Edward Knight's Family
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Charles Augustus Rice [3] continued.
... for the Colossians, 'strengthened with all might – into all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness'. He never had good health and his career in the Royal Engineers must have been a disappointment to him. Living for years after his retirement in the Dane Court village of Tilmanstone, he had great call both for patience and for long suffering in his daily relations with his parents and sisters, so great was their reliance on his wise judgment, and so insistent the sisters' claims on his time and companionship. But he was never known to complain, and he never lost his joyfulness though its character deepened with age and suffering. He and his brother Cecil were the closest of friends throughout their lives.
Augustus did not see much service abroad; he was for a time in Corfu; and he was in the Crimea, but he was there on sick leave in his brother Edward's ship, H.M.S. 'Leander'. The greater part of his service was spent in Dover and he retired at an early age owing to ill health.
After his retirement he married his first cousin, Adela Mary Margaretta Knight, a daughter of Edward Knight of Chawton – by whom he had three daughters. They settled in a charming little house with plenty of space for cows and poultry, only a stone's throw from his sisters' home at South ...
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