KEY, Thomas Hewitt (youngest son of Thomas Key of London, physician). b. Southwark, London 20 March 1799; ed. at Buntingford, Herts, and St. John’s and Trin. colls. Camb., scholar of Trin. coll. 1819; 19 wr. and B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; studied at Guy’s hospital 1822–24; professor of mathematics in univ. of Virginia at Charlottesville 1825–27; professor of Latin in London univ. 1828–42, university opened 1 Oct. 1828, professor of comparative grammar univ. coll. London 1842 to death; joint head master with professor Henry Malden of the univ. school in Gower st. 1833–42 and head master alone 1842 to death when he left 600 scholars; president of philological society of London; introduced the crude-form system of teaching classical languages 1831; author of The Alphabet 1844, 2 ed. 1849; A Latin grammar on the system of crude forms 1845, 5 ed. 1863; Philological essays 1868; A Latin-English dictionary 1888. d. 21 Westbourne sq. London 29 Nov. 1875. bur. Highgate cemetery 6 Dec., marble bust by T. Woolner, R.A. in Univ. coll. London. Proc. of royal society, xxiv 10–16 (1876); I.L.N. lxvii 566, 581 (1875).

KEYL, Friedrich Wilhelm. b. Frankfort-on-the-Maine 17 Sep. 1823; pupil of sir Edwin Landseer in London 1845; an animal painter; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. and 34 at B.I. 1847–72; naturalised 6 March 1858; illustrated Scenes and stories of the Rhine, by Miss M. B. Edwards 1863; Wonders and curiosities of animal life, by G. Kearley 1878, and 12 other books 1863–78. d. London 5 Dec. 1873.

KEYWORTH, Thomas (son of Thomas Keyworth, bookseller). b. Nottingham 1782; converted from unitarianism and ed. at Cheshunt coll.; congregational minister at Sleaford, Ashborn, Runcorn, Wantage, London, Faversham, Milton and Nottingham successively; minister at Aston Tirrold, Berkshire 1842 to Dec. 1851; with bishops of Durham and Salisbury promoted system of garden allotments for the poor; author of A daily expositor of the New Testament 1825; A practical exposition of the Revelation of St. John 1828; A pocket expositor of the New Testament 1834, 2 ed. 1835; author with David Jones of Principia Hebraica 1817, another ed. 1825. d. Cheltenham 7 Nov. 1852. Congregational yearbook (1853) 212–13.

KIALLMARK, George Frederick (eld. son of George Kiallmark, musical composer 1781–1835). b. Camden st. Islington 7 Nov. 1804; studied music at Rouen and Paris 1820–5; pupil of Moscheles; gave his first public concert at King’s theatre, London 1832; his playing on the piano was remarkable for delicacy of touch, played Chopin’s works superbly; taught the piano at his residence 29 Percy st. Tottenham court road from 1842. d. 5 Pembridge gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Dec. 1887, bust by E. H. Baily 1845. Musical Keepsake (1834), portrait.

KICKHAM, Charles Joseph (son of a shopkeeper). b. Mullinahone, co. Tipperary 1826; sight and hearing damaged by an explosion of gunpowder; took part in young Ireland movement 1848; became a Fenian about 1860; one of the triumvirate appointed by James Stephens to govern projected Irish republic 1865; one of the editors of “Irish people” newspaper, which was suppressed 15 Sep. 1865; arrested 11 Nov. 1865, tried for treason felony, sentenced to 14 years imprisonment, served nearly 4 years; contested Tipperary as the national candidate 23 Feb. 1870, Denis Heron, Q.C. declared elected by 4 votes on scrutiny 26 Feb. 1870; author of Sally Cavanagh or the untenanted graves, a tale 1869, written in prison; Poems, sketches and narratives illustrative of Irish life 1870; Knocknagow or the homes of Tipperary 1879, a novel; For the old land, a tale of twenty years ago 1886, another ed. 1887. d. Blackrock near Dublin 21 Aug. 1882. C. J. Kickham’s Sally Cavanagh (1869), portrait; J. H. McCarthy’s Ireland since the union (1887) 183, 187, 188, 307–308; Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883) 658–59.

KIDD, John (son of John Kidd, captain of a merchant ship). b. London 10 Sep. 1775; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1793, B.A. 1797, M.A. 1800, M.B. 1801, M.D. 1804; studied at Guy’s hospital 1797–1801; chemical lecturer at Oxf. 1801, Aldrich’s professor of chemistry 1803–22, reader in anatomy on Dr. Lee’s foundation 1816, regius professor of physic 1822–51; physician to Radcliffe infirmary 1808–26; Radcliffe librarian 1834 to death; candidate of R.C.P. 31 March 1817, a fellow 16 March 1818, Harveian orator 1836; F.R.S. 28 March 1822; F.L.S. 1835; author of Outlines of mineralogy 2 vols. Oxford 1809; On the adaptation of external nature to the physical condition of man (The Second Bridgewater treatise) 1833, 6 ed. 1852; Observations on medical reform 1841. d. 37 St. Giles’s street, Oxford 17 Sep. 1851. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians, iii 178 (1878).

KIDD, Joseph Bartholomew. b. 1808; an original associate of Royal Scottish Academy 1826, an academician 1829–38; taught drawing at Greenwich from 1838; chiefly painted scenery of Scotland; painted a portrait of the Queen for Royal hospital schools, Greenwich; illustrated The miscellany of natural history, by sir T. D. Lauder 1833. d. 24 Egerton road, Greenwich 7 May 1889.

KIDD, William. b. Edinburgh about 1790; exhibited 33 pictures at R.A., 68 at B.I. and 88 at Suffolk st. 1817–53; many of his pictures were engraved; hon. member of Royal Scottish academy 1849; had a pension from Royal Academy; made 12 original paintings in illustration of Poems of Robert Burns which were engraved 1832. d. London 24 Dec. 1863.

KIDD, William. b. 1803; apprenticed to Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, booksellers, London; bookseller at Chandos st., at Regent st. to 1859 when he sold his business; published London Journal 24 numbers May to Oct. 1835 dealing with natural history; Kidd’s Own Journal 1852–4 re-issued in 5 vols.; built a fine aviary in the New road, Hammersmith, which was burnt down; delivered many lectures in the country from 1859; author of Kidd’s New guide to the lions of London 1832; Kidd’s Picturesque steam-boat companion to Herne Bay 1832; Kidd’s Picturesque pocket companion to Dover 1835. d. 3 Talbot villas, New road, Hammersmith 7 Jany. 1867.

KIDD, William John (son of W. H. Kidd, captain E.I.C.S.). b. 1808 or 1809; ed. at St. Bees; C. of St. Anne, Manchester 1834–36; P.C. of St. Matthew, Manchester 1836–41; R. of Didsbury, Lancs. 1841 to death; author of Reflections on unitarianism. Manchester 1835; The Sunday question considered in the light of holy scripture 1856; Bible class notes on the epistle to the Hebrews 1857; killed at Didsbury railway station 17 Dec. 1880.

