The Hon. William Stuart Knox DL

Deputy Lieutenant

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, JP

Justice of the Peace

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 (11 March 1826 – 16 February 1900), was an Irish politician.

Background

Knox was a younger son of Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly

Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly

Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly , styled Viscount Northland between 1831 and 1840, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician.-Background:...

, and Mary Juliana, daughter of the Most Reverend William Stuart

William Stuart (archbishop)

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, Archbishop of Armagh

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Political and military career

Knox was elected Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Dungannon

Dungannon (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in 1851 (succeeding his elder brother Viscount Northland

Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly

Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament. He was the son of Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly and his wife Mary Stuart, and represented Dungannon as a Member of Parliament between 9 June 1838 and 3 February 1851, when he resigned through the position of Steward...

), a seat he held until 1874. He was also a Major in the 51st Foot

51st Regiment of Foot

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 and an Honorary Colonel in the Mid Ulster Artillery and served as a Deputy Lieutenant

Deputy Lieutenant

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 and Justice of the Peace

Justice of the Peace

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 for County Tyrone

County Tyrone

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Family

Knox married Georgiana, daughter of John Bonfoy Rooper, in 1856. They had several children. He died in February 1900, aged 73. His wife survived him by 26 years and died in November 1926.

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