Ronald Knox (1888-1957; ODNB), youngest son of Edmund Knox, the evangelical bishop of Manchester; after a brilliant Oxford student career, ord. 1912, with Anglo-catholic sympathies; a prolific and witty journalist, controversialist, novelist (notably of detective stories) and biblical translator; received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1917; Catholic chaplain at Oxford, 1926-38; monsignor, 1936. See also Volume 56, 78.

Journal references: 6

• 31 Aug 1915
• 24 Dec 1916
• 20 Mar 1917
• 18 Jul 1917
• 4 Nov 1917
• 16 May 1918

See also Knox, Edmund Arbuthnott