41 years service). Handed over responsibility to his son. Henry Thomas Knott (born 1797 St. Margaret's at Cliffe. d. 1870) (Son of Henry born 1748) South Foreland Low lighthouse (1818–1863, 45 years service) Assisted by his three sons, two of whom were transferred away. Henry Knott (born 1818 St. Margaret's at Cliffe.) (Son of Henry Thomas born 1797) South Foreland Low lighthouse (1841) Flamborough Head lighthouse (1851–1880, 39 years service) John Knott (born 1820 St. Margaret's at Cliffe. d. 1851 South Foreland High Light) (Son of Henry Thomas born 1797) South Foreland (1841–1851). Died in service, buried All Saints Church, St. Margaret's at Cliffe, Kent. (10 years service) George Knott (born 1828 St. Margaret's at Cliffe d. 1904 Dover) (Son of Henry Thomas born 1797) South Foreland Low lighthouse (1847–1861) Eddystone (Smeaton tower) (1861–1866) Bideford lighthouse (1866–1879) Bull Point lighthouse (1879–1888) North Foreland lighthouse (1888–1891) (44 years service) Henry Thomas Knott (born 1851 St. Margaret's at Cliffe. d. 1910 Crewe) (Son of George Knott born 1828) Entered the lighthouse service (December 1873) Skerries lighthouse (1874–1886) South Foreland lighthouse (1886–1887) Minicoy lighthouse (Maliku Atoll), Lakshadweep, India (1887–1890) St. Ann's Head lighthouse (1890–1894) South Stack lighthouse (1898–1899) Skerries lighthouse (1901–1905) Start Point lighthouse (1905–1908, 35 years service) Edmond Horton Knott (born 1872 Braunton, Devon, d1943, Bedfordshire) (Son of George Knott born 1828) Entered the lighthouse service (April 1892) The Smalls lighthouse (1894) South Foreland lighthouse (1899–1902, 10 years service) Links to other lighthouse keeper families The Knott family is linked to the Hall family of lighthouse keepers via the marriage (Holyhead 1877) of Henry Thomas Knott (born 1845) to Ellen Margaret Hall (born 1847 Dale, Pembs) daughter of John Hall (born 1810 Dale, Pembs) keeper of St. Ann's Low Light. The Knott family is also linked to the Darling Family of Lighthouse Keepers via the marriage of Thomas Owen Hall (born Dale, Pembs 1840) (Son of John Hall (born 1810 Dale, Pembs) keeper of St. Ann's Low Light) to Grace Horsley Darling (born Bamburgh 1844) (daughter of William Darling (born 1806 Bamburgh) Keeper of Farne Island Lighthouse) and niece of Grace Darling. References External links Lighthouse personnel in England, Wales and the Channel Islands 1790–1911 – The Keepers The Lighthouse Keepers Database, https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014919/http://www.lighthousekeepers.co.uk/ The full story of the Knott family has recently been published. British lighthouse keepers English families