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Ronald A. Knox (1888-Î957) is a familiar author ?? millions, whether as a biblical interpreter, or a detective novelist, or a preacher, or the harsh analyst of Enthusiasm, His figure »s familiar, too, from having had no lesser a writer than Evelyn Waugh for his literary executor and biographer. Knox's best -known essay on Moie - the paper he ¿ave in 1929 at ClisNea - v. as published in The Fame oj Blessed Thomas More alongside ihose of R'.W. Chambers, O.K. Chesterton et al. (London, 1929). On July 7. 1935, six weeks after More's canonization, he preached a panegyric of the new saint, which he included m 3 collection entitled Captive Flames, a phrase from Henry Vaughan (London, 1940). More here is no. XII, betv/een Henry the Sixth (founder of Eton, young Knox's College) f*R;i St. Îgnàiius Loyola ; he claims a little over 'en pag^s (70-Í0). More is ni'âtaod because he resisted « a loviiiH conspiracy...