Kenneth Knowles

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Kenneth Davenport Knowles[http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-18856.html genealogical website] (9 March 1874 – 9 December 1944"Deaths", The Times, 12 December 1944, p. 1.) was a priest of the Church of England.[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33177/pages/4227/page.pdf London Gazette, 29 June 1926] He was the Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 1921 to 1943.{{Cite web |url=http://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ArchiveCatalogue/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Browse2.tcl&dsqItem=KAH%2F26%2F242%2F33&dsqKey=RefNo |title=Cambridgeshire Archives |access-date=15 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405140849/http://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ArchiveCatalogue/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Browse2.tcl&dsqItem=KAH%2F26%2F242%2F33&dsqKey=RefNo |archive-date=5 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}

Knowles was educated at The King's School, Canterbury, at Bedford School, and at Worcester College, Oxford.Who was Who 1897–2007, London, A & C Black, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} He was admitted as a solicitor in 1900The Times, 3 February 1900, p. 4, "The Law Society". before entering Ely Theological College in 1905. He was ordained the following year and his first curacy was at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire after which he was Rector of Woodwalton. He was a temporary chaplain[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29769/pages/9479/page.pdf 29 September 1916] to the British Armed Forces during World War I.{{Cite web |url=http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/greatwar/allied/huntingdonshirecyclistbattalion.html |title=war time memories |access-date=21 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330062136/http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/greatwar/allied/huntingdonshirecyclistbattalion.html |archive-date=30 March 2012 |url-status=dead }} Later he was Rector of Brampton, then Upton and finally Diddington.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940–41, Oxford, OUP, 1941