Background
Knollys was the son of Review Erskine Knollys and his wife Caroline Augusta N. His father was rector at Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, among other parishes.
Knollys was the son of Review Erskine Knollys and his wife Caroline Augusta N. His father was rector at Quedgeley, Gloucestershire, among other parishes.
He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself as a rower.
He also rowed in 1873 Boat Race. Knollys became a colonial administrator. In 1904 Knollys was appointed Governor of the British Leeward Islands but died at Southsea in the following year at the age of 56.
In 1885 he was a colonial secretary in Barbados and up to 1894 was a member of the assembly.