George Williams Knox

Major-General George Williams Knox CB (18 January 1838[1] – 6 March 1894) was a British soldier.

Knox was present at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir and received a mention in despatches.

[3] On 30 April 1886, in Cottesmore, Rutland, Knox married Lady Sybil Emily Lowther, eldest daughter of Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale.

A stained glass window in the Church of St Nicholas, Cottesmore was "erected by his sorrowing and broken hearted wife" to his memory.

The colours of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards were gifted to the church by his widow and hang in the nave.