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KENRICK, Francis Patrick. b. Dublin 3 Dec. 1797; ordained a priest in Rome 1821; conducted a theological seminary at Bardstown, Kentucky, U.S. of America 1821; bishop of Arath; bishop of Philadelphia 1842; archbishop of Baltimore, Aug. 1851 to death; apostolic delegate, presiding over the first plenary council of the U.S. of America at Baltimore, May 1852; primate of the U.S. of America 1859; author of Letters of Omicron to Omega 1828; The primacy of the apostolic see and the authority of general councils vindicated 1838, 2 ed. 1845; Theologia dogmatica 4 vols. 1839–40, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1858; Theologia moralis 3 vols. 1841–3; Letters on christian union 1841; The four gospels translated from the Latin vulgate with notes 1849. d. Baltimore 6 July 1863. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 519 (1887), portrait.

KENRICK, George (4 son of rev. Timothy Kenrick 1759–1804, unitarian commentator). b. Exeter 28 Oct. 1792; ed. at Glasgow coll. and Manchester coll. York; M.A.; unitarian minister at Chesterfield 1813–14, Hull 1815–21, Maidstone 1822–6, Hampstead 1829–45 and Battle 1845–7; a trustee of Dr. Williams’s foundation 1833–60; contributed to the Monthly Repository and other periodicals, and published some sermons 1822–34. d. Tunbridge Wells 2 Dec. 1874. The Inquirer 12 Dec. 1874 pp. 813–4; Appendix to rev. G. Kenrick’s farewell discourse at Hampstead, containing the correspondence which led to his resignation 1845, 2 ed. 1845.

KENRICK, John (brother of the preceding). b. Exeter 4 Feb. 1788; ed. at Exeter academy 1799–1805 when academy was dissolved; studied at Glasgow univ. 1807–10, M.A. 1 May 1810; tutor in classics, history and literature at Manchester college, York 1810–40; professor of history, Manchester New college, Manchester 1840–50; F.S.A. 4 Feb. 1858; author of Exercises on Latin Syntax 1825, 4 ed. 1838; The Egypt of Herodotus with notes 1841; Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs 2 vols. 1850; Phœnicia 1855; Biblical essays 1864. d. 38 Monkgate, York 7 May 1877. J. Martineau’s Essays, reviews and addresses, i 397–421 (1890); Theological Review, July 1877 pp. 374–97.

KENRICK, Timothy (son of Archibald Kenrick). b. 1807; with his father and brother developed the hollow ware trade, retired; a founder of the Nurses’ training institution, Birmingham, for which he purchased a home; a director of Midland railway 1858, deputy chairman; deputy chairman Lloyds’ Banking co. d. Maple Bank, Edgbaston 23 Feb. 1885. Birmingham Weekly Post 28 Feb. 1885 p. 3.

KENSINGTON, William Edwardes, 2 Baron. b. 24 April 1777; succeeded 13 Dec. 1801; M.P. for Haverfordwest 12 Jany. 1802 to 10 June 1818. d. 23 Kensington crescent, London 10 Aug. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 306 (1852).

KENT, Maria Louisa Victoria, Duchess of (6 child and 4 dau. of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 1750–1806). b. Coburg 17 Aug. 1786. m. (1) 21 Dec. 1803 Ernest Charles prince of Leiningen, he was b. 27 Sep. 1763 and d. 4 July 1814; m. (2) at Coburg 29 May 1818 and at Kew palace 11 July 1818 Edward Augustus duke of Kent and Streathearn, 5 child and 4 son of King George the third, he was b. 2 Nov. 1767 and d. 23 Jany. 1820; mother of queen Victoria. d. of cancer at Frogmore near Windsor 16 March 1861. bur. in royal vault, St. George’s chapel, Windsor 25 March, but moved to mausoleum at Frogmore 1 Aug. Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, iv (1833), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, iv 41, portrait; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 42–54; Sams’s Annual peerage, ii (1827), portrait; T. Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort 5 ed. iii (1878), portrait.

KENT, George. b. Tunbridge Wells 1806; an apprentice to the wire work trade in Chelsea; a window blind maker, Constitution row, Gray’s Inn road, London; took out a patent dated 12 June 1844 for a knife cleaning machine; knife cleaning machine maker at 329 Strand, 218 Regent st. and 101 Holborn to 1854; manufacturer of labor saving articles of domestic utility at 199 High Holborn 1854 to death; his name has become a household word all over the civilized world. d. Southwood, 72 Southwood lane, Highgate 23 May 1890.

Note.—His eldest son George E. Kent d. 12 Manor villas, Theydon Bois, Essex 30 Jany. 1892 aged 54.

KENT, George H. b. London 1809; reporter on rowing, sailing matches, pedestrianism, cricket and shooting matches to all the London daily and weekly papers except The Times and Bell’s Life from 1826; police reporter at Queen square for the Morning Post 1838. d. Brighton 6 June 1883. The Town 10 March 1838 p. 323.

KENT, James Henry. b. 1810; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; surgeon at Stanton near Bury St. Edmunds; famous for his scientific preparation of medicinal extracts and dried pharmaceutical herbs, for which he gained medals at great exhibitions of London 1851, Paris 1855 and New York 1853; author of Remarks on the injuriousness of the consolidation of small farms and the benefit of small occupations 1844. d. Stanton 22 Oct. 1855.

Note.—His elder brother Walton Kent, educ. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; fellow of Obstetrical Soc.; L.S.A. 1827; surgeon at Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk about 1832–62; carried on the above business after his brother’s death; author of Essay on lingering or protracted labour 1828. d. Walsham 24 June 1862.

KENTISH, John (only son of John Kentish, draper, d. 1814). b. St. Albans 26 June 1768; ed. at Daventry academy 1784–8, at Hackney college 1788–90; unitarian minister at Plymouth Dock 1790, chapel in George st. opened 27 April 1791; minister of Treville st. chapel, Plymouth 1794–5; afternoon preacher at the Gravel Pit, Hackney 1795; morning preacher at St. Thomas’s chapel, Southward 1802; pastor of New Meeting, Birmingham 23 Jany. 1803 to 1844; author of A Letter to James White on the unitarian christians in West of England 1794; A vindication of the principles upon which unitarian christians recommend their views by the distribution of books 2 ed. 1800; Notes and comments on passages of scripture 1844, 3 ed. 1848. d. Park Vale, Edgbaston, Birmingham 6 March 1853. J. Kenrick’s Memoir of J. Kentish (1854), portrait.

KENYON, George Kenyon, 2 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron Kenyon 1732–1802). b. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 22 July 1776; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1814; succeeded his father as 2 baron 4 April 1802; barrister M.T. 3 May 1793, bencher 1811 to death, reader 1815, treasurer 1823; custos brevium of court of queen’s bench 1802–37 when office was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837; a comr. for building churches; F.S.A.; a trustee of the Theological seminary in Ohio 1825; the 77th anniversary of his birthday celebrated by a public festivity at Hanmer, Flint 22 July 1853; author of Observations on the Roman Catholic question 1810, 4 ed. 1812. d. Gredington hall, Flintshire 25 Feb. 1855. bur. at Hanmer. I.L.N. xxiii 112, 113 (1853).

KENYON, Lloyd Kenyon, 3 Baron. b. Gredington hall, Flintshire 1 April 1805; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; succeeded 25 Feb. 1855; M.P. for St. Michael’s, Cornwall 1830–2. d. Eastbourne, Sussex 14 July 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 87 (1869).

KENYON, John (son of Mr. Kenyon of parish of Trelawney, Jamaica, sugar planter). b. parish of Trelawney, Jamaica 1784; ed. at Sawyer’s school, Bristol, the Charterhouse, London, and Peter house, Camb. 1808; studied chemistry under W. Nicholson in Soho square; friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, C. Lamb and other literary celebrities; a well known gastronome; published Rhymed plea for tolerance 1833, 2 ed. 1839; Poems for the most part occasional 1838; A day at Tivoli with other verses 1849. d. Cowes, Isle of Wight 3 Dec. 1856. bur. in Lewisham churchyard. G.M. ii 309–15 (1857).

Note.—Browning sent him the poem Andrea del Sarto from Florence, and in 1856 while staying in his house in England Mrs. Browning finished Aurora Leigh and dedicated it to Kenyon. He left by his will 80 legacies to 80 of his literary friends, the poets included were Robert Browning £6,500, Mrs. Browning £4000, B. W. Procter known as Barry Cornwall £6500.

KENYON, John Robert (3 son of succeeding). b. 13 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, B.C.L. 1831, D.C.L. 1836; fellow of All Souls 1828; barrister M.T. May 1834; judge and assessor of chancellor’s court of univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1840 to Nov. 1859; recorder of Oswestry 1 June 1842 to death; Vinerian prof. of common law in univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1843 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1862; bencher of his inn 19 Nov. 1862 to death, treasurer 1874; chairman of Shropshire quarter sessions March 1871. d. The Pradoe, Erdiston, West Felton, Shropshire 17 April 1880. Law Times, lxix 34 (1880).

KENYON, Thomas (youngest son of 1 baron Kenyon 1732–1802). b. 27 Sep. 1780; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1801; filazer, exigenter and clerk of the outlawries office in the Inner Temple 1807–37 when office was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837; chairman of court of quarter sessions, Shropshire 1830 or 1831 to 1850. d. The Pradoe, co. Salop 4 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvi 649–51 (1851).

KEOGH, William Nicholas (eld. son of William M. Keogh of Corkip, co. Roscommon, clerk of the crown for the city and co. of Kilkenny, d. July 1865). b. Gardiner st. Dublin 7 Dec. 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., LL.D. 1866; called to bar in Ireland 1840, went the Connaught circuit; M.P. for Athlone Aug. 1847 to Feb. 1856; Q.C. 23 May 1850; solicitor gen. for Ireland, Dec. 1852 to March 1855, attorney gen. March 1855 to Feb. 1856; P.C. Ireland 1855; justice of the common pleas March 1856, of the common pleas division 1 Jany. 1878 to death; with Mr. Justice Fitzgerald tried the Fenian prisoners 1865; tried the Galway county election petition 1872 and henceforth was denounced by the Roman Catholics and went in fear of his life; author of Ireland under Lord de Grey 1844; Ireland imperialised; Milton’s prose, a lecture 1863; with M. J. Barry A treatise on the practice of the court of chancery in Ireland 1840. d. Bingen on the Rhine 30 Sep. 1878. bur. cemetery of R.C. ch. at Bonn 3 Oct. Sullivan’s New Ireland (1877) i 331–53; O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 255–60; Law mag. and law review, iv 62–72 (1878); Irish Law times, xii 498–500 (1878); I.L.N. xvi 261 (1850), portrait; Graphic, vi 90, 95 (1872), portrait.

KEON, Myles Gerald (only son of Myles Gerald Keon, barrister, d. 1824). b. Keonbrooke, co. Leitrim 20 Feb. 1821; ed. at Stonyhurst 8 years; served in French army in Algeria a short time; student at Gray’s Inn, admitted 11 Nov. 1840; edited Dolman’s Magazine, April to Nov. 1846; on the staff of the Morning Post 1847–58, went as its representative to St. Petersburgh 1850 and 1856; colonial secretary at Bermuda, March 1859 to death; author of The life of the Roman patrician Alexis 1847; a novel called Harding the Money-Spinner, in the London Journal 1852 published in 3 vols. 1879; Dion and the Sibyls, a romance of the first century 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. New York 1871. d. Bermuda 3 June 1875. Stonyhurst Mag. March and June 1886; Boucher de Perthes’ Voyage en Russie en 1856 (1859), passim.

KER, Alan. b. 1820; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; attorney general of Antigua 1851–54; chief justice of Nevis 1854–6; chief justice of Dominica 1856–61; puisne judge of supreme court of Jamaica 1861 to death; author of Remarks on the representative system as illustrated by the defeat of Mr. Macaulay at Edinburgh 1847. d. Kingston, Jamaica 20 March 1885.

KER, Charles Henry Bellenden (son of John Bellenden Ker, botanist 1765–1842). b. about 1785; barrister L.I. 28 June 1814; a member of the boundary commission 1830–2, of the public records commission, of the criminal and statute law commission 1833; head of the board to consider consolidation of statute law 1853 and of the royal commission on same subject 1854; suggested and prepared the Leases and Sales of settled estates act 1856 and Lord Cranworth’s act 1860; conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852–60; recorder of Andover 1842 to July 1855; one of the first private growers of orchids; wrote a series of articles in the Gardeners’ Chronicle under the pseudonym ‘Dodman’; F.R.S. to 1831; lived at Cannes 1860 to death; author of The question of registry or no registry considered, with reference to the interests of landholders 1830; Shall we register our deeds? 1853. d. Cannes 2 Nov. 1871.

