Chapter X: Part 10

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.