Origins
Frederick Knight was the eldest son of John Knight II(d.1850) of Lea Castle, Wolverley, (2 miles N of Kidderminster) Worcestershire & 26 miles E of Downton Castle) (built by his father John Knight I) and 52 Portland Place in London, by his wife Hon. Jane Elizabeth Allanson-Winn, daughter of George Allanson-Winn, 1st Baron Headley (1725–1798). His grandfather, John Knight I of Lea Castle was an ironmaster and the grandson of Richard Knight of Downton Castle, Downton on the Rock, Herefordshire, (about five miles west of Ludlow, Shropshire) a magnate in the iron industry. He had at least two brothers:
- Charles Allanson Knight (1814–1879) who married Jessie Ramsay (1828–1922), daughter of William Ramsay (1800–1881) (a.k.a. Innes) of Barra, Inverurie, and widow of Count Alexander de Polignac(d.pre-1862). His children were under the guardianship of the Fane Family of Fulbeck Hall, Lincolnshire, between 1876-87. W.D. Fane wrote in his correspondence of Summer 1855 of visiting his friend "Knight" in Rome, probably at the house of John Knight II who had retired to Rome.
- Edward Lewis Knight (1817–1882), of Hornacott Manor, Boyton, Cornwall. He married thrice:
- Firstly to Elizabeth Harris
- Secondly in 1868 to Henrietta Mary Sanford, by whom he had issue, see section below, heir.
- Thirdly 1877 to Edith Emma Butler (1851–1936)
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