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