Brantley Carter Bolling Knowles

Registrar
Dame Brantley Carter Bolling Knowles, DTJ

Brantley Carter Bolling Knowles, a native Virginian, is the daughter of Albert Stuart Bolling, Jr., and Brantley Carter (Lamberd) Bolling. She has been married since 1970 to Peter Irving Channing Knowles, II, Captain USAR (Ret.); they have two sons.

Mrs. Knowles was invested as Dame of the Order on November 20, 2004 at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, by H. E. Col. Chev. David Nels Appleby, GCTJ, GMTJ, Grand Prior of the Autonomous Grand Priory of the United States.

Mrs. Knowles' early education was in Portsmouth, Virginia, and she was later graduated from St. Catherine's School in Richmond. A retired appraiser of antiques and personal property, she was the founder and former owner of Chadwick Antiques, Ltd. Mrs. Knowles is a consultant to over seventy museum properties throughout the United States. She is a frequent lecturer and writer on genealogical subjects, the decorative arts, history and historic preservation. She and her husband maintain residences in Virginia and Palm Beach.

Memberships
* Order of the Crown in America
* Order of First Families of Virginia
* National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (National Roll of Honor
   Member; National Museum Properties Chairman; Member of the National
   Board; ex officio member of the Board of Dumbarton House - NSCDA
   National Headquarters, Georgetown, D.C., Past President of the Virginia
   Society; Courtesy Member: New York and Palm Beach)
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
* Military Order of the Crusades
* Baronial Order of the Magna Charta
* Jamestowne Society
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors
* Order of the Merovingian Dynasty
* Society of Descendants of Knights of the Garter
* Colonial Dames of America
* National Huguenot Society
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

* The Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America
   (Secretary, Member of the Advisory Council)

Other Notes
In Virginia, Mrs. Knowles is, or has been, a trustee of The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), The Historic Prestwould Foundation, Gunston Hall Plantation, The Museum of the Confederacy, The White House of the Confederacy, and is a sustaining member of the Junior League of Richmond. Florida activities include: The Preservation Foundation and the Board of Benefactors of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. Mrs. Knowles, a member of The Garden Club of Virginia and The Garden Club of America, is an artistic flower arrangement judge in both organizations.