Wyndham William Knight (5 December 1828 – 17 September 1918), known in some sources as Wiliam Wyndham Knight, was an English amateur cricketer who played in one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1862.
Life Knight was born at Chawton in Hampshire in 1828Wiliam Knight, CricInfo. Retrieved 10 October 2018. and educated at Winchester College.Wainewright JB (ed) (1907) Winchester College 1836–1906: a register, p.76. Winchester: P & G Wells. (Available online. Retrieved 10 October 2018.) He is known to have played cricket twice for the amateur Gentlemen of Kent team in the 1850s before making his only first-class appearance for the county team in 1862 against Sussex.Wiliam Knight, CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 October 2018. He was one of the founders of the Band of Brothers, an amateur cricket club closely associated with Kent.The Band of Brothers Jubilee, The Times, 9 December 1908, p.5.Moseling M, Quarrington T (2013) A Half-Forgotten Triumph: The story of Kent's County Championship title of 1913, pp. 186–189. Cheltenham: SportsBooks. .Carlaw, p. 317. (Retrieved 21 December 2020.)
Knight spent most of his adult life at Bilting House near Godmersham in Kent, though he also owned property in Hampshire.Hickman A (2009) A History of Hinton House. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
In 1846 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, serving in the regiment until 1854, commanding a company at the Battle of Boomplaats in South Africa in 1848 and rising to the rank of lieutenant.Murray J (ed) (1847) Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List, p.253. (Available online. Retrieved 10 October 2018.)Cope WH (1877) The History of the Rifle Brigade, p.260. London: Chatto & Windus. (Available online. Retrieved 10 October 2018.)Corder J Wyndham William Knight, Akin to Jane. Retrieved 10 October 2018.The London Gazette, 1846, p.3256. He later served with the Royal East Kent Yeomanry between 1856 and 1862, rising to the rank of captain.'Godmersham' in Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. (Part 1: County & Localities), pp.307–308. London: Kelly's Directories.
He was a magistrate and a justice of the peace.
He married Henrietta Armstrong and had two children.
Knight died at Bilting in Kent in 1918 aged 89. His brother Philip, father Edward, and uncles George, Brook and Henry all played first-class cricket.
He was the father of Captain William Brodnax Knight, of the Queen's Bays, and the grandfather of Major-General Sir Wyndham Charles Knight, of the Indian Army.Knight, Maj.-Gen. Sir Wyndham (Charles), (30 Nov 1863–10 June 1942) in Who Was Who 1941–1950, (A. & C. Black, 1980 reprint).
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