Ronald Knox

Ronald Knox (17 February 1888 – 24 August 1957) was an English priest and theologian. He was also a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio. Knox attended Eton College and won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1912 and was appointed chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, but he left in 1917 to become a Roman Catholic. In 1918 he was ordained as a Catholic priest. Knox wrote many books of essays and novels. Knox singlehandedly translated the St. Jerome Latin Vulgate Bible into English. His works on religious themes include: Some Loose Stones (1913), Reunion All Round (1914), A Spiritual Aeneid (1918), The Belief of Catholics (1927), Caliban in Grub Street (1930), Heaven and Charing Cross (1935), and Let Dons Delight (1939) and Captive Flames (1940).

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