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.
KENMARE, VALENTINE BROWNE, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Earl of
Kenmare 1754–1812). _b._ 15 Jany. 1788; succeeded as 2 earl 3
Oct. 1812; lord lieut. of Kerry 1831 to death; col. of Kerry
militia 24 Jany. 1837 to death; created baron Kenmare of Castle
Rosse in the United Kingdom 17 Aug. 1841; one of the visitors of
Maynooth coll. 1845. _d._ Great Malvern 31 Oct. 1853.
KENMARE, THOMAS BROWNE, 3 Earl of (bro. of the preceding). _b._
15 Jany. 1789; ensign 40 foot 6 Aug. 1807, captain 1812–14; in
Peninsula 1809 to 1814, war medal and 9 clasps; succeeded his
brother 31 Oct. 1853; cr. baron Kenmare in peerage of the U.K.
by letters patent 12 March 1856; lord lieut. of Kerry 19 March
1866. _d._ 54 Eaton place, London 26 Dec. 1871.
KENNARD, COLERIDGE JOHN (1 son of John Peirse Kennard of Hoodle
Cliff, Hants.) _b._ Oct. 1828; managing director of Heywood,
Kennards & Co. bankers, London, merged in Consolidated bank
1864; founder of the Evening News 1889 which became the Evening
News and Post 1890; contested Salisbury 1874, 1880 and 1885;
M.P. Salisbury 20 Nov. 1882 to 18 Nov. 1885; the friend and
adviser of the duke of Albany. _d._ 39 Upper Grosvenor st.
London 25 Dec. 1890.
KENNARD, ROBERT WILLIAM (2 son of John Kennard of Lombard st.
London, banker). _b._ London 18 Jany. 1800; an ironmaster in
Scotland and south Wales and at Thames st. London; president
of Tournay and Jurbise railway company; chairman of Northern
and Eastern railway company; sheriff of London and Middlesex
1846–47; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 11 Feb. to 21
March 1857 and 30 April 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868; author of A
controversial correspondence between the rev. Paul Maclachlan,
Roman Catholic priest in Falkirk, and R. W. Kennard, three parts
1854. _d._ 37 Porchester ter. Bayswater, London 10 Jany. 1870.
KENNAWAY, CHARLES EDWARD (2 son of sir John Kennaway, 1 baronet
1758–1836). _b._ 3 Jany. 1800; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.,
15 wr. 1822, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, fell. of his coll.; V. of
Chipping Campden, Gloucs. 1832–72; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham
1840–43; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Brighton 1843–47; hon. canon in
Gloucester cath. 1861 to death; author of The churchman’s brief
manual of baptism, in four parts 1840; Sermons, practical,
historical and doctrinal 1842; Sermons preached at Brighton
1845, Second series 1847; Poems 1846; Perdita and Angelina or
the lost one found. An Anglo-Roman dialogue 1854–57; Some tones
of the voice of prophecy and of the voice of miracle 1867. _d._
Goodrest, Great Malvern 3 Nov. 1875.
KENNEDY, ANDREW. _b._ Kilcock, co. Kildare, Ireland 1804;
private in regiment of Hohenlohe 1825; made four campaigns in
the Morea and 14 in Algeria; commander of 33 regt. 1860–63
when he retired; commander of legion of honour; resided at
Landerneau 1863 to death. _d._ Landerneau, Oct. 1865. _Times 13
Oct. 1865 p._ 10 _col._ 1.
KENNEDY, SIR ARTHUR EDWARD (4 son of Hugh Kennedy of Cultra,
co. Down). _b._ 9 April 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign
11 foot 15 Aug. 1827, lieut. 1832 to 1840; captain unattached
12 June 1840; captain 68 foot 19 March 1841 to April 1848; poor
law inspector for Ireland 1846–51; governor of the Gambia 25
May 1852, of Sierra Leone 13 Sep. 1852, of Western Australia
June 1855 to 17 Feb. 1862, of Vancouver’s Island 4 Dec. 1863,
of West African settlements 15 Jany. 1868 to 1872; governor and
commander in chief of Hong Kong 20 Feb. 1872, of Queensland 6
Jany. 1877 to death; C.B. 23 July 1862; knighted at Osborne 20
Dec. 1867; K.C.M.G. 29 Sep. 1871, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. _d._ off
Aden in the Red Sea, on his way to England 3 June 1883.
KENNEDY, BENJAMIN HALL (eld. son of rev. Rann Kennedy 1772–1851,
P.C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham). _b._ Summerhill, Birm. 6 Nov.
1804; ed. at Birm. gr. sch., Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll.
Camb.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, D.D. 1836; fellow of his coll.
1828–36, hon. fellow 1880–85 and fellow again 1885; a master at
Harrow 1830–36; head master of Shrewsbury 1836 to June 1866;
the greatest classical teacher of his day; preb. of Lichfield
1843–1867; select pr. in univ. of Camb. 1860; R. of West Felton,
Salop 1865–67; regius professor of Greek and canon of Ely 1867
to death; took part in revision of the New Testament 1870–80;
LL.D. of Dublin univ. 1885; author of Elementary Latin grammar
1843 on which was founded The public school Latin grammar 1871
used in nine of the chief schools in England; Sabrinæ Corolla
1850, 4 ed. 1890; The Birds of Aristophanes translated into
English verse 1874; Between whiles or wayside amusements of a
working life 1877, 2 ed. 1882; Pauline Christology 1883. _d._
Shiphay house near Torquay 6 April 1889. _Classical Review_,
_iii_ 226–7, 278–81 (1889); _Biograph_, _iv_ 229–30 (1880).
KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN (brother of preceding). _b._ Birmingham
1808; ed. at Shrewsbury, Birm. gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.;
scholar 1829, fellow 1831, senior classic 1831; B.A. 1831, M.A.
1834; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1835; professor of law Queen’s
coll. Birmingham 1849–56; applied to be allowed to join Midland
circuit, the mess refused his request 1850; adviser of Mrs.
Swinfen the plaintiff in case of Swinfen v. Swinfen, brought
action against her for £20,000 for his services, and obtained a
verdict, but the common pleas decided that a barrister could not
sue for his fees 1863; author of Translation of Select speeches
of Demosthenes 1841; Poems, original and translated 1843; New
rules for pleading 1838, 2 ed. 1841; A treatise on annuities
1846. _d._ Birmingham 17 Dec. 1867. _Law Journal_, _ii_ 557,
571 (1867); _J. Scott’s Common Bench Reports_, _xiii_ 677–742
(1863); _C. Beavan’s Chancery Reports_, _xxxiii_ 133–54 (1865).
KENNEDY, DAVID (son of David Kennedy, weaver and precentor,
_d._ 1874). _b._ Perth 15 April 1825; apprenticed to a painter
1841; a painter at Perth; precentor of Nicholson st. United
Presbyterian ch. Edin.; began a series of weekly concerts 1859;
first appeared in London at Hanover sq. rooms 1862; gave 100
concerts in Egyptian hall Dec. 1862 to May 1863; sang in Canada
and United States 1866–9; made a tour round the world with his
family 1872–6; toured in G.B. and Ireland 1876–9, South Africa
1879, India 1879–80, Canada 1881, United States and Australia
1882–4; had a rich tenor voice and was an effective reader and
declaimer; lost 3 children in the fire at the theatre at Nice 23
March 1881, namely James baritone singer aged 25, Kate contralto
aged 20 and Elizabeth soprano aged 18; author of Book of words
of Mr. Kennedy’s Entertainment on the songs of Scotland 1866;
Kennedy’s Colonial travel. A narrative of a four years tour
through Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. 1876; Kennedy at
the Cape, a tour through Cape Colony, the Orange Free state, the
Diamond fields and Natal 1879. _d._ Stratford, Ontario 12 Oct.
1886. _Life of D. Kennedy_ (1887), _portrait_.
KENNEDY, HUGH A. Chess player; played with Popert, Staunton
and Walker; in London tournament 1851 took 6th prize; played
at Leamington 28 June 1855; chairman of the British chess
association meeting at Bristol 10 Sep. 1861; author of Waifs and
strays chiefly from the chess-board 1862, 2 ed. 1876. _d._ 22
Oct. 1878. _Westminster Papers_, _Dec. 1878 p._ 165; _I.L.N. 14
June 1855 pp._ 43, 44, _portrait_; _Illust. News of the World 14
Sep. 1861 p._ 164, _portrait_.
KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ 1785; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.D.
1813; physician to the Loughborough dispensary; practised
at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, retired from practice 1842 and lived
at Woodhouse near Loughborough 1842 to death; occupied for
many years in compiling a bibliography of medical treatises
with biographies of their authors, which he did not live to
print; published A dissertation on the anatomy, physiology and
pathology of the human tongue 1813; Instruction to mothers and
nurses on the management of children Glasgow 1825; Lecture on
Asiatic cholera 1832. _d._ 24 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury,
London 9 May 1851 aged 66.
KENNEDY, JAMES. Barrister L.I. 10 July 1821; M.P. for Tiverton
12 Dec. 1832, unseated on petition; M.P. for Tiverton again
24 May 1833 to May 1835; judge of mixed commission for
protection of slaves at Havanah 10 Feb. 1837 to 14 Dec. 1852
when superannuated; author of England and Venice compared. An
argument on the policy of England towards her colonies 1827;
Selections from the poems of J. M. Heredia, with translations
1844; Modern poets and poetry of Spain 1852; Ethnological and
philological essays 1855; Essays, ethnological and linguistic
1861. _d._ Liddiard house, Grove ter. Notting hill, London 15
May 1859.
KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ 1778 or 1779; entered Bengal army 1797;
colonel 5 Bengal light cavalry 26 Dec. 1832 to 1858, col. 5
European light cavalry 1858–9; C.B. 20 July 1838; commanded
Benares division 20 March 1847 to 26 June 1852; L.G. 11 Nov.
1851. _d._ Benares 25 Sep. 1859.
KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ Dundee 1801; shoemaker; schoolmaster in the
Carse of Gowrie, at Carnoustie and at Lochee; manager of the Tay
and Tyne shipping co. to his death, member of town council from
1851 for many years; dean of guild 1861, re-elected 3 times;
sec. and manager of Dundee property investment co. from its
formation; lectured at the Watt Institution. _d._ Dundee 25 July
1867. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 295–6.
KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ June 1803; M.R.C.S. 1828; author of The
history of the contagious cholera with facts explanatory of
its origin and laws and of a method of cure 1831, 3 ed. 1832;
Medical monopolies with a plan of reform. _d._ 17 Tavistock sq.
London 1868. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.
KENNEDY, SIR JAMES SHAW (eld. son of John Shaw who served in
76 highlanders). _b._ The Largs, Straiton parish, Ayrshire 13
Oct. 1788; ensign 43 foot 18 April 1805; served in Denmark,
Spain and Portugal; present at Waterloo, where his plan of
infantry formation was adopted; A.Q.M.G. of 3 division of
Anglo allied army May 1815; commander of establishment formed
at Calais to keep up communication between the army and England
1815–18; A.A.G. in Ireland 1826 and in England 1826–36; assumed
additional name of Kennedy, April 1834; commanded forces in
North Britain 1852; inspector general of Irish constabulary
1836–8; col. of 47 foot 27 Aug. 1854 to death; general 19 Aug.
1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861; author of A manual
of outpost duties 1851; Notes on the defence of Great Britain
and Ireland 1859, 4 ed. 1859. _d._ 8 Circus, Bath 30 May 1865.
_Notes on the battle of Waterloo. By Sir J. S. Kennedy_ (1865),
_with a memoir of his life and services pp._ 3–46.
KENNEDY, JOHN (3 son of Robert Kennedy). _b._ Knocknalling,
Kirkcudbright 4 July 1769; apprenticed to Cannan and Smith,
machine-maker at Chowbent, Lancashire 1784–91; partner with
Benjamin and William Sandford and James M’Connel, machine
makers and mill spinners, Manchester 1791; introduced a new
motion in cotton spinning called the double speed and improved
the jack frame; member of Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. April
1803, contributed papers to Memoirs of the soc. 1815–30;
umpire in locomotive competition at Rainhill, Oct. 1829. _d._
Ardwick hall, Manchester 30 Oct. 1855. _John Kennedy’s Early
Recollections_ (1849); _Memoirs of Manchester Lit. and Phil.
Soc. i_ 147–57 (1862); _Smiles’s Industrial Biography_ (1879)
317–23.
KENNEDY, JOHN (4 son of rev. John Kennedy). _b._ at the
manse of Killearnan, Rossshire 15 Aug. 1819; ed. at Aberdeen
univ. 1836, M.A. 1840, D.D. 1873; minister of the Free ch.
at Dingwall, Rossshire, Feb. 1844 to death; preached in
Gaelic and English, sometimes delivering 10 sermons a week;
took part in the Strome Ferry case, an attempt to resist the
Sunday traffic on the Highland railway 1883; a leader in the
Highlands, of the opposition to the attempted union of the Free
and United Presbyterian churches; refused to have an organ or
to use uninspired hymns in his church; he was the acknowledged
successor of Dr. John Macdonald and was sometimes called the
second Apostle of the North; author of Days of the fathers in
Rossshire 1861; The apostle of the north, the life and labours
of Dr. Macdonald 1866; Man’s relation to God traced in the
light of the present truth 1869. _d._ Bridge of Allan, Stirling
28 April 1884. _Auld’s Life of John Kennedy, D.D._ (1887),
_portrait_; _Biograph_, _v_ 241 (1881).
KENNEDY, JOHN PITT (4 son of rev. John Pitt Kennedy, R. of Carn
Donagh, co. Donegal). _b._ Donagh 8 May 1796; 2 lieut. R.E. 1
Sep. 1815, on h.p. 28 May 1822; 1 lieut. R.E. 1825; sec. to
sir Charles Napier and director of public works in island of
Cephalonia 1822; sub-inspector of militia, Ionian islands 3
Jany. 1828 to 1 March 1832 when placed on h.p., sold out 1835;
inspector general national educational department, Ireland,
and teacher of agriculture, Nov. 1837 to March 1839; agent to
lord Devon’s estates, co. Limerick 1843; sec. to Irish famine
relief commission 1845; military sec. to sir Charles Napier in
India 1849; projected with lieut. col. French what is now Bombay
Baroda and central India railway 1852, consulting engineer
and managing director of the co. 1853; wrote many pamphlets
on Indian subjects; M.I.C.E. 3 March 1868; F.S.S.; author of
Instruct, employ, don’t hang them, or Ireland tranquilized
without soldiers 1835; Lectures on agriculture 1841; Road making
in the hills, having reference to the road from Kalka viâ Simla
to Kunawar and Thibet 1850; Finances, military occupation,
government and industrious development of India 1858. _d._ 66
St. George’s sq. London 28 June 1879. _Min. of proc. of I.C.E.
lix_ 293–8 (1880).
KENNEDY, PATRICK. _b._ co. Wexford 1801; assistant in a training
school, Kildare place, Dublin 1823; kept a bookseller’s shop
and circulating library, Anglesea place, Dublin to death; wrote
in the Dublin Review and Dublin Univ. Mag.; author of Legendary
fictions of the Irish Celts 1866, new ed. 1892; The banks of the
Boro, a chronicle of Wexford 1867; The bardic stories of Ireland
1871; The book of modern Irish anecdotes 1872; and under the
pseud. of Harry Whitney, Legends of Mount Leinster 1855. _d._
Anglesea place, Dublin 29 March 1873. _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi_
581–2 (1873).
KENNEDY, RANN (son of Benjamin Kennedy, surgeon at Annapolis
in Maryland, _d._ 1784). _b._ 1772; lived at Withington near
Shrewsbury 1784–91; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1795,
M.A. 1798; master in King Edward’s school, Birmingham 1795,
second master 1807 to about 1836; C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham
1797–1817 and P.C. 1817–48; author of A poem on the death of the
princess Charlotte 1817; A tribute in verse to the character
of George Canning 1827; Britain’s Genius, a mask on occasion
of marriage of Victoria, queen of Great Britain 1840. _d._ at
res. of his son Chas. Kennedy, St. Paul’s sq. Birmingham 2 Jany.
1851. _B. H. Kennedy’s Between Whiles 2 ed._ (1882).
KENNEDY, RICHARD HARTLEY. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 30 June
1811, surgeon 1822, physician general 1842, retired 1 May 1843;
alderman of ward of Cheap 1853–58; sheriff of London 1855; a
director of the Royal British bank opened 17 Nov. 1849, deputy
governor Nov. 1849 to Jany. 1850 and 1854–5, bank closed 3 Sep.
1856; tried for fraud with 7 other directors in court of Queen’s
Bench, Guildhall 13–27 Feb. 1858 and sentenced to 9 months
imprisonment, but released July 1858; resided 11 Ladbroke ter.
Notting hill 1855; author of Notes on the epidemic cholera.
Calcutta 1827, 2 ed. 1846; Visconti, an historical tragedy 1829;
The Relicquary (sic) a collection of poetical fragments 1835;
Narrative of the campaign of the army of the Indus 2 vols. 1840;
The Sutti, as witnessed at Baroda 1855. _d._ Great Western
hotel, Paddington 24 July 1865. _Orridge’s Citizens of London_
(1867) 163–4; _A.R._ (1858) 330–9.
KENNEDY, THOMAS (1 son of John Kennedy 1730–1816, violin maker,
London). _b._ Houghton st. Clare market, London 21 Jany. 1784;
apprentice to Thomas Powell, violin maker 1795; violin maker
Princes st. Westminster, then at 364 Oxford st. 1816 to 1849
when he retired from business; worked much for the music trade;
made 300 violoncellos; lived at 162 Pentonville road 1849 to
death. _d._ 162 Pentonville road, London 1872. _Sandys and
Forster’s History of the Violin_ (1864) 353–4.
KENNEDY, THOMAS. _b._ 1809; solicitor 26 Chancery lane, London
1831 to death; author of The code of practice of the high court
of chancery 2 vols. 1843–52, 2 ed. 1845–53; The general orders
of the high court of chancery 1850. _d._ Devonshire road, Balham
hill 27 Sep. 1873.
KENNEDY, _Thomas Francis_ (only son of Thomas Kennedy of Dunure,
Ayrshire, _d._ 1819). _b._ Dalquharran castle, Ayrshire 11 Nov.
1788; ed. at Harrow and at univ. of Edinb.; called to Scottish
bar 1811; M.P. for Ayr district of burghs 1818–34; chairman
of committee on salmon fishing laws 1824; his draft formed
basis of Scottish reform bill 1832; clerk of the ordnance 8
Feb. 1832 to 1833; a junior lord of the treasury Nov. 1832 to
April 1834; paymaster of the civil services in Ireland 1837–50;
P.C. Ireland 1837; comr. of woods and forests 28 Aug. 1850 to
1854; Lord Murray gave him a pension of £1200 a year; author of
Letter to lord John Russell from T. F. Kennedy relative to his
removal from the office of commissioner of woods 1854; Three
letters to H. A. Bruce, secretary for home department on the
public prosecutor in Scotland 1869–72; Papers relating to the
improvement in the salmon fishery 1872; Two letters relating to
a passage in the life of lord Brougham 1872. _d._ Dalquharran
castle 1 April 1879. _Scotsman 2 April 1879 pp._ 6–7.
