The wife of Sir John Knill, who was Lord T Mayor of London from 1909-10, enjoys several unique distinctions. Her marriage to Sir John Knill, in 1882, was one of the only two performed by Cardinal Newman while he was a cardinal. Furthermore, Lady Knill is one of the three women in the world who possess the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, given her for charitable work in the Roman Catholic Diocese of South-wark. Lady Knill is a woman of very religious and charitable sympathies. Belonging to the Roman Catholic faith, she numbers members of all denominations amongst her friends, and, needless to say, her charitable endeavours are directed towards one end - namely, to benefit the poor, irrespective of creed. Lady Knill has long taken an earnest interest in the submerged tenth, whom she is anxious to rescue both materially and spiritually. Lady Knill is of French origin, and her father was a noted architect. Very often before her marriage she was found in her father's studio, for she had gifts in the designing of stained-glass windows. Sir John and Lady Knill have made their home at Black-heath. Her ladyship, is very keenly interested in philanthropic movements at Black-heath and Lewisham, and devotes much time to their general organisa tion and management.

Lady Knill

Lady Knill

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