Thomas Knox1

M, #2488, b. 18 April 1813, d. 23 September 1829
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  • Birth*: Thomas Knox was born on 18 April 1813.1
  • Death*: He died on 23 September 1829 at Dennyholm, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland, at age 16.1,2
  • Memo*: Thomas Macqueen wrote an Elegy on the death of Thomas Knox. "This is the same person", adds Macqueen, "to whon my Poem of the Robin Redbreast is inscribed. He was a youth of very astonishing abilities, and of the most refined feelings of any with whom I have ever had the pleasure of being aquainted. To him I was indebted for my knowledge in English Grammer, and several other literary attainments. The ... Elegy is, however, not offered as an acknowledgement for favours received, but as a token of that veneration which his great accomplishments so justly deserve from the world. He died in the 17th year of his age, having patiently experienced all the shattering stages of consumption."1

Citations:

  1. [S164] W.M. Logan Genealogy of the Knoxes of Kilbirnie "Page 15."
  2. [S141] Microfilm OPR, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, OPR Vol 596/1 1660 to 1819 and OPR Vol 596/2 1820 to 1854 "Register of Deaths Vol 2 Page 50."