Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Knox, Thomas (1)

by Joseph Foster

Knox, Thomas, s. Thomas, of Ballyphillip, co. Down, Ireland, arm. St. Mary Hall, matric. 18 May, 1747, aged 16: Viscount Northland, so created 5 July, 1791, M.P. Dungannon 1755, until created Baron Wells 8 Jan., 1781, one of the original (28) representative peers 1800, until his death 5 Dec., 1818. See Foster's Peerage, E. Ranfurly.