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FATHER KNOX
KNOX, REV. RONALD ARBUTHNOTT; b. 17th Feb., 2888; 4th s. of the Rt.
Rev. E.A. Knox, Bishop of Manchester. Ethuc.: Eton (1st
Scholarship); Balliol College, Oxford (1st Scholarship). Hertford
Scholarship, 1907; Second in Honour Moderations, 1908; Ireland and
Craven Scholarship, 1908; 1st in Litt. Hum., 1910; Fellow and
Lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford, 1910; Chaplain, 1912;
Resigned, 1917; received into the Church of Rome, September, 1917.
[Illustration: FATHER KNOX]
CHAPTER III
FATHER KNOX
_Our new curate preached, a pretty hopefull young man, yet somewhat raw,
newly come from college, full of Latine sentences, which in time will
weare off._--JOHN EVELYN.
There is a story that when Father Knox was an undergraduate at Oxford he
sat down one day to choose whether he would be an agnostic or a Roman
Catholic. "But is there not some doubt in the matter?" inquired a friend
of mine, to whom I repeated the tale. "Did he really sit down and
choose, or did he only toss up?"
The story, of course, is untrue. It has its origin in the delightful wit
and brilliant playfulness of the young priest. Everybody loves him, and
nobody takes him seriously.
Few men of his intellectual stature have been received with so little
trumpet-blowing into the Roman Catholic Church, and none at all, I
think, has so imperceptibly retired from the Church of England.
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