Chapter IX: Part 9

KELLY, SIR FITZROY EDWARD (son of Robert Hawke Kelly, captain
R.N.) _b._ London 9 Oct. 1796; practised as special pleader;
barrister L.I. 7 May 1824; went Norfolk circuit; K.C. 27 Dec.
1834, bencher of his inn 1838–66; contested Hythe 1830, Ipswich
1832 and 1841, and Lyme Regis 1847; M.P. for Ipswich 8 Jany.
1835 to June 1835 when unseated on petition; contested Ipswich
27 July 1837, seated on petition 26 Feb. 1838 and sat for it
until 1841; M.P. for Cambridge borough 1843–1847, M.P. East
Suffolk 1852–1866; standing counsel to Bank of England, May
1845; solicitor general 29 June 1845 to 2 July 1846 and 27 Feb.
1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1845;
attorney general 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; serjeant at law
16 July 1866, admitted 2 Nov. 1866; lord chief baron of court of
exchequer 16 July 1866 to Nov. 1875 when he became a judge of
supreme court of judicature but retained his former title by act
of parliament; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866. _d._ Bedford hotel, Brighton
17 Sep. 1880. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 22 Sep. _A generation of
Judges. By Their Reporter_ (1886) 38–53; _Public men of Ipswich_
(1875) 71–8; _Illust. news of the world_, _vol. i_ (1858),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 48 (1845) _portrait_, _lxxvii_ 324
(1880) _portrait_.

NOTE.--At one time his income at the bar amounted to £25,000 a year, a sum scarcely ever equalled by an advocate of late years, except by Lord Selborne when Roundell Palmer. He made his famous defence of John Tawell the Quaker murderer, at Aylesbury assizes March 1845, which gained him sobriquet of ‘Apple pip Kelly,’ this was the first occasion on which the telegraph was called in to assist in securing a murderer. See _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 16–49.

KELLY, FRANCES MARIA (dau. of Mark Kelly _d._ Canterbury 4
April 1833). _b._ Brighton 15 Dec. 1790; appeared at Drury
Lane in opera of Bluebeard 16 Jany. 1798; chorister Drury Lane
1799; took many of Madame Storace’s characters and afterwards
those of Mrs. Jordan, at Drury Lane and the Italian opera
1800–1806; learnt Italian, French and Latin; co-operated with
Edmund Kean at Drury Lane 1812 and frequently played Ophelia to
his Hamlet; while acting in Modern Antiques at Covent Garden
17 Feb. 1816 George Barnett fired a pistol at her; made final
appearance at Drury Lane 8 June 1835; besides impersonating many
of Shakespeare’s heroines, she played all the leading comedy
characters in the English drama, and was superior in melodrama
to all other actresses; lessee of New Strand theatre where she
gave a monologue entertainment Feb. to Oct. 1833 with which she
afterwards travelled in the provinces; built a theatre at back
of 73 Dean st. Soho for a dramatic school, opened 25 March
1840 and called Miss Kelly’s theatre, where she gave occasional
dramatic performances; gave Shakespeare readings in the country;
her theatre seized by the landlord 1849, she lost £16,000. _d._
Ross cottage, Feltham, Middlesex 6 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Brompton
cemetery 16 Dec. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography_, _i_ 215–24
(1825), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses_, _ii_
223–34 (1844); _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xii_ 414 (1880),
_portrait_; _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _v_ 203–206 (1814),
_portrait_, _viii_ 83–86 (1816), _portrait_; _I.L.N. viii_ 9
(1846), _portrait_, _lxxxi_ 661 (1882), _portrait_.

NOTE.--Her sister Lydia Eliza Kelly an actress _b._ London 2 June 1795, _d._ in U.S. of America before 1882. _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _vi_ 323 (1815), _portrait_; _Ireland’s Records_, _i_ 433 (1866).

KELLY, FRANCIS (son of Edward Kelly). _b._ Drumragh, co. Tyrone
31 July 1813; ed. at Maynooth 1835; ordained priest 13 June
1840; C. of Drumragh 1840–6; professor in the diocesan seminary,
Derry, July 1846; C. of Strabane; C. of Culdaff; parish priest
of Upper Fahan to 1849; D.D.; bishop of Derry 8 Aug. 1849 to
death, consecrated in Derry 21 Oct. 1849; built Derry cath. at
cost of £40,000. _d._ St. Eugene’s, Derry 1 Sep. 1889. _The
Derry Journal 2, 4, 6 Sep. 1889._

KELLY, GORDON WILLIAM (only child of rev. Dr. John Kelly
1750–1809, Manx scholar, V. of Ardleigh near Colchester). _b._
Isle of Man 1786; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow, B.A.
1808, M.A. 1811; called to bar of Isle of Man; recorder of
Colchester to death. (_m._ 1830 Miss White, she founded 1858
the Kelly scholarship in King William’s college, Isle of Man,
also the Kelly prize in same college for proficiency in the Manx
language). _d._ Oxney Green House, Whittle near Chelmsford 4
April 1858.

KELLY, JOHN. _b._ Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1801; independent minister
of Bethesda chapel, Liverpool, Sep. 1829; his new chapel at
Everton, Liverpool, opened 23 Nov. 1837, retired from it 28
Sep. 1873; a director of London missionary society many years;
chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales in London,
May 1851, and at Northampton, Oct. 1851; author of The voluntary
support of the Christian ministry the law of the New Testament
1838; Discourses on holy scripture 1850 and other books. _d._
18 Richmond terrace, Liverpool 12 June 1876. _Hassan’s Rev.
John Kelly, a memorial_ (1876), _portrait_; _Waddington’s
Congregational history_, _v_ 561–9 (1880).

KELLY, JOHN. _b._ 1834; presbyterian minister at Hebburn
and Streatham; editor of tracts of Religious tract soc. 56
Paternoster row, London; author of P. Gerhardt’s Spiritual
songs, translated 1867; The king and the kingdom 1867; Who is
the apostate? A passover story by A Saphir, translated 1878;
Louisa of Prussia and other sketches 1888. _d._ Braemar 19 July
1890. _Christian World 24 July 1890 p._ 601.

KELLY, MATTHEW (eld. son of James Kelly). _b._ Maudlin st.
Kilkenny 21 Sep. 1814; studied at Maynooth 1831–9; professor of
philosophy and theology successively in the Irish college, Paris
1839–41; professor of belles-lettres and French at Maynooth 5
Nov. 1841, of ecclesiastical history 20 Oct. 1857 to death;
created D.D. by Pius IX. 1854; a canon of Ossory about 1854;
member of council of Celtic Society for which he edited John
Lynch’s Cambrensis Eversus. Dublin 3 vols. 1848–52; also edited
White’s Apologia 1849, and O’Sullivan Beare’s Historiæ Catholicæ
Hiberniæ Compendium; author of Calendar of Irish saints, the
martyrology of Tallagh, with notices of the patron saints of
Ireland. Dublin 1857. _d._ Maynooth 30 Oct. 1858. _Dissertations
chiefly on Irish church history, by M. Kelly_ (1864), _with a
memoir by Dr. Mc.Carthy, pp. v–xiii_.

KELLY, PETER BURROWES. _b._ Stradbally; called to bar in
Ireland; clerk of the peace for Queen’s co. to death;
contributed to Dublin Review and other periodicals; author of
The manor of Glenmore, or the Irish peasant. By a Member of the
Irish bar 3 vols. 1839; The Polish mother, a tragedy in five
acts 1840, and of some light dramatic pieces which are still
played. _d._ Glentolka, Fairview near Dublin 24 March 1883.
_Irish Law Times_, _xvii_ 183 191 (1883).

