J. Harris (John Harris) Knowles

Born in 1832 and dying in 1908, John Harris Knowles was a minister and religious poet whose surviving published work includes Not Changed but Glorified, and Other Verses. The book was issued with a preface by Canon Knowles, suggesting that his poetry was closely tied to church life and spiritual reflection.

Knowles appears to have written in the devotional style common to his era: thoughtful, reassuring, and centered on faith, mortality, and hope. Although detailed biographical information is hard to confirm, the record of his publications shows a writer interested in expressing Christian belief through verse rather than in building a broad literary reputation.

Today, he is remembered mainly through library and memorial records rather than through a large modern readership. Even so, his poetry offers a small but telling glimpse into the religious and literary culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.