William Grills Knight

William Grills Knight (23 January 1839  – 3 May 1903) was a prominent businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

[3] In 1865 Knight was working as a farmer and grazier at Woodlands, a farm owned by John McKail, in the Porongurups.

[1] The Rocks, an iconic building in Albany, was built by Grills in 1882 as his residence.

[7] While Mayor, Knight raised the required capital to build the Albany Town Hall in 1886,[8] which he later opened in 1888.

[13] In 1896, Knight and his son started a shipping and station agents business in Albany.