Wishart travelled throughout Scotland preaching in favour of the reformation and when he arrived in East Lothian, Knox became one of his closest associates.

While Rough was preaching in the parish church on the Protestant principle of the popular election of a pastor, he proposed Knox to the congregation for that office.

When Dudley visited Newcastle and listened to his preaching in June 1552, he had mixed feelings about the fire-brand preacher, but he saw Knox as a potential asset.

Mary summoned Knox to Holyrood after hearing that he had been preaching against her proposed marriage to Don Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain.

Knox revealed his own objection while preaching in the presence of the new King Consort on 19 August 1565.

Knox was summoned and prohibited from preaching while the court was in Edinburgh.

Bas-relief of John Knox preaching at St Giles in Edinburgh before the court of Mary Stuart.

Knox refused to collaborate, but joined fellow reformers in a concerted preaching campaign against covetous men in high places.

One of his most notable students was John Knox ( coincidentally, another native of Haddington ) who said of Mair that he was such as " whose work was then held as an oracle on the matters of religion " If this is not exactly a ringing endorsement, it is not hard to see in Knox's preaching an intense version of Mair's enthusiasms – the utter freedom of God, the importance of the Bible, scepticism of earthly authority.

He is also known for his engraving of " Knox preaching before the Lords of the Congregation ," after David Wilkie, his " Combat " after Etty, " Italian Pilgrims coming in sight of Rome " after Eastlake, the " Infant Christ " after Raphael and the " Ecce Homo " after Correggio.

Calvin's follower John Knox brought Presbyterianism to Scotland when the Scottish church was reformed in 1560.

His mother, Jane Polk ( née Knox ), was a descendant of a brother of the Scottish religious reformer John Knox.

* 1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation.

John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland, took Calvin's teachings back to Scotland ( see Scottish Reformation ).

John Knox ( c. 1514 – 24 November 1572 ) was a Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation who brought reformation to the church in Scotland.

" After that, according to Knox, the Scottish prisoners were no longer forced to perform such devotions.

* May 2 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation.

** John Knox, Scottish reformer ( d. 1572 )

The Scottish Reformation also played a big role in the town with the sacking of the Houses of the Greyfriars and Blackfriars, after a sermon given by John Knox in St John's Kirk in 1559.

In the mid-16th century, John Knox instigated the Scottish Reformation at grass-roots level with a sermon against ' idolatry ' in the burgh kirk of St. John the Baptist.

Five months after the couple's death, John Knox, the future Scottish reformer, wrote of them as " innocents ... such as by just laws and faithful witnesses can never be proved to have offended by themselves ".

* Robert James as Scottish religious reformer John Knox

* Thomas F. Torrance, Scottish Theology from John Knox to John McLeod Campbell, T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1996.

The Scottish Reformation was formalised in 1560, when the church in Scotland broke with the Holy See, during a process of Protestant reform led, among others, by John Knox.

The first blast of the trumpet against the monstruous regiment of women is a polemical work by the Scottish Reformer John Knox, published in 1558.

* September 4-Robert Knox, Scottish anatomist ( died 1862 )

* December 20-Robert Knox ( born 1791 ), Scottish anatomist

* Knox, William W. Hanging by a Thread: The Scottish Cotton Industry, c. 1850-1914 ( 1995 ),

* John Knox, main figure in the Scottish Reformation and disciple of John Calvin spent significant time in Longniddry as tutor to the sons of the Douglas family who lived at the west side of the village.

* the John Knox cap, a soft square cap made from black velvet and worn by the Doctors of certain Scottish Universities as well as Durham University in England, the University of Calgary and Queens ' University in Canada.

* Keith Knox, a Scottish footballer who also worked as a postman throughout his 25 year career.

Argyll had come under the influence of John Knox and the Scottish Reformation.

The school was named after John Knox, the 16th century Scottish reformer, who planned a network of schools in every church parish.

The Protestant nobles and others, including Knox, were taken prisoner and forced to row in the French galleys.

Many nobles accepted this, but not Knox.

In order to defend these men, Knox sent out letters calling the nobles to convene.

He was one of the principal supporters of the marriage with Darnley, became the leader of the Roman Catholic nobles, and with Knox obtained the chief power in the government, successfully protecting Mary and Darnley from Murray's attempts to regain his ascendancy by force of arms.

* Venus ( mural ), ten-story-high painting by New York artist Knox Martin

* Directly opposite Chelsea Piers is the Venus ( mural ): a ten story high mural painting by New York artist Knox Martin on the south side of Bayview Correctional Facility at 19th Street and 11th Avenue.

The mild activity of his command during the sojourn of the troops at Valley Forge could be handled by a subordinate, he felt, so like Henry Knox, equally loyal to Washington, who went to Boston at this time, Morgan received permission to visit his home in Virginia for several weeks.

Early work on Enigma was performed here by Dilly Knox, John R. F.

Various conventions of the detective genre were standardized during the Golden Age, and in 1929 some of them were codified by writer Ronald Knox in his ' Decalogue ' of rules for detective fiction, among them to avoid supernatural elements, all of which were meant to guarantee that, in Knox's words, a detective story " must have as its main interest the unravelling of a mystery ; a mystery whose elements are clearly presented to the reader at an early stage in the proceedings, and whose nature is such as to arouse curiosity, a curiosity which is gratified at the end.

" Weaned off uncritical royalism by the actions of Queen Mary … The political thinking of men like Ponet, Knox, Goodman and Hales.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

* TIB = The Interpreter ’ s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews

In the film Villa Rides ( 1968 ), Madero was portrayed by Alexander Knox.

A study at Ball State University sponsored by Nabisco, the former parent company of Knox gelatin, found that gelatin supplementation relieved knee joint pain and stiffness in athletes.

A recipe calling for the addition of additional gelatin to regular jelly gives a rubbery product that can be cut into shapes with cookie cutters and eaten with fingers ( called " Knox Blox " by the Knox company, makers of unflavored gelatin ).

The Protestant Church of Scotland was formed in the mid-16th century by Knox and the Protestant Lords of the Congregation.

Several human-made enclosures have been made to support breeding and shelter, with several people clearing an area for the penguins and burying the huts, most notably The Knox School, when their efforts were filmed and broadcast in 2008 by Totally Wild.

John Knox attacked her in The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women, published in 1558, and she was prominently featured and vilified in Actes and Monuments, published by John Foxe in 1563, six years after her death.

George Shaw, who produced the first description of the animal in the Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799, stated that it was impossible not to entertain doubts as to its genuine nature, and Robert Knox believed it might have been produced by some Asian taxidermist.

Presbyterianism was especially influenced by the French / Swiss theologian, John Calvin, who is credited with the development of Reformed theology and the work of John Knox, a Scotsman who studied with Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland and brought his teachings back to Scotland.

It was kept in a vault at Fort Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President Jimmy Carter.

On February 25, 1913, Secretary of State Philander Knox proclaimed that the amendment had been ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the states ; thus, it had become part of the Constitution.

* The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics by Bernard Knox ( ISBN 9780393312331.

This was known as the Knox – Porter Resolution ; subsequent Peace treaties were signed with both countries and Ratified by the Senate and signed by Harding on July 21, 1921 ; that officially ended World War I for the U. S. The Senate had refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles in both 1919 and 1920 because it required the U. S. to endorse the League of Nations.