KENNEDY, TRISTRAM (brother of John Pitt Kennedy 1796–1879). _b._
Glebe house, Donagh, co. Donegal 1805; ed. at Foyle college,
Londonderry; sheriff of Londonderry 1828; called to Irish bar
1834; founded Dublin Law Institute 1839; M.P. for Louth co.
1852–7 and 1865–8; contested Louth co. 1857, King’s co. 1859 and
Donegal 1874. _d._ Charleville, Weston-Super-Mare 20 Nov. 1885.
KENNEDY, WILLIAM. _b._ near Dublin 26 Dec. 1799; ed. at Belfast
college 1819; journalist on the Paisley Magazine at Paisley
1828–9; worked with Leitch Ritchie in London 1830–3; private
sec. to earl of Durham, governor general of Canada 1838; assist.
comr. on enquiry into municipal institutions of Lower Canada,
Aug. 1838; British consul at Galveston, Texas, Dec. 1841 to
1847; retired on a pension 1849; edited the Continental annual
1832; author of My early days 1824; Fitful fancies 1827; The
arrow and the rose and other poems 1830; The siege of Antwerp
1838; The rise, progress and prospects of the republic of Texas
2 vols. 1841. _d._ Paris 1871. _G. Gilfillan’s History of a man_
(1856) _p._ 169; _J. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_
213–17 (1877); _N. and Q. 2 S. i_ 113, 163, 183, 342, 400 (1856).
KENNEDY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1813; in employment of Hudson Bay Co.;
stationed in Labrador 8 years; commander of the Prince Albert,
lady Franklin’s searching vessel 22 May 1851, wintered at Batty
bay, left the ship, sledge travelling 25 Feb. 1852 and was at
Fury Beach 7–29 March, discovered Bellot’s Strait, marched over
Prince of Wales’ Land and round North Somerset, being away 97
days and covering 1100 miles with dogs and sledges; returned to
Aberdeen, Oct. 1852; author of A short narrative of the second
voyage of the Prince Albert in search of sir John Franklin 1853.
_d._ St. Andrew’s, Winnipeg 25 July 1890. _Markham’s Arctic Navy
list_ (1875) 27; _Times 21 Feb. 1890 p._ 10.
KENNEDY, WILLIAM DENHOLM. _b._ Dumfries 16 June 1813; entered
R.A. school, London 1833, won the gold medal for his picture
Apollo and Idas 1835, awarded the travelling allowance and
spent 2 years in Rome 1840–2; exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 22
at B.I. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1833–65. _d._ 26 Soho sq. London 2
June 1865.
KENNEDY, WILLIAM JAMES (4 son of rev. Rann Kennedy 1772–1851).
_b._ 1814; ed. Birmingham gram. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb.,
Porson prize for Greek iambics 1835, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1844;
sec. of National Soc. for promotion of education 1848; H.M.
inspector of schools in north western counties 16 Dec. 1848
to 1878; V. of Barnwood, Gloucs. 1878 to death; author of The
conscience clause, read at Manchester congress of social science
1866; Agnosticism, a sermon 1884; The English clergyman and the
present times 1887; while giving evidence in house of lords in
Berkeley peerage case caught cold, _d._ Barnwood, June 1891.
KENNEDY-BAILIE, JAMES (son of Nicholas Kennedy, schoolmaster).
_b._ Ireland 1793; pensioner Trin. coll. Dublin 1807, scholar
1810; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1823, D.D. 1828; fellow of
Trin. coll. 1817 to 29 May 1831, Donnelan lecturer 1824;
delivered in Trin. coll. chapel Ten lectures on the philosophy
of the Mosaic record of creation, published in 2 vols. 1827; R.
of Ardtrea, co. Tyrone 13 Oct. 1830 to death; assumed additional
surname of Bailie 1835; author of Æschylus Agamemnon, with a
translation 1829; Fasciculus inscriptionum Græcarum 3 vols.
1842–9; The Iliad with notes by J. K. Bailie 1846. _d._ Ardtrea
18 Jany. 1864. _W. B. S. Taylor’s History of the University of
Dublin_ (1845) 497.
KENNELL, JOHN FISHER. _b._ 1817; sec. of London and Blackwall
and London, Tilbury and Southend railway companies before 1866
to death. _d._ Hornton cottage, Hornton st. Kensington 1 Feb.
1881.
KENNETT, BRADELEY. _b._ 1778; entered Bombay army 1795; colonel
22 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 28 Nov. 1854. _d._
Coonor, Neilgherry hills 12 Oct. 1857 aged 79, from wounds
received at hands of an assassin 8 Oct.
KENNETT, EDWARD HOILE. Entered R.N. 15 July 1826, served on
North America and West India stations; lieut. 12 Nov. 1839;
retired commander 3 Jany. 1866; naval knight of Windsor 29 Nov.
1867, governor of the naval knights 15 Aug. 1873 to death;
granted pension of £30, 18 April 1871. _d._ Travers college,
Windsor 11 March 1880.
KENNEY, ARTHUR HENRY (youngest son of Edward Kenney, vicar
choral and prebendary of Cork). _b._ 1776 or 1777; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1793; B.A. 1795, M.A. 1800, B.D.
1806, D.D. 1812; fellow Trinity Monday 1800 to 1809; R. of
Kilmacrenan, Dublin 15 May 1810; dean of Achonry 27 June 1812 to
May 1821 when he resigned; R. of St. Olave, Southwark, London,
July 1821 to death; his living was sequestered about 1844;
resided abroad during last ten years of his life; edited with
his initials Magee’s Discourses on atonement and sacrifice 3
vols. 1832, and The works of W. Magee 1842; published An enquiry
concerning some of the doctrines maintained by the church of
Rome 1818; Principles and practices of pretended reformers in
church and state 1819; Facts and documents illustrative of the
history of the period immediately preceding the accession of
William III. 1827; The dangerous nature of Popish power in these
countries 1839; A comment on the epistles and gospels relating
to our Blessed Saviour 2 vols. 1842. _d._ Boulogne-sur-Mer 27
Jany. 1855.
KENNEY, CHARLES LAMB (son of James Kenney 1780–1849, dramatist).
_b._ Bellevue near Paris 29 April 1821; Charles Lamb was one of
his godfathers; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1829 etc.; clerk
in the general post office 1837; assistant foreign editor,
dramatic critic and scientific reporter on the Times 1840; sec.
to sir Joseph Paxton during organization of transport service
for the Crimea 1855; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1856; sec. to F. De
Lesseps 1856–57; on the Standard 1858; one of the wittiest men
of his time; author of The gates of the East 1857; Memoirs of M.
W. Balfe 1875; adapted more than 20 foreign operas, including
Fair Helen 1866, Princess of Trebizonde 1870, The Grand Duchess
of Gérolstein 1871 and La Jolie Parfumeuse 1875; wrote Wanted
husbands, sketch Drury Lane 1867; Valentine and Orson, pantomime
Holborn 1867; Our autumn manœuvres, farce Adelphi 1871; wrote
The Vagabond 1871 and other songs. _d._ Eldon road, Kensington
25 Aug. 1881. _Illust. sporting and dr. news 3 Sep. 1881 p._
583; _Era 3 Sep. 1881 p._ 6; _I.L.N. 3 Sep. 1881 pp._ 223, 242.
KENNION, CHARLES JOHN (son of Edward Kennion, artist 1744–1809).
_b._ 1789; water-colour painter; exhibited 26 landscapes at R.A.
and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1804–53. _d._ Robert st. Regent’s
park, London 10 Sep. 1853.
KENNION, GEORGE. _b._ 1814; M.D. Edin. 1837; in practice
at Harrogate 1837 to death; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1865; physician
Harrogate Bath hospital; wrote on Bisulphide of carbon as a
cure for the headache in Medical Times 18 July 1868 p. 77;
author of On the medical springs of Harrogate 1845; Observations
on the medicinal springs of Harrogate 1853, 8 ed. 1872. _d._ Oak
lodge, Harrogate, Yorkshire 30 June 1868 aged 54. _Medical Times
18 July 1868 p._ 81–2; _British Medical Journal_, _ii_ 72 (1868).
KENNY, WILLIAM STOPFORD. _b._ 1788; kept a classical school at 5
Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London many years; a good chess player;
translated F. A. Danican Philidor’s Analysis of the game of
chess 1819; author of Practical chess grammar 1817, 2 ed. 1817;
Practical chess exercises 1818; The manual of science 1844;
Why and because, a collection of questions and answers on air,
water, light and fire 1830, 18 ed. 1854; The grammatical omnibus
8 ed. 1853; Kenny’s School geography or earth and heaven 1856
and many other school books. _d._ Lower road, Richmond, Surrey
16 Nov. 1867.
KENRICK, FRANCIS PATRICK. _b._ Dublin 3 Dec. 1797; ordained
a priest in Rome 1821; conducted a theological seminary at
Bardstown, Kentucky, U.S. of America 1821; bishop of Arath;
bishop of Philadelphia 1842; archbishop of Baltimore, Aug. 1851
to death; apostolic delegate, presiding over the first plenary
council of the U.S. of America at Baltimore, May 1852; primate
of the U.S. of America 1859; author of Letters of Omicron to
Omega 1828; The primacy of the apostolic see and the authority
of general councils vindicated 1838, 2 ed. 1845; Theologia
dogmatica 4 vols. 1839–40, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1858; Theologia
moralis 3 vols. 1841–3; Letters on christian union 1841; The
four gospels translated from the Latin vulgate with notes 1849.
_d._ Baltimore 6 July 1863. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 519
(1887), _portrait_.
KENRICK, GEORGE (4 son of rev. Timothy Kenrick 1759–1804,
unitarian commentator). _b._ Exeter 28 Oct. 1792; ed. at Glasgow
coll. and Manchester coll. York; M.A.; unitarian minister
at Chesterfield 1813–14, Hull 1815–21, Maidstone 1822–6,
Hampstead 1829–45 and Battle 1845–7; a trustee of Dr. Williams’s
foundation 1833–60; contributed to the Monthly Repository and
other periodicals, and published some sermons 1822–34. _d._
Tunbridge Wells 2 Dec. 1874. _The Inquirer 12 Dec. 1874 pp._
813–4; _Appendix to rev. G. Kenrick’s farewell discourse at
Hampstead, containing the correspondence which led to his
resignation 1845_, _2 ed._ 1845.
KENRICK, JOHN (brother of the preceding). _b._ Exeter 4
Feb. 1788; ed. at Exeter academy 1799–1805 when academy was
dissolved; studied at Glasgow univ. 1807–10, M.A. 1 May 1810;
tutor in classics, history and literature at Manchester college,
York 1810–40; professor of history, Manchester New college,
Manchester 1840–50; F.S.A. 4 Feb. 1858; author of Exercises on
Latin Syntax 1825, 4 ed. 1838; The Egypt of Herodotus with notes
1841; Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs 2 vols. 1850; Phœnicia
1855; Biblical essays 1864. _d._ 38 Monkgate, York 7 May 1877.
_J. Martineau’s Essays, reviews and addresses_, _i_ 397–421
(1890); _Theological Review_, _July 1877 pp._ 374–97.
KENRICK, TIMOTHY (son of Archibald Kenrick). _b._ 1807; with his
father and brother developed the hollow ware trade, retired; a
founder of the Nurses’ training institution, Birmingham, for
which he purchased a home; a director of Midland railway 1858,
deputy chairman; deputy chairman Lloyds’ Banking co. _d._ Maple
Bank, Edgbaston 23 Feb. 1885. _Birmingham Weekly Post 28 Feb.
1885 p._ 3.
KENSINGTON, WILLIAM EDWARDES, 2 Baron. _b._ 24 April 1777;
succeeded 13 Dec. 1801; M.P. for Haverfordwest 12 Jany. 1802 to
10 June 1818. _d._ 23 Kensington crescent, London 10 Aug. 1852.
_G.M. xxxviii_ 306 (1852).
KENT, MARIA LOUISA VICTORIA, Duchess of (6 child and 4 dau.
of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
1750–1806). _b._ Coburg 17 Aug. 1786. _m._ (1) 21 Dec. 1803
Ernest Charles prince of Leiningen, he was _b._ 27 Sep. 1763
and _d._ 4 July 1814; _m._ (2) at Coburg 29 May 1818 and at
Kew palace 11 July 1818 Edward Augustus duke of Kent and
Streathearn, 5 child and 4 son of King George the third, he
was _b._ 2 Nov. 1767 and _d._ 23 Jany. 1820; mother of queen
Victoria. _d._ of cancer at Frogmore near Windsor 16 March 1861.
_bur._ in royal vault, St. George’s chapel, Windsor 25 March,
but moved to mausoleum at Frogmore 1 Aug. _Jerdan’s National
portrait gallery_, _iv_ (1833), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s
National portrait gallery_, _iv_ 41, _portrait_; _H. Martineau’s
Biographical sketches 4 ed._ (1876) 42–54; _Sams’s Annual
peerage_, _ii_ (1827), _portrait_; _T. Martin’s Life of the
Prince Consort 5 ed. iii_ (1878), _portrait_.
KENT, GEORGE. _b._ Tunbridge Wells 1806; an apprentice to the
wire work trade in Chelsea; a window blind maker, Constitution
row, Gray’s Inn road, London; took out a patent dated 12 June
1844 for a knife cleaning machine; knife cleaning machine
maker at 329 Strand, 218 Regent st. and 101 Holborn to 1854;
manufacturer of labor saving articles of domestic utility at 199
High Holborn 1854 to death; his name has become a household word
all over the civilized world. _d._ Southwood, 72 Southwood lane,
Highgate 23 May 1890.
NOTE.--His eldest son George E. Kent _d._ 12 Manor villas, Theydon
Bois, Essex 30 Jany. 1892 aged 54.
KENT, GEORGE H. _b._ London 1809; reporter on rowing, sailing
matches, pedestrianism, cricket and shooting matches to all the
London daily and weekly papers except The Times and Bell’s Life
from 1826; police reporter at Queen square for the Morning Post
1838. _d._ Brighton 6 June 1883. _The Town 10 March 1838 p._ 323.
KENT, JAMES HENRY. _b._ 1810; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; surgeon
at Stanton near Bury St. Edmunds; famous for his scientific
preparation of medicinal extracts and dried pharmaceutical
herbs, for which he gained medals at great exhibitions of
London 1851, Paris 1855 and New York 1853; author of Remarks on
the injuriousness of the consolidation of small farms and the
benefit of small occupations 1844. _d._ Stanton 22 Oct. 1855.
NOTE.--His elder brother Walton Kent, educ. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’
hospitals; fellow of Obstetrical Soc.; L.S.A. 1827; surgeon at
Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk about 1832–62; carried on the above
business after his brother’s death; author of Essay on lingering or
protracted labour 1828. _d._ Walsham 24 June 1862.
KENTISH, JOHN (only son of John Kentish, draper, _d._ 1814).
_b._ St. Albans 26 June 1768; ed. at Daventry academy 1784–8,
at Hackney college 1788–90; unitarian minister at Plymouth Dock
1790, chapel in George st. opened 27 April 1791; minister of
Treville st. chapel, Plymouth 1794–5; afternoon preacher at
the Gravel Pit, Hackney 1795; morning preacher at St. Thomas’s
chapel, Southward 1802; pastor of New Meeting, Birmingham 23
Jany. 1803 to 1844; author of A Letter to James White on the
unitarian christians in West of England 1794; A vindication
of the principles upon which unitarian christians recommend
their views by the distribution of books 2 ed. 1800; Notes and
comments on passages of scripture 1844, 3 ed. 1848. _d._ Park
Vale, Edgbaston, Birmingham 6 March 1853. _J. Kenrick’s Memoir
of J. Kentish_ (1854), _portrait_.
KENYON, GEORGE KENYON, 2 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron Kenyon
1732–1802). _b._ Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 22 July 1776; ed.
at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1814; succeeded
his father as 2 baron 4 April 1802; barrister M.T. 3 May
1793, bencher 1811 to death, reader 1815, treasurer 1823;
custos brevium of court of queen’s bench 1802–37 when office
was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837; a comr. for
building churches; F.S.A.; a trustee of the Theological seminary
in Ohio 1825; the 77th anniversary of his birthday celebrated
by a public festivity at Hanmer, Flint 22 July 1853; author of
Observations on the Roman Catholic question 1810, 4 ed. 1812.
_d._ Gredington hall, Flintshire 25 Feb. 1855. _bur._ at Hanmer.
_I.L.N. xxiii_ 112, 113 (1853).
KENYON, LLOYD KENYON, 3 Baron. _b._ Gredington hall, Flintshire
1 April 1805; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829;
succeeded 25 Feb. 1855; M.P. for St. Michael’s, Cornwall 1830–2.
_d._ Eastbourne, Sussex 14 July 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog.
ii_ 87 (1869).
KENYON, JOHN (son of Mr. Kenyon of parish of Trelawney, Jamaica,
sugar planter). _b._ parish of Trelawney, Jamaica 1784; ed. at
Sawyer’s school, Bristol, the Charterhouse, London, and Peter
house, Camb. 1808; studied chemistry under W. Nicholson in Soho
square; friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, C. Lamb and
other literary celebrities; a well known gastronome; published
Rhymed plea for tolerance 1833, 2 ed. 1839; Poems for the most
part occasional 1838; A day at Tivoli with other verses 1849.
_d._ Cowes, Isle of Wight 3 Dec. 1856. _bur._ in Lewisham
churchyard. _G.M. ii_ 309–15 (1857).
NOTE.--Browning sent him the poem Andrea del Sarto from Florence, and
in 1856 while staying in his house in England Mrs. Browning finished
Aurora Leigh and dedicated it to Kenyon. He left by his will 80
legacies to 80 of his literary friends, the poets included were Robert
Browning £6,500, Mrs. Browning £4000, B. W. Procter known as Barry
Cornwall £6500.
KENYON, JOHN ROBERT (3 son of succeeding). _b._ 13 Jany. 1807;
ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, B.C.L. 1831,
D.C.L. 1836; fellow of All Souls 1828; barrister M.T. May 1834;
judge and assessor of chancellor’s court of univ. of Oxf. Nov.
1840 to Nov. 1859; recorder of Oswestry 1 June 1842 to death;
Vinerian prof. of common law in univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1843 to
death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1862; bencher of his inn 19 Nov. 1862 to
death, treasurer 1874; chairman of Shropshire quarter sessions
March 1871. _d._ The Pradoe, Erdiston, West Felton, Shropshire
17 April 1880. _Law Times_, _lxix_ 34 (1880).
KENYON, Thomas (youngest son of 1 baron Kenyon 1732–1802). _b._
27 Sep. 1780; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1801; filazer, exigenter
and clerk of the outlawries office in the Inner Temple 1807–37
when office was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837;
chairman of court of quarter sessions, Shropshire 1830 or 1831
to 1850. _d._ The Pradoe, co. Salop 4 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_
649–51 (1851).
