Modern English Biography—A Project Gutenberg eBook

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KEBLE, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Fairford 29 Oct. 1793; ed. by his father; Gloucestershire scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 1809–20, tutor 1819, fellow 1820–5, junior dean 1822; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1824; C. of Cirencester 1824; V. of Bisley, Gloucs. 1827–73; one of the first revivers of daily church services; wrote 4 of the Tracts for the Times, No. 12, 22, 43 and 84, and forty eight of the Plain Sermons; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews, for the Library of the Fathers; author of Considerations on the value of the Athanasian Creed 1872. d. Bisley 5 Sep. 1875. Richard Nelson’s Conversations with T. Keble (1870); The Guardian 15 Sep. 1875 p. 1172.

KEDDIE, William, b. Peebles 22 March 1809; in a printing establishment, Glasgow 1822–9; sub-editor Scottish Guardian 1832, principal editor to 1859; lecturer in natural history in Free Church coll. 1860; his geological and zoological collections were given to the college; sec. of Glasgow Philosophical soc. and editor of its Transactions; edited The Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856; author of Moffat, its walks and wells 1845; Staffa and Iona described and illustrated 1850; Maclure and Macdonald’s Series of guides to the Highlands of Scotland. By W. Keddie 4 numbers 1859; Cyclopædia of literary and scientific anecdote 1854, another ed. 1873. d. Oban 26 July 1877. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix 520 (1878).

KEELEY, Louisa Mary (youngest dau. of the succeeding). b. 1835; played in the provinces; first appeared at Drury Lane 12 July 1856 as Gertrude in the Loan of a Lover; a pleasing singer; acted at Princess’s 1859–60; played Ixion in Burnand’s burlesque Venus and Adonis, at Haymarket 29 March 1864; played Eurydice in Planche’s Orpheus in the Haymarket, at Haymarket 29 Dec. 1865. (m. 12 Aug. 1858 Montagu Stephen Williams b. 1834, barrister I.T. 1862, police magistrate). d. 44 Upper Brook st. London 24 Jany. 1877. The Players 29 Dec. 1860 p. 199, portrait; Planche’s Extravaganzas, v 193 (1879), portrait.

KEELEY, Robert (son of a watch maker). b. 3 Grange court, Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1793; apprenticed to Hansard the printer 3 years; acted in the Norwich circuit 4 years 1814–18; the original Leporello in Giovanni in London, at the Olympic 1818, and Jemmy Green in Tom and Jerry, at the Adelphi 26 Nov. 1821; played Jerry in Pierce Egan’s Life in London, at Sadler’s Wells 8 April 1822; acted at Covent Garden 1822, Victoria 1833, in U.S. of America 1836–7, at Olympic 1838–41, at Drury Lane 1841–2, at Covent Garden 1843; manager with Strutt of the Lyceum 1844–7; manager with Charles Kean of the Princess’s 1850–1; played the Carrier, in Henry IV. at Windsor castle 1850; acted at Haymarket, Adelphi, Olympic and Drury Lane 1852–7; his last appearance was as Euclid Facile in Twice killed, Drury Lane 27 March 1862; a genuine comedian in much favour with the public. (m. 1825 Mary Anne Goward, she was b. Ipswich 1806, a well known actress). He d. 10 Pelham crescent, Brompton, London 3 Feb. 1869; will proved 24 March, personalty under £18,000. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. v 145 (1826), portrait; Register and Mag. of Biog. i 229–31, 523 (1869); T. Marshall’s Lives of most celebrated actors (1847) 91–108, portrait; Actors by Daylight 2 June 1838 pp. 105–7, portrait on horseback; W. Marston’s Our recent actors, ii 19–107 (1888).

KEELING, Isaac. b. Newcastle-under-Lyne 12 Feb. 1789; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1811, at Macclesfield 1823–6, at Leeds 1826–8, 1852–8, London 1839–42, 1855–8, Bristol 1844–7, Bath 1858–61 and at 17 other places; governor of Wesley coll. Sheffield 1842–4; president of the conference 1855; a popular and well known preacher; author of Sermons and some small works 1820–63. d. Ripon 11 Aug. 1869.

KEELING, William Knight. b. Cooper st. Manchester 1807; assistant to Wm. Bradley, portrait painter in London; portrait painter and drawing master at Manchester about 1835; a founder of Manchester academy of fine arts, president 1864–77; associate of New Soc. of painters in water-colour 1840, member 1841; exhibited at Royal Manchester institution from 1831, at Manchester academy of fine arts, and at New Soc. of Painters; his best known pictures are The Betrothed; Gurth and Wamba; and Touchstone, Audrey and William. d. Barton-upon-Irwell near Manchester 21 Feb. 1886.

KEENAN, Stephen. b. Fermanagh, Jany. 1805; ed. at Glasgow, the R.C. coll. Aberdeen and at Rome; missioner in Edinburgh 1830; assistant priest Dundee 1839; minister of St. Andrew’s chapel, Nethergate, Dundee 1847 to death; a public controversialist in the interest of the R.C. ch.; the pope gave him a D.D. degree 1857; erected churches and schools in Dundee, where he was a popular preacher among the Irish; author of Controversial catechism or protestantism refuted and catholicism established 1846, 4 ed. 1874; Catechism of the Christian religion, being with some changes a compendium of the Catechism of Montpellier 1851. d. Dundee 28 Feb. 1862. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 208–11.

KEENE, Alexander, assumed name of Alexander Findlay). b. London 1821; a pugilist; beaten by the Young Greek near Twyford 30 April 1844; beat Wm. Cain £25 a side at Horley 17 Dec. 1846; beat Joseph Phelps £100 a side, 119 rounds in 2 hours and 45 minutes at Woking Common 9 Sep. 1847; beat Young Sambo (Welsh) £100 a side at Eight Mile Bottom, Newmarket 20 June 1848; beaten by Jack Grant £100 a side at Fleetpond 16 Oct. 1849; beat Wm. Hayes £100 a side 20 Aug. 1850; landlord of the Victoria inn, Willesden lane near London 1867. d. Prince of Wales’ hotel, Molesey, Surrey 30 Jany. 1881. Illust. sporting news, iii 497, 504 (1864), 2 portraits.

KEENE, Charles Samuel (son of Samuel Browne Keene, solicitor, d. 1838). b. Duval’s lane, Hornsey 10 Aug. 1823; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch.; apprenticed to Messrs. Whymper, wood engravers, London 1842–7; worked for the Illustrated London News and other periodicals from 1847; drew for Punch 1851–90, also for Punch’s Almanac and Pocket Book; illustrated stories in Once a Week 1859 and Douglas Jerrold’s Caudle Lectures in Punch; a most perfect artist in black and white; awarded gold medal at Paris exhibition 1889; published Our People, from the collection of Mr. Punch 1881; a large collection of his later drawings exhibited at Fine Art Society’s rooms, New Bond st. March 1891; illustrated many books 1860–85. d. 112 Hammersmith road 4 Jany. 1891, portrait by sir George Reid exhibited at Victoria exhibition 1892. The Mask (1868) 65, portrait; I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p. 38, portrait, 21 March 1891 p. 375, portrait; Black and White 21 March 1891 pp. 205, 206, portrait; Mag. of Art, March 1891 pp. 145–6, portrait.

KEENE, Edwin (youngest son of John Keene). b. 1826; wrote Frances, a tale of Bath, printed in Keane’s Bath Journal, and contributed to many periodicals in London and Edinburgh; author of Sydney Fielding, the domestic history of a gentleman who served under their late majesties George IV. and William IV. 2 vols. 1857. d. 7 Kingsmead st. Bath 21 Sep. 1857.

