The Henson Journals

Edmund Arbuthnott Knox

Edmund Knox (1847-1937; ODNB), leading evangelical churchman. Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford; archdeacon, Birmingham, and bishop of Coventry, 1894-1903; bishop of Manchester, 1903-21; like Henson, a critic of the report of the Archbishops' Committee on Church and State, 1916, and of the Enabling Act that followed in 1919; however, Henson distanced himself from Knox during the prayer book crisis and in the centenary celebrations of the Oxford movement in 1933; see Volume 59. See also Volume 68.

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