Chapter VIII: Part 8

KARSLAKE, EDWARD KENT (eld. son of Henry Karslake of 4 Regent
st. London, solicitor, who _d._ 3 Aug. 1857 aged 72). _b._ 1820;
ed. at Harrow; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1838–41, Ireland scholar
1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; fellow of Balliol coll. 1841–50;
barrister L.I. 6 May 1846, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death,
treasurer 1892 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; M.P. Colchester 15
Feb. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868; contested Colchester 18 Nov. 1868;
author of Oratio Latino aureo numismate Roberti Peel dignata
et in auditorio recitata scholæ Harroviensis 1836; Concio apud
scholæ Hergensis Gubernatores habita iii 1837. _d._ Turvey,
Beds. 31 May 1892. _Pen and ink sketches in chancery_ (1867),
_No. 3 pp._ 14–16.

KARSLAKE, SIR JOHN BURGESS (brother of the preceding). _b._
Bencham near Croydon 13 Dec. 1821; ed. at Harrow; solicitor;
barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846; went western circuit, leader of
it with John Duke Coleridge; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861, bencher of his
inn 7 May 1861 to death, treasurer 1873; solicitor general 29
Nov. 1866; knighted at Osborne 28 Dec. 1866; attorney general 18
July 1867 to Nov. 1868 and 27 Feb. 1874 to April 1874 when he
resigned in consequence of his failing sight; M.P. Andover 11
Feb. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868; contested Exeter 16 Nov. 1868; M.P.
Huntingdon 20 Dec. 1873, accepted Chiltern hundreds Feb. 1876;
P.C. 24 March 1876; member of judicature commission; revised
Dr. Charles P. Collyn’s Notes on the chase of the wild red deer
1862. _d._ 7 Chester sq. London 4 Oct. 1881. _I.L.N. xlix_
648, 649 (1866), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _ix_ 191, 196 (1874),
_portrait_; _A generation of Judges by Their Reporter_ (1886)
183–9.

KARSLAKE, WILLIAM HEBERDEN (1 son of William Karslake, V.
of Culmstock, Devon 1811, _d._ 1861). _b._ 1809; ed. at the
Charterhouse and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; R. of Meshaw and
Creacombe, Devon 29 Oct. 1832 to death; preb. of Exeter cath.
1875 to death; R.D. of South Molton to death, chairman of
quarter sessions; banquet given to him at South Molton 24 Oct.
1878 when he was presented with 300 guineas to restore Meshaw
ch.; found dead in his bed at Meshaw rectory 29 Oct. 1878.
_Mozley’s Reminiscences_, _ii_ 123–9 (1882); _The Guardian 30
Oct. 1878 p._ 1506.

KATER, EDWARD. F.R.S. 19 Nov. 1840; M.R.I.A.; lived at 46 Sussex
gardens, London. _d._ 1866.

KATON, JAMES EDWARD (only son of James Katon, vice admiral, _d._
1845). _b._ 18 Nov. 1810; entered navy 5 Nov. 1823; captain 1
Jany. 1856, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27 March 1885.
_d._ St. Thomas’s house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 20 Dec. 1886.

KAVANAGH, ARTHUR MACMORROUGH (3 son of Thomas Kavanagh
1767–1837, M.P. for co. Carlow). _b._ Borris house, co. Carlow
25 March 1831 with only the rudiments of arms and legs;
became a good driver, rider, angler, shooter, draughtsman and
painter; acted as a volunteer scout during Smith O’Brien’s
rebellion 1848; went to India by way of Russia and Persia
1849–51; succeeded to the family estates 1854 on death of
his brother Charles Kavanagh; rebuilt villages of Borris and
Ballyragget 1855–6; subsidised and managed railway from Borris
to Bagnalstown 1858 etc.; sheriff of Kilkenny 1856 and of Carlow
1857; M.P. for co. Wexford 1866–68; M.P. co. Carlow 1868–80;
lord lieut. of co. Carlow 1880; initiated the Irish land
committee 1882, founded the Land corporation 1883; P.C. Ireland
1886; author of The cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva. Dublin 1865.
_d._ 19 Tedworth sq. Chelsea, London 25 Dec. 1889. _bur._ in
ruined church on Ballycopigan, Borris. _Sarah L. Steele’s A. M.
Kavanagh_ (1891), _portrait_; _Blackwood’s Mag. March 1891 pp._
429–44; _The Lancet 14 March 1891 p._ 608.