KELLY, THOMAS (son of John Kelly of Chevening, Kent, innkeeper,
_d._ 1810). _b._ Chevening 7 Jany. 1772; assistant in employ
of Alexander Hogg of 16 Paternoster row 1786–1809; publisher
at 52 Paternoster row 1809; one of common council of ward of
Farringdon within 9 May 1823, alderman of same ward Dec. 1830
to death; sheriff of London 1825–6, lord mayor 1836–37; lived
at Streatham hill; printed Kelly’s Practical Builders’ price
book 1850, 2 ed. 1861. _d._ 4 Buenos Ayres, Margate 7 Sep.
1855. _bur._ churchyard of Chelsham, Surrey, by the side of his
parents. _Passages from the life of Alderman Kelly. By R. C.
Fell_ (1856), _portrait_; _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 363–71.

KELLY, THOMAS CONYNYHAM. _b._ 22 Dec. 1808; ensign 31 foot 3
April 1828, lieut. col. 15 June 1855 to 11 March 1857 when
placed on h.p.; lieut. col. of 38 foot 17 July 1857, and of 47
foot 4 Feb. 1859 to 3 March 1863 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1
Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 22 Dec. 1878; hon. general
1 July 1881; C.B. 17 June 1858. _d._ Ellerslie, Canterbury 15
March 1887.

KELSEY, ELIZABETH. _b._ 1852; ballet dancer and actress;
appeared in New York 12 Sep. 1866 with her sister Harriet
Kelsey in The White Fawn, then in The Black Crook; appeared in
burlesques in the English provinces to 1886; played in New York
in Lost in the Snow. _d._ New York 14 Feb. 1888.

KELSIEFF, BASIL IVANOVITCH. _b._ St. Petersburg about 1835; came
to London 1857; on the staff of Alexander Hertzen’s journal The
Kolokol; with his brother John Kelsieff attempted a revolution
in Russia which failed; returned to England 1865; removed
publication of the Kolokol to Geneva; reconciled to Russian
government; published many works in Russian. _d._ St. Petersburg
1872.

KELSO, THOMAS. _b._ Ireland 1784, settled at Baltimore, U.S.
America 1791; director of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
railway co. 37 years; president Equitable fire insurance
co.; V.P. of First National bank of Baltimore; founded the
Kelso orphan home, Baltimore at cost of 120,000 dollars. _d._
Baltimore 26 July 1878.

KELTY, MARY ANN (dau. of an Irish surgeon who _d._ Cambridge
1822). _b._ Cambridge 1789; converted under Charles Simeon’s
preaching at Cambridge; lived at 5 Hanover st. Rye lane,
Peckham, London 1832 to death; author of The Favourite of Nature
1821 an anonymous novel, translated into French under title of
Eliza Rivers 1823; Early days in the Society of Friends 1840;
Reminiscences of thought and feeling 1852; The real and the beau
ideal 1860; The solace of a solitaire 1869; the majority of her
works simply bear her initials M.A.K. _d._ 5 Hanover st. Peckham
8 Jany. 1873.

KELYNACK, WILLIAM (3 child of Nicholas Kelynack of Newlyn
near Penzance, _drowned_ 21 Jany. 1854). _b._ Newlyn 22 May
1832; ed. at Penzance; Wesleyan M. minister 1854 when he went
as a missionary to New South Wales; representative of N.S.W.
conference at the conference at Bristol 1876; D.D. of Univ. of
New Orleans 1877; president of N.S.W. Wesleyan conference 1880;
sec. of

Wesleyan missions 1882; president of Newington coll. Sydney;
a great orator, called The silver trumpet of Australia; with
others edited The Christian advocate and Wesleyan record. Sydney
187-. _d._ Sydney, Oct. 1891.

KEMBLE, ADELAIDE (younger dau. of the succeeding). _b._ Covent
Garden chambers, London 1814; first appeared as a soprano singer
at Concert of ancient music 13 May 1835; sang at Prague and
Paris 1837–8; first appeared in opera at the Fenice theatre,
Venice as Norma; sang at Covent Garden and in the provinces
1841–2, her chief characters being Norma, Susanna and Amina;
last appeared on the stage 23 Dec. 1842; one of the best English
singers of the century. (_m._ 1843 Edward John Sartoris of
Warnford park, Hants., _b._ 1817, M.P. for Carmarthen 1868–74);
composed a few vocal pieces; author of A week in a French
country house 1867; Medusa and other tales 1868, reprinted as
Past Hours 2 vols. 1880. _d._ Warsash house, Warsash, Hampshire
4 Aug. 1879. _Wilson’s Our Actresses_, _ii_ 253–68 (1844),
_portrait_; _Cruikshank’s Omnibus_ (1842) 238, _portrait_; _C.
E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 402–5.

KEMBLE, CHARLES (4 son of Roger Kemble 1721–1802, theatrical
manager). _b._ Brecknock, South Wales 25 Nov. 1775; ed. at R.C.
coll. Douay 3 years; clerk in general post office, London; made
his début at Sheffield as Orlando, in As you like it 1792;
appeared at Drury Lane as Malcolm 21 April 1794; during 30 years
he is said to have steadily improved; played at Haymarket in
summer season; the original of Henry Woodville in The Wheel
of Fortune 28 Feb. 1794, and of Alonzo in Pizarro 24 May
1799; joined his brother at Covent Garden 1803; the original
Knight of Snowdon in the Lady of the Lake 5 Feb. 1811; acted
in Brussels, Calais and Boulogne 1813–15; manager of Covent
Garden 1822–32; assaulted C. M. Westmacott editor of the Age,
for remarks made on his dau. Fanny Kemble 1830; visited America
with his dau. 1832–34; made his last appearance on the stage
10 April 1840; examiner of plays 17 Oct. 1836 to 22 Feb. 1840;
gave Shakespearean readings at Willis’ rooms 1844–45. (_m._
2 July 1806 Maria Theresa dau. of George De Camp, she was
_b._ Vienna 17 Jany. 1774, dancer and actress, _d._ Chertsey
3 Sep. 1838); entertained by the Garrick club 10 Jany. 1837;
his best characters were Romeo, Hamlet and Mercutio; author of
The wanderer or the rights of hospitality, a drama 1808; Plot
or counterplot or the portrait of Michael Cervantes, a farce
1808; The point of honour, a play 1800; C. Kemble’s Shakespeare
readings 1870; Shakespeare for schools, as abridged by C. Kemble
1883. _d._ Saville row, London 12 Nov. 1854. _Oxberry’s Dramatic
Biography_, _iii_ 1–14 (1825), _portrait_; _A. Brereton’s Some
famous Hamlets_ (1884) 27–30; _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxxvi_
623–30 (1854); _Fraser’s Mag. Dec. 1854 pp._ 607–617; _P.
Fitzgerald’s The Kembles_, _i_ 225, 310, _ii_ 386–9 (1871);
_I.L.N. i_ 364 (1842), _portrait_, _xxv_ 514–6 (1854).

KEMBLE, CHARLES (only son of Charles Adams Kemble of Clapham
common, Surrey _d._ 1819). _b._ 1819; ed. Wad. coll. Oxf., B.A.
1841, M.A. 1844; C. of St. Michael’s, Stockwell 1842–44; P.C.
of St. Michael’s, Stockwell 1844–59; Sunday evening lecturer
at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1848–51; R. of Bath abbey ch. 1859 to
death; preb. of Wells cath. 1866; member of Bath sch. board 31
Jany. 1871, chairman thereof; author of The mysteries of the
gospel 1853; Farewell sermons preached at St. Michael’s church,
Stockwell 1859; Suggestive hints on parochial machinery 1859, 3
ed. 1865; Memorials of a closed ministry, a selection of sermons
3 vols. 1875; edited Church psalmody, a selection of psalm
and hymn tunes 1840; A selection of psalms and hymns by S. S.
Wesley, arranged by C. Kemp 1864. _d._ Vellore, Bath 18 Nov.
1874.

