E. V. Knox (Edmund Valpy) (1881-1971)

Death: 2nd January 1971
Location: St. John at Hampstead, London, England. Plot: Churchyard Extension (Q91)
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British poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was editor of Punch (1932-1949). He was brother of Catholic priest and author Ronald Knox, codebreaker Dilly Knox, and Anglican monk and scholar Wilfred Knox. His daughter, the novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, wrote a biography of the four brothers titled The Knox Brothers.
His first marriage was to Christina Frances Hicks. Their children were the author Penelope Fitzgerald and journalist Edmund Rawle Valpy Knox. Christina died in 1935. He remarried in 1937, to Mary Shepard, illustrator of Mary Poppins and daughter of E.H. Shepard who illustrated Winnie the Pooh and The Wind in the Willows.
His epitaph is a quote from Heraclitus by poet William Johnson Cory: 
Still are thy pleasant voices, 
thy nightingales awake.

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