Lucian Lamar Knight

Lucian Lamar Knight FRSA (February 9, 1868 – November 19, 1933) was an American journalist, editor, author, and historian.

In 1919, in recognition of his work in history, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of England.

[3] Chawton Manor was the Knight family's ancestral home in England; Jane Austen belonged to this connection.

Lucian's guardianship passed to a maternal uncle, Dr. John B. Daniel, a businessman of Atlanta, and a devout Presbyterian elder.

[2] While an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, (Athens) he won the debater's medal, received a speaker's place at commencement, on three merits class-stand, composition, and declamation, pronounced a eulogy on Chancellor Mell, edited the college annual, and, on graduating, was class orator and valedictorian.

For ten years, he was on the staff of The Atlanta Constitution, serving as literary editor during the period of 1892-1902.

[2] Here he was associated with Joel Chandler Harris in the writing of editorials; and when Knight's first work came from the press, it carried an introduction from "Uncle Remus".

[3] Under a powerful conviction of duty, Knight, in 1902, relinquished his writing and entered the theological seminary at Princeton to prepare himself for the Presbyterian ministry.

[5] After several months spent in foreign travel, he returned home but little improved, and on the advice of his physician, he went to Southern California, where he remained for two years (1906–08), spending most of his time on Catalina Island.

[2][3] At the invitation of his alma mater, Knight returned to deliver the alumni address at the University of Georgia, and took for his subject, "Lee's Old War Horse; an Appeal Before the Bar of Public Opinion on Behalf of Lieutenant-general James Longstreet."