KEENE, Henry George (only son of Thomas Keene). b. 30 Sep. 1781; cadet Madras army about 1798; entered Madras civil service Feb. 1801; assistant registrar to the Sudder courts, Madras; wrote a book in Arabic on law, for which government awarded him 10,000 rupees; left India 1809, retired from C.S. 1812; matric. from Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. 13 Nov. 1811, fellow 13 Nov. 1817, 8 senior optime and B.A. 1815; ordained 1817; contested Arabic professorship at Camb. March 1819; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college, Haileybury 1824 to 1834; lived at Tunbridge Wells 1834 to death; author of Akhlák-i-Mahsini translated from the Persian 1850; Anwás-i-Suhaili; Persian fables for young and old 1833; Persian stories 1835; Sermons of rev. W. Sharpe with a memoir 1836. d. 3 Mount Ephraim road, Tunbridge Wells 29 Jany. 1864.

KEENE, JAMES. b. 1796; proprietor of Keene’s Bath Journal to death, edited it from 1818, supplying nearly all the leaders and superintending the management till his death; minister of the New Church (Swedenborgian) denomination; a supporter of the Bath Athenæum. d. 16 Norfolk buildings, Bath 25 Dec. 1875.

KEENE, Laura (dau. of Mr. Lee and wife of Mr. Taylor). b. England 1830; acted at the Lyceum under Madame Vestris; played Pauline in Lady of Lyons, Olympic theatre Oct. 1851; appeared as Albina Mandeville in The Will, Wallack’s theatre, New York 20 Sep. 1852; acted in California and Australia 1852–5; opened Laura Keene’s Varieties theatre, New York 27 Dec. 1855; opened Laura Keene’s New theatre with As you like it 18 Nov. 1856 and remained lessee till 1868; produced Our American Cousin, in which E. A. Sothern, Joseph Jefferson and herself appeared 18 Oct. 1858 which ran to 25 March 1859; in England 1868; starred in America with her own company 1868 to death; edited Shakespeare’s Play of a Midsummer Night’s dream, with notes 1863; left two daughters by her first husband. d. Montclair, New Jersey 4 Nov. 1873. J. Jefferson’s Autobiography (1890) 183, 489, portrait; Brown’s American stage (1870) 202, portrait; The Era 30 Nov. 1873 p. 10.

KEENE, Richard Wynne. b. Norwich 1810 or 1811; a sculptor; inventor of Keene’s cement made by saturating plaster of Paris in small lumps with alum and recalcining it, patented by himself and J. D. Greenwood 27 Feb. 1838; designer and modeller of the masks and symbolic properties for the Drury Lane pantomimes 1852–73 under the name of Dykwynkyn; a pensioner on the Dramatic and musical sick fund from Oct. 1884. d. 32 Hanbury road, Lavender hill, London 28 Nov. 1887. bur. Woking. Belgravia, i 359–64 (1867).

KEHOE, Lawrance. b. parish of Litter, Wexford 24 July 1832; editor and publisher of New York Tablet 1857–65; founded the Catholic publication society co. 1865 and was manager to his death; manager of the Catholic World; edited The complete works of J. Hughes, archbishop of New York 1866. d. Brooklyn, New York 27 Feb. 1890. The Tablet 22 March 1890 p. 473.

KEIGHTLEY, John. b. 1778; lieut. 57 foot 22 July 1795; major 23 foot 25 July 1816 to 16 Oct. 1823 when placed on half pay; lieut. col. 11 foot 2 June 1825 to 29 May 1835; resident governor of Santa Maura; lieut. col. 35 foot 29 May 1835 to 17 June 1836 when he sold out; resident governor of Zante. d. Pickhill hall near Wrexham 6 Sep. 1852.

KEIGHTLEY, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Keightley of Newtown, Kildare). b. Dublin 17 Oct. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808; came to London 1824 and became a journalist; granted civil list pension of £100, 31 Jany. 1855; author of The fairy mythology 2 vols. 1828, anon., another ed. 1850; Outlines of history 1829; History of the war of independence in Greece 2 vols. 1830; The mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy 1832, 2 ed. 1834; Tales and popular fictions 1834; The history of England 2 vols. 1837–9, three editions; The history of Greece 1835, 3 ed. 1839; The Crusaders 2 vols. 1834; Secret societies of the Middle Ages 1837; edited the Bucolics and Georgics 1847; The poems of John Milton, with notes 2 vols. 1859; The plays and poems of William Shakespeare 6 vols. 1864. d. Hartwell lodge, Lessness Heath near Erith, Kent 4 Nov. 1872. bur. Erith. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections, i 322 (1883); I.L.N. lxi 479 (1872).

KEILLER, James M. Confectioner and maker of preserves at Dundee; commenced producing Seville orange marmalade, the first to make it as an article of commerce, its use spread to England and it is now sent all over the world; the marmalade season lasts from Dec. to March, the candied peel season is from March to June, and the jam fruit season begins in June; maker also of lozenges, comfits, candies and gum goods; gave £10,500 to clear off the debt on Dundee free library 1885. Bremner’s Industries of Scotland (1869) 466–72; Dundee Year Book (1886) p. 5.

KEITH, Alexander (son of George Skene Keith, D.D. 1752–1823). b. manse of Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 30 Nov. 1791; ed. at Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, B.A. 1809, D.D. 1833; minister of St. Cyrus parish, Forfarshire 1816, resigned 1840; one of a deputation to Palestine with rev. Robert McCheyne, rev. A. Bonnar and rev. A. Black to enquire into state of the Jews described in Narrative of Mission to the Jews 1839, revisited Palestine 1844 and was the first to take daguerrotype views of places in Syria; one of founders of Free church of Scotland 1843, declined the moderatorship repeatedly on account of his health; author of Evidence of the truth of the Christian religion derived from the fulfilment of prophecy 1828, 40 ed. 1873, translated into many foreign languages; The signs of the times as denoted by the fulfilment of historical predictions 2 vols. 1832, 8 ed. 1847; The harmony of prophecy 1851; The history and destiny of the world and of the church 1861. d. Aberdeen house 56 West st. Buxton, where he had resided for some years, 8 Feb. 1880. bur. Chinley, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire 12 Feb. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 331–8, portrait; H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticaniæ, iii, pt. ii, 585, 865 (1871).

KEITH, Hester Maria, viscountess Keith (eld. dau. of Henry Thrale, brewer, d. 1781). b. 1762; from 1765 Dr. Johnson called her Queenie, wrote verses for her and directed her education; by death of her only brother 1776 she became a rich heiress; greatly disapproved of her mother’s marriage to Piozzi; a considerable scholar in history, poetry, Hebrew and mathematics; refused Samuel Rogers the poet. (m. 10 Jany. 1808 at Ramsgate, George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, b. 7 Jany. 1746, cr. viscount Keith 1 June 1814, d. 10 March 1823); one of the patronesses of Almack’s 1808; a prominent leader of society in London and Edinburgh 1814–50; she was the last survivor of the persons who are mentioned in Boswell’s Johnson. d. 110 Piccadilly, London 31 March 1857. Willis’ Current Notes 1857 p. 29; G.M. ii 615–6 (1857).

