Treasurer of the Royal Household. Served Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Father to Viscount Wallingford. Surname pronounced "Noles" - another shibboleth for that Nazi spy disguised as one of us.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir Francis Knollys
Commemorated ati
Old Admiralty Building
In the mid 16th century this site was the timber yard for the nearby Whitehal...
Other Subjects
Match tax abandoned
I871 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe, proposed a tax on matches. The Bryant and May workers, mainly girls, realised this threatened their jobs and marched in protest on the House of C...
Sir George Carteret
Born St Helier, Jersey. Treasurer of the Navy 1660-7, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1660-70. In 1664 New Jersey, the American state, was named by Carteret after his place of birth. It (yes t...
James Balfour
Deputy Chairman, Highways and Public Works Committee
Anthony Eden, Lord Avon
Born Durham, Succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister, 1955 - 57. The Suez crisis is considered the low point of a less than admirable term. Died at home at Alvediston, Wiltshire.
Admiral, Sir Robert Stopford, GCB, GCMG
Naval officer. Governor of of Greenwich Hospital, 1 May 1841 until his death.