The British Musical Biography

[E] Knight, Edward, musician and composer,
son of Edward Knight, comic song-writer and
vocalist (1774-1826), who composed the "Sailor
and Soldier," a musical farce, 1805. Young
Knight edited " Canadian airs, collected by
Lieut. Back, R.N., during the late Arctic
Expedition under Captain Franklin, with
symphonies and accomjoaniments," London,
1823. He also edited his father's " Comic

[+] Songs and Recitations," London, 1827. His
brother was J. Prescott Knight, the painter.

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