KEOGH, WILLIAM NICHOLAS (eld. son of William M. Keogh of Corkip,
co. Roscommon, clerk of the crown for the city and co. of
Kilkenny, _d._ July 1865). _b._ Gardiner st. Dublin 7 Dec. 1817;
ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., LL.D. 1866; called to bar in Ireland
1840, went the Connaught circuit; M.P. for Athlone Aug. 1847 to
Feb. 1856; Q.C. 23 May 1850; solicitor gen. for Ireland, Dec.
1852 to March 1855, attorney gen. March 1855 to Feb. 1856; P.C.
Ireland 1855; justice of the common pleas March 1856, of the
common pleas division 1 Jany. 1878 to death; with Mr. Justice
Fitzgerald tried the Fenian prisoners 1865; tried the Galway
county election petition 1872 and henceforth was denounced by
the Roman Catholics and went in fear of his life; author of
Ireland under Lord de Grey 1844; Ireland imperialised; Milton’s
prose, a lecture 1863; with M. J. Barry A treatise on the
practice of the court of chancery in Ireland 1840. _d._ Bingen
on the Rhine 30 Sep. 1878. _bur._ cemetery of R.C. ch. at Bonn 3
Oct. _Sullivan’s New Ireland_ (1877) _i_ 331–53; _O. J. Burke’s
Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885) 255–60; _Law mag. and law
review_, _iv_ 62–72 (1878); _Irish Law times_, _xii_ 498–500
(1878); _I.L.N. xvi_ 261 (1850), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _vi_ 90,
95 (1872), _portrait_.
KEON, MYLES GERALD (only son of Myles Gerald Keon, barrister,
_d._ 1824). _b._ Keonbrooke, co. Leitrim 20 Feb. 1821; ed.
at Stonyhurst 8 years; served in French army in Algeria a
short time; student at Gray’s Inn, admitted 11 Nov. 1840;
edited Dolman’s Magazine, April to Nov. 1846; on the staff of
the Morning Post 1847–58, went as its representative to St.
Petersburgh 1850 and 1856; colonial secretary at Bermuda, March
1859 to death; author of The life of the Roman patrician Alexis
1847; a novel called Harding the Money-Spinner, in the London
Journal 1852 published in 3 vols. 1879; Dion and the Sibyls, a
romance of the first century 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. New York 1871.
_d._ Bermuda 3 June 1875. _Stonyhurst Mag. March and June 1886_;
_Boucher de Perthes’ Voyage en Russie en 1856_ (1859), _passim_.
KER, ALAN. _b._ 1820; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; attorney
general of Antigua 1851–54; chief justice of Nevis 1854–6; chief
justice of Dominica 1856–61; puisne judge of supreme court of
Jamaica 1861 to death; author of Remarks on the representative
system as illustrated by the defeat of Mr. Macaulay at Edinburgh
1847. _d._ Kingston, Jamaica 20 March 1885.
KER, CHARLES HENRY BELLENDEN (son of John Bellenden Ker,
botanist 1765–1842). _b._ about 1785; barrister L.I. 28 June
1814; a member of the boundary commission 1830–2, of the public
records commission, of the criminal and statute law commission
1833; head of the board to consider consolidation of statute law
1853 and of the royal commission on same subject 1854; suggested
and prepared the Leases and Sales of settled estates act 1856
and Lord Cranworth’s act 1860; conveyancing counsel to court of
chancery 1852–60; recorder of Andover 1842 to July 1855; one of
the first private growers of orchids; wrote a series of articles
in the Gardeners’ Chronicle under the pseudonym ‘Dodman’; F.R.S.
to 1831; lived at Cannes 1860 to death; author of The question
of registry or no registry considered, with reference to the
interests of landholders 1830; Shall we register our deeds?
1853. _d._ Cannes 2 Nov. 1871.
KER, DAVID STEWART (only son of David Ker of Montalto, co.
Down). _b._ 5 Nov. 1816; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841; M.P.
co. Down 1852–57; M.P. Downpatrick 1859–67. _d._ Crawfordsburn 8
Oct. 1878.
KER, JOHN. _b._ farmhouse of Bield, parish of Tweedsmuir,
Peebleshire 7 April 1819; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.;
entered divinity hall of united secession church 1838; minister
of Clayport st. ch. Alnwick, Feb. 1845, of East Campbell st.
ch. Glasgow 19 March 1851, removed to a new ch. in Sydney
place 28 Nov. 1857; his health broke down May 1858, spent many
winters abroad, resumed work 1872; D.D. Edin. 1869; professor
of practical training in theological hall of his church 1876
to death; author of The psalms in history and biography 1886;
Scottish nationality and other papers 1887; Lectures on the
history of preaching 2 ed. 1888. _d._ Hermitage, Murrayfield,
Edinburgh 4 Oct. 1886. _United Presbyterian Mag. Nov. 1886 pp._
485–89 _and Dec. pp._ 534–40; _John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy
3rd Series_ (1851) 272–80.
KERFERD, GEORGE BRISCOE (eld. son of Joseph Kerferd of
Liverpool, merchant). _b._ Liverpool 1831; emigrated to Victoria
1852, a territorial magistrate 1856, carried on a large business
in Beechwood, mayor 4 times; member for the Oven’s district of
legislative assembly of Victoria 1864 to Dec. 1885; minister of
mines and vice pres. of board of lands and works 1866–68; called
to bar in Victoria 12 Dec. 1867; solicitor general 10 June 1872
to April 1874, attorney general 2 May 1874 to 7 Aug. 1875 and
20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877, premier 31 July 1874 to 7 Aug.
1875; a judge of supreme court of Victoria, Dec. 1885 to death;
edited with Mr. Box, Digest of all decisions of supreme court of
Victoria 1846–71. _d._ Sorrento, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1889.
KERFOOT, JOHN BARRETT. _b._ Dublin 1 March 1816; taken to U.S.
America 1819; ordained protestant episcopal minister 1837;
master of St. James’ hall, Maryland and then of the college of
St. James 1842–64; president of Trinity coll.; first bishop of
Pittsburg, consecrated 25 Jany. 1866; attended first and second
conferences at Lambeth 1875, and the Old Catholic conference
Bonn 1875; D.D. of Columbia coll. 1850, and of Trinity 1865;
LLD. of Camb. 1867. _d._ Meyersdale, Pennsylvania 10 July 1881.
_Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 524 (1887), _portrait_; _H. G.
Batterson’s Sketch book of American episcopate_ (1878) 219.
KERR, ROBERT. _b._ 1806; entered navy 2 Dec. 1819, captain 1
Jany. 1850, retired R.A. 6 April 1866, retired admiral 21 March
1878. _d._ 14 Suffolk sq. Cheltenham 29 Oct. 1886.
KERR, WALTER MONTAGU (3 son of lord Charles Lennox Kerr _b._
1814, capt. 42 regt.) _b._ June 1852; made a journey from Cape
of Good Hope by the Zambesi to Lake Nyassa 1885; left England
intending to cross Africa from Zanzibar and to visit Emin Pasha
1887, when at Mombassa ready to start fell ill of fever; author
of The far interior, a narrative of travel and adventure from
the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the lake regions of
Central Africa 2 vols. 1886. _d._ South of France 23 April 1888.
KERRICK, RICHARD EDWARD. Ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., 7 senior optime
and B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, ordained 1830; F.S.A. 11 March 1830,
gave to the society 3 portraits and a collection of 4000 coins,
chiefly Roman 22 Nov. 1849. _d._ 13 Free school lane, Cambridge
13 May 1872.
KERRISON, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (only son of Matthias Kerrison
1742–1827). _b._ Hexney hall near Bungay 30 July 1776; cornet
6 dragoons 23 June 1796; lieut. col. 7 dragoons 4 April 1805
to 28 Sep. 1826; col. of 14 light dragoons 18 June 1830 to
death; served in the Helder expedition 1799, in Spain, and at
Waterloo; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 22 June 1815; baronet by
patent dated 27 July 1821; K.C.H. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.H. 1831;
K.C.B. 18 July 1840; M.P. Shaftesbury 1812–18; M.P. Northampton
1818–24; M.P. Eye 1824–52. _m._ 20 Oct. 1813 Mary Martha dau. of
Alexander Ellice of Pittencreff, Fife. _d._ 13 Great Stanhope
st. London 9 March 1853. _I.L.N. xxii_ 227, 323 (1853); _Burke’s
Portrait gallery_, _ii_ 131 (1833), _portrait of lady Kerrison_.
KERRISON, SIR EDWARD CLARENCE, 2 Baronet (1 son of preceding).
_b._ The Wick, Brighton 2 Jany. 1821; M.P. Eye 1852–66; M.P.
East Suffolk 1866–67; steward of H.M. manor of Northstead, York;
succeeded 9 March 1853; a great friend of the agricultural
labourers; established the Thorndown reformatory; instrumental
in erecting Albert memorial coll. Framlingham; took part in
laying down Mellis and Eye railway; president of R. Agricultural
soc. at Plymouth 1865; a good shot, a good coachman; master of
Norfolk hounds 1869. _d._ Brome hall, Scole, Norfolk 12 July
1886. _Baily’s Mag. xxiv_ 125–6 (1874), _portrait_; _Public men
of Ipswich_ (1875) 35–42.
KERRY, ELIZABETH. Her husband died 179-; lived with her dau.
at Needham Market, Suffolk; received many presents on her
birthdays; living Oct. 1859 aged 105. _I.L.N. xxxv_ 358 (1859),
_portrait_.
KERSHAW, JAMES (son of T. Kershaw a working man). _b._
Manchester 1795; clerk in firm of Lees, Millington & Cullender,
cotton spinners, Manchester 1811, became a partner, afterwards
head of firm of Kershaw, Lees and Sidebottom; set the Mersey
mills at Stockport to work employing 1200 hands 1842; member
of council of anti-corn law league 1838; instrumental in
obtaining municipal franchise for Manchester 1838; mayor of
Manchester 1842–43; M.P. Stockport 1847 to death. _d._ the Manor
house, Streatham, Surrey 27 April 1864, personalty sworn under
£300,000, 16 July 1864. _I.L.N. xvi_ 213 (1850), _portrait_.
KERSHAW, JOHN (3 son of William Kershaw, shoemaker). _b._
Lower Fold, Healey, parish of Rochdale 25 Aug. 1792; baptized
24 May 1809, preached his first sermon 9 Jany. 1814; minister
of Hope st. Baptist chapel, Rochdale 1817 to death; the means
of establishing chapels at Bacup and Goodshaw; celebrated his
jubilee at Hope chapel 6 March 1867 when he was presented with
£325; a well known preacher in London, Manchester, &c.; author
of A protest against the doctrine that a child of God cannot
backslide 1848. _d._ Rochdale 11 Jany. 1870. _The Rochdale
Observer 15 Jany. 1870 p._ 4, _22 Jany. p._ 5; _Memorials, being
the autobiography of J. Kershaw_ (1870).
KERSHAW, JOHN. _b._ Liverpool 24 Dec. 1816; a member of
Unitarian body to 1837; ordained a R.C. priest 1840, missioner
at Neston, Cheshire 1843; priest at Barton-on-Irwell 1844
to death; domestic prelate to the Pope 1879 with title of
Monseignor; canon and rural dean of diocese of Salford. _d._ All
Saints’, Barton 31 May 1890. _Tablet 7 June 1890 p._ 904.
KERSLAKE, THOMAS. _b._ Exeter, July 1812; second-hand bookseller
with his brother-in-law Samuel Cornish in Barton alley, Bristol
1830–9, alone at Park st. 1839–70; he acquired a reputation as
a bookseller that has been eclipsed only by B. Quaritch, his
catalogues were literary curiosities; collected antiquarian
and archæological books, many of which were destroyed in a
fire 1860; author of The word ‘Metropolis.’ The ancient word
Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Bristol and Fossil Taunton. Three
essays. Bristol 1880; Traces of the ancient kingdom of Damnonia
outside Cornwall in remains of Celtic hagiology 1878; Vestiges
of the supremacy of Mercia in the south of England 1878. _d._
Wynfred, Clevedon 5 Jany. 1891. _Index catalogue of the Somerset
archæological society library, Taunton_ (1889) _p._ 99; _N. and
Q. 3 Ser. ix_ 193, 398 (1866); _Athenæum 10 Jany. 1891 p._ 53.
KESSLER, FERDINAND MOZART. _b._ 1849; subconductor of music
North Woolwich gardens; musical director and conductor at
Brighton theatre 1872 to death; composer of I have wandered by
the crystal stream, ballad 1877; The château Florence, polka
1879; Love’s impulse, a song 1879; The outpost, a march for the
pianoforte 1884. _d._ Brighton 4 June 1888.
KESSON, JOHN. _b._ Aberdeen; private sec. to Joseph Hume,
M.P.; a transcriber on the catalogue of the British Museum
1838, retired 1857; a French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch,
Swedish, Danish and Icelandic scholar; contributed to the
Critic, Literary Gazette and New Quarterly Review, and was
editor of last numbers of each of these publications in 1863,
1862 and 1862; resided in Paris as a newspaper correspondent
1857 &c.; employed at South Kensington museum in preparing the
Universal catalogue of books on art 1869; compiled A catalogue
of the Dyce books in the South Kensington museum 1875; editor
of Travels in Scotland, by J. G. Kohl, a translation 1844; The
childhood of king Erik Menved, by S. B. Ingemann, a translation
1846; author of The cross and the dragon, or the fortunes of
christianity in China 1854; with R. T. Scott, A complete guide
to the British museum 1843. _d._ 1876. _Cowtan’s Memories of
British museum_ (1872) 311–16.
KESTEVEN, JOHN TROLLOPE, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir John Trollope
6 baronet 1766–1820). _b._ Casewick house, Stamford 8 May 1800;
ed. at Eton; cornet 10 hussars 10 July 1817; succeeded his
father 28 April 1820; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1825; chairman of
Lincolnshire quarter sessions; M.P. South Lincolnshire 1841–68;
president of poor law board for England 3 March 1852 to 31 Dec.
1852; P.C. 5 March 1852; master of Cottesmore hounds 1855–69;
created baron Kesteven of Casewick, co. Lincoln 15 April 1868.
_d._ 6 Cavendish sq. London 17 Dec. 1874. _I.L.N. xxi_ 459
(1852), _portrait_, _lxvi_ 22, 115 (1875).
KETCHEN, JAMES. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1806, colonel 26
March 1844 to death; L.G. 12 Oct. 1857. _d._ Kingillie, Nairn 8
June 1862.
KETTLE, JOHN LUCENA ROSS (eld. son of John Kettle of Overseale,
co. Leicester). _b._ Overseale 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury and Ex.
coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.C.L. 1838; exhibitioner of
Lincoln coll. 1831–6, fellow 1836 to death; barrister L.I. 29
Jany. 1840; practised as conveyancer in New square; author of
Letter to rev. James Thompson on proceedings at Lincoln college
on election of rector 1851; Letter to the rev. T. E. Espin on
close fellowships at Oxford 1851. _d._ Old Government house,
Guernsey 27 Jany. 1872. _Law Times_, _lii_ 279, 301, 375 (1872).
KETTLE, ROBERT (son of a farmer). _b._ in village of Kintillo
at foot of the Ochill hills, Forfar 18 Dec. 1761; a weaver
at Perth; in W. Kelly & Co.’s cotton mill, Glasgow 1815–29;
president of Glasgow abstinence soc. 1831–46; president of
Scottish temperance union 1838; editor Scottish Temperance
journal 1 Jany. 1839; left the Presbyterian ch. and joined the
Baptists 1834; took part in formation of Evangelical Alliance
1845; president of Scottish Temperance league 1848; author of
Compulsoryism and endowments exposed. Glasgow 1837. _d._ Glasgow
23 March 1852. _Temperance memorials of Robert Kettle_ (1854),
_memoir pp. ix–xcvi_; _S. Couling’s History of temperance
movement_ (1862) 136, 318–19.
KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (2 son of Charles Aston Key, surgeon
1793–1849). _b._ 18 Jany. 1821; entered navy 2 Aug. 1835;
captain 11 Oct. 1850; commanded the Amphion frigate in the
Baltic 1854–5; commanded a battalion of naval brigade at capture
of Canton 28–9 Dec. 1857, arrested Yeh the Chinese governor
Jany. 1858; member of royal commission on national defence
1858–60; captain of the Excellent and superintendent of royal
naval college 1863–6; R.A. 20 Nov. 1866; director general of
naval ordnance 1866–9; superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard
1869–70 and of Malta dockyard 1870–72; planned Royal naval
college, Greenwich, opened Feb. 1873, pres. Dec. 1872 to Jany.
1876; commander-in-chief on North American and West Indian
station Dec. 1875 to May 1878; admiral 21 March 1878, retired 18
Jany. 1886; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 1878–86; first
naval lord of the admiralty 1879–85; granted special pension of
£500 a year 1885; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873, G.C.B.
24 Nov. 1882; P.C. 11 Aug. 1884; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; D.C.L. Oxf.
1880; author of A narrative of the recovery of H.M.S. Gorgon
stranded in the bay of Monte Video 10 May 1844. 1847. _d._
Laggan house, North Town, Maidenhead 3 March 1888, portrait in
library of royal naval college 1876. _Proc. of Royal Soc. xliii
pp. ix–xi_ (1888).
KEY, GEORGE WILLIAM. _b._ 6 Feb. 1812; cornet 16 lancers 5 July
1831; lieut. 15 hussars 1834, lieut. col. 9 Feb. 1847 to 23 Sep.
1859 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general cavalry brigade,
Curragh 1861–6; col. of 11 hussars 29 March 1868, and 15 hussars
19 Nov. 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired
list 1 July 1881. _d._ the Manor house, Coates near Cirencester
20 Aug. 1883.
KEY, HENRY COOPER (eld. son of Charles Aston Key, surgeon
1793–1849). _b._ London 1819; ed. at private schools and Ch. Ch.
Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; R. of Stretton, Sugwas, Hereford
1846 to death; invented method of grinding glass mirrors for
Newtonian reflectors; discovered remarkable depression in the
moon’s surface which has been named after him; F.R.A.S. 9 Nov.
1860. _d._ Stretton rectory 25 Dec. 1879. _Monthly notices of
Royal Astronom. Soc. xl_ 199 (1880).
KEY, SIR JOHN (eld. son of John Key of Denmark hill, Surrey,
_d._ 28 Aug. 1821). _b._ 16 Aug. 1794; wholesale stationer
97 and 103 Newgate st. London; alderman for Langbourn ward 8
April 1823, and for Bridge without 1851 to 7 June 1853 when
he resigned; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1824; master of
Stationers’ Co. 1830; lord mayor 1830 and 1831; baronet by
patent dated 17 Aug. 1831; chamberlain of city of London 30 May
1853 to death; M.P. city of London 12 Dec. 1832 to Aug. 1833.
