William Stanley Macbean Knight (14 October 1869 – 21 March 1950) was a barrister and politician. Born in Marylebone, he was the son of William Richard Irwin Knight. He studied at the University of Oxford before being admitted a solicitor in 1893 and becoming a tutor at New College Oxford. While he was at Oxford he was ordained as a bishop in the Evangelical Catholic Church, a religious denomination originating in East India. However, he was expelled from the church two years later. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1899.