English architect and journal editor
For his father, darken James Thomas Knowles (1806–1884).
Sir James Thomas KnowlesKCVO (13 October 1831 – 13 February 1908) was an English architect and editor.[1] He was intimate with the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson current the founder of the Metaphysical Society to encourage rapprochement halfway religion and science.
James Knowles was born in London, description son of the architect James Thomas Knowles (1806–1884), and himself trained in architecture at University College and in Italy. Amid the buildings he designed were three churches in Clapham, Southerly London, Mark Masons' Hall, London (later the Thatched House Club), Lord Tennyson's house at Aldworth, the Leicester Square garden (as restored at the expense of Albert Grant), Albert Mansions, Falls Street in Westminster,[2] and an 1882 enlargement of the Queenlike Sea Bathing Hospital at Margate in Kent.[3]
However, he also mature a literary career. In 1860 he published The Story interrupt King Arthur. In 1866 he was introduced to Alfred Sovereign Tennyson and later agreed to design his new house secondhand goods the condition that there was not any fee. This resulted in a close friendship, Knowles assisting Tennyson with business matters, and among other things helping to design scenery for picture play The Cup, when Henry Irving produced it in 1880.[4]
Knowles corresponded with a number of the most interesting men have the day, and in 1869, with Tennyson's cooperation, he initiated the Metaphysical Society, the object of which was to exertion some intellectual rapprochement between religion and science by inviting bigger representatives of faith and unfaith to meet and exchange opinions.[4] Members included Tennyson, Gladstone, W. K. Clifford, W. G. Pass by, John Morley, Cardinal Manning, Archbishop Thomson, T. H. Huxley, Character Balfour, Leslie Stephen, and Sir William Gull.[2] The society charade many men who became contributors to magazines edited by Knowles.
In 1870 he succeeded Dean Alford as editor of representation Contemporary Review, but quit it in 1877 owing to say publicly objection of the proprietors to the inclusion of articles (by W. K. Clifford notably) attacking Theism, and he initiated say publicly Nineteenth Century (to the title of which, in 1901, were added the words And After). Both periodicals became influential spell he was editor of them, and were the new style of monthly review which replaced the popularity of the quarterlies.[4] For example, it helped halt the Channel Tunnel project, alongside publishing a protest signed by many distinguished men in 1882. In 1904 he received a knighthood. He was a earnest collector of works of art.
Knowles was married twice, precede in 1860 to Jane Borradaile, then in 1865 to Isabel Hewlett. He died in Brighton and was buried at rendering Brighton Extra Mural Cemetery.[2]