, 261
grief at W.L.K.’s death, 263–264
Leslie Stephen lecture (1959), 263
“a survivor from a shipwreck”, 270
CHARACTERISTICS:
connoisseur of Englishness, 37
of fashion, 46, 84
courage, 17, 244
Edwardian, a natural, 245, 253
flair, 206
horses, love of, 17, 118
gentle, 159
good host, 160
impatience, 207
integrity, 204
poet at heart, 204
political sense, 204–205
pun-maker, 264
satirical spirit, 264
sensitive, 25, 149
shooting rats, skill at, 138
unusual business methods, 107
wild inspirations, 106, 199, 203
wit, 160, 261
women, attitude to, 47, 75, 215
WORKS:
A Little Romance, 102
“The Author to His Brain”, 259–260
An Hour from Victoria, 157
“Hymn to the Dictators”, 219
“Mechanism of Satire”, 263
What Life Has Taught Me, 204
Knox, Ellen (aunt), 7, 183
Knox, Ellen Penelope French (mother), 146
meets her “fate” in Oxford, 11
marriage (1878), 15
at Kibworth, 15
her idealism, 23
at Aston, 23–25
illness and death (1892), 25–26
Knox, Emily (aunt), 10, 25, 29
Knox, Ethel (sister), 15, 16, 43, 147–148, 181, 209, 256
Knox, Ethel Mary Newton (“Mrs K.”; stepmother):
described, 30–31
marriage (1895), 32–33
tames family at St Philip’s, 32–34, 37
“Mothering Famous Men”, 148–149
death (1946), 255–256
Knox, Frances Reynolds (grandmother), 5, 6–7, 26–27
Knox, Frances Laetitia (“Aunt Fanny”), 50, 140, 261
Knox, Frederick (uncle), 7
Knox, George (grandfather), 4–5, 6, 9–10
Knox, George (great-grandfather), 3–4
Knox, George (uncle), 7
Knox, Laetitia Greenfield (great-grandmother), 4
Knox, Laetitia (of Prehen), 4
Knox, Lindsey (uncle), 6, 26, 27–28, 201, 208, 241
Knox, Mary Shepard (second wife of E.V.K.), 244, 246, 260
Knox, Olive Spencer Roddam (wife of A.D.K.), 163, 250
Knox, Oliver Arbuthnott (younger son of A.D.K.), 136, 160–161, 181, 250
Knox, Rawle (son of E.V.K.), 117
Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott (youngest Knox brother):
born (1888), 15, 23
childhood, 15–21
at Edmundthorpe, 26–28
at Summer Field, 34–35
precocity, 38, 39
happiness at Eton, 34–35, 43, 44–45, 78
trip to Germany, 51
attracted to Tractarianism, 52
leaves Eton, to Rome with brothers, 67–68
at Balliol, 67, 76
offered brilliant career, 77
“a romance”, 77–78
ordained as Anglo-Catholic priest (1912), 92
Chaplain of Trinity, 92, 94–95, 131
opposes modernism, 96–98
“a personal person”, early intense friendships, 108–110, 121–122
influence, 109
tutor to Harold Macmillan, 109–110
“stakes his soul”, 110
affection for Guy Lawrence, 110–111
teaches logic through card games, 113–114
master at Shrewsbury (1914), 119, 124
distressed by doubts, 121–123
and by Guy’s conversion, 121
and by loss of friends in war, 121–122
“The Parting of Friends”, 124
at Room 40 and M.I.D.7, 129, 140
painful disputes with father, 130–131
resigns from Trinity chaplaincy, 131
at Oratory, 133, 141, 195, 258–259
“numbed” by Guy’s death, 142
ordained as R.C. priest (1919), 143
“the wittiest young man in England”, 165
early essays, 165–166
dreams of congenial home, misfit at St Edmund’s, 167, 217
in disgrace over broadcast, 176–177
appointed to Oxford Chaplaincy, 177
