Thomas Knight (MP for Kent)

Thomas Knight (15 May 1735 – 23 October 1794) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1761 and 1780.

[1] In 1761, Knight was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for New Romney and held the seat to 1768.

[3] Knight succeeded to his father's estates in 1781, and greatly improved the seat and park of Godmersham.

They had no children and by his will he gave Godmersham Park and the lands belonging to it, to his widow Mrs. Catherine Knight, for her life, with remainder to Edward Austen of Rolling Place.

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