KEITH, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, Baroness Keith (eld. dau. of George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, viscount Keith 1746–1823). b. Hertford st. Mayfair, London 12 June 1788; styled hon. Margaret Elphinstone 1797–1817; was in the household of the princess Charlotte. (m. 20 June 1817 at Edinburgh, Augustus Charles Joseph, count de Flahault de la Billardrie, French ambassador to London 1860, d. 2 Sep. 1870 aged 85); baroness Keith of Stonehaven Marishal and baroness Keith of Banheath on death of her father 10 March 1823; baroness Nairne on the death of her cousin William 4 lord Nairne 7 Dec. 1837; styled baroness Nairne and Keith 1837 to death. d. at palace of the legion of honour, Paris 11 Nov. 1867.

KEITH-FALCONER, Ion Grant Neville (3 son of 9 Earl of Kintore). b. Edinburgh 5 July 1856; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1878; Tyrwhitt univ. Hebrew scholar; defeated John Keen by five yards in a two-mile bicycle race at Cambridge 11 May 1878; rode 50 miles in 2 hours and 44 minutes at Crystal palace, beating the record 9 July 1882; rode from Land’s End to John o’ Groat’s House 994 miles in 13 days, June 1882; Hebrew lecturer at Clare college, Camb.; missionary of Free church of Scotland 26 May 1886; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Camb. 1886 to death, gave 3 lectures on the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Nov.; arrived at Aden 8 Dec. 1886; began to build a permanent home for a mission at Shaikh Othman near Aden, attacked by Aden fever Feb. 1887. d. Shaikh Othman 11 May 1887. bur. Aden cemetery. R. Sinker’s Memorials of Ion Keith-Falconer (1888); Sporting Mirror, iv 49–52 (1882), portrait.

KEKEWICH, George Granville (1 son of George Kekewich of Dartmouth). b. 1802; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; judge of county courts circuit 60 (Cornwall), March 1847 to death. d. Exeter 7 Jany. 1857.

KEKEWICH, Samuel Trehawke (son of Samuel Kekewich, D.C.L., d. 26 Aug. 1822). b. Bowden house near Totnes, Devon 31 Oct. 1796; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1814; M.P. Exeter 1826–30; M.P. South Devon 1858 to death; sheriff of Devon 1834. d. Peamore near Exeter 1 June 1873.

KELAART, Edward Frederick. b. Ceylon 1818 or 1819; assistant surgeon in army 16 July 1841, surgeon 16 July 1852 to death; F.G.S. 1845; author of Flora Calpensis, contributions to the flora and topography of Gibraltar 1846; Prodromus faunæ Zeylanicæ, being contributions to the zoology of Ceylon 1852–54; Introductory report on the natural history of the pearl oyster of Ceylon 1857; Contributions to marine zoology, descriptions of Ceylon nudibranchiate mollusca, sea anemones and entozoa 1859. d. on board the Ripon on the evening before her arrival at Southampton 31 Aug. 1860. Proc. of Linnean soc. (1861) p. 41.

KELK, John. b. 1798; a student at Leyden 30 Sep. 1822 and M.D. 1824; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; author of Dissertatio de sylphide. Leyden 1824; The Scarborough spa, its analysis and medical use, to which is added On the utility of the bath 1841, 4 ed. 1860. d. 1 Brunswick ter. Scarborough 3 May 1873.

KELK, Sir John, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Kelk of London 1781–1848). b. London 16 Feb. 1816; apprentice to Thomas Cubitt, builder; partner with Mr. Newton as builders 12 Margaret st. Cavendish sq. till 1845; contractor for railway and other works, being at times associated with Brassey, Peto and Betts and others; agent for the commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in purchasing the Gore house estate; gave £15,000 towards debt on Great Exhibition of 1862, which he and Mr. Lucas erected; constructed the Albert memorial without pecuniary benefit 1864; with Messrs. Aird made the Millwall docks 1868; built the Victoria station and Pimlico railway 1858–60; constructed works on the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District railways 1860–71; built Smithfield goods depôt and meat market 1866–9; erected with Mr. Lucas the Alexandra palace, opened 22 May 1873, burnt 9 June 1873, re-erected it and lost much money in the undertaking, it was reopened 1 May 1875; M.P. Harwich 1865–8; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1861; cr. baronet 1 May 1874; sheriff of co. Southampton 1884. d. 12 Sep. 1886. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxxxvii 451–5 (1886); I.L.N. May 1862 pp. 479, 481, portrait; Law Reports. Chancery Division, xxvi 107–54 (1884).

KELKE, William Hastings. Ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1828; R. of Osgathorpe, Leics. 1836–40; R. of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks. 1840–60; author of Notices of sepulchral monuments in English churches 1850; Britain’s ancient church and Rome’s usurpations 1851; The churchyard manual, with designs for memorials 1851; Family prayers 1854. d. Little Missenden, Bucks. 12 April 1865.

KELL, Edmund (son of a unitarian minister). b. Wareham 18 Jany. 1799; ed. at Glasgow 1815, M.A. 1819, and at Manchester New coll. York; unitarian minister Newport, Isle of Wight 1823–53, where he also kept a school; hon. sec. Unitarian societies of South of England; minister at Southampton 1853 to death; the first to draw public attention to the Roman remains in the Isle of Wight; F.S.A.; author of An earnest appeal to unitarian christians on the duty of supporting their own religious institutions 2 ed. 1848; What patriotism, justice and christianity demand for India, a sermon 1857, 4 ed. 1858; Shall christians seek to build up a faith with the weapons of misrepresentation. Controversy between Dr. Cumming and rev. E. Kell 1858. d. Southampton 17 Jany. 1874. Memorials of rev. E. Kell (1875); Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi 230–31.

KELLAND, Philip (son of Philip Kelland, R. of Dunster, Somerset). b. Dunster 1808; ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., senior wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; tutor of his college; professor of mathematics in univ. of Edinb. 19 Oct. 1838 to death, secretary of the Senatus Academicus till 1867; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1838; F.R.S. Edinb. 1839, president Nov. 1878 to death; pres. of Society of arts 1853–54; one of founders of Life association of Scotland; wrote the article Algebra, in 9 ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica; author of Theory of heat 1837; The elements of algebra 1839, 3 ed. 1861; How to improve the Scottish universities, a lecture 1855; Transatlantic sketches 1858; with P. G. Tait, Introduction to quaternions 1873. d. Bridge of Allan 7 May 1879. Sir A. Grant’s Story of univ. of Edinb. ii 304–305 (1884); Proc. of R.S. of Edinb. x 208, 211, 321–29 (1880); Proc. of R.S. xxix pp. vii–x (1879).

KELLETT, Sir Henry (son of John Dalton Kellett of Clonacody, co. Tipperary). b. 2 Nov. 1806; entered R.N. 7 Jany. 1822; in the Eden employed in scheme for colonising Fernando Po 1827; lieut. in Ætna surveying vessel 1831–5; in Starling cutter in war in Canton river; capt. 23 Dec. 1842; C.B. 24 Dec. 1832, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; in the Herald co-operated in Behring’s Straits with Franklin search expedition 1848–50; commander of the Resolute in search for sir John Franklin 1852, the ship abandoned by sir E. Belcher’s orders 15 May 1854, the Resolute was found by the Americans, refitted and sent to England as a present to the queen and people of Great Britain 12 Dec. 1856; commodore at Jamaica 1855–9; superintendent Malta dockyard 26 Nov. 1864 to 16 April 1868; retired V.A. 8 April 1868; commander in chief China 1869–71. d. Clonacody house, Tipperary 1 March 1875. Seeman’s Narrative of voyage of H.M.S. Herald 2 vols. (1853); G. F. Mc. Dougall’s Eventful voyage of H.M. discovery ship Resolute (1857).

