Edward Knocker

England, Births & Baptisms 1538-1975

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• First name(s) Edward
• Last name Knocker
• Gender Male
• Birth year 1804
• Birth place -
• Baptism year 1804
• Baptism date 08 Nov 1804
• Place Dover
• County Kent
• Country England
• Father's first name(s) William
• Father's last name Knocker
• Mother's first name(s) Ann West
• Mother's last name -
• Record set England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975

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Canterbury Baptisms

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• First name(s) Edward
• Last name Knocker
• Birth year 1804
• Birth date 10 Sep 1804
• Baptism year 1804
• Baptism date 08 Nov 1804
• Place Dover, St Mary the Virgin
• Father's first name(s) William
• Mother's first name(s) Ann West
• County Kent
• Country England
• Archive Canterbury Cathedral Archives
• Archive reference U3/30/1/6
• Year range 1795-1813
• Record set Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry baptisms 1538-1912
  

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Clerk of the Local Board of Health, Register and Clerk of Dover Castle, Seneschal of the Grand Court of Shepway of the Cinque Ports, Registrar of St James’ Burial Board, Clerk of the Commissioners of Property and Income Tax, Treasurer of the Dover and Barham Turnpike Trust, Treasurer of Dover Hospital (later Royal Victoria Hospital), Treasurer of the Church Missionary Society and Treasurer of the British and Foreign Sailors Society (Seamen’s Mission).

9 November 1870, Edward was elected Mayor and shortly before a new mayor’s robe had been ordered. Edward wore this when he was one of the guests of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) when she opened the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 18 March 1871. The robe was described as being ‘a superb garment of crimson silk, purple velvet bands, silk tassels with sable trimming.’

e was elected President of the Dover Propriety Library, above Hills coachworks, Castle Street. In 1874, he was elected the Town’s Honorary Librarian and on 23 April 1877 gave a lengthy antiquarian address to a packed Stone Hall. The lecture was on the History and Traditions of the Municipality of Dover and remains the leading authority on the subject.

Prior to the 1881 census, Edward and his young family had moved to Ventnor, Isle of Wight but he returned to Dover on 25 August 1883 and gave a lecture, again to a packed house, in the newly built Connaught Hall. The subject was ‘The Regalia of the Corporation of Dover.’ This was revised and expanded by his son Wollaston in 1898.

On Christmas Day 1883, Edward died in Torquay his body was returned to Dover and buried in the family vault at Cowgate cemetery.