← Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q
Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q (part 2)
JOHNSTONE, John Beer. b. Dublin 12 March 1803; an actor in Ireland, the provinces and London; never had more than £2 a week up to 1882; at Princess’s theatre under Wilson Barrett 1882; presented with a testimonial and £60 by 200 actors on his eightieth birthday 12 March 1883; author of upwards of 200 dramas for which he received on an average about £5; he sold an extravaganza and a farce to David W. Osbaldiston for 15/-; his chief printed dramas are The Drunkard’s children. Pavilion theatre July 1848; The gipsy farmer or Jack and Jack’s brother. Surrey theatre March 1849; Gale Breezely or the tale of a tar. Surrey 1853; Ben Bolt. Surrey 28 March 1854; The sailor of France. Surrey 28 Nov. 1854; Tufelhausen or the lawyer’s legend. Surrey 24 March 1856; Pedrillo or a search for two fathers. Marylebone theatre 16 Nov. 1857; Morley Ashton or a sea voyage 1866; Jack Long or a shot in the eye 1872. d. 25 April 1891. bur. Brompton cemet. The Era 17 March 1883 p. 8.
JOHNSTONE, John Douglas. b. 1808; ensign 3 foot 15 Aug. 1827; captain 33 foot 19 Oct. 1838, lieut. col. 9 March 1855 to 17 April 1860 when placed on retired full pay; M.G. 17 April 1860; C.B. 27 July 1855. d. Dublin 19 Sep. 1863.
Note.—He and his son J. D. Johnstone were the first in the assault on the Redan, where he lost his left arm.
JOHNSTONE, Sir John Vanden Bempde, 2 Baronet. b. Hackness hall near Scarborough 28 Aug. 1799; ed. Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1821; succeeded 14 July 1807; M.P. Yorkshire 1830–32; M.P. Scarborough 1832–7 and 1841 to death; major Yorkshire hussars 22 April 1843, lieut. col. 6 April 1859 to 30 Aug. 1859; while hunting in Northamptonshire broke a rib which entered his lungs 20 Feb., d. 34 Belgrave sq. London 25 Feb. 1869. bur. at parish church, Hackness 3 March. Reg. and mag. of Biog. i 294 (1869).
JOHNSTONE, Montague Cholmeley (3 son of James Raymond Johnstone of Alva, co. Clackmannan 1768–1830). b. 2 March 1804; ensign 27 foot 27 Feb. 1823, lieut. col. 16 Nov. 1841 to 23 March 1849; lieut. col. 87 foot 23 March 1849 to 26 Oct. 1858; col. 88 foot 10 Aug. 1864 to death; general 29 Dec. 1873. d. Baden Baden 22 Sep. 1874.
JOHNSTONE, William (son of Mr. Johnstone, colliery manager to Mr. Dixon of the Govan iron works, Lanarkshire). b. parish of Old Monkland near Glasgow 1 July 1811; articled to David Smith of Glasgow, C.E. 1826–33; engineer and general manager of Glasgow and Ayr railway 1840, of Glasgow and South western railway to 31 Dec. 1874, the former line gradually developed into the latter; pres. of Institution of engineers in Scotland 1861–63, formed in 1857 chiefly by W. J. M. Rankine and himself; M.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1866. d. Glasgow 27 April 1877.
JOHNSTONE, William Borthwick (son of John Johnstone, solicitor). b. Edinb. 21 July 1804; in a lawyer’s office, Edinb.; attended antique classes of Trustees academy 1840–2; exhibited at Trustees academy exhibitions from 1836 to death; A.R. Scottish Acad. 1840, member 1848, treasurer 1850; took his mother’s name of Borthwick 1847; oil, water-colour and miniature painter; his picture, A scene in Holyrood, 1855 is in National gallery of Scotland; first principal curator of Nat. Gall. of Scotland 1858; his collections of arms, armour and pictures, sold by Chapman, a 6 days’ sale; author of Catalogue of the National gallery of Scotland 1859, 18 ed. 1868. d. 3 Gloucester place, Edinb. 5 June 1868.
JOHNSTONE, Sir William James Hope (2 son of sir Wm. Johnstone Hope, G.C.B. 1766–1831). b. Haddingtonshire 28 July 1798; entered navy 20 June 1811, captain 21 Oct. 1823, R.A. 22 April 1853, V.A. 4 Feb. 1858, admiral 24 Sep. 1863; commander in chief on S.E. coast of America 1854–57; at Sheerness 28 June 1860 to 25 June 1863; R.A. of the United Kingdom 12 Feb. 1870, placed on retired list April 1870; K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862. d. 24 Albany st. Edinburgh 11 July 1878.
