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BiographyKnowles was the son of John Knowles and Elizabeth Lees of Green Bank, Oldham, Lancashire whose family owned Andrew Knowles and Sons, collieries in the Irwell Valley. He was educated at Rugby School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He was a prominent athlete at both institutions and became president of the Cambridge University Athletics Club. He studied law, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1882. He was involved in Unionist politics, and stood unsuccessfully for the Conservatives at Leigh in the 1885 general election. In the following year, another general election was held, and Knowles was returned as Member of Parliament for Salford West. From 1887 to 1892 he held an appointment as unpaid parliamentary secretary to Charles Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board. He held a similar post when Ritchie became President of the Board of Trade in 1895. From 1896 to 1906 he was Second Church Estates Commissioner. In 1903 he was created a baronet, "of Westwood in the County of Lancaster". His parliamentary career came to an end when he lost his seat at the 1906 general election. Knowles had a great interest in military history, and wrote a number of books on the life of Napoleon. In 1912 he made a bequest to his alma mater, Trinity College. This established the Lees Knowles Lectureship, an annual series of talks on military science given by distinguished military and naval figures. He held a commission as an officer in the Volunteer Force and its successor the Territorial Force, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After a stint as Honorary Colonel of the 3rd (Volunteer) battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, he was on 14 May 1902 appointed lieutenant-colonel in command of the battalion.[3] At various times he commanded the 3rd, 7th and 8th battalions of the Lancashire Fusiliers. He subsequently became the vice-chairman of the Lancashire Territorial Army Association. In 1915, he married Lady Nina Ogilvy, youngest daughter of the 10th Earl of Seafield. Lady Nina was presumably the Lady Nina Ogilvy Grant who appeared at a meeting of the Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association on 11 May 1909 at 52 Portland Place in London, as reported by Votes for Women, the organ of the Women's Social and Political Union.[4] They had no children.[5] Knowles was a philanthropist, supporting a number of charities, notably the Guinness Trust for Housing the Poor. He died in October 1928, aged 71, at his home in Westwood, Pendlebury.[5] Two roads in Llandudno, North Wales, are named in his honour: Lees Road and Knowles Road.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}} Arms{{Infobox coat of arms wide| name = Arms of Sir Lees Knowles, Baronet of Westwood and Turton Tower | image = Arms of Sir Lees Knowles.svg | imagesize = | notes = | year_adopted = | coronet = | crest = In front of a ram's head, couped, argent, armed or, three roses fessewise as in the arms. | torse = | helm = | escutcheon = Gules, on a chevron cotised, between in chief two crescents and in base a cross-crosslet all argent, three roses of the field barbed and seeded proper.[1] | supporters = | compartment = | motto = Nec diu nec frustra ("Neither for long nor in vain")[6] | orders = | other_elements = | bannerimage = | banner = | badgeimage = | badge = | symbolism = The escutcheon and crest incorporates elements of previous arms used by the Knowles/Knolles/Knollys family.[7][8] The canton of the baronet at the top left is the Red Hand of Ulster, sinister. | previous_versions = }} Works
References1. ^1 {{cite book|title=Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire|date=1914|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|pages=1145-1146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RVggAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1145&dq=Sir+Lees+Knowles,+1st+Baronet|accessdate=27 August 2017|language=en}} 2. ^{{acad|id=KNWS875L|name=Knowles, Lees}} 3. ^{{London Gazette|issue=27433|page=3182|date=13 May 1902}} 4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://gdc.galegroup.com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/gdc/ncco/NewspapersDetailsPage/NewspapersDetailsWindow?disableHighlighting=false&displayGroupName=DVI-Newspapers&docIndex=38&source=fullList&prodId=NCCO&mode=view&limiter=F_CMC+%22Votes+for+Women%22&display-query=TX+Countess&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&windowstate=normal&currPage=8&dviSelectedPage=&scanId=&query=TX+Countess&search_within_results=&p=NCCO&catId=&u=nypl&displayGroups=&documentId=GALE%7COPZZLD234431046&activityType=AdvancedSearch&failOverType=&commentary=|title=Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association|last=|first=|date=21 May 1909|work=Votes for Women|access-date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}} 5. ^1 {{cite news |title=Obituary |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP19281205.2.141 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |work=The Press |volume=LXIV |issue=19485 |date=5 December 1928 |page=16}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Fairbairn|first1=James|title=Fairbairn's Book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland|date=1892|publisher=Jack|page=51|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tf02AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA51&dq=Nec+diu+nec+frustra+Knowle|accessdate=27 August 2017|language=en}} 7. ^{{cite journal|title=Cheshire Soldiers of Fortune: Sir Robert Knolles|date=1908|publisher=|journal=Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales|page=224|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g13WCm2riWEC&pg=PA224|accessdate=27 August 2017|language=en}} 8. ^{{cite book|last1=Burke|first1=John|last2=Burke|first2=Bernard|title=A General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland|date=1842|publisher=Edward Churton|page=620|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K9sxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP620|accessdate=27 August 2017|language=en}}
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| title = Member of Parliament for Salford West | before = Benjamin Armitage | after = Sir George Wiliam Agnew | years = 1886 – 1906 }}{{s-reg|uk-bt}}{{s-new | creation }}{{s-ttl | title = Baronet (of Westwood and Turton Tower in the County of Lancaster) | years = 1903 – 1928 }}{{s-non | reason = Extinct }}{{S-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Knowles, Lees}} 13 : 1857 births|1928 deaths|Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|UK MPs 1886–92|UK MPs 1895–1900|UK MPs 1900–06|Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge|People educated at Rugby School|Members of Lincoln's Inn|Lancashire Fusiliers officers|Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom|Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Salford West |
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