Philip Douglas Knights, Baron Knights, CBE, QPM, DL is a retired British police officer. Knights was educated in Grantham. He joined the Lincolnshire Police as a cadet in 1938, becoming a constable in 1940. In the war, he served in the RAF from 1943-1945. He returned to Lincolnshire, reaching the rank of chief superintendent in 1957. He moved to the Birmingham City Police in 1959 as an assistant chief constable. He became deputy chief constable in 1970. In 1972 he moved to Sheffield and Rotherham Constabulary as chief constable. In 1974, it became the South Yorkshire Police. From 1975-1985 he was chief constable of the West Midlands Police. In 1983 he was criticised for not disciplining West Midlands Special Branch officers who investigated the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament activist Madeline Haigh. Awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 1964, Knights was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1971, was promoted to a Commander in 1976 and knighted in 1980. He was deputy lieutenant of the West Midlands in 1985 and was created a life peer on 22 July 1987 as Baron Knights, of Edgbaston in the County of West Midlands. He sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords. 

October 3rd, 1920 in (Age 104)