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506:, paid Knight's travel expenses so he could show them where he had found timbers in 1936. Knight subsequently postulated the timbers were the remains of a shelter for animals, not a large boat, and claimed that after he left the ARF party he found archaeological evidence to support his theory that Noah and his family grazed their stock on Mount Ararat in summer.
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Knight's last years were troubled by failing eyesight, joint pain and digestive problems which were the legacy of a burst appendix in his early teens. Mollie died in 1999. A few years later Ursula
Stockinger came from Germany to live with him at Broad Bay and cared for him until his admission to
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regime. He claimed to have worked as a photographer on an
Armenian archaeological excavation and as a photo-journalist while travelling through Russia, the Caucasus, Armenia and the Near East, and to have found timbers on Mount Ararat that could have been the remains of Noah's Ark.
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Never very dedicated to his paid employment, Knight spent long lunch hours exploring London and its second hand bookstalls and antique shops and taking photographs (a passion encouraged by his brother-in-law). Summer holidays and periods of unemployment were spent working in the
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After the war Knight returned to London, his work at the NUT supplemented with freelance writing, photography, art work and editing. In 1949 a son, Simon, was born. Shortly after this
Hardwicke was appointed Director of Medical Photography of Enfield Group Hospitals based at
338:, the youngest of seven surviving children of Annie Sophia Hoskins and Charles Frederick Knight, a fancy goods salesman. Annie was an accomplished artist whose father was a print dealer. Charles's parents were enterprising shop-keepers originally from the
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of which he was a founding member. He attended most of the society's archaeological excavations over the next four years, developing techniques for photographing and recording archaeological sites and writing an unpublished handbook on the subject.
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Richard John Morris: An appreciation of his contribution to New Zealand portrait and view photography in the nineteenth century: Sixth series from the Hardwicke Knight collection
537:(1971), was the country’s first comprehensive photographic history. He subsequently published numerous books of early Dunedin and Otago photographs with supporting historical information including
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until ten months before his death at a
Dunedin nursing home. His publications include New Zealand's first comprehensive photographic history, many compilations of early Dunedin and
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The Knight family were staunch evangelical
Christians. Despite periods of atheism, Knight continued to find inspiration in the Bible's teachings and stories throughout his life.
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as an advertising clerk, among other duties organising tours for holidaying teachers and accompanying tours of French battlefields. He later worked on the NUT's magazine
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and in 1996 an award presented by The City of
Dunedin 'in appreciation of outstanding achievements as a citizen of the City.' He returned to England only once, in 1992.
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he was made redundant more than once; other jobs included compiling ships' equipment inventories for
Tankers Ltd and being a travelling salesman of silks and satins.
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Glamis, a
Dunedin nursing home, in 2007. Sally, as he called her, had originally met Knight in 1951 at Chase Farm Hospital where she was training to be a nurse.
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cottage and its makeshift additions became a virtual museum with his collections stacked floor to ceiling. He stored much of his photographic equipment at the
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is not unfailingly reliable. The spelling of names given here is taken from the marriage certificate of Annie Sophia Hoskins and Charles Frederick Knight.
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local history began shortly after his arrival in New Zealand. Finding much of the area's history unrecorded he set about the task himself. Memoirs of the
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Cutten, William Henry: Letters revealing the life and times of William Henry Cutten, the forgotten pioneer
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People and buildings in early photographs of Dunedin: Fourth series from the Hardwicke Knight collection
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Cassells, Winston (December 1993 – January 1994). "In the Footsteps of Noah".
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and a collection of vintage photographic equipment, was acquired by the
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articles under the pseudonym 'Sam Fossicker'. Knight's book
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Photography in New Zealand: A social and technical history
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Photography in New Zealand: A social and technical history
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magazine and was on the editorial board of the latter.
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in 1957 to take up a medical photography position in
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797:The residences of the Cargill family in Dunedin
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409:In 1935 he met Mary (Mollie) Ada Saunders, an
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