Robert Knollys | Knollys family | William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury | Francis Knollys (the elder) | Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys | Eardley Knollys |
Gawdy had married Lettice Knollys, daughter of Sir Robert Knollys and Catherine Vaughan, and had eight children.
Thomas Watson-Wentworth bought the estate from the Knollys family in 1695 and built the present Hall between 1716 and 1719 for use as a Dower House.
He was a descendant of Charles Knollys, titular fourth Earl of Banbury (see also Knollys family).
Long Critchel House was bought in 1945 by Edward Sackville-West, from 1962 the 5th Baron Sackville, the music critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor and art critic Eardley Knollys, who established "what in effect was a male salon, entertaining at the weekends a galaxy of friends from the worlds of books and music" in Long Crichel, including James Lees-Milne, a close friend of Knollys.
Robert Knolles (c. 1320–1407), also known as Knollys, English soldier of the Hundred Years' War
A stone bridge was built by Sir John de Cobham and Sir Robert Knolles (or Knollys), finished in 1391.
Knollys is said by Dugdale to have been descended from Sir Robert Knollys or Knolles (d 1407), the soldier, but, according to Sidney Lee in the Dictionary of National Biography, this is an error.
William married before 19 June 1602 Lettice Knollys (1583–1655), daughter of Sir Henry Knollys (c. 1542 - 1583), Member of Parliament representing first Shoreham, Kent (1563) and then Oxfordshire, Esquire of the Body to Elizabeth I (son of Sir Francis Knollys and Catherine Carey), and Margaret Cave (1549–1600), daughter of Sir Ambrose Cave and Margaret Willington.