_d._ Streatham, Surrey 15 July 1858. _London’s Roll of fame_
(1884) 209, _portrait_.
NOTE.--He was one of the leading supporters of the reform bill in the
city, and was re-elected lord mayor in 1831 as an expression in favour
of reform upon the part of the city.
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).
NOTE.--His dau. Miss S. L. Kilpack exhibited 2 sea pictures at the
British Institution in 1867.
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_.
NOTE.--The staple articles in the dye works were cudbear and archil,
extracted from seaweed imported from Sweden and Peru, used in colouring
woollens and silks crimson and purple, the new modern brilliant dyes
ruined this business.
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.
NOTE.--The four Earls of Kingston died in less than 4½ years.
KINGSTON, ALFRED. _b._ 1829; junior clerk in public record
office, London 23 May 1844, an assistant keeper of records 27
July 1875 to death; hon. sec. to Camden society Dec. 1872 to
death. _d._ 12 Chancery lane, London 24 April 1885.
KINGSTON, GEORGE TEMPLEMAN. _b._ 1817; ed. at Caius coll.
Camb., 1 class mathematics and B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; professor
of meteorology Univ. coll. Toronto; director of magnetical
observatory, Toronto 1855; author of Abstracts of magnetical
observations. Toronto 1863; and many papers in Canadian Journal
on meteorology, temperature, the winds, electricity, magnetism,
etc. 1855–63. _d._ Toronto 21 Jany. 1886.
KINGSTON, WILLIAM HENRY GILES (eld. son of Lucy Henry Kingston
of Oporto). _b._ Harley st. London 28 Feb. 1814; lived in
Oporto many years; entered his father’s business at Oporto;
wrote newspaper articles on Portugal, for which he received
an order of Portuguese knighthood and a pension from Donna
Maria da Gloria; edited The Colonist, London 1844, two numbers
only; The Colonial Mag. and East India review, vols. 16 to 23,
1849–51; Kingstone’s Magazine for boys, vols. 1 to 4, 1859–63,
and with G. A. Henty The Union Jack, tales for boys, vol. 1,
1880; lectured on colonization 1849; promoted an improved
system of emigration and was hon. sec. of a colonisation soc.;
sent by emigration commissioners to visit north of Scotland;
originated Soc. for Improvement of religious and moral condition
of seamen; a great traveller and a yachtsman; author of The
Circassian chief 1844; Peter the whaler 1850, his first book
for boys; Western wanderings, a Canadian tour 1856; The cruise
of the Frolic 1860; The three midshipmen 1873; Eldol the Druid
1874; The three lieutenants 1875; The three commanders 1876;
Popular history of the navy 1876; Half hours with the kings and
queens of England 1876; The three admirals 1878; Kidnapping in
the Pacific 1879; A yacht voyage round England 1879; Adventures
in the far West 1881; Mungo Park’s travels 1886; his original
writings, translations, etc. occupy 180 volumes, some of which
went to many editions. _d._ Stormont lodge, Willesden near
London 5 Aug. 1880. _Boys’ Own Paper 11 Sep. 1880 pp._ 796–97,
_portrait_; _James Braithwaite, by W. H. G. Kingston_ (1882),
_memoir pp. v–ix_, _portrait_.
KINKEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED. _b._ Obercassel near Bonn 15 Aug.
1815; poet; professor at univ. Bonn 1845, took part in
revolution of 1848, imprisoned at Spandau, escaped and fled
to England Nov. 1850; examiner in German language at univ.
of London 1851–66; lectured on the modern drama 28 April
1851; founded a German journal in London, Hermann Deutsches
Wochenblatt aus London, edited it 8 Jany. 1859 to 1869;
professor of archæology in polytechnikum, Zurich 1866 to death;
author of Festrede bei der Schillerfeier in Krystallpalast.
London 1859; Lecture on physical geography and its application
to the teaching of geography in schools, delivered in Science
and Art Department, London 1860; and about 50 other works
printed at Basle, Bonn, Berlin, Cologne, Essen, Hamburg,
Hanover, Leipsic, Stuttgard, Vienna and Zurich 1841–79. _d._
Zurich 13 Nov. 1882. _m._ Johanna Mockel who _d._ London 15 Nov.
1858, she was the author of Hans Ibeles in London, Stuttgard
2 vols. 1860, and of Twelve stories of earth, air and water,
printed in Mama’s Stories, London 1872 pp. 133–75, she was also
a musical composer.
KINLESIDE, ROBERT RAIKES. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 28 Sep.
1827, colonel R.A. 18 Feb. 1861 to death; M.G. 14 July 1867.
_d._ Landour near Mussouree 27 Aug. 1871.
KINLOCK, ALFRED (6 son of James Kinlock of Brunswick sq.
London). _b._ 10 Feb. 1819; ed. at Rugby 1833–7, captain of
the school, at Oriel coll. and St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1842;
assistant chaplain Madras army 1846; chaplain to the staff of
the division of troops under sir G. C. Whitlock which captured
town of Banda 20 April 1858 and town of Kirwee 6 June 1858 with
property of the estimated value of 7,000,000 rupees; brought
an action 15 May 1879 against the secretary of state for India
on behalf of himself and all other persons entitled to share
in the booty under royal grant dated 10 June 1864, after much
litigation the House of Lords decided against him 19 May 1882,
he then presented a petition of right to the Queen but the Court
of Appeal again decided against him 21 March 1884; author of The
Kirwee prize fight in various aspects, or great wars and little
jars, to which is added a letter to a ghost 1866; The Duke’s
Wink, or prize-money defalcations. By Tom Brown Agonistes.
Tunbridge Wells 1884, and of other pamphlets relating to the
Banda and Kirwee booty; wrote the historical part pp. 1–151 of
St. John Colbran’s Guide to Tunbridge Wells 2nd ed. 1884. _d._
31 Monson terrace, Tunbridge Wells 27 March 1890. _Banda and
Kirwee Booty 10 vols. of parliamentary papers_ 1865–66 _folio_.
KINLOCK, SIR GEORGE, 1 Baronet (eld. son of George Kinlock of
Kinlock, Meigle, Perthshire, M.P. Dundee, _d._ 28 March 1833
aged 58). _b._ Kinlock house 13 Oct. 1800; ed. at univ. of
Edin.; advocate 1823; cr. baronet 16 April 1873. _d._ Kinlock
house 17 June 1881.
KINLOCK, GEORGE RITCHIE. _b._ Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 1797
or 1798; clerk to 3 successive advocates depute; assistant
keeper of register of deeds in Register house, Edinburgh
1842, keeper 1851–69; author of The ballad book, edited with
a Biographia Lesleyana 1827; Ancient Scottish ballads 1827;
Reliquiæ antiquæ Scoticæ 1848; edited for the Maitland club, A.
Pitcairne’s Babell, a satirical poem 1830, and The diary of Mr.
John Lamont of Newton 1649–1671, 1830. _d._ West Coates villa,
Edinburgh 21 April 1877.
KINNAIRD, GEORGE WILLIAM FOX KINNAIRD, 9 Baron (eld. son of 8
baron Kinnaird 1780–1826). _b._ Drimmie house, Perthshire 14
April 1807; educ. at Eton; cornet 1 life guards 24 Nov. 1825,
lieut. 18 Feb. 1828, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1831; succeeded as
9 baron Kinnaird 11 Dec. 1826; grand master of the Freemasons
of Scotland 1830–1; cr. a peer of the United Kingdom as baron
Rossie of Rossie, co. Perth 11 June 1831; cr. baron Kinnaird
of Rossie, Perth 1 Sep. 1860; master of the buckhounds 21
Dec. 1839, resigned Sep. 1841; P.C. 15 June 1840; K.T. 6
July 1857; lord lieut. of Perthshire 14 March 1866 to death,
sheriff principal 28 Feb. 1866; made excavations near Rome,
the antiquities discovered are at Rossie priory; the first to
introduce steam ploughs, threshing machines and ‘roadsters’
into the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire; chief promoter of the
Forbes Mackenzie act in Scotland 1853; chairman of the royal
commission on metalliferous mines; introduced the game of
cricket into Scotland; author of Profitable investment of
capital or 11 years practical experience in farming. Dundee
1849; Rinderpest or the treatment of cattle 1866, 2 ed. 1866;
The new mint buildings, a letter to P. H. Muntz esq. 1871; The
royal mint, altered returns presented to parliament 1871; The
royal mint, treatment of brittle gold, new buildings and the
copper account 1871. _d._ Rossie priory, Inchture, Perthshire 7
Jany. 1878. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 445–48.
KINNAIRD, ARTHUR FITZGERALD KINNAIRD, 10 Baron (3 son of 8 baron
Kinnaird 1780–1826). _b._ Rossie priory, Perthshire 8 July
1814; ed. at Eton; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburg 1835–7;
private sec. to the earl of Durham; partner in bank of Ransom &
Co. 1 & 2 Pall Mall East, London 1837, head of the firm, which
became Ransom, Bouverie & Co. 1856; M.P. Perth 1837–9 and 1852
to 7 Jany. 1878 when he succeeded his brother; well known as a
philanthropist and an attendant at the May meetings; considered
the successor to lord Shaftesbury; F.R.G.S.; author of Bengal,
its landed tenure and police system 1857. _d._ 2 Pall Mall East,
London 26 April 1887. _Fraser’s Mary Jane Kinnaird_ (1890),
_portrait_; _Dundee Year Book_ (1887) 42.
KINNAIRD, MARY JANE KINNAIRD, Baroness (dau. of William
Henry Hoare of London, banker). _b._ Blatherwick park,
Northamptonshire 14 March 1816; instituted St. John’s training
school for domestic servants 1841; edited a vol. of Servants’
Prayers 1848; associated with lady Canning in sending nurses to
the Crimea 1854–5; founder of London Young women’s christian
association and helped to found numerous other charitable
societies. (_m._ 28 June 1843 the preceding). _d._ Plaistow
lodge near Bromley, Kent 1 Dec. 1888. _Fraser’s Mary Jane
Kinnaird_ (1890), _portrait_.
KINNEAR, DAVID. _b._ Edinburgh about 1807; an advocate but
never practised; engaged in commerce in London; went to U.S. of
America 1835, a farmer at Drummondville, Lower Canada; bore arms
against the insurgents during rebellion of 1837, stipendiary
magistrate in charge of the police force organized to restore
order; editor of the Montreal Gazette; a partner in the Herald
newspaper of Montreal, senior partner in and editor of the
Herald to death. _d._ Montreal 20 Nov. 1862. _H. J. Morgan’s
Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 212.
KINNEAR, SARAH HARRIET (only child of George Frith of Worksop,
Notts., surgeon, _d._ 1832). Made her first appearance on the
stage at Brighton as Beatrice in Much ado about nothing, Sep.
1846; assumed stage name of Frankland; leading lady at T.R.
Birmingham and at T.R. Edinburgh 1849–51; played at Princess’
theatre, London 1851–52 when she made her last appearance
on the stage as Portia in the Merchant of Venice. (_m._ at
Stockton-upon-Tees 12 Aug. 1852 John Boyd Kinnear of Kinnear,
Fifeshire). _d._ Norwood, Surrey 1 June 1866. _bur._ ch. yard of
Collessie, Fifeshire.
KINNIS, JOHN. _b._ 1794 or 1795; hospital assistant in the army
16 June 1815; surgeon 90 foot 22 June 1838; deputy inspector
general 25 June 1847; F.R.S. Edin.; author of A report on
small-pox as it appeared in Ceylon. Colombo 1835; A letter to
the inhabitants of Ceylon on vaccination 1837; Observations on
tubercular elephantiasis 1842. _d._ Edinburgh 18 Aug. 1853.
KINNOUL, THOMAS ROBERT DRUMMOND HAY, 10 Earl of (only son of 9
Earl of Kinnoul 1751–1804). _b._ 5 April 1785; styled viscount
Duplin 1787–1804; ed. at Westminster; succeeded 12 April
1804; Lord Lyon king of arms 12 April 1804 to death; col. of
royal Perthshire militia 1809 to 30 Oct. 1855; lord lieut. of
Perthshire 1830 to death. _d._ St. Clair, Torquay 18 Feb. 1866.
_bur_. at Aberdalgie 26 Feb.
KINSELLA, THOMAS. _b._ Ireland 1832; a printer in U.S. of
America; editor of the Eagle at Brooklyn, New York 1861;
postmaster of Brooklyn 1866; member of congress 1871–73;
president of the Faust soc. _d._ Brooklyn 11 Feb. 1884.
_Appleton’s American biography_, _iii_ 552 (1887).
KINSEY, WILLIAM MORGAN (son of Robert Morgan Kinsey of
Abergavenny). _b._ Abergavenny 1788 or 1789; scholar of Trin.
coll. Oxf. 1812–15, fellow 1815–44, dean 1822, V.P. 1823, bursar
1824; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1822, proctor of univ. 1821;
chaplain to lord Auckland; one of ministers of St. John’s ch.
Cheltenham to Jany. 1842; R. of Rotherfield Greys, Oxon. 1843
to death; author of Portugal illustrated 1828, 2 ed. 1829;
contributed Random recollections of a visit to Walton hall the
seat of Charles Waterton esq., to Gentleman’s Magazine, Jany.
1848 pp. 33–39. _d._ Rotherfield Greys rectory 6 April 1851.
_G.M. xxxvi_ 95 (1851).
KINTORE, FRANCIS ALEXANDER KEITH-FALCONER, 8 Earl of. _b._
Wadley house, Berks. 7 June 1828; succeeded 11 July 1844; lord
lieut. of Kincardineshire 28 May 1856 and of Aberdeenshire 12
Jany. 1864. _d._ 22 Mansfield st. Marylebone, London 18 July
1880. _bur._ Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 24 July.
KIPPIST, RICHARD. _b._ Stoke Newington, London 11 June 1812;
travelled with Joseph Woods the architect and botanist, and
helped to compile his Tourist’s Flora; entered service of the
Linnæan Society 1830, librarian 1842–81; A.L.S. _d._ 12 Burnaby
st. King’s road, Chelsea 14 Jany. 1882. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._
(1881–2) 64–5.
KIRBY, ELIZABETH (youngest child of John Kirby, manufacturer).
_b._ Southgate st. Leicester 15 Dec. 1823; author with her
sister Mary Kirby (Mrs. Gregg) of 22 books for children
including The discontented children 1855; Caterpillars,
butterflies and moths 1857; The Italian goldsmith, or the story
of Cellini 1861, 2 ed. 1875; Chapters on Trees 1873; Sketches
of insect life 1874. _d._ Melton Mowbray 23 June 1873. _bur._
Brooksby ch. yard 30 June. _Mary Kirby’s Leaflets from my life_
(1887) 232.
KIRBY, JOHN. Ed. at Dublin univ., B.A. 1805, LL.B. and LL.D.
1832; F.R.C.S.I. and professor of practice of physic there;
surgeon St. Peter’s and St. Bridget’s hospital, Dublin, and
lecturer on anatomy and surgery there; consulting surgeon Coombe
st. Lying-in hospital; author of Observations on the treatment
of hemorrhoidal excrescences 1817; Additional observations on
hemorrhoidal excrescences 1825. _d._ Newton house, Rathfarnham,
co. Dublin 26 May 1853.
KIRBY, JOSHUA HENRY. Ensign 34 foot 10 Aug. 1838; lieut. 86 foot
8 April 1842, major 1 June 1860; major 68 foot 23 April 1861,
lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to death; brigadier general Bombay
12 Oct. 1874 to death; colonel in the army 10 Nov. 1874. _d._
Belgaum, Bombay 30 June 1877.
KIRBY, SIR RICHARD CHARLES. _b._ 1788; junior clerk in office of
sec.-at-war March 1804, senior clerk Sep. 1826, chief examiner
of accounts July 1849, retired from the service Jany. 1856;
reappointed as accountant general of the army Nov. 1856, retired
Aug. 1860 on full pay of £1500 a year; C.B. 20 Dec. 1858;
knighted at St. James’ palace 14 Feb. 1861. _d._ at the Rock,
Reigate hill, Surrey 6 Oct. 1867.
KIRBY, STEPHEN. _b._ 1782; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug. 1799, lieut.
col. R.A. 20 July 1834 to 17 Aug. 1843 when he retired on full
pay; L.G. 4 Feb. 1857. _d._ Claydon near Ipswich 22 Dec. 1857.
KIRBY, THOMAS. _b._ Osbaldwick near York, Aug. 1770; went to
Russia with a cargo of horses 1791; in the service of count
Poltrowsky, in charge of 100 mares; with Primrose won a £50
plate at Chesterfield 29 Aug. 1804; a breeder of horses from
1804; in 1821 eight horses carrying his colours chocolate and
white cap were racing; sold General Chasse to Nicholas emperor
of Russia for 2250 guineas and Van Tromp for 2000 guineas;
consulted by the government about shipping the horses to the
Crimea in 1854. _d._ York, Feb. 1858. _The Post and the paddock.
By The Druid_ (1880) 66–73; _Sporting Rev. xxxviii_ 161–3 (1857)
_portrait_, _xxxix_ 154 (1858).
KIRBY, THOMAS COX. Ensign 54 foot 1 March 1800, captain 26 Sep.
1806, placed on h.p. 23 May 1822; served in Flanders and at
battle of Waterloo; captain 86 foot 5 May 1828; major on h.p. 13
Aug. 1830; sold out 1845; K.H. 1837. _d._ 1855.
KIRBY, WALTER (son of W. Kirby, M.D., F.L.S.). _b._ 14 Nov.
1791; entered R.N. 23 Oct. 1803; served on coast of France,
Spain and in West Indies; lieut. 1811; when in the Windsor
Castle he effected preservation of the Union 104 guns when
adrift and on shore during a storm 12 Jany. 1828; commander 22
July 1830 and then on h.p.; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; retired captain
1 April 1856. _d._ Jermyn st. London 10 Dec. 1859.
KIRBY, WILLIAM HUMPHREYS. _b._ 6 Dec. 1819; ensign 94 foot 14
Oct. 1836, major 29 Dec. 1854 to 17 April 1868 when placed
on h.p.; military sec. Bombay 1860–2; D.A.G. Bombay 1863–7;
adjutant general Bombay 23 Dec. 1867 to 29 May 1872; placed
on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._ St.
Servan, Brittany 28 June 1890.
KIRK, ALEXANDER CARNEGIE (son of rev. John Kirk). _b._ in
Manse of Barry, Forfarshire 1830; partner in shipbuilding firm
of Robert Napier and Sons, Glasgow, became senior partner;
president of the Engineers and Shipbuilders’ Institute of
Scotland; wrote On compressed air and other refrigerating
machinery, printed in Heat in its mechanical application,
Lectures Institution of Civil Engineers (1885) 175–200. _d._
suddenly at 19 Athole Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow 5 Oct. 1892.