KER, David Stewart (only son of David Ker of Montalto, co. Down). b. 5 Nov. 1816; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841; M.P. co. Down 1852–57; M.P. Downpatrick 1859–67. d. Crawfordsburn 8 Oct. 1878.

KER, John. b. farmhouse of Bield, parish of Tweedsmuir, Peebleshire 7 April 1819; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; entered divinity hall of united secession church 1838; minister of Clayport st. ch. Alnwick, Feb. 1845, of East Campbell st. ch. Glasgow 19 March 1851, removed to a new ch. in Sydney place 28 Nov. 1857; his health broke down May 1858, spent many winters abroad, resumed work 1872; D.D. Edin. 1869; professor of practical training in theological hall of his church 1876 to death; author of The psalms in history and biography 1886; Scottish nationality and other papers 1887; Lectures on the history of preaching 2 ed. 1888. d. Hermitage, Murrayfield, Edinburgh 4 Oct. 1886. United Presbyterian Mag. Nov. 1886 pp. 485–89 and Dec. pp. 534–40; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3rd Series (1851) 272–80.

KERFERD, George Briscoe (eld. son of Joseph Kerferd of Liverpool, merchant). b. Liverpool 1831; emigrated to Victoria 1852, a territorial magistrate 1856, carried on a large business in Beechwood, mayor 4 times; member for the Oven’s district of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864 to Dec. 1885; minister of mines and vice pres. of board of lands and works 1866–68; called to bar in Victoria 12 Dec. 1867; solicitor general 10 June 1872 to April 1874, attorney general 2 May 1874 to 7 Aug. 1875 and 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877, premier 31 July 1874 to 7 Aug. 1875; a judge of supreme court of Victoria, Dec. 1885 to death; edited with Mr. Box, Digest of all decisions of supreme court of Victoria 1846–71. d. Sorrento, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1889.

KERFOOT, John Barrett. b. Dublin 1 March 1816; taken to U.S. America 1819; ordained protestant episcopal minister 1837; master of St. James’ hall, Maryland and then of the college of St. James 1842–64; president of Trinity coll.; first bishop of Pittsburg, consecrated 25 Jany. 1866; attended first and second conferences at Lambeth 1875, and the Old Catholic conference Bonn 1875; D.D. of Columbia coll. 1850, and of Trinity 1865; LLD. of Camb. 1867. d. Meyersdale, Pennsylvania 10 July 1881. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 524 (1887), portrait; H. G. Batterson’s Sketch book of American episcopate (1878) 219.

KERR, Robert. b. 1806; entered navy 2 Dec. 1819, captain 1 Jany. 1850, retired R.A. 6 April 1866, retired admiral 21 March 1878. d. 14 Suffolk sq. Cheltenham 29 Oct. 1886.

KERR, Walter Montagu (3 son of lord Charles Lennox Kerr b. 1814, capt. 42 regt.) b. June 1852; made a journey from Cape of Good Hope by the Zambesi to Lake Nyassa 1885; left England intending to cross Africa from Zanzibar and to visit Emin Pasha 1887, when at Mombassa ready to start fell ill of fever; author of The far interior, a narrative of travel and adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the lake regions of Central Africa 2 vols. 1886. d. South of France 23 April 1888.

KERRICK, Richard Edward. Ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., 7 senior optime and B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, ordained 1830; F.S.A. 11 March 1830, gave to the society 3 portraits and a collection of 4000 coins, chiefly Roman 22 Nov. 1849. d. 13 Free school lane, Cambridge 13 May 1872.

KERRISON, Sir Edward, 1 Baronet (only son of Matthias Kerrison 1742–1827). b. Hexney hall near Bungay 30 July 1776; cornet 6 dragoons 23 June 1796; lieut. col. 7 dragoons 4 April 1805 to 28 Sep. 1826; col. of 14 light dragoons 18 June 1830 to death; served in the Helder expedition 1799, in Spain, and at Waterloo; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 22 June 1815; baronet by patent dated 27 July 1821; K.C.H. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.H. 1831; K.C.B. 18 July 1840; M.P. Shaftesbury 1812–18; M.P. Northampton 1818–24; M.P. Eye 1824–52. m. 20 Oct. 1813 Mary Martha dau. of Alexander Ellice of Pittencreff, Fife. d. 13 Great Stanhope st. London 9 March 1853. I.L.N. xxii 227, 323 (1853); Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii 131 (1833), portrait of lady Kerrison.

KERRISON, Sir Edward Clarence, 2 Baronet (1 son of preceding). b. The Wick, Brighton 2 Jany. 1821; M.P. Eye 1852–66; M.P. East Suffolk 1866–67; steward of H.M. manor of Northstead, York; succeeded 9 March 1853; a great friend of the agricultural labourers; established the Thorndown reformatory; instrumental in erecting Albert memorial coll. Framlingham; took part in laying down Mellis and Eye railway; president of R. Agricultural soc. at Plymouth 1865; a good shot, a good coachman; master of Norfolk hounds 1869. d. Brome hall, Scole, Norfolk 12 July 1886. Baily’s Mag. xxiv 125–6 (1874), portrait; Public men of Ipswich (1875) 35–42.

KERRY, Elizabeth. Her husband died 179-; lived with her dau. at Needham Market, Suffolk; received many presents on her birthdays; living Oct. 1859 aged 105. I.L.N. xxxv 358 (1859), portrait.

KERSHAW, James (son of T. Kershaw a working man). b. Manchester 1795; clerk in firm of Lees, Millington & Cullender, cotton spinners, Manchester 1811, became a partner, afterwards head of firm of Kershaw, Lees and Sidebottom; set the Mersey mills at Stockport to work employing 1200 hands 1842; member of council of anti-corn law league 1838; instrumental in obtaining municipal franchise for Manchester 1838; mayor of Manchester 1842–43; M.P. Stockport 1847 to death. d. the Manor house, Streatham, Surrey 27 April 1864, personalty sworn under £300,000, 16 July 1864. I.L.N. xvi 213 (1850), portrait.

KERSHAW, John (3 son of William Kershaw, shoemaker). b. Lower Fold, Healey, parish of Rochdale 25 Aug. 1792; baptized 24 May 1809, preached his first sermon 9 Jany. 1814; minister of Hope st. Baptist chapel, Rochdale 1817 to death; the means of establishing chapels at Bacup and Goodshaw; celebrated his jubilee at Hope chapel 6 March 1867 when he was presented with £325; a well known preacher in London, Manchester, &c.; author of A protest against the doctrine that a child of God cannot backslide 1848. d. Rochdale 11 Jany. 1870. The Rochdale Observer 15 Jany. 1870 p. 4, 22 Jany. p. 5; Memorials, being the autobiography of J. Kershaw (1870).

KERSHAW, John. b. Liverpool 24 Dec. 1816; a member of Unitarian body to 1837; ordained a R.C. priest 1840, missioner at Neston, Cheshire 1843; priest at Barton-on-Irwell 1844 to death; domestic prelate to the Pope 1879 with title of Monseignor; canon and rural dean of diocese of Salford. d. All Saints’, Barton 31 May 1890. Tablet 7 June 1890 p. 904.

KERSLAKE, Thomas. b. Exeter, July 1812; second-hand bookseller with his brother-in-law Samuel Cornish in Barton alley, Bristol 1830–9, alone at Park st. 1839–70; he acquired a reputation as a bookseller that has been eclipsed only by B. Quaritch, his catalogues were literary curiosities; collected antiquarian and archæological books, many of which were destroyed in a fire 1860; author of The word ‘Metropolis.’ The ancient word Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Bristol and Fossil Taunton. Three essays. Bristol 1880; Traces of the ancient kingdom of Damnonia outside Cornwall in remains of Celtic hagiology 1878; Vestiges of the supremacy of Mercia in the south of England 1878. d. Wynfred, Clevedon 5 Jany. 1891. Index catalogue of the Somerset archæological society library, Taunton (1889) p. 99; N. and Q. 3 Ser. ix 193, 398 (1866); Athenæum 10 Jany. 1891 p. 53.

KESSLER, Ferdinand Mozart. b. 1849; subconductor of music North Woolwich gardens; musical director and conductor at Brighton theatre 1872 to death; composer of I have wandered by the crystal stream, ballad 1877; The château Florence, polka 1879; Love’s impulse, a song 1879; The outpost, a march for the pianoforte 1884. d. Brighton 4 June 1888.

KESSON, John. b. Aberdeen; private sec. to Joseph Hume, M.P.; a transcriber on the catalogue of the British Museum 1838, retired 1857; a French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic scholar; contributed to the Critic, Literary Gazette and New Quarterly Review, and was editor of last numbers of each of these publications in 1863, 1862 and 1862; resided in Paris as a newspaper correspondent 1857 &c.; employed at South Kensington museum in preparing the Universal catalogue of books on art 1869; compiled A catalogue of the Dyce books in the South Kensington museum 1875; editor of Travels in Scotland, by J. G. Kohl, a translation 1844; The childhood of king Erik Menved, by S. B. Ingemann, a translation 1846; author of The cross and the dragon, or the fortunes of christianity in China 1854; with R. T. Scott, A complete guide to the British museum 1843. d. 1876. Cowtan’s Memories of British museum (1872) 311–16.

KESTEVEN, John Trollope, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir John Trollope 6 baronet 1766–1820). b. Casewick house, Stamford 8 May 1800; ed. at Eton; cornet 10 hussars 10 July 1817; succeeded his father 28 April 1820; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1825; chairman of Lincolnshire quarter sessions; M.P. South Lincolnshire 1841–68; president of poor law board for England 3 March 1852 to 31 Dec. 1852; P.C. 5 March 1852; master of Cottesmore hounds 1855–69; created baron Kesteven of Casewick, co. Lincoln 15 April 1868. d. 6 Cavendish sq. London 17 Dec. 1874. I.L.N. xxi 459 (1852), portrait, lxvi 22, 115 (1875).

KETCHEN, James. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1806, colonel 26 March 1844 to death; L.G. 12 Oct. 1857. d. Kingillie, Nairn 8 June 1862.

KETTLE, John Lucena Ross (eld. son of John Kettle of Overseale, co. Leicester). b. Overseale 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury and Ex. coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.C.L. 1838; exhibitioner of Lincoln coll. 1831–6, fellow 1836 to death; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1840; practised as conveyancer in New square; author of Letter to rev. James Thompson on proceedings at Lincoln college on election of rector 1851; Letter to the rev. T. E. Espin on close fellowships at Oxford 1851. d. Old Government house, Guernsey 27 Jany. 1872. Law Times, lii 279, 301, 375 (1872).

KETTLE, Robert (son of a farmer). b. in village of Kintillo at foot of the Ochill hills, Forfar 18 Dec. 1761; a weaver at Perth; in W. Kelly & Co.’s cotton mill, Glasgow 1815–29; president of Glasgow abstinence soc. 1831–46; president of Scottish temperance union 1838; editor Scottish Temperance journal 1 Jany. 1839; left the Presbyterian ch. and joined the Baptists 1834; took part in formation of Evangelical Alliance 1845; president of Scottish Temperance league 1848; author of Compulsoryism and endowments exposed. Glasgow 1837. d. Glasgow 23 March 1852. Temperance memorials of Robert Kettle (1854), memoir pp. ix–xcvi; S. Couling’s History of temperance movement (1862) 136, 318–19.

KEY, Sir Astley Cooper (2 son of Charles Aston Key, surgeon 1793–1849). b. 18 Jany. 1821; entered navy 2 Aug. 1835; captain 11 Oct. 1850; commanded the Amphion frigate in the Baltic 1854–5; commanded a battalion of naval brigade at capture of Canton 28–9 Dec. 1857, arrested Yeh the Chinese governor Jany. 1858; member of royal commission on national defence 1858–60; captain of the Excellent and superintendent of royal naval college 1863–6; R.A. 20 Nov. 1866; director general of naval ordnance 1866–9; superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard 1869–70 and of Malta dockyard 1870–72; planned Royal naval college, Greenwich, opened Feb. 1873, pres. Dec. 1872 to Jany. 1876; commander-in-chief on North American and West Indian station Dec. 1875 to May 1878; admiral 21 March 1878, retired 18 Jany. 1886; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 1878–86; first naval lord of the admiralty 1879–85; granted special pension of £500 a year 1885; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873, G.C.B. 24 Nov. 1882; P.C. 11 Aug. 1884; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; D.C.L. Oxf. 1880; author of A narrative of the recovery of H.M.S. Gorgon stranded in the bay of Monte Video 10 May 1844. 1847. d. Laggan house, North Town, Maidenhead 3 March 1888, portrait in library of royal naval college 1876. Proc. of Royal Soc. xliii pp. ix–xi (1888).

