He was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps, on 24 July 1872 transferring to the Scots Fusilier Guards, becoming its Musketry Instructor and Adjutant and rising to Captain. Sometime after 1881 he left the army, becoming a Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police, heading a District (a group of Divisions). In summer 1885 he married Florence Rose Carter Wood at St John's Smith Square.
By 1888 the couple was living at 67 St George's Road, Pimlico, where he died in 1890 from paralysis caused by being thrown from his horse a few months earlier. His body was borne from there to St Gabriel's Pimlico on 27 September, the route lined by constables of B (Chelsea) Division under Superintendent Sheppard. One of the wreathes on the coffin came from the Princess of Wales - Arthur's brother Sir Francis Knollys was private secretary to the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. The body was then taken to Highgate for burial, with the service read by Arthur's cousin the Rev Mr Knollys.
By 1888 the couple was living at 67 St George's Road, Pimlico, where he died in 1890 from paralysis caused by being thrown from his horse a few months earlier. His body was borne from there to St Gabriel's Pimlico on 27 September, the route lined by constables of B (Chelsea) Division under Superintendent Sheppard. One of the wreathes on the coffin came from the Princess of Wales - Arthur's brother Sir Francis Knollys was private secretary to the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. The body was then taken to Highgate for burial, with the service read by Arthur's cousin the Rev Mr Knollys.
He was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps, on 24 July 1872 transferring to the Scots Fusilier Guards, becoming its Musketry Instructor and Adjutant and rising to Captain. Sometime after 1881 he left the army, becoming a Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police, heading a District (a group of Divisions). In summer 1885 he married Florence Rose Carter Wood at St John's Smith Square.
By 1888 the couple was living at 67 St George's Road, Pimlico, where he died in 1890 from paralysis caused by being thrown from his horse a few months earlier. His body was borne from there to St Gabriel's Pimlico on 27 September, the route lined by constables of B (Chelsea) Division under Superintendent Sheppard. One of the wreathes on the coffin came from the Princess of Wales - Arthur's brother Sir Francis Knollys was private secretary to the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. The body was then taken to Highgate for burial, with the service read by Arthur's cousin the Rev Mr Knollys.
By 1888 the couple was living at 67 St George's Road, Pimlico, where he died in 1890 from paralysis caused by being thrown from his horse a few months earlier. His body was borne from there to St Gabriel's Pimlico on 27 September, the route lined by constables of B (Chelsea) Division under Superintendent Sheppard. One of the wreathes on the coffin came from the Princess of Wales - Arthur's brother Sir Francis Knollys was private secretary to the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. The body was then taken to Highgate for burial, with the service read by Arthur's cousin the Rev Mr Knollys.
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