KAVANAGH, JULIA (only child of the succeeding). _b._ Thurles
1824; lived with her parents in Paris to 1844; wrote tales and
essays for periodicals; author of The three paths 1847; Women
in France during the eighteenth century 2 vols. 1850; Women
of christianity 1852; A summer and winter in the Two Sicilies
2 vols. 1858; English women of letters 1862; French women of
letters 2 vols. 1862; Queen Mab 3 vols. 1863; Dora 3 vols. 1868;
Bessie 3 vols. 1872; Two lilies 3 vols. 1877. _d._ Nice 28 Oct.
1877, portrait by Chanet placed in national gallery of Ireland
1884. _Irish Monthly_, _vi_ 96–100 (1878).

KAVANAGH, MORGAN PETER. Author of The wanderings of Lucan and
Dinah, a romance. By M.P.K. 1824; The reign of Lockrin, a poem.
By M. P. K. 1839; The discovery of the science of languages 2
vols. 1844; Aristobulus, the last of the Maccabees 3 vols. 1855;
Myths traced to their primary source through language 2 vols.
1856; Origin of language and myths 2 vols. 1871; The Hobbies,
a novel 3 vols. 1857, edited by Julia Kavanagh his dau. who
repudiated having anything to do with this work. _d._ from an
accident March 1874. _Athenæum_ (1857) 43, 761, 792, 822, 854,
909.

KAVANAGH, THOMAS HENRY (son of band master of 3 regt. of foot).
_b._ Mullinger, Ireland 1821; entered uncovenanted service of
H.E.I. Co. Dec. 1834; assistant comr. in Oudh and stationed at
Lucknow; went disguised through Lucknow to the Alum Bagh to
communicate with sir C. Campbell 8 Nov. 1857 and to act as his
guide to Lucknow; V.C. 6 July 1859; requested to retire from the
service, he being at that time in debt 22 Oct. 1875; granted his
full pension of 5000 rupees per annum; author of Guilty or not
guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Lucknow
1876. _d._ Gibraltar, Nov. 1882. _I.L.N. xxxiv_ 108, 109 (1859),
_portrait_; _How I won the Victoria cross_ (1860). _By T. H.
Kavanagh_, _portrait_; _The Verdict. By T. H. Kavanagh. Lucknow_
(1877).

KAY, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1816; member of faculty of procurators,
Glasgow; member of Glasgow Shakspeare club, instituted 1838;
director of the Glasgow Athenæum; a contributor to Tait’s Mag.,
London Journal, Glasgow Tales of the borders, West of Scotland
Mag., and Dramatic Rev.; dramatised Dickens’ Christmas Carol;
wrote poetical introduction to Tam O’Shanter, a pantomime
at Adelphi theatre, Glasgow, which ran 82 nights; author of
Florine, a dramatic poem in ten scenes 1858. _d._ 1860. _monu._
to his memory in Sighthill cemet. _Inglis’ Dramatic writers_
(1868) 69.

KAY, JOSEPH (3 son of Robert Kay 1768–1834). _b._ Ordsall
cottage, Salford, Manchester 27 Feb. 1821; ed. at Trin. coll.
Camb.; travelling bachelor of the Univ. 1845; B.A. 1845, M.A.
1849; wrote in the Manchester Examiner on Free trade in land;
barrister I.T. 5 May 1848, bencher 31 May 1870 to death; judge
of Salford Hundred court of record, June 1862 to death; Q.C.
22 June 1869; solicitor general of county palatine of Durham
15 Feb. 1872 to death; contested Salford 1874 and 1877; author
of The education of the poor in England and Europe 1846; The
social condition of the people in England and Europe 2 vols.
1850; The condition and education of poor children in English
and in German towns 1853; The law relating to shipmasters and
seamen 2 vols. 1875. _d._ Fredley near Dorking, Surrey 9 Oct.
1878. _Joseph Kay’s Free trade in land_ (1879); _J. S. Bright’s
History of Dorking_ (1884) 371–3.