_D. Pollock’s Modern shipbuilding_ (1884) 44, _portrait_.
KIRK, JOHN (son of Wm. Kirk). _b._ Ruckley near Acton Burnell,
Shropshire 13 April 1760; ed. at Sedgley park sch. Staffs. and
English college at Rome; ordained priest 18 Dec. 1784; chaplain
at Sedgley park school 1786, president 1793–7; built a chapel
at Lichfield, opened 11 Nov. 1803; erected chapels at Hopwas
near Tamworth and in Tamworth; D.D. by Pope Gregory XVI. 9 Nov.
1841; collected for 40 years materials forming 50 vols. for a
Continuation of Dodd’s Church history of England, which was
brought out to the year 1625 by Rev. M. A. Tierney in 5 vols.
1839–43; author with Rev. Joseph Berington of The faith of
Catholics confirmed by scripture and attested by the Fathers
1813, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1846, a work to which several replies were
made 1819–40. _d._ Lichfield 21 Dec. 1851. _Catholic Directory_
(1853) 129, _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvii_ 304–306 (1852).
KIRK, WILLIAM (1 son of Hugh Kirk). _b._ Larne, co. Antrim 16
Oct. 1795; linen merchant; M.P. Newry 1852–57 and 1868 to death;
contested Armagh 1865; sheriff of Armagh 1863. _d._ Newry 20
Dec. 1870. _I.L.N. lvii_ 691 (1870).
KIRKES, WILLIAM SENHOUSE. _b._ Holker near Cartmel, Lancs. 1823;
entered St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841, medical registrar
and demonstrator of morbid anatomy, assist. physician 1854
and physician 1864 to death; M.D. Berlin 1846; L.R.C.P. 1850,
F.R.C.P. 1855, Gulstonian lecturer 1856; author with W. Baly of
Recent advances in the physiology of motion 1848; and with James
Paget of Hand-book of physiology 1848, 12 ed. 1888. _d._ 2 Lower
Seymour st. Portman sq. London 8 Dec. 1864. _Proc. Med. and
Chir. Soc. v_ 47 (1867).
KIRKHAM, GAWIN. _b._ Eskrigg, Lancashire 1830; connected with
St. Paul’s, Bermondsey, London as a scripture reader for 4
years; secretary of the Open-Air mission 1860 to death, and ran
some risks when attending fairs, races and executions; helped
to distribute relief during Lancashire cotton famine 1862; the
pioneer of open-air preaching on the Continent; author of The
broad and narrow way. The picture accompanying Mr. G. Kirkham’s
lecture on the broad and narrow way 1886; Hints for beginners in
open-air services, printed in G. H. Pike’s Beneath the blue sky
(1888) 61–71. _d._ London, May 1892.
KIRKLAND, SIR JOHN (eld. son of John Kirkland of Glasgow). _b._
Ayr 1796; deputy assistant commissary general 4 May 1815, placed
on h.p. 24 Aug. 1816; army agent at 8 Bennett st. St. James’s,
London 1820, then at 6 Whitehall, and lastly at 17 Whitehall
place to death; receiver of crown rents for Middlesex, city of
London and bailiwick of St. James, Westminster 1827 to death;
general agent for the recruiting service about 1830 to death;
knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. _d._ Beckenham
place, Kent 13 Jany. 1871.
KIRKLAND, WILLIAM (son of William Kirkland _d._ 1 Oct. 1834).
_b._ Dundee; apprentice to J. and C. Carmichael, engineers,
Dundee to 1829; partner with his father as W. Kirkland and Sons,
wood merchants, Dundee 1829; perfected the machinery for wood
cutting in all its branches and for cutting mouldings. _d._
Oak lodge, Constitution road, Dundee 16 April 1869. _Dundee
Advertiser 17 April 1869 p._ 4.
KIRKPATRICK, JOHN. _b._ 1786; advocate at Scottish bar 1809;
Greek scholar; chief justice of Ionian islands 1820–35; revised
the code of Malta 1830; great pedestrian, walked from Dunkeld
to Edinburgh viâ Queensferry 70 miles in one day; a swimmer
and bather all the year round, won a 3 mile swimming match at
Corfu. _d._ 39 Moray place, Edinburgh 10 Feb. 1871. _Journal of
Jurisprudence, Feb. 1871 p._ 140.
KIRKPATRICK, JOHN RUTHERFORD. _b._ 1832; ed. Dublin univ., B.A.
1854, M.B. 1855; L.R.C.S.I. 1855, F.R.C.S.I. 1857; L.M. Lying-in
hospital, Dublin 1854; L.K.Q.C.P. 1859, L.M. 1860; king’s
professor of midwifery, school of physic in Ireland, April 1882
to death. _d._ 4 Upper Merrion st. Dublin 16 April 1889. _bur._
Mount Jerome cemet. 20 April.
KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM BAILLIE. _b._ Ballynahinch, co. Down 1802;
ed. at Glasgow college, M.A.; licensed by presbytery of Armagh
1827; a minister of St. Mary’s Abbey church, Dublin 29 July
1829; moderator of general assembly 1850; a comr. of charitable
donations and bequests; a comr. of endowed schools; author of
Chapters in Irish history. Dublin [1875], 2 ed. 1875. _d._ Bray,
co. Wicklow 23 Sep. 1882. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin.
KIRKUP, SEYMOUR STOCKER (eld. child of Joseph Kirkup, jeweller).
_b._ London 1788; student of the R.A. 1809, exhibited 2 pictures
at R.A. 1833–36; lived at Rome, then at Florence many years,
at Leghorn 1872 to death; a student of Dante, found on 21 July
1840 the portrait of Dante painted by Giotto in the chapel of
the Palazzo del Podestà at Florence, of which he made a drawing
and tracing; created cavaliere of the order of SS. Maurizio e
Lazzaro 1865 and called himself Barone Kirkup; a disciple of
Daniel Home the spiritualist; his library was sold at Sotheby’s,
Dec. 1871 for £2,555. _d._ 4 Via Scali del Ponte Nuovo, Leghorn
3 Jany. 1880.
KIRKWOOD, ANDERSON (son of Mr. Kirkwood of Edinburgh, merchant).
_b._ 1822; manager of business of Messrs. Bannatyne, writers to
the signet, Glasgow 1839, a partner in the firm 1842; the first
professor of conveyancing in univ. of Glasgow 1861–7; dean of
the faculty of procurators, Glasgow 1875–80; hon. D.C.L. Glasgow
1867; assessor to council of univ. of Glasgow 1867–87; presented
with his portrait by citizens of Glasgow 1876; contested seat
for united univs. of Glasgow and Aberdeen 1876. _d._ Stirling 16
Feb. 1889. _Law Times 16 March 1889 pp._ 379–80.
KIRKWOOD, JAMES PUGH. _b._ Edinburgh 27 March 1807; civil
engineer Glasgow 1832; assistant engineer on railway work in
U.S. of America 1832; United States constructing engineer for
docks, hospitals and workshops at Pensacola, Florida; chief
engineer in Missouri Pacific railway 1850–5; chief engineer
Nassau waterworks, Brooklyn 1856–60; municipal water works were
his speciality, and he was the best engineer in that line in the
U.S. America; president American Soc. of Civil engineers 1867–8;
author of Report on filtration of river waters for the supply
of cities 1869; and with T. Weston of A report on the district
supplying water to Brooklyn 1861. _d._ Brooklyn, New York 22
April 1877.
KIRKWOOD, ROBERT. _b._ Paisley 25 May 1793; ed. at Glasgow
coll.; pastor of Dutch Reformed church Courtlandville, New
York, pastor at Auburn and at Sandbeach, New York till 1839;
a domestic missionary in Illinois 1839–46; agent for Bible
and Tract society 1846–57; joined the Presbyterian church at
Yonkers, N.Y. 1857; author of A lecture on the millennium
1855; Universalism explained 1856; A plea for the Bible 1860;
Illustrations of the office of Christ 1862. _d._ Yonkers 26 Aug.
1866.
KIRWAN, ANDREW VALENTINE (eld. son of Thomas Kirwan of Well
Park, co. Dublin). _b._ 1804; student G.I. 9 Feb. 1821,
barrister 14 May 1828; called to Irish bar 1825; practised in
London and Dublin till 1850 when he retired; furnished practice
cases to The Jurist 1824–44; author of The ports, arsenals and
dockyards of France. By A Traveller 1841; The army and garrison
of France 1841; Modern France, its journalism, literature
and society 1863; Host and Guest 1864; with Frederick A.
Carrington, Reports of cases at nisi prius 3 vols. 1845–53. d.
Claverton st. Pimlico, London 22 Oct. 1870. _Law Times_, _xlix_
459 (1870).
NOTE.--In 1840 he was appointed by the court of exchequer, on behalf of
the proprietors of the Times a commissioner for taking the evidence of
the various bankers in most of the cities of Europe in the famous law
suit of Bogle _v_ Lawson.
KIRWAN, ANTHONY LATOUCHE (son of Walter Blake Kirwan, dean of
Killala, _d._ 1805). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, B.D.
and D.D. 1863; V. of Kilcornan; dean of Kilmacduagh and R. of
Gort; R. of Derrygalvin and Incumbent of St. Mary’s, Limerick;
dean of Limerick 1849 to death; a very successful preacher. _d._
in the Turkish baths, Military road, Limerick 13 July 1868.
_bur._ Limerick cath.
KIRWAN, DANIEL JOSEPH. _b._ Newtonbarry, Ireland about 1843;
connected with the press in U.S. of America, on the World and
the Tribune 1863 etc.; went to England to report the Harvard and
Cambridge boat race 1869; reporter for New York Herald 1870;
author of Palace and hovel 1870. _d._ New York 25 Nov. 1876.
KIRWAN, JAMES M. _b._ 1798; M.D.; coroner for city of Dublin
1843 to death. _d._ 44 Mountjoy square, Dublin 3 Feb. 1868.
_bur._ Glasnevin cemet. 5 Feb.
KIRWAN, JOHN JOSEPH ANDREW (eld. son of Martin Kirwan of
Hillsbrook, co. Galway, _d._ 1827). _b._ 31 Oct. 1811; ed. Trin.
coll. Dublin; barrister Dublin 1844; went Connaught circuit;
resident magistrate for co. Roscommon 1848, for co. Kilkenny
1853 to death; one of the wittiest and most amusing men of his
time; known as the poor man’s magistrate; his judgments were so
full of fun that the prisoners often left the dock laughing.
_d._ March 1869. _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_
(1885) 319.
KISLINGBURY, FREDERICK FOSTER. _b._ Ilsley near Windsor castle
25 Dec. 1847; served in a cavalry regt. in civil war, U.S.
America 1863–5; chief clerk of the Department of the Lakes at
Detroit 1865; commanded a band of scouts fighting the Indians,
2 lieut. of 2 infantry serving in the Plains, second in
command under Adolphus W. Greely in the expedition to the far
north 1881–4; a member of the Knights of Pythias, a lodge of
which order has been erected to his memory at Rochester. _d._
of exhaustion at Cape Sabine, Greenland 1 June 1884. _bur._
Rochester, N.W.
KITCHEN, WILLIAM HEWGILL. _b._ June 1787; entered navy 3 Feb.
1799, in active service for 31 years and was several times
wounded; captain 9 Nov. 1846, granted Greenwich hospital pension
10 Nov. 1856; retired R.A. 15 June 1864. _d._ 4 Holland park
ter. Notting hill, London 30 Sep. 1865.
KITCHING, ALFRED. _b._ 1808; iron founder Hopetown, Darlington
1832 where he built locomotives and waggons; removed to Whessoe
foundry, Darlington 1862; director of Stockton and Darlington
railway and of North Eastern railway; mayor of Darlington
1870; a quaker; member of Iron and steel institute 1872. _d._
Darlington 13 Feb. 1882, personalty sworn under £344,000, 22
April 1882. _Journal of iron and steel institute_ (1882) 658–59.
KITCHING, JOHN BENJAMIN. _b._ Horsforth, W.R. Yorkshire 20 April
1813; in house of Tomlinson and Booth, New York 1824, then in
business on his own account; connected with telegraphy and the
Atlantic cable; spent much money on the Ericsson, a steamer
to be propelled by air engines 183-, which sank on her trial
trip; helped to found banks in Brooklyn 1840; a promoter of the
Manhattan market and the Garfield National bank. _d._ New York
city 19 July 1887.
KITSON, JAMES. _b._ 1807 or 1808; student at Mechanics’
institute, Leeds, hon. sec. and then president; well known
locomotive engineer; partner with Mr. Laird at Airedale foundry,
then with Messrs. Thompson and Hewitson, and afterwards partner
with his sons in the Mark Bridge iron works; a director of North
Eastern railway co. and of Yorkshire banking co. _d._ Leeds 29
July 1885. _Engineering 3 July 1885 p._ 20.
KITTO, JOHN (eld. son of John Kitto of Plymouth, mason). _b._
Plymouth 4 Dec. 1804; while carrying slates up a ladder fell
35 feet and was thenceforth stone deaf; in Plymouth workhouse
15 Nov. 1819 to 17 July 1823; apprenticed to John Bowden of
Plymouth, shoe maker 8 Nov. 1821; pupil of A. N. Groves,
dentist, Exeter; resided at Missionary coll. Islington, July
1825 where he was trained as a printer at one of the foreign
presses; at Malta as a printer 20 June 1827 to Jany. 1829;
travelled in the East with A. N. Groves, June 1829 to June 1833;
contributed to Penny Magazine from 10 Aug. 1833; D.D. Univ. of
Giessen 1844; F.S.A. 1845; granted £100 a year from civil list
2 Jany. 1851; author of The Pictorial Bible in parts 3 vols.
Dec. 1835 to May 1838; Pictorial history of Palestine and the
Holy Land 1840; Palestine, the Bible history of the Holy Land
1841; A Cyclopædia of Biblical literature 2 vols. 1845; The lost
senses 1845; A pictorial life of our Saviour 1847; The Journal
of sacred literature 1848–53; Daily Bible illustrations 4 vols.
1849–54; Scripture lands 1850. _m._ Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London
21 Sep. 1833 Annabella Fenwick, she was granted a civil list
pension of £50, 31 Jany. 1855. _d._ Cannstatt near Munich 25
Nov. 1854. _bur._ Cannstatt churchyard 27 Nov. _John Eadie’s
Life of John Kitto_ (1857), _portrait_; _Western Antiquary_,
_iii_ 33–35 (1883).
KLING, JOSEPH. _b._ Mayence 19 March 1811; educated in music
1826; organist to a church in Mayence many years; came to London
1850, music publisher at 27 Sherrard st. Golden sq. 1850–1;
opened a chess room as a rival to the Divan at 454 Oxford st.
1854, closed it 1856; a pioneer of the modern style of chess
problems; author of The chess euclid, a collection of two
hundred problems and end games 1849; and with B. Horwitz of
Chess studies or endings of games 1851 and The chess player
vols. 1–4, 1851–3; retired from chess playing. _d._ Dec. 1876.
_The Westminster papers 1 Jany. 1877 p._ 163.
KLITZ, PHILIP (eld. son of George Philip Klitz of Lymington,
Hants., musical composer 1777–1839). _b._ Lymington 7 Jany.
1805; resided at Southampton about 1828 to death; introduced
the Hullah system into Southampton and other places; lectured
on music at literary institutions; organist of All Saints’
church, Southampton 1845 to death; composed classical music
and ballads, the words of which were frequently his own, and a
series of naval songs called ‘Songs of the mid-watch,’ which
the admiralty ordered to be added to Dibdin’s in an edition
published for the navy 1850; one of first writers of songs for
Ethiopian serenaders 1847; published Sketches of life, character
and scenery in the New Forest 1850. _d._ 24 Portland place,
Southampton 13 Jany. 1854.
KLOSS, WILHELM (son of Karl Johann C. Kloss, composer, who _d._
Riga 1853). Ed. at Cologne under Heinrich Dorn; sent to England
by Mendelssohn, where he played on the piano before the Queen;
settled in England; pianist and composer in London. _d._ Feb.
1892.
KMETY, GYÖRGY. _b._ Pkoragy, Hungary, May 1813; commanded a
battalion in Hungarian army in war with Austria 1849, a general,
routed the Austrians at Csorna 13 June 1849; in Turkish service
1850, in command of a division during blockade of Kars, under
name of Madjar Ismail Pacha, when he defeated the Russians 29
Sep. 1855, made lieut. general and decorated, served in Syria
1856, retired with a pension; in England studying music 1851,
returned to England 1856; author of A refutation of some of the
misstatements in Görgei’s Life and actions in Hungary 1853; A
narrative of the defence of Kars 1856. _d._ Conduit st. Bond st.
London 25 April 1865. _G.M. Sep. 1865 pp._ 383–6.
KNAPP, FREDERICK HENRY. Ed. at King’s coll. London, associate
1862; C. of Christ Church, Ware, Herts. 1862–64; C. of
Patrixbourne, Kent 1864–6; C. of St. Helen’s, Isle of Wight
1866; author of A sad case 1862; Faithful wounds, a few thoughts
on christian friendship 1864; The preciousness of Christ,
meditations 1866. _d._ Sea View, Isle of Wight 15 Sep. 1866.
KNAPP, RUSSELL GEORGE ATKINSON. _b._ 1831; proprietor and editor
of the ‘Surrey Comet’ from 1859. _d._ Clarence st. Kingston,
Surrey 7 June 1867.
KNATCHBULL, HENRY EDWARD (6 son of sir Edward Knatchbull, bart.
_d._ 1819). _b._ 30 Aug. 1808; ed. at Winchester and Wadham
coll. Oxf., scholar 1826–33; B.A. 1830; first played at Lord’s
in Winchester _v._ Harrow 27 July 1825, a free hitter and a
good field, under the name of Edwards; played 6 times for the
Gentlemen against the Players; V. of North Elmham, Norfolk
1833–67; R. of Campsey Ash, Suffolk 1867 to death. _d._ Campsey
Ash 31 Aug. 1876.
KNATCHBULL, WILLIAM FRANCIS (2 son of Wyndham Knatchbull,
merchant 1750–1833). _b._ Russell place, London 30 July 1804;
sheriff of Somerset 1841; M.P. East Somerset 1852–65. _d._ 11
Cavendish sq. London 2 May 1871. _I.L.N. lviii_ 475 (1871).
KNATCHBULL, WYNDHAM (brother of Henry Edward Knatchbull
1808–76). _b._ 23 Aug. 1786; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1808, of All
Souls’ coll., M.A. 1812, B.D. 1820, D.D. 1823; R. of Westbere,
Kent 5 Sep. 1811 to death; R. of Bircholt, Kent 1821–1836;
Laudian professor of Arabic at Oxford 1823–40; R. of Aldington
with Smeath, Kent 31 July 1823 till decease; author of Kalila
and Dimna, or the fables of Bidpai translated 1819; Harethi
Moallakah. Arabic and Latin 1820. _d._ Smeath rectory 5 April
1868.