KIDSTONE, William (son of rev. William Kidstone, secession minister, Stowe, co. Edinburgh). b. Stowe 9 Sep. 1768; ed. at Stirling gram. sch. and Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister of East Campbell st. chapel, Glasgow 18 Oct. 1791 to 1838; the first to establish Bible classes; chief originator of Friendly Clerical Soc. in Glasgow 1793; president Glasgow missionary soc.; clerk of the synod in presbytery of Glasgow 1795–1836; an original member of Evangelical Alliance; D.D. d. Ibroxholm, Glasgow 23 Oct. 1852. J. Kerr and J. Macfarlane’s Christian Old age, the life of W. Kidstone (1852); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 369–77.

KIERNAN, Francis. b. Ireland 2 Oct. 1800; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; held anatomy classes at his residence Charterhouse sq., suppressed by the hospital 1825; M.R.C.S. Nov. 1825, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1850, member of court of examiners 1862, V.P. 1864, gave his collections to the Hunterian museum; made discoveries respecting the structure of and circulation through the liver; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834, Copley medal 1836; one of founders of univ. of London 1836, member of the senate, examiner in anatomy and physiology 1840–61; made a fine collection of engravings of sacred subjects; author of Anatomical researches on the structure of the liver. d. 30 Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 31 Dec. 1874. bur. R.C. cemet. Mortlake 4 Jany. 1875. Medical Times, Jany. 1875 pp. 22–23, 52; Nature 7 Jany. 1875 p. 193.

KILBY, Thomas (son of John Kilby of Leeds). b. York 1794; matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 20 March 1816 aged 21; C. of Linton in Craven 1820; R. of Alverthorp to 1825; P.C. of St. John’s, Wakefield 1825 to death; author of Scenery in the vicinity of Wakefield with descriptive account 1843; Views in Wakefield 1853; Sermons 1866. d. St. John’s parsonage, Wakefield 5 Sep. 1868. Wakefield Journal and Examiner 11 Sep. 1868 p. 3.

KILLEN, Thomas Young (son of Edward Killen, merchant). b. Ballymena, co. Antrim 30 Oct. 1826; ed. at Belfast college; licensed to preach by presbytery of Carrickfergus 19 May 1848; minister of 3rd Ramelton, co. Donegal 25 Sep. 1850, of Ballykelly, co. Londonderry 1857–62; took a leading part in Ulster revival 1859; minister of Duncairn church, Belfast 26 Feb. 1862; moderator of Irish general assembly 1882; created D.D. by presbyterian theological faculty 1883; edited The Evangelical Witness, a monthly mag. 4 years; author of A Sacramental Catechism. Belfast 1874. d. Duncairn manse, Antrim road, Belfast 21 Oct. 1886.

KILLICK, Henry. b. Crabtree near Horsham July 1837; a carpenter at Brighton; scored 182 runs not out in the cricket match Sussex v. 22 veterans and colts of Sussex, Sep. 1865; kept wicket for Sussex; played his first match at Lords 9–10 July 1866; engaged on the Sussex county ground at Hove, Brighton 1873–4; fell down dead in Brighton 22 Nov. 1877.

KILMOREY, Francis Jack Needham, 2 Earl of. b. 12 Dec. 1787; M.P. for Newry 1819–26; styled viscount Newry and Morne 1822–32; succeeded his father as 2 earl 30 Nov. 1832. d. Gordon house, Isleworth, Middlesex 20 June 1880. Some professional recollections. By A former member of council of the Incorporated Law Society (1883) 93–118.

KILNER, Thomas. b. London 1777; a provincial actor; appeared at Park theatre, New York 1815 and was always known as Old Tom Kilner; lessee with Mr. Clarke of Federal st. theatre, Boston 1821, and appeared as sir Anthony Absolute, his wife playing Lucy 28 Sep. 1821; his other chief characters were Polonius, Squire Hawthorn and Capt. Copp; retired from the stage 1831. d. on his farm, Wilmington, Dearborn county, Indiana 2 Jany. 1862.

KILPACK, Thomas. b. 1794; proprietor of Gliddon’s divan 42 King st. Covent Garden (started by Arthur Gliddon, tobacconist 1825) 1828 or 1829 to death, where he had also a bowling alley; much frequented by artists, authors and actors. d. 42 King st. Covent Garden, London 10 Aug. 1874. The Town, i 75 (1837).

KILVERT, Francis (eld. son of Francis Kilvert of Bath). b. Westgate st. Bath, Good Friday 1793; ed. at Hungerford, Bath gr. sch. and Worc. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; assist. master at Bath gr. sch.; C. of Claverton near Bath 1816; took private pupils in Bath and Claverton; edited Literary remains of Bishop Warburton 1841; published in vol. 14 of The works of W. Warburton 1811, A selection from unpublished papers of W. Warburton bishop of Gloucester; author of Pinacothecae Historicae specimen 2 vols. 1848–50; Ralph Allan and Prior park 1857; Memoirs of the life and writings of Richard Hurd 1860; Sermons preached at Christ Church, Bath 1827; Fourteen sermons at St. Mary’s, Bathwick 1837. d. Claverton lodge, Bath 16 Sep. 1863. Remains in verse and prose of F. Kilvert, with a brief memoir pp. ix–xx, Bath (1866), portrait.

KIMBER, Thomas. M.A.; L.C.P.; conductor of classical and military establishment, Holland house, Lee road, Blackheath 1854; master at Haberdashers’ school, 103 Bunhill row, Hoxton; author of Construction of Vauban’s first system, six drawings as executed at Sandhurst and Addiscombe 1851; A mathematical course for the university of London 1853; Students’ casual papers, Holland house, Blackheath 1857; Selections of examination questions in arithmetic and algebra selected from papers set at college of preceptors, college of surgeons, London matriculation and Oxford and Cambridge local examinations 1879; London graduation mathematics, 41 years’ questions set at the university of London for the degrees of B.A. and B.Sc. 1880.

KINAHAN, Sir Edward Hudson Hudson-, 1 Baronet (2 son of Robert Henry Kinahan, whiskey distiller 1799–1861). b. 27 Nov. 1828; partner in firm of Kinahan and Sons, distillers, Dublin and London; sheriff of city of Dublin 1868 and of co. of Dublin 1875; grand treasurer of the Masonic order in Ireland; a director of Constitutional club; cr. baronet 26 Sep. 1887; assumed by r.l. prefix, surname and arms of Hudson, Oct. 1887; sheriff of Queen’s county 1892. d. Maryborough 8 March 1892.

KINAHAN, John Robert. b. 1828; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851, M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858; lecturer on botany Carmichael sch.; professor of zoology in department of science and art, museum of industry; wrote papers in scientific journals. d. Dawson st. Dublin 2 Feb. 1863.

KINAHAN, Robert Henry (youngest son of Daniel Kinahan of Robuck park, co. Dublin 1756–1827). b. Oct. 1799; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1854; distiller of whiskey at Dublin to death; sheriff of city of Dublin 1851, lord mayor 1853. d. 29 April 1861.

