“So, to reward him for his run
(As it was baking hot,
And he was over twenty stone),
The King proceeded, half in fun,
To knight him on the spot.”

— Lewis Carroll

Explaining the Knight-Mayor's name
Canto 5
Phantasmagoria (1869)

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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

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