Charles Knight (civil servant)

Charles Knight CB (1863–25 March 1941) was a British civil servant.

Born in Roche, Cornwall, Knight served as Assistant Secretary of the Local Government Board from 1918 to 1919 and then its successor, the Ministry of Health, from 1919 to 1922. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1920 New Year War Honours.[1]

Footnotes
  1. "No. 31713". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1919. p. 1.
gollark: ```lualocal mathfloor, mathpow = math.floor, math.powstrats.actually_vaguely_forgiving_grudger = function(prev, opponent, memory) -- gollarious² if #opponent == 0 then return true end if memory.defections == nil then memory.defections = 0 end if opponent[#opponent] == false then memory.defections = memory.defections + 1 return false end local lookback = mathfloor(mathpow(2, memory.defections)) for i = #opponent, (#opponent - lookback), -1 do if opponent[i] == false and prev[i] == true then return false end end return trueend```
gollark: In the scheme version, my "grudger who gives you 3 chances" works slightly better.]
gollark: Ah, right.
gollark: Basically. It's also x^n and not n^x.
gollark: I'm trying to tweak the parameters a bit in the scheme version.

References
  • Obituary, The Times, 28 March 1941
  • Who Was Who


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