makes ends meet with detective stories, 177, 182–183, 253
at the Old Palace (1926), 184–185, 211
Hon. Fellow of Trinity, 185
disappointments at Chaplaincy, 209–212
revived by Lady Acton’s friendship, 214–215, 217–218, 239, 240, 256, 265
leaves Chaplaincy, plans Bible translation, 215–218
moves to Aldenham (1939), 219
“Nine Years’ Hard” on Knox Version, early difficulties and discouragements, 239–244
at A.D.K.’s deathbed, 250–251
Knox Version, later difficulties, 252–255
N.T. authorized and published (1945), 252, 254
protest over Hiroshima, 255
low spirits, homeless again, 256
to Asquiths at Mells (1947), 257–258
sadness at W.L.K.’s death, 262
60th-birthday dinner, 264–265
completion of Knox Version, 265
to Africa (1954), 265–266
“proving God”, his last apologia, 266–267
cancer (1956), 267
last Mass in Mells Chapel, 267–268
Romanes lecture (1957), 268, 269
death (Aug. 1957), 270
CHARACTERISTICS:
authority, ideal of, 91, 97, 131
balance, sense of, 168
brilliance, 166, 168
“carriage folk”, attitude to, 77, 218
“doing the most difficult thing”, 171, 239
dressiness in early life, 93
and later shabbiness, 239
happy, affectionate nature, 33, 77
and later melancholy, 209–210
“hopeless romantic”, 218
mimicry, 42
modesty and politeness, 212
nostalgia for the past, 165, 209
“plans”, importance of, 240
power of prayer, 269
river, love of, 211
sympathy, need for feminine, 170
truthfulness, 17
unmusical, 154
unpopular causes, devotion to, 52, 212–213
unselfishness, 45, 166, 256
wordmaster, 38, 241
WORKS:
“Absolute and Abitofhell”, 97
The Body in the Silo, 183
The Creed in Slow Motion, 242
Double Cross Purposes, 182, 215
The Footsteps at the Lock, 211
God and the Atom, 255
The Hidden Stream, 186
Let Dons Delight, 218–219
The Mass in Slow Motion, 242
On English Translation, 268
Signa Severa, 62
Some Loose Stones, 97–98
A Spiritual Aeneid, 51, 114, 120, 121, 140, 142, 266
Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes, 95–96
The Three Taps, 183
The Viaduct Murder, 182
“The Whole Art of Chaplaincy”, 185–186, 210 See also Bible: Knox Version
Knox, Wilfred Lawrence (3rd Knox brother):
born (1886), 15
childhood, 15–21
at Edmundthorpe, 26–28
tells his only lie, 28
at Rugby, 34, 49
his “Bits of Old Churches”, 43, 53
influenced by Temple, 50–51
and by Socialist movement, 50–51
to Germany with R.A.K., 51
at Oxford, 63
loses and recovers his religious faith, 63
at Board of Education, 84–85
at Trinity Mission, Stratford, 88–90, 120
a Christian Socialist, 90–91
vows of celibacy and poverty, 92, 112
hopes to work side-by-side with R.A.K., 112
not allowed to serve with B.E.F. (1914), 118–119
ordination (1915), 112–113, 120
pain at loss of R.A.K., no reproaches, 124, 132
at M.I.D.7, 129–130
wants to reform “church of the rich”, 149–150
disappointment, 150
joins O.G.S. (1920), no longer lonely, 150–151, 153–154, 156–157, 234
parish priest in Hoxton (1922–24), 172
Xmases with E.V.K., 172–173, 261
sympathizes with General Strike, 178–179
friendship with Dr Alec Vidler, 195–196
Canon of Ely, 196
on Committee for Christian Doctrine in 1930s, 196
