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1768 - 1852 . You may wonder why Edward has a different surname to the rest of his siblings. Newly married Thomas Knight and his bride Catherine took a tour of their inherited estates and visited their distant cousin George Austen (Snr) and family at Steventon.
16 de jul. de 2011 · Edward was the only Austen brother not to have a profession. Early in the 1780's he was adopted by Mr. Austen's Patron, the rich but childless Thomas and Catherine Knight. Instead of going off to University, He was sent on the "grand tour" of continental Europe in 1786-1788, and eventually inherited their estate of Godmersham, Kent, and took the last name of "Knight".
20 de feb. de 2014 · We know that Thomas Knight and his wife adopted Edward Austen as a child, and passed on to him the landed estates they had inherited, both Chawton and Godmersham. The name of the family eventually became Austen-Knight, but Ron shows us here how far back this connection went – one wonders how much Jane Austen would have actually known of this ...
29 de mar. de 2014 · 3. Edward Austen, later Knight (1768-1852), was introduced at the age of 12 to Thomas and Fanny Knight, wealthy childless cousins on his father’s side. The Knights decided to adopt Edward, who from 1812 onward used the surname “Knight” instead of Austen. He married Elizabeth Bridges in 1791, and the couple had eleven children, including one of Jane Austen’s favourite nieces, Fanny ...
25 de ene. de 2023 · Former home of Jane Austen‘s brother Edward Austen Knight, Godmersham Park is not only a beautiful Palladian-style mansion, but a place that has inspired great literature. Since 2017, the house has also featured on the British £10 note. History of Godmersham Park. Built in 1732, on the site of an earlier Elizabethan building, Godmersham Park was the property of the Knight family.
30 de sept. de 2017 · Chawton House was the home of the Knight family until 1988 (I am the last member of the family to grow up there). I was seventeen when my grandfather died (Edward Knight III, great great grandson of Edward Austen), leaving a depleted estate in financial ruin and a house in need of restoration. The following year we left Chawton.
29 de oct. de 2022 · Edward Austen Knight inherited three estates from his adoptive family the Thomas Knights: Godmersham Park in Kent, and Chawton House and Steventon in Hampshire. Godmersham and Chawton had large extensive libraries typical of the gentry of the time.
