ORIGINAL MEMBEllS. 103 



Mk. a. E. KNOX. 



Arthur Edward Knox was born in Dnblin on tlie 28th 

 of December, 1808. He Avas the eldest son of the late 

 Mr. John Knox, of" Castlerea, in the eonnty of Mayo (who 

 died in 1861), the descendant of a branch o£ the Scottish 

 family of tliat name which had settled in Ireland early in 

 the seventeenth century^. He entered Brazenose College 

 in the University of Oxford — where he graduated M.A. — and 

 obtained a commission in the Second Regiment of Life- 

 Guards, from which he retired about the time of his 

 marriage, in 1835, with Lady Jane Parsons, daughter of the 

 second Earl of Rosse, and therefore sister to the constructor 

 of the famous telescope. Mr. Knox soon after took up his 

 abode near Pagham, on the coast of Sussex, and there began 

 a course of observations on the birds of that county, the 

 results of which have appeared in his two best-known works. 

 A few years later he removed to New Grove, near Pctworth, 

 subsequently to St. Ann's Hill. Midhurst, about 18(50 to 

 Trotton House, near Petersfield, and finally to Dale Park, 

 Arundel. His first published notes appeared in ' The 

 Zoologist ' for 184-3 ; and, in 1849, he brought out his 

 ' Ornithological Rambles in Sussex : with a Systematic 

 Catalogue of the Birds of that County ' — the precursor of 

 many works of similar local scope^ few of which, however, 

 have equalled it as regards personal experience, while none 

 have surpassed it in spirit. A favourable notice by his 

 friend and country-neighbour, the late Bishop Wilberforce, 

 in the ' Quarterly Review/ not only helped the sale of this 

 little book, so that a second and a third edition ap])eared in 

 1850 and 1855 respectively, but encouraged the immediate 



* See Dr. Charles liogers's ' Genealogical Memoirs of John Kuox nmX 

 the Family of Knox ' (pp. 33-40), printed for the Grampian Club iu 

 1879. 