KELLETT, Sir Richard, 1 Baronet (son of Richard Kellett, alderman of Cork, d. 25 Jany. 1828 aged 95). b. Cork 16 May 1761; created baronet 6 Aug. 1801; of Lota co. and city of Cork. d. 5 Mespil parade, Dublin 1853.

KELLIE, Walter Coningsby Erskine, 12 Earl of (2 son of Henry David Erskine 1776–1846). b. Warkworth, Northumberland 12 July 1810; ed. at Durham gr. school and univ. of Edinb.; entered Bengal army 1827; served in and had medals for Sutlej campaign; commissioner of Jubbulpore during the mutiny 1857; retired lieut. col. 25 Sep. 1861; C.B. 18 May 1860; succeeded his cousin as 12 earl of Kellie 19 June 1866; Scotch representative peer 8 July 1869 to death; claimed earldom of Mar 1867 but died before the decision. d. Cannes 15 Jany. 1872.

KELLNER, Sir George Welsh (son of Francis Daniel Kellner). b. 1825; entered service of H.E.I.C. 1841; inspector general of accounts 1866–70; military accountant general of India 1871–7; financial commissioner and member of council in Cyprus 1878; assist. paymaster general in chancery Feb. 1884 to death; C.S.I. 1 Jany. 1877; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879. d. 46 Pembridge villas, Bayswater, London 10 June 1886.

KELLY, Ann. b. 1749; of a theatrical family; acted in many theatres in England, Ireland and Scotland; played with Edmund Kean and James Sheridan Knowles; frequently played Alicia to the Jane Shore of Mrs. Siddons; became deaf and left the stage 1809; J. S. Knowles befriended her from that time till her death; twice married to persons called Kelly. d. Lewisham, Kent 15 March 1852 aged 103. bur. Sydenham on Good Friday.

KELLY, Benedictus Marwood (2 son of Benedictus Marwood Kelly of Holsworthy, Devon, attorney, d. 1836). b. Holsworthy 1 Sep. 1790; entered navy 19 Oct. 1798; wounded in a boat attack on the French in the island of Elba 1801; captain 19 July 1821; admiral on half pay 27 April 1863. d. Saltford house, Bath 26 Sep. 1867.

Note.—He left by his will a sum of £200,000 for Kelly college, which was built close to Tavistock and opened Sep. 1877, the endowments are devoted to education of the founder’s kin and of the orphan sons of naval officers, but there is also full provision for a first-grade public school.

KELLY, Bernard (son of Peter Kelly, grocer and owner of potteries). b. Ballyshannon, co. Donegal; in business with his father; sec. to local branch of National League; M.P. South Donegal, Dec. 1885 to death. d. Mountcharles, co. Donegal 1 Jany. 1887.

KELLY, Charles, stage name of Charles Clavering Wardell (son of rev. Henry Wardell, R. of Winlaton, Durham). b. Newcastle 1839; made first public appearance at T.R. Hull as Montano in Othello 1868; played in Halliday’s The great city, at Surrey theatre 1869, and in Tom Taylor’s Arkwright’s Wife as Richard Arkwright, at Globe theatre 6 Oct. 1873; acted Samuel Brown in New Men and Old Acres, Court theatre 2 Dec. 1875 which was played 250 times; played Darnley in Lord Lytton’s House of Darnley, at Court theatre 6 Oct. 1877, and Robert L’Estrange in Bondage, Opera Comique 31 March 1883; his characteristic was his ability to indicate strong emotion without obtrusive display; made his final appearance at a complimentary benefit given to him at Prince’s theatre 16 July 1883. (m. at St. Phillip’s ch. South Kensington 21 Nov. 1877 Ellen Terry dau. of Benjamin Terry); Kelly’s first wife Anne Maria d. 7 Nov. 1875. He d. of apoplexy 27 Bedford place, London 17 April 1885. C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 229–31.

KELLY, David. b. Manchester 1821; in employment of George Simms, bookseller, Exchange st. Manchester (the founder of firm of Simms and Dinham) till 1851; bookseller in partnership with Edwin Slater 1851 and then on his own account in Market st.; became acquainted with Edwin Waugh 1852 and was instrumental in the publication of Waugh’s Lancashire sketches 1855; published many of Waughs’ poems on cards 1856 etc. which had immense circulation; furnished some information to Procter’s Memorials of Manchester streets 1874. d. Brunswick st. Stretford near Manchester 2 Nov. 1891.

KELLY, Dennis (eld. son of James Kelly). b. 1804 or 1805; ed. at Dundalk and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825; C. of Crewe to 1832; V. of Killyon and Kilronan 1832–4; C. of St. John’s, Chatham 1834–6; C. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1836–8; P.C. of Trinity ch. Gough sq. Fleet st. London on its consecration June 1838 to death; contributed 250 essays to Church of England Magazine; author of Practical Sermons 1836, 2 ed. 1837; Sabbath evening readings, 1st series 1835, 22 ed. 1845, 2nd series 1842–3, the two series complete 1 vol. 1853; Self inspection 1845; Characters 1846; Neophilus or moral reflections 1846. d. 5 New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 14 Nov. 1866. D. Kelly’s Posthumous Sermons (1867), memoir pp. vii–xv.

KELLY, Edward (eld. son of John Kelly of Belfast, afterwards a convict in Tasmania, who d. Victoria 1865). b. Victoria 1854; imprisoned 3 years for horse-stealing; shot a constable at his house near Greta, April 1878; bushranger in Australia with his brothers James and Daniel and two men called Byrne and Hart from 1878 to death, Victoria and New South Wales governments jointly offered a reward of £8000 for their apprehension; robbed the bank of Euroa, Victoria of £3000, 11 Dec. 1878; held the town of Jerilderie, New South Wales for 2 days and robbed the bank of about £700, Feb. 1879; they wore iron plates weighing nearly 100 lb. each, they were killed near Beechworth 27 June 1880 except Edward Kelly who was tried at Beechworth, convicted Oct. 1880 and hanged there 11 Nov. F. A. Hare’s Last of the Bushrangers (1891), portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 252 (1880), portrait; Graphic, xxii 225 (1880), portrait.

KELLY, Edward. b. 26 April 1836; entered navy 1850; first lieut. of Bombay 67 guns, destroyed by fire off Montevideo 14 Dec. 1864; captain 22 Oct. 1870; commanded Achilles during Egyptian war 1882; A.D.C. to the Queen 1885–7; captain superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1 Jany. 1886 to 10 June 1887; R.A. 10 June 1887; admiral superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1 Nov. 1887 to death. d. of influenza at Admiralty house, Chatham dockyard 17 Jany. 1892. bur. Rochester cathedral cemetery.