KNELL, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS. Painter of shipping and sea pieces;
exhibited 29 pictures at R.A., 44 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st.
1825–74; his picture The Landing of Prince Albert was purchased
for the royal collection and engraved by Miller for the Art
Journal 1857. _d._ 10 July 1875. _bur._ Abney park cemet.
KNIGHT, ADELA M’CULLOCH. _b._ South Australia; passed matric.
exam. of univ. of London at Adelaide, attended Adelaide univ.
and took sir Thomas Elder prize for physiology 1883; entered
London sch. of medicine for women and the Royal Free hospital,
London 1885; M.B. Lond. Nov. 1889, the first Australian
woman who took the degree there; resident medical officer at
New hospital for women 1890, removed the hospital from 222
Marylebone road to 144 Euston road 1890; took Helen Prideaux
prize June 1890 and went to Vienna to study. _d._ of typhlitis
at Vienna 8 May 1891.
KNIGHT, SIR ARNOLD JAMES (youngest son of Alexander Knight).
_b._ Six Hills Grange, Lincs. 1789; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D.
1811; a physician at Sheffield; knighted at St. James’ palace
24 March 1841. _d._ The Priory, Little Malvern 12 Jany. 1871.
_I.L.N. lviii_ 115, 267 (1871); _Times 20 Jany. 1871 p._ 12.
KNIGHT, CHARLES (son of Charles Knight, bookseller, Windsor).
_b._ Windsor 15 March 1791; apprentice to his father 1805;
edited Windsor and Eton Express 1 Aug. 1812 to 1826; with
Edward Hawke Lockyer brought out the Plain Englishman 1 Feb.
1820 to Dec. 1822; editor and part proprietor of The Guardian,
London 13 June 1820 to Dec. 1822; publisher 7 Pall Mall East
1822 to 1827; started Knight’s Quarterly Magazine 1823, 7
numbers only; superintendent of publications of Society for
the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 26 July 1827 to 11 March
1846; re-established himself at 13 Pall Mall, March 1829; wrote
The Menagerie, the first vol. of The Library of Entertaining
Knowledge 1829; published Quarterly Journal of Education
1831–6; The Penny Magazine 31 March 1832 to 29 Dec. 1845, which
had a circulation of 200,000; publisher at 22 Ludgate Hill
1834–48, at 90 Fleet st. 1848 to death; publisher to the Poor
law commission 1835; brought out Pictorial History of England
8 vols. 1837–44; edited The Pictorial edition of the works of
Shakspere 1838–41; published Penny Cyclopedia 27 vols. 2 Jany.
1833 to 1844; History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace
2 vols. 1850–1; started Town and Country newspaper 1855. _d._
Addlestone, Surrey 9 March 1873. _bur._ Old Windsor churchyard
14 March. _Charles Knight, a memoir. By Alice A. Clowes_
(1892), 2 _portraits_; _C. Knight’s Passages of a working life
during half a century 3 vols._ (1865); _Illustrated Review_,
_vol. v_, _pp._ 57–67, _portrait_; _Gibson Craig’s Half length
portraits_ (1876) 241–52; _The Critic_, _xxii_ 624–28, 632
(1861) _portrait_, _xxiii_ 32–37 (1861); _Curwen’s Booksellers_
(1873) 251–66, _portrait_; _H. J. Nichol’s Great Movements_
(1881) 175–84.
NOTE.--His only son Barry Charles Henry Knight, senior partner in firm
of Knight & Co., publishers 90 Fleet st. London, _d._ Brighton 16 Aug.
1884 aged 56.
KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1794; entered R.N. 25 Dec. 1806; in
the Impregnable in the battle of Algiers 1816; in command of
Snapper gun brig went up Calabar river 60 miles in search of
slaves June 1821; commander 3 June 1822; saved the crew of the
Hound revenue cutter in Weymouth bay 1836; retired captain 28
July 1851; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837. _d._ royal naval hospital, Haslar
29 Jany. 1863.
KNIGHT, EDWARD HENRY. _b._ London 1 June 1824; patent agent
Cincinnati, Ohio 1846–53; an agriculturalist 1853–63; employed
preparing annual reports of U.S.A. patent office from 1863;
issued the Official Gazette of the United States patent office
1871, since continued weekly; LLD. of Iowa Wesleyan univ.
1876; U.S. commissioner to Paris exhibition 1878, a chevalier
of legion of honour; author of A library of poetry and song
1870; Knight’s American mechanical dictionary 3 vols. 1874–77;
The practical dictionary of mechanics 4 vols. 1877–84. _d._
Bellefontaine, Ohio 22 Jany. 1883.
NOTE.--His brain was found to weigh 64 ounces, being the second largest
on record, that of Cuvier weighing 64½ ounces.
KNIGHT, GEORGE JOSEPH. _b._ 1798; principal of Albion
international college, Broadway, South Hackney 1828; kept
private school 120 Lauriston road, Hackney. _d._ at res. of rev.
Jonah Reeve, Thorley house, 32 Powerscourt road, Clapton park 25
Nov. 1883. _The Fairlop Friday services, established by G. J.
Knight on the first Friday in July 1860_ (1870).
KNIGHT, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ Goodnestone, Kent 22 Nov. 1795; his
first match at Lord’s was England _v._ Hampshire 3 July 1820;
played for Hampshire and Kent; his place was generally middle
wicket; one of the 3 first to introduce round arm bowling, which
at first was not allowed; a very hard hitter; wrote in the
Sporting Magazine in 1827 on round arm bowling. _d._ 5 Moorfield
place, Hereford 25 Aug. 1867. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_, _i_
433, _v p. xiii_.
KNIGHT, JAMES (son of Samuel Knight 1759–1827, vicar of
Halifax). _b._ 1793; scholar of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1812–15,
B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Sheffield 1824–60;
author of Discourses on the principal parables of our Lord
1829; Discourses on the principal miracles of our Lord 1831; A
short series of discourses on the Lord’s Prayer 1832; A concise
treatise on the truth and importance of the Christian religion
1856. _d._ Barton-on-Humber 30 Aug. 1863.
KNIGHT, JOHN BAVERSTOCK (2 son of John Forster Knight, land
agent). _b._ Langton parsonage near Blandford, Dorset 3 May
1785; assistant to his father; water-colour painter; exhibited
4 pictures at R.A. 1818–19; published some etchings of old
buildings in Dorset 1816. _d._ West Lodge, Piddle Hinton, Dorset
14 May 1859.
KNIGHT, John Peake. _b._ Nottingham 13 Jany. 1828; clerk in
Midland railway co. Derby 1841, in audit office of Brighton
railway 1846; superintendent South Eastern railway 1854 to 1869;
general manager London, Brighton and South Coast railway 1869
to death; adopted interlocking of signals, the block system,
the Westinghouse break 1878, Pullman cars 1877 and electric
lighting; lieut.-col. Engineer and Railway volunteer staff-corps
19 March 1870 to death; member of legion of honour 1878;
A.I.C.E. 7 May 1872. _d._ Chigwell, Epping forest 23 July 1886.
_Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvii_ 456–8 (1886).
KNIGHT, JOHN PRESCOTT (son of Edward Knight, comedian
1774–1826). _b._ Stafford 1803; clerk to a West India merchant,
Mark lane, London, who failed; studied with Henry Sass and
George Clint; student at R.A. 1823; painter first of theatrical
portraits, then a fashionable portrait painter; exhibited 227
pictures at R.A., 22 at B.I. and 26 at Suffolk st. 1824–78;
A.R.A. 1836, professor of perspective 1839–60, R.A. 1844, sec.
1848 to May 1873; a knight of the legion of honour 1878; held
high office in the Catholic Apostolic church. _d._ 24 Maida Hill
West, London 26 March 1881. _Sandby’s History of royal academy_,
_ii_ 174 (1862); _Art Journal_ (1849) 209, _portrait_, (1881)
159; _I.L.N. xxx_ 418, 420 (1857), _portrait_, _and 9 April 1881
p._ 349, _portrait_.
KNIGHT, JOSEPH PHILIP (youngest son of Francis Knight, V. of
Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire). _b._ Bradford-on-Avon 26 July
1812; published a set of six songs under name of Philip
Mortimer 1832; composed many songs alone and with Haynes Bayly;
went to U.S. of America 1839, where he composed his song Rocked
in the cradle of the deep 1846 which was sung by Braham; C.
of St. Agnes, Scilly 1846–50; composed about 160 songs, most
popular being She wore a wreath of roses 1840; Why chime the
bells so merrily 1844; Say, what shall my song be to-night 1844;
Melodies of leisure hours 1855, ten numbers; The abandoned 1882;
with Haynes Bayly, Of what is the old man thinking 1875. _d._
Great Yarmouth in straitened circumstances 1 June 1887.
KNIGHT, Lewis Edward. _b._ 13 March 1833; cornet 17 light
dragoons 17 Sep. 1850, lieut.-col. 19 July 1864 to 9 July 1865
when placed on h.p.; lieut.-col. Cape Mounted rifles 1866–70;
lieut.-col. brigade depot 1873–78; lieut.-col. 81 foot 6 Dec.
1879 to 7 Jany. 1880; M.G. 5 Oct. 1880; brigadier general
Belfast district 19 April 1884 to death. _d._ Milgate near
Maidstone 20 Jany. 1886.
KNIGHT, MARY ANN (dau. of Mr. Povey). _b._ Birmingham 26 July
1804; sang at Drury Lane 3 June 1817; appeared as Margaretta
in No song, no supper, at Drury Lane 1819, and was long a
popular ballad singer; the first lady to sing at Dramatic Fund
dinners; went with her brother John Povey to America; appeared
as Floretta in The Cabinet, at Park theatre, New York 30 Nov.
1826; an actress in comic opera, later on played chambermaids,
country girls and elderly spinsters; played at Park theatre, New
York 1841–8, made money which she lost in American securities;
reduced to blindness by grieving for loss of her only child
1845, when she returned to England. (_m._ Edward Knight,
musician, son of Edward Knight the actor). _d._ 33 Grove place,
Brompton, London 16 Oct. 1861. _Ireland’s Records_, _i_ 511–2
(1866).
KNIGHT, ROBERT. Editor of the Bombay Times about 1860, which
became a daily journal as The Times of India, sold his interest
in it; commenced the Indian Economist a monthly serial;
established The Indian Statesman 1859; removed to Calcutta and
amalgamated The Statesman as a daily with The Friend of India;
author of The Imam commission unmasked 1859; The Indian empire
and our financial relations thereto 1866; Speech on Indian
affairs 1866; India, a review of England’s financial relations
thereto 1868; Manchester and India 1877. _d._ Calcutta 2 Feb.
1890.
KNIGHT, SAMUEL JOHNES (son of Thomas Johnes). _b._ Ludlow 1756;
ed. Christ Church, Oxford, fellow of All Souls’, B.A. 1778, M.A.
1782; V. of Allhallows, Barking, Essex, May 1783 to death; R.
of Welwyn, Herts. 11 Aug. 1797 to death; took name of Knight by
r.l. 30 Sep. 1813. _d._ Welwyn 8 July 1852.
KNIGHT, SUSAN (dau. of an actor called Williamson or
O’Shaughnessy and sister of Richard John or Obi Smith actor and
of Mrs. Sarah Bartley actress). _b._ York 26 March 1784; heroine
of the York circuit when under Tate Wilkinson; acted at Bath
some years; first appeared at Drury Lane 17 June 1813 as Ella
Rosenberg; at Milton st. theatre under John Kemble Chapman’s
management; at the Olympic under Madame Vestris. _m._ as his
second wife in 1807 Edward Knight the actor known as little
Knight, he was _b._ Birmingham 1774, _d._ London 21 Feb. 1826;
she _d._ 13 Dec. 1859. _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _ix_ 381–84
(1816), _portrait_; _Era 18 Dec. 1859 p._ 11.
KNIGHT, WILLIAM (natural son of a landed proprietor in
Aberdeenshire). _b._ near Portgordon, Banffshire 1825; ed. at
parish school of Keith and at St. Andrews where he gained a
bursary; clerk in office of A. Torrie of Aberdeen, advocate;
a shoemaker in Aberdeen 1846–51; in Edinburgh 1853–56 and in
Aberdeen again. _d._ in the infirmary, Dundee Aug. 1866. _Auld
Yule and other poems. By Wm. Knight with recollections of the
author’s life_, _pp. xxi–xl_ (1869), _portrait_; _Norrie’s
Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 271.
KNIGHT, WILLIAM (son of William Knight of Painswick, Gloucs.).
_b._ 1790; ed. Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816; R. of
St. Michael’s, Bristol 1816–75; hon. canon of Bristol 1864 to
death; author of Church missionary jubilee 1848. 1848; Lectures
on prophecies concerning Antichrist 1855; Psalms and hymns 1862;
The arch of Titus and the spoils of the Temple 1867. _d._ 5
Wetherill place, Grosvenor place, Clifton 5 Aug. 1878.
KNIGHT, WILLIAM HENRY (son of John Knight of Newbury, Berkshire,
schoolmaster). _b._ Newbury 26 Sep. 1823; in a solicitor’s
office at Newbury; painter in London from 1844, studied at
British museum and R. Academy; exhibited 29 pictures at R.A.,
17 at B.I. and 8 at Suffolk st. 1844–64; his best known work
is The broken window. _d._ Claremont cottage, Claremont place,
Wandsworth road, Surrey 31 July 1863. _Art Journal_ (1863) 133,
191; _Sydney Armytage’s Beautiful pictures_ (1875) 51–2.
KNIGHT, VALENTINE. _b._ 1792; gold and silver dial maker and
engine-turner 4 Newcastle place, Clerkenwell 1828–51, Knight’s
dials were long in demand particularly by Americans; took Thomas
Burr into partnership 1842; retired with a large fortune 1851;
chairman of meeting to establish British Horological Institute
15 June 1858, president to death; an early director of Mutual
life assurance co.; president of Watch and clock makers’ asylum;
satirised in an engraving published by Askew & Co. 5 Butcher
hall lane, entitled Sir Stultus Walentine, knight and champion
of St. James’ Herriddittaries. d. Thornycroft, Leatherhead,
Middlesex 17 Nov. 1867. _Pinks’s Clerkenwell_ (1881) 318, 753;
_Horological Journal 1 Dec. 1867 pp._ 37–38.
KNIGHT, W. H. _b._ 29 Nov. 1812; on the staff of The Sporting
Life; connected with several daily newspapers; edited John
Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac some years to death; resided at 46
George st. Hampstead road, London a long time. _d._ Middlesex
hospital, Berner’s st. London 16 Aug. 1879.
KNIGHTLEY, SIR CHARLES, 2 Baronet (1 son of rev. Charles
Knightley 1753–87, R. of Preston Capes, Northamptonshire). b.
Preston Capes 30 Jany. 1781; ed. at Rugby and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
D.C.L. 1834; succeeded his uncle 29 Jany. 1812; on his mare
Benvolio cleared 31 feet over a fence and a brook at Brixworth
hill, a spot since known as Knightley’s leap; a breeder of
hounds and short horns and a great farmer; contested Northhants.
1831; M.P. Southern division of Northhants. 1834–52; master
of the Pytchley hunt 1817–18; wrote in Post and Paddock pp.
322–5 Auld Lang Syne, and in Silk and Scarlet, pp. 70–82 Olden
Times. _d._ Fawsley court near Daventry 30 Aug. 1864. _Sporting
Review_, _xxxvi_ 1–7 (1856), _portrait_, _lii_ 320 (1864);
_H. O. Nethercote’s Pytchley Hunt_ (1888) 45–47, _portrait_;
_Northamptonshire election_ (1831).
KNILL, RICHARD (4 child of Richard Knill, carpenter, _d._ 1826).
_b._ Braunton near Barnstaple 14 April 1787; congregational
missionary in Madras 1816–19 and at St. Petersburg 1820–33;
travelled in United Kingdom advocating claims of the foreign
missions 1833–41; minister at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucs. 1 Jany.
1842 to 1848, at Chester 1848 to death; author of The farmer
and his family 1814; some account of John Knill 1830; The happy
death-bed 1833; Memoirs of female labourers in the missionary
cause 1839; A Scotchman abroad 1841. _d._ 28 Queen st. Chester
2 Jany. 1857. _Birrell’s Life of R. Knill_ (1878), _portrait_;
_Waddington’s Congregational history_, _v_ 185–96 (1880).
KNOCKER, EDWARD (youngest son of Wm. Knocker of Dover,
solicitor). _b._ Dover 1804; solicitor at Dover 1826–74, member
of the common council 1827–35, town clerk 1860–8, alderman
several times, mayor 1871; registrar of the Cinque Ports many
years; hon. librarian to Dover corporation; F.S.A. 5 March 1874;
author of On the antiquities of Dover 1858; An account of the
grand court of Shepway, held on Bredenstone hill, Dover for the
installation of viscount Palmerston as constable of Dover and
warden of the Cinque ports Aug. 25, 1861. 1862; The footsteps
of the Lord: being a continuous narrative 1870. _d._ Torquay 25
Dec. 1884.
KNOLLIS, FRANCIS MINDEN (eld. son of rev. James Knollis of
Donnington, Berkshire). _b._ Donnington 14 Nov. 1816; ed. at
Lincoln coll. Oxf.; demy Magd. coll. 1836–9, fellow 1839 to
death, bursar 1846; B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1850, D.D. 1851;
R. of Congerstone, Leics. 1840–2; R. of Brandeston, Norfolk
1847–8; domestic chaplain to Lord Ribblesdale 1849 to death;
P.C. of Horspath, Oxon. 1849–50; Inc. of Fitzhead near Taunton
1856–61; author of The sophistry of words, or the cause and
effects of inadequate appellations of sin considered. Oxford
1837, anon.; A wreath for the altar. Leicester 1838; A short
explanation of all the holydays of the church 2 ed. 1839; The
silver trumpet, or the child’s companion to the christian
year. Norwich 1849; A tutor’s counsels to his old pupils, or a
week’s hints for a quiet life 1863, and 14 other books. _d._
Bournemouth 26 Aug. 1863. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen
college_, _vii_ 340–2 (1881).
KNOLLYS, SIR WILLIAM THOMAS (eld. son of general Wm. Knollys
who claimed to be 8 earl of Banbury 1763–1834). _b._ 1 Aug.
