Early Life
Knox was the son of Robert Knox DD, Archbishop of Armagh, and of his wife Catherine Delia FitzGibbon, daughter of Thomas Gibbon FitzGibbon of Ballyseeda, County Limerick. He had two brothers and two sisters. His great-grandfather, Thomas Knox (died 1818) of Dungannon Park, County Tyrone, had been created the first Viscount Northland.
He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst.
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