KELLY, Sir Fitzroy Edward (son of Robert Hawke Kelly, captain R.N.) b. London 9 Oct. 1796; practised as special pleader; barrister L.I. 7 May 1824; went Norfolk circuit; K.C. 27 Dec. 1834, bencher of his inn 1838–66; contested Hythe 1830, Ipswich 1832 and 1841, and Lyme Regis 1847; M.P. for Ipswich 8 Jany. 1835 to June 1835 when unseated on petition; contested Ipswich 27 July 1837, seated on petition 26 Feb. 1838 and sat for it until 1841; M.P. for Cambridge borough 1843–1847, M.P. East Suffolk 1852–1866; standing counsel to Bank of England, May 1845; solicitor general 29 June 1845 to 2 July 1846 and 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1845; attorney general 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; serjeant at law 16 July 1866, admitted 2 Nov. 1866; lord chief baron of court of exchequer 16 July 1866 to Nov. 1875 when he became a judge of supreme court of judicature but retained his former title by act of parliament; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866. d. Bedford hotel, Brighton 17 Sep. 1880. bur. Highgate cemet. 22 Sep. A generation of Judges. By Their Reporter (1886) 38–53; Public men of Ipswich (1875) 71–8; Illust. news of the world, vol. i (1858), portrait; I.L.N. vii 48 (1845) portrait, lxxvii 324 (1880) portrait.

Note.—At one time his income at the bar amounted to £25,000 a year, a sum scarcely ever equalled by an advocate of late years, except by Lord Selborne when Roundell Palmer. He made his famous defence of John Tawell the Quaker murderer, at Aylesbury assizes March 1845, which gained him sobriquet of ‘Apple pip Kelly,’ this was the first occasion on which the telegraph was called in to assist in securing a murderer. See Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials (1883) 16–49.

KELLY, Frances Maria (dau. of Mark Kelly d. Canterbury 4 April 1833). b. Brighton 15 Dec. 1790; appeared at Drury Lane in opera of Bluebeard 16 Jany. 1798; chorister Drury Lane 1799; took many of Madame Storace’s characters and afterwards those of Mrs. Jordan, at Drury Lane and the Italian opera 1800–1806; learnt Italian, French and Latin; co-operated with Edmund Kean at Drury Lane 1812 and frequently played Ophelia to his Hamlet; while acting in Modern Antiques at Covent Garden 17 Feb. 1816 George Barnett fired a pistol at her; made final appearance at Drury Lane 8 June 1835; besides impersonating many of Shakespeare’s heroines, she played all the leading comedy characters in the English drama, and was superior in melodrama to all other actresses; lessee of New Strand theatre where she gave a monologue entertainment Feb. to Oct. 1833 with which she afterwards travelled in the provinces; built a theatre at back of 73 Dean st. Soho for a dramatic school, opened 25 March 1840 and called Miss Kelly’s theatre, where she gave occasional dramatic performances; gave Shakespeare readings in the country; her theatre seized by the landlord 1849, she lost £16,000. d. Ross cottage, Feltham, Middlesex 6 Dec. 1882. bur. Brompton cemetery 16 Dec. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography, i 215–24 (1825), portrait; Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses, ii 223–34 (1844); Illust. sp. and dr. news, xii 414 (1880), portrait; Theatrical Inquisitor, v 203–206 (1814), portrait, viii 83–86 (1816), portrait; I.L.N. viii 9 (1846), portrait, lxxxi 661 (1882), portrait.

Note.—Her sister Lydia Eliza Kelly an actress b. London 2 June 1795, d. in U.S. of America before 1882. Theatrical Inquisitor, vi 323 (1815), portrait; Ireland’s Records, i 433 (1866).

KELLY, Francis (son of Edward Kelly). b. Drumragh, co. Tyrone 31 July 1813; ed. at Maynooth 1835; ordained priest 13 June 1840; C. of Drumragh 1840–6; professor in the diocesan seminary, Derry, July 1846; C. of Strabane; C. of Culdaff; parish priest of Upper Fahan to 1849; D.D.; bishop of Derry 8 Aug. 1849 to death, consecrated in Derry 21 Oct. 1849; built Derry cath. at cost of £40,000. d. St. Eugene’s, Derry 1 Sep. 1889. The Derry Journal 2, 4, 6 Sep. 1889.

KELLY, Gordon William (only child of rev. Dr. John Kelly 1750–1809, Manx scholar, V. of Ardleigh near Colchester). b. Isle of Man 1786; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; called to bar of Isle of Man; recorder of Colchester to death. (m. 1830 Miss White, she founded 1858 the Kelly scholarship in King William’s college, Isle of Man, also the Kelly prize in same college for proficiency in the Manx language). d. Oxney Green House, Whittle near Chelmsford 4 April 1858.

KELLY, John. b. Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1801; independent minister of Bethesda chapel, Liverpool, Sep. 1829; his new chapel at Everton, Liverpool, opened 23 Nov. 1837, retired from it 28 Sep. 1873; a director of London missionary society many years; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales in London, May 1851, and at Northampton, Oct. 1851; author of The voluntary support of the Christian ministry the law of the New Testament 1838; Discourses on holy scripture 1850 and other books. d. 18 Richmond terrace, Liverpool 12 June 1876. Hassan’s Rev. John Kelly, a memorial (1876), portrait; Waddington’s Congregational history, v 561–9 (1880).

KELLY, John. b. 1834; presbyterian minister at Hebburn and Streatham; editor of tracts of Religious tract soc. 56 Paternoster row, London; author of P. Gerhardt’s Spiritual songs, translated 1867; The king and the kingdom 1867; Who is the apostate? A passover story by A Saphir, translated 1878; Louisa of Prussia and other sketches 1888. d. Braemar 19 July 1890. Christian World 24 July 1890 p. 601.

KELLY, Matthew (eld. son of James Kelly). b. Maudlin st. Kilkenny 21 Sep. 1814; studied at Maynooth 1831–9; professor of philosophy and theology successively in the Irish college, Paris 1839–41; professor of belles-lettres and French at Maynooth 5 Nov. 1841, of ecclesiastical history 20 Oct. 1857 to death; created D.D. by Pius IX. 1854; a canon of Ossory about 1854; member of council of Celtic Society for which he edited John Lynch’s Cambrensis Eversus. Dublin 3 vols. 1848–52; also edited White’s Apologia 1849, and O’Sullivan Beare’s Historiæ Catholicæ Hiberniæ Compendium; author of Calendar of Irish saints, the martyrology of Tallagh, with notices of the patron saints of Ireland. Dublin 1857. d. Maynooth 30 Oct. 1858. Dissertations chiefly on Irish church history, by M. Kelly (1864), with a memoir by Dr. Mc.Carthy, pp. v–xiii.

KELLY, Peter Burrowes. b. Stradbally; called to bar in Ireland; clerk of the peace for Queen’s co. to death; contributed to Dublin Review and other periodicals; author of The manor of Glenmore, or the Irish peasant. By a Member of the Irish bar 3 vols. 1839; The Polish mother, a tragedy in five acts 1840, and of some light dramatic pieces which are still played. d. Glentolka, Fairview near Dublin 24 March 1883. Irish Law Times, xvii 183 191 (1883).

KELLY, Thomas (son of John Kelly of Chevening, Kent, innkeeper, d. 1810). b. Chevening 7 Jany. 1772; assistant in employ of Alexander Hogg of 16 Paternoster row 1786–1809; publisher at 52 Paternoster row 1809; one of common council of ward of Farringdon within 9 May 1823, alderman of same ward Dec. 1830 to death; sheriff of London 1825–6, lord mayor 1836–37; lived at Streatham hill; printed Kelly’s Practical Builders’ price book 1850, 2 ed. 1861. d. 4 Buenos Ayres, Margate 7 Sep. 1855. bur. churchyard of Chelsham, Surrey, by the side of his parents. Passages from the life of Alderman Kelly. By R. C. Fell (1856), portrait; Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 363–71.