KEMBLE, HENRY (son of Edward Kemble, member of corporation of
London). _b._ 1787; M.P. for East Surrey 3 Aug. 1837 to 23 July
1847. _d._ Grove hill, Camberwell, London 18 May 1857.

KEMBLE, JOHN MITCHELL (eld. son of Charles Kemble 1775–1854).
_b._ London 2 April 1807; ed. by Dr. C. Richardson the
philologist at Clapham, at Bury St. Edmunds gr. sch. and at
Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; studied at the Inner
Temple; studied in Germany under Jacob Grimm; lectured at
Cambridge on the Anglo-Saxon language and literature 1834;
editor of British and Foreign Rev. 1835–44; examiner of
stage plays 24 Feb. 1840 to death; lived in Hanover and made
archæological excavations in Lüneburg for the government July
1849 to May 1855, his official duties in England being taken
by W. B. Donne; went to Dublin to collect Keltic and Roman
antiquities for Art treasures exhibition, Manchester, Feb.
1857; editor of The Anglo-Saxon poems of Beowulf, edited with a
glossary and preface 1833; Codex diplomaticus ævi Saxonici opera
J. M. K. English Historical Soc. 6 vols. 1839–48; The poetry
of the Codex Vercellensis, with a translation. Aelfric Soc.
1843; Certaine considerations upon the government of England.
Camden Soc. 1849; State papers and correspondence illustrative
of the state of Europe from the revolution to the accession of
the house of Hanover 1857; author of The Saxons in England.
A history of the English Commonwealth till the period of the
Norman conquest 2 vols. 1849, new ed. 2 vols. 1876. _d._ Gresham
hotel, 21 Upper Sackville st. Dublin 26 March 1857. _bur._ St.
Jerome cemet. _Fraser’s Mag. May 1857 pp._ 612–18; _G.M. ii_
620–21 (1857).

KEMEYS-TYNTE, CHARLES JOHN (only son of Charles Kemeys-Tynte
of Halswell house, Bridgewater, Somerset). _b._ Halswell house
9 April 1800; ed. at Eton; M.P. for West Somerset 1832–37;
contested West Somerset 1837; M.P. for Bridgewater 1847–65;
col. of Royal Glamorgan militia 1848–62; claimed the barony of
Wharton; author of Sketch of the French revolution of 1830. _d._
Balnageith, Torquay 16 Sep. 1882.

KEMM, WILLIAM HENRY. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 62 Bengal
N.I. 11 Nov. 1837; col. 25 Bengal N.I. 1849 to death; L.G. 11
Nov. 1851. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 25 May 1859 aged 76.

KEMMIS, HENRY (2 son of Thomas Kemmis of Shaen castle near
Maryborough, Queen’s county 1753–1823). _b._ 19 Sep. 1776; ed.
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar
1795; M.P. for Tralee 1797–1800; assist. barrister for co.
Kildare, afterwards for co. Dublin; chairman of quarter sessions
of Kilmainham; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s Inns 1843.
_d._ Kilmainham, Dublin 2 April 1857.

KEMMIS, THOMAS (2 son of William Kemmis _d._ 1864). _b._ 9 April
1807; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829; barrister in Ireland
1834; crown solicitor for Leinster circuit, Dec. 1852 to Sep.
1869; solicitor to the crown and treasury, Ireland, Sep. 1869 to
death, this office had been held in his family uninterruptedly
since 1783. _d._ 45 Kildare st. Dublin 18 Dec. 1868.

KEMMIS, WILLIAM (3 son of Thomas Kemmis of Shaen castle
1753–1823). _b._ 23 Oct. 1777; crown solicitor for Dublin
1801–52; for the Leinster circuit 1801–52; solicitor to the
Treasury 1801–59; conducted the state prosecutions 1798–1848,
was present and assisted at all the great state trials of his
time. _d._ 45 Kildare st. Dublin 20 July 1864.

KEMP, EDWARD CURTIS. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 12th
wrangler 1817, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of Lyndhurst 1825–8; R.
of Whissonsett and Horningtoft 1829–65; chaplain to Dukes of
Cambridge 1841 to death; P.C. of St. George, Yarmouth 1865 to
death; author of A small dictionary for the use of the poor,
an attempt to explain difficult words in the Bible and Prayer
book 1826; The refutation of nonconformity on its own professed
principle 1836; An exposition of some of the differences
between Scripture and Calvinism 1843; Every infant regenerated
in baptism, a doctrine of the church of England 1850; An
introduction to the newly discovered proofs of the divine
authority of the New Testament 1859; Isaaci Wattsii Carminum
Fasciculus qui inscribitur “Divine Songs” Latine redditorum
1848. _d._ 51 King st. Yarmouth 10 June 1881 aged 86.

KEMP, FRANCIS BARING (son of Thomas Read Kemp, M.P. Lewes,
founder of Kemp-town, Brighton). _b._ 1812; ed. at Eton; writer
H.E.I.C.S. 1830; served in the revenue and judicial departments
in various districts of Bengal; collector Tirhoot 1851; civil
and sessions judge Backergunge and Jessore 1855–62; judge of the
high court of judicature, Calcutta 1862, retired 1878. _d._ 14
Denmark ter. Brighton 20 Jany. 1892.

KEMP, GEORGE REES. _b._ 1780; entered Bombay army 1796; colonel
13 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to 1860; general 20 June 1854. _d._
Spring lodge, East Hoathly, Sussex 16 Sep. 1861.

KEMP, GROVER (eld. son of John Kemp). _b._ Bermondsey, London
10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Hitchin and Epping; apprentice to John
Glaisyer, chemist and druggist, Brighton, became a partner in
the firm, retired 1863; a minister among the Friends 1823;
continually visited the meetings in Great Britain and Ireland
during 50 years; preached to the free black population in the
West Indies 1857–58; author of A tract for the season. _d._
Brighton 21 Dec. 1869. _Biog. Cat. of Lives of Friends_ (1888)
393–8.

KEMP, HENRY LATIMER. _b._ Birmingham; reporter on Manchester
Guardian; reporter and sub-editor Birmingham Daily Press till
its discontinuance 1859; reporter on Derby Mercury 1859,
sub-editor 1860, then responsible editor to his death; edited
The Derbyshire red book, an annual 1862; author of A history
of the Derby charities 1861. _d._ Derby 30 April 1869. _The
Newspaper Press_, _iii_ 123 (1869).

KEMP, HENRY WILLIAM. _b._ St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet 23 June
1820; ed. at Beverley gram. sch. and at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A.
1843; C. of St. Helen’s 1843; C. of St. John’s, Hull 1846; V.
of St. John’s, Hull 1847–79, where he had one of the largest
congregations in the north of England; V. of Millington with
Givendale near York 1879–80; master of the Charterhouse, Hull
1868 to death; president of Hull literary and philosophical
soc.; preb. of York 1886 to death; author of Sermons 1854. _d._
The Charterhouse, Hull 7 March 1888. _Church Portrait Journal_,
_ii_ 21–4 (1881), _portrait_; _Biograph_, _vi_ 297 (1881).

KEMP, ISAAC. Proprietor of Phœnix music hall, Dover before 1868
to death. _d._ 29 Aug. 1889. _bur._ Copt hill cemet. 2 Sep. _The
Era 7 Sep. 1889 p._ 15.