JOICEY, John (4 son of George Joicey of Newcastle). b. Tynemouth 1816; apprenticed to his brother James Joicey, colliery viewer 1838–41, partner in the firm to death; sheriff of Durham 1878; M.P. North Durham April 1880 to death; A.I.C.E. 2 March 1875; erected and endowed Newton Hall church 1877; gave sum of £12,000 to Museum of natural history society of Northumberland and Durham 1881. d. Newton Hall, Stocksfield on Tyne 15 Aug. 1881, personalty sworn £678,000, 28 Jany. 1882. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxix 417–18 (1882).
JOLLIE, Patrick. Oldest bookseller in the world. d. Leslie, Fifeshire 3 Oct. 1885 aged 97.
JOLLIFFE, Peter William. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1789, M.A. 1792; P.C. of St. James, Poole, Dorset 4 May 1791 to death; the oldest incumbent in England. d. Parkstone near Poole, March 1861 aged 95.
JOLLIFFE, Thomas Robert (2 son of Thomas Samuel Jolliffe, M.P.) b. 1780; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; R. of Babington near Frome 15 Feb. 1810 to death; author of Letters from Palestine. Signed Th. R. J. 1819, 4 ed. 2 vols. 1854; Narrative of an excursion from Corfu to Smyrna 1827. d. Ammerdown park near Bath 15 June 1872.
JOLLIFFE, William Peter (only son of Christopher Jolliffe of Poole, Dorset). b. Poole 1812; barrister G.I. 30 June 1839, bencher 1 March 1875 to death, treasurer 1881; standing counsel to governors of Queen Anne’s bounty 1878 to death; member of Council of legal education. d. Bournemouth 31 May 1887.
JOLLY, John Marks. b. 1790; travelled with Edmund Kean and Sheridan Knowles as an actor and conductor of the orchestra; conductor at Surrey theatre, London 1840–60; at various periods connected with the bands of Her Majesty’s, Drury Lane and Covent Garden; conductor and arranger of music at Oxford music hall till June 1863; his opera Mabel produced at Covent Garden under Madame Vestris’ management 1840; composer of the songs, Queen of the starry night 1855, and Where are all the young men gone 1861; The Gipsy sisters, a duet 1858; Poor Jennie, solo and quartett 1861. d. West sq. Southwark 1 July 1864. Era 10 July 1864 p. 11.
JOLY, Henry Edward. Archdeacon of Killala to death; author of Questions deducible from the Introductory lessons on the History of religious worship of R. Whately 1849; Questions deducible from the Introductory lessons on Christian evidences of R. Whately 1849. d. Hollywood 3 June 1852.
JONAS, Edmund James. b. 1805; governor of Newgate 1859–74. d. Turle road, Tollington park, London 30 Jany. 1879.
JONAS, Elizabeth. b. St. George’s road, Southwark 1825; at six years of age was a good musician; first appeared at Mr. J. Field’s concert as a pianiste 1832; played in oratorios at Drury Lane; scholar R. Academy 1836, King’s scholar 1838, associate 1841, teacher of the piano there 1838–50; residing in St. George’s road 1854. Cazalet’s Hist. of R. Acad. of Music (1854) 299–302.
JONES, Aaron. b. Pennsylvania near Shrewsbury 3 March 1831; fought Harry Orme at Frimley 18 Dec. 1849 when he lost after 40 rounds in 2¾ hours; beat Bob Wade at Edenbridge 24 Sep. 1850; fought Orme again 10 May 1852 for £100 a side at Bourne Bridge and Newmarket, police interfered, Jones refused to renew the contest and so lost; beaten by Tom Paddock 18 July 1854 and 26 June 1855; fought Tom Sayers £100 a side, 62 rounds in 3 hours, Banks of the Medway, darkness came on, both men much punished 6 Jany. 1857; beaten by Sayers £100 a side, 85 rounds in 2 hours, Banks of the Medway 10 Feb. 1857; went to U.S. of America, where he trained and seconded J. C. Heenan for his fight with John Morrissey at Long Point, Canada 20 Oct. 1858; entered Confederate army during the civil war, one of general Beauregard’s aide-de-camps; fought Mike Mc Coole for 2000 dollars and the championship at Busenburk station, Ohio, when Mc Coole won in 34 rounds lasting 26 minutes. d. Leavenworth, Indiana 16 Feb. 1869, reported to have been poisoned. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 253, 262, 283, 382, 419.
