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Knight, Archibald Patterson
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1849-1935
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Archibald Knight was born near Renfrew in 1849. In 1868 he entered Queen's University on scholarship and graduated in Arts in 1872 with the Prince of Wales prize. After three years teaching, in 1875, Professor Knight received his M.A. from Queen's. From 1876 to 1892 Professor Knight served as principal of Kingston Collegiate during which time he also studied medicine at Queen's taking his final examinations for the M.D. at the University of Toronto. He was appointed professor of animal biology and physiology at Queen's in 1892, holding the chair until his retirement in 1919. Knight also served Queen's as registrar of the Women's Medical College (1884-1889), in the planning of the Medical Laboratories Building (1907) and as a member of the board of trustees (1922-1926). Knight was a leader in the organization in 1898 of the Biological Board of Canada, served the board actively until 1925 and was its chairman from 1920 to 1925. Knight was Professor Emeritus of Biology when he died in 1935.
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