scholarly work, 197–198
homeless (1939), 234
Superior of O.G.S., 234
wartime Chaplain of Pembroke, 234–235, 258
“black night of the soul”, 238–239
post-war chaplaincy, 258
“we need to be able to think of ourselves as nothing”, 259
cancer (1949), 261–262
death (Feb. 1950), 262
on eternal life, 262
CHARACTERISTICS:
astringency, 157
calm authority, 172, 198–199, 261
“deep love from a broken unloving man”, 235
dressiness in early life, 154
and later shabbiness, 155
eccentricity, abruptness, 153, 235–236
a great fisherman, 155–156
a great gardener, 155
“humble, witty, shrewd”, 155
humour, peculiar sense of, 49, 236, 238
influence with drunks and children, 172
and young people, 236–238
lie, total inability to, 17, 28
memory, amazing power of, 28
poverty, sympathy with, 50–51
power of prayer, 208, 262
practically inaudible, 195–196, 238
radical views, 149–150, 196, 258
scholarly, 198
sociable, 150
strong-minded, 63, 196
WORKS:
At a Great Price Obtained I This Freedom, 149–150
Life of St. Paul, 258
Meditation and Mental Prayer, 156, 197
St. Paul and the Church of the Gentiles, 197, 237, 258
Sources of the Synoptic Gospels, 262–263
Knox, Winifred. See Peck, Lady
Labour Party, 90, 180, 258
Lady Margaret Hall (Oxford), 63
Lahore, 13–14
Lamacraft, W., 101
Lamb, Charles, 13
Lamb, Dorothy. See Brooke, Dorothy
Lamb, Henry, 64, 98, 101, 124, 170, 190
Lamb, Walter, 80, 81
Lambeth Conference, 161
Lancaster, Catholic Bishop of (Dr Flynn), 240
Langton, Stephen, 172, 196, 262
Lansbury, George (M.P.), 89, 90, 91
Lattey, Cuthbert, S.J., 217
Lawrence, Guy, 109, 110–111, 114, 119, 121, 132–133, 138, 141, 142, 162, 167, 168, 209–210
Lawrence, Henry and John (“of India”), 4
League of Nations, 157
Lear, Edward, 33
Leeds, University of, 164
Legge, “Pombo”, 88–89, 90
Leicestershire Regiment, 137
Leningrad, 179
Leominster, 156
Leon, Henry, 229
Leslie, Shane, 58
Liberty’s of London, 32, 44, 48
Life of Alexander, 188
Lincoln Cathedral, 107
Lincoln Chronicle, 107
Lincolnshire Regiment, 136–140
Lindisfarne, 18
Lister, Charles, 77, 85, 90, 119, 121, 162, 169
Lister, Laura. See Lovat, Lady
Littlecourt (Agnews’ country house), 200
Little Dot’s Playbox, 246
Little Gidding, 86, 153
Lloyds (Birmingham Quaker family), 13
Lobel, Edgar, 190, 217
Local Defence Volunteers (L.D.V.), Bletchley, 232
Loch Ness monster, 264
Locker’s Park School (Hemel Hempstead), 34
Loewe, Dr., 241
Lovat, Lady (Laura Lister), 169, 177, 213
Lovat, Lord, 169
Love, Mabel, 47
Low, David, 176
Lucas, E. V., 105, 106, 160, 170, 174
Lucy Cavendish Foundation, 234
Lug, River (Radnorshire), 198, 263
Lynd, Robert, 69
Lyon, Jean, 202
Lyons, Mrs (R.A.K.’s housekeeper), 184–185
Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith), 190
MacCarthy, Desmond, 73–74, 127
Macaulay, Thomas B.: Lays of Ancient Rome, 18, 36
Macaulay, Rose, 244, 270
McClaren, Mrs, 34
MacDonald, Murray, 235
Mackenzie, Iain, 238
Macmillan, Daniel, 55, 109
Macmillan, Harold, 109, 114, 119, 132, 167, 269
McTaggart, Ellis, 187
Madras, 5, 6, 40
Magdalen College Choir School (Oxford), 102
Maitland, Alexander, 19–20, 21
Malory, Thomas, 43
