Painter, designer and teacher, born in Leicester, one of 14 children. Attended Leicester College of Art, where he later taught. After working for his father as a painter and decorator, ran off to London – where he studied at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art – and Paris to pursue a career as an artist, despite family disapproval. At first he concentrated on figure studies in watercolour, but after 1908 painted only in oil. First important show RBSA, 1901. Also exhibited RA, ROI, RI as well as extensively in Europe and North America. The Victoria & Albert Museum holds designs for printing; Leicester Museum and Art Gallery his oil paintings Autumn Evening and Russet and Gold, typical pastoral scenes. La Revue Moderne, 1924, and The Studio, 1927, carried articles on Knight, who lived in Leicester.