1797; styled Viscount Wallingford 1797–1813; ed. at Harrow and
Sandhurst; ensign 3 foot guards 9 Dec. 1813, adjutant 1821–7;
lieut.-col. Scots fusilier guards 1850 to 25 March 1853 when
placed on h.p., col. 20 June 1883; taught prince Albert his
military duties 1850; governor of Guernsey 1 Aug. 1854 to 10
May 1855; commanded the camp at Aldershot 1855–60; col. of 62
foot 16 Nov. 1858 to 20 June 1883; general 17 June 1866; vice
pres. of council of military education 1861–2; treasurer and
comptroller of household of prince of Wales 1862–77, groom of
the stole to the prince 22 March 1877 to death; gentleman usher
of the black rod to House of Lords 22 March 1877 to death;
receiver general of duchy of Cornwall 14 Oct. 1878 to death;
LL.D. Oxf. 1863, D.C.L. Camb. 1864; K.C.B. 23 April 1867; P.C.
19 March 1872; author of A translation of the Odes of Horace,
privately printed; Some remarks on the claim to the earldom
of Banbury 1835; A journal of the Russian campaign of 1812 by
R. E. P. J. De Frezensac, a translation 1852. _d._ House of
Lords 23 June 1883. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 28 June. _Biograph_,
_ii_ 507–10 (1879); _I.L.N. xlii_ 399, 400 (1863), _portrait_,
_lxxxiii_ 5 (1883), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxvii_ 652 (1883),
_portrait_.
NOTE.--In his will which was proved 30 Aug. 1883 he styles himself “by
hereditary descent and by the law of the land Earl of Banbury, Viscount
Wallingford and Baron Knollys of Greys co. Oxon.”
KNOTT, ROBERT ROWE. _b._ 1796; ed. St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A.
1819, M.A. 1824; lecturer at Rye and head master Rye gram. sch.
1822–35; C. and lecturer at St. Peter-upon-Cornhill, London
1835–38; V. of Helidan, Northants. 1838–49; chaplain of Donative
of Tarrant Crawford, Dorset 1849–65; chaplain of West London
union 1865–70; author of The new aid to memory. Parts 1 and 2
By A Cambridge M.A., Part 3 by the rev. R. R. Knight 1839–42, 2
ed. 1841–42; Part 1 Events of the history of England, and Part 2
Events of the history of Rome, were separately printed 1845 and
1846. _d._ Bayswater, London 11 Jany. 1879.
KNOWLES, CHARLES JAMES (2 son of James Knowles of Greenhead,
Yorkshire). _b._ Greenhead 1798; barrister M.T. 7 Nov. 1823,
bencher 1841 to death; Q.C. 6 July 1841; attorney general for
Duchy of Lancaster, Feb. 1846 to 1861. _d._ Hurst Green, Sussex
12 Feb. 1867.
KNOWLES, EDWARD. _b._ Gravesend; captain of the Northfleet 895
tons, emigrant ship which was run down about two miles off
Dungeness on her way from London to Hobart Town by the Spanish
steamer Murillo 22 Jany. 1873, when only 85 persons were saved
out of 412 passengers and crew; _m._ 4 Dec. 1872 Frederica
Louisa Markham, she was granted civil list pension of £50 1
March 1873; he went down in the Northfleet 22 Jany. 1873.
_Annual Register_ (1873) 9–15.
KNOWLES, EMMA MARIAN MAUDE (dau. of Mr. Elphinstone). _b._
London about 1808; pupil of James Sheridan Knowles the actor;
first appeared in America 26 Aug. 1834 at Arch st. theatre,
Philadelphia as Juliet; returned to England 1836; played in
William Tell, The Hunchback and several other of J. S. Knowles’s
plays at T.R. Dublin from 4 April 1836; played at Glasgow 1837
and 1838; played Meeta in J. S. Knowles’s drama The Maid of
Mariendorpt at Haymarket theatre, London 9 Oct. 1838; (_m._ 1842
J. S. Knowles the dramatist); left all her husband’s manuscripts
to Mary Knowles Rice. She _d._ 29 North bank, Regent’s park,
London 10 May 1888. _R. B. Knowles’s Life of J. S. Knowles_
(1872) 133; _F. Harvey’s Genealogical table of the families of
... Knowles_ (1875).
KNOWLES, SIR FRANCIS CHARLES, 3 Baronet (only son of admiral
sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2 baronet 1754–1831). _b._ 10 June
1802; ed. Trin. coll. Camb., 22 wrangler and B.A. 1825, M.A.
1828; F.R.S. 4 March 1830; F.S.A.; barrister L.I. 28 Jany.
1834; gained Telford prize 1872 for an intricate mathematical
problem; author of History of the Shaftesbury election 1830;
The supplement to the reform act of 1832, a proposal for the
extension of the representation 1864. _d._ 50 York st. Portman
sq. London 19 March 1892. _bur._ cemetery of St. Nicholas,
Guildford 25 March. _The Daily Graphic 24 March 1892 p._ 9,
_portrait_.
KNOWLES, JAMES SHERIDAN (only son of James Knowles the
lexicographer 1759–1840). _b._ Anne st. Cork 12 May 1784;
removed with his parents to London 1793; wrote the Welsh Harper,
one of the popular ballads of the day 1798; ensign in 2nd
regiment of Tower Hamlets militia 25 Jany. 1805 to 25 July 1806;
M.D. Aberdeen 1806; vaccinator of Jennerian Soc. Salisbury sq.
London 1806; first appeared on the stage at Crow st. theatre,
Dublin 1808; acted in Cherry’s company at Waterford and Swansea
1809–11; taught elocution at Mrs. Chapman’s school, Belfast
1813–5; kept a school at Glasgow 1817–29; partner with Mr.
Northhouse in the Free Press newspaper, Glasgow 1821–4; first
appeared in London at Covent Garden 5 April 1832 as Master
Walter in The Hunchback, made his début in U.S. of A. 29 Sep.
1834 in the same part; lectured at various places on rhetoric,
&c.; granted civil list pension of £200, 14 July 1848; converted
and became a Baptist preacher June 1853, drew large audiences to
Exeter Hall; his best known plays were Cains Gracchus produced
at Belfast 13 Feb. 1815, Virginius at Glasgow 1819 and at
Covent Garden 17 May 1820, The Hunchback at Covent Garden 5
April 1832, The Wife at Covent Garden 24 April 1833 in which he
played Julian St. Pierre, The Love Chase at Haymarket 10 Oct.
1837, Woman’s Wit or love’s disguises at Covent Garden 23 May
1838; author of The Magdalen and other tales 1832; The life of
Edmund Kean, Esq. tragedian 1833; George Lovell, a novel 3 vols.
1846; Fortescue, a novel 3 vols. 1847; The Rock of Rome or the
arch-heresy 1849; The Idol demolished by its own priest 1851;
The Gospel attributed to Matthew is the record of the whole
original apostlehood 1855. _d._ Higher terrace, Torquay 30 Nov.
1862. _bur._ necropolis, Glasgow 5 Dec. _Life of J. S. Knowles.
By R. B. Knowles_ (1872), _portrait_; _Genealogical table of the
families of ... Knowles. By F. Harvey_ (1875); _W. Marston’s Our
Recent Actors_, _ii_ 122–38 (1888); _Traits of Character. By A
Contemporary_, _ii_ 131–58 (1860); _James Grant’s Portraits of
public characters_, _ii_ 251–61 (1841); _J. E. Ritchie’s London
Pulpit_, _2 ed._ (1858) 141–7; _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait
gallery_ (1883) 397–402, _portrait_; _R. H. Horne’s New spirit
of the age_, _ii_ 85–90 (1844); _G. Hodder’s Memories of my
time_ (1870) 170–5; _Cumberland’s British Theatre_, _vol. xlii_,
_portrait_; _Men of the time_ (1857) 428–31.
NOTE.--There was a tavern at 12 Brydges st. Covent Garden called after
him the Sheridan Knowles tavern, it lasted from 1840 to 1860, here met
the worshipful society of “The Owls,” some 200 strong with Augustine
Wade as president and J. S. Knowles as patron and chancellor. There
was a splendid edition of Knowles’ works privately printed 1872–4 at
expense of James M’Henry, edited by Francis Harvey 6 vols. 4^o., 25
copies only, the last vol. is a life of him by his son R. B. Knowles.
KNOWLES, JOHN. _b._ Manchester 1810; stage coach proprietor;
succeeded his father in the coal and marble trade; proprietor
of a corn and flour mill at Nuneaton; lessee of the old theatre
royal, Manchester 29 Nov. 1842 to 1844; built the new theatre
royal, Peter st. Manchester, opened 29 Sep. 1845, lessee until
1875, his representations have never been surpassed in the
provinces; formed a fine collection of works of art. _d._ The
Lawn, Rugby 18 Feb. 1880.
KNOWLES, JOHN. _b._ Bow, London 1823; emigrated 1841 and was
in service of New Zealand Co. 1841–44; in business in New
Zealand 1853; under sec. public works department New Zealand
1871–83; edited Wellington Independent for 9 years, the Wanganui
Chronicle, and the New Zealand Spectator; own correspondent of
the London Times 1864–69; founder and first sec. of Wellington
mechanics’ institution 1842; author of The Canterbury settlement
of New Zealand a field for emigration 1851. _d._ Wellington 3
Dec. 1891.
KNOWLES, RICHARD BRINSLEY (son of J. S. Knowles the dramatist
1784–1862). _b._ Glasgow 17 Jany. 1820; clerk in general
register office 7 and 8 Somerset place, London 1838–41;
barrister M.T. 26 May 1843; edited Joe Miller the Younger 2
vols. 1845; Mephistopheles 16 numbers 1845–6; produced The
Maiden Aunt, a comedy at Haymarket theatre 19 Nov. 1845;
joined Church of Rome 1849; edited The Catholic Standard
1849; Illustrated London Magazine 5 vols. 1853–5; a writer on
the Standard 1857–60, afterwards on the Morning Post; edited
Chronicles of John of Oxenedes. Rolls Series 1859; engaged under
royal commission on historical manuscripts 1871 to death; author
of The life of James Sheridan Knowles 1872, 25 copies only
privately printed. _d._ 29 North Bank, Regent’s park, London 28
Jany. 1882. _W. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery_ (1883) 402.
KNOWLES, THOMAS (son of John Knowles of Ince near Wigan). _b._
Ince 30 May 1824; a collier boy at a pit in Ince 1833 where his
father was an overman; partner with John Pearson in a colliery
at Ince; chairman of the Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron co.;
member of Wigan town council 1863–73, mayor of Wigan 1864 and
1865; M.P. for Wigan 3 Feb. 1874 to death; one of royal comrs.
to inquire into working of factory and workshops acts 25 March
1875, their report is dated 10 Feb. 1876; pres. of Mining
association of Great Britain 13 Feb. 1878. _d._ Darnhall hall,
Winsford, Cheshire 3 Dec. 1883.
KNOX, ALEXANDER ANDREW (2 son of George Knox of Jamaica, landed
proprietor). _b._ London 5 Feb. 1818; ed. at Tiverton and Trin.
coll. Camb., scholar, third in the classical tripos and second
chancellor’s medallist 1844; B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; barrister
L.I. 23 Nov. 1847; wrote leading articles for The Times 1846–60;
magistrate at Worship st. police court London 17 Aug. 1860, at
Marlborough st. 1862–78; wrote articles in Edinburgh Review,
Blackwood’s Mag. and other periodicals; author of The new
playground, or wanderings in Algeria 1881, 2 ed. 1882. _d._ 125
Victoria st. Westminster 5 Oct. 1891. _Temple Bar_, _April 1892
pp._ 495–517.
KNOX, BROWNLOW WILLIAM (3 son of Thomas Knox, captain 1 foot
guards). _b._ 1806; ensign 3 foot guards 13 Aug. 1825; captain
Scots fusilier guards 15 Nov. 1839, sold out 2 Oct. 1846; major
Bucks. yeomanry cavalry 5 April 1853, lieut. col. 27 May 1862 to
Jany. 1869; M.P. for Marlow 3 Aug. 1847 to 11 Nov. 1868. _d._ 28
Wilton crescent, London 14 March 1873.
NOTE.--In 1850 he advanced money to Frederick Gye for the purpose of
carrying on the Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden, this arrangement
lasted until 5 March 1856 when the theatre was burnt down, Gye then
hired the Lyceum and carried on Italian opera there 2 years, when he
returned to the new Covent Garden theatre. Knox filed a bill against
Gye in 1861, V.C. Wood decreed 4 Dec. 1863 there was no partnership
between them and the bill was dismissed; in 1864 Knox filed a second
bill against Gye, V.C. Wood decided against Gye 30 Jany. 1866, the
lord chancellor then being appealed to reversed V.C. Wood’s decision
20 Feb. 1867, Knox appealed to the House of Lords 1871, his appeal was
dismissed with costs 8 July 1872. _Law Reports_, _5 House of Lords_
656–88 (1872).
KNOX, EDMUND SEXTON PERY (2 son of 1 earl of Ranfurly
1754–1840). _b._ 21 July 1787; entered navy Nov. 1799; captain
28 Feb. 1812; flag capt. in the Eurotas 38 guns in 1814 and then
on h.p. to death; R.A. 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 7 Nov. 1860.
_d._ Dover 24 March 1867.
KNOX, HENRY BARRY (2 son of George Knox, M.P. for univ. of
Dublin, _d._ 13 June 1827). _b._ 7 Oct. 1807; ed. Trin. coll.
Dublin, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; R. of Hadleigh, Suffolk and
co-dean of Bocking 1841 to death. _d._ Hadleigh 24 Aug. 1869.
KNOX, JAMES. _b._ 1807; accountant; a publisher in Edinburgh;
started and edited The Torch, a journal of literature, science
and the arts, 22 numbers Edinburgh 3 Jany. to 30 May 1846;
contributed to Tait’s Magazine; Scottish editor of Daily News 3
years. _d._ Bathfield, North Leith 5 June 1869.
KNOX, JOHN HENRY (brother of E. S. P. Knox 1787–1867). _b._ 26
July 1788; weigh-master of butter to 1830 when granted pension
of £1076 15s. on abolition of the office; M.P. Newry 1826–32;
author of Norman Hamilton, or the shadow of destiny 1860; The
Ocean Pilgrim’s jottings 1870; The critic-vampyre 1870. _d._
Chislehurst, Kent 27 Aug. 1872. _I.L.N. lxi_ 263 (1872).
KNOX, LAWRENCE EDWARD (1 son of Arthur Edward Knox of Trotton,
Sussex, _b._ 1808). _b._ Kemp Town, Brighton 7 Nov. 1836; ensign
63 foot 25 Aug. 1854, lieut. 11 Dec. 1854, placed on h.p. with
rank of captain 15 Jany. 1857, sold out 1858; founded The Irish
Times 1859 which became the leading paper in Ireland; major
2nd royal Tower Hamlets militia 24 March 1866 to 20 Aug. 1870;
M.P. for borough of Sligo 20 Nov. 1868, unseated on petition
19 Feb. 1869, Sligo disfranchised 1870; F.R.S. Dublin. _d._ 53
Fitzwilliam sq. Dublin 24 Jany. 1873. _I.L.N. lxii_ 115 (1873).
KNOX, RICHARD (son of John Knox of Dublin). _b._ 28 May 1812;
ed. at Eton; cornet 4 light dragoons 28 June 1831; lieut. 15
hussars 2 Sep. 1836, major 8 Dec. 1854 to 19 Feb. 1858; raised
the 18th hussars at Leeds 1858, lieut.-col. of the regiment 19
Feb. 1858, served with it in England 1858–64, in Madras 1864–73,
placed on h.p. 14 June 1873; M.G. 23 July 1876; granted good
service pension 11 March 1878; placed on retired list with
hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881; col. 20 hussars 21 Aug. 1883
to 11 June 1891; col. 18 hussars 11 June 1891 to death. _d._
Strathdurn, Cheltenham 3 Jany. 1892.
KNOX, ROBERT. Sub-edited Morning Herald many years, edited it
1846–58; registrar of mixed commission at Cape of Good Hope 1858
to death. _d._ Cape of Good Hope 6 March 1859.
KNOX, ROBERT (5 son of Robert Knox, mathematical master at
Heriot’s hospital, Edinburgh _d._ 1812). _b._ Edinburgh 4 Sep.
1791; lost sight of his left eye from small-pox; ed. at high
school Edinb., dux and gold medallist 1810; studied at univ.
of Edinb., M.D. 1814; assistant surgeon in the army 1815,
sent to Cape of Good Hope with 72nd foot April 1817, returned
to England on h.p. 25 Dec. 1820, remained on h.p. to 1832;
F.R.C.S. Edinb. 1825, conservator of museum of comparative
anatomy and pathology 1825–31; anatomical lecturer in Edinb.
1825–41, in 1828–9 his students numbered 504, they presented
him with a gold vase 11 April 1829; purchased bodies from the
resurrectionists Burke and Hare 1828; lectured on The Races of
Men and other subjects at Newcastle, Manchester and other towns
1846–52; pathological anatomist to Cancer hospital at Brompton,
London, Oct. 1856 to death; practised at Hackney 1856 to death;
author of The Edinburgh Dissector 1837, anon.; The races of
men 1850, with supplement 1862; A manual of artistic anatomy
1852; A manual of human anatomy 1853; Fish and fishing in the
lone glens of Scotland 1854; Man, his structure and physiology
popularly explained 1857. _d._ 9 Lambe terrace, Hackney, London
20 Dec. 1862. _bur._ Woking cemet. 29 Dec. _H. Lonsdale’s Life
of R. Knox_ (1870), 2 _portraits_; _Life of Sir R. Christison_,
_vol._ 1 (1885) _passim_; _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical
recollections of medical profession_ (1874) 420–33.
KNOX, ROBERT (3 son of Hugh Knox, a ruling elder of parish of
Urney, co. Tyrone). _b._ Clady, parish of Urney 1815; ed. at
Glasgow univ., M.A. 1837; ordained by presbytery of Strabane,
April 1840; minister of Linenhall st. ch. Belfast 1843 to
death; started and edited the Irish Presbyterian, monthly
periodical; D.D. Univ. of Schenectady, U.S. 1863; a founder of
Sabbath school society for Ireland; an early promoter of the
Presbyterian alliance; author of The crisis, plain truths and
stern facts for earnest men 1868. _d._ Belfast 16 Aug. 1883.
KNOX, THOMAS FRANCIS (eld. son of John Henry Knox 1788–1872,
M.P.) _b._ 24 Dec. 1822; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1845;
received into Church of Rome at Northampton 16 Nov. 1845;
admitted a member of the congregation of the Oratory 1848,
founded with F. W. Faber the London Oratory 1849, superior of it
1865 to death; created D.D. by Pius IX. 1875; author of Life of
the Blessed Henry Suso, by himself, translated from the German
1865; When does the Church speak infallibly? or the nature
and scope of the Church’s teaching office 1867, 2 ed. 1870,
translated into German and Italian; The last survivor of the
ancient English hierarchy, T. Goldwell, bishop of St. Asaph. By
T. F. K. 1876. _d._ the Oratory, Brompton road, South Kensington
20 March 1882. _J. E. Bowden’s Life of F. W. Faber_ (1869) 238,
363, 424.
