Henry Gally Knight

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Henry Gally Knight (December 2, 1786 – February 9, 1846), a country gentleman of Yorkshire, educated at Eton and Cambridge, was the author of several Oriental tales, Ilderim, a Syrian Tale (1816), Phrosyne, a Grecian Tale, and Alashtar, an Arabian Tale (1817). He was also an authority on architecture, and wrote various works on the subject, including The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy, and The Normans in Sicily, which brought him more reputation than his novels.

He owned Firbeck Hall in Rotherham. Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe is set nearby, and Knight may have been Scott's source of local information when he was writing the book. Member of Royal Society (1841).

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Henry Dawkins and Henry Fynes	Member for Aldborough with Henry Fynes 1814–1815	Succeeded by: Granville Venables Vernon and Henry Fynes
Preceded by: Francis Jeffrey and John Charles Ramsden	Member for Malton with Francis Jeffrey (1831) William Cavendish (1831) Charles Pepys (1831-2) 1831–1832	Succeeded by: William Fitzwilliam and Charles Pepys

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.