KNOX (Edmund George Valpy, 1881-1971, Poet and Satirist who wrote. under the pseudonym ‘Evoe’)

Fine Signature with inscription “Yours very truly” with his name and his pseudonym, on card, 3½” x 2½”, no plaace, dated in another hand 13th January

He was editor of Punch 1932–1949, having been a regular contributor in verse and prose for many years. Knox was the eldest son of Edmund Arbuthnott Knox, a descendant of John Arbuthnott, 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott. He was a brother of the Roman Catholic priest and author Ronald Knox, the codebreaker Dilly Knox, the Anglican priest and New Testament scholar Wilfred Knox, the author Winifred Peck, and Ethel Knox. His daughter, the novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, wrote a biography of the four brothers titled The Knox Brothers.

Item Date:  1930

Stock No:  42481      £25

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