Edward Knollys, 2nd Viscount Knollys

Edward George William Tyrwhitt Knollys, 2nd Viscount Knollys, GCMG, MBE, DFC (16 January 1895 – 3 December 1966) was a British peer, public servant, and businessman.

The eldest son of Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys, Private Secretary to the Sovereign, and of Lady Knollys (formerly the Honourable Ardyn Mary Tyrwhitt, daughter of Sir Henry Tyrwhitt, 3rd Baronet and Harriet Tyrwhitt, 12th Baroness Berners).

[4] He was awarded by the Netherlands with a Grand Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau by Royal Decree no.

For this he retained British permission to accept and wear on 19 January 1948.

Together they were the parents of:[4] Lord Knollys died at a nursing home in London on 3 December 1966.

Photograph of Knollys, on board HMS Bermuda , 22 April 1943