Lawrence Edward Knox (1836–1873)[1] was a British Army officer and founder of The Irish Times.
He was born in the Kemp Town area of Brighton in East Sussex, England.
[1] His parents were Arthur Edward Knox of Castlereagh, near Killala, County Mayo, (later Trotton House, Sussex) and Jane Parsons, daughter of Laurence Parsons, 2nd Earl of Rosse.
[1] Eighteen months later, in May 1870, he contested a by-election in Mallow on the platform of Isaac Butt's fledgling Home Government Association, but was defeated.
[3] Knox died at his home in Dublin on 24 January 1873, of scarlet fever.