KNOX, SIR THOMAS GEORGE (son of rev. James Spencer Knox
1789–1862, R. of Maghera, co. Derry). _b._ 11 Jany. 1824; ensign
65 foot 17 April 1840; lieut. 98 foot 7 Oct. 1842 to Dec. 1848
when he sold out; served with Siamese army 1851–57; consul
at Bankok 30 Nov. 1864; consul general in Siam 18 July 1868,
agent and consul general 8 Feb. 1875, retired on a pension of
£1026, 26 Nov. 1879; K.C.M.G. 12 April 1880. _d._ Eaux Chaudes,
Pyrenees 29 July 1887.
KNOX, VICESIMUS (1 son of rev. Vicesimus Knox 1752–1821, master
of Tunbridge school). _b._ 1779; barrister I.T. 3 Feb. 1804,
bencher 1848 to death; deputy recorder of Saffron Walden,
recorder 1837 to death. _d._ 25 Jany. 1855.
KNOX-GORE, SIR CHARLES JAMES, 2 Baronet (eld. son of the
succeeding). _b._ Ballina house, co. Mayo 20 Sep. 1831; ed. at
Eton and Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 27 foot 16 May 1851; lieut.
66 foot 27 Jany. 1854, captain 8 June 1855, sold out 30 April
1851; lieut.-col. Sligo artillery militia 3 May 1861, hon. col.
14 June 1876 to death. _d._ 22 Dec. 1890.
KNOX-GORE, SIR FRANCIS ARTHUR, 1 Baronet (eld. son of James Knox
of Broadlands park, co. Mayo 1774–1818, who assumed additional
name of Gore 1813). _b._ 23 June 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin.
coll. Dublin; lord lieut. of Sligo 1831–71; sheriff of Sligo
1840; col. of Sligo militia 27 Jany. 1847 to death; created
baronet 5 Dec. 1868. _d._ Dublin 21 May 1873.
KNYVETT, CHARLES (eld. son of Charles Knyvett 1752–1822, glee
and catch singer). _b._ 1773; a chorister of Westminster abbey;
assisted his father in revival of the Vocal Concerts at Hanover
sq. rooms 1801; organist of St. George’s, Hanover sq. 1802;
gentleman of the chapel royal 1808; a teacher of the pianoforte
and of thorough bass; published Six Airs harmonised for three
and four voices 1815; A selection of psalm tunes as sung at the
church of St. George, Hanover square 1823; Epitaph at Brading
church yard set to music for three voices 1831. _d._ 2 Nov. 1852.
KNYVETT, DEBORAH (dau. of John Travis, fustian manufacturer).
_b._ Shaw near Royton 1790; a handloom weaver at Shaw; sang
in Shaw ch. choir; (_m._ as his second wife in 1826 the
succeeding); apprentice to Thomas Greatorex in London 5 years;
a soprano singer in oratorios and secular music, with a great
knowledge of Handel’s music; sang at Concerts of Ancient music
1813, and at chief London concerts 1815–43 as well as at
Birmingham 1847 etc. _d._ Hey cottage, Shaw 10 Feb. 1876. _E.
Butterworth’s Oldham_ (1856) 251; _Victoria Mag. xxvi_ 375–76
(1876).
KNYVETT, WILLIAM (3 son of Charles Knyvett 1752–1822). _b._
London 21 April 1779; ed. by his father, Samuel Webbe the glee
composer and Signor Cimador; sang in the treble chorus at
concerts of Ancient music 1788, principal alto 1795, conductor
of the concerts 1832–40; a gentleman of the chapel royal 1797
and composer there 1802; lay vicar Westminster abbey; for 40
years he sang in London concerts and at provincial festivals;
one of finest alto singers of his day; Callcott’s glee With
sighs sweet rose, was composed for him; conductor of Birmingham
festivals 1831–43; composer of My love is like the red, red rose
1803; The bells of St. Michael tower 1810; The Boatie rows 1810;
and As it fell upon a day 1812; wrote anthems for coronations of
George IV. and Victoria. _d._ Clarges house, Ryde, Isle of Wight
17 Nov. 1856.
KOE, JOHN HERBERT (2 son of John Heide Koe of City of London,
merchant). _b._ 1783; student L.I. 17 Nov. 1804, barrister 22
Nov. 1810, bencher 18 Jany. 1842 to death, treasurer 11 Jany.
1860 to death; Q.C. Jany. 1842; a leading counsel in the Rolls
court; judge of county courts, circuit No. 33, Hertfordshire
and part of Beds., Bucks., Essex and Middlesex 13 March 1847
to death; editor with Samuel Miller of The law and practice in
bankruptcy. By Basil Montagu and W. S. Ayrton 2 ed. 2 vols.
1844. _d._ 33 Gloucester place, Hyde park, London 3 Sep. 1860.
_Law Times_, _xxxv_ 304, 315, 322 (1860).
KOENIG, HERR. Played the cornet à piston at Jullien’s series
of concerts at English opera house Nov. 1843; played at Surrey
Zoological gardens 1849; was the finest cornet player of his
time, the predecessor of Isaac Levy. _d._ Belleville near Paris,
Dec. 1857. _I.L.N. 25 Nov. 1843 p._ 348, _portrait_.
KOLBE, ADOLF GUILLAUME HERMAN, generally known as Herman Kolbe.
_b._ near Göttingen 1818; professor in museum of economic
geology 5 and 6 Craig’s Court, Charing Cross, London 1845–51;
Davy medallist of Royal Society 1884 for researches in the
isomerism of alcohols; author of A short text book of inorganic
chemistry translated by T. S. Humpidge 1884, 2 ed. 1888, and of
other works printed at Braunschweig and Leipzig. _d._ Leipzig 26
Nov. 1884.
KÖNIG, CHARLES DIETRICH EBERHARD. _b._ Brunswick 1774; ed.
at Göttingen; came to England to arrange natural history
collections belonging to queen Charlotte 1800; assistant to
Jonas Dryander in charge of library and herbarium of sir
Joseph Banks; assistant keeper of natural history department
British museum 1807 and keeper 1813, in charge of mineralogical
department to death; F.R.S. 18 Jany. 1810, foreign secretary;
F.L.S.; K.H. 1831; edited with John Sims The Annals of Botany
1805–7; published first number of ‘Icones fossilium sectiles’
1830; translated Tracts relating to botany 1805; An introduction
to the study of cryptogamous plants by K. Sprengel 1807. _d._
of apoplexy, British Museum, London 29 Aug. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_
435–36 (1851).
KORTRIGHT, SIR CHARLES EDWARD KEITH (1 son of Cornelius
Kortright of Hylands near Chelmsford). _b._ St. Croix, West
Indies 25 Feb. 1813; ed. Copenhagen univ.; British consul
at Carthagena, New Grenada 1844–57, acted as French consul
1851–6; consul for the state of Pennsylvania 1857–71 and for
Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, etc. 1871–76; retired on a pension
of £600, 8 Aug. 1878; knighted by patent 21 Oct. 1886. _d._ 2
Grosvenor crescent, London 19 May 1888.
KOTTAUN, THOMAS. _b._ Bohemia 1827; member of Brighton town
band 1861; connected with 1 Sussex rifle volunteer band about
1863–80; conductor of band playing on Chain pier, Brighton for
many years. _d._ Park st. Brighton, Oct. 1885.
KOUR, JENDA, Maharanee of Lahore. A dancing girl; favourite
of the maharajah Ranjeet Singh (_b._ 2 Nov. 1780, founder of
the Sikh empire, _d._ Lahore 27 June 1839); murdered all the
near relatives of Ranjeet Singh 1839 etc., and placed her
own son Dhuleep Singh _b._ 1838 on the throne of the Punjaub
1848; declared war against the British 1845, Moodkee, Aliwal
and Ferozeshah ended the first Sikh war March 1846, she was
granted annuity of 1 lac and 50,000 rupees 16 Dec. 1846; taken
prisoner after second Sikh war 1849; a pensioner of the English
government. _d._ Abingdon house, Kensington at 6.15 a.m. 1 Aug.
1863. _bur._ privately without ceremony, Kensal Green cemetery.
_Daily Telegraph 5 Aug. 1863 p._ 4; _G.M. Sep. 1863 pp._ 378–9;
_Spectator 8 Aug. 1863 p._ 2335.
NOTE.--Two of her servants wrote to a London paper to complain that
their mistress ought to have been burnt and her ashes thrown into the
Ganges.
KOZMIAN, STANISLAS. _b._ in Grand duchy of Posen 21 April 1811;
ed. at Warsaw; a political refugee in England during many years;
author of Dziela dramatozne Szekspira Posen 1866, and other
works published at Posen. _d._ Posen 23 April 1885.
KRASINSKI, COUNT WALERJAN SKOROBOHATY. _b._ White Russia 1780;
chief of department of ministry of public instruction in kingdom
of Poland; established a Jewish college at Warsaw; introduced
stereotyping into Poland; member of Polish diplomatic mission
to England 1830–31; condemned to perpetual banishment; lived in
London 1830–50, in Edinburgh 1850 to death; published Historical
sketch of rise, progress and decline of the reformation in
Poland 2 vols. 1838–40; Poland, its history, constitution,
literature, manners, customs, etc. 1855 and 10 other works. _d._
Edinburgh 22 Dec. 1855. _G.M. xiv_ 625 (1840), _xlv_ 199 (1856).
KRAUSE, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ island of St. Croix, West Indies 6
July 1796; ed. at Fulham and Richmond; ensign 51 foot 21 Oct.
1813, lieut. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818, sold out 1824
or 1825; at battle of Waterloo; moral agent on Irish estates of
Earl of Farnham to look after schools and moral and religious
welfare of tenantry; entered at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830,
M.A. 1838; C. of Cavan 1838–40; incumbent of Bethesda chapel,
Dublin 1840 to death, where he became one of the best known
evangelicals; author of Sermons preached in Bethesda chapel,
Dublin 3 vols. 1853, Second series 2 vols. 1856–58; Sketches of
nineteen discourses on the wiles of Satan 1872. _d._ Dublin 27
Feb. 1852. _C. S. Stanford’s Memoir of W. H. Krause_ (1854),
_portrait_.
KUPER, SIR AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD (son of rev. Wm. Kuper, D.D.,
chaplain to queen Adelaide, _d._ 13 Warwick road, Upper Clapton
27 Nov. 1861). _b._ 16 Aug. 1809; entered navy 19 April 1823;
assisted sir J. J. G. Bremer in forming settlement of Port
Essington, North Australia 1839; captain 8 June 1841; captain
of the Calliope during Chinese war 1841–3; R.A. of the Blue 29
July 1861; commander-in-chief China 8 Feb. 1862 to 17 Jany.
1865, co-operated with French and Dutch forces in Straits of
Simonoseki, Japan 1864 and opened up the inland seas to all
nations, for which he received legion of honour and military
order of William of the Netherlands 1865; admiral 20 Oct. 1872;
C.B. 21 Jany. 1842, K.C.B. 25 Feb. 1864, G.C.B. 2 June 1869.
_d._ The Rock, South Brent near Totnes, Devon 29 Oct. 1885.
_I.L.N. xliv_ 189, 190 (1862), _portrait_.
KURTZ, ANDREW GEORGE. Collector of works of art, his pictures
included samples of Bonheur, Leighton, Tadema, Millais, Leslie,
Faed and Linnell; his galleries often opened to the public at
Grove house, Wavertree, Liverpool. _d._ Aberystwith 20 Sep.
1890. _Athenæum 12 Sep. 1885 p._, _27 Sep. 1890 p._ 455.
KURZ, SULPICE. _b._ Munich about 1833; served in Dutch service
in Java several years; curator of the herbarium, Calcutta 1864
to death; explored Burma, Pegu and Andaman islands; wrote many
articles in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal and Journal
of Botany; author of Forest flora of British Burma. Calcutta 2
vols. 1877; Report on the vegetation of the Andaman islands.
Calcutta 1867. _d._ Pulo-Penang 15 Jany. 1878. _Journal of
Botany_ (1878) 127.
KYD, ARTHUR ANDERSON (4 son of David Kyd, jute manufacturer).
_b._ Dundee 18 Nov. 1856; made trigonometrical survey of
Galashiels 1879–80; surveyor to Kenilworth local board 1881–83;
on staff of London Sanitary protection association 1884 to
death; reported on Eton college, Royal Engineering college
Cooper’s hill and other buildings; A.I.C.E. 5 Dec. 1882; sec.
Clapham Congregational young men’s union. _d._ Clapham 11 Feb.
1886. _Min. of proc. of instit. of C.E. lxxxiv_ 449–50 (1885–86).
KYLE, JAMES FRANCIS. _b._ Edinburgh 22 Sep. 1788; ed. at R.C.
seminary of Aquhorties, Aberdeenshire, professor there 1808 to
Jany. 1826 except 2 or 3 years; ordained priest 21 March 1812;
priest in Glasgow 2 or 3 years; bishop of Germanicia in partibus
and vicar apostolic of northern district of Scotland 13 Feb.
1827 to death, consecrated at Aberdeen 28 Sep. 1828; collected
30,000 letters and papers relating to ecclesiastical history of
Scotland, now in the library at Buckie on the coast of Moray
Firth; profoundly versed in history and literature of Scotland.
_d._ Preshome in-the-Enzie, Banff 23 Feb. 1869. _Reg. and Mag.
of Biog. i_ 290 (1869).
KYLE, SAMUEL MOORE. _b._ 1800 or 1801; archdeacon of St.
Peter’s, Cork 6 July 1833; vicar general and chancellor of Cork
and Ross 30 June 1837 to death; vicar general of Cloyne 1840;
author of The ministration of private baptism. Cork 1853. _d._
37 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 1 May 1890.
KYNASTON, HERBERT (4 son of Roger Kynaston of Warwick). _b._
Warwick 23 Nov. 1809; ed. Westminster 1821–7 and Ch. Ch. Oxf.,
tutor and Greek reader 1836, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, B.D. and
D.D. 1849; C. of Culham, Oxfordshire 1834–8; high master of St.
Paul’s sch. London 22 June 1838 to Dec. 1876; select preacher
of univ. of Oxf. 1842–43; R. of St. Nicholas-Cole-Abbey with
St. Nicholas Olave, London 1850–66; preb. of St. Paul’s cath.
July 1853 to death; contested chair of poetry at Oxford 1867;
few scholars equalled him as a composer of Latin verse, he for
long wrote annual compositions in praise of John Colet founder
of St. Paul’s sch.; author of Miscellaneous poems 1841; Lays
of the seven half centuries 1859; The number of the fish, a
poem 1864; edited with a translation The glory of paradise, by
Peter Damiani 1857. _d._ 31 Alfred place west, South Kensington,
London 26 Oct. 1878. _bur._ Friern Barnet 2 Nov. _Leisure Hour_,
_March 1879 pp._ 180–82.
KYNASTON, SIR JOHN ROGER, 3 Baronet. _b._ 2 July 1797; ed. Rugby
and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1820; capt. North Salop yeomanry cavalry
1831–50; succeeded 26 April 1839; sheriff of co. Montgomery
1842. _d._ Great Western hotel, Paddington, London 7 March 1866.
KYNASTON, ROGER. _b._ London 5 Nov. 1805; ed. Eton; first played
at Lord’s in Lord’s _v._ Eton 31 July 1823, played for 30
seasons; generally fielded long-stop; sec. Marylebone club 14
June 1842 to May 1858 and treasurer 1858–66. _d._ 43 Devonshire
st. Portland place, London 21 June 1874. _I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1844
p._ 125, _portrait_.
KYNNERSLEY, THOMAS CLEMENT SNEYD- (2 son of Thomas
Sneyd-Kynnersley of Loxley park, Staffs. 1774–1844). _b._ 23
July 1803; ed. at Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1825,
M.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 20 June 1828; revising barrister on
Oxford circuit 1832–55; commissioner of bankrupts for Stafford,
Lichfield and Newcastle-under-Lyme to 12 Nov. 1842 when granted
pension of £147 on abolition of the office; stipendiary
magistrate Birmingham 5 April 1856 to Aug. 1888; chief founder
of St. Martin’s shoe-black brigade, Birmingham 5 April 1858;
much interested in criminal reform, prisoners’ aid societies and
industrial schools; recorder of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Nov. 1858
to June 1887; edited J. T. Pratt’s Law of highways 9 ed. 1863,
10 ed. 1865, 11 ed. 1870; author of The law relating to dealers
in old metals and marine store dealers 1862; The law relating to
juvenile offenders 1862. _d._ Moon Green, Moseley, Birmingham 2
May 1892. _The Biograph_, _March 1882 pp._ 276–79.
KYNOCH, GEORGE (youngest son of John Kynoch of Peterhead,
Aberdeenshire). _b._ Peterhead 22 Aug. 1834; clerk at Birmingham
and Midland bank some years; founded the Lion ammunition works,
Witton, Birmingham; partner with John Abraham 1873, partnership
dissolved, business became a limited co. 6 July 1884, he
received £60,000 in cash, £10,000 in fully paid preference
shares and the whole of the £40,000 ordinary shares, managing
director 1884–6, sold his interest in it 1887; pres. of Aston
conservative association March 1885; M.P. Aston manor 3 July
1886 to death, absent from House of Commons 1889–90; gun
manufacturer Lichfield road, Aston 1887–88; lived at Hamstead
hall, Handsworth, Birmingham; went to South Africa, Nov.
1888; a general merchant Johannesburgh 1888; obtained special
concessions from Transvaal government for arms and ammunition;
invented a solid Martini cartridge used by the government. _d._
from internal cancer at Johannesburgh 28 Feb. 1891. _Daily
Graphic 3 March 1891 p._ 9, _portrait_; _London Figaro 7 March
1891 p._ 9, _portrait_; _Birmingham Weekly Post 7 March 1891_.
KYTE, AMBROSE. _b._ Tipperary 1822; went to Australia 1840;
a merchant at Melbourne; retired with a large fortune 1857;
offered £1000 towards expenses of exploring expedition to cross
Australia from south to north Sep. 1858, this led to despatch of
Burke and Wills’ expedition Aug. 1860; member for East Melbourne
of legislative assembly 1861–6; a great philanthropist, gave
many cheques for £1000 each from ‘A Merchant of Melbourne.’ _d._
Melbourne 1868.
L
LABELLE, A. (son of a shoemaker). _b._ St. Roch, Quebec 1834;
parish priest of St. Jerome; founder of national colonization
in Canada and known as The Apostle of colonization; took the
lead in raising men to oppose the Fenians 1868; promoted
Canadian Pacific railway 1881; appointed a deputy commissioner
of agriculture, his bishop refused his assent to his taking
this office, but the Pope did not order him to give it up. _d._
Quebec 4 Jany. 1891.
LABLACHE, FANNY (dau. of Mr. Wilton). _b._ Scotland; acted in
the provinces under stage name of Fanny Wyndham; studied at
Royal Academy of Music, London 1836–7; made her début at Lyceum
theatre 1836; sang at Her Majesty’s with success the contralto