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Knollys was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Stafford in 1571, Tregony from 1572 to 1581 and 1583 to 1584 and for Oxfordshire from 1584 to 1586, 1592 to 1593 and 1601. In 1584 he was made castellan of Wallingford Castle. In 1596 he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, a position he held until his death. [3]
Sir Thomas Woods Knollys' son General William Knollys, the titular eighth earl, laid claim to the title. He was forced to discontinue the use of the title in 1813, after the House of Lords passed a resolution rejecting his claim.
Coat of arms of William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury. The Knollys family, Knolles or Knowles (/ n oʊ l z /), is an English noble family descended from Sir Thomas Knollys (died 1435), Lord Mayor of London, possibly a kinsman of the celebrated general Sir Robert Knolles.
The 7th Earl's son William (1763-1834) also followed an army career. After the peerage case was decided against him in 1813 he dropped the title and was known henceforth as Gen Knollys. His...
- 1662-1836
- Knollis family, Earls of Banbury
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His eldest son, known as Viscount Wallingford until 1813, became General Sir William Knollys and (amongst other offices) was Treasurer and Comptroller of the Household of the Prince of Wales...
- 1721-1983
- Knollis family, Earls of Banbury
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24 de nov. de 2022 · 18 August 1626, 1st Earl of Banbury, co. Oxford, England that he shall have precedency as if he had been created the first Earle after his Majestys access to the Crowne.
Between 1584 and 1593 there is a gap in Knollys’s parliamentary career caused by his service abroad as an emissary and as a soldier under the Earl of Leicester, Lettice Knollys’s second husband, by whom he was knighted.