Horace Knight

1884–1920) was a natural history illustrator with the British Museum, noted particularly for his images in The Moths of the British Isles by Richard South.

[1] Knight, who lived at 16 Dafforne Road, Upper Tooting,[2] had a son, Edgar S. Knight, who also illustrated.

[3] Horace Knight retired from the British Museum in 1917 due to illness, at which point he had been producing drawings for William Lucas Distant for over 30 years, working for the chromo-lithographers and letter-press printers, West, Newman & Co. of Hatton Garden.

Horace and his brother E. C. Knight worked together at West, Newman & Co.[4] His work appeared in His collaborators were entomologist Carl Plötz, artist Alice Ellen Prout and entomologist Humphrey Drummond Swain.

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