Alan Knight (bishop)

Alan John Knight CMG (also rendered inaccurately as John Alan Knight; 1904 – 29 November 1979) was a long serving Bishop of Guyana from 1937 until his death; and for much of that time Archbishop of the West Indies.

[1] He was educated at Owens School[2] and Cambridge University and ordained in 1926.

[5] In 1937, he was appointed to the episcopate; he was consecrated a bishop on St Peter's Day 1937 (29 June), by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.

[6] A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and prominent Freemason,[7] he died in post on 29 November 1979,[8] having become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

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