KEY, George William. b. 6 Feb. 1812; cornet 16 lancers 5 July 1831; lieut. 15 hussars 1834, lieut. col. 9 Feb. 1847 to 23 Sep. 1859 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general cavalry brigade, Curragh 1861–6; col. of 11 hussars 29 March 1868, and 15 hussars 19 Nov. 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. the Manor house, Coates near Cirencester 20 Aug. 1883.

KEY, Henry Cooper (eld. son of Charles Aston Key, surgeon 1793–1849). b. London 1819; ed. at private schools and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; R. of Stretton, Sugwas, Hereford 1846 to death; invented method of grinding glass mirrors for Newtonian reflectors; discovered remarkable depression in the moon’s surface which has been named after him; F.R.A.S. 9 Nov. 1860. d. Stretton rectory 25 Dec. 1879. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xl 199 (1880).

KEY, Sir John (eld. son of John Key of Denmark hill, Surrey, d. 28 Aug. 1821). b. 16 Aug. 1794; wholesale stationer 97 and 103 Newgate st. London; alderman for Langbourn ward 8 April 1823, and for Bridge without 1851 to 7 June 1853 when he resigned; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1824; master of Stationers’ Co. 1830; lord mayor 1830 and 1831; baronet by patent dated 17 Aug. 1831; chamberlain of city of London 30 May 1853 to death; M.P. city of London 12 Dec. 1832 to Aug. 1833. d. Streatham, Surrey 15 July 1858. London’s Roll of fame (1884) 209, portrait.

Note.—He was one of the leading supporters of the reform bill in the city, and was re-elected lord mayor in 1831 as an expression in favour of reform upon the part of the city.

KEY, Thomas Hewitt (youngest son of Thomas Key of London, physician). b. Southwark, London 20 March 1799; ed. at Buntingford, Herts, and St. John’s and Trin. colls. Camb., scholar of Trin. coll. 1819; 19 wr. and B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; studied at Guy’s hospital 1822–24; professor of mathematics in univ. of Virginia at Charlottesville 1825–27; professor of Latin in London univ. 1828–42, university opened 1 Oct. 1828, professor of comparative grammar univ. coll. London 1842 to death; joint head master with professor Henry Malden of the univ. school in Gower st. 1833–42 and head master alone 1842 to death when he left 600 scholars; president of philological society of London; introduced the crude-form system of teaching classical languages 1831; author of The Alphabet 1844, 2 ed. 1849; A Latin grammar on the system of crude forms 1845, 5 ed. 1863; Philological essays 1868; A Latin-English dictionary 1888. d. 21 Westbourne sq. London 29 Nov. 1875. bur. Highgate cemetery 6 Dec., marble bust by T. Woolner, R.A. in Univ. coll. London. Proc. of royal society, xxiv 10–16 (1876); I.L.N. lxvii 566, 581 (1875).

KEYL, Friedrich Wilhelm. b. Frankfort-on-the-Maine 17 Sep. 1823; pupil of sir Edwin Landseer in London 1845; an animal painter; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. and 34 at B.I. 1847–72; naturalised 6 March 1858; illustrated Scenes and stories of the Rhine, by Miss M. B. Edwards 1863; Wonders and curiosities of animal life, by G. Kearley 1878, and 12 other books 1863–78. d. London 5 Dec. 1873.

KEYWORTH, Thomas (son of Thomas Keyworth, bookseller). b. Nottingham 1782; converted from unitarianism and ed. at Cheshunt coll.; congregational minister at Sleaford, Ashborn, Runcorn, Wantage, London, Faversham, Milton and Nottingham successively; minister at Aston Tirrold, Berkshire 1842 to Dec. 1851; with bishops of Durham and Salisbury promoted system of garden allotments for the poor; author of A daily expositor of the New Testament 1825; A practical exposition of the Revelation of St. John 1828; A pocket expositor of the New Testament 1834, 2 ed. 1835; author with David Jones of Principia Hebraica 1817, another ed. 1825. d. Cheltenham 7 Nov. 1852. Congregational yearbook (1853) 212–13.

KIALLMARK, George Frederick (eld. son of George Kiallmark, musical composer 1781–1835). b. Camden st. Islington 7 Nov. 1804; studied music at Rouen and Paris 1820–5; pupil of Moscheles; gave his first public concert at King’s theatre, London 1832; his playing on the piano was remarkable for delicacy of touch, played Chopin’s works superbly; taught the piano at his residence 29 Percy st. Tottenham court road from 1842. d. 5 Pembridge gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Dec. 1887, bust by E. H. Baily 1845. Musical Keepsake (1834), portrait.

KICKHAM, Charles Joseph (son of a shopkeeper). b. Mullinahone, co. Tipperary 1826; sight and hearing damaged by an explosion of gunpowder; took part in young Ireland movement 1848; became a Fenian about 1860; one of the triumvirate appointed by James Stephens to govern projected Irish republic 1865; one of the editors of “Irish people” newspaper, which was suppressed 15 Sep. 1865; arrested 11 Nov. 1865, tried for treason felony, sentenced to 14 years imprisonment, served nearly 4 years; contested Tipperary as the national candidate 23 Feb. 1870, Denis Heron, Q.C. declared elected by 4 votes on scrutiny 26 Feb. 1870; author of Sally Cavanagh or the untenanted graves, a tale 1869, written in prison; Poems, sketches and narratives illustrative of Irish life 1870; Knocknagow or the homes of Tipperary 1879, a novel; For the old land, a tale of twenty years ago 1886, another ed. 1887. d. Blackrock near Dublin 21 Aug. 1882. C. J. Kickham’s Sally Cavanagh (1869), portrait; J. H. McCarthy’s Ireland since the union (1887) 183, 187, 188, 307–308; Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883) 658–59.

KIDD, John (son of John Kidd, captain of a merchant ship). b. London 10 Sep. 1775; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1793, B.A. 1797, M.A. 1800, M.B. 1801, M.D. 1804; studied at Guy’s hospital 1797–1801; chemical lecturer at Oxf. 1801, Aldrich’s professor of chemistry 1803–22, reader in anatomy on Dr. Lee’s foundation 1816, regius professor of physic 1822–51; physician to Radcliffe infirmary 1808–26; Radcliffe librarian 1834 to death; candidate of R.C.P. 31 March 1817, a fellow 16 March 1818, Harveian orator 1836; F.R.S. 28 March 1822; F.L.S. 1835; author of Outlines of mineralogy 2 vols. Oxford 1809; On the adaptation of external nature to the physical condition of man (The Second Bridgewater treatise) 1833, 6 ed. 1852; Observations on medical reform 1841. d. 37 St. Giles’s street, Oxford 17 Sep. 1851. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians, iii 178 (1878).

KIDD, Joseph Bartholomew. b. 1808; an original associate of Royal Scottish Academy 1826, an academician 1829–38; taught drawing at Greenwich from 1838; chiefly painted scenery of Scotland; painted a portrait of the Queen for Royal hospital schools, Greenwich; illustrated The miscellany of natural history, by sir T. D. Lauder 1833. d. 24 Egerton road, Greenwich 7 May 1889.

KIDD, William. b. Edinburgh about 1790; exhibited 33 pictures at R.A., 68 at B.I. and 88 at Suffolk st. 1817–53; many of his pictures were engraved; hon. member of Royal Scottish academy 1849; had a pension from Royal Academy; made 12 original paintings in illustration of Poems of Robert Burns which were engraved 1832. d. London 24 Dec. 1863.

KIDD, William. b. 1803; apprenticed to Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, booksellers, London; bookseller at Chandos st., at Regent st. to 1859 when he sold his business; published London Journal 24 numbers May to Oct. 1835 dealing with natural history; Kidd’s Own Journal 1852–4 re-issued in 5 vols.; built a fine aviary in the New road, Hammersmith, which was burnt down; delivered many lectures in the country from 1859; author of Kidd’s New guide to the lions of London 1832; Kidd’s Picturesque steam-boat companion to Herne Bay 1832; Kidd’s Picturesque pocket companion to Dover 1835. d. 3 Talbot villas, New road, Hammersmith 7 Jany. 1867.

KIDD, William John (son of W. H. Kidd, captain E.I.C.S.). b. 1808 or 1809; ed. at St. Bees; C. of St. Anne, Manchester 1834–36; P.C. of St. Matthew, Manchester 1836–41; R. of Didsbury, Lancs. 1841 to death; author of Reflections on unitarianism. Manchester 1835; The Sunday question considered in the light of holy scripture 1856; Bible class notes on the epistle to the Hebrews 1857; killed at Didsbury railway station 17 Dec. 1880.

KIDSTONE, William (son of rev. William Kidstone, secession minister, Stowe, co. Edinburgh). b. Stowe 9 Sep. 1768; ed. at Stirling gram. sch. and Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister of East Campbell st. chapel, Glasgow 18 Oct. 1791 to 1838; the first to establish Bible classes; chief originator of Friendly Clerical Soc. in Glasgow 1793; president Glasgow missionary soc.; clerk of the synod in presbytery of Glasgow 1795–1836; an original member of Evangelical Alliance; D.D. d. Ibroxholm, Glasgow 23 Oct. 1852. J. Kerr and J. Macfarlane’s Christian Old age, the life of W. Kidstone (1852); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 369–77.

KIERNAN, Francis. b. Ireland 2 Oct. 1800; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; held anatomy classes at his residence Charterhouse sq., suppressed by the hospital 1825; M.R.C.S. Nov. 1825, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1850, member of court of examiners 1862, V.P. 1864, gave his collections to the Hunterian museum; made discoveries respecting the structure of and circulation through the liver; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834, Copley medal 1836; one of founders of univ. of London 1836, member of the senate, examiner in anatomy and physiology 1840–61; made a fine collection of engravings of sacred subjects; author of Anatomical researches on the structure of the liver. d. 30 Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 31 Dec. 1874. bur. R.C. cemet. Mortlake 4 Jany. 1875. Medical Times, Jany. 1875 pp. 22–23, 52; Nature 7 Jany. 1875 p. 193.

KILBY, Thomas (son of John Kilby of Leeds). b. York 1794; matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 20 March 1816 aged 21; C. of Linton in Craven 1820; R. of Alverthorp to 1825; P.C. of St. John’s, Wakefield 1825 to death; author of Scenery in the vicinity of Wakefield with descriptive account 1843; Views in Wakefield 1853; Sermons 1866. d. St. John’s parsonage, Wakefield 5 Sep. 1868. Wakefield Journal and Examiner 11 Sep. 1868 p. 3.

KILLEN, Thomas Young (son of Edward Killen, merchant). b. Ballymena, co. Antrim 30 Oct. 1826; ed. at Belfast college; licensed to preach by presbytery of Carrickfergus 19 May 1848; minister of 3rd Ramelton, co. Donegal 25 Sep. 1850, of Ballykelly, co. Londonderry 1857–62; took a leading part in Ulster revival 1859; minister of Duncairn church, Belfast 26 Feb. 1862; moderator of Irish general assembly 1882; created D.D. by presbyterian theological faculty 1883; edited The Evangelical Witness, a monthly mag. 4 years; author of A Sacramental Catechism. Belfast 1874. d. Duncairn manse, Antrim road, Belfast 21 Oct. 1886.

KILLICK, Henry. b. Crabtree near Horsham July 1837; a carpenter at Brighton; scored 182 runs not out in the cricket match Sussex v. 22 veterans and colts of Sussex, Sep. 1865; kept wicket for Sussex; played his first match at Lords 9–10 July 1866; engaged on the Sussex county ground at Hove, Brighton 1873–4; fell down dead in Brighton 22 Nov. 1877.

KILMOREY, Francis Jack Needham, 2 Earl of. b. 12 Dec. 1787; M.P. for Newry 1819–26; styled viscount Newry and Morne 1822–32; succeeded his father as 2 earl 30 Nov. 1832. d. Gordon house, Isleworth, Middlesex 20 June 1880. Some professional recollections. By A former member of council of the Incorporated Law Society (1883) 93–118.

KILNER, Thomas. b. London 1777; a provincial actor; appeared at Park theatre, New York 1815 and was always known as Old Tom Kilner; lessee with Mr. Clarke of Federal st. theatre, Boston 1821, and appeared as sir Anthony Absolute, his wife playing Lucy 28 Sep. 1821; his other chief characters were Polonius, Squire Hawthorn and Capt. Copp; retired from the stage 1831. d. on his farm, Wilmington, Dearborn county, Indiana 2 Jany. 1862.

KILPACK, Thomas. b. 1794; proprietor of Gliddon’s divan 42 King st. Covent Garden (started by Arthur Gliddon, tobacconist 1825) 1828 or 1829 to death, where he had also a bowling alley; much frequented by artists, authors and actors. d. 42 King st. Covent Garden, London 10 Aug. 1874. The Town, i 75 (1837).

