George T. Knight (Universalist)

For the English cricketer, see George T. Knight (cricketer).

George Thompson Knight (October 29, 1850 – 1911) was an American Universalist teacher at the Crane Theological School, a Universalist seminary at Tufts University.[1][2][3][4]

Knight's father was an abolitionist and Universalist.[5] Knight graduated from divinity school in 1875 and was appointed Instructor in Rhetoric and Church History where he taught Biblical history and Greek. By the end of his career he had taught "almost every subject offered" at Tufts Divinity School.[6] He was made Secretary of the Faculty of the Divinity School in 1884, and was one of the first local members of Phi Beta Kappa.[5]

  1. ^ Obituary NY Times
  2. ^ Start, Alaric Bertrand (1896). History of Tufts College. Massachusetts: Tufts College.
  3. ^ The Larger Hope: The second century of the Universalist Church in America: Volume 2. Russell E. Miller - 1985 "The next individual to join the divinity school staff, George T. Knight (1850-1911), followed this pattern. He had graduated in 1872 (after winning plaudits as the best baseball player in the college), had entered the divinity school, ..."
  4. ^ The Universalist Church of America: A Short History. Universalist Historical Society. 1957.
  5. ^ a b Start, Alaric Bertrand. "History of Tufts College, 1854-1896 - GEORGE T. KNIGHT, D. D." dl.tufts.edu. Tufts.
  6. ^ The Proceeding of the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society. 1984.