Ronald Knox
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The Reverend Monsignor Ronald Knox |
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Knox c. 1928
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| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Personal | |
| Nationality | British |
| Born |
17 February 1888 Kibworth Leicestershire, England |
| Died | 24 August 1957 (aged 69) Mells, Somerset, England |
| Resting place |
Church of St Andrew, Mells 51°14′31″N 2°23′26″W / 51.241928°N 2.390525°W |
| Senior posting | |
| Title | Monsignor |
| Religious career | |
| Ordination | 1918 |
| Profession | Theologian |
| Previous post | Anglican priest (1912–1917) |
Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (17 February 1888 – 24 August 1957) was an English priest, theologian and author of detective stories. He was also a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio.
Knox attended Eton College and won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and was appointed chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, but he left in 1917 when he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. In 1918 he was ordained a Catholic priest. Knox wrote many books of essays and novels. Directed by his religious superiors, he retranslated the Latin Vulgate Bible into English, using Hebrew and Greek sources, beginning in 1936.
Ronald Knox was born into an Anglican family in Kibworth, Leicestershire, England. His father was Edmund Arbuthnott Knox, who became the Bishop of Manchester.
The young Knox was educated at Eton College, where he took the first scholarship in 1900 and Balliol College, Oxford, where again he won the first classics scholarship in 1905. Knox, a brilliant classicist, won the Craven, the Hertford and the Ireland scholarships in classics, as well as the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse Composition in 1908 and the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse Composition in 1910.
In 1910, he became a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Here, as a devout Anglo-Catholic, he became a key member of Maurice Child's fashionable "set". He would not begin tutorials until 1911 and so accepted the job of classics tutor to the brother of a friend at Eton—to Harold Macmillan (who would be called "C" both in Knox's Spiritual Aeneid and in Evelyn Waugh's biography of Knox)—in the sabbatical, although he was later dismissed by Nellie Macmillan for being a high-church Anglican.
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