KEMP, JAMES. _b._ Edinburgh 1831; parochial schoolmaster in
Scotland; head master of St. Andrew’s sch. Hong Kong; editor
and proprietor of China Mail and of the Hong Kong Evening Mail;
editor and proprietor of India Mail; wrote a series of 60 papers
entitled Voices from the Verandah, treating of Anglo-Chinese
life; author of A rock ahead in China. _d._ 17 Nov. 1865.
_Inglis’ Dramatic writers_ (1868) 132–4.

KEMPLAY, JAMES (youngest son of Richard Kemplay of Leeds). _b._
Leeds 1810; ed. at Leeds gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., 3rd
wrangler 1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; special pleader; barrister
M.T. 30 Jany. 1852; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872, bencher of his inn 29
Jany. 1874; author of Proposed plan for dealing with the statute
law 1855. _d._ 48 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 4 June
1882.

KEMPSTER, FRANCIS GREETHAM. _b._ 21 July 1821; ensign 6 Madras
N.I. 2 Feb. 1838, captain 22 Aug. 1853; lieut. col. Madras staff
corps 5 Oct. 1863; brigadier general Madras 27 June 1876 to 8
Sep. 1880; L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. _d._ Tiptree hall, Kelvedon 13
Jany. 1887.

KEMPT, SIR JAMES (son of Gavin Kempt of Southampton and
Edinburgh). _b._ Edinburgh 1765; ensign 101 foot 31 March 1783,
lieut. 1784, regiment disbanded April 1785; helped to raise
113 foot in Ireland, captain 30 May 1794, major 18 Sep. 1794,
regiment was reduced 1795; served in Holland and in campaign in
Egypt 1801; lieut. col. 81 foot 23 July 1803 to 4 Nov. 1813;
the light brigade under his command bore the brunt of battle of
Maida 2 July 1806; col.-commandant 60 foot 1813–18; commanded
a brigade of light division at Vera, Nivelle, Nive, Orthez and
Toulouse 1813–14; lieut. governor of Fort William, Inverness 10
Oct. 1812 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 22 June 1815,
G.C.H. 1816; col. of 3 West India foot 1818–19, of 81 foot
1819–29, of 40 foot 1829–34, of 2 foot 1834–46 and of 1 foot
1846 to death; governor of Nova Scotia 20 Oct. 1819 to 8 Jany.
1829; governor general of Canada 10 July 1828 to 24 Nov. 1830;
P.C. 8 Dec. 1830; master general of the ordnance 1830 to 1834;
general 23 Nov. 1841. _d._ 32 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 20
Dec. 1854.

KENAH, SIR THOMAS (son of T. Kenah of Bridgefields, co. Cork).
_b._ 1782; ensign 5 foot 14 Aug. 1799; major 58 foot 5 Nov. 1812
to 3 April 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Holland 1790, in
Egypt 1801, in Sicily 1808–12, at siege of Genoa 1814; col. 63
foot 25 Nov. 1850 to death, general 26 Dec. 1859; C.B. 24 Oct.
1818, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; gold medal from the Grand Seignior
for the Egyptian campaign. _d._ 24 Albemarle st. Piccadilly,
London 26 March 1868.

KENDALL, CHARLES. _b._ Bishop Norton, Lincolnshire 19 Feb.
1818; a cobbler at Ashby, a shoemaker at Burringham; primitive
methodist minister at Halifax 1839 and successively at 18 other
places including Leeds and Hull; president of the conference at
Hull 1881; helped to edit 2 volumes of the Primitive Pulpit;
author of The Monitor 1852; The Christian minister in earnest,
or the life of Atkinson Smith 1854; Hindrances to a revival of
religion; How to promote a revival of religion; Little Willie;
God’s Hand in the storm; The life of the rev. W. Sanderson; How
to live in the street called Straight. _d._ Hilda st. Hull 5 May
1882. _Primitive Methodist Mag._ (1882) 491–6.

KENDALL, HENRY CLARENCE (son of Basil Kendall). _b._ Ulladulla
near Shoalhaven, New South Wales 18 April 1841; went to sea
1856, spent 2 years in the South Sea islands; clerk to James
Lionel Michael, solicitor and author, Sydney 1860; contributed
to Empire and Herald newspapers 1865, clerk in lands department,
N.S.W. 1863, then in colonial secretary’s office, resigned 1869;
journalist Melbourne 1869–73; inspector of forests, N.S.W.;
author of Poems and songs 1862, which he suppressed in 1865; At
Long Bay, Euroclydon, poems. _d._ at the house of the Messrs.
Fagan Bros., Redfern near Sydney 1 Aug. 1882. _Barton’s Poets
of New South Wales_ (1866) _pp._ 192–206; _Sladen’s Australian
poets_ (1888) _p._ 280; _H. Kendall’s Poems_ (1886), _memoir pp.
xi–xvi_.

KENDALL, JOSEPH. Jockey; won the Chester cup on Nancy 1851 when
he weighed only 4 st. 12 lb.; won the Liverpool Grand National
on Jealously 1861; one of the finest horsemen ever seen. _d._ 21
March 1892.

KENDALL, NICHOLAS (1 son of rev. Charles Kendall, V. of Talland,
_d._ 1806). _b._ Tredethy, St. Mabyn 22 Dec. 1800; ed. Trin.
coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; sheriff of Cornwall 1847; M.P. East
Cornwall 1852–68; received a piece of plate and £1100 for his
services to county of Cornwall 18 Feb. 1869; police magistrate
of city and garrison of Gibraltar 30 Dec. 1868 to Sep. 1875, an
attempt made to assassinate him March 1873. _d._ Pelynt near
Lostwithiel 8 June 1878.

KENDALL, WILLIAM. _b._ Padstow 1803; in employment of Shepherd
and Gain, woollen drapers, Exeter; a linen draper Queen st.
Exeter; partner in firm of Shepherd, Kendall and Tucker,
woollen drapers, Exeter 1834, made a fortune and retired; mayor
of Exeter 1862 when he contributed to the cost of the Albert
memorial museum; V.P. of Devonshire Assoc. at Exeter meeting
1862; instrumental in building Wonford asylum 1869; fell
down stairs and broke his thigh 25 March, _d._ 6 Summerland,
Heavitree road, Exeter 29 March 1878. _Trans. Devonshire Assoc.
x_ 56–7 (1878).

KENDRICK, EMMA ELEONORA (dau. of Josephus Kendrick, sculptor).
_b._ 1788; a successful miniature painter; miniature painter
to Princess Elizabeth of Hesse Homburg, and to Wm. IV. 1831;
exhibited 84 miniatures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 74 at Suffolk
st. 1811–40; author of Conversations on the art of miniature
painting 1830. _d._ 6 April 1871.

KENDRICK, JAMES (1 son of James Kendrick 1771–1847, M.D.) _b._
Buttermarket st. Warrington 7 Nov. 1809; ed. at Edinb. univ.,
M.D. 1 Aug. 1833; in practice at Warrington 1833 to death; took
charge of the antiquities in Warrington museum 1859; paid for
the excavation of the Roman station at Wilderspool and gave the
remains discovered to the museum; gave 300 books bearing the
Warrington imprint to the library; wrote papers in archæological
journals; author of Cursory remarks on the present epidemick
1832; An account of excavations made at Mote Hill, Warrington
1853; Profiles of Warrington worthies 1853, 2 ed. 1854; A
morning’s ramble in Old Warrington 1855; with William Robson,
Memorials of Dr. Robson of Warrington. _d._ Warrington 6 April
1882. _bur._ Padgate 11 April. His dau. gave his seals and 100
vols. to Warrington museum. _Palatine Note Book_, _ii_ 113–16,
179–80 (1882), _portrait_.