KELLY, Thomas Conynyham. b. 22 Dec. 1808; ensign 31 foot 3 April 1828, lieut. col. 15 June 1855 to 11 March 1857 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. of 38 foot 17 July 1857, and of 47 foot 4 Feb. 1859 to 3 March 1863 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 22 Dec. 1878; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 17 June 1858. d. Ellerslie, Canterbury 15 March 1887.

KELSEY, Elizabeth. b. 1852; ballet dancer and actress; appeared in New York 12 Sep. 1866 with her sister Harriet Kelsey in The White Fawn, then in The Black Crook; appeared in burlesques in the English provinces to 1886; played in New York in Lost in the Snow. d. New York 14 Feb. 1888.

KELSIEFF, Basil Ivanovitch. b. St. Petersburg about 1835; came to London 1857; on the staff of Alexander Hertzen’s journal The Kolokol; with his brother John Kelsieff attempted a revolution in Russia which failed; returned to England 1865; removed publication of the Kolokol to Geneva; reconciled to Russian government; published many works in Russian. d. St. Petersburg 1872.

KELSO, Thomas. b. Ireland 1784, settled at Baltimore, U.S. America 1791; director of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railway co. 37 years; president Equitable fire insurance co.; V.P. of First National bank of Baltimore; founded the Kelso orphan home, Baltimore at cost of 120,000 dollars. d. Baltimore 26 July 1878.

KELTY, Mary Ann (dau. of an Irish surgeon who d. Cambridge 1822). b. Cambridge 1789; converted under Charles Simeon’s preaching at Cambridge; lived at 5 Hanover st. Rye lane, Peckham, London 1832 to death; author of The Favourite of Nature 1821 an anonymous novel, translated into French under title of Eliza Rivers 1823; Early days in the Society of Friends 1840; Reminiscences of thought and feeling 1852; The real and the beau ideal 1860; The solace of a solitaire 1869; the majority of her works simply bear her initials M.A.K. d. 5 Hanover st. Peckham 8 Jany. 1873.

KELYNACK, William (3 child of Nicholas Kelynack of Newlyn near Penzance, drowned 21 Jany. 1854). b. Newlyn 22 May 1832; ed. at Penzance; Wesleyan M. minister 1854 when he went as a missionary to New South Wales; representative of N.S.W. conference at the conference at Bristol 1876; D.D. of Univ. of New Orleans 1877; president of N.S.W. Wesleyan conference 1880; sec. of

Wesleyan missions 1882; president of Newington coll. Sydney; a great orator, called The silver trumpet of Australia; with others edited The Christian advocate and Wesleyan record. Sydney 187-. d. Sydney, Oct. 1891.

KEMBLE, Adelaide (younger dau. of the succeeding). b. Covent Garden chambers, London 1814; first appeared as a soprano singer at Concert of ancient music 13 May 1835; sang at Prague and Paris 1837–8; first appeared in opera at the Fenice theatre, Venice as Norma; sang at Covent Garden and in the provinces 1841–2, her chief characters being Norma, Susanna and Amina; last appeared on the stage 23 Dec. 1842; one of the best English singers of the century. (m. 1843 Edward John Sartoris of Warnford park, Hants., b. 1817, M.P. for Carmarthen 1868–74); composed a few vocal pieces; author of A week in a French country house 1867; Medusa and other tales 1868, reprinted as Past Hours 2 vols. 1880. d. Warsash house, Warsash, Hampshire 4 Aug. 1879. Wilson’s Our Actresses, ii 253–68 (1844), portrait; Cruikshank’s Omnibus (1842) 238, portrait; C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 402–5.

KEMBLE, Charles (4 son of Roger Kemble 1721–1802, theatrical manager). b. Brecknock, South Wales 25 Nov. 1775; ed. at R.C. coll. Douay 3 years; clerk in general post office, London; made his début at Sheffield as Orlando, in As you like it 1792; appeared at Drury Lane as Malcolm 21 April 1794; during 30 years he is said to have steadily improved; played at Haymarket in summer season; the original of Henry Woodville in The Wheel of Fortune 28 Feb. 1794, and of Alonzo in Pizarro 24 May 1799; joined his brother at Covent Garden 1803; the original Knight of Snowdon in the Lady of the Lake 5 Feb. 1811; acted in Brussels, Calais and Boulogne 1813–15; manager of Covent Garden 1822–32; assaulted C. M. Westmacott editor of the Age, for remarks made on his dau. Fanny Kemble 1830; visited America with his dau. 1832–34; made his last appearance on the stage 10 April 1840; examiner of plays 17 Oct. 1836 to 22 Feb. 1840; gave Shakespearean readings at Willis’ rooms 1844–45. (m. 2 July 1806 Maria Theresa dau. of George De Camp, she was b. Vienna 17 Jany. 1774, dancer and actress, d. Chertsey 3 Sep. 1838); entertained by the Garrick club 10 Jany. 1837; his best characters were Romeo, Hamlet and Mercutio; author of The wanderer or the rights of hospitality, a drama 1808; Plot or counterplot or the portrait of Michael Cervantes, a farce 1808; The point of honour, a play 1800; C. Kemble’s Shakespeare readings 1870; Shakespeare for schools, as abridged by C. Kemble 1883. d. Saville row, London 12 Nov. 1854. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography, iii 1–14 (1825), portrait; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 27–30; Bentley’s Miscellany, xxxvi 623–30 (1854); Fraser’s Mag. Dec. 1854 pp. 607–617; P. Fitzgerald’s The Kembles, i 225, 310, ii 386–9 (1871); I.L.N. i 364 (1842), portrait, xxv 514–6 (1854).

KEMBLE, Charles (only son of Charles Adams Kemble of Clapham common, Surrey d. 1819). b. 1819; ed. Wad. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of St. Michael’s, Stockwell 1842–44; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Stockwell 1844–59; Sunday evening lecturer at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1848–51; R. of Bath abbey ch. 1859 to death; preb. of Wells cath. 1866; member of Bath sch. board 31 Jany. 1871, chairman thereof; author of The mysteries of the gospel 1853; Farewell sermons preached at St. Michael’s church, Stockwell 1859; Suggestive hints on parochial machinery 1859, 3 ed. 1865; Memorials of a closed ministry, a selection of sermons 3 vols. 1875; edited Church psalmody, a selection of psalm and hymn tunes 1840; A selection of psalms and hymns by S. S. Wesley, arranged by C. Kemp 1864. d. Vellore, Bath 18 Nov. 1874.

KEMBLE, Henry (son of Edward Kemble, member of corporation of London). b. 1787; M.P. for East Surrey 3 Aug. 1837 to 23 July 1847. d. Grove hill, Camberwell, London 18 May 1857.

KEMBLE, John Mitchell (eld. son of Charles Kemble 1775–1854). b. London 2 April 1807; ed. by Dr. C. Richardson the philologist at Clapham, at Bury St. Edmunds gr. sch. and at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; studied at the Inner Temple; studied in Germany under Jacob Grimm; lectured at Cambridge on the Anglo-Saxon language and literature 1834; editor of British and Foreign Rev. 1835–44; examiner of stage plays 24 Feb. 1840 to death; lived in Hanover and made archæological excavations in Lüneburg for the government July 1849 to May 1855, his official duties in England being taken by W. B. Donne; went to Dublin to collect Keltic and Roman antiquities for Art treasures exhibition, Manchester, Feb. 1857; editor of The Anglo-Saxon poems of Beowulf, edited with a glossary and preface 1833; Codex diplomaticus ævi Saxonici opera J. M. K. English Historical Soc. 6 vols. 1839–48; The poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, with a translation. Aelfric Soc. 1843; Certaine considerations upon the government of England. Camden Soc. 1849; State papers and correspondence illustrative of the state of Europe from the revolution to the accession of the house of Hanover 1857; author of The Saxons in England. A history of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest 2 vols. 1849, new ed. 2 vols. 1876. d. Gresham hotel, 21 Upper Sackville st. Dublin 26 March 1857. bur. St. Jerome cemet. Fraser’s Mag. May 1857 pp. 612–18; G.M. ii 620–21 (1857).

