James Knox wrote the acclaimed biography of cult 1930s travel writer, Robert Byron, published by John Murray in 2003, which was hailed by Patrick Leigh Fermor as "surpassing all expectations." Byron was a contemporary and friend of Lancaster's and their social worlds overlapped. Knox has also written extensively about art and architecture for
Country Life,
The Spectator and
The Daily Telegraph. He has broadcast on Byron for the BBC and spoken at literary festivals. Knox is also a publisher with an MBA. He ran
The Spectator in the 1980s and is currently Managing Director of
The Art Newspaper, the "bible of the art world". In 2007, Knox was also highly instrumental in saving for the nation, Dumfries House, an Adam masterpiece filled with Chippendale furniture.
