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Robert Knight

Textile manufacturer

Died when: 86 years 323 days (1042 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

Robert Knight

Robert Knight (8 January 1826 – 26 November 1912) was a New England industrialist and philanthropist, who was a partner with his brother Benjamin Knight in B.

B. & R.Knight and was one of the largest textile manufacturers in the world when he died in 1912.He co-founded the clothing brand Fruit of the Loom, now owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.


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