Sir James Knott, 1st Baronet [SEP] date of death
Sir James Knott, 1st Baronet
Sir James Knott, 1st Baronet (31 January 1855 – 8 June 1934) was a shipping magnate (Prince Steam Shipping Company Ltd. (Prince Line)) and Conservative Party politician in the north-east of England.
Several institutions in the north-east of England are named after him, such as the "Knott Memorial Hall" in Heddon-on-the-Wall.
Career.
He was an unsuccessful candidate at the 1906 general election in the Tyneside division of
Knott baronets
The Knott Baronetcy, of Close House in the Parish of Heddon-on-the-Wall in the County of Northumberland, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 4 July 1917 for the shipping magnate and Conservative politician James Knott. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1949.
Knott baronets, of Close House (1917).
- Sir James Knott, 1st Baronet (1855–1934)
- Sir Thomas Garbutt Knott, 2nd Baronet