KAY, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1814; midshipman R.N. Dec. 1827,
commander 23 Aug. 1849, retired captain 1 Jany. 1865; director
of royal magnetic observatory, Hobart Town to 1853; private
sec. to sir Charles Hotham, governor of Victoria 1854–5; clerk
of executive council, Melbourne to 1 July 1875; F.R.S. 26 Feb.
1846; member of Tasmanian Philos. soc.; contributed papers to
Tasmanian Journal of science; author of Observations made at the
observatory at Hobarton 1850. _d._ South Yarra, Melbourne 17
July 1875. _The Argus 19 July 1875 p._ 5.

KAY, WILLIAM (youngest child of Thomas Kay of Knaresborough).
_b._ Pickering, North Yorkshire 8 April 1820; ed. at Giggleswick
sch. 1834–6; scholar of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1836, fellow 1840,
tutor 1842; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1854; Pusey
and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1842; principal of Bishop’s college,
Calcutta 1849–64; select preacher at Oxf. 1865; R. of Great
Leghs, Essex 1866 to death; Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint
1869; one of the Old Testament revisers 1870–85; hon. canon
of St. Alban’s 1877 to death; contributed to the Speaker’s
Bible, Commentaries on Isaiah (1875) and on the Epistle to the
Hebrews (1881); author of The influence of christianity on the
position and character of women. Calcutta 1859; The Psalms with
notes 1863, 5 ed. 1877; Crisis Hupfeldiana, an examination of
Hupfeld’s Criticism on Genesis 1865; A commentary on the two
Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1887. _d._ Great Leghs
16 Jany. 1886. _Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men_ (1891) _pp.
ix–xi_ 150, 167, 172.

KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, SIR JAMES PHILLIPS, 1 Baronet (brother of
Joseph Kay 1821–78). _b._ Rochdale 20 July 1804; educ. Edinb.
univ., M.D. 1827; senior president Royal Medical soc. 1826;
physician Manchester 1827; sec. Manchester board of health;
assistant poor law commissioner 1835; first sec. of committee
of privy council on education 1839–49; with E. Carleton Tufnell
established first training coll. for teachers at Battersea 1839,
existing methods of public education founded on his system;
assumed by r.l. name of Shuttleworth 14 Feb. 1842; cr. baronet
9 Jany. 1850; vice chairman of central relief committee,
Manchester, during cotton famine 1861–5; sheriff of Lancashire
1863; D.C.L. Oxf. 22 June 1870; contested N.E. Lancashire 13
Feb. 1874; author of The moral and physical condition of the
working classes employed in the cotton manufacture 1832; Public
education as affected by the minutes of the committee of privy
council 1853; Scarsdale, or life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire
border 3 vols. 1860; Thoughts and suggestions on social problems
1873; Ribblesdale, or Lancashire sixty years ago 3 vols. 1874.
d. 68 Cromwell road, Kensington, London 26 May 1877. _Graphic_,
_xv_ 549 (1877), _portrait_.

KAYE, JOHN (son of Abraham Kaye, linen draper, Angel row,
Hammersmith). _b._ Hammersmith 27 Dec. 1783; ed. at Ch. coll.
Camb., scholar, fellow 1804, foundation fellow 1811, tutor
1808–14, master 5 Sep. 1814 to Nov. 1830; senior wrangler,
chancellor’s medallist and B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814,
D.D. 1815; vice chancellor 1815; regius professor of divinity
July 1816 to Nov. 1830, revived public lectures which had
been suspended for more than a century; nominated bishop
of Bristol 1 July 1820, consecrated at Lambeth 30 July,
translated to Lincoln 12 Feb. 1827; visitor of Balliol coll.
Oxf. 1848 to death; contributed papers to British Mag. under
signature of Philalethes Cantabrigiensis; F.R.S.; author of The
ecclesiastical history of the second and third centuries 1826;
Some account of the writings and opinions of Justin Martyr 1829;
A charge to the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln 1843, 3 ed.
1843; Some account of the council of Nicæa, in connexion with
the life of Athanasius 1853; Some account of the government of
the church of Christ during the first three centuries 1855; The
works of John Kaye 8 vols. 1888. _d._ Riseholme palace near
Lincoln 18 Feb. 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 428–31, 570 (1853).