JONES, Alexander (youngest son of 4 Viscount Ranelagh d. 1797). b. 9 March 1778; entered navy 1790; wrecked among Japanese islands 1797; saved H.M.S. Tartarus from destruction after she had been abandoned at Ferrol 1800; captain 1 Aug. 1811; commander of Talbot sloop making many captures 1807–11; admiral on half pay 1 Nov. 1860. d. Cheltenham 8 Jany. 1862.
JONES, Anna Maria. Author of The Gipsey, a romantic tale. London, Chapple 2 vols., and other works of fiction. d. a pauper 25 Jany. 1854.
JONES, Avonia Stanhope (dau. of George Jones, actor 1810–79). b. 43 Barrow st. New York 12 July 1836; first appeared on the stage at People’s theatre, Cincinnati 18 April 1856 as Parthenia in Ingomar; played in Australia 1860–1; first appeared in London at Drury Lane 5 Nov. 1861 as Medea; played at the Adelphi 1862–3; acted Lady Isabel in East Lynne at the Surrey 1864 and Theodora in Watts Phillips’s drama Theodora, actress and empress at same house 9 April 1866; played in the provinces and in Dublin. (m. 1862 Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, actor 1818–66). d. of rapid consumption, 2 Bond st. New York 4 Oct. 1867. bur. Mount Auburn cemet. Boston. Illust. sporting news, v 145 (1866), portrait.
JONES, Benjamin Orlando. Ensign 36 foot 29 May 1805; captain 12 foot 19 Sep. 1822 to 6 July 1826 when placed on half pay; col. 73 foot 15 Sep. 1860 to death; L.G. 12 Nov. 1862; K.H. 1837; K.T.S. d. The Hafod, Abergavenny 16 Feb. 1865.
JONES, Charles Chadwicke. b. 1800; barrister M.T. 25 June 1830; went the home circuit; practised at the Old Bailey; serjeant at law 10 July 1844; author of Recollections of royalty, from the death of William Rufus in 1100 to that of the cardinal York in 1807, 2 vols. 1828. d. 18 Lambeth ter. London 7 July 1852 aged 52.
JONES, Charles Handfield (son of J. Jones, captain R.N.) b. Liverpool 1 Oct. 1819; ed. at Rugby and Cath. hall, Camb., B.A. 1840, M.B. 1843; studied at St. George’s hosp. London; M.R.C.P. 1845, F.R.C.P. 1849, junior censor 1863–4, senior censor 1886, vice pres. 1888; delivered Lumleian lectures on pathology of the nervous system 1865; F.R.S. 6 June 1850; phys. to St. Mary’s hosp. Paddington 1851; author of Pathological and clinical observations respecting morbid conditions of the stomach 1855; Clinical observations on functional nervous disorders 1864; with E. H. Sieveking of A manual of pathological anatomy 1854, 2 ed. 1875. d. 24 Montagu sq. London 30 Sep. 1890. British Medical Journal, ii 800, 874, 924, 932 (1890).
JONES, Sir Charles Thomas (3 son of Charles Thomas Jones of Frontraith, Montgomeryshire). b. 1778; entered navy 1791; knighted by duke of Richmond, lord lieutenant of Ireland 1810; captain 12 Aug. 1819, retired 1 Oct. 1846; retired R.A. 27 Aug. 1851. d. Montgomery 4 April 1853.
JONES, Mrs. Charles W. b. 29 Nov. 1789; singing chambermaid in the provinces; first appeared in London at Haymarket theatre as Lady Duberly in The Heir at law 18 June 1823; played old women at Covent Garden and Drury Lane; last appeared at Drury Lane 1842; played Lady Bait in P. Palmer’s comedy Life, at Olympic 16 Nov. 1846. d. York town, Farnborough, Hants. 28 Feb. 1866. Era 18 March 1866 p. 11.
JONES, Sir Daniel. Colonel; resided at Brockville in district of Johnstown, Upper Canada; knighted at St. James’s palace 16 March 1836. d. 1856.
JONES, David (eld. son of John Jones d. 1843). b. Blaenos, Llandovery, Nov. 1810; ed. at Charterhouse; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1845; M.P. Carmarthenshire 1852–68. d. Pantglas, Carmarthenshire 1 July 1869.
Note.—He unsuccessfully contested Sudbury 29 June 1841, and at his own sole expense unseated the two members then returned, which led to the disfranchisement of the borough 1844.