Note.—His dau. Miss S. L. Kilpack exhibited 2 sea pictures at the British Institution in 1867.

KILVERT, Francis (eld. son of Francis Kilvert of Bath). b. Westgate st. Bath, Good Friday 1793; ed. at Hungerford, Bath gr. sch. and Worc. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; assist. master at Bath gr. sch.; C. of Claverton near Bath 1816; took private pupils in Bath and Claverton; edited Literary remains of Bishop Warburton 1841; published in vol. 14 of The works of W. Warburton 1811, A selection from unpublished papers of W. Warburton bishop of Gloucester; author of Pinacothecae Historicae specimen 2 vols. 1848–50; Ralph Allan and Prior park 1857; Memoirs of the life and writings of Richard Hurd 1860; Sermons preached at Christ Church, Bath 1827; Fourteen sermons at St. Mary’s, Bathwick 1837. d. Claverton lodge, Bath 16 Sep. 1863. Remains in verse and prose of F. Kilvert, with a brief memoir pp. ix–xx, Bath (1866), portrait.

KIMBER, Thomas. M.A.; L.C.P.; conductor of classical and military establishment, Holland house, Lee road, Blackheath 1854; master at Haberdashers’ school, 103 Bunhill row, Hoxton; author of Construction of Vauban’s first system, six drawings as executed at Sandhurst and Addiscombe 1851; A mathematical course for the university of London 1853; Students’ casual papers, Holland house, Blackheath 1857; Selections of examination questions in arithmetic and algebra selected from papers set at college of preceptors, college of surgeons, London matriculation and Oxford and Cambridge local examinations 1879; London graduation mathematics, 41 years’ questions set at the university of London for the degrees of B.A. and B.Sc. 1880.

KINAHAN, Sir Edward Hudson Hudson-, 1 Baronet (2 son of Robert Henry Kinahan, whiskey distiller 1799–1861). b. 27 Nov. 1828; partner in firm of Kinahan and Sons, distillers, Dublin and London; sheriff of city of Dublin 1868 and of co. of Dublin 1875; grand treasurer of the Masonic order in Ireland; a director of Constitutional club; cr. baronet 26 Sep. 1887; assumed by r.l. prefix, surname and arms of Hudson, Oct. 1887; sheriff of Queen’s county 1892. d. Maryborough 8 March 1892.

KINAHAN, John Robert. b. 1828; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851, M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858; lecturer on botany Carmichael sch.; professor of zoology in department of science and art, museum of industry; wrote papers in scientific journals. d. Dawson st. Dublin 2 Feb. 1863.

KINAHAN, Robert Henry (youngest son of Daniel Kinahan of Robuck park, co. Dublin 1756–1827). b. Oct. 1799; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1854; distiller of whiskey at Dublin to death; sheriff of city of Dublin 1851, lord mayor 1853. d. 29 April 1861.

KINCAID, Sir John (2 son of John Kincaid of Dalbeath near Falkirk). b. Dalbeath house, Jany. 1787 or 1789; 2 lieut. 95 foot 27 April 1809; served in the Peninsula 1811–14 and at Waterloo; 1 lieut. rifle brigade 23 May 1811, captain 25 Nov. 1826, sold out 21 June 1831; one of exons of H.M.’s royal body guard 25 Oct. 1844 to death, senior exon 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 June 1852; government inspector of prisons for Scotland 1847 to death; inspector of factories for Scotland and north of England 1850, resigned 1862; published Adventures in the rifle brigade 1830, 2 ed. 1838; Random shots from a rifleman 1835. d. Hastings 22 April 1862.

KINDER, Thomas William. b. London 10 Nov. 1817; ensign Worcestershire militia 1840, capt. 1853, regiment embodied 1854, disembodied 1859, when he was transferred to 3 West York militia, retired as major 22 March 1870; proprietor of railway works at Bromsgrove and Oldbury 1845–55; conducted locomotive department Shrewsbury and Birmingham railway; manager Midland Great Western railway of Ireland 1851–55; master of mint Hong Kong 1863 which was suppressed 1868; master of mint at Osaka, Japan 1868–75; helped to originate the postal department, Japan; first master of Kobé masonic lodge; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1860. d. Norwood junction station, London, Brighton and South coast line 2 Sep. 1884. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxxviii 448–50 (1884).

KINDERSLEY, Sir Richard Torin (eld. son of Nathaniel Edward Kindersley of Sunning hill, Berks.) b. Madras 5 Oct. 1792; ed. at Haileybury sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.; 4 wr. 1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, fellow of his college Oct. 1815 to 1824; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1818, practised in court of chancery; K.C. Jany. 1835; chancellor of county palatine of Durham, Sep. 1846; master in chancery 6 March 1848; vice chancellor 8 Oct. 1851 to 29 Nov. 1866; knighted at Windsor castle 23 Oct. 1851; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866. d. Clyffe, Dorchester 22 Oct. 1879.

KING, Alfred (youngest son of Joseph King, author of Tables of interest). b. Liverpool 24 Dec. 1797; engineer to Liverpool gas company 1826 to death; will always be identified with history of gas lighting; invented the delicate pressure guage and the photometer; suggested application of gas for cooking; invented a self-registering barometer; A.I.C.E. 25 Feb. 1840, M.I.C.E. 5 May 1840. d. 27 April 1867.

KING, Anthony Singleton, ensign 71 foot 22 Feb. 1802; captain 99 foot 28 Feb. 1805, major 3 May 1810; commanded the troops in Newfoundland from 1 Oct. 1816 to the peace; returned to England, his regiment was disbanded 1818; lieut. col. 12 Aug. 1819, sold out; K.H. 1837. d. 1880.

KING, Charles William (eld. son of rev. Wm. Clark King, V. of Norham, Northumberland). Matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 20 Nov. 1849 aged 17; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1851–5; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Woodhorn, Northumberland 1855–9; R. of St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham 1859–67; principal of Female training coll. Durham 1859–64; inspector of schools for Durham and Northumberland 10 June 1864 to death. d. 8 Aug. 1872.

KING, Charles William (son of a shipping agent in the iron trade). b. Newport, Monmouthshire 5 Sep. 1818; a sizar at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1836, scholar 1839, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; collected antique gems in Italy 1845–77, sold his collection consisting of 331 engraved stones about 1878, it has been in the Metropolitan museum of art at New York since 1881; ordained deacon 1845; author of Antique Gems, their origin, use and value 1860; The Gnostics and their remains 1864, 2 ed. 1887; The natural history, ancient and modern, of precious stones and gems 1865; The handbook of engraved gems 1866, 2 ed. 1885; Antique gems and rings 2 vols. 1872. d. London 25 March 1888. bur. Highgate cemetery. Athenæum 31 March 1888 p. 412, 7 April 1888 p. 441; Proceedings Numismatic Soc. 1888 p. 28.

KING, David. b. Ayr 1787; ed. at Ayr and univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. England 1810; practised at Eltham 1811 to death; president of West Kent Medico chirurgical society; author of The history of Eltham palace and its subterranean passage; General observations regarding pestilential diseases 1854; General observations on church patronage, with a history of the patronage of Eltham church 1855. d. Eltham 23 Aug. 1865. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v 148, 163 (1867).

KING, David (son of John King 1762–1827, pastor of second united associate church in Montrose). b. Montrose 20 May 1806; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; minister of first united secession church, Dalkeith 13 Jany. 1830, and of Greyfriars secession church, Glasgow 15 Oct. 1833 to 12 Feb. 1855; LL.D. Glasgow 1840; an active founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845; founded a Presbyterian congregation at Bayswater, London 1860, minister to 1869; moderator of synod of Presbyterian church of Scotland 1863–7; minister at Morningside near Edinb. 1869–73; author of The ruling eldership of the christian church 1846, 3 ed. 1861; The state and prospects of Jamaica 1850; The principles of geology explained in their relation to religion 1850, 2 ed. 1850; An exposition of the presbyterian form of government 1853. d. Hamilton terrace, London 20 Dec. 1883. Memoir of David King, by his wife and daughter (1885) 1–263, portrait; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 30–6.

KING, Edward Bolton. b. 1801; sheriff of Warwickshire 1830; M.P. Warwick 1831–37; M.P. South Warwickshire 1857–59. d. Chadshunt near Leamington 23 March 1878.

KING, Sir Edward Durnford (son of Wm. King of Southampton). b. 1775; midshipman June 1789, captain 8 Jany. 1801, R.A. 22 July 1830; commander in chief on the Cape of Good Hope and Brazil station, Aug. 1840 to Dec. 1841; commander in chief at the Nore 18 April 1845 to 9 May 1848; admiral 30 Oct. 1849; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1833; knighted at the pavilion, Brighton 22 Jany. 1833. d. at his residence in Devonshire 14 Jany. 1862.

KING, Francis. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1838; B.A. 1841, M.A. B.D. and D.D. 1879; C. of Abbeyleix, Queen’s co. 1843–9; C. of Oswestry, Salop 1849–53; P.C. of St. Patrick’s chapel of ease, Newry, co. Down 1853 to death; archdeacon of Dromore 1887 to death; wrote to Mr. Gladstone at time of passing of act disestablishing Church of Ireland, warning him against that measure and predicting his political downfall; the oldest clergyman in the Irish church. d. Downshire road, Newry 7 Nov. 1891.

KING, George. b. 1813; ensign 13 foot 13 April 1831, lieut. col. 17 Nov. 1857 to 19 Jany. 1864 when he retired on full pay with rank of M.G. d. Bradford, Abbas, Dorset 11 March 1868.

KING, Sir George St. Vincent Duckworth, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir Richard King, 2 baronet, vice admiral 1774–1834). b. Stonehouse, Devon 15 July 1809; entered navy 8 Feb. 1822, captain 28 Aug. 1841; second in command of naval brigade at siege of Sebastopol; R.A. 4 April 1862; commander-in-chief in China 1863 to 1867; admiral 20 April 1875; C.B. 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; granted good service pension of £300, 19 Aug. 1876; succeeded his brother sir Richard Duckworth King 2 Nov. 1887; assumed by r.l. additional name of Duckworth. d. Wear house, Exeter 18 Aug. 1891.

KING, George William. b. London 15 June 1822; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; a cricketer, played for Surrey 1846–9; started the Brighton cricket club 1848, hon. sec. 1848–54, pres. 1855. d. Brighton 22 Dec. 1881. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, iii 404 (1863).

KING, Sir Henry. b. 1777 or 1778; cornet 24 light dragoons 25 March 1794; lost his right leg in attack on Rahmanie, Egypt 9 May 1801; major Sicilian regiment 5 Feb. 1807; major 82 foot 30 April 1807, lieut. col. 4 June 1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June 1854; col. 3 foot 18 March 1845 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; governor of Heligoland 1817–1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 5 June 1834; K.C.H. 1834. d. 7 Sussex terrace, Hyde park, London 24 July 1854.

KING, Henry (son of Charles King, huntsman to the Pytchley hounds to 1818, d. 1857). b. Brington near Althorp park 1815; in the Warwickshire kennels under Jack Wood 1828–30; second whip to Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake 1830 and to Mr. Applewhaite 1831–36; third whip to the Royal Buckhounds, July 1836, second whip 1850, first whip 1855–65; her majesty’s huntsman 2 April 1866 to death, the kennel consisted of 40 couple of hounds. d. the Royal kennels, Ascot 30 Dec. 1871. bur. Sunninghill churchyard 6 Jany. 1872. Baily’s Mag. xvii (1870) portrait, xviii 5–14 (1870), xxi 246 (1872); Windsor and Eton Express 6 Jany. 1872 p. 4, 13 Jany. p. 4.

KING, Henry Samuel (son of Henry King of Brighton). b. Lewes 15 Nov. 1817; bookseller at Brighton with an elder brother 1837 or 1838, then alone; partner in firm of Smith, Elder & Co., Cornhill, London, in 1868 the partners separated, H. S. King retaining the Indian agency and banking business in his own name; firm became Henry S. King & Co. bankers and East India, army, navy and colonial agents 45 Pall Mall, 65 Cornhill and 14 Worship st.; proprietor of the Homeward Mail and the Overland Mail; published many works 1871–77; relinquished publishing and bookselling portion of his business 1877. d. 45 Pall Mall, London 17 Nov. 1878. Bookseller 2 Dec. 1878 p. 1215; Academy, ii 497 (1878).

KING, James King (elder son of rev. James Simpkinson 1767–1842, R. of St. Peter-le-Poor, London, who assumed name of King 1837). b. Weybridge, Surrey 6 Nov. 1806; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1865; sheriff of Hereford 1845; M.P. Herefordshire 1852–68. d. Staunton park, Herefordshire 17 June 1881.

