28 March 1881: born
1901: clothed, Fort Augustus, Inverness
1902: professed
1908: ordained
WWI: Naval chaplain
1926-1929: prior, Portsmouth Abbey (Rhode Island, USA)
1929: elected Abbot
1937: re-elected Abbot
1939: resigned as Abbot
1940-1944: PP at St Benet's Beccles
1944: re-elected Abbot
13 April 1965: died
Christmas 1940: Abbot Knowles replaced Rev Fr G William Tate, OSB, who after two years in Beccles, was appointed priest-in-charge of St Mary’s Priory Church, Egremont, Cumberland