Boston College Collection of Ronald Arbuthnott Knox and Wilfred L. Knox 1914-1919 MS.2004.051 http://hdl.handle.net/2345.2/MS2004-051
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Summary Information ...... 3 Administrative Information ...... 4 Biographical note: Ronald Arbuthnott Knox ...... 5 Biographical note: Wilfred L. Knox ...... 5 Scope and Contents ...... 6 Collection Inventory ...... 6 I: Ronald Arbuthnott Knox ...... 6 II: Wilfred L. Knox ...... 7
Boston College Collection of Ronald Arbuthnott Knox and Wilfred L. Knox MS.2004.051
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Creator: Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott Title: Boston College collection of Ronald Arbuthnott Knox and Wilfred L. Knox Collection Identifier: MS.2004.051 Date [inclusive]: 1914-1919 Physical Description 0.25 Linear Feet (1 box) Language of the English Material: Abstract: Papers pertaining to British Catholic priest, author, and lecturer Ronald Arbuthnott Knox and his brother, Anglican priest and theologian Wilfred L. Knox. Includes a manuscript of Ronald Arbuthknott's autobiography A Spiritual Aeneid (1918) and a published copy of his satricial pamphlet Reunion All Round (1914), as well as a critique of Wilfred's work Friend, I do thee no wrong: three sermons on the Church of England by an unknown author, entitled "Why Stand You Here?" Preferred Citation
Identification of item, Box number, Folder number, Boston College collection of Ronald Arbuthnott Knox and Wilfred L. Knox, MS.2004.051, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.
Boston College Collection of Ronald Arbuthnott Knox and Wilfred L. Knox MS.2004.051
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Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an Anglican-turned-Catholic priest, theologian, author, radio personality, and brother of Wilfred Lawrence Knox.
The youngest child of Anglican rector Edmund Arbuthnott Knox and his first wife Ellen Penelope French, Ronald Knox was born on February 17, 1888, at Kibworth rectory, Leicestershire, England. He attended Eton (1900-1906) and Oxford's Balliol College (1906-1910).
The "High Church" Anglicanism from his days at Eton influenced him. While at Oxford, he attended services with the Crowley Fathers and confessed at Pusey House. In 1911 he was ordained an Anglican deacon and, a year later, took orders as a priest. Yet in 1917 he converted to Catholicism and resigned; a move so controversial his father disinherited him. Knox taught Latin at the Catholic St. Edmund's College, and in 1919 he was ordained a Catholic priest. His autobiographical book Spiritual Aeneid, (1918) was an account of his religious experience.
In 1926, Knox was appointed to the Catholic chaplaincy at Oxford. He began writing stories featuring a fictional detective Miles Bredon, and their revenue provided him with a living allowance. In 1936 he was appointed domestic prelate to the pope and made a monsignor.
Knox remained in the chaplaincy until just before the outbreak of World War II, when he resigned to dedicate himself to his literary work and took a less-demanding chaplaincy at Aldenham Park in Shropshire. His project, a translation of the Bible moving from the Latin Vulgate to English, was published in 1945 and later known as the "Knox Bible." In 1947, he moved to a chaplaincy at Mells Manor, Somerset, where he lived and worked until the time of his death from cancer in 1957.
Sources:
Knox, Ronald. A Spiritual Aeneid. Burns, Oats: London, 1958.
"Ronald A. Knox." Dictionary of National Biography 1951-1960. Oxford University Press: London, 1971.
"Ronald A. Knox." New Catholic Encyclopedia (Vol. VIII). The Catholic University of America: Washington D.C., 1967.
"Ronald A. Knox." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online). Accessed on March 14, 2005.
Waugh, Evelyn. The Life of Ronald Knox. Collins: Glasgow, 1962.
Biographical note: Wilfred L. Knox
Wilfred Lawrence Knox was an Anglican priest, theologian, and brother of Ronald Arbuthnott Knox.
Boston College Collection of Ronald Arbuthnott Knox and Wilfred L. Knox MS.2004.051
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Knox studied at Trinity College, Oxford, receiving a degree in classics in 1909. He studied theology at St. Anselm's College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1915. Although he had Anglo-Catholic leanings, unlike his brother Ronald, he did not convert to Catholicism; instead he remained within the Anglican Church arguing for the distinctions he perceived between Anglo-Catholicism and Roman Catholicism. Knox wrote a number of books, including The Catholic Movement in the Church of England (1923); St Paul and the Church of Jerusalem (1925); Meditation and Mental Prayer (1927); One God and Father of All (with Eric Milner-White, 1929); The Development of Modern Catholicism (with Alec Vidler, 1933); and St Paul and the Church of the Gentiles (1939).
Knox received his Doctor of Divinity in 1945, and became a fellow of the British Academy in 1948. He died of cancer in 1950, while still working on The Sources of the Synoptic Gospels, which was published posthumously.
Sources:
Watson, Natalie K. "Knox, Wilfred Lawrence (1886–1950)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2009. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/ article/34359
Wynn, Edward. "Knox, Wilfred Lawrence (1886–1950)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography archive. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/olddnb/34359
Scope and Contents
These papers contain drafts of British Catholic priest, author, and lecturer Ronald Arbuthnott Knox's autobiography A Spiritual Aeneid (1918) and a published copy of his satricial pamphlet Reunion All Round (1914). They also include a typescript by an unknown author, entitled "Why Stand You Here?", which is a critique of Anglo-Catholic priest and theologian Wilfred L. Knox's work Friend, I do thee no wrong: three sermons on the Church of England.
Collection Inventory
Series I: Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 1914-1918
A Spiritual Aeneid, typescript; chapters three (partial) through box 1 folder 1 five, circa 1918
A Spiritual Aeneid, manuscript; chapters nine (partial) through box 1 folder 2-3 epilogue, plus dedication and prologue (2 volumes), circa 1918
Boston College Collection of Ronald Arbuthnott Knox and Wilfred L. Knox MS.2004.051
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Series II: Wilfred L. Knox, circa 1919
"Why Stand You Here?" typescript, response to Wilfred L. Knox's box 1 folder 5 Friend I do thee no wrong: three sermons on the Church of England, circa 1919
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