KING, John. b. Moy, co. Antrim 15 Dec. 1838; a private in 70 regt. in India, where he was employed by G. T. Landells when purchasing the camels for the Burke and Wills Australian exploring expedition 1860; went on the expedition to Carpentaria, the only survivor of the party which started from Cooper’s Creek 16 Dec. 1860, rescued by Alfred Howitt, July 1861; had pension from Victorian government of £180 a year. d. of phthisis at Melbourne 15 Jany. 1872.

KING, John. b. Stirling 1789; ed. Stirling gram. sch.; manager of Hurlet and Campsie alum co.’s works at Campsie; manager of G. Macintosh and co.’s Cudbear dye works at Dunchattan 1825, a partner 1825, became sole owner 1848, closed the works 1851; partner in Hurlet and Campsie alum co. 1851 to death. d. Levernholme, parish of Eastwood 31 Oct. 1875. Memoirs of One hundred Glasgow men, ii 169–70 (1886), portrait.

Note.—The staple articles in the dye works were cudbear and archil, extracted from seaweed imported from Sweden and Peru, used in colouring woollens and silks crimson and purple, the new modern brilliant dyes ruined this business.

KING, John Crookshanks. b. Kilwinning, Ayrshire 11 Oct. 1806; went to U.S. America 1829, a superintendent of factories; in Cincinnati and Louisville several years; made a clay model of his wife’s head 1834; resided in New Orleans modelling busts and making cameo likenesses 1837–40; removed to Boston, Massachusetts; made busts of D. Webster, J. Q. Adams, Louis Agassiz and R. W. Emerson. d. Boston 21 April 1882.

KING, John Duncan. b. 1789; ensign 71 foot 28 Aug. 1806; lieut. 7 foot 13 June 1811, placed on h.p. 20 April 1820; lieut. 75 foot 14 May 1829, placed on h.p. 28 Dec. 1830; served in the Walcheren expedition and in Peninsular war; military knight of Windsor 1850 to death; landscape painter, exhibited 18 pictures at R.A., 39 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1824–58. d. Windsor Castle 21 Aug. 1863.

KING, John Hynde. Ensign 49 foot 6 Sep. 1844, major 2 Oct. 1855; wounded in the assault on the Redan 16 June 1855; captain grenadier guards 19 Dec. 1856 and major 29 May 1867 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Aldershot camp 9 July 1870.

KING, John Langley. Lecturer at Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent st. London many years; F.G.S. d. 6 Eastfield villas, Church hill, Walthamstow 26 Jany. 1891.

KING, John Myers (2 son of Edward King of Askham, Westmoreland). b. 1804; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., scholar 1821–7; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; V. of Cutcombe, Somerset 8 Dec. 1832 to death; author of The Georgics of Virgil translated into English verse 1843, another ed. 1871; The Aeneid of Virgil translated into English verse 1847, another ed. 1875; The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil translated into English verse 1882. d. 1887.

KING, John William (son of colonel Nevile King of Ashby hall, Sleaford, Leics.) b. 1792; ed. at C.C. coll. Oxf., scholar 1810–20, fellow 1820–33; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818, B.D. 1827; V. of Ashby-de-la-Launde, co. Lincoln 15 Jany. 1822 to death; R. of Bassingham, co. Lincoln 15 May 1832 to 1874; assumed name of Mr. Launde on the turf 1861; won the One thousand guineas, Oaks and St. Leger with Apology ridden by John Osborne 1874. d. Ashby hall 9 May 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 475 (1875), lxvii 119 (1875).

KING, Joseph. b. 1802; solicitor in London, Jany. 1836 to Nov. 1874; contributed to The Critic; author of Flights of Phædo 1859, a poem in reply to Tennyson’s Maud; and The Guildford farce, a satirical poem 1860 both anonymous. d. 16 North Buildings, Finsbury circus, London 1 April 1875. Law Times, lix 17 (1875).

KING, Joshua (son of David King of Lowick Bridge, Ulverstone, Lancs.). b. 16 Jany. 1798; ed. at Hawkshead gram. sch. and Trinity coll. Camb. 1815, sizar of Queen’s coll. Feb. 1816; senior wrangler and B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822, LL.D. 1838; fellow of Queen’s coll. Jany. 1820, tutor 1820, elected president by a dispensation from the crown, for his not being in holy orders 1832, remained till death; vice chancellor 1833; F.R.S.; Lucasian professor of mathematics in univ. of Camb. 1839, resigned 1849; personally argued in an appeal to the Crown as visitor, that the president of Queen’s had no voice in the election of the fellows, but lord Lyndhurst gave judgment against him 22 Jany. 1828. d. President’s lodge, Queen’s college 1 Sep. 1857. The case of the president of Queen’s college, containing the two petitions of J. King against the election of H. Godfrey (1821); Cambridge Chronicle 5 Sep. 1857 p. 4, 12 Sep. p. 4.

KING, Kate (dau. of T. C. King, actor). b. Camden-town, London 1852; appeared with her brother Harry King (who d. 17 May 1870 aged 19) as Irish duettists and dancers with Dr. Corri’s diorama of Ireland; played at the Alhambra and other music halls in London; member of Arthur Lloyd’s concert party in his “Two hours fun” entertainment to 1870; played in burlesque at Vaudeville theatre; m. 31 July 1871 Arthur Lloyd comic singer; acted at Queen’s theatre, Dublin during her husband’s lesseeship 1874–6, toured with his Ballyvogan company playing her original part of Norah O’Sullivan in his drama Ballyvogan, autumn seasons of 1887–90, a part she played upwards of 500 times; last appeared in London at Oxford music hall 20 March 1891; last appeared on the stage at Moss’s Varieties, Edinburgh 7 April 1891. d. 3 Priory villas, Byrne road, Balham, Surrey 2 May 1891. bur. Abney park cemetery 7 May.

KING, Mitchell. b. Crail, Fifeshire 8 June 1783; landed in Charlestown, U.S. America 17 Nov. 1805, schoolmaster 1806; assistant teacher Charlestown coll. 1 March 1806, principal of the college 1810; admitted to the bar 1810; a founder of the Philosophical Soc. 1809; judge of the city court 1819 and 1842–44; LL.D. of Charlestown coll. 1857; author of The culture of the olive 1846, and of many essays and addresses. d. Flat Rock, South Carolina 12 Nov. 1862.

KING, Peter John Locke (2 son of 7 baron King 1775–1833). b. Ockham, Surrey 25 Jany. 1811; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; contested East Surrey 1837; M.P. for East Surrey 11 Aug. 1847 to 26 Jany. 1874; got Real Estate charges act known as Locke-King’s act passed 11 Aug. 1854 and Act to abolish property qualifications of members of parliament passed 28 June 1858; defeated and caused resignation of Russell ministry on motion to reduce franchise in counties to £10, 20 Feb. 1851; author of Injustice of the law of succession to the real property of intestates 1854, 3 ed. 1855. d. Brooklands, Weybridge 12 Nov. 1885. Statesmen of England (1862) No. 46, portrait; Drawing-room portrait gallery, 2nd series (1859), portrait.

KING, Philip Parker (1 son of Philip Gidley King 1758–1808, governor of New South Wales). b. Norfolk island 13 Dec. 1791; entered navy Nov. 1807; captain 25 Feb. 1830, surveyed the Southern coasts of America 1826–30 and Patagonia, the Straits of Magellan and Terra del Fuego 1830; retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855 being first native of Australia so honoured; a nominee member of legislative council 1829; member for Gloucester and Macquarie 1851 to death; chairman of denominational board of education; manager of Australian Agricultural Society 1831; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1824; published Narrative of a survey of the inter-tropical and western coasts of Australia 1827; A voyage to Torres straits in search of the survivors of the ship Charles Eaton by C. M. Lewis, arranged by P. P. King 1837. d. Grantham, North Shore, Sydney, New South Wales 26 Feb. 1856. Fitzroy’s Voyages of the Adventurer and Beagle (1839); Proc. of Linnæan society (1856) 28–31; Rev. J. E. T. Wood’s History of the Discovery of Australia, i 246–304 (1865).

KING, Richard. b. about 1811; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1832; L.S.A. 1832, member of court of examiners; hon. M.D. New York 1833; surgeon and naturalist to Back’s expedition to mouth of Great Fish river 1833–5; issued prospectus which originated Ethnological Soc. 20 July 1842, the first sec. 1844; assistant surgeon to the Resolute in expedition sent out to search for sir John Franklin 1850, arctic medal 1857; edited The Medical Times some time; author of Narrative of a journey to the shore of the Arctic ocean under command of captain Back 2 vols. 1836; The preservation of children in delivery 1847; The Franklin expedition from first to last 1855; The causes of death in the still-born 1858; The Manx of the Isle of Man 1870; The Laplanders 1871. d. 1 Blandford st. Manchester sq. London 7 Feb. 1876.

KING, Richard John (eld. son of Richard King of Pennycross, d. April 1829). b. Montpelier, Pennycross, Plymouth 18 Jany. 1818; ed. at Exeter college, Oxf., B.A. 1841; collected a fine library which he sold 1854; member of Devonshire Association 1874, pres. 1875; author of Selections from the early ballad poetry 1842; Anschar: a story of the north. Plymouth 1850, anon.; wrote for John Murray, A handbook for travellers in Kent and Sussex 1858, 1863, 1868, 1877; A handbook for Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 1858, 1865, 1870; Handbook to the cathedrals of England 6 vols. 1864–81; Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridge 1870; Handbooks to the cathedrals of Wales 1873; author of Sketches and Studies 1874 a selection of his articles to Saturday Review, Quarterly Review and Fraser’s Mag. d. The Limes, Crediton, Devon 10 Feb. 1879, memorial window Crediton ch. Devon Assoc. Trans. xi 58–60 (1879).

KING, Richard Thomas. b. 1785 or 1786; 2 lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 22 July 1840; L.G. 27 June 1864. d. 21 Argyll st. London 5 Dec. 1866.

KING, Robert Turner. b. Leicestershire 1824; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb., B.A. 1849; as a point at cricket was far famed, could cover an immense deal of ground and make wonderful catches; played at Lord’s, Undergraduates of Cambridge v. Marylebone 8 June 1846; C. of Fridaybridge near Wisbeach 1871–5; V. of Fridaybridge 1880 to death. d. Bootle, Lancashire 12 May 1884. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, iii 387 (1863).

KING, Samuel William (eld. son of rev. Wm. Hutchinson King, V. of Nuneaton, Warws.) b. 20 Sep. 1821; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1853; R of Saxlingham-Nethergate, Norfolk 1851 to death; an entomologist and geologist; F.R.G.S. 1858; F.G.S. 1860; author of The Italian valleys of the Pennine Alps 1858; left his collection of Norfolk fossil mammalia to Museum of practical geology, London. d. Pontresina 8 July 1868. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxv 29 (1869).

KING, Thomas. b. 1777 or 1778; entered Madras army 1799; col. 19 Madras N.I. 1845 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Louisa terrace, Exmouth 29 Dec. 1859.

KING, Thomas. b. Silver st. Stepney, London 14 Aug. 1835; in the navy a short time; foreman of labourers at Victoria Docks, London; beat Tom Truckle of Portsmouth £50 a side, 49 rounds in 62 minutes 27 Nov. 1860; beat Wm. Evans known as Young Broome £50 a side, 43 rounds in 42 minutes 21 Oct. 1861; beaten by James Mace £200 a side, 43 rounds in 68 minutes 28 Jany. 1862; beat James Mace £200 a side and the championship, 21 rounds in 38 minutes 26 Nov. 1862; resigned the championship and would not fight Mace again; fought John Camel Heenan for £1000 a side and the championship at Wadhurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1863 when King won in 24 rounds lasting 35 minutes, this fight brought him in by means of stakes and presents nearly £4000; stood 6 feet 2¼ inches and weighed 176 lbs.; a bookmaker 1863 to death; sculled races on the river 1867; took many prizes at flower shows in and around London. d. of bronchitis at Clarence house, Clarence road, Clapham, London 4 Oct. 1888, value of his personalty declared at £54,472. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 490–518 (1881), portrait; Modern Boxing, By Pendragon [Henry Sampson] (1879) 43–50, 57–78; Sporting Times 13 March 1875, portrait; W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring (1888) 54–9, portrait.

KING, Thomas William. b. 21 June 1801; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1836, on library committee 1853–65, a contributor to the Archæologia and to the Proceedings of the Soc. of Antiquaries; Rouge Dragon pursuivant, Herald’s Office, London 20 May 1833 to 17 June 1848, York Herald 17 June 1848 to death; wrote Lancashire Funeral certificates, Chetham Society vol. 75 (1869); The pedigree of sir Philip Sidney. By R. Cooke. The restorations made by T. W. King 1869. d. Leicester road, New Barnett 4 Feb. 1872.

