Robert Bent Knox

Robert Bent Knox (25 September 1808 – 23 October 1893) was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore from 1849 to 1886, and then Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1886 until his death.

Early life Born in 1808 at Dungannon Park, County Tyrone, the country seat of his grandfather, Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland (died 1818), Knox was the second son of the Hon. Charles Knox (died 1825), Archdeacon of Armagh, and his wife, Hannah, the daughter of Robert Bent . His uncles were the bishops William Knox and Edmund Knox, his niece was the writer Kathleen Knox.

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the age of twenty-one, then graduated with an MA in 1834. He was also awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws by Cambridge in 1888.

Nevertheless, Knox was the author of various ecclesiastical and secular works.

Family On 5 October 1842, Knox married Catherine Delia FitzGibbon, daughter of Thomas Gibbon FitzGibbon of Ballyseeda, County Limerick. They had three sons, including Charles Edmond Knox, who became a lieutenant-general of the British Army, and two daughters.

Selected publications Ecclesiastical Index [of Ireland] (1839) Fruits of the revival, in Steane's Ulster Revival (1859)