RJB Knight

Roger John Beckett Knight , always quoted by RJB Knight (born April 11, 1944 ), is a British naval historian specializing in the navy in the 18th century. He was at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich .

Knight studied at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Sussex and received his doctorate in 1972 from University College London ("The Royal Dockyards in England at the time of the American War of Independence"). From 1974 he was a curator at the National Maritime Museum, where he held various functions (archive, exhibitions) and was most recently deputy director. After his retirement in 2001 he taught naval history at the University of Greenwich , from 2005 as professor of naval history.

Among other things, he wrote a biography of Horatio Nelson and studied shipbuilding in the Royal Navy in the 18th century and the organization of the Royal Navy in the fight against Napoleon and its cooperation with civilian utilities.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society , was its Vice President from 1992 to 2006 and was Senior Vice President of the Navy Records Society and was.

For his 2005 book, The pursuit of victory: the life and achievement of Horatio Nelson, Knight was awarded the Mountbatten Maritime Prize, The Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, and the Anderson Medal of the Society of Nautical Research.

Fonts

• The pursuit of victory: the life and achievement of Horatio Nelson , Allen Lane / Penguin 2005 (received the Mountbatten Maritime Prize, the Anderson Medal of the Society of Nautical Research and the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature)
• Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815 , Allen Lane / Penguin 2013
• with Martin Wilcox Sustaining the Fleet, 1793-1815: War, the British Navy and the Contractor State , Boydell & Brewer 2010
• Guide to the manuscripts in the National Maritime Museum , 2 volumes, London: Mansell 1977, 1980
• Editor with Alan Frost: The journal of Daniel Paine, 1794-179: together with documents illustrating the beginning of government boat-building and timber-gathering in New South Wales, 1795-1805 , Sydney 1983
• Published in: Portsmouth dockyard papers, 1774-1783: the American war: a calendar , Portsmouth 1987
• Editor with introduction: Shipbuilding timber for the British Navy: parliamentary papers, 1729-1792 (facsimile edition), New York: Delmar 1993
• Editor with John Hattendorf , AWH Pearsall , Nicholas Rodger , Geoffrey Till , Sainsbury British Naval Documents

Web links

• His website