Thomas Andrew Knight

Thomas Andrew Knight , FRS, of Elton Hall in the parish of Elton in Herefordshire and later of Downton Castle , was a British horticulturalist and botanist. He served as the 2nd President of the Royal Horticultural Society .

He was born at Wormesley Grange, five miles north-west of Hereford in Herefordshire, the second son of Rev. Thomas Knight of Wormsley Grange, Rector of Bewdley, Worcestershire, by his wife Ursula Nash, a daughter of Frederick Nash of Dinham, Shropshire. He was the heir of his unmarried elder brother the art connoisseur Payne Knight , MP, who had been the heir not only of their father but also of their uncle Richard II Knight of Croft Castle and of Downton, and who had re-built Downton Hall as the surviving Gothic revival style Downton Castle. Richard II Knight as the eldest of five sons was the heir of his father Richard I Knight , of Downton, a wealthy ironmaster of Bringewood Ironworks, on the Downton estate, who founded the family's great fortune.

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