Robert Knight (MP, born 1768)

He went up to Queens' College, Cambridge in 1785, travelled in France and Italy, and – when he came of age – commissioned Joseph Bonomi to remodel his father's home, Barrells Hall, near Ullenhall.

In the General Election of November 1806 he was himself returned to parliament in the St. John family interest as Member for Wootton Bassett.

He was forced to admit that in 1805 he had approached Mrs Mary Anne Clarke to arrange for his brother's transfer on half-pay.

In April 1831 he addressed the great Reform meeting on Warwick Racecourse, bringing with him the good wishes of Sir Francis Burdett.

In January 1836 he was at another Reform dinner in Birmingham organized by the B.P.U., and in September was one of those who set up the first Liberal Association for Warwickshire (Southern Division).

At a testimonial dinner in November 1837, at which Knight's attempt to gain the Warwick seat in 1792 was remembered, his son-in-law declared that "no man is more anxious for the independence and the prosperity of the liberal interest in Warwick" [6] In 1791, Knight married Frances, youngest daughter of Charles, 8th Lord Dormer, of Grove Park, by whom he had a son (who died young) and two daughters, Frances (d.s.p.)

On Mrs Knight's death in 1842, an agreement was reached between her son and the next heir to the entail to sell the land and divide the proceeds.

The correspondence of Lord Catherlough's first wife, Henrietta St John, Lady Luxborough was given by a member of the family to the British Museum.