KAYE, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (2 son of Charles Kaye, solicitor to bank
of England). _b._ London 1814; ed. at Eton and Addiscombe; 2
lieut. Bengal artillery 23 May 1836, resigned the service 1841;
started the Calcutta Review 1846; entered Home civil service
of H.E.I.C. 1856; sec. in political and secret department of
India office 1858 to 1874 when he retired; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871;
F.R.S. 7 June 1866; published History of the war in Afghanistan
2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1874; The administration of the East India
company 1853; The life and correspondence of Charles lord
Metcalfe 1854; The life and correspondence of sir John Malcolm
2 vols. 1856; Christianity in India 1859; A history of the Sepoy
war in India 3 vols. 1864–76, revised and continued by colonel
G. B. Malleson 6 vols. 1890. _d._ Rose hill, Forest hill 24 July
1876.

KAYE, PETER M. _b._ Warrington about 1800; ed. at Ushaw coll.
Durham and at English coll. Rome; ordained priest in Rome 1829;
missioner at Rook st. Manchester 1829, at Bradford, Yorkshire
1835, at St. George’s, London 1843; R. of St. Alban’s, Blackburn
1845 to death; rural dean; reputed restorer of R.C. guilds
in England; a well known preacher; author of The laws and
constitutions of the holy guild of St. Joseph and our Blessed
Lady 1840. _d._ Blackburn 6 Aug. 1856. _Lamp 30 Aug. 1856 pp._
139–40; _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 674–5 (1887).

KEAN, CHARLES JOHN (2 son of Edmund Kean 1787–1833). _b._
Waterford, Ireland 18 Jany. 1811; entered Eton as an Oppidan,
June 1824; made his first appearance on the stage at Drury
Lane theatre as Young Norval in Douglas 1 Oct. 1827; visited
America 1830, 1839, 1845; played Hamlet at Drury Lane 8 Jany.
1838; manager of Princess’s theatre, London with Robert Keeley
28 Sep. 1850, sole manager 17 Oct. 1851 to 29 Aug. 1859; played
in the provinces 1859–61; subscription testimonial vase value
2000 guineas presented to him at banquet in St. James’ hall,
London 22 March 1862; acted in Australia, United States and
Canada 1863–66; made his last appearance at Prince of Wales’s
theatre, Liverpool 28 May 1867 as Louis XI.; F.S.A. 18 June
1857; F.R.G.S.; his best characters were Hamlet, Richard III.
and Louis XI.; edited nine of Shakspeare’s plays with notes
1853–59; arranged Selections from the plays of Shakspeare 1860;
directed private theatricals at Windsor Castle 1849–60. _d._
Queensborough ter. Bayswater, London 23 Jany. 1868. _bur._
Catherington ch. near Horndean, Hants. 30 Jany., his personalty
sworn under £35,000, 25 March 1868. _J. W. Cole’s Life of C.
Kean 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _The drawing room portrait
gallery of eminent personages_, _1 series_ (1859), _portrait_;
_E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane_, _ii_ 153–63 (1881); _W.
Marston’s Our recent actors_, _i_ 168–215 (1888); _I.L.N. 1 Feb.
1868 p._ 117, _portrait_.

KEAN, ELLEN (dau. of Cornelius Tree of Lancaster buildings,
St. Martin’s lane, London). _b._ South of Ireland, Dec. 1805;
appeared at Covent Garden 21 May 1823 as Olivia in Twelfth
Night; played at Bath 1824–6; the original Mavilla in R. Allen’s
The Parricide 12 May 1824; acted at Drury Lane 1826–29, and
at Covent Garden 1829–36 and 1839–42; the original Mariana in
Sheridan Knowles’s The Wife 1833, and the original Clemanthe in
Talfourd’s Ion 26 May 1836; played in U.S. of America 1836–9,
1845–7. (_m._ 29 Jany. 1842 Charles J. Kean 1811–68); acted
many Shakespearean parts at Haymarket 1842; the original of
Lady Eveline Amyott in The Wife’s Secret, at Haymarket 20 June
1849; played many original parts at Princess’ theatre 1850–59;
retired from the stage 1868; a perfect Gertrude in Hamlet
and very effective as Mrs. Beverley. _d._ 47 Queensborough
terrace, Bayswater, London 20 Aug. 1880. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s
Our Actresses_, _ii_ 129–39 (1844), _portrait_; _Cole’s Life of
C. Kean 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _W. Marston’s Our recent
actors_, _i_ 216–32 (1888); _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_
(1880) 217–25.

