Sir Norton Knatchbull, 1st Baronet

Sir Norton Knatchbull
Sir Norton Knatchbull
	Samuel van Hoogstraten.
Born	26 December 1602; Mersham
Died	3 February 1685 (aged 82)

Sir Norton Knatchbull, 1st Baronet (26 December 1602 – 3 February 1685) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679.

Life

Knatchbull was born at

Member of Parliament for Kent in the Short Parliament. He was elected MP for New Romney for the Long Parliament in November 1640.^[2] He sat until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride's Purge.^[3]

In April 1660, Knatchbull was re-elected MP for New Romney in the

County of Kent.^[4]

Works

In 1659 Knatchbull published Animadversiones in Libros Novi Testamenti. Paradoxæ Orthodoxæ, London. Guil. Godbid. in vico vulgo vocato Little-Brittain, 1659. The work consists of a large number of critical emendations, based on a knowledge of Hebrew. A second edition with appendix was published in 1672, a third, Oxford, 1677; a fourth edition, in English, appeared in 1692, entitled Annotations upon some difficult Texts in all the Books of the New Testament, Cambridge, 1693; it is preceded by an Encomiastick upon the most Learned and Judicious Author, by Thomas Walker of

Sidney Sussex College. The original was reprinted at Amsterdam, and also at Frankfort, where it formed part of the supplement to Nikolaus Gürtler's edition of Brian Walton's Polyglot Bible. 1695–1701. The work had a reputation for a century after its publication, and figures in a list of books annotated by Ambrose Bonwicke. John Kitto, however, found Knatchbull's remarks superficial.^[5]

In 1680,

Peter du Moulin the elder, which had been made over to him for purposes of publication by the baronet. James Duport, the tutor of his son John, addressed three Latin odes in his Musæ Subsecivæ to Knatchbull, who according to Ballard, himself acted as tutor to Dorothy, Lady Pakington. ^[5]

Family

Knatchbull married firstly Dorothy Westtrow, daughter of Thomas Westtrow on 22 October 1630, and had by her three sons. He married secondly Dorothy Steward, widow of Sir Edward Steward and daughter of Sir Robert Honyewood at St Martin-in-the-Fields outside London on 27 November 1662.^[2] He was succeeded in the baronetcy successiveley by his sons John and Thomas.^[4]

Legacy

The Norton Knatchbull School, situated in Ashford, was founded by his uncle and namesake, Sir Norton Knatchbull (d.1636)^[6]

References

^ Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 157.
^ ^a ^b ^c History of Parliament Online – Knatchbull, Sir Norton, 1st Baronet
^ ^a ^b Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. pp. 401–402.
^ ^a ^b Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. II (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 45.
^ ^a ^b Seccombe 1892.
^ "Norton Knatchbull School – History". Retrieved 22 November 2009.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Seccombe, Thomas (1892). "Knatchbull, Norton". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Parliament of England
Vacant Parliament suspended since 1629	Sir Roger Twysden, 2nd Baronet	Succeeded by Sir John Colepeper Sir Edward Dering
Preceded by Thomas Godfrey William Steele	Member of Parliament for New Romney 1640–1648 With: Thomas Webb 1640–1641 Richard Browne 1641–1648	Not represented in Rump Parliament
Vacant Not represented in Rump Parliament	Sir Charles Sedley 1668–1679	Succeeded by Sir Charles Sedley Paul Barret
Baronetage of England
New creation	Baronet (of Mersham Hatch) 1641–1685	Succeeded by John Knatchbull

[1] Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. Vol. I (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 157.

[HOP-2] History of Parliament Online – Knatchbull, Sir Norton, 1st Baronet

[Kimber-3] Kimber, Edward (1771). Richard Johnson (ed.). The Baronetage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets. Vol. I. London: Thomas Wotton. pp. 401–402.

[Burke-4] Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. II (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 45.

[FOOTNOTESeccombe1892-5] Seccombe 1892.

[6] "Norton Knatchbull School – History". Retrieved 22 November 2009.

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