KENEALY, EDWARD VAUGHAN HYDE (son of William Kenealy, merchant).
_b._ Cork 2 July 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840,
LL.B. 1846, LL.D. 1850; called to bar in Ireland 2 Nov. 1840;
barrister G.I. 1 May 1847, disbarred 2 Dec. 1874 for his
libellous articles in The Englishman; ordered to give up his
chambers by the vice chancellor 29 June 1876; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868
to 11 Dec. 1874 when he was removed; bencher of Gray’s inn,
April 1868 to 1 Aug. 1874 when he was disbenched; M.P. Stoke
upon Trent 18 Feb. 1874 to 1880; contested Wednesbury 18 Nov.
1868; contested Stoke, April 1880; prosecuted for cruelty to
Edward Hyde his natural son aged 6, May 1850 and imprisoned for
a month; junior counsel in defence of Wm. Palmer the Rugeley
poisoner 1856; led the prosecution of Overend, Gurney & Co.,
bankers 1869; succeeded serjeant Sleigh as leading counsel for
Arthur Orton the Tichborne claimant 1873, conducted the case in
a most outrageous manner, insulting the bench and witnesses,
the jury censured him in a rider to their verdict; started The
Englishman in which he continued to abuse the chief justice and
the solicitor general 11 April 1874; expelled from the mess
of the Oxford circuit 2 April 1874; founded the Magna Charta
association 1874; author of Brallaghan or the Deipnosophists
1845; Goethe, a new pantomime 1850, 3 ed. 1863; Poems and
translations 1864; An introduction to the Apocalypse; E. W.
Montagu, an autobiography, edited by Y. 3 vols. 1869; The trial
at bar of sir R. C. D. Tichborne, Bart. 5 vols. 1875–8; Poetical
works 3 vols. 1875–9; Fo, the third messenger of God 1878. _d._
6 Tavistock sq. London 16 April 1880. _bur._ Hangleton near
Brighton 22 April. _H. G. Gill’s Life and forensic career of
E. V. Kenealy_ (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 161 1873),
_portrait_; _The Englishman 24 April 1880 et seq., a long
memoir_; _G.M. Feb. 1874 pp._ 220–7, _June 1875 pp._ 698–709;
_London Sketch Book_, _Jany. 1874_, _portrait_.

NOTE.--There is on the south-east angle of the south transept of Chester cathedral a series of twelve corbels with carved subjects illustrating an allegory, three of these are undoubted likenesses of the Earl of Beaconsfield, Mr. Gladstone and Dr. Kenealy.

KENMARE, VALENTINE BROWNE, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Earl of
Kenmare 1754–1812). _b._ 15 Jany. 1788; succeeded as 2 earl 3
Oct. 1812; lord lieut. of Kerry 1831 to death; col. of Kerry
militia 24 Jany. 1837 to death; created baron Kenmare of Castle
Rosse in the United Kingdom 17 Aug. 1841; one of the visitors of
Maynooth coll. 1845. _d._ Great Malvern 31 Oct. 1853.

KENMARE, THOMAS BROWNE, 3 Earl of (bro. of the preceding). _b._
15 Jany. 1789; ensign 40 foot 6 Aug. 1807, captain 1812–14; in
Peninsula 1809 to 1814, war medal and 9 clasps; succeeded his
brother 31 Oct. 1853; cr. baron Kenmare in peerage of the U.K.
by letters patent 12 March 1856; lord lieut. of Kerry 19 March
1866. _d._ 54 Eaton place, London 26 Dec. 1871.

KENNARD, COLERIDGE JOHN (1 son of John Peirse Kennard of Hoodle
Cliff, Hants.) _b._ Oct. 1828; managing director of Heywood,
Kennards & Co. bankers, London, merged in Consolidated bank
1864; founder of the Evening News 1889 which became the Evening
News and Post 1890; contested Salisbury 1874, 1880 and 1885;
M.P. Salisbury 20 Nov. 1882 to 18 Nov. 1885; the friend and
adviser of the duke of Albany. _d._ 39 Upper Grosvenor st.
London 25 Dec. 1890.

KENNARD, ROBERT WILLIAM (2 son of John Kennard of Lombard st.
London, banker). _b._ London 18 Jany. 1800; an ironmaster in
Scotland and south Wales and at Thames st. London; president
of Tournay and Jurbise railway company; chairman of Northern
and Eastern railway company; sheriff of London and Middlesex
1846–47; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 11 Feb. to 21
March 1857 and 30 April 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868; author of A
controversial correspondence between the rev. Paul Maclachlan,
Roman Catholic priest in Falkirk, and R. W. Kennard, three parts
1854. _d._ 37 Porchester ter. Bayswater, London 10 Jany. 1870.

KENNAWAY, CHARLES EDWARD (2 son of sir John Kennaway, 1 baronet
1758–1836). _b._ 3 Jany. 1800; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb.,
15 wr. 1822, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, fell. of his coll.; V. of
Chipping Campden, Gloucs. 1832–72; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham
1840–43; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Brighton 1843–47; hon. canon in
Gloucester cath. 1861 to death; author of The churchman’s brief
manual of baptism, in four parts 1840; Sermons, practical,
historical and doctrinal 1842; Sermons preached at Brighton
1845, Second series 1847; Poems 1846; Perdita and Angelina or
the lost one found. An Anglo-Roman dialogue 1854–57; Some tones
of the voice of prophecy and of the voice of miracle 1867. _d._
Goodrest, Great Malvern 3 Nov. 1875.

KENNEDY, ANDREW. _b._ Kilcock, co. Kildare, Ireland 1804;
private in regiment of Hohenlohe 1825; made four campaigns in
the Morea and 14 in Algeria; commander of 33 regt. 1860–63
when he retired; commander of legion of honour; resided at
Landerneau 1863 to death. _d._ Landerneau, Oct. 1865. _Times 13
Oct. 1865 p._ 10 _col._ 1.

KENNEDY, SIR ARTHUR EDWARD (4 son of Hugh Kennedy of Cultra,
co. Down). _b._ 9 April 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign
11 foot 15 Aug. 1827, lieut. 1832 to 1840; captain unattached
12 June 1840; captain 68 foot 19 March 1841 to April 1848; poor
law inspector for Ireland 1846–51; governor of the Gambia 25
May 1852, of Sierra Leone 13 Sep. 1852, of Western Australia
June 1855 to 17 Feb. 1862, of Vancouver’s Island 4 Dec. 1863,
of West African settlements 15 Jany. 1868 to 1872; governor and
commander in chief of Hong Kong 20 Feb. 1872, of Queensland 6
Jany. 1877 to death; C.B. 23 July 1862; knighted at Osborne 20
Dec. 1867; K.C.M.G. 29 Sep. 1871, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. _d._ off
Aden in the Red Sea, on his way to England 3 June 1883.

KENNEDY, BENJAMIN HALL (eld. son of rev. Rann Kennedy 1772–1851,
P.C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham). _b._ Summerhill, Birm. 6 Nov.
1804; ed. at Birm. gr. sch., Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll.
Camb.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, D.D. 1836; fellow of his coll.
1828–36, hon. fellow 1880–85 and fellow again 1885; a master at
Harrow 1830–36; head master of Shrewsbury 1836 to June 1866;
the greatest classical teacher of his day; preb. of Lichfield
1843–1867; select pr. in univ. of Camb. 1860; R. of West Felton,
Salop 1865–67; regius professor of Greek and canon of Ely 1867
to death; took part in revision of the New Testament 1870–80;
LL.D. of Dublin univ. 1885; author of Elementary Latin grammar
1843 on which was founded The public school Latin grammar 1871
used in nine of the chief schools in England; Sabrinæ Corolla
1850, 4 ed. 1890; The Birds of Aristophanes translated into
English verse 1874; Between whiles or wayside amusements of a
working life 1877, 2 ed. 1882; Pauline Christology 1883. _d._
Shiphay house near Torquay 6 April 1889. _Classical Review_,
_iii_ 226–7, 278–81 (1889); _Biograph_, _iv_ 229–30 (1880).

