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Harry Richard Knight is an English businessman and former chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., a post he held from 1997 to 2009. A lifelong fan of Brighton & Hove Albion, he took control in 1997 having led the fan pressure to oust the previous board following their sale of the club's Goldstone Ground to property developers.
Knight is a professional musician, retired school teacher, and 2018 North Carolina Heritage Award recipient. He's is one of several excellent soul, R&B and funk musicians with deep ties to eastern North Carolina, but his Kinston story is an unlikely one.
Kinston resident Robert “Dick” Knight is one of those musicians. He’s known as one of Eastern Carolina’s most historic music innovators. “To be recognized as I have been is a great honor for...
A Knight to the rescue. Now a new hero appeared on the scene. Liam Brady, who had resigned as manager, persuaded a local Albion-supporting businessman, Dick Knight, to challenge the board for control of the club – and Knight had the determination and financial clout to make the difference.
3 de may. de 2024 · The former Albion chairman recalls a pivotal moment in our history at Edgar Street, Hereford, 27 years ago today when Albion clung onto their Football League status. Share this story…. Dick Knight labelled the game at Hereford as 'probably the worst game' he had ever seen.
Dick Knight, a Kinston resident and musician, recalled that the James Brown Band “was almost like a Kinston band”: There was Maceo Parker, Nathaniel Jones, Melvin Parker, Levi Rasbury, and myself. There were five—-five from Kinston. Nat Jones was the music arranger. He was very talented. And he was also playing the alto saxophone.
"You got to love what you do, and you got to do it well, and you got to be consistent in doing what you're doing."Kinston's Dick Knight knows a thing or two ...
