Alan Knight (bishop)

Alan John Knight CMG (also rendered inaccurately as John Alan Knight; 1904 – 29 November 1979) was a long serving Bishop of Guyana from 1937 until his death; and for much of that time Archbishop of the West Indies.^[1]

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Background

He was educated at Owens School^[2] and Cambridge University and ordained in 1926.^[3] He was chaplain at University College School and then curate at St James', Enfield Highway^[4] after which he was Headmaster of Adisadel College.^[5] In 1937, he was appointed to the episcopate; he was consecrated a bishop on St Peter's Day 1937 (29 June), by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.^[6] A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and prominent Freemason,^[7] he died in post on 29 November 1979,^[8] having become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).