Cynthia Lennon Cynthia Lennon Cynthia Lillian Lennon ("née" Powell; 10 September 1939 – 1 April 2015) was the first wife of English musician John Lennon and mother of Julian Lennon. She grew up in the middle-class section of Hoylake, on the Wirral Peninsula in North West England. At the age of 12, she was accepted into the Junior Art School, and was later enrolled in the Liverpool College of Art. John Lennon also attended the college; a meeting with Powell in a calligraphy class led to their relationship. When John was performing in Hamburg with the Beatles, she rented his bedroom from
John S. Knight he merged his company with Ridder Publications to form Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. He co-founded what would become the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation with his brother James L. Knight. John Knight lost first his wife, Katherine, and then two of three sons at early ages. Lieutenant John S. Knight, Jr. was killed in action near Münster, Germany on March 29, 1945. In retirement, John Knight devoted much of his time to the raising of Thoroughbred race horses at his Fourth Estate Stable based in Miami. Knight died of a heart attack in Akron. John S. Knight John Shively