Wilfred Knox

Wilfred Lawrence Knox (21 May 1886 – 9 February 1950) was a Church of England clergyman and theologian. He was one of four brothers who distinguished themselves in different fields, the eldest a writer and editor, the second a classical scholar and wartime code-breaker, and the youngest a Roman Catholic theologian and priest.

After leaving Oxford with a first-class honours degree in classics, Knox joined the civil service, left to work with the poor of London's East End, and then studied for ordination to the priesthood. He served only briefly in parish work, spending much of his life with the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, where he was warden from 1924 to 1940, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was chaplain and a fellow.

A first-rate classical scholar, Knox approached his studies of the New Testament from the point of view of a Hellenist, and wrote several books on St Paul and other aspects of church history from the Hellenistic angle. He also wrote books explaining Anglo-Catholicism and others giving advice on how to follow the Christian way of life.

Knox was born at Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire, a village in the English Midlands. He was the third son and fourth of the six children of the rector of Kibworth, the Rev Edmund Knox and his first wife, Ellen Penelope, née French. The other sons were Edmund, Dillwyn and Ronald; his younger sister was Winifred Peck. Edmund became editor of Punch, Dillwyn, after a scholastic career, was a key figure among Second World War code-breakers at Bletchley Park, and Ronald became a prominent Roman Catholic priest, writer, and translator of the Bible.

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