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Preceded by
  
Alfred Henry Bence

Name
  
Roy Knight

Succeeded by
  
Henry Frank Jones

Succeeded by
  
riding dissolved


Full Name
  
Robert Ross (Roy) Knight

Born
  
12 December 1891 Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland (
1891-12-12
)

Died
  
11 September 1971(1971-09-11) (aged 79)

Political party
  
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Preceded by
  
riding re-established

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Robert Ross (Roy) Knight (12 December 1891 – 11 September 1971) was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and became a farmer and teacher by career.

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Knight lived in Northern Ireland during his childhood, attending the Royal School Dungannon. He moved to Canada in 1909, attended Saskatoon Normal School, then Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario where he received his Bachelor of Arts.

He was first elected at the Saskatoon City riding in the 1945 general election, then re-elected at Saskatoon in 1949 and again in 1953. Knight was defeated by Henry Frank Jones of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election. Knight was again unsuccessful there in 1958.

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Roy Knight Wikipedia