Edward Frederick (E. F.) Knight (23 April 1852 – 3 July 1925) was an English barrister, soldier, journalist, and author of 20 books, many based on his dispatches as a war correspondent.

[2] However, he abandoned the legal profession to pursue a career in journalism instead, writing primarily for the Morning Post and The Times.

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, while living in France at his father's house in Honfleur he attempted to enlist with the French Army near Rouen, but was turned down as he was an alien.

Ransome also used Knight's descriptions of Trindade as a model for his fictional Crab Island in the book Peter Duck.

He arrived in Gilgit in time to become involved in the 1891 British campaign against the minor states of Hunza and Nagar, led by the Resident, Col. Algernon Durand.