KENNEDY, CHARLES RANN (brother of preceding). _b._ Birmingham
1808; ed. at Shrewsbury, Birm. gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.;
scholar 1829, fellow 1831, senior classic 1831; B.A. 1831, M.A.
1834; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1835; professor of law Queen’s
coll. Birmingham 1849–56; applied to be allowed to join Midland
circuit, the mess refused his request 1850; adviser of Mrs.
Swinfen the plaintiff in case of Swinfen v. Swinfen, brought
action against her for £20,000 for his services, and obtained a
verdict, but the common pleas decided that a barrister could not
sue for his fees 1863; author of Translation of Select speeches
of Demosthenes 1841; Poems, original and translated 1843; New
rules for pleading 1838, 2 ed. 1841; A treatise on annuities
1846. _d._ Birmingham 17 Dec. 1867. _Law Journal_, _ii_ 557,
571 (1867); _J. Scott’s Common Bench Reports_, _xiii_ 677–742
(1863); _C. Beavan’s Chancery Reports_, _xxxiii_ 133–54 (1865).

KENNEDY, DAVID (son of David Kennedy, weaver and precentor,
_d._ 1874). _b._ Perth 15 April 1825; apprenticed to a painter
1841; a painter at Perth; precentor of Nicholson st. United
Presbyterian ch. Edin.; began a series of weekly concerts 1859;
first appeared in London at Hanover sq. rooms 1862; gave 100
concerts in Egyptian hall Dec. 1862 to May 1863; sang in Canada
and United States 1866–9; made a tour round the world with his
family 1872–6; toured in G.B. and Ireland 1876–9, South Africa
1879, India 1879–80, Canada 1881, United States and Australia
1882–4; had a rich tenor voice and was an effective reader and
declaimer; lost 3 children in the fire at the theatre at Nice 23
March 1881, namely James baritone singer aged 25, Kate contralto
aged 20 and Elizabeth soprano aged 18; author of Book of words
of Mr. Kennedy’s Entertainment on the songs of Scotland 1866;
Kennedy’s Colonial travel. A narrative of a four years tour
through Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. 1876; Kennedy at
the Cape, a tour through Cape Colony, the Orange Free state, the
Diamond fields and Natal 1879. _d._ Stratford, Ontario 12 Oct.
1886. _Life of D. Kennedy_ (1887), _portrait_.

KENNEDY, HUGH A. Chess player; played with Popert, Staunton
and Walker; in London tournament 1851 took 6th prize; played
at Leamington 28 June 1855; chairman of the British chess
association meeting at Bristol 10 Sep. 1861; author of Waifs and
strays chiefly from the chess-board 1862, 2 ed. 1876. _d._ 22
Oct. 1878. _Westminster Papers_, _Dec. 1878 p._ 165; _I.L.N. 14
June 1855 pp._ 43, 44, _portrait_; _Illust. News of the World 14
Sep. 1861 p._ 164, _portrait_.

KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ 1785; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.D.
1813; physician to the Loughborough dispensary; practised
at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, retired from practice 1842 and lived
at Woodhouse near Loughborough 1842 to death; occupied for
many years in compiling a bibliography of medical treatises
with biographies of their authors, which he did not live to
print; published A dissertation on the anatomy, physiology and
pathology of the human tongue 1813; Instruction to mothers and
nurses on the management of children Glasgow 1825; Lecture on
Asiatic cholera 1832. _d._ 24 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury,
London 9 May 1851 aged 66.

KENNEDY, JAMES. Barrister L.I. 10 July 1821; M.P. for Tiverton
12 Dec. 1832, unseated on petition; M.P. for Tiverton again
24 May 1833 to May 1835; judge of mixed commission for
protection of slaves at Havanah 10 Feb. 1837 to 14 Dec. 1852
when superannuated; author of England and Venice compared. An
argument on the policy of England towards her colonies 1827;
Selections from the poems of J. M. Heredia, with translations
1844; Modern poets and poetry of Spain 1852; Ethnological and
philological essays 1855; Essays, ethnological and linguistic
1861. _d._ Liddiard house, Grove ter. Notting hill, London 15
May 1859.

KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ 1778 or 1779; entered Bengal army 1797;
colonel 5 Bengal light cavalry 26 Dec. 1832 to 1858, col. 5
European light cavalry 1858–9; C.B. 20 July 1838; commanded
Benares division 20 March 1847 to 26 June 1852; L.G. 11 Nov.
1851. _d._ Benares 25 Sep. 1859.

KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ Dundee 1801; shoemaker; schoolmaster in the
Carse of Gowrie, at Carnoustie and at Lochee; manager of the Tay
and Tyne shipping co. to his death, member of town council from
1851 for many years; dean of guild 1861, re-elected 3 times;
sec. and manager of Dundee property investment co. from its
formation; lectured at the Watt Institution. _d._ Dundee 25 July
1867. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 295–6.

KENNEDY, JAMES. _b._ June 1803; M.R.C.S. 1828; author of The
history of the contagious cholera with facts explanatory of
its origin and laws and of a method of cure 1831, 3 ed. 1832;
Medical monopolies with a plan of reform. _d._ 17 Tavistock sq.
London 1868. _bur._ Highgate cemetery.

KENNEDY, SIR JAMES SHAW (eld. son of John Shaw who served in
76 highlanders). _b._ The Largs, Straiton parish, Ayrshire 13
Oct. 1788; ensign 43 foot 18 April 1805; served in Denmark,
Spain and Portugal; present at Waterloo, where his plan of
infantry formation was adopted; A.Q.M.G. of 3 division of
Anglo allied army May 1815; commander of establishment formed
at Calais to keep up communication between the army and England
1815–18; A.A.G. in Ireland 1826 and in England 1826–36; assumed
additional name of Kennedy, April 1834; commanded forces in
North Britain 1852; inspector general of Irish constabulary
1836–8; col. of 47 foot 27 Aug. 1854 to death; general 19 Aug.
1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861; author of A manual
of outpost duties 1851; Notes on the defence of Great Britain
and Ireland 1859, 4 ed. 1859. _d._ 8 Circus, Bath 30 May 1865.
_Notes on the battle of Waterloo. By Sir J. S. Kennedy_ (1865),
_with a memoir of his life and services pp._ 3–46.

KENNEDY, JOHN (3 son of Robert Kennedy). _b._ Knocknalling,
Kirkcudbright 4 July 1769; apprenticed to Cannan and Smith,
machine-maker at Chowbent, Lancashire 1784–91; partner with
Benjamin and William Sandford and James M’Connel, machine
makers and mill spinners, Manchester 1791; introduced a new
motion in cotton spinning called the double speed and improved
the jack frame; member of Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. April
1803, contributed papers to Memoirs of the soc. 1815–30;
umpire in locomotive competition at Rainhill, Oct. 1829. _d._
Ardwick hall, Manchester 30 Oct. 1855. _John Kennedy’s Early
Recollections_ (1849); _Memoirs of Manchester Lit. and Phil.
Soc. i_ 147–57 (1862); _Smiles’s Industrial Biography_ (1879)
317–23.