KEANE, DAVID DEADY. _b._ 1810 or 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.
and univ. of Gottingen; Ph.D. Gottingen 1831; a parliamentary
reporter; barrister M.T. 12 June 1835; revising barrister on
Norfolk circuit 1856–63; recorder of Bedford, July 1861 to
death; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1864; bencher of his inn 1864 to death;
published Courts of requests, their jurisdiction and powers 3
ed. 1845; A collection of all the statutes now in force relating
to gaols and houses of correction in England and Wales 1850;
The nuisances removal acts for England and Wales 1855, 6 ed.
1870; Reports of cases in the common pleas on appeals from the
revising barristers from 1854 to 1862. 1863. _d._ 20 June 1870.

KEANE, GEORGE DISNEY (3 son of 1 baron Keane 1781–1844). _b._
26 Sep. 1817; entered R.N. 8 Oct. 1831, captain 9 July 1855,
R.A. 30 April 1873, retired 27 Sep. 1877; admiral 30 Oct. 1884;
served in Syrian war 1840, Kaffir war 1851–2, and at rout of
imperial camp at Shanghai 1854; C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._ Mere
hall, Knutsford 19 Oct. 1891.

KEANE, SIR JOHN HENRY, 3 Baronet. _b._ Cappoquin house,
Waterford 12 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.C.L. 1841; rowed No. 6 in Cambridge boat against Oxford 17
June 1836 and No. 4 in first match against Leander club 9 June
1837; succeeded 16 Feb. 1855; sheriff of Waterford 1856; author
of An address to the young men of Ireland 1835; Lady Alice, the
flower of Ossorye 1836; The substance of three lectures on the
history of Ireland 1839; The Old Jewry, a tragedy 1860. _d._
Cappoquin house, Waterford 26 Nov. 1881.

KEANE, JOSEPH B. Educ. as an architect in office of works at
Dublin; F.R.I.A. Ireland, F.S.C.E.; designed R.C. churches of
St. Francis Xavier, Dublin 1832 and of St. Lorcan Ua Tuathal,
Dublin 1858; Queen’s college, Galway, was built from his designs
1846–50; exhibited a drawing at R.A. London 1842. _d._ Dublin 7
Oct. 1859.

KEANE, SIR RICHARD, 2 Baronet. _b._ Lismore, co. Waterford,
March 1780; lieut. col. Waterford militia 30 July 1804 to death;
succeeded 18 April 1829; M.P. Waterford 1832–5. _d._ Waterford
16 Feb. 1855.

KEANE, WILLIAM (8 son of Robert Keane of Beech park, co. Clare).
_b._ 1818; ed. at Charterhouse and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1840,
M.A. 1843; C. of Fenstanton, Hunts. 1843–6; canon of St. Paul’s
cath. Calcutta 1846; association sec. to Church missionary
soc. 1852; P.C. of Whitby 1853, R. of Whitby 1861 to death;
F.R.A.S.; author of A letter to the late J. E. D. Bethune on
the government public instruction in Bengal 1851, 2 ed. 1852;
Romanism and Hindooism. Madras 1851, and pamphlets on India
education and temperance. _d._ 1873. _Rev. G. Smales’s Whitby
authors_ (1867) 189–92; _I.L.N. xxii_ 277 (1853).

KEANE, WILLIAM. Vice rector of Irish college in Paris 14
years; parish priest of Midleton; bishop of Ross 19 Nov. 1850,
consecrated 2 Feb. 1851, translated to Cloyne 27 April 1857.
_d._ 15 Jany. 1874. _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _ii_ 103–105
(1876).

