Joseph Knight (vegetarian)

Joseph Knight (1854 – January 1928) was an English social reformer and writer. He played a prominent role in the late 19th and early 20th-century vegetarian and temperance movements in the United Kingdom. He served as secretary of the Vegetarian Society from 1885 to 1895 and founded the Scottish Vegetarian Society in 1883. A prolific pamphleteer and public speaker, Knight advocated a plant-based diet on ethical, health, and economic grounds. He also edited The Daisy Basket, the first British vegetarian magazine for children, and contributed widely to vegetarian and reformist periodicals.