KENNEDY, JOHN (4 son of rev. John Kennedy). _b._ at the
manse of Killearnan, Rossshire 15 Aug. 1819; ed. at Aberdeen
univ. 1836, M.A. 1840, D.D. 1873; minister of the Free ch.
at Dingwall, Rossshire, Feb. 1844 to death; preached in
Gaelic and English, sometimes delivering 10 sermons a week;
took part in the Strome Ferry case, an attempt to resist the
Sunday traffic on the Highland railway 1883; a leader in the
Highlands, of the opposition to the attempted union of the Free
and United Presbyterian churches; refused to have an organ or
to use uninspired hymns in his church; he was the acknowledged
successor of Dr. John Macdonald and was sometimes called the
second Apostle of the North; author of Days of the fathers in
Rossshire 1861; The apostle of the north, the life and labours
of Dr. Macdonald 1866; Man’s relation to God traced in the
light of the present truth 1869. _d._ Bridge of Allan, Stirling
28 April 1884. _Auld’s Life of John Kennedy, D.D._ (1887),
_portrait_; _Biograph_, _v_ 241 (1881).

KENNEDY, JOHN PITT (4 son of rev. John Pitt Kennedy, R. of Carn
Donagh, co. Donegal). _b._ Donagh 8 May 1796; 2 lieut. R.E. 1
Sep. 1815, on h.p. 28 May 1822; 1 lieut. R.E. 1825; sec. to
sir Charles Napier and director of public works in island of
Cephalonia 1822; sub-inspector of militia, Ionian islands 3
Jany. 1828 to 1 March 1832 when placed on h.p., sold out 1835;
inspector general national educational department, Ireland,
and teacher of agriculture, Nov. 1837 to March 1839; agent to
lord Devon’s estates, co. Limerick 1843; sec. to Irish famine
relief commission 1845; military sec. to sir Charles Napier in
India 1849; projected with lieut. col. French what is now Bombay
Baroda and central India railway 1852, consulting engineer
and managing director of the co. 1853; wrote many pamphlets
on Indian subjects; M.I.C.E. 3 March 1868; F.S.S.; author of
Instruct, employ, don’t hang them, or Ireland tranquilized
without soldiers 1835; Lectures on agriculture 1841; Road making
in the hills, having reference to the road from Kalka viâ Simla
to Kunawar and Thibet 1850; Finances, military occupation,
government and industrious development of India 1858. _d._ 66
St. George’s sq. London 28 June 1879. _Min. of proc. of I.C.E.
lix_ 293–8 (1880).

KENNEDY, PATRICK. _b._ co. Wexford 1801; assistant in a training
school, Kildare place, Dublin 1823; kept a bookseller’s shop
and circulating library, Anglesea place, Dublin to death; wrote
in the Dublin Review and Dublin Univ. Mag.; author of Legendary
fictions of the Irish Celts 1866, new ed. 1892; The banks of the
Boro, a chronicle of Wexford 1867; The bardic stories of Ireland
1871; The book of modern Irish anecdotes 1872; and under the
pseud. of Harry Whitney, Legends of Mount Leinster 1855. _d._
Anglesea place, Dublin 29 March 1873. _Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi_
581–2 (1873).

KENNEDY, RANN (son of Benjamin Kennedy, surgeon at Annapolis
in Maryland, _d._ 1784). _b._ 1772; lived at Withington near
Shrewsbury 1784–91; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1795,
M.A. 1798; master in King Edward’s school, Birmingham 1795,
second master 1807 to about 1836; C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham
1797–1817 and P.C. 1817–48; author of A poem on the death of the
princess Charlotte 1817; A tribute in verse to the character
of George Canning 1827; Britain’s Genius, a mask on occasion
of marriage of Victoria, queen of Great Britain 1840. _d._ at
res. of his son Chas. Kennedy, St. Paul’s sq. Birmingham 2 Jany.
1851. _B. H. Kennedy’s Between Whiles 2 ed._ (1882).

KENNEDY, RICHARD HARTLEY. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 30 June
1811, surgeon 1822, physician general 1842, retired 1 May 1843;
alderman of ward of Cheap 1853–58; sheriff of London 1855; a
director of the Royal British bank opened 17 Nov. 1849, deputy
governor Nov. 1849 to Jany. 1850 and 1854–5, bank closed 3 Sep.
1856; tried for fraud with 7 other directors in court of Queen’s
Bench, Guildhall 13–27 Feb. 1858 and sentenced to 9 months
imprisonment, but released July 1858; resided 11 Ladbroke ter.
Notting hill 1855; author of Notes on the epidemic cholera.
Calcutta 1827, 2 ed. 1846; Visconti, an historical tragedy 1829;
The Relicquary (sic) a collection of poetical fragments 1835;
Narrative of the campaign of the army of the Indus 2 vols. 1840;
The Sutti, as witnessed at Baroda 1855. _d._ Great Western
hotel, Paddington 24 July 1865. _Orridge’s Citizens of London_
(1867) 163–4; _A.R._ (1858) 330–9.

KENNEDY, THOMAS (1 son of John Kennedy 1730–1816, violin maker,
London). _b._ Houghton st. Clare market, London 21 Jany. 1784;
apprentice to Thomas Powell, violin maker 1795; violin maker
Princes st. Westminster, then at 364 Oxford st. 1816 to 1849
when he retired from business; worked much for the music trade;
made 300 violoncellos; lived at 162 Pentonville road 1849 to
death. _d._ 162 Pentonville road, London 1872. _Sandys and
Forster’s History of the Violin_ (1864) 353–4.

KENNEDY, THOMAS. _b._ 1809; solicitor 26 Chancery lane, London
1831 to death; author of The code of practice of the high court
of chancery 2 vols. 1843–52, 2 ed. 1845–53; The general orders
of the high court of chancery 1850. _d._ Devonshire road, Balham
hill 27 Sep. 1873.

KENNEDY, _Thomas Francis_ (only son of Thomas Kennedy of Dunure,
Ayrshire, _d._ 1819). _b._ Dalquharran castle, Ayrshire 11 Nov.
1788; ed. at Harrow and at univ. of Edinb.; called to Scottish
bar 1811; M.P. for Ayr district of burghs 1818–34; chairman
of committee on salmon fishing laws 1824; his draft formed
basis of Scottish reform bill 1832; clerk of the ordnance 8
Feb. 1832 to 1833; a junior lord of the treasury Nov. 1832 to
April 1834; paymaster of the civil services in Ireland 1837–50;
P.C. Ireland 1837; comr. of woods and forests 28 Aug. 1850 to
1854; Lord Murray gave him a pension of £1200 a year; author of
Letter to lord John Russell from T. F. Kennedy relative to his
removal from the office of commissioner of woods 1854; Three
letters to H. A. Bruce, secretary for home department on the
public prosecutor in Scotland 1869–72; Papers relating to the
improvement in the salmon fishery 1872; Two letters relating to
a passage in the life of lord Brougham 1872. _d._ Dalquharran
castle 1 April 1879. _Scotsman 2 April 1879 pp._ 6–7.

KENNEDY, TRISTRAM (brother of John Pitt Kennedy 1796–1879). _b._
Glebe house, Donagh, co. Donegal 1805; ed. at Foyle college,
Londonderry; sheriff of Londonderry 1828; called to Irish bar
1834; founded Dublin Law Institute 1839; M.P. for Louth co.
1852–7 and 1865–8; contested Louth co. 1857, King’s co. 1859 and
Donegal 1874. _d._ Charleville, Weston-Super-Mare 20 Nov. 1885.