KING, Walker (son of Walker King 1751–1827, bishop of Rochester). b. St. Marylebone, London 1798; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1822; R of Stone, Kent 6 July 1822 to death; P.C. of Bromley, Kent 1824–7; preb. of Rochester 1827 to death; archdeacon of Rochester 25 June 1827 to death, installed 6 July 1827; author of The revival of diocesan synods, a charge 1838. d. Woodside, Stone, Kent 13 March 1859.

KING, William (son of rev. John King, master of Ipswich gr. sch.) b. Ipswich 17 April 1786; ed. at Peterhouse coll. Camb., fellow 1806–21; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, M.D. 1819; F.R.C.P. 1820, delivered Harveian oration 1843; lived at Brighton 1823 to death; wrote a small monthly periodical entitled The Co-operator, May 1828 to July 1830; consulting phys. to Sussex county hospital 1842–61; published Observations on the artificial mineral waters of Dr. Struve prepared at Brighton 1826; The Institutions of De Fellenberg 1842; Medical Essays 1850. d. 23 Montpellier road, Brighton 19 Oct. 1865. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 226–7 (1878).

KING, William. Art dealer and broker in London. d. 19 Ovington gardens, London 24 April 1884, will proved 9 July exceeding £136,000; left £100,000, 3 per cent. consols, to St. George’s hospital, London on condition that one ward should always be called the William King ward. The Times 19 July 1884 p. 6.

KING, William. b. Hartlepool, Durham, April 1809; curator of Museum of natural history at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1841–9, lecturer on geology in school of medicine there; professor of geology Queen’s college, Galway 1849–83 and professor of natural history there 1882–3, emeritus professor of geology, mineralogy and natural history there 1883 to death; the first D.Sc. of Queen’s Univ. of Ireland 1870; author of Monograph of the Permian fossils, published by Palæontographical Soc. London 1850. d. Glenoir, Taylor’s Hill, Galway 24 June 1886. Nature 1 July 1886 p. 200.

KING, William Smyth. b. 1809; incumbent of Carlow to death; canon of St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin to death; dean of Leighlin 1877 to death. d. Carlow 30 Dec. 1889.

KING, William Thomas Poole (son of Thomas King). b. 1805 or 1806; member of Bristol town council many years; sheriff of Bristol 1871; master of Merchant Venturers’ soc.; one of the pioneers of the West Africa commerce with England; led a party of men armed with cutlasses against the Bristol rioters in 1831; director of Bristol and Exeter railway co. 1836; a founder and member of Bristol Engineer volunteer corps 16 April 1861. d. Avonside, Clifton 13 Sep. 1887.

KING-CHURCH, Henry John. b. 1787; employed in Tower of London; took additional name of Church by r.l. 13 Feb. 1849; apostle of the Irvingite or Catholic Apostolic church 14 Dec. 1833 to death, Denmark, Holland and Belgium were assigned to his care. d. Albury, Surrey 16 Sep. 1865. E. Miller’s History of Irvingism i 139, 167, 181, 294 (1878).

KINGCOME, Sir John (son of Henry Kingcome). b. Revelstoke, Devon 14 Feb. 1794; entered navy 28 May 1808, captain 28 June 1838; present at signature of treaty of peace with China 29 Aug. 1842; captain of the Royal William 120 guns 16 Feb. 1854 to 18 June 1856; granted good service pension 1 Nov. 1854; R.A. of the Blue 10 Sep. 1857; commander in chief in the Pacific 31 Oct. 1862 to 10 May 1864; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869; K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 5 Windsor villas, Plymouth 7 Aug. 1871. I.L.N. lix 187 (1871).

KINGDOM, John M. b. London; solicitor; wrote the following plays, Marcoretti; Madeline; Which is my husband; The old ferry house; Three musketeers; Giraldo; Tancred; The crusaders; The old house on the Thames; The three princes, a romantic extravaganza, Surrey theatre 1 April 1850; The fountain of beauty, or the king, the princess and the geni, a fairy extravaganza, Drury Lane 5 Sep. 1853; Queen Mary, a drama by A. Tennyson, with full stage directions 1875. d. New York 24 July 1876.

KINGDON, Emmeline Maria (youngest dau. of rev. Thomas Hockin Kingdon, R. of Pyworthy, Devon 1808 until his death 31 Jany. 1853 aged 78). Lady superintendent of the Royal School for the daughters of officers of the army, Lansdowne, Bath 1864–82 when she became paralysed; the school attained a high reputation through her energy and judgment. d. 1 Dynham road, West Hampstead, London 25 March 1890. bur. Paddington cemet. 29 March.

KINGDON, Samuel Nicholson (brother of the preceding). b. Bridgerule, Devon 16 March 1805; V. of Bridgerule 1844 to death; author of Church Psalmody 1856; The history and sacred obligation of the Sabbath 1856; Tracts for the times on political subjects [n.d.] 1866, anon. d. Bridgerule 17 March 1872. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 299 (1874).

KINGDON, Thomas Kingdon (3 son of Samuel Kingdon of Exeter, ironmonger). b. Exeter 1812; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; practised as a special pleader 9 years; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848, bencher 25 Jany. 1867 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; recorder of Bristol 21 Aug. 1872 to death. d. 3 Clarendon road, Kensington 2 Dec. 1879.

KINGLAKE, Alexander William (eld. son of Wm. Kinglake of Taunton, banker and solicitor, d. 1847). b. Taunton 5 Aug. 1809; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836; travelled in the East about 1835; barrister L.I. 5 May 1837, retired from practice 1856; visited French army in Algeria 1845; contested Bridgewater 1852; M.P. Bridgewater 1857–68, re-elected 17 Nov. 1868, election declared void on petition 23 Feb. 1869, borough disfranchised 1869; visited the Crimea, saw battle of the Alma and the trenches at Sebastopol 1854; author of Eothen, or traces of travel brought home from the East 1844, 6 ed. 1878; The invasion of the Crimea, its origin and an account of its progress down to the death of lord Raglan 8 vols. 1863–87, 6 ed. 9 vols. 1877–88. d. 17 Bayswater terrace, London 2 Jany. 1891, cremated at Woking cemetery 8 Jany. Blackwood’s Mag. Feb. 1891 pp. 302–338; I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p. 43, portrait; Graphic 10 Jany. 1891 p. 43, portrait.

KINGLAKE, John Alexander (son of Robert Kinglake, M.D. of Taunton). b. 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; serjeant at law 10 July 1844, patent of precedence to rank after sir John Rolt, Feb. or March 1849; recorder of Exeter, July 1851 to Nov. 1856; recorder of Bristol, Nov. 1856 to death; contested Wells 1852 and 1855; M.P. for Rochester 30 March 1857 to death. d. 113 St. George’s sq. Pimlico, London 9 July 1870. I.L.N. xxxii 560, 561 (1858), portrait.

KINGSALE, John Constantine De-Courcy, 29 Baron (eld. son of 27 baron Kingsale 1805–47). b. Salcombe, Devon 5 Nov. 1827; succeeded 7 Jany. 1847 as premier baron in peerage of Ireland; captain East Devon militia 1853–5; put into operation the alleged De Courcy privilege of remaining covered in the presence of royalty, before the Queen 25 June 1859, this ceremony astonished all who saw it, as it had not been performed since 15 Sep. 1762. d. 13 Eaton sq. London 15 June 1865. G. E. Cokayne’s Complete Peerage, iv 396, 399 (1892).

KINGSALE, John Fitzroy De-Courcy, 31 Baron (only son of lieut. col. Gerald De-Courcy d. Oct. 1848). b. Corfu 30 March 1821; ensign 47 foot 28 Dec. 1838, lieut. 2 July 1841, sold out 11 June 1847; served as a major in Turkish contingent during Crimean war 1854–6; stipendiary magistrate at San Juan, Vancouver’s island during the Harney disturbances 1859; served as a colonel in Federal army during American civil war 1861–5; succeeded his cousin Michael 15 April 1874 as premier baron in peerage of Ireland. d. Florence 20 Nov. 1890.

KINGSBURY, Frederick. b. 1814 or 1815; studied at R. Academy of music 1844–45; conductor at Strand music hall (now Gaiety theatre) 1866–7; one of conductors of promenade concerts at Agricultural hall, Islington 20 July 1868; founded and conducted the London vocal academy, Rose Hersee was one of his pupils; professor at Guildhall school of music; wrote Letter on cultivation of the voice in reading, printed in J. J. Halcombe’s The Speaker at home (1860) pp. 171–78. d. of paralysis 21 Cecil st. Strand, London 26 Feb. 1892.

KINGSCOTE, Henry Robert (2 son of Thomas Kingscote d. 1811). b. 25 May 1802; ed. at Harrow; was 6 feet 5 inches in height; played his first cricket match at Lords 21 May 1823; pres. of Marylebone cricket club 1827; sent out supplies to the troops during Crimean war 1855; founder of scheme for establishing workshops for the indigent blind, and of National Orphan home at Ham Common, Surrey 1849. d. 10 Seville st. Lowndes sq. London 13 July 1882. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, i 468 (1862).

KINGSDOWN, Thomas Pemberton-Leigh, 1 Baron (elder son of Robert Pemberton, barrister, d. 2 Aug. 1804). b. London 11 Feb. 1793; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816, bencher 1830 to death; practised in equity courts 1816–43; K.C. Nov. 1829; leader in the rolls court 1835; declined the solicitor generalship, a puisne judgeship and vice-chancellorship; M.P. Rye 1831–32; M.P. Ripon 1835–43; attorney general to prince of Wales 1841–43; chancellor of duchy of Cornwall, May 1843 to 1861; on death of his kinsman sir Robert Leigh, came into a life interest in the Wigan estate of £17,000 a year Jany. 1843; took additional surname of Leigh by r.l. 7 March 1843; P.C. 10 June 1843, member of its judicial committee 1843–63 for which he declined to take any remuneration; declined the Great Seal from the Derby ministry 1858; created baron Kingsdown of Kingsdown, Kent 28 Aug. 1858. d. Torre hill, Sittingbourne, Kent 7 Oct. 1867. Law mag. and law review, xxvi 216–23 (1869); Annual Register (1867) pp. 187–89.

KINGSFORD, Anna (dau. of John Bonus, ship broker, d. 1881). b. Maryland Point, Stratford, Essex 16 Sep. 1846; baptized Annie; (m. 1867 Algernon Godfrey Kingsford, V. of Atcham, Shropshire since 1882); wrote stories in the Penny Post signed Ninon Kingsford and Mrs. Algernon Kingsford 1868–72; received into church of Rome by cardinal Manning 1870, when she adopted the Christian names Annie Mary Magdalen Maria Johanna; purchased The Lady’s Own Paper 1872, edited it 1872–3; studied medicine in Paris 1874–80; M.D. Paris 22 July 1880; a physician in London, very successful with women; pres. of London lodge of Theosophical Soc. 1883; founded the Hermetic Soc. 1884; a vegetarian and an opponent of vivisection; author of Beatrice, a tale of the early Christians 1863; River Reeds 1866 anon., a vol. of verse; Rosamunda the princess 1868; The perfect way in diet, a treatise advocating a return to the natural food of our race 1882, 3 ed. 1890; Health, beauty and the toilet 1886, 2 ed. 1886; Dreams and dream stories 1888; Clothed with the sun. New York 1889; with Edward Maitland The perfect way or the finding of Christ 1882. d. from consumption, 15 Wynnstay gardens, Kensington 22 Feb. 1888. bur. Atcham churchyard. Lady’s Pictorial 3 March 1888 pp. 209, 216, portrait.

KINGSFORD, Douglas (8 son of rev. Sampson Kingsford of Faversham, Kent). b. Faversham, Nov. 1839; ed. at Faversham gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 18 Nov. 1867; reporter for the Law Times Reports, for some years; member of the bar committee Dec. 1883; recorder of Margate, March 1885. d. 43 Courtfield road, Kensington, London 12 Aug. 1885. bur. Ealing cemetery 15 Aug.

