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Mrs. Peter
Irving Channing Knowles, II
(Brantley Carter Bolling Knowles)
Brantley
Carter Bolling Knowles, a native Virginian, is the
daughter of Albert Stuart Bolling, Jr., and Brantley
Carter (Lamberd) Bolling. She has been married since 1970
to Peter Irving Channing Knowles, II, Captain USAR (Ret.);
they have two sons.
Mrs.
Knowles' early education was in Portsmouth, Virginia, and
she was later graduated from
St. Catherine's School in
Richmond. A retired appraiser of antiques and personal
property, she was the founder and former owner of Chadwick
Antiques, Ltd. Mrs. Knowles is a consultant to over
fifty museum properties throughout the United States. She
is a frequent lecturer and writer on genealogical
subjects, the decorative arts, history and historic
preservation. Mrs. Knowles has been selected as a 2009
Attingham Trust Summer Scholar (UK),
and serves as a trustee of The American Friends of St.
George's and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter
(UK)." She and her husband
maintain residences in Virginia and Palm Beach.
Memberships
* Order of First Families of Virginia
*
One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
* National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
(National Roll of Honor
Member; National Museum Properties Chairman; Member of the National
Board; ex officio member of the Board of Dumbarton House - NSCDA
National Headquarters, Georgetown, D.C., Past President of the
Virginia
Society; Courtesy Member: New York and Palm Beach)
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
(First Vice
President General)
* National Society Americans of Royal Descent
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
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* Order of the Crown in America
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
* Military Order of the Crusades
* Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
* Jamestowne Society
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
(Founder Member, Curator General)
*
Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter
* Colonial Dames of America
(former President of Chapter XVII, Palm Beach)
* Huguenot Society of Virginia
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
Chivalric Orders
*
Sovereign Military Order of the
Temple of Jerusalem (Dame Commander,
Member of the Council,
Priory of St. Michael and St.
George, New York
City)
Other Notes
In Virginia, Mrs. Knowles is, or has been, a trustee of The
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA),
The Historic Prestwould Foundation, Gunston Hall
Plantation, The Museum of the Confederacy, The White House
of the Confederacy, and is a sustaining member of the
Junior League of Richmond.
She is currently Vice President and Trustee of the
Petersburg [VA]
Museums Foundation.
Mrs. Knowles' Florida
activities include: The Preservation Foundation and the
Board of Benefactors of the Historical Society of Palm
Beach County. Mrs. Knowles, a member of The Garden Club of
Virginia and The Garden Club of America, is an artistic
flower arrangement judge in both organizations.
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