KENNEDY, WILLIAM. _b._ near Dublin 26 Dec. 1799; ed. at Belfast
college 1819; journalist on the Paisley Magazine at Paisley
1828–9; worked with Leitch Ritchie in London 1830–3; private
sec. to earl of Durham, governor general of Canada 1838; assist.
comr. on enquiry into municipal institutions of Lower Canada,
Aug. 1838; British consul at Galveston, Texas, Dec. 1841 to
1847; retired on a pension 1849; edited the Continental annual
1832; author of My early days 1824; Fitful fancies 1827; The
arrow and the rose and other poems 1830; The siege of Antwerp
1838; The rise, progress and prospects of the republic of Texas
2 vols. 1841. _d._ Paris 1871. _G. Gilfillan’s History of a man_
(1856) _p._ 169; _J. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland_, _ii_
213–17 (1877); _N. and Q. 2 S. i_ 113, 163, 183, 342, 400 (1856).

KENNEDY, WILLIAM. _b._ 1813; in employment of Hudson Bay Co.;
stationed in Labrador 8 years; commander of the Prince Albert,
lady Franklin’s searching vessel 22 May 1851, wintered at Batty
bay, left the ship, sledge travelling 25 Feb. 1852 and was at
Fury Beach 7–29 March, discovered Bellot’s Strait, marched over
Prince of Wales’ Land and round North Somerset, being away 97
days and covering 1100 miles with dogs and sledges; returned to
Aberdeen, Oct. 1852; author of A short narrative of the second
voyage of the Prince Albert in search of sir John Franklin 1853.
_d._ St. Andrew’s, Winnipeg 25 July 1890. _Markham’s Arctic Navy
list_ (1875) 27; _Times 21 Feb. 1890 p._ 10.

KENNEDY, WILLIAM DENHOLM. _b._ Dumfries 16 June 1813; entered
R.A. school, London 1833, won the gold medal for his picture
Apollo and Idas 1835, awarded the travelling allowance and
spent 2 years in Rome 1840–2; exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 22
at B.I. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1833–65. _d._ 26 Soho sq. London 2
June 1865.

KENNEDY, WILLIAM JAMES (4 son of rev. Rann Kennedy 1772–1851).
_b._ 1814; ed. Birmingham gram. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb.,
Porson prize for Greek iambics 1835, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1844;
sec. of National Soc. for promotion of education 1848; H.M.
inspector of schools in north western counties 16 Dec. 1848
to 1878; V. of Barnwood, Gloucs. 1878 to death; author of The
conscience clause, read at Manchester congress of social science
1866; Agnosticism, a sermon 1884; The English clergyman and the
present times 1887; while giving evidence in house of lords in
Berkeley peerage case caught cold, _d._ Barnwood, June 1891.

KENNEDY-BAILIE, JAMES (son of Nicholas Kennedy, schoolmaster).
_b._ Ireland 1793; pensioner Trin. coll. Dublin 1807, scholar
1810; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1823, D.D. 1828; fellow of
Trin. coll. 1817 to 29 May 1831, Donnelan lecturer 1824;
delivered in Trin. coll. chapel Ten lectures on the philosophy
of the Mosaic record of creation, published in 2 vols. 1827; R.
of Ardtrea, co. Tyrone 13 Oct. 1830 to death; assumed additional
surname of Bailie 1835; author of Æschylus Agamemnon, with a
translation 1829; Fasciculus inscriptionum Græcarum 3 vols.
1842–9; The Iliad with notes by J. K. Bailie 1846. _d._ Ardtrea
18 Jany. 1864. _W. B. S. Taylor’s History of the University of
Dublin_ (1845) 497.

KENNELL, JOHN FISHER. _b._ 1817; sec. of London and Blackwall
and London, Tilbury and Southend railway companies before 1866
to death. _d._ Hornton cottage, Hornton st. Kensington 1 Feb.
1881.

KENNETT, BRADELEY. _b._ 1778; entered Bombay army 1795; colonel
22 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 28 Nov. 1854. _d._
Coonor, Neilgherry hills 12 Oct. 1857 aged 79, from wounds
received at hands of an assassin 8 Oct.

KENNETT, EDWARD HOILE. Entered R.N. 15 July 1826, served on
North America and West India stations; lieut. 12 Nov. 1839;
retired commander 3 Jany. 1866; naval knight of Windsor 29 Nov.
1867, governor of the naval knights 15 Aug. 1873 to death;
granted pension of £30, 18 April 1871. _d._ Travers college,
Windsor 11 March 1880.

KENNEY, ARTHUR HENRY (youngest son of Edward Kenney, vicar
choral and prebendary of Cork). _b._ 1776 or 1777; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1793; B.A. 1795, M.A. 1800, B.D.
1806, D.D. 1812; fellow Trinity Monday 1800 to 1809; R. of
Kilmacrenan, Dublin 15 May 1810; dean of Achonry 27 June 1812 to
May 1821 when he resigned; R. of St. Olave, Southwark, London,
July 1821 to death; his living was sequestered about 1844;
resided abroad during last ten years of his life; edited with
his initials Magee’s Discourses on atonement and sacrifice 3
vols. 1832, and The works of W. Magee 1842; published An enquiry
concerning some of the doctrines maintained by the church of
Rome 1818; Principles and practices of pretended reformers in
church and state 1819; Facts and documents illustrative of the
history of the period immediately preceding the accession of
William III. 1827; The dangerous nature of Popish power in these
countries 1839; A comment on the epistles and gospels relating
to our Blessed Saviour 2 vols. 1842. _d._ Boulogne-sur-Mer 27
Jany. 1855.

KENNEY, CHARLES LAMB (son of James Kenney 1780–1849, dramatist).
_b._ Bellevue near Paris 29 April 1821; Charles Lamb was one of
his godfathers; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1829 etc.; clerk
in the general post office 1837; assistant foreign editor,
dramatic critic and scientific reporter on the Times 1840; sec.
to sir Joseph Paxton during organization of transport service
for the Crimea 1855; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1856; sec. to F. De
Lesseps 1856–57; on the Standard 1858; one of the wittiest men
of his time; author of The gates of the East 1857; Memoirs of M.
W. Balfe 1875; adapted more than 20 foreign operas, including
Fair Helen 1866, Princess of Trebizonde 1870, The Grand Duchess
of Gérolstein 1871 and La Jolie Parfumeuse 1875; wrote Wanted
husbands, sketch Drury Lane 1867; Valentine and Orson, pantomime
Holborn 1867; Our autumn manœuvres, farce Adelphi 1871; wrote
The Vagabond 1871 and other songs. _d._ Eldon road, Kensington
25 Aug. 1881. _Illust. sporting and dr. news 3 Sep. 1881 p._
583; _Era 3 Sep. 1881 p._ 6; _I.L.N. 3 Sep. 1881 pp._ 223, 242.

KENNION, CHARLES JOHN (son of Edward Kennion, artist 1744–1809).
_b._ 1789; water-colour painter; exhibited 26 landscapes at R.A.
and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1804–53. _d._ Robert st. Regent’s
park, London 10 Sep. 1853.

KENNION, GEORGE. _b._ 1814; M.D. Edin. 1837; in practice
at Harrogate 1837 to death; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1865; physician
Harrogate Bath hospital; wrote on Bisulphide of carbon as a
cure for the headache in Medical Times 18 July 1868 p. 77;
author of On the medical springs of Harrogate 1845; Observations
on the medicinal springs of Harrogate 1853, 8 ed. 1872. _d._ Oak
lodge, Harrogate, Yorkshire 30 June 1868 aged 54. _Medical Times
18 July 1868 p._ 81–2; _British Medical Journal_, _ii_ 72 (1868).