He was born in Sunderland, County Durham 10 March 1792.
He was baptised 23 March 1792 at the Old Market or Corn Street Independant Chapel - High Street, Sunderland.
He married Susan BRETT at St Pancras Church, London 13th April 1819. She was born in Jamaica, West Indies.
He was apprenticed (as an apothecary) to James Roundley and served 12 months at the Westminster Dispendiary.
He received his L.S.A (Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries) on Oct 30th 1828, and his M.R.C.S (Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England) in 1834 from Westminster Medical School.
In 1820, when his first child was born, he was described just as a "gent" of Judd Street, but the 1817-1821 trade directories have him as a chemist & druggist at number 24.
He was an apothecary at 35 Piccadilly, London in 1822 to 1835, and was described (in a court case reported in The Times) as having four children.
He was living in Gilbert street in 1835.
He was living at 64 Mortimer Street, St Marylebone in 1836 to 1840.
He was a surgeon and apothecary at 1 Mornington Crescent, Camden Town, London from Aug 1840 to 1847.
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He was living at 33 College Place, Camden Town in 1849.
He was living at 36 Weymouth Street, Portland Place in 1851.
He was sometime surgeon for A and C Divisions of the Metropolitan Police.
He was a surgeon at The Grove, 5 Euston Square, St Marylebone in 1852 and 1871.
His wife died there in January, 1862 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.
He was living at 23 Montague Place, Russell Square in 1877, but died on the 12th March at Grange Lodge, Hornsey Road, Holloway.
He was buried, with his wife, in Highgate Cemetery on the 16th March.
Parents
John KNAGGS
Jane DAVISON
Siblings
See children of father.
Children
Susan KNAGGS baptised 26th April 1820 at St Pancras Church, and married Antonio BIAGGI (Professor of Italian) there 18th April 1854.
Ellen KNAGGS born 29 January 1823, baptised 1 August at St James, Piccadilly, married John Rodham CARR 6th January 1859 St Pancras.
Ann KNAGGS born 13 May 1825, baptised 17 June 1825 at St James, Piccadilly, married George COOK 21st June 1849 St Pancras.
Clara Sophia KNAGGS born 7 March 1828, baptised 15 July 1828 at St James, Piccadilly. Died, still a spinster, 30th Oct 1907 in Chevening, Kent.
Walter KNAGGS born around 1821 in Jamaica. He married Corinne Marguerite Lande (or Laudé) and had three sons. His first wife died in 1848 and he married Augusta Maria somebody having another six children in Jamaica. He died in 1890 in Singapore.
Two of his children living with him in London in 1861 were . . .
Stephen Laudé KNAGGS born about 1846 in Jamaica. A solicitor's clerk in 1861. A piano maker, in Islington, employing 9 men in 1881-7.
John KNAGGS born about 1848 in Jamaica. A solicitor's clerk in 1861.
Profession
Apothecary (i.e. Pharmacist), Surgeon
