1847 - 1917
John Henry Knight British
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| First Name |
John
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| Middle Name |
Henry
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| Last Name |
Knight
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| Birthday |
21st January, 1847
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| Birthplace |
Farnham, Surrey, England
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| Died |
22nd September, 1917
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation Text |
Engineer, Inventor, Vehicle manufacturer
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| Year(s) Active |
Victorian - 1890s
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John Henry Knight (21 January 1847 – 22 September 1917), from Farnham, was a wealthy engineer, landowner and inventor. With the help of the engineer George Parfitt he built one of Britain’s first petrol-powered motor vehicles, Frederick Bremer of Walthamstow having built the first in 1892. On 17 October 1895, with his assistant James Pullinger, they drove through Farnham, Surrey, whereupon he was prosecuted for using a locomotive with neither a licence nor a man walking in front with a red flag. This is sometimes misreported as the first person to be convicted of speeding in the UK, but that sobriquet subsequently fell to Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, in January 1896.
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