Malta, 248
Man, Isle of, 29
Manchester, 52–53, 108, 245
Manchester Courier, 68, 70
Manchester Grammar School, 68
Manchester Guardian, 68, 72, 73, 132
Manilius, 83
Mansfield, Katherine, 144
Market Harborough (Leicestershire), 192
Marsh, Edward, 64
Martindale, Charlie, S.J., 122–124, 177, 185, 211, 214, 240–241, 243
Masterman, J. C., 268
Matapan, battle of, 248
Maurice, F. D., 50
May, Phil, 104, 105, 202
M’bebi (Actons’ farm in Rhodesia), 256, 265
Meler (Soviet emissary), 180
Mells (Somerset), 257–258, 267–268
Menin Road, 139
Meredith, George, 49, 165
Merton College (Oxford), 10–11, 15, 173, 261
Mexico City, 134
Middlesbrough, Catholic Bishop of, 253
Miles, Eustace, 72
Milne, A. A., 105, 173, 201
Milner-White, Eric, 152
Milton, John, 189, 233
Modernism, 96–97
Mokotov-Pyry (Poland), 227
Moneymore (Co. Derry), 3, 4
Moore, George, 43
Moore, G. E., 59, 60
Moore, Temple, 30
More Hall (Gloucestershire), 114
Morris, Mrs Helen, 230
Morris, William, 32, 33, 43
Morton, H. V., 198
Morton, J. B. (“Beachcomber” of the Daily Express), 206, 261
Moscow Bank for Foreign Trade, 178
Moses, Mr., 235
Moses, Mrs., 199, 235
Mount Carmel, 237
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 153
Munich Conference (1938), 219
Murry, J. Middleton, 144
Muscat, 19, 21, 65
Nagasaki (1945), 255
Naphill (Bucks), 247
National Insurance Bill (1911–12), 91
Nazi Government, 222, 226
Needham, Joseph, 154
Newcastle, Lord Mayor of, 176
Newman, John Henry, 9, 52, 76, 87, 88, 94, 124, 132, 177, 215, 222, 241
News of the World, 166, 202
Newton, Ethel. See Knox, Ethel Mary
Newton, Horace (Bishop Knox’s father-in-law), 30
Newton, Professor (Cambridge), 56
New Yorker, 174, 200, 202, 203, 204
New Zealand, 237
Nichol, Robertson, 72
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 196
Nietzsche, F. W., 50
Night and Day, 204
Nixon, J. E., 82, 124
North Africa, 237, 246
North Dean (Bucks), 181
North Manchester Preparatory School, 68
Nottingham, 145
Novello, Ivor, 104, 171
Nowell, A. T., R.A., 147
Nuffield, Lord, 219
Nugent, George, 4
Oberammergau Passion Play, 93
Observer, 71, 105
Offa’s Dyke, 236
O.G.S. See Oratory of the Good Shepherd
Old Palace (Oxford Catholic Chaplaincy), 184
Omar Khayyam Society, 264
Oratorians, 123
Oratory (London), 133, 141
Oratory of the Good Shepherd, 150–153, 258
Oratory House (Cambridge), 153–154, 234
Orthodox Club (Oxford), 90
Oxford, 8–11, 15, 43, 45, 46, 67, 68, 76, 102–103, 109, 173, 184, 261 See also Balliol College; Corpus Christi College; Merton College; Old Palace; Trinity College
Oxford Magazine, 97
Oxford Movement, 87
Oxford Union Society, 94–95
Oxyrhyncus papyri, 65–67, 101, 190
Pain, Barry, 105
Palestine, 179
Pall Mall Gazette, 69
Pall Mall Magazine, 74–75, 104, 113
Parting Pot, The (Edmundthorpe public house), 27
Partridge, Bernard, 174, 202, 206, 246
Pascal, Blaise, 266
Pass, H. L., O.G.S., 151
Passchendaele, battle of (1917), 139–140
Peace Rally (1928), 212–213
Pearson’s Magazine, 69
Peck, Anthony Dillwyn, 211
Peck, James, 108
Peck, Lady (Winifred Frances Knox, sister), 15, 16, 25, 42–43, 67, 75, 92, 93, 107–108, 114, 130, 157, 267
