> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 577](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068819) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4872-1) LSID 4872-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q940986) QID Q940986 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Knight, Thomas Andrew (1759-1839), British horticulturist; president of the \[Royal\] Horticultural Society 1811-1838. **Abbreviated name**: *T. Knight* \[standard form in IPNI: *T.Knight*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown (Knight probably made no herbarium). Manuscripts at Royal Society and in volumes 10-18 of the Banksian correspondence ([[Collection BM|BM]]). Letters to J. E. Smith at [[Collection LINN|LINN]]. *Ref*.: Dawson, W. R., Smith papers 60. 1934. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(2): 206; Ainsworth p. 152, 157, 160, 315; Barnhart 2: 303; BB p. 176-177; BM 2: 997; Bossert p. 214; Bret. p. 250; CSP 3: 687-688, 12: 391; Dawson p. 496-509, 906, 941 \[index\]; Desmond op. 364 (q.v. for many secondary refs.); DNB 31: 263-264; Dryander 3: 621, 5: 86, 97; DSB 7: 408-410; Henrey 2: 476-478, 535, 541, 3: 67 (nos. 904-914); Jackson p. 69; Kew 3: 281; LS 14115-14118; Moebius p. 262, 452; MW p. 236; NI 1072; Plesch p. 289; PR 4746-4747 (ed. 1: 5283-5287); Rehder 5: 459-460; Sotheby 419; Tucker 1: 391-392. - Anon., Gard. Chron. 1877: 169-170, 177. 10 Feb 1877 (portr.); J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 25(3): front. 1901 (portr.). - Bagenal, J. Roy. Hort. Soc. 63: 319-324. 1938. - Britten, J., J. Bot. 69: 77. 1931. - Bull, H. G., Herefordshire Pomona 1: 29-46. 1885 (portr.). - Bunyard, Gard. Chron. 1915: 145-146 (portr.). - Darrow, G. M., The Strawberry 75-78. 1966. - Ewan, J. et al., Short hist. bot. U.S. 63. 1969. - Fletcher, H. R., Story R. Hort. Soc. 1804-1968. 1969 (see index). - Fussell, G. E., More old English farming books, 151. 1948. - Green, J. R., Hist. Bot. U.K. 295-305. 1914. - Knight, T. A., A selection from the physiological and horticultural papers published in the Transactions of the Royal and Horticultural Societies by the late Thomas Andrew Knight, to which is prefixed a sketch of his life (by his daughter, Mrs. Frances Acton), London 1841, xii, 379 p., *7 pl*. (Editors: G. Bentham & J. Lindley). - Milner, J. D., Cat. portr. Kew 70-71. 1906. - Roberts, H. F., Plant hybridization before Mendel, 1929, New York 1965, p. 370 \[index\]. - Rodgers, A. D., Liberty Hyde Bailey 24, 28, 97, 280, 298. 1949. - Webber, R., and Bessey, Yearb. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1899: 469. 1900 (portr.). - Webber, R., Early horticulturists 115-124. 1968 (portr.). - Wittrock, V. B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 95. 1903. #### Eponymy *Knightia* R. Brown (1810, *nom. cons.); Knightiophyllum* Ettingshausen (1887); *Knightiophyllum* E. W. Berry (1916), *Knightites* Saporta (1861). ### Publications ##### n.3761. Pomona herefordiensis **Title** *Pomona herefordiensis*: containing coloured engravings of the old cider and perry fruits of Herefordshire. With such new fruits as have been found to possess superior excellence. Accompanied with a descriptive account of each variety, by Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. ... London (printed for the Agricultural Society of Herefordshire: and sold by W. Hooker ...) 1811. **Abbreviated title**: *Pom. hereford.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1811, p. \[i\*\], \[i\]-viii, \[1, index\], *pl. 1-30* (numbered in index) with 2 (nos. *1, 2, 4, 14, 22, 23, 27*) or 1 p. of text \[37 p.\]. *Copies*: GB, HH, UC, USDA, WAG. (information D. Johnson (UC) and B. Peterson (GB)). The plates engraved by William Hooker; artists Elizabeth Matthews (27) and Frances Knight (née Felton).