KNIGHT, CHARLES (1791-1873)

—Publisher and writer, b. at Windsor, where his f. . was a bookseller. After serving his apprenticeship with him he went to London, and in 1823 started busine as a publisher, and co-operated effectively with Brougham and others in connection with The Society for Diffusing Useful Knowledge. He was publisher for the Society, and i ued The Penny Magazine , Penny Cyclopædia , Pictorial History of England , etc. He ed. with succe The Pictorial Shakespeare , and was the author of a vol. of e ays, Once upon a Time , an autobiography, Pa ages from a Working Life (1863), a History of the Thirty Years' Peace , which was completed by Mi Harriet Martin eau, and various other works.