KINCAID, Sir John (2 son of John Kincaid of Dalbeath near Falkirk). b. Dalbeath house, Jany. 1787 or 1789; 2 lieut. 95 foot 27 April 1809; served in the Peninsula 1811–14 and at Waterloo; 1 lieut. rifle brigade 23 May 1811, captain 25 Nov. 1826, sold out 21 June 1831; one of exons of H.M.’s royal body guard 25 Oct. 1844 to death, senior exon 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 June 1852; government inspector of prisons for Scotland 1847 to death; inspector of factories for Scotland and north of England 1850, resigned 1862; published Adventures in the rifle brigade 1830, 2 ed. 1838; Random shots from a rifleman 1835. d. Hastings 22 April 1862.

KINDER, Thomas William. b. London 10 Nov. 1817; ensign Worcestershire militia 1840, capt. 1853, regiment embodied 1854, disembodied 1859, when he was transferred to 3 West York militia, retired as major 22 March 1870; proprietor of railway works at Bromsgrove and Oldbury 1845–55; conducted locomotive department Shrewsbury and Birmingham railway; manager Midland Great Western railway of Ireland 1851–55; master of mint Hong Kong 1863 which was suppressed 1868; master of mint at Osaka, Japan 1868–75; helped to originate the postal department, Japan; first master of Kobé masonic lodge; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1860. d. Norwood junction station, London, Brighton and South coast line 2 Sep. 1884. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxxviii 448–50 (1884).

KINDERSLEY, Sir Richard Torin (eld. son of Nathaniel Edward Kindersley of Sunning hill, Berks.) b. Madras 5 Oct. 1792; ed. at Haileybury sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.; 4 wr. 1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, fellow of his college Oct. 1815 to 1824; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1818, practised in court of chancery; K.C. Jany. 1835; chancellor of county palatine of Durham, Sep. 1846; master in chancery 6 March 1848; vice chancellor 8 Oct. 1851 to 29 Nov. 1866; knighted at Windsor castle 23 Oct. 1851; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866. d. Clyffe, Dorchester 22 Oct. 1879.

KING, Alfred (youngest son of Joseph King, author of Tables of interest). b. Liverpool 24 Dec. 1797; engineer to Liverpool gas company 1826 to death; will always be identified with history of gas lighting; invented the delicate pressure guage and the photometer; suggested application of gas for cooking; invented a self-registering barometer; A.I.C.E. 25 Feb. 1840, M.I.C.E. 5 May 1840. d. 27 April 1867.

KING, Anthony Singleton, ensign 71 foot 22 Feb. 1802; captain 99 foot 28 Feb. 1805, major 3 May 1810; commanded the troops in Newfoundland from 1 Oct. 1816 to the peace; returned to England, his regiment was disbanded 1818; lieut. col. 12 Aug. 1819, sold out; K.H. 1837. d. 1880.

KING, Charles William (eld. son of rev. Wm. Clark King, V. of Norham, Northumberland). Matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 20 Nov. 1849 aged 17; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1851–5; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Woodhorn, Northumberland 1855–9; R. of St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham 1859–67; principal of Female training coll. Durham 1859–64; inspector of schools for Durham and Northumberland 10 June 1864 to death. d. 8 Aug. 1872.

KING, Charles William (son of a shipping agent in the iron trade). b. Newport, Monmouthshire 5 Sep. 1818; a sizar at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1836, scholar 1839, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; collected antique gems in Italy 1845–77, sold his collection consisting of 331 engraved stones about 1878, it has been in the Metropolitan museum of art at New York since 1881; ordained deacon 1845; author of Antique Gems, their origin, use and value 1860; The Gnostics and their remains 1864, 2 ed. 1887; The natural history, ancient and modern, of precious stones and gems 1865; The handbook of engraved gems 1866, 2 ed. 1885; Antique gems and rings 2 vols. 1872. d. London 25 March 1888. bur. Highgate cemetery. Athenæum 31 March 1888 p. 412, 7 April 1888 p. 441; Proceedings Numismatic Soc. 1888 p. 28.

KING, David. b. Ayr 1787; ed. at Ayr and univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. England 1810; practised at Eltham 1811 to death; president of West Kent Medico chirurgical society; author of The history of Eltham palace and its subterranean passage; General observations regarding pestilential diseases 1854; General observations on church patronage, with a history of the patronage of Eltham church 1855. d. Eltham 23 Aug. 1865. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v 148, 163 (1867).

KING, David (son of John King 1762–1827, pastor of second united associate church in Montrose). b. Montrose 20 May 1806; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; minister of first united secession church, Dalkeith 13 Jany. 1830, and of Greyfriars secession church, Glasgow 15 Oct. 1833 to 12 Feb. 1855; LL.D. Glasgow 1840; an active founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845; founded a Presbyterian congregation at Bayswater, London 1860, minister to 1869; moderator of synod of Presbyterian church of Scotland 1863–7; minister at Morningside near Edinb. 1869–73; author of The ruling eldership of the christian church 1846, 3 ed. 1861; The state and prospects of Jamaica 1850; The principles of geology explained in their relation to religion 1850, 2 ed. 1850; An exposition of the presbyterian form of government 1853. d. Hamilton terrace, London 20 Dec. 1883. Memoir of David King, by his wife and daughter (1885) 1–263, portrait; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 30–6.

KING, Edward Bolton. b. 1801; sheriff of Warwickshire 1830; M.P. Warwick 1831–37; M.P. South Warwickshire 1857–59. d. Chadshunt near Leamington 23 March 1878.

KING, Sir Edward Durnford (son of Wm. King of Southampton). b. 1775; midshipman June 1789, captain 8 Jany. 1801, R.A. 22 July 1830; commander in chief on the Cape of Good Hope and Brazil station, Aug. 1840 to Dec. 1841; commander in chief at the Nore 18 April 1845 to 9 May 1848; admiral 30 Oct. 1849; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1833; knighted at the pavilion, Brighton 22 Jany. 1833. d. at his residence in Devonshire 14 Jany. 1862.

KING, Francis. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1838; B.A. 1841, M.A. B.D. and D.D. 1879; C. of Abbeyleix, Queen’s co. 1843–9; C. of Oswestry, Salop 1849–53; P.C. of St. Patrick’s chapel of ease, Newry, co. Down 1853 to death; archdeacon of Dromore 1887 to death; wrote to Mr. Gladstone at time of passing of act disestablishing Church of Ireland, warning him against that measure and predicting his political downfall; the oldest clergyman in the Irish church. d. Downshire road, Newry 7 Nov. 1891.

KING, George. b. 1813; ensign 13 foot 13 April 1831, lieut. col. 17 Nov. 1857 to 19 Jany. 1864 when he retired on full pay with rank of M.G. d. Bradford, Abbas, Dorset 11 March 1868.

