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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 is married to Peter I.C. Knowles, II, Captain USAR
(Ret.); they have two sons and one granddaughter. She
and her husband maintain residences in Virginia and Palm
Beach.
Mrs.
Knowles’ early education was in Portsmouth, VA, and she
was later graduated from
St. Catherine’s School
in Richmond, VA. She was a 2009
Attingham Trust Summer Scholar
(UK), and participated in decorative arts programs at
West Dean College
(Sussex), the
University of Nottingham,
and the
University of York, all
in England. A retired appraiser of antiquities and
personal property, she was the founder and former owner
of Chadwick Antiques, LTD. Mrs. Knowles, a decorative
arts and museum management consultant, was formerly
chairman of over 60 properties either owned or operated
by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of
America. She is a frequent lecturer and author on both
genealogical and historical subjects.
Mrs. Knowles serves as a
trustee of the
American Friends of St. George’s
Chapel (UK) and the Hereditary Descendants of
the Knights of the Garter (UK). She is on the Advisory
Board of the
National Trust for Scotland
Foundation USA. Mrs. Knowles is an active
member of the
Towton Battlefield Society
(UK), which preserves the site of the bloodiest battle
in the history of England, fought March 23, 1461, during
the Wars of the Roses.
Memberships
* Order of the
First Families of Virginia
* One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal
(Founding Regent)
* National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
(Current National
Archivist, Member of the National Roll of Honor, Member of the
National
Board, Board Member: Dumbarton House Museum and Gunston Hall
Plantation, NSCDA Museum Properties, Past President NSCDA-VA,
courtesy member NSCDA-NY and NSCDA-FL)
* Colonial Dames of America (Past President Chapter
XVII, Palm Beach,
current Board Member)
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
(Governor General)
* Daughters of the Cincinnati
* Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers
* National Society Americans of Royal Descent (Third
Vice-President
General; member of the Most Venerable Order of Saint Louis)
* Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
* Order of the Crown in America
* National Gavel Society
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Founding Member,
First Vice-
President General)
* Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry
* Military Order of the Crusades
* Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
* Jamestowne Society
* Descendants of the Knights of the Garter (UK)
* Huguenot Society of Virginia
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
* United Daughters of the Confederacy
Chivalric
Orders
* The Most
Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Bestowed by
Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth, II)
*Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem
(Priory of St. Michael
and St. George, NYC)
Other Notes
In Virginia, Mrs. Knowles is or has been a trustee of:
The Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA
Preservation VA), The Historic Prestwould Foundation,
Gunston Hall Plantation,
The Museum of the Confederacy,
and Historic Petersburg Museums
Foundation. Mrs. Knowles’ Florida activities
include:
The Flagler Museum,
The Preservation Foundation of
Palm Beach, and the
Historical Society of Palm Beach
County. An accomplished flower show judge,
Mrs. Knowles is a Judge Emeritus for the
Garden Club of Virginia,
and is an Accredited Judge of Flower Arrangement for the
Garden Club of America.
She is a new member of the Board of Directors of the
Catesby Commemorative Trust,
which honors the legacy of Mark Catesby, the renowned 18th
century English naturalist and artist. |
