[8] He was co-opted on 15 October 1918 onto the London County Council by the Municipal Reform party to represent the Dulwich division of the Borough of Camberwell.
[11] He was eventually discovered a week later on a roadside between Dymchurch and Hythe, having suffered a nervous breakdown and unable to give any account of his movements.
[13] In June 1921 he informed the North Camberwell Unionist Association that he would not be fit to stand as a parliamentary candidate at future elections.
[14] In July 1921 he was judged bankrupt and it emerged in court that £10,000 excess profits duty had been charged against his business, and that he owed £56,000 to creditors while having assets of only £3,150.
[15] As an undischarged bankrupt, Newton Knights was ineligible to sit in the Commons, and resigned his seat on 9 January 1922 through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.