Draft talk:William Knighton (author)
Conflict of interest
[edit]This draft is a biographical notice about the author William Knighton.
This origin of the draft is William Knighton: Author of the Private Life of an Eastern King, a self-published book written by Judy Urquhart, the great-great granddaughter of William Knighton.
I was introduced to Judy by her friend Caroline Behr, whose mother was the 1st cousin once tried of Lt-Col Victor William Harington Duke, who married two of my 1st cousins twice removed, Hazel and Edith Swetenham. Caroline is not related to William Knighton.
Judy has written three other biographies about family members whose subjects already have Wikipedia pages created by others :
Memoir of a Major General's Daughter: From the second world war to the 60's social war, also autobiographical) about her father Maj-Gen Roy Urquhart https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Urquhart Dr. William Spence Urquhart - an account of his life by his great niece Judy Urquhart - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Spence_Urquhart Henry Nelson Wright Numismatist and Indian Civil Servant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Nelson_Wright, her great-great grandfather
She asked for my help with the Wikipedia articles.
I made a minor correction to the entry for Gen. Urquhart and added citations of Judy's books to that article and to that for William Spence Urquhart. I made more substantial additions to the article about H. Nelson Wright which had been exclusively about his activity as a numismatist.
Since no article existed for the author William Knighton, I set about drafting this article.
During the course of our collaboration, it became clear that William Knighton's son-in-law and Judy's great grandfather James Hunt Condon, a doctor in the Indian Medical Service, was in fact a close friend of my great-grandfather Major George Swetenham RE and the godfather of my grandfather Charles Condon Swetenham.
Judy was a guest at the recent wedding of my son Nicholas in Edinburgh.
The chain of relationships made it desirable to declare a conflict of interest.
The draft text is based on reliable published sources which can be consulted online and I have sought to take account of the requirements for Wikipedia articles. RCS sharpshooter (talk) 16:12, 29 August 2024 (UTC)