Pelissier’s Follies, 137
Pembroke College (Cambridge), 234–235, 258, 262
Pentelopes (verse form invented by A.D.K.), 193–194, 249
Penzance (Cornwall), 17, 29
Perowne, J. J. S., 29, 30
Pettiward, Roger (“Paul Crum”), 204
Philby, Kim, 233
Philo of Alexandria, 173
Philogelus, 100
Philologus, 163
Pinkie and the Fairies, 75
Pius XII, 264
Plato, 46, 48
Plotinus, 199
Poetry Bookshop, 203
Poland, 226, 228
Porlock (Somerset), 107
Postgate, John, 59
Prayer Book (Book of Common Prayer), 93, 148, 161
Prehen (Co. Derry), 3
Price, Richard, 206–207
Punch, 67, 70, 72, 104, 116, 125, 138, 144–145, 173–174, 199–207, 244–247, 261
Pusey, Edward, 9
Pyrenees, 230
Quakers (Society of Friends), 5, 88
Queen Mary, 202
R.A.F. See Royal Air Force
Ragged Schools, 23, 54
Rathmullen (Co. Donegal), 3
Rawalpindi, 237
Rawstone, Richard, 110, 111, 119, 121
Redditch (Worcester), 30
Redhill (Surrey), 187
“Red Revolution”, 178
Reynolds, Frances. See Knox, Frances
Reynolds, Mary Ann. See Arbuthnott, Mary Ann
Reynolds, Sophia Daniell (great-grandmother), 5
Reynolds, Thomas (great-grandfather), 5
Rhys, Ernest, 203
“Richmond” (Bishop Knox’s parlour maid), 54, 93, 147
Ritualism, 87
Roberts, S. C., 261
Rock, Margaret, 30, 248, 250
Roddam, Lt.-Col., 136
Roddam, Olive. See Knox, Olive
Rolls, C. S., 61
Roman Catholic Church, 167–168
Rome, 67–68
Room 40. See Admiralty, British
Ross, Harold, 174, 200, 203
Rossetti, Christina, 43, 45
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 45, 169, 257
Rothermere, Lord, 175
Royal Academy, 147
Royal Air Force (R.A.F.), 228, 229, 234
Royal Court Theatre, 171
Rugby School, 12, 34–37, 49
Ruskin, John, 7, 50, 103
Russell, Bertrand, 166
Rutherford, W. G., 65–66
St Anselm’s (Cambridge), 112
St Ebbe’s (Oxford), 11
St Edmund’s Old Hall (Hems), 143, 217
St Francis de Sales, 259
St Jerome, 216–217, 252
St John’s College (Agra), 13
St John’s Wood (London), 244
St Mary’s (Graham St.), 92
St Paul (Apostle), 197–198, 207, 216, 243, 249, 252
St Paul’s School, 8, 68
SS Peter and Paul, Society of, 97, 112–113, 149
St Philip’s Church and Rectory (Birmingham), 29, 33, 40
St Philip’s Military and Pioneering Tramway Society, 39
St Saviour’s (Hoxton), 172
Salford (Lancashire), 103
Samurai (early-20th-century elitist society), 105
San Remo, 110–111
Saturday Review, 73, 74
Savile Club, 160
Savoy Hotel, 141
Schiller, Friedrich von, 135–136, 231
Scotland, 10, 30
Scotsman, 148
Seaman, Owen, 74, 104–105, 106, 116, 138, 159, 171, 173, 174, 175, 178, 199–200, 203
Seven Bells, The (Bletchley public house), 232
Shaw, G. B., 157, 171, 202
Shepard, Ernest, 173, 202, 244
Shepard, Graham, 246–247
Shepard, Mary. See Knox, Mary
Sheppard, John, 62, 66, 76, 80–81, 98, 101
Ship, The (Whitehall public house), 129
Shorter, Clement, 68
Shrewsbury School, 119, 124
Sib (Gulf of Oman), 21
Sicily, 246
Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, 254
Sisters of Nazareth, 185
Smiles, Samuel, 34, 249
Smith, F. E. (Lord Birkenhead), 77
Smith, Mr, 155, 195
Socialism, 90–91
Soho (London), 70
Somme, River, 137, 253