KEARNEY, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1800 or 1801; an original member
of Institute of painters in water-colours 1831, vice pres.;
exhibited 9 pictures at R.A. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1823–58;
his picture Ruins of the sallyport Framlingham, is in the
Irish National Gallery; published Illustrations of the Surrey
zoological gardens, drawn on stone with descriptive notices
1832, three parts. _d._ 114 High Holborn, London 25 June 1858.

KEARY, ANNIE (2 dau. of rev. Wm. Keary, R. of Bilton, Yorkshire,
_d._ 1856). _b._ Bilton 3 March 1825; lived at Addison road,
Kensington 1854–71; travelled in Egypt 1858; often resided at
Pegomas near Cannes, where she wrote some of her books; joined
Church of Rome; author of Early Egyptian history. Anon. 1861;
Little Wanderlin and other fairy tales 1865; Oldburg 3 vols.
1869; The nations around Palestine 1870; A York and a Lancaster
rose 1876; Castle Daly, the story of an Irish home 3 vols. 1875;
A doubting heart 3 vols. 1879; Sidney Grey, or a year from home
1883. _d._ Eastbourne 3 March 1879. _Memoir of Annie Keary by
her sister_ (1882), _portrait_; _Macmillan’s Mag. xlii_ 259–67
(1880).

KEATE, JOHN (son of Wm. Keate, prebendary of Wells, _d._ 1795).
_b._ Wells, Somerset 1773; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb.,
carried off 4 of sir Wm. Browne’s medals 1793–5, B.A. 1796, M.A.
1799, D.D. 1810; assistant master Eton 1795–1802, lower master
1802–9, head master 1809 to 1834; on 30 June 1832 he flogged
more than 80 boys, his success as a teacher was considerable,
although a severe disciplinarian he was popular, and on his
resignation he left in the college 570 boys; canon of Windsor
14 March 1820 to death; V. of Nether Stowey, Somerset 1820–24;
R. of Hartley Westpall, Hants. 1824–49; edited T. Lucretii Cari
de rerum natura libri sex 1813, and in Fasciculus Carminum.
Etonæ 1839 wrote Immortalitas Animæ pp. 17–21. _d._ Hartley
Westpall rectory 5 March 1852. _H. C. Maxwell Lyte’s History of
Eton college_ (1875) 358–404, 2 _portraits_; _C. A. Wilkinson’s
Reminiscences of Eton in Keate’s times_ (1887).

KEATE, ROBERT (brother of the preceding). _b._ Laverton 14 March
1777; ed. at Bath gr. sch. to 1792; studied at St. George’s
hospital, London 1793; hospital mate at Chelsea hospital 1794;
member of Surgeons’ Corporation 1798; staff surgeon in the army
1798; inspector general 21 Jany. 1807, placed on h.p. 25 March
1810; assistant surgeon at St. George’s hospital 1800, surgeon
1813–53; examiner of college of surgeons 1827–55, pres. 1830,
31 and 39; surgeon extraordinary to Wm. IV. 1830–2 and surgeon
1832–7; sergeant surgeon to Victoria 1841 to death; a firstrate
operator. _d._ 11 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 2 Oct. 1857.
_J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections_ (1874) 378–85,
510–19; _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. ii_ 51 (1858).

NOTE.--He is reported to have said, I have attended four sovereigns and have been badly paid for my services; one of them now deceased owed me nine thousand guineas. No doubt George IV. is alluded to.

KEATE, ROBERT WILLIAM (younger son of the preceding). _b._ 15
Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 16 June 1814; ed. at Eton and
Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1842; played with Marylebone
cricket club several seasons, was in Oxford eleven 1833, 34,
35, member of the I. Zingari; barrister L.I. 7 May 1844; civil
commissioner of the Seychelles 1849; governor of Grenada 1853–6;
governor of Trinidad, Nov. 1856 to April 1864; governor of Natal
20 Feb. 1867 to 1872; governor in chief of West Coast settlement
30 Nov. 1872 to death, _d._ Cape Coast Castle 17 March 1873.
_Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 192 (1862), _v p. xv_ (1876).

