Introduction

Biography

Knight stu­died un­der John Da­vis Corfe, or­gan­ist at Bris­tol Ca­thed­ral, and be­gan com­pos­ing around age 20.

In 1839, he vi­sit­ed Am­er­ica, and for a year taught mu­sic in the school in Ver­mont run by Em­ma Wil­lard. It was there that he wrote the mu­sic for Rocked in the Cra­dle of the Deep.

Some years lat­er, he was or­dained by the Bi­shop of Exe­ter and be­came vic­ar of St. Ag­nes, Isles of Scil­ly. He stayed at St. Ag­nes two years, then mar­ried, and went to live abroad, lat­er re­turn­ing to Eng­land and re­sum­ing com­po­sing.