Souls (high-minded Edwardian clique), 84, 169, 214
Southampton Buildings (ARCOS HQ), 180
Southwark, Catholic Bishop of, 243
Spain, 230, 248
Spencer, Gilbert, R.A., 189–190
Spencer, Stanley, R.A., 170, 189
Sphere, 68
Stalin, Josef, 178
Stampa, George, 202
Standard, 70, 73, 166
Stanley, H. M., 19
Stephen, Virginia, 75
Stevenson, Evelyn, 47–48, 49
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 33
Strachey, Lytton, 59, 60, 64, 80–82, 85, 114, 187
Straight, Douglas (M.P.), 74, 113
Strand (magazine), 69
Stratford (E. London), 89–90, 120, 262
Strube, Sidney, 171, 176
Suggia, Madame, 129
Sunshine Apostle, 72
Sussex, 157–158
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 49
Swithinbank, Bernard, 55, 82
Switzerland, 180
Symonds, John Addington, 60
Tablet, 177, 252, 254, 255, 267
Talgarth Road (Hammersmith), 68, 75
Tasso, 4
Tatler, 260
Temple, Shirley, 204
Temple, William (Archbishop of Canterbury), 37, 50, 91, 96, 97, 147
Territorial Army, 114, 118
Thompson, George, 76
Thucydides, 83
Tibbatts, George, O.G.S., 151
Tildsley’s Farm Dairies, 240
Tim (W.L.K.’s dog), 199, 207
Times (London), 28, 244, 250, 258
Tit-Bits, 69
Tomlinson, H. M., 69
Torquay, 267
Tractarianism, 9, 52, 87, 148
Tribune (London), 71
Trinity College (Oxford), 63, 76
Trollope, Anthony, 10, 53, 165
Turing, Alan, 233
Turks, 121
Tutankhamen, 166, 175
Twinn, Peter, 221, 229
U-boat campaign, 134–135, 141
Ulster, 3
Umble language, 169–170
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 178–181
United Irishmen, Rising of (1798), 3
United States, 242, 245, 254
Universities Catholic Education Board, 177
Urquhart, Francis, 142, 177
Vale of Health Hotel (Hampstead), 170
Valpy, Richard, 12
Van Dyck, Anthony, 51
Vatican, 177
Vaughan, Henry: “Peace”, 52, 171–172
Verdun, 118
Victoria, Queen, 40, 42, 80, 209
Vidler, Alec, O.G.S., 195–196, 207
Vignolles, Château de, 228
Waddon (Surrey), 6
Waggett, P. N., O.G.S., 151
War Office Chaplains’ Department (1914), 118, M.I.D.7, 129–130, 140
Warsaw, 227
Wasp (U.S. aircraft carrier), 248
Waterhouse, Gilbert, 126
Waugh, Evelyn, 112, 215, 265 biography of R.A.K., 266, 267 Brideshead Revisited, 211, 256
Wedd, Nathaniel, 55–56, 57, 60, 62, 100, 187
Well Walk (Hampstead), 170–171, 207–208
Wells, H. G., 113
Wembley Empire Exhibitions, 174–175
West Indies, 3
Westminster, Catholic Archbishop of (Cardinal Hinsley), 253
Westminster Gazette, 131–132
Whitby (Yorkshire), 115
Whitelaw, Robert, 36
Wilde, Oscar, 43, 83, 187, 202
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 113
Willey, Basil, 238
Williams, Dr (R.A.K.’s G.P.), 269
Williams, E. C., 35
Willoughby, Leonard, 126
Wilson, Woodrow, 193
Wilton, Richard, 31
Winchester School, 110
Wingfield-Stratford, Esmé, 187
Wood, J. G.: Natural History, 39, 165, 256, 265
Woodruff, Douglas, 254
Woolf, Leonard, 60
Woolwich, 50
Worcester College, 40
Wozencroft, George, 199
Wye, River, 198
Wynne, Edward, 234, 235
Yeats, Jack (“William Bird”), 203
Yeats, W. B., 49, 203
Ypres, 116, 139–140, 186
Zeppelin raids, 119, 130, 141
Zimmermann telegram, 134
Zinoviev Letter, 179
Zudyakov (Soviet emissary), 180