KINGSLEY, Charles (son of Charles Kingsley 1782–1860, R. of Chelsea, Middlesex). b. Holme vicarage, South Devon 12 June 1819; ed. at Clifton, Helston gr. sch., King’s coll. London and Magd. coll. Camb., scholar 1839; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1860; C. of Eversley, Hants. July 1842 to May 1844, R. of Eversley, May 1844 to death; canon of Middleham, Derbyshire 1845 to death; professor of English literature, Queen’s coll. Harley st. London 1848–49; F.L.S. 1857; F.G.S. 1863; domestic chaplain to viscount Sidney 1843 to death; one of H.M.’s chaplains in ord. 12 July 1859 to death; regius prof. of modern history in univ. of Cambridge 25 June 1860, resigned 1869; chaplain to prince of Wales 16 Feb. 1863 to death; edited Fraser’s Mag. for J. A. Froude 1867; canon of Chester 1869–73; canon of Westminster 4 April 1873 to death; author of The saint’s tragedy, or the true story of Elizabeth of Hungary 1848; Twenty-five village sermons 1849; Alton Locke, tailor and poet: an autobiography 2 vols. 1850 anon., 9 ed. 1881; Cheap clothes and nasty. By Parson Lot 1850; Yeast: a problem by C.K. 1851, 5 ed. 1881; Hypatia 2 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1881; Westward Ho! 3 vols. 1855, 3 ed. 1881; Glaucus or the wonders of the shore 1855, 4 ed. 1859; Two years ago, a novel 3 vols. 1857, 3 ed. 1881; The water-babies, a fairy tale 1863, 3 ed. 1886; Hereward the Wake 1866, 3 ed. 1881; The Works of C. Kingsley 28 vols. 1884–85. d. Eversley rectory 23 Jany. 1875. Charles Kingsley, his letters and memories of his life. Edited by his wife 2 vols. (1877), portrait; Illustrated Review, vol. ii 257–60, portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 90–93, portrait; Modern men of letters. By J. H. Friswell (1870) 313–32; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; C. K. Paul’s Biographical sketches (1883) 115–39; Alton Lock, new ed. (1876), memoir by T. Hughes; T. H. Ward’s English poets 2 ed. iv 608–14 (1883); F. M. Muller’s Biographical essays (1884) 363–83.

KINGSLEY, Frances Elizabeth (youngest dau. of Pascoe Grenfell, M.P. d. 1837). b. 1814; (m. at Bath 10 Jany. 1844 rev. C. Kingsley 1819–75); greatly aided her husband in all his parish work at Eversley, wrote from his dictation and copied for the press; edited the following works about and by her husband, Charles Kingsley, his letters and memories of his life 1877, 2 ed. 1883; True words for a brave man 1878; Out of the deep 1880; Daily thoughts selected from the writings of C. Kingsley 1884; From death to life, fragments of teaching to a village congregation 1887; declined the Queen’s offer of apartments in Hampton court palace 1875; granted civil list pension of £200, 4 May 1875. d. Bishop’s Tachbrook near Leamington 12 Dec. 1891. I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p. 794, portrait.

KINGSLEY, George Henry (brother of rev. C. Kingsley 1819–75). b. Barnack, Northamptonshire 14 Feb. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. London, Edin. univ. and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1846; practised in England from 1850; adopted foreign travel as his method of treatment of his patients, explored many foreign countries; a sportsman and linguist; author of Four phases of love translated from the German of P. J. L. Heyse 1857; A gossip on a Sutherland hillside 1861, included in Francis Galton’s Vacation tourists and notes of travel; South Sea Bubbles; By the Earl and the Doctor 1872, an account of his travels in Polynesia with the Earl of Pembroke 1867–70, 2 ed. 1873. d. 7 Mortimer road, Cambridge 5 Feb. 1892.

KINGSLEY, Henry (brother of the preceding). b. Barnack 2 Jany. 1830; ed. at King’s coll. London and Worcester coll. Oxf. 1850–3; went to the Australian goldfields 1853, returned to England 1858; edited the Edinburgh Daily Review 1870–1, correspondent for his paper during Franco-German war 1870, present at battle of Sedan 1 Sep. 1870, the first Englishman to enter Sedan afterwards; author of The recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn 3 vols. 1859, 3 ed. 1864; Ravenshoe 3 vols. 1862, 2 ed. 1862; Austin Elliott 2 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1863; The Hillyars and the Burtons 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1865; Mademoiselle Mathilde 3 vols. 1868, 2 ed. 1868; Stretton 3 vols. 1869, and 15 other books. d. of cancer in the tongue at Attrees, Cuckfield, Sussex 24 May 1876. Graphic, xiii 563, 564 (1876), portrait.

KINGSMILL, Sir John. b. 1798; captain of the Battle Axe guards, Dublin Castle 1828–1834 when corps was dissolved; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland 1830. d. 23 Oct. 1859.

KINGSMITH, Joseph. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1836; chaplain Pentonville prison, London 1843–59; author of Chapters on prisons and prisoners and the prevention of crime 1849, 3 ed. 1854; A common sense view of the treatment of prisoners 1850; Missions and missionaries 1853, 2 ed. 1854; On the present aspect of serious crime in England 1856; British rule and British christianity in India 1859; Our police, friendly council to the police 1860. d. 142 Marina, St. Leonards 25 Dec. 1865.

KINGSTON, Robert Henry King, 4 Earl of (2 son of 3 earl of Kingston 1771–1839). b. 4 Oct. 1796; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818; ensign 5 foot 31 Oct. 1816, placed on h.p. 24 Dec. 1818; lieut. 69 foot 3 Jany. 1822, placed on h.p. 12 June 1826; M.P. Cork 1831–32; known as viscount Kingsborough 1837–39; succeeded 18 Oct. 1839; frequently sued by cabmen in the police courts and behaved in an unseemly manner in the house of lords; declared of unsound mind April 1861. d. 21 Jany. 1867. G.M. March 1867 pp. 380–81.

KINGSTON, James King, 5 Earl of. b. 8 April 1880; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1825, Lincoln’s inn 25 May 1827; succeeded 21 Jany. 1867. d. Mitchelstown castle 8 Sep. 1869.

KINGSTON, Robert King, 6 Earl of. b. Henrietta st. Dublin 17 July 1804; M.P. for Roscommon 1826–1830; succeeded his father 20 Nov. 1854 as viscount Lorton, and his cousin 8 Sep. 1869 as earl of Kingston. d. London 16 Oct. 1869.

KINGSTON, Robert Edward King, 7 Earl of. b. Dublin 18 Oct. 1831; succeeded 16 Oct. 1869. d. Alexandra hotel, Hyde park corner, London 21 June 1871.

Note.—The four Earls of Kingston died in less than 4½ years.

KINGSTON, Alfred. b. 1829; junior clerk in public record office, London 23 May 1844, an assistant keeper of records 27 July 1875 to death; hon. sec. to Camden society Dec. 1872 to death. d. 12 Chancery lane, London 24 April 1885.

KINGSTON, George Templeman. b. 1817; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 1 class mathematics and B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; professor of meteorology Univ. coll. Toronto; director of magnetical observatory, Toronto 1855; author of Abstracts of magnetical observations. Toronto 1863; and many papers in Canadian Journal on meteorology, temperature, the winds, electricity, magnetism, etc. 1855–63. d. Toronto 21 Jany. 1886.

KINGSTON, William Henry Giles (eld. son of Lucy Henry Kingston of Oporto). b. Harley st. London 28 Feb. 1814; lived in Oporto many years; entered his father’s business at Oporto; wrote newspaper articles on Portugal, for which he received an order of Portuguese knighthood and a pension from Donna Maria da Gloria; edited The Colonist, London 1844, two numbers only; The Colonial Mag. and East India review, vols. 16 to 23, 1849–51; Kingstone’s Magazine for boys, vols. 1 to 4, 1859–63, and with G. A. Henty The Union Jack, tales for boys, vol. 1, 1880; lectured on colonization 1849; promoted an improved system of emigration and was hon. sec. of a colonisation soc.; sent by emigration commissioners to visit north of Scotland; originated Soc. for Improvement of religious and moral condition of seamen; a great traveller and a yachtsman; author of The Circassian chief 1844; Peter the whaler 1850, his first book for boys; Western wanderings, a Canadian tour 1856; The cruise of the Frolic 1860; The three midshipmen 1873; Eldol the Druid 1874; The three lieutenants 1875; The three commanders 1876; Popular history of the navy 1876; Half hours with the kings and queens of England 1876; The three admirals 1878; Kidnapping in the Pacific 1879; A yacht voyage round England 1879; Adventures in the far West 1881; Mungo Park’s travels 1886; his original writings, translations, etc. occupy 180 volumes, some of which went to many editions. d. Stormont lodge, Willesden near London 5 Aug. 1880. Boys’ Own Paper 11 Sep. 1880 pp. 796–97, portrait; James Braithwaite, by W. H. G. Kingston (1882), memoir pp. v–ix, portrait.

KINKEL, Johann Gottfried. b. Obercassel near Bonn 15 Aug. 1815; poet; professor at univ. Bonn 1845, took part in revolution of 1848, imprisoned at Spandau, escaped and fled to England Nov. 1850; examiner in German language at univ. of London 1851–66; lectured on the modern drama 28 April 1851; founded a German journal in London, Hermann Deutsches Wochenblatt aus London, edited it 8 Jany. 1859 to 1869; professor of archæology in polytechnikum, Zurich 1866 to death; author of Festrede bei der Schillerfeier in Krystallpalast. London 1859; Lecture on physical geography and its application to the teaching of geography in schools, delivered in Science and Art Department, London 1860; and about 50 other works printed at Basle, Bonn, Berlin, Cologne, Essen, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipsic, Stuttgard, Vienna and Zurich 1841–79. d. Zurich 13 Nov. 1882. m. Johanna Mockel who d. London 15 Nov. 1858, she was the author of Hans Ibeles in London, Stuttgard 2 vols. 1860, and of Twelve stories of earth, air and water, printed in Mama’s Stories, London 1872 pp. 133–75, she was also a musical composer.

KINLESIDE, Robert Raikes. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 28 Sep. 1827, colonel R.A. 18 Feb. 1861 to death; M.G. 14 July 1867. d. Landour near Mussouree 27 Aug. 1871.

KINLOCK, Alfred (6 son of James Kinlock of Brunswick sq. London). b. 10 Feb. 1819; ed. at Rugby 1833–7, captain of the school, at Oriel coll. and St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1842; assistant chaplain Madras army 1846; chaplain to the staff of the division of troops under sir G. C. Whitlock which captured town of Banda 20 April 1858 and town of Kirwee 6 June 1858 with property of the estimated value of 7,000,000 rupees; brought an action 15 May 1879 against the secretary of state for India on behalf of himself and all other persons entitled to share in the booty under royal grant dated 10 June 1864, after much litigation the House of Lords decided against him 19 May 1882, he then presented a petition of right to the Queen but the Court of Appeal again decided against him 21 March 1884; author of The Kirwee prize fight in various aspects, or great wars and little jars, to which is added a letter to a ghost 1866; The Duke’s Wink, or prize-money defalcations. By Tom Brown Agonistes. Tunbridge Wells 1884, and of other pamphlets relating to the Banda and Kirwee booty; wrote the historical part pp. 1–151 of St. John Colbran’s Guide to Tunbridge Wells 2nd ed. 1884. d. 31 Monson terrace, Tunbridge Wells 27 March 1890. Banda and Kirwee Booty 10 vols. of parliamentary papers 1865–66 folio.

KINLOCK, Sir George, 1 Baronet (eld. son of George Kinlock of Kinlock, Meigle, Perthshire, M.P. Dundee, d. 28 March 1833 aged 58). b. Kinlock house 13 Oct. 1800; ed. at univ. of Edin.; advocate 1823; cr. baronet 16 April 1873. d. Kinlock house 17 June 1881.

KINLOCK, George Ritchie. b. Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 1797 or 1798; clerk to 3 successive advocates depute; assistant keeper of register of deeds in Register house, Edinburgh 1842, keeper 1851–69; author of The ballad book, edited with a Biographia Lesleyana 1827; Ancient Scottish ballads 1827; Reliquiæ antiquæ Scoticæ 1848; edited for the Maitland club, A. Pitcairne’s Babell, a satirical poem 1830, and The diary of Mr. John Lamont of Newton 1649–1671, 1830. d. West Coates villa, Edinburgh 21 April 1877.

KINNAIRD, George William Fox Kinnaird, 9 Baron (eld. son of 8 baron Kinnaird 1780–1826). b. Drimmie house, Perthshire 14 April 1807; educ. at Eton; cornet 1 life guards 24 Nov. 1825, lieut. 18 Feb. 1828, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1831; succeeded as 9 baron Kinnaird 11 Dec. 1826; grand master of the Freemasons of Scotland 1830–1; cr. a peer of the United Kingdom as baron Rossie of Rossie, co. Perth 11 June 1831; cr. baron Kinnaird of Rossie, Perth 1 Sep. 1860; master of the buckhounds 21 Dec. 1839, resigned Sep. 1841; P.C. 15 June 1840; K.T. 6 July 1857; lord lieut. of Perthshire 14 March 1866 to death, sheriff principal 28 Feb. 1866; made excavations near Rome, the antiquities discovered are at Rossie priory; the first to introduce steam ploughs, threshing machines and ‘roadsters’ into the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire; chief promoter of the Forbes Mackenzie act in Scotland 1853; chairman of the royal commission on metalliferous mines; introduced the game of cricket into Scotland; author of Profitable investment of capital or 11 years practical experience in farming. Dundee 1849; Rinderpest or the treatment of cattle 1866, 2 ed. 1866; The new mint buildings, a letter to P. H. Muntz esq. 1871; The royal mint, altered returns presented to parliament 1871; The royal mint, treatment of brittle gold, new buildings and the copper account 1871. d. Rossie priory, Inchture, Perthshire 7 Jany. 1878. Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 445–48.