KEATING, SIR HENRY SINGER (3 son of sir Henry Sheehy Keating,
K.C.B., _d._ 1846). _b._ Dublin 13 Jany. 1804; barrister I.T.
4 May 1832, bencher 27 April 1849 to 1859 and 1877 to death;
Q.C. Feb. 1849; M.P. for Reading 1852–9, introduced and passed
The Bills of Exchange act 1854; solicitor general 2 June 1857
to March 1858 and 18 June to 14 Dec. 1859; knighted at St.
James’s palace 18 June 1857; serjeant-at-law Dec. 1859; judge of
court of common pleas 14 Dec. 1859 to 5 Feb. 1875 when retired
on pension; P.C. 4 Feb. 1875; edited with J. S. Willes, J. W.
Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various branches of the
law, with notes, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1849 and 4 ed. 2 vols. 1856. _d._
St. Leonards 1 Oct. 1888. _Drawing room portrait gallery_, _3rd
series_ (1860), _portrait_; _The Statesmen of England_ (1862),
_portrait_ 34; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 181, 182 (1875), _portrait_.

KEATINGE, RICHARD (2 son of Maurice Keatinge of Dublin,
barrister). _b._ Dublin 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called
to Irish bar 1813; K.C. 1835; queen’s serjeant Nov. 1842;
bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1843; judge of the prerogative
court Aug. 1843; judge of the probate court Jany. 1858 to Oct.
1868; P.C. Ireland, Sep. 1843. _d._ 21 Merrion sq. Dublin 9 Feb.
1876. _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885)
306–9; _I.L.N. lxviii_ 190, 213 (1876), _portrait_.

KEATS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1794 or 1795; entered navy 30 Sep. 1805;
captain 27 March 1826; admiral on half pay 11 Jany. 1864. _d._
Porthill near Bideford 2 May 1874.

KEAYS, ROBERT YOUNG (son of Robert Y. Keays of Walworth,
Surrey). _b._ 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A.
1823; chaplain of H.E.I.C. 1823; archdeacon and commissary of
Bombay 1852 to death. _d._ on board the Africa, on his voyage to
England 11 March 1855.

KEBBEL, HENRY, _b._ 1772; ed. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., LL.B.
1810; V. of Wistow with C. of Newton Harcourt, and also P.C. of
Kilby, Leicestershire, July 1813 to death; originator of the
system of allotment grounds for agricultural labourers; author
of A sermon recommending the establishment of a society for
bettering the condition of the poor 1838. _d._ Kilby 13 July
1867.

KEBLE, JOHN (elder son of John Keble 1745–1835, V. of Coln, St.
Aldwyn’s, Gloucs.) _b._ Fairford, Gloucs. 25 April 1792; ed. by
his father and at C.C. coll. Oxf., scholar 12 Dec. 1806; B.A.
double first 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of Oriel coll. Oct. 1812
to May 1823, tutor 1818–23, public examiner in the univ. 1813,
1814–16 and 1821–23, master of the schools 1816 to May 1823; C.
of East Leach and Burthorpe, Gloucs. 1815–28; C. of Southrop
1823–5; C. of Hursley near Winchester 1825–6; professor of
poetry, Oxf. 1831–41; took part in originating the Tractarian
movement 1832 etc.; preached assize sermon at St. Mary’s, Oxf.
on the national apostasy 14 July 1833; contributed to Tracts for
the Times 1833, seven numbers; V. of Hursley with Otterbourne
and Ampfield, Hants. Jany. 1836 to death, instituted 9 March;
author of The Christian year. Anon. 2 vols. 23 June 1827, of
which 109 editions were printed; Lyra innocentium, thoughts in
verse on christian children, their ways and their privileges.
Anon. 1846, the profits of these two works were applied to the
restoration of Hursley ch.; Sermons, academical and occasional
1847; edited The works of R. Hooker 1836; with E. B. Pusey
and others, A library of Fathers 1838. _d._ Bournemouth 29
March 1866. _bur._ Hursley 6 April. _Sir J. T. Coleridge’s
Memoir of J. Keble_ (1870); _J. F. Moor’s The Birthplace of
the author of The Christian year_ (1867), _memoir pp._ 9–54,
_portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _v_ 371–81 (1873), _portrait_;
_R. H. Haweis’ Poets in the pulpit_ (1880), _memoir_ 145–93,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xlviii_ 365, 366 (1866), _portrait_.

