Thomas Knox (1588–1628) was a Scottish prelate from the 17th century who served as Bishop of the Isles.
[1] He received crown provision to the Deanery of the Isles on 4 August 1617[2] and started serving as a minister on Tiree in 1618.
[5] He married in 1625 Prudence Benson, daughter of the wealthy builder and architect Peter Benson of London, who moved to Ireland, oversaw the building of the Walls of Derry, and played a prominent role in the Plantation of Ulster.
Her father, who died in 1642, left legacies to Prudence and her son.
The eventual heiress of the family Catherine Knox married John Grogan of Johnstown Castle, County Wexford, in about 1736 and was the mother of the United Irishman Cornelius Grogan, who was hanged for his part in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.