JONES, David. b. 1810; on staff of Morning Chronicle; manager and publisher of Saturday Review at 445 Strand, afterwards at 39 Southampton st. Strand, from date of first number 3 Nov. 1855 to his death. d. Abergele, north Wales 15 June 1884. bur. Finchley cemetery near London 23 June.
JONES, David William. One of the 300 mounted post boys in London; trained under Chifney at Newmarket; head lad to John Stevens; head groom to marquis of Westminster, to General Grosvenor and to sir John Ramsden; in the Peninsula and at Waterloo in charge of horses; served many masters in India, Spain, France and Germany, and could speak 3 languages; trained for Mr. De Burgh at Hampton; frequently walked from Hampton to Hyde park corner; a very fair jockey and a strong waster; kept a lodging house in Mayfair to 1830; became blind, his wife a pew opener kept him till her death 1854. d. Chelsea workhouse, Middlesex, June 1858. Sporting Review, xl 4–5 (1858).
JONES, Ebenezer (2 son of Robert Jones). b. Canonbury sq. Islington 20 Jany. 1820; ed. under rev. John Bickerdike at Highgate; clerk in a tea warehouse in Mincing lane, City 1837; an accountant; sec. of a railway co. 1846; wrote articles in the Oddfellow; lived in Paulton square, Chelsea 1856–60; published Studies of sensation and event, poems 1843; The land monopoly 1849. (m. 1844 Caroline niece of Edwin Atherstone the poet, they separated, she d. 184-). d. Brentwood, Essex 14 Sep. 1860. bur. in churchyard of Shenfield near there. E. Jones’s Studies of sensation, ed. by R. H. Shepherd (1879), Memoir pp. xvii–lxxxiv; Athenæum, ii 368, 401, 466 (1878).
JONES, Edwyn (eld. son of Henry Jones of Louth, Ireland). Barrister G.I. 26 Jany. 1867; member of joint board of examiners, Inns of Court 1877 to death; edited with John Shortt The county court acts, with chapters upon administration, trusts, etc. 1868; author of The law of salvage 1870. d. Woocote Dower house, Upper Wallington 3 Nov. 1890.
JONES, Elizabeth (dau. of Mr. Mandelbert, actor). b. 1834; appeared at Sadler’s Wells as Macduff’s child in Macbeth, as Arthur in King John, and as the prince of Wales in Richard III.; acted at Olympic and Surrey, and at Brighton, Plymouth, Dublin and Bristol; acted at Grecian theatre, Islington 1865–74. (m. David H. Jones, actor, d. 21 Sep. 1867). d. at res. of brother in law George Chapman, musical director, Beaufort villa, Norrisville, Bristol 5 May 1883. Era 19 May 1883 p. 9.
JONES, Ernest Charles (son of Charles Jones, major 15 hussars and aide de camp to Ernest, duke of Cumberland). b. Berlin 25 Jany. 1819; ed. St. Michael’s coll. Lüneberg; engaged in journalism in London 1841; barrister M.T. 19 April 1844; joined the chartist movement 1845, was the leader till 1858; contested Halifax 1847, 1852, Nottingham 1853, 1857 and Manchester 1868; arrested for making seditious speeches, and sentenced at Central criminal court to two years’ solitary confinement 7 July 1848; attended chartist convention of 1851; joined the northern circuit and had much practice; editor of the Northern Star and of The People’s Paper 1852; The Labourer 1847; author of The Wood spirit 2 vols. 1841; My life, a rhapsody; The maid of Warsaw 1854; Woman’s wrongs, tales 1855; The revolt of Hindostan, a poem 1857, originally written with his own blood while in prison; Democracy vindicated, a lecture 1867. d. Wellington st. Higher Broughton, Manchester 26 Jany. 1869. bur. Ardwick cemet. 31 Jany., demonstration in Trafalgar sq. London in honour of his memory 26 March 1869. C. Mackay’s Forty years’ recollections, ii 59–63 (1877); Reg. and Mag. of Biog., March 1869 pp. 223–6; Times 27, 29, 31 March 1869.
