Background
Frederic Hardwicke Knight was born on July 12, 1911, in Stoke Newington, London, United Kingdom. The youngest of seven surviving children of Annie Sophia Hoskins and Charles Frederick Knight, a fancy goods salesman.
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in 1930 Frederic studied at Académie française in Paris, France.
Frederic received the Queen's Service Order in 1991.
Frederic Hardwicke Knight was born on July 12, 1911, in Stoke Newington, London, United Kingdom. The youngest of seven surviving children of Annie Sophia Hoskins and Charles Frederick Knight, a fancy goods salesman.
Knight studied with Professor Oakley at the Académie Française in 1930.
During World War II he was chief photographer for the Plastic Surgery Unit in Gloucester with Sir Harold Gillies. In 1936 Knight did ethnographic documentary work in the Caucasus (Daghestan), and in 1935 did photography for a French archaeological team in northern Iran and Armenia.
From 1957 to 1977 Frederic served as director of medical photography at the University of Otago Medical School and Dunedin Hospital in New Zealand, and at Enfield Group Hospitals in England from 1948 to 1957.
Since 1966 Knight is a president of the New Zealand Institute of Medical Photographers. In 1970 Frederic became a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Medical and Biological Illustration.
Since 1976 Knight has been writing and publishing. Also, he presides over the Dunedin Film Society and Otago Anthropological Society and is vice-president of the Archives Association.
Frederic takes documentary photographs "of social and ethnographic significance" and collects work of local historical importance or excellence and researches the photographers' lives.
The Knight family were staunch evangelical Christians. Despite periods of atheism, Knight continued to find inspiration in the Bible's teachings and stories throughout his life.
In 1935 Frederic Hardwicke Knight met Mary (Mollie) Ada Saunders, an Islington woman three years younger than himself. After a few years of Communistic 'trial marriage,' they were formally married in 1939.