Lord Knollys married the Honourable Ardyn Mary Tyrwhitt,daughter of Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt,3rd Baronet,and Harriet Tyrwhitt,12th Baroness Berners.[when?] They had two children:Edward (1895-1966) and Louvima Alexandra (1888-1958). Louvima was a godchild of the three Wales princesses and her name was composed of their three names (Princess Louise,Princess Victoria and Princess Maud).[3]
After his appointment as Private Secretary to the Sovereign,Lord Knollys was well known as the public face of the Court,and is often mentioned in memoirs and fiction of the period. In his 1911 novel C.Q.,or in the Wireless House,Arthur Train wrote of his fixing a scandal (fictitious,this time):
"She was still spoken of as one of the most beautiful women in the world;but the exquisite hour of her perfection had passed. Then,perhaps feeling that her supremacy was no longer undisputed,a sense of pique at younger and fresher women had led her into certain too flagrant indiscretions that could not be overlooked.
Lord Knollys had intimated that a knighthood might please her husband;and the directorate of the Royal Bank of Edinburgh,of which he was the London manager,by a coincidence no less extraordinary than it was timely,had proposed that he should open a similar branch in New York and temporarily become its resident agent. In other words,royalty had politely indicated that,although it was deeply pained to do so,it must,for policy's sake,at least,withdraw that intimacy which it had previously been pleased to extend".
Honours
Knollys was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1876,and promoted to Knight Commander (KCB) in 1897 and to Knight Grand Cross (GCB) in 1908. He was also made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1901,a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1886,and awarded the Imperial Service Order (ISO) in 1903. It was announced in the 1902 Coronation Honours that he would receive a barony,[4] and he was raised to the peerage as Baron Knollys,of Caversham in the County of Oxford,on 15 July 1902.[5] He took the oath and his seat in the House of Lords the following month,on 7 August.[6] He became a Privy Councillor in 1910,and in 1911 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Knollys,of Caversham in the County of Oxford.
GCB:Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath –1908 (Knight Commander –KCB 1897;Companion –CB,1876)
↑ of Greece, Prince Christopher (1938). Memoirs of HRH Prince Christopher of Greece. London. p.96.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
↑ "The Coronation Honours". The Times. No.36804. London. 26 June 1902. p.5.
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