JONES, Evan (son of Evan Jones). b. Bryntynoriad near Dolgelly 5 Sep. 1820; ed. Brecon coll. 1841–5; a bard of great celebrity; independent minister, Tredegar, July 1845 to Jany. 1848; replied to rev. John Griffith’s false charges against nonconformists, charging them with ignorance, drunkenness and immorality 1847, and exposed the Blue book treachery of the Education commission; edited The Principality, a newspaper. Cardiff 1848; superintended and wrote for the Standard of Freedom, and the Pathway 1851, two of Cassell’s publications; published Y Gmraes, a magazine for women Jany. 1850 to death; Yr Adolygydd, a quarterly review March 1850 to death; known as Ieuan Gwynedd; author of The dissent and morality of Wales 1848; Facts and figures in illustration of the dissent and morality of Wales 1849 and many works in Welsh; ruptured a blood vessel in London and d. Cardiff 23 Feb. 1852. bur. Groeswen near Caerphilly, monument erected by a penny subscription. Congregational year book for 1854 p. 234–5.
JONES, George. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.M. 19 June 1793, lieut. col. 22 July 1830, col. commandant 27 Dec. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846; general 20 June 1855; a prisoner of war in France 1804–14. d. Woodside house, Southsea 30 Jany. 1857 aged 77.
JONES, George (only son of John Jones, mezzotint engraver 1745–97). b. 6 Jany. 1786; student at the R.A. 1801; served in the militia, joined the army of occupation in Paris after Waterloo; painted many pictures of Waterloo and the battles in the Peninsula; A.R.A. 1822, R.A. 1824, librarian 1834–40, keeper 1840–50, acted as pres. 1845–50; exhibited 221 pictures at R.A., 141 at B.I. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1803–70; chief adviser of Robert Vernon in forming his collection; acted as executor for Chantrey and Turner; author of Recollections of life of sir S. Chantrey 1849. d. 8 Park sq. Regent’s park, London 19 Sep. 1869. Sandby’s History of royal academy, ii 36–9 (1862); Reg. and Mag. of Biog. ii 253, 280 (1869).
JONES, George. b. about 1795; owner of Rosherville gardens, Gravesend 1855 to death, the gardens covering a space of 17 acres were sold for £24,600, 8 Oct. 1872. d. Lansdowne house, Rosherville 26 June 1872.
JONES, George. b. London 10 March 1810; taken to America 1818; appeared at Federal st. theatre, Boston 1810, at Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia as Pierre in Venice preserved 7 Dec. 1831, at the Old National, Boston as Claude Melnotte 16 May 1838; manager Marshal theatre, Richmond, and Avon theatre, Norfolk, Sep. 1839; visited England and lectured on the Bible; returning to America 1857 took the title of Count Joannes; lecturer at Boston; appeared at Academy of music, New York as Hamlet 1872 and committed many eccentricities and was thenceforth guyed whenever he was seen on the stage; author of A history of ancient America, Tyrian era, 3 ed. 1843; Tecumseh, a tragedy, life of general Harrison, etc. 1844. d. West-side hotel, Sixth avenue, New York 30 Dec. 1879. The Era 25 Jany. 1880 p. 4.
JONES, George Matthew. L.R.C.S. Edin. 1826, M.R.C.S. Eng. 1855; surgeon in Jersey 1826 to death, surgeon to general hospital there; he signalised himself about 1850 by performance of several successful cases of excisions of joints especially of the knee; by his practice and writings he contributed as much as anyone to rapid spread of conservative surgery; the merit of reviving excision of the knee is due to Wm. Fergusson, but Jones adopted the operation a few weeks after Fergusson had performed it, without being aware of the fact; author of On disarticulation of the scapula from the shoulder joint 1860. d. Old st. St. Heliers, Jersey 7 Sep. 1861. The Lancet, ii 264 (1861).
JONES, Sir Harry David (5 son of John Jones, general superintendent of Landguard fort, Suffolk 1751–1806). b. Landguard fort 14 March 1792; 2 lieut. R.E. 17 Sep. 1808; served in the Peninsula 1810–14; led the forlorn hope at siege of St. Sebastian and was wounded and taken prisoner 25 July 1813; col. R.E. 7 July 1853 to 2 Aug. 1860; a brigadier general for particular service in the Baltic 1854; commanded Royal Engineers in the Crimea 10 Feb. 1855; K.C.B. 5 July 1855, G.C.B. 28 June 1861; governor of royal military coll. Sandhurst 29 April 1856 to death; lieut. general 6 July 1860; colonel commandant of Royal Engineers 2 Aug. 1860 to death; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 4 June 1856; A.I.C.E.; contributed papers to Institution of Civil engineers, to United service journal and to Professional papers of Corps of R.E.; edited sir J. T. Jones’ Reports on the fortresses in the Netherlands 1861; compiled vol. 2 of sir H. Elphinstone’s Journal of operations to fall of Sebastopol 1859. d. Sandhurst 2 Aug. 1866. G.M. ii 420 (1866); I.L.N. lxv 374 (1874); Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. xxx 438–40 (1870).
