Estate of Ronald Knox

Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888-1957) was an English priest, theologian and author of detective stories. He was also a writer and a regular broadcaster for BBC Radio.   He won several scholarships at Balliol College, Oxford. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1912 and was appointed chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford, but left in 1917 upon his conversion to Catholicism. In 1918 he was ordained a Catholic priest. Knox singlehandedly translated the Latin Vulgate Bible into English and wrote and broadcast on Christianity. 

In 1929 he codified the rules for detective stories into a "decalogue" of ten commandments.   He was one of the founding members of the Detection Club and wrote six detective novels.