33 Facts About Ronald Knox

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox was an English Catholic priest, theologian, author, and radio broadcaster.

Ronald Knox was a fellow and chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford until he resigned from those positions following his conversion to Catholicism in 1917.

Ronald Knox became a Catholic priest in 1918, continuing in that capacity his scholarly and literary work.

Ronald Knox served as Catholic chaplain at the University of Oxford from 1926 to 1939.

Ronald Knox completed the "Knox Bible", a new English translation of the Latin Vulgate Bible that was used in Catholic services during the 1960s and 1970s.

Ronald Knox was born into an Anglican family in Kibworth, Leicestershire, England.

Ronald Knox's father was the Rev Edmund Arbuthnott Knox, who later became the Bishop of Manchester in the Church of England, and who was a descendant of the 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott.

Ronald Knox was educated at Eaton House School in London and Summer Fields School in Oxford.

Ronald Knox then entered Eton College, where he took the first scholarship in 1900.

Ronald Knox proceeded to Balliol College, Oxford, where he won the first classics scholarship in 1905.

Ronald Knox won the Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse Composition in 1910 and was elected fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

Interested in Anglo-Catholicism, Ronald Knox became a key member of Maurice Child's fashionable "set".

Macmillan's mother Nellie later dismissed Ronald Knox after discovering he was a high-church Anglican.

Ronald Knox was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and was appointed chaplain of Trinity College.

In 1915, Cyril Alington, the headmaster of Shrewsbury School, invited Ronald Knox to join the teaching staff.

Ronald Knox was long remembered at Shrewsbury as the highly dedicated and entertaining form master of Vb.

In 1917 Ronald Knox converted to Roman Catholicism and resigned as Anglican chaplain, prompting his father to cut Ronald Knox out of his will.

In 1918, Ronald Knox was ordained a Roman Catholic priest and in 1919 joined the staff of St Edmund's College in Ware, Hertfordshire, remaining there until 1926.

Ronald Knox explained his spiritual journey in A Spiritual Aeneid, published by Longmans in 1918.

In 1922, Chesterton converted to Catholicism and said that Ronald Knox had influenced his decision.

In 1929 Ronald Knox codified the rules for detective stories into a "decalogue" of ten commandments.

Ronald Knox was one of the founding members of the Detection Club and wrote several works of detective fiction, including five novels and a short story featuring Miles Bredon, who is employed as a private investigator by the Indescribable Insurance Company.

In 1936, directed by his religious superiors, Ronald Knox started retranslating the Latin Vulgate Bible into English using Hebrew and Greek sources.

Chesterton died in 1936, Ronald Knox delivered a panegyric for his Requiem Mass in Westminster Cathedral.

In 1953 Ronald Knox visited Julian and Anne Asquith in Zanzibar and John and Daphne Acton in Rhodesia.

Ronald Knox began a work of apologetics intended to reach a wider audience than the student one of his The Belief of Catholics.

In 1957, Ronald Knox suffered a serious illness that curtailed all his work.

At the invitation of Harold Macmillan, Ronald Knox stayed at 10 Downing Street while consulting a medical specialist in London.

Ronald Knox died on 24 August 1957, and his body was brought to Westminster Cathedral.

Ronald Knox was buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church in Mells.

In January 1926, on BBC Radio, Ronald Knox presented Broadcasting the Barricades, a simulated live report of revolution in London.

The majority of novels of Ronald Knox's era, coined The Golden Age of Detective Fiction, were "whodunits" with codified rules to allow the reader to attempt to solve the mystery before the detective.

Ronald Knox expanded upon this definition by giving ten rules of writing detective fiction:.