JONES, Harry Longueville (son of Edward Jones). b. Piccadilly, London 16 April 1806; ed. at St. John’s coll. and Magd. coll. Camb., 7 wrangler and B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832; fellow of his coll., lecturer and dean; C. of Connington 1829; settled in France 1834 and is reported to have edited a reissue of Galignani’s Paris guide; opened a college in Manchester 1837 which did not succeed; resided at Beaumaris 1845–9; one of H.M.’s inspectors of schools in Wales 16 Dec. 1848 to 1864; started and edited the Archæologia Cambrensis, Jany. 1846 to 1850; chief founder of Cambrian Archæological Assoc. Sep. 1847; author of Illustrated history of Carnarvonshire; Le Keux’s Memorials of Cambridge 2 vols. 1841, with descriptive accounts by T. Wright and H. L. Jones; Essays. Reprinted from Blackwood’s Magazine 1870. d. Kensington 16 Nov. 1870. Bibl. Cornub. i 278; Archæologia Cambrensis, ii 94–6 (1871).
JONES, Henry Bence (2 son of Wm. Jones, 5 dragoon guards). b. Thorington hall, Yoxford, Suffolk 31 Dec. 1813; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1840, M.B. 1845, M.D. 1849; L.R.C.P. 1842, F.R.C.P. 1849, senior censor; F.R.S. 30 April 1846; assistant phys. to St. George’s hosp. London 1845, phys. 1846–62; hon. sec. of Royal Institution of Great Britain 1860–72; author of On gravel, calculus and gout 1842; On animal chemistry, in its application to the stomach and renal diseases 1850; The life and letters of Faraday 2 vols. 1870, 2 ed. 1870; The Royal institution, its founders and its first professors 1871. d. 84 Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 20 April 1873. Barker’s Photographs of Medical Men (1868) vol. ii, portrait i; Medical Times, i 505–8 (1873); I.L.N. lxii 423, 424, 499 (1873), portrait.
JONES, Henry Richmond (son of rev. Inigo Wm. Jones of Chobham place, Surrey d. 1810). b. 1808; cornet 6 dragoon guards 9 June 1825, lieut. col. 16 Sep. 1851 to 21 Oct. 1862 when placed on h.p.; col. 14 hussars 24 Feb. 1871 to 15 May 1873; col. 6 dragoon guards 15 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Brighton 3 Oct. 1880.
JONES, Herbert George (2 son of C. R. Jones of Heathfield, Glamorgan). b. 1805; barrister L.I. 16 May 1828; went the Oxford and Welsh circuits; attorney general in Van Diemen’s Land; serjeant at law 1842; judge of county courts (circuit 42) Clerkenwell, London 16 April 1849 and of (circuit 41) Clerkenwell 1858 to death; author of The court of exchequer and the county courts 1858. d. Somerville Navan, co. Meath 17 Feb. 1866 aged 61.
JONES, Sir Horace (son of David Jones, attorney). b. 15 Size lane, Bucklersbury, London 20 May 1819; an architect at 16 Furnival’s inn, Holborn 1843; designed and built the Surrey music hall, Cardiff town hall and other important buildings; architect and surveyor to city of London 26 Feb. 1864 to death; designed and built Central meat market, Smithfield 1868, rebuilt Billingsgate market 1877 and Leadenhall market 1882; designed Guildhall library and museum 1872 and new Council chamber 1884; designed the Temple Bar memorial Nov. 1880; A.R.I.B.A. 1842, fellow 1855, pres. 1882–3; knighted at Osborne 31 July 1886. d. 30 Devonshire place, Portland place, London 21 May 1887. bur. Norwood cemetery 27 May. Journal of proc. of R.I.B.A. iii 330, 331, 368, 370–3 (1887); Masonic Portraits. By J. G. (1876) 27–31; I.L.N. 28 May 1887 p. 586, 4 June p. 634, portrait.
JONES, Hugh Chambres (son of John Jones of Liverpool). b. 1783; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1805, M.A. 1807; private sec. to duke of Portland, afterwards his chaplain; V. of West Ham, Essex 1807–45; treasurer of St. Paul’s cath. 30 Oct. 1816 to death; R. of Aldham, Essex 1823–40; archdeacon of Essex 14 Nov. 1823 