KINNAIRD, Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 10 Baron (3 son of 8 baron Kinnaird 1780–1826). b. Rossie priory, Perthshire 8 July 1814; ed. at Eton; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburg 1835–7; private sec. to the earl of Durham; partner in bank of Ransom & Co. 1 & 2 Pall Mall East, London 1837, head of the firm, which became Ransom, Bouverie & Co. 1856; M.P. Perth 1837–9 and 1852 to 7 Jany. 1878 when he succeeded his brother; well known as a philanthropist and an attendant at the May meetings; considered the successor to lord Shaftesbury; F.R.G.S.; author of Bengal, its landed tenure and police system 1857. d. 2 Pall Mall East, London 26 April 1887. Fraser’s Mary Jane Kinnaird (1890), portrait; Dundee Year Book (1887) 42.

KINNAIRD, Mary Jane Kinnaird, Baroness (dau. of William Henry Hoare of London, banker). b. Blatherwick park, Northamptonshire 14 March 1816; instituted St. John’s training school for domestic servants 1841; edited a vol. of Servants’ Prayers 1848; associated with lady Canning in sending nurses to the Crimea 1854–5; founder of London Young women’s christian association and helped to found numerous other charitable societies. (m. 28 June 1843 the preceding). d. Plaistow lodge near Bromley, Kent 1 Dec. 1888. Fraser’s Mary Jane Kinnaird (1890), portrait.

KINNEAR, David. b. Edinburgh about 1807; an advocate but never practised; engaged in commerce in London; went to U.S. of America 1835, a farmer at Drummondville, Lower Canada; bore arms against the insurgents during rebellion of 1837, stipendiary magistrate in charge of the police force organized to restore order; editor of the Montreal Gazette; a partner in the Herald newspaper of Montreal, senior partner in and editor of the Herald to death. d. Montreal 20 Nov. 1862. H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 212.

KINNEAR, Sarah Harriet (only child of George Frith of Worksop, Notts., surgeon, d. 1832). Made her first appearance on the stage at Brighton as Beatrice in Much ado about nothing, Sep. 1846; assumed stage name of Frankland; leading lady at T.R. Birmingham and at T.R. Edinburgh 1849–51; played at Princess’ theatre, London 1851–52 when she made her last appearance on the stage as Portia in the Merchant of Venice. (m. at Stockton-upon-Tees 12 Aug. 1852 John Boyd Kinnear of Kinnear, Fifeshire). d. Norwood, Surrey 1 June 1866. bur. ch. yard of Collessie, Fifeshire.

KINNIS, John. b. 1794 or 1795; hospital assistant in the army 16 June 1815; surgeon 90 foot 22 June 1838; deputy inspector general 25 June 1847; F.R.S. Edin.; author of A report on small-pox as it appeared in Ceylon. Colombo 1835; A letter to the inhabitants of Ceylon on vaccination 1837; Observations on tubercular elephantiasis 1842. d. Edinburgh 18 Aug. 1853.

KINNOUL, Thomas Robert Drummond Hay, 10 Earl of (only son of 9 Earl of Kinnoul 1751–1804). b. 5 April 1785; styled viscount Duplin 1787–1804; ed. at Westminster; succeeded 12 April 1804; Lord Lyon king of arms 12 April 1804 to death; col. of royal Perthshire militia 1809 to 30 Oct. 1855; lord lieut. of Perthshire 1830 to death. d. St. Clair, Torquay 18 Feb. 1866. bur. at Aberdalgie 26 Feb.

KINSELLA, Thomas. b. Ireland 1832; a printer in U.S. of America; editor of the Eagle at Brooklyn, New York 1861; postmaster of Brooklyn 1866; member of congress 1871–73; president of the Faust soc. d. Brooklyn 11 Feb. 1884. Appleton’s American biography, iii 552 (1887).

KINSEY, William Morgan (son of Robert Morgan Kinsey of Abergavenny). b. Abergavenny 1788 or 1789; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1812–15, fellow 1815–44, dean 1822, V.P. 1823, bursar 1824; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1822, proctor of univ. 1821; chaplain to lord Auckland; one of ministers of St. John’s ch. Cheltenham to Jany. 1842; R. of Rotherfield Greys, Oxon. 1843 to death; author of Portugal illustrated 1828, 2 ed. 1829; contributed Random recollections of a visit to Walton hall the seat of Charles Waterton esq., to Gentleman’s Magazine, Jany. 1848 pp. 33–39. d. Rotherfield Greys rectory 6 April 1851. G.M. xxxvi 95 (1851).

KINTORE, Francis Alexander Keith-Falconer, 8 Earl of. b. Wadley house, Berks. 7 June 1828; succeeded 11 July 1844; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire 28 May 1856 and of Aberdeenshire 12 Jany. 1864. d. 22 Mansfield st. Marylebone, London 18 July 1880. bur. Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 24 July.

KIPPIST, Richard. b. Stoke Newington, London 11 June 1812; travelled with Joseph Woods the architect and botanist, and helped to compile his Tourist’s Flora; entered service of the Linnæan Society 1830, librarian 1842–81; A.L.S. d. 12 Burnaby st. King’s road, Chelsea 14 Jany. 1882. Proc. of Linnæan Soc. (1881–2) 64–5.

KIRBY, Elizabeth (youngest child of John Kirby, manufacturer). b. Southgate st. Leicester 15 Dec. 1823; author with her sister Mary Kirby (Mrs. Gregg) of 22 books for children including The discontented children 1855; Caterpillars, butterflies and moths 1857; The Italian goldsmith, or the story of Cellini 1861, 2 ed. 1875; Chapters on Trees 1873; Sketches of insect life 1874. d. Melton Mowbray 23 June 1873. bur. Brooksby ch. yard 30 June. Mary Kirby’s Leaflets from my life (1887) 232.

KIRBY, John. Ed. at Dublin univ., B.A. 1805, LL.B. and LL.D. 1832; F.R.C.S.I. and professor of practice of physic there; surgeon St. Peter’s and St. Bridget’s hospital, Dublin, and lecturer on anatomy and surgery there; consulting surgeon Coombe st. Lying-in hospital; author of Observations on the treatment of hemorrhoidal excrescences 1817; Additional observations on hemorrhoidal excrescences 1825. d. Newton house, Rathfarnham, co. Dublin 26 May 1853.

KIRBY, Joshua Henry. Ensign 34 foot 10 Aug. 1838; lieut. 86 foot 8 April 1842, major 1 June 1860; major 68 foot 23 April 1861, lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to death; brigadier general Bombay 12 Oct. 1874 to death; colonel in the army 10 Nov. 1874. d. Belgaum, Bombay 30 June 1877.

KIRBY, Sir Richard Charles. b. 1788; junior clerk in office of sec.-at-war March 1804, senior clerk Sep. 1826, chief examiner of accounts July 1849, retired from the service Jany. 1856; reappointed as accountant general of the army Nov. 1856, retired Aug. 1860 on full pay of £1500 a year; C.B. 20 Dec. 1858; knighted at St. James’ palace 14 Feb. 1861. d. at the Rock, Reigate hill, Surrey 6 Oct. 1867.

KIRBY, Stephen. b. 1782; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug. 1799, lieut. col. R.A. 20 July 1834 to 17 Aug. 1843 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 4 Feb. 1857. d. Claydon near Ipswich 22 Dec. 1857.

KIRBY, Thomas. b. Osbaldwick near York, Aug. 1770; went to Russia with a cargo of horses 1791; in the service of count Poltrowsky, in charge of 100 mares; with Primrose won a £50 plate at Chesterfield 29 Aug. 1804; a breeder of horses from 1804; in 1821 eight horses carrying his colours chocolate and white cap were racing; sold General Chasse to Nicholas emperor of Russia for 2250 guineas and Van Tromp for 2000 guineas; consulted by the government about shipping the horses to the Crimea in 1854. d. York, Feb. 1858. The Post and the paddock. By The Druid (1880) 66–73; Sporting Rev. xxxviii 161–3 (1857) portrait, xxxix 154 (1858).

KIRBY, Thomas Cox. Ensign 54 foot 1 March 1800, captain 26 Sep. 1806, placed on h.p. 23 May 1822; served in Flanders and at battle of Waterloo; captain 86 foot 5 May 1828; major on h.p. 13 Aug. 1830; sold out 1845; K.H. 1837. d. 1855.

KIRBY, Walter (son of W. Kirby, M.D., F.L.S.). b. 14 Nov. 1791; entered R.N. 23 Oct. 1803; served on coast of France, Spain and in West Indies; lieut. 1811; when in the Windsor Castle he effected preservation of the Union 104 guns when adrift and on shore during a storm 12 Jany. 1828; commander 22 July 1830 and then on h.p.; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; retired captain 1 April 1856. d. Jermyn st. London 10 Dec. 1859.

KIRBY, William Humphreys. b. 6 Dec. 1819; ensign 94 foot 14 Oct. 1836, major 29 Dec. 1854 to 17 April 1868 when placed on h.p.; military sec. Bombay 1860–2; D.A.G. Bombay 1863–7; adjutant general Bombay 23 Dec. 1867 to 29 May 1872; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. St. Servan, Brittany 28 June 1890.

KIRK, Alexander Carnegie (son of rev. John Kirk). b. in Manse of Barry, Forfarshire 1830; partner in shipbuilding firm of Robert Napier and Sons, Glasgow, became senior partner; president of the Engineers and Shipbuilders’ Institute of Scotland; wrote On compressed air and other refrigerating machinery, printed in Heat in its mechanical application, Lectures Institution of Civil Engineers (1885) 175–200. d. suddenly at 19 Athole Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow 5 Oct. 1892. D. Pollock’s Modern shipbuilding (1884) 44, portrait.

KIRK, John (son of Wm. Kirk). b. Ruckley near Acton Burnell, Shropshire 13 April 1760; ed. at Sedgley park sch. Staffs. and English college at Rome; ordained priest 18 Dec. 1784; chaplain at Sedgley park school 1786, president 1793–7; built a chapel at Lichfield, opened 11 Nov. 1803; erected chapels at Hopwas near Tamworth and in Tamworth; D.D. by Pope Gregory XVI. 9 Nov. 1841; collected for 40 years materials forming 50 vols. for a Continuation of Dodd’s Church history of England, which was brought out to the year 1625 by Rev. M. A. Tierney in 5 vols. 1839–43; author with Rev. Joseph Berington of The faith of Catholics confirmed by scripture and attested by the Fathers 1813, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1846, a work to which several replies were made 1819–40. d. Lichfield 21 Dec. 1851. Catholic Directory (1853) 129, portrait; G.M. xxxvii 304–306 (1852).

KIRK, William (1 son of Hugh Kirk). b. Larne, co. Antrim 16 Oct. 1795; linen merchant; M.P. Newry 1852–57 and 1868 to death; contested Armagh 1865; sheriff of Armagh 1863. d. Newry 20 Dec. 1870. I.L.N. lvii 691 (1870).

KIRKES, William Senhouse. b. Holker near Cartmel, Lancs. 1823; entered St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841, medical registrar and demonstrator of morbid anatomy, assist. physician 1854 and physician 1864 to death; M.D. Berlin 1846; L.R.C.P. 1850, F.R.C.P. 1855, Gulstonian lecturer 1856; author with W. Baly of Recent advances in the physiology of motion 1848; and with James Paget of Hand-book of physiology 1848, 12 ed. 1888. d. 2 Lower Seymour st. Portman sq. London 8 Dec. 1864. Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. v 47 (1867).

KIRKHAM, Gawin. b. Eskrigg, Lancashire 1830; connected with St. Paul’s, Bermondsey, London as a scripture reader for 4 years; secretary of the Open-Air mission 1860 to death, and ran some risks when attending fairs, races and executions; helped to distribute relief during Lancashire cotton famine 1862; the pioneer of open-air preaching on the Continent; author of The broad and narrow way. The picture accompanying Mr. G. Kirkham’s lecture on the broad and narrow way 1886; Hints for beginners in open-air services, printed in G. H. Pike’s Beneath the blue sky (1888) 61–71. d. London, May 1892.