KEMEYS-TYNTE, Charles John (only son of Charles Kemeys-Tynte of Halswell house, Bridgewater, Somerset). b. Halswell house 9 April 1800; ed. at Eton; M.P. for West Somerset 1832–37; contested West Somerset 1837; M.P. for Bridgewater 1847–65; col. of Royal Glamorgan militia 1848–62; claimed the barony of Wharton; author of Sketch of the French revolution of 1830. d. Balnageith, Torquay 16 Sep. 1882.

KEMM, William Henry. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 62 Bengal N.I. 11 Nov. 1837; col. 25 Bengal N.I. 1849 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 25 May 1859 aged 76.

KEMMIS, HENRY (2 son of Thomas Kemmis of Shaen castle near Maryborough, Queen’s county 1753–1823). b. 19 Sep. 1776; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1795; M.P. for Tralee 1797–1800; assist. barrister for co. Kildare, afterwards for co. Dublin; chairman of quarter sessions of Kilmainham; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s Inns 1843. d. Kilmainham, Dublin 2 April 1857.

KEMMIS, Thomas (2 son of William Kemmis d. 1864). b. 9 April 1807; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829; barrister in Ireland 1834; crown solicitor for Leinster circuit, Dec. 1852 to Sep. 1869; solicitor to the crown and treasury, Ireland, Sep. 1869 to death, this office had been held in his family uninterruptedly since 1783. d. 45 Kildare st. Dublin 18 Dec. 1868.

KEMMIS, William (3 son of Thomas Kemmis of Shaen castle 1753–1823). b. 23 Oct. 1777; crown solicitor for Dublin 1801–52; for the Leinster circuit 1801–52; solicitor to the Treasury 1801–59; conducted the state prosecutions 1798–1848, was present and assisted at all the great state trials of his time. d. 45 Kildare st. Dublin 20 July 1864.

KEMP, Edward Curtis. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 12th wrangler 1817, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of Lyndhurst 1825–8; R. of Whissonsett and Horningtoft 1829–65; chaplain to Dukes of Cambridge 1841 to death; P.C. of St. George, Yarmouth 1865 to death; author of A small dictionary for the use of the poor, an attempt to explain difficult words in the Bible and Prayer book 1826; The refutation of nonconformity on its own professed principle 1836; An exposition of some of the differences between Scripture and Calvinism 1843; Every infant regenerated in baptism, a doctrine of the church of England 1850; An introduction to the newly discovered proofs of the divine authority of the New Testament 1859; Isaaci Wattsii Carminum Fasciculus qui inscribitur “Divine Songs” Latine redditorum 1848. d. 51 King st. Yarmouth 10 June 1881 aged 86.

KEMP, Francis Baring (son of Thomas Read Kemp, M.P. Lewes, founder of Kemp-town, Brighton). b. 1812; ed. at Eton; writer H.E.I.C.S. 1830; served in the revenue and judicial departments in various districts of Bengal; collector Tirhoot 1851; civil and sessions judge Backergunge and Jessore 1855–62; judge of the high court of judicature, Calcutta 1862, retired 1878. d. 14 Denmark ter. Brighton 20 Jany. 1892.

KEMP, George Rees. b. 1780; entered Bombay army 1796; colonel 13 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to 1860; general 20 June 1854. d. Spring lodge, East Hoathly, Sussex 16 Sep. 1861.

KEMP, Grover (eld. son of John Kemp). b. Bermondsey, London 10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Hitchin and Epping; apprentice to John Glaisyer, chemist and druggist, Brighton, became a partner in the firm, retired 1863; a minister among the Friends 1823; continually visited the meetings in Great Britain and Ireland during 50 years; preached to the free black population in the West Indies 1857–58; author of A tract for the season. d. Brighton 21 Dec. 1869. Biog. Cat. of Lives of Friends (1888) 393–8.

KEMP, Henry Latimer. b. Birmingham; reporter on Manchester Guardian; reporter and sub-editor Birmingham Daily Press till its discontinuance 1859; reporter on Derby Mercury 1859, sub-editor 1860, then responsible editor to his death; edited The Derbyshire red book, an annual 1862; author of A history of the Derby charities 1861. d. Derby 30 April 1869. The Newspaper Press, iii 123 (1869).

KEMP, Henry William. b. St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet 23 June 1820; ed. at Beverley gram. sch. and at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A. 1843; C. of St. Helen’s 1843; C. of St. John’s, Hull 1846; V. of St. John’s, Hull 1847–79, where he had one of the largest congregations in the north of England; V. of Millington with Givendale near York 1879–80; master of the Charterhouse, Hull 1868 to death; president of Hull literary and philosophical soc.; preb. of York 1886 to death; author of Sermons 1854. d. The Charterhouse, Hull 7 March 1888. Church Portrait Journal, ii 21–4 (1881), portrait; Biograph, vi 297 (1881).

KEMP, Isaac. Proprietor of Phœnix music hall, Dover before 1868 to death. d. 29 Aug. 1889. bur. Copt hill cemet. 2 Sep. The Era 7 Sep. 1889 p. 15.

KEMP, James. b. Edinburgh 1831; parochial schoolmaster in Scotland; head master of St. Andrew’s sch. Hong Kong; editor and proprietor of China Mail and of the Hong Kong Evening Mail; editor and proprietor of India Mail; wrote a series of 60 papers entitled Voices from the Verandah, treating of Anglo-Chinese life; author of A rock ahead in China. d. 17 Nov. 1865. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 132–4.

KEMPLAY, James (youngest son of Richard Kemplay of Leeds). b. Leeds 1810; ed. at Leeds gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., 3rd wrangler 1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; special pleader; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1852; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872, bencher of his inn 29 Jany. 1874; author of Proposed plan for dealing with the statute law 1855. d. 48 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 4 June 1882.

KEMPSTER, Francis Greetham. b. 21 July 1821; ensign 6 Madras N.I. 2 Feb. 1838, captain 22 Aug. 1853; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 5 Oct. 1863; brigadier general Madras 27 June 1876 to 8 Sep. 1880; L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. Tiptree hall, Kelvedon 13 Jany. 1887.

KEMPT, Sir James (son of Gavin Kempt of Southampton and Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 1765; ensign 101 foot 31 March 1783, lieut. 1784, regiment disbanded April 1785; helped to raise 113 foot in Ireland, captain 30 May 1794, major 18 Sep. 1794, regiment was reduced 1795; served in Holland and in campaign in Egypt 1801; lieut. col. 81 foot 23 July 1803 to 4 Nov. 1813; the light brigade under his command bore the brunt of battle of Maida 2 July 1806; col.-commandant 60 foot 1813–18; commanded a brigade of light division at Vera, Nivelle, Nive, Orthez and Toulouse 1813–14; lieut. governor of Fort William, Inverness 10 Oct. 1812 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 22 June 1815, G.C.H. 1816; col. of 3 West India foot 1818–19, of 81 foot 1819–29, of 40 foot 1829–34, of 2 foot 1834–46 and of 1 foot 1846 to death; governor of Nova Scotia 20 Oct. 1819 to 8 Jany. 1829; governor general of Canada 10 July 1828 to 24 Nov. 1830; P.C. 8 Dec. 1830; master general of the ordnance 1830 to 1834; general 23 Nov. 1841. d. 32 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 20 Dec. 1854.

