Scotch College

Move and prosper

The City of Knox is named after Sir George Knox (1899), KBE, CMG. For its motto the city took his family motto ‘Move and Prosper’.

George Knox, born in 1885, worked briefly as an electrical engineer until settling as an orchardist at Beaconsfield. In World War I he commanded a battalion at Gallipoli and in France where he was blown up in 1916 and evacuated to England. In 1923 he was elected to the Ferntree Gully Shire Council and from 1927 until his death in 1960 he sat in Parliament, where he was an effective and impartial Speaker in 1942–47. He was knighted in 1945.