The Knott family of lighthouse keepers is credited with the longest period of continuous service in the history of staffed lighthouses, commencing in 1730[1][2] at South Foreland, Kent, with William Knott[3] and ending in 1906 at Skerries (Anglesey, Wales) with Henry Thomas Knott (son of George Knott – see below) who died in 1910 having retired to Crewe. There are three famous lighthouse-keeping families in England, the other two being the Darling (see: Grace Darling) and the Hall families. The three families are inter-related.[4]
^D Alan Stevenson, "The World's Lighthouses Before 1820", Oxford University Press, 1959, p103
^Ken & Clifford Trethewey, "Light On The Forelands", Jazz-Fusion Books, 2022, ISBN 978-1-9993273-0-9
^Stevenson reports that it was Henry who started at South Foreland. However, parish records show that it was William.
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