Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888-1957) was an English theologian and crime writer. 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... A crime writer (not a crime author) is an author of crime fiction. ...

He was born in Leicestershire, England on February 17, 1888, to an Anglican family and educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1910, he became a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, he was appointed chaplain in 1912 but left in 1917 when he was converted to Roman Catholicism. While a Roman Catholic chaplain at the University of Oxford (1926-1939) and as domestic prelate to the Pope 1936, he wrote classic detective stories. He also wrote and broadcast on Christianity and other subjects. Leicestershire (abbreviated Leics) is a landlocked county in central England. ... The Kings College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor, commonly known as Eton College or just Eton, is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-charging secondary school) for boys. ... College name Balliol College Named after John de Balliol Established 1263 Sister College St Johns Master Andrew Graham JCR President Triona Giblin Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... 1910 in topic: Arts Architecture- Art- Film- Literature- Music- Television Science and technology Aviation- Rail transport- Science Other topics Australia- Canada- Ireland- South Africa- Sport Births- Deaths Lists of leaders: State leaders - Religious leaders 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... College name Trinity College Named after The Holy Trinity Established 1555 Sister College Churchill College President The Hon. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament writings of his early followers. ...

Mgr. Knox singlehandedly translated the St. Jerome Latin Vulgate Bible into English. His works on religious themes include: Some Loose Stones (1913), Reunion All Round (1914), The Spiritual Aeneid (1918), The Belief of Catholics (1927), Caliban in Grub Street (1930), Heaven and Charing Cross (1935), Let Dons Delight (1939), and Captive Flames (1940). Link title1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Mgr. Knox's Roman Catholicism caused his father to cut him out of his will. This did not make much difference, however, as Knox earned a good income from his detective novels.

An essay in Knox's Essays in Satire (1928), "Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes", was the first of the genre of mock-serious critical writings on Sherlock Holmes and mock-historical studies in which the existence of Holmes, Watson, et al. is assumed. Oddly, the later works commonly go to much greater lengths to present a coherent case than did their model, which was meant only as a satire on certain trends in literary scholarship. 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes (1854-) is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

He was one of the four Knox brothers (with E. V. Knox, Dillwyn Knox and Wilfred Knox) written about in a joint biography by Penelope Fitzgerald, his niece. Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 - 28 April 2000) was an English poet, novelist and biographer. ...

Knox was led to the Catholic Church by the English writer G.K. Chesterton, before Chesterton himself became Catholic. Later, when Chesterton converted to Catholicism, he in turn was influenced by Knox. Knox delivered the homily for Chesterton's Requiem in Westminster Cathedral. For the town of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire, see Chesterton (Cambridge). ... The requiem, also known formally as the Mass of Requiem, is a liturgical service of the Roman Catholic Church and its Eastern Rite. ... Westminster Cathedral from Victoria Street Westminster Cathedral is the motherchurch of the Roman Catholic faithful of Great Britain located in the City of Westminster in London. ...

In 1953 he visited the Oxfords in Zanzibar and the Actons in Rhodesia. It was on this trip that he began his translation of the Imitation of Christ and, upon his return to Mells, his translation of St. Therese's Autobiography of a Soul. He also began a work of apologetics intended to reach a wider than the student audience of his Belief of Catholics (1927). But all his activities were curtailed by his sudden and serious illness early in 1957. At the invitation of his old friend, Harold Macmillan, he stayed at 10 Downing Street while in London to consult a specialist. The doctor confirmed the verdict of incurable cancer. At Ronald's death on August 24, 1957, his body was brought to Westminster Cathedral. Bishop Craven said the requiem at which Father Martin D'Arcy, S.J., preached the panegyric. Burial was in the churchyard at Mells. The Imitation of Christ (or De imitatione Christi), by Thomas à Kempis is one of the most widely read Christian spiritual books in existence. ...

The life of Ronald Knox was written by the distinguished English author, Evelyn Waugh. Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Evelyn Arthur St. ...

Knox seems to have formed a strong attachment to one of his students, Harold MacMillan, later Prime Minister of the UK. The Right Honourable Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC (10 February 1894–29 December 1986), nicknamed Supermac and Mac the Knife, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. ...

In 1926, for one of his regular BBC radio programs, Knox broadcast a pretended live report of revolution sweeping across London. In addition to live reports of persons being lynched, his broadcast cleverly mixed supposed band music from the Savoy Hotel with the hotel's purported destruction by trench mortars. Because the broadcast occurred on a snowy weekend, much of the UK was unable to get the newspaper until days later, and a minor panic ensued. A 2005 BBC report on the broadcast suggests that the innovative style of Knox's program may have influenced Orson Welles' 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast, and also foreshadowed it in its consequences. The script of the broadcast is reprinted in Essays in Satire (1928). 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... The Savoy Hotel, London The Savoy Hotel is a hotel found on the Strand, London. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Orson Welles, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) is generally considered one of Hollywoods greatest directors, as well as a fine actor, broadcaster and screenwriter. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... On October 30, 1938, as a Halloween special, Orson Welles performed a live radio adaptation of H. G. Wells classic novel The War of the Worlds, which famously frightened many in the audience into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Article written by Eman Bonnici, Secretary to Archbishop Emmanuel Gerada, Apostolic Nuncio and Titular Archbishop of Nomentum. Eman Bonnici (01. ...

Bible Version

Ronald Knox also published a Catholic version of the Bible, known as the Knox Version [1].

Autobiography

• A Spiritual Aeneid (1918)

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Novels

• The Viaduct Murder (1925)
• The Footsteps at the Lock (1928)
• Still Dead (1934)

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External link

• Detective Fiction Resource Site Ronald Knox Bibliography
• BBC report on Knox's 1926 revolution broadcast