Her unit served in Amiens, moving later to Hamburg, following the British advance, performing ground control of aircraft.

On 14 June 1947, she married James Montague "Monty" Knight (an optician, who had served in the war as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy), and moved to Northampton.

The Conservative MP for Edgbaston, Dame Edith Pitt, had died on 27 January 1966 and it was the first time that a female Member of Parliament had been succeeded by another woman.

For more than two decades she was an active member of the Conservative Monday Club and was an outspoken opponent of the Irish Republican Army.

Knight was President of the West Midlands Conservative Political Centre from 1980 to 1983, and Lady Chairman of the Western European Union Relations with Parliaments Committee from 1984 to 1988.

";[citation needed] this was an apparent reference to a controversial speech by Knight which was widely interpreted as condoning or even encouraging direct action against noisy parties.

[6][7] Knight was created a Life peer as Baroness Knight of Collingtree, of Collingtree in the County of Northamptonshire in 1997[8] after standing down at that year's general election, and retired from the House of Lords on 24 March 2016, the week of the 50th anniversary of her first election to Parliament.

A man can no more bear a child, than a woman can produce sperm, and no law on earth can change that.

[19] In 2018, when she was interviewed by former Attitude magazine editor Matthew Todd, who confronted Knight about her role as an architect of and a main driving force behind Section 28, she said "I'm sorry if anything I did upset you.

[10] Knight was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1964,[21] and elevated to a Dame Commander in 1985.