NOTE.--From the first publication of the ‘Christian year’ in 1827 to expiry of the copyright in 1873, there were sold no less than 379.000 copies; the selling price of these was £56,000, and the sum paid to him by his publisher John Henry Parker was £14,000.

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

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

KEELEY, LOUISA MARY (youngest dau. of the succeeding). _b._
1835; played in the provinces; first appeared at Drury Lane 12
July 1856 as Gertrude in the Loan of a Lover; a pleasing singer;
acted at Princess’s 1859–60; played Ixion in Burnand’s burlesque
Venus and Adonis, at Haymarket 29 March 1864; played Eurydice in
Planche’s Orpheus in the Haymarket, at Haymarket 29 Dec. 1865.
(_m._ 12 Aug. 1858 Montagu Stephen Williams _b._ 1834, barrister
I.T. 1862, police magistrate). _d._ 44 Upper Brook st. London
24 Jany. 1877. _The Players 29 Dec. 1860 p._ 199, _portrait_;
_Planche’s Extravaganzas_, _v_ 193 (1879), _portrait_.

KEELEY, ROBERT (son of a watch maker). _b._ 3 Grange court,
Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1793; apprenticed to Hansard the
printer 3 years; acted in the Norwich circuit 4 years 1814–18;
the original Leporello in Giovanni in London, at the Olympic
1818, and Jemmy Green in Tom and Jerry, at the Adelphi 26 Nov.
1821; played Jerry in Pierce Egan’s Life in London, at Sadler’s
Wells 8 April 1822; acted at Covent Garden 1822, Victoria 1833,
in U.S. of America 1836–7, at Olympic 1838–41, at Drury Lane
1841–2, at Covent Garden 1843; manager with Strutt of the Lyceum
1844–7; manager with Charles Kean of the Princess’s 1850–1;
played the Carrier, in Henry IV. at Windsor castle 1850; acted
at Haymarket, Adelphi, Olympic and Drury Lane 1852–7; his last
appearance was as Euclid Facile in Twice killed, Drury Lane 27
March 1862; a genuine comedian in much favour with the public.
(_m._ 1825 Mary Anne Goward, she was _b._ Ipswich 1806, a well
known actress). He _d._ 10 Pelham crescent, Brompton, London
3 Feb. 1869; will proved 24 March, personalty under £18,000.
_Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. v_ 145 (1826), _portrait_; _Register
and Mag. of Biog. i_ 229–31, 523 (1869); _T. Marshall’s Lives of
most celebrated actors_ (1847) 91–108, _portrait_; _Actors by
Daylight 2 June 1838 pp._ 105–7, _portrait on horseback_; _W.
Marston’s Our recent actors_, _ii_ 19–107 (1888).

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

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

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

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

KEENE, CHARLES SAMUEL (son of Samuel Browne Keene, solicitor,
_d._ 1838). _b._ Duval’s lane, Hornsey 10 Aug. 1823; ed.
at Ipswich gr. sch.; apprenticed to Messrs. Whymper, wood
engravers, London 1842–7; worked for the Illustrated London
News and other periodicals from 1847; drew for Punch 1851–90,
also for Punch’s Almanac and Pocket Book; illustrated stories
in Once a Week 1859 and Douglas Jerrold’s Caudle Lectures in
Punch; a most perfect artist in black and white; awarded gold
medal at Paris exhibition 1889; published Our People, from the
collection of Mr. Punch 1881; a large collection of his later
drawings exhibited at Fine Art Society’s rooms, New Bond st.
March 1891; illustrated many books 1860–85. _d._ 112 Hammersmith
road 4 Jany. 1891, portrait by sir George Reid exhibited at
Victoria exhibition 1892. _The Mask_ (1868) 65, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p._ 38, _portrait_, _21 March 1891 p._
375, _portrait_; _Black and White 21 March 1891 pp._ 205, 206,
_portrait_; _Mag. of Art_, _March 1891 pp._ 145–6, _portrait_.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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