KENAH, Sir Thomas (son of T. Kenah of Bridgefields, co. Cork). b. 1782; ensign 5 foot 14 Aug. 1799; major 58 foot 5 Nov. 1812 to 3 April 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Holland 1790, in Egypt 1801, in Sicily 1808–12, at siege of Genoa 1814; col. 63 foot 25 Nov. 1850 to death, general 26 Dec. 1859; C.B. 24 Oct. 1818, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; gold medal from the Grand Seignior for the Egyptian campaign. d. 24 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 26 March 1868.

KENDALL, Charles. b. Bishop Norton, Lincolnshire 19 Feb. 1818; a cobbler at Ashby, a shoemaker at Burringham; primitive methodist minister at Halifax 1839 and successively at 18 other places including Leeds and Hull; president of the conference at Hull 1881; helped to edit 2 volumes of the Primitive Pulpit; author of The Monitor 1852; The Christian minister in earnest, or the life of Atkinson Smith 1854; Hindrances to a revival of religion; How to promote a revival of religion; Little Willie; God’s Hand in the storm; The life of the rev. W. Sanderson; How to live in the street called Straight. d. Hilda st. Hull 5 May 1882. Primitive Methodist Mag. (1882) 491–6.

KENDALL, Henry Clarence (son of Basil Kendall). b. Ulladulla near Shoalhaven, New South Wales 18 April 1841; went to sea 1856, spent 2 years in the South Sea islands; clerk to James Lionel Michael, solicitor and author, Sydney 1860; contributed to Empire and Herald newspapers 1865, clerk in lands department, N.S.W. 1863, then in colonial secretary’s office, resigned 1869; journalist Melbourne 1869–73; inspector of forests, N.S.W.; author of Poems and songs 1862, which he suppressed in 1865; At Long Bay, Euroclydon, poems. d. at the house of the Messrs. Fagan Bros., Redfern near Sydney 1 Aug. 1882. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales (1866) pp. 192–206; Sladen’s Australian poets (1888) p. 280; H. Kendall’s Poems (1886), memoir pp. xi–xvi.

KENDALL, Joseph. Jockey; won the Chester cup on Nancy 1851 when he weighed only 4 st. 12 lb.; won the Liverpool Grand National on Jealously 1861; one of the finest horsemen ever seen. d. 21 March 1892.

KENDALL, Nicholas (1 son of rev. Charles Kendall, V. of Talland, d. 1806). b. Tredethy, St. Mabyn 22 Dec. 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; sheriff of Cornwall 1847; M.P. East Cornwall 1852–68; received a piece of plate and £1100 for his services to county of Cornwall 18 Feb. 1869; police magistrate of city and garrison of Gibraltar 30 Dec. 1868 to Sep. 1875, an attempt made to assassinate him March 1873. d. Pelynt near Lostwithiel 8 June 1878.

KENDALL, William. b. Padstow 1803; in employment of Shepherd and Gain, woollen drapers, Exeter; a linen draper Queen st. Exeter; partner in firm of Shepherd, Kendall and Tucker, woollen drapers, Exeter 1834, made a fortune and retired; mayor of Exeter 1862 when he contributed to the cost of the Albert memorial museum; V.P. of Devonshire Assoc. at Exeter meeting 1862; instrumental in building Wonford asylum 1869; fell down stairs and broke his thigh 25 March, d. 6 Summerland, Heavitree road, Exeter 29 March 1878. Trans. Devonshire Assoc. x 56–7 (1878).

KENDRICK, Emma Eleonora (dau. of Josephus Kendrick, sculptor). b. 1788; a successful miniature painter; miniature painter to Princess Elizabeth of Hesse Homburg, and to Wm. IV. 1831; exhibited 84 miniatures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 74 at Suffolk st. 1811–40; author of Conversations on the art of miniature painting 1830. d. 6 April 1871.

KENDRICK, James (1 son of James Kendrick 1771–1847, M.D.) b. Buttermarket st. Warrington 7 Nov. 1809; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D. 1 Aug. 1833; in practice at Warrington 1833 to death; took charge of the antiquities in Warrington museum 1859; paid for the excavation of the Roman station at Wilderspool and gave the remains discovered to the museum; gave 300 books bearing the Warrington imprint to the library; wrote papers in archæological journals; author of Cursory remarks on the present epidemick 1832; An account of excavations made at Mote Hill, Warrington 1853; Profiles of Warrington worthies 1853, 2 ed. 1854; A morning’s ramble in Old Warrington 1855; with William Robson, Memorials of Dr. Robson of Warrington. d. Warrington 6 April 1882. bur. Padgate 11 April. His dau. gave his seals and 100 vols. to Warrington museum. Palatine Note Book, ii 113–16, 179–80 (1882), portrait.

KENEALY, Edward Vaughan Hyde (son of William Kenealy, merchant). b. Cork 2 July 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840, LL.B. 1846, LL.D. 1850; called to bar in Ireland 2 Nov. 1840; barrister G.I. 1 May 1847, disbarred 2 Dec. 1874 for his libellous articles in The Englishman; ordered to give up his chambers by the vice chancellor 29 June 1876; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868 to 11 Dec. 1874 when he was removed; bencher of Gray’s inn, April 1868 to 1 Aug. 1874 when he was disbenched; M.P. Stoke upon Trent 18 Feb. 1874 to 1880; contested Wednesbury 18 Nov. 1868; contested Stoke, April 1880; prosecuted for cruelty to Edward Hyde his natural son aged 6, May 1850 and imprisoned for a month; junior counsel in defence of Wm. Palmer the Rugeley poisoner 1856; led the prosecution of Overend, Gurney & Co., bankers 1869; succeeded serjeant Sleigh as leading counsel for Arthur Orton the Tichborne claimant 1873, conducted the case in a most outrageous manner, insulting the bench and witnesses, the jury censured him in a rider to their verdict; started The Englishman in which he continued to abuse the chief justice and the solicitor general 11 April 1874; expelled from the mess of the Oxford circuit 2 April 1874; founded the Magna Charta association 1874; author of Brallaghan or the Deipnosophists 1845; Goethe, a new pantomime 1850, 3 ed. 1863; Poems and translations 1864; An introduction to the Apocalypse; E. W. Montagu, an autobiography, edited by Y. 3 vols. 1869; The trial at bar of sir R. C. D. Tichborne, Bart. 5 vols. 1875–8; Poetical works 3 vols. 1875–9; Fo, the third messenger of God 1878. d. 6 Tavistock sq. London 16 April 1880. bur. Hangleton near Brighton 22 April. H. G. Gill’s Life and forensic career of E. V. Kenealy (1874), portrait; I.L.N. lxiii 161 1873), portrait; The Englishman 24 April 1880 et seq., a long memoir; G.M. Feb. 1874 pp. 220–7, June 1875 pp. 698–709; London Sketch Book, Jany. 1874, portrait.

Note.—There is on the south-east angle of the south transept of Chester cathedral a series of twelve corbels with carved subjects illustrating an allegory, three of these are undoubted likenesses of the Earl of Beaconsfield, Mr. Gladstone and Dr. Kenealy.