Leslie Knight

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Leslie Albert Knight was the third Anglican Bishop of Bunbury from 1938New Bishop Of Bunbury The Times Tuesday, Oct 12, 1937; pg. 14; Issue 47813; col F to 1950[http://www.bunbury.wa.gov.au/pdf/engineering/080201_Bunbury_Public_Roads_Street_Name_Register.pdf Road named after him in South Bunbury] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009162441/http://www.bunbury.wa.gov.au/pdf/engineering/080201_Bunbury_Public_Roads_Street_Name_Register.pdf |date=2009-10-09 }}

Knight as born on 4 August 1890 and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School[http://library.christchurch.org.nz/heritage/cemeteries/avonside/AvonsideParishCemetery.pdf Avondale Anglican Cemetery] and the University of New Zealand;"Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}. and ordained in 1915Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 His first post was a curacy at Fendalton and then as a chaplain to the NZEF in France. At the end of World War I he was vicar of Leithfield then Kaiapoi. Next he was rector and chaplain of St Saviour's Boys’ Orphanage, Timaru. His last appointment before ordination to the episcopate was as warden of St Barnabas' Theological College, Adelaide.[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzlscant/times.htm South Canterbury BDMs] He died on 31 December 1950.The Times, Thursday Jan 05, 1951; pg. 1; Issue 51890; col A Deaths His wife was President of the Mothers’ Union Commonwealth Council.[http://history.albany.wa.gov.au/index.php?option=com_ahc&task=details&id=92707 Albany Public Library]