Sir Arthur Rowland Knapp CBE CSI KCIE was a British civil servant who served as the Revenue Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras from 1923 to 1926.
Sir Arthur Rowland Knapp CBE CSI KCIE (10 December 1870 – 22 May 1954) was a British civil servant who served as the Revenue Member of the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras from 1923 to 1926.
Early life
Arthur Knapp was born at Woolston in 1870 to Lt Col. Charles Barrett Knapp. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He married Florence Annie Moore on 9 August 1899 at Madras, India.
His wife Florence was the daughter of Edward Moore, DD Principal of St Edmunds Hall Oxford.
His daughter Margaret Elfreda Knapp was married to the prominent Royal Navy officer and Director of Naval Intelligence Anthony Buzzard, and the theologian Anthony F. Buzzard is his grandson.
