Sir Norton Knatchbull (baptised 11 September 1569 â after 3 December 1636), of Mersham Hatch, Kent, was an English landowner and politician. He was a Member of the Parliament of England (MP) for the seat of Hythe in 1609. He was knighted in 1604.
Knatchbull was the 3rd son of Richard Knatchbull (d. 1582) of Mersham Hatch, and Susan Greene, daughter of Thomas Greene of Bobbing, Kent. He was baptised on 11 September 1569.
He was a student at St John's College, Cambridge in 1586 and was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1588.
Knatchbull married three times, but had no children by any of his wives. He married:
He was a justice of the peace (JP) for Kent, serving from 1600 to about 1627. He was knighted at Whitehall on 18 April 1604, and licensed in the following August to travel abroad for a year. He served as Sheriff of Kent from 1606 to 1607.
He was elected MP for the seat of Hythe on 4 October 1609, after a by-election, but did not stand for re-election.
He died shortly after 3 December, and was buried on 9 December 1636 at the , Mersham. A , which included a life-sized effigy in marble, was erected by his nephew and heir, Norton, at the north wall of the chancel. His widow subsequently married Sir Edward Scott of Scot's Hall, Kent, in 1639.