Samuel Knight (architect)

[16] He also designed a number of private dwelling houses and other buildings in North Finchley, including the family home during the 1890s, Netherelms on Woodside Avenue.

Knight directed the £1600 rebuilding of St Andrew's Church, Hempstead, Essex, in 1887-8; excluding the chancel, Harvey chapel and tower.

He wrote "The influence of business requirements upon street architecture" describing the changes in city buildings that have taken place during the nineteenth century.

[20] Knight was a regular correspondent with The Times and other newspapers in the 1890s and had a number of letters published relating to his profession, the activities of the railway companies, and local issues such as the landscape around Richmond Hill.

[21] He was active in a number of other fields including being a liveryman in the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, Honorary Architect for the Association of Conservative Clubs, Honorary Major in Bloomsbury Rifles, and he kept his Devon roots with membership of the committee of Devonians in London and attendance at their gatherings.

Following the premature death of his first wife Hannah Oliver (née Tutton) in 1867,[22] Knight married Helen Wilden in 1868, with whom he had 9 children, 7 of whom survived infancy, the other two dying of tuberculosis.