KING, Sir George St. Vincent Duckworth, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir Richard King, 2 baronet, vice admiral 1774–1834). b. Stonehouse, Devon 15 July 1809; entered navy 8 Feb. 1822, captain 28 Aug. 1841; second in command of naval brigade at siege of Sebastopol; R.A. 4 April 1862; commander-in-chief in China 1863 to 1867; admiral 20 April 1875; C.B. 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; granted good service pension of £300, 19 Aug. 1876; succeeded his brother sir Richard Duckworth King 2 Nov. 1887; assumed by r.l. additional name of Duckworth. d. Wear house, Exeter 18 Aug. 1891.

KING, George William. b. London 15 June 1822; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; a cricketer, played for Surrey 1846–9; started the Brighton cricket club 1848, hon. sec. 1848–54, pres. 1855. d. Brighton 22 Dec. 1881. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, iii 404 (1863).

KING, Sir Henry. b. 1777 or 1778; cornet 24 light dragoons 25 March 1794; lost his right leg in attack on Rahmanie, Egypt 9 May 1801; major Sicilian regiment 5 Feb. 1807; major 82 foot 30 April 1807, lieut. col. 4 June 1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June 1854; col. 3 foot 18 March 1845 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; governor of Heligoland 1817–1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 5 June 1834; K.C.H. 1834. d. 7 Sussex terrace, Hyde park, London 24 July 1854.

KING, Henry (son of Charles King, huntsman to the Pytchley hounds to 1818, d. 1857). b. Brington near Althorp park 1815; in the Warwickshire kennels under Jack Wood 1828–30; second whip to Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake 1830 and to Mr. Applewhaite 1831–36; third whip to the Royal Buckhounds, July 1836, second whip 1850, first whip 1855–65; her majesty’s huntsman 2 April 1866 to death, the kennel consisted of 40 couple of hounds. d. the Royal kennels, Ascot 30 Dec. 1871. bur. Sunninghill churchyard 6 Jany. 1872. Baily’s Mag. xvii (1870) portrait, xviii 5–14 (1870), xxi 246 (1872); Windsor and Eton Express 6 Jany. 1872 p. 4, 13 Jany. p. 4.

KING, Henry Samuel (son of Henry King of Brighton). b. Lewes 15 Nov. 1817; bookseller at Brighton with an elder brother 1837 or 1838, then alone; partner in firm of Smith, Elder & Co., Cornhill, London, in 1868 the partners separated, H. S. King retaining the Indian agency and banking business in his own name; firm became Henry S. King & Co. bankers and East India, army, navy and colonial agents 45 Pall Mall, 65 Cornhill and 14 Worship st.; proprietor of the Homeward Mail and the Overland Mail; published many works 1871–77; relinquished publishing and bookselling portion of his business 1877. d. 45 Pall Mall, London 17 Nov. 1878. Bookseller 2 Dec. 1878 p. 1215; Academy, ii 497 (1878).

KING, James King (elder son of rev. James Simpkinson 1767–1842, R. of St. Peter-le-Poor, London, who assumed name of King 1837). b. Weybridge, Surrey 6 Nov. 1806; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1865; sheriff of Hereford 1845; M.P. Herefordshire 1852–68. d. Staunton park, Herefordshire 17 June 1881.

KING, John. b. Moy, co. Antrim 15 Dec. 1838; a private in 70 regt. in India, where he was employed by G. T. Landells when purchasing the camels for the Burke and Wills Australian exploring expedition 1860; went on the expedition to Carpentaria, the only survivor of the party which started from Cooper’s Creek 16 Dec. 1860, rescued by Alfred Howitt, July 1861; had pension from Victorian government of £180 a year. d. of phthisis at Melbourne 15 Jany. 1872.

KING, John. b. Stirling 1789; ed. Stirling gram. sch.; manager of Hurlet and Campsie alum co.’s works at Campsie; manager of G. Macintosh and co.’s Cudbear dye works at Dunchattan 1825, a partner 1825, became sole owner 1848, closed the works 1851; partner in Hurlet and Campsie alum co. 1851 to death. d. Levernholme, parish of Eastwood 31 Oct. 1875. Memoirs of One hundred Glasgow men, ii 169–70 (1886), portrait.

KING, John Crookshanks. b. Kilwinning, Ayrshire 11 Oct. 1806; went to U.S. America 1829, a superintendent of factories; in Cincinnati and Louisville several years; made a clay model of his wife’s head 1834; resided in New Orleans modelling busts and making cameo likenesses 1837–40; removed to Boston, Massachusetts; made busts of D. Webster, J. Q. Adams, Louis Agassiz and R. W. Emerson. d. Boston 21 April 1882.

KING, John Duncan. b. 1789; ensign 71 foot 28 Aug. 1806; lieut. 7 foot 13 June 1811, placed on h.p. 20 April 1820; lieut. 75 foot 14 May 1829, placed on h.p. 28 Dec. 1830; served in the Walcheren expedition and in Peninsular war; military knight of Windsor 1850 to death; landscape painter, exhibited 18 pictures at R.A., 39 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1824–58. d. Windsor Castle 21 Aug. 1863.

KING, John Hynde. Ensign 49 foot 6 Sep. 1844, major 2 Oct. 1855; wounded in the assault on the Redan 16 June 1855; captain grenadier guards 19 Dec. 1856 and major 29 May 1867 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Aldershot camp 9 July 1870.

KING, John Langley. Lecturer at Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent st. London many years; F.G.S. d. 6 Eastfield villas, Church hill, Walthamstow 26 Jany. 1891.

KING, John Myers (2 son of Edward King of Askham, Westmoreland). b. 1804; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., scholar 1821–7; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; V. of Cutcombe, Somerset 8 Dec. 1832 to death; author of The Georgics of Virgil translated into English verse 1843, another ed. 1871; The Aeneid of Virgil translated into English verse 1847, another ed. 1875; The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil translated into English verse 1882. d. 1887.

KING, John William (son of colonel Nevile King of Ashby hall, Sleaford, Leics.) b. 1792; ed. at C.C. coll. Oxf., scholar 1810–20, fellow 1820–33; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818, B.D. 1827; V. of Ashby-de-la-Launde, co. Lincoln 15 Jany. 1822 to death; R. of Bassingham, co. Lincoln 15 May 1832 to 1874; assumed name of Mr. Launde on the turf 1861; won the One thousand guineas, Oaks and St. Leger with Apology ridden by John Osborne 1874. d. Ashby hall 9 May 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 475 (1875), lxvii 119 (1875).

KING, Joseph. b. 1802; solicitor in London, Jany. 1836 to Nov. 1874; contributed to The Critic; author of Flights of Phædo 1859, a poem in reply to Tennyson’s Maud; and The Guildford farce, a satirical poem 1860 both anonymous. d. 16 North Buildings, Finsbury circus, London 1 April 1875. Law Times, lix 17 (1875).

KING, Joshua (son of David King of Lowick Bridge, Ulverstone, Lancs.). b. 16 Jany. 1798; ed. at Hawkshead gram. sch. and Trinity coll. Camb. 1815, sizar of Queen’s coll. Feb. 1816; senior wrangler and B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822, LL.D. 1838; fellow of Queen’s coll. Jany. 1820, tutor 1820, elected president by a dispensation from the crown, for his not being in holy orders 1832, remained till death; vice chancellor 1833; F.R.S.; Lucasian professor of mathematics in univ. of Camb. 1839, resigned 1849; personally argued in an appeal to the Crown as visitor, that the president of Queen’s had no voice in the election of the fellows, but lord Lyndhurst gave judgment against him 22 Jany. 1828. d. President’s lodge, Queen’s college 1 Sep. 1857. The case of the president of Queen’s college, containing the two petitions of J. King against the election of H. Godfrey (1821); Cambridge Chronicle 5 Sep. 1857 p. 4, 12 Sep. p. 4.

KING, Kate (dau. of T. C. King, actor). b. Camden-town, London 1852; appeared with her brother Harry King (who d. 17 May 1870 aged 19) as Irish duettists and dancers with Dr. Corri’s diorama of Ireland; played at the Alhambra and other music halls in London; member of Arthur Lloyd’s concert party in his “Two hours fun” entertainment to 1870; played in burlesque at Vaudeville theatre; m. 31 July 1871 Arthur Lloyd comic singer; acted at Queen’s theatre, Dublin during her husband’s lesseeship 1874–6, toured with his Ballyvogan company playing her original part of Norah O’Sullivan in his drama Ballyvogan, autumn seasons of 1887–90, a part she played upwards of 500 times; last appeared in London at Oxford music hall 20 March 1891; last appeared on the stage at Moss’s Varieties, Edinburgh 7 April 1891. d. 3 Priory villas, Byrne road, Balham, Surrey 2 May 1891. bur. Abney park cemetery 7 May.

KING, Mitchell. b. Crail, Fifeshire 8 June 1783; landed in Charlestown, U.S. America 17 Nov. 1805, schoolmaster 1806; assistant teacher Charlestown coll. 1 March 1806, principal of the college 1810; admitted to the bar 1810; a founder of the Philosophical Soc. 1809; judge of the city court 1819 and 1842–44; LL.D. of Charlestown coll. 1857; author of The culture of the olive 1846, and of many essays and addresses. d. Flat Rock, South Carolina 12 Nov. 1862.

KING, Peter John Locke (2 son of 7 baron King 1775–1833). b. Ockham, Surrey 25 Jany. 1811; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; contested East Surrey 1837; M.P. for East Surrey 11 Aug. 1847 to 26 Jany. 1874; got Real Estate charges act known as Locke-King’s act passed 11 Aug. 1854 and Act to abolish property qualifications of members of parliament passed 28 June 1858; defeated and caused resignation of Russell ministry on motion to reduce franchise in counties to £10, 20 Feb. 1851; author of Injustice of the law of succession to the real property of intestates 1854, 3 ed. 1855. d. Brooklands, Weybridge 12 Nov. 1885. Statesmen of England (1862) No. 46, portrait; Drawing-room portrait gallery, 2nd series (1859), portrait.

KING, Philip Parker (1 son of Philip Gidley King 1758–1808, governor of New South Wales). b. Norfolk island 13 Dec. 1791; entered navy Nov. 1807; captain 25 Feb. 1830, surveyed the Southern coasts of America 1826–30 and Patagonia, the Straits of Magellan and Terra del Fuego 1830; retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855 being first native of Australia so honoured; a nominee member of legislative council 1829; member for Gloucester and Macquarie 1851 to death; chairman of denominational board of education; manager of Australian Agricultural Society 1831; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1824; published Narrative of a survey of the inter-tropical and western coasts of Australia 1827; A voyage to Torres straits in search of the survivors of the ship Charles Eaton by C. M. Lewis, arranged by P. P. King 1837. d. Grantham, North Shore, Sydney, New South Wales 26 Feb. 1856. Fitzroy’s Voyages of the Adventurer and Beagle (1839); Proc. of Linnæan society (1856) 28–31; Rev. J. E. T. Wood’s History of the Discovery of Australia, i 246–304 (1865).

KING, Richard. b. about 1811; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1832; L.S.A. 1832, member of court of examiners; hon. M.D. New York 1833; surgeon and naturalist to Back’s expedition to mouth of Great Fish river 1833–5; issued prospectus which originated Ethnological Soc. 20 July 1842, the first sec. 1844; assistant surgeon to the Resolute in expedition sent out to search for sir John Franklin 1850, arctic medal 1857; edited The Medical Times some time; author of Narrative of a journey to the shore of the Arctic ocean under command of captain Back 2 vols. 1836; The preservation of children in delivery 1847; The Franklin expedition from first to last 1855; The causes of death in the still-born 1858; The Manx of the Isle of Man 1870; The Laplanders 1871. d. 1 Blandford st. Manchester sq. London 7 Feb. 1876.

KING, Richard John (eld. son of Richard King of Pennycross, d. April 1829). b. Montpelier, Pennycross, Plymouth 18 Jany. 1818; ed. at Exeter college, Oxf., B.A. 1841; collected a fine library which he sold 1854; member of Devonshire Association 1874, pres. 1875; author of Selections from the early ballad poetry 1842; Anschar: a story of the north. Plymouth 1850, anon.; wrote for John Murray, A handbook for travellers in Kent and Sussex 1858, 1863, 1868, 1877; A handbook for Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 1858, 1865, 1870; Handbook to the cathedrals of England 6 vols. 1864–81; Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridge 1870; Handbooks to the cathedrals of Wales 1873; author of Sketches and Studies 1874 a selection of his articles to Saturday Review, Quarterly Review and Fraser’s Mag. d. The Limes, Crediton, Devon 10 Feb. 1879, memorial window Crediton ch. Devon Assoc. Trans. xi 58–60 (1879).

KING, Richard Thomas. b. 1785 or 1786; 2 lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 22 July 1840; L.G. 27 June 1864. d. 21 Argyll st. London 5 Dec. 1866.

KING, Robert Turner. b. Leicestershire 1824; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb., B.A. 1849; as a point at cricket was far famed, could cover an immense deal of ground and make wonderful catches; played at Lord’s, Undergraduates of Cambridge v. Marylebone 8 June 1846; C. of Fridaybridge near Wisbeach 1871–5; V. of Fridaybridge 1880 to death. d. Bootle, Lancashire 12 May 1884. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, iii 387 (1863).

KING, Samuel William (eld. son of rev. Wm. Hutchinson King, V. of Nuneaton, Warws.) b. 20 Sep. 1821; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1853; R of Saxlingham-Nethergate, Norfolk 1851 to death; an entomologist and geologist; F.R.G.S. 1858; F.G.S. 1860; author of The Italian valleys of the Pennine Alps 1858; left his collection of Norfolk fossil mammalia to Museum of practical geology, London. d. Pontresina 8 July 1868. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxv 29 (1869).

KING, Thomas. b. 1777 or 1778; entered Madras army 1799; col. 19 Madras N.I. 1845 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Louisa terrace, Exmouth 29 Dec. 1859.

KING, Thomas. b. Silver st. Stepney, London 14 Aug. 1835; in the navy a short time; foreman of labourers at Victoria Docks, London; beat Tom Truckle of Portsmouth £50 a side, 49 rounds in 62 minutes 27 Nov. 1860; beat Wm. Evans known as Young Broome £50 a side, 43 rounds in 42 minutes 21 Oct. 1861; beaten by James Mace £200 a side, 43 rounds in 68 minutes 28 Jany. 1862; beat James Mace £200 a side and the championship, 21 rounds in 38 minutes 26 Nov. 1862; resigned the championship and would not fight Mace again; fought John Camel Heenan for £1000 a side and the championship at Wadhurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1863 when King won in 24 rounds lasting 35 minutes, this fight brought him in by means of stakes and presents nearly £4000; stood 6 feet 2¼ inches and weighed 176 lbs.; a bookmaker 1863 to death; sculled races on the river 1867; took many prizes at flower shows in and around London. d. of bronchitis at Clarence house, Clarence road, Clapham, London 4 Oct. 1888, value of his personalty declared at £54,472. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 490–518 (1881), portrait; Modern Boxing, By Pendragon [Henry Sampson] (1879) 43–50, 57–78; Sporting Times 13 March 1875, portrait; W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring (1888) 54–9, portrait.

KING, Thomas William. b. 21 June 1801; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1836, on library committee 1853–65, a contributor to the Archæologia and to the Proceedings of the Soc. of Antiquaries; Rouge Dragon pursuivant, Herald’s Office, London 20 May 1833 to 17 June 1848, York Herald 17 June 1848 to death; wrote Lancashire Funeral certificates, Chetham Society vol. 75 (1869); The pedigree of sir Philip Sidney. By R. Cooke. The restorations made by T. W. King 1869. d. Leicester road, New Barnett 4 Feb. 1872.

KING, Walker (son of Walker King 1751–1827, bishop of Rochester). b. St. Marylebone, London 1798; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1822; R of Stone, Kent 6 July 1822 to death; P.C. of Bromley, Kent 1824–7; preb. of Rochester 1827 to death; archdeacon of Rochester 25 June 1827 to death, installed 6 July 1827; author of The revival of diocesan synods, a charge 1838. d. Woodside, Stone, Kent 13 March 1859.

KING, William (son of rev. John King, master of Ipswich gr. sch.) b. Ipswich 17 April 1786; ed. at Peterhouse coll. Camb., fellow 1806–21; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, M.D. 1819; F.R.C.P. 1820, delivered Harveian oration 1843; lived at Brighton 1823 to death; wrote a small monthly periodical entitled The Co-operator, May 1828 to July 1830; consulting phys. to Sussex county hospital 1842–61; published Observations on the artificial mineral waters of Dr. Struve prepared at Brighton 1826; The Institutions of De Fellenberg 1842; Medical Essays 1850. d. 23 Montpellier road, Brighton 19 Oct. 1865. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 226–7 (1878).

KING, William. Art dealer and broker in London. d. 19 Ovington gardens, London 24 April 1884, will proved 9 July exceeding £136,000; left £100,000, 3 per cent. consols, to St. George’s hospital, London on condition that one ward should always be called the William King ward. The Times 19 July 1884 p. 6.

KING, William. b. Hartlepool, Durham, April 1809; curator of Museum of natural history at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1841–9, lecturer on geology in school of medicine there; professor of geology Queen’s college, Galway 1849–83 and professor of natural history there 1882–3, emeritus professor of geology, mineralogy and natural history there 1883 to death; the first D.Sc. of Queen’s Univ. of Ireland 1870; author of Monograph of the Permian fossils, published by Palæontographical Soc. London 1850. d. Glenoir, Taylor’s Hill, Galway 24 June 1886. Nature 1 July 1886 p. 200.

KING, William Smyth. b. 1809; incumbent of Carlow to death; canon of St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin to death; dean of Leighlin 1877 to death. d. Carlow 30 Dec. 1889.

KING, William Thomas Poole (son of Thomas King). b. 1805 or 1806; member of Bristol town council many years; sheriff of Bristol 1871; master of Merchant Venturers’ soc.; one of the pioneers of the West Africa commerce with England; led a party of men armed with cutlasses against the Bristol rioters in 1831; director of Bristol and Exeter railway co. 1836; a founder and member of Bristol Engineer volunteer corps 16 April 1861. d. Avonside, Clifton 13 Sep. 1887.

KING-CHURCH, Henry John. b. 1787; employed in Tower of London; took additional name of Church by r.l. 13 Feb. 1849; apostle of the Irvingite or Catholic Apostolic church 14 Dec. 1833 to death, Denmark, Holland and Belgium were assigned to his care. d. Albury, Surrey 16 Sep. 1865. E. Miller’s History of Irvingism i 139, 167, 181, 294 (1878).

KINGCOME, Sir John (son of Henry Kingcome). b. Revelstoke, Devon 14 Feb. 1794; entered navy 28 May 1808, captain 28 June 1838; present at signature of treaty of peace with China 29 Aug. 1842; captain of the Royal William 120 guns 16 Feb. 1854 to 18 June 1856; granted good service pension 1 Nov. 1854; R.A. of the Blue 10 Sep. 1857; commander in chief in the Pacific 31 Oct. 1862 to 10 May 1864; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869; K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 5 Windsor villas, Plymouth 7 Aug. 1871. I.L.N. lix 187 (1871).

KINGDOM, John M. b. London; solicitor; wrote the following plays, Marcoretti; Madeline; Which is my husband; The old ferry house; Three musketeers; Giraldo; Tancred; The crusaders; The old house on the Thames; The three princes, a romantic extravaganza, Surrey theatre 1 April 1850; The fountain of beauty, or the king, the princess and the geni, a fairy extravaganza, Drury Lane 5 Sep. 1853; Queen Mary, a drama by A. Tennyson, with full stage directions 1875. d. New York 24 July 1876.

KINGDON, Emmeline Maria (youngest dau. of rev. Thomas Hockin Kingdon, R. of Pyworthy, Devon 1808 until his death 31 Jany. 1853 aged 78). Lady superintendent of the Royal School for the daughters of officers of the army, Lansdowne, Bath 1864–82 when she became paralysed; the school attained a high reputation through her energy and judgment. d. 1 Dynham road, West Hampstead, London 25 March 1890. bur. Paddington cemet. 29 March.

KINGDON, Samuel Nicholson (brother of the preceding). b. Bridgerule, Devon 16 March 1805; V. of Bridgerule 1844 to death; author of Church Psalmody 1856; The history and sacred obligation of the Sabbath 1856; Tracts for the times on political subjects [n.d.] 1866, anon. d. Bridgerule 17 March 1872. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 299 (1874).

KINGDON, Thomas Kingdon (3 son of Samuel Kingdon of Exeter, ironmonger). b. Exeter 1812; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; practised as a special pleader 9 years; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848, bencher 25 Jany. 1867 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; recorder of Bristol 21 Aug. 1872 to death. d. 3 Clarendon road, Kensington 2 Dec. 1879.

KINGLAKE, Alexander William (eld. son of Wm. Kinglake of Taunton, banker and solicitor, d. 1847). b. Taunton 5 Aug. 1809; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836; travelled in the East about 1835; barrister L.I. 5 May 1837, retired from practice 1856; visited French army in Algeria 1845; contested Bridgewater 1852; M.P. Bridgewater 1857–68, re-elected 17 Nov. 1868, election declared void on petition 23 Feb. 1869, borough disfranchised 1869; visited the Crimea, saw battle of the Alma and the trenches at Sebastopol 1854; author of Eothen, or traces of travel brought home from the East 1844, 6 ed. 1878; The invasion of the Crimea, its origin and an account of its progress down to the death of lord Raglan 8 vols. 1863–87, 6 ed. 9 vols. 1877–88. d. 17 Bayswater terrace, London 2 Jany. 1891, cremated at Woking cemetery 8 Jany. Blackwood’s Mag. Feb. 1891 pp. 302–338; I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p. 43, portrait; Graphic 10 Jany. 1891 p. 43, portrait.

KINGLAKE, John Alexander (son of Robert Kinglake, M.D. of Taunton). b. 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; serjeant at law 10 July 1844, patent of precedence to rank after sir John Rolt, Feb. or March 1849; recorder of Exeter, July 1851 to Nov. 1856; recorder of Bristol, Nov. 1856 to death; contested Wells 1852 and 1855; M.P. for Rochester 30 March 1857 to death. d. 113 St. George’s sq. Pimlico, London 9 July 1870. I.L.N. xxxii 560, 561 (1858), portrait.

KINGSALE, John Constantine De-Courcy, 29 Baron (eld. son of 27 baron Kingsale 1805–47). b. Salcombe, Devon 5 Nov. 1827; succeeded 7 Jany. 1847 as premier baron in peerage of Ireland; captain East Devon militia 1853–5; put into operation the alleged De Courcy privilege of remaining covered in the presence of royalty, before the Queen 25 June 1859, this ceremony astonished all who saw it, as it had not been performed since 15 Sep. 1762. d. 13 Eaton sq. London 15 June 1865. G. E. Cokayne’s Complete Peerage, iv 396, 399 (1892).

KINGSALE, John Fitzroy De-Courcy, 31 Baron (only son of lieut. col. Gerald De-Courcy d. Oct. 1848). b. Corfu 30 March 1821; ensign 47 foot 28 Dec. 1838, lieut. 2 July 1841, sold out 11 June 1847; served as a major in Turkish contingent during Crimean war 1854–6; stipendiary magistrate at San Juan, Vancouver’s island during the Harney disturbances 1859; served as a colonel in Federal army during American civil war 1861–5; succeeded his cousin Michael 15 April 1874 as premier baron in peerage of Ireland. d. Florence 20 Nov. 1890.

KINGSBURY, Frederick. b. 1814 or 1815; studied at R. Academy of music 1844–45; conductor at Strand music hall (now Gaiety theatre) 1866–7; one of conductors of promenade concerts at Agricultural hall, Islington 20 July 1868; founded and conducted the London vocal academy, Rose Hersee was one of his pupils; professor at Guildhall school of music; wrote Letter on cultivation of the voice in reading, printed in J. J. Halcombe’s The Speaker at home (1860) pp. 171–78. d. of paralysis 21 Cecil st. Strand, London 26 Feb. 1892.

KINGSCOTE, Henry Robert (2 son of Thomas Kingscote d. 1811). b. 25 May 1802; ed. at Harrow; was 6 feet 5 inches in height; played his first cricket match at Lords 21 May 1823; pres. of Marylebone cricket club 1827; sent out supplies to the troops during Crimean war 1855; founder of scheme for establishing workshops for the indigent blind, and of National Orphan home at Ham Common, Surrey 1849. d. 10 Seville st. Lowndes sq. London 13 July 1882. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, i 468 (1862).

KINGSDOWN, Thomas Pemberton-Leigh, 1 Baron (elder son of Robert Pemberton, barrister, d. 2 Aug. 1804). b. London 11 Feb. 1793; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816, bencher 1830 to death; practised in equity courts 1816–43; K.C. Nov. 1829; leader in the rolls court 1835; declined the solicitor generalship, a puisne judgeship and vice-chancellorship; M.P. Rye 1831–32; M.P. Ripon 1835–43; attorney general to prince of Wales 1841–43; chancellor of duchy of Cornwall, May 1843 to 1861; on death of his kinsman sir Robert Leigh, came into a life interest in the Wigan estate of £17,000 a year Jany. 1843; took additional surname of Leigh by r.l. 7 March 1843; P.C. 10 June 1843, member of its judicial committee 1843–63 for which he declined to take any remuneration; declined the Great Seal from the Derby ministry 1858; created baron Kingsdown of Kingsdown, Kent 28 Aug. 1858. d. Torre hill, Sittingbourne, Kent 7 Oct. 1867. Law mag. and law review, xxvi 216–23 (1869); Annual Register (1867) pp. 187–89.

KINGSFORD, Anna (dau. of John Bonus, ship broker, d. 1881). b. Maryland Point, Stratford, Essex 16 Sep. 1846; baptized Annie; (m. 1867 Algernon Godfrey Kingsford, V. of Atcham, Shropshire since 1882); wrote stories in the Penny Post signed Ninon Kingsford and Mrs. Algernon Kingsford 1868–72; received into church of Rome by cardinal Manning 1870, when she adopted the Christian names Annie Mary Magdalen Maria Johanna; purchased The Lady’s Own Paper 1872, edited it 1872–3; studied medicine in Paris 1874–80; M.D. Paris 22 July 1880; a physician in London, very successful with women; pres. of London lodge of Theosophical Soc. 1883; founded the Hermetic Soc. 1884; a vegetarian and an opponent of vivisection; author of Beatrice, a tale of the early Christians 1863; River Reeds 1866 anon., a vol. of verse; Rosamunda the princess 1868; The perfect way in diet, a treatise advocating a return to the natural food of our race 1882, 3 ed. 1890; Health, beauty and the toilet 1886, 2 ed. 1886; Dreams and dream stories 1888; Clothed with the sun. New York 1889; with Edward Maitland The perfect way or the finding of Christ 1882. d. from consumption, 15 Wynnstay gardens, Kensington 22 Feb. 1888. bur. Atcham churchyard. Lady’s Pictorial 3 March 1888 pp. 209, 216, portrait.

KINGSFORD, Douglas (8 son of rev. Sampson Kingsford of Faversham, Kent). b. Faversham, Nov. 1839; ed. at Faversham gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 18 Nov. 1867; reporter for the Law Times Reports, for some years; member of the bar committee Dec. 1883; recorder of Margate, March 1885. d. 43 Courtfield road, Kensington, London 12 Aug. 1885. bur. Ealing cemetery 15 Aug.

KINGSLEY, Charles (son of Charles Kingsley 1782–1860, R. of Chelsea, Middlesex). b. Holme vicarage, South Devon 12 June 1819; ed. at Clifton, Helston gr. sch., King’s coll. London and Magd. coll. Camb., scholar 1839; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1860; C. of Eversley, Hants. July 1842 to May 1844, R. of Eversley, May 1844 to death; canon of Middleham, Derbyshire 1845 to death; professor of English literature, Queen’s coll. Harley st. London 1848–49; F.L.S. 1857; F.G.S. 1863; domestic chaplain to viscount Sidney 1843 to death; one of H.M.’s chaplains in ord. 12 July 1859 to death; regius prof. of modern history in univ. of Cambridge 25 June 1860, resigned 1869; chaplain to prince of Wales 16 Feb. 1863 to death; edited Fraser’s Mag. for J. A. Froude 1867; canon of Chester 1869–73; canon of Westminster 4 April 1873 to death; author of The saint’s tragedy, or the true story of Elizabeth of Hungary 1848; Twenty-five village sermons 1849; Alton Locke, tailor and poet: an autobiography 2 vols. 1850 anon., 9 ed. 1881; Cheap clothes and nasty. By Parson Lot 1850; Yeast: a problem by C.K. 1851, 5 ed. 1881; Hypatia 2 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1881; Westward Ho! 3 vols. 1855, 3 ed. 1881; Glaucus or the wonders of the shore 1855, 4 ed. 1859; Two years ago, a novel 3 vols. 1857, 3 ed. 1881; The water-babies, a fairy tale 1863, 3 ed. 1886; Hereward the Wake 1866, 3 ed. 1881; The Works of C. Kingsley 28 vols. 1884–85. d. Eversley rectory 23 Jany. 1875. Charles Kingsley, his letters and memories of his life. Edited by his wife 2 vols. (1877), portrait; Illustrated Review, vol. ii 257–60, portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 90–93, portrait; Modern men of letters. By J. H. Friswell (1870) 313–32; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; C. K. Paul’s Biographical sketches (1883) 115–39; Alton Lock, new ed. (1876), memoir by T. Hughes; T. H. Ward’s English poets 2 ed. iv 608–14 (1883); F. M. Muller’s Biographical essays (1884) 363–83.

KINGSLEY, Frances Elizabeth (youngest dau. of Pascoe Grenfell, M.P. d. 1837). b. 1814; (m. at Bath 10 Jany. 1844 rev. C. Kingsley 1819–75); greatly aided her husband in all his parish work at Eversley, wrote from his dictation and copied for the press; edited the following works about and by her husband, Charles Kingsley, his letters and memories of his life 1877, 2 ed. 1883; True words for a brave man 1878; Out of the deep 1880; Daily thoughts selected from the writings of C. Kingsley 1884; From death to life, fragments of teaching to a village congregation 1887; declined the Queen’s offer of apartments in Hampton court palace 1875; granted civil list pension of £200, 4 May 1875. d. Bishop’s Tachbrook near Leamington 12 Dec. 1891. I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p. 794, portrait.

KINGSLEY, George Henry (brother of rev. C. Kingsley 1819–75). b. Barnack, Northamptonshire 14 Feb. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. London, Edin. univ. and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1846; practised in England from 1850; adopted foreign travel as his method of treatment of his patients, explored many foreign countries; a sportsman and linguist; author of Four phases of love translated from the German of P. J. L. Heyse 1857; A gossip on a Sutherland hillside 1861, included in Francis Galton’s Vacation tourists and notes of travel; South Sea Bubbles; By the Earl and the Doctor 1872, an account of his travels in Polynesia with the Earl of Pembroke 1867–70, 2 ed. 1873. d. 7 Mortimer road, Cambridge 5 Feb. 1892.

KINGSLEY, Henry (brother of the preceding). b. Barnack 2 Jany. 1830; ed. at King’s coll. London and Worcester coll. Oxf. 1850–3; went to the Australian goldfields 1853, returned to England 1858; edited the Edinburgh Daily Review 1870–1, correspondent for his paper during Franco-German war 1870, present at battle of Sedan 1 Sep. 1870, the first Englishman to enter Sedan afterwards; author of The recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn 3 vols. 1859, 3 ed. 1864; Ravenshoe 3 vols. 1862, 2 ed. 1862; Austin Elliott 2 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1863; The Hillyars and the Burtons 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1865; Mademoiselle Mathilde 3 vols. 1868, 2 ed. 1868; Stretton 3 vols. 1869, and 15 other books. d. of cancer in the tongue at Attrees, Cuckfield, Sussex 24 May 1876. Graphic, xiii 563, 564 (1876), portrait.

KINGSMILL, Sir John. b. 1798; captain of the Battle Axe guards, Dublin Castle 1828–1834 when corps was dissolved; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland 1830. d. 23 Oct. 1859.

KINGSMITH, Joseph. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1836; chaplain Pentonville prison, London 1843–59; author of Chapters on prisons and prisoners and the prevention of crime 1849, 3 ed. 1854; A common sense view of the treatment of prisoners 1850; Missions and missionaries 1853, 2 ed. 1854; On the present aspect of serious crime in England 1856; British rule and British christianity in India 1859; Our police, friendly council to the police 1860. d. 142 Marina, St. Leonards 25 Dec. 1865.

KINGSTON, Robert Henry King, 4 Earl of (2 son of 3 earl of Kingston 1771–1839). b. 4 Oct. 1796; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818; ensign 5 foot 31 Oct. 1816, placed on h.p. 24 Dec. 1818; lieut. 69 foot 3 Jany. 1822, placed on h.p. 12 June 1826; M.P. Cork 1831–32; known as viscount Kingsborough 1837–39; succeeded 18 Oct. 1839; frequently sued by cabmen in the police courts and behaved in an unseemly manner in the house of lords; declared of unsound mind April 1861. d. 21 Jany. 1867. G.M. March 1867 pp. 380–81.

KINGSTON, James King, 5 Earl of. b. 8 April 1880; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1825, Lincoln’s inn 25 May 1827; succeeded 21 Jany. 1867. d. Mitchelstown castle 8 Sep. 1869.

KINGSTON, Robert King, 6 Earl of. b. Henrietta st. Dublin 17 July 1804; M.P. for Roscommon 1826–1830; succeeded his father 20 Nov. 1854 as viscount Lorton, and his cousin 8 Sep. 1869 as earl of Kingston. d. London 16 Oct. 1869.

KINGSTON, Robert Edward King, 7 Earl of. b. Dublin 18 Oct. 1831; succeeded 16 Oct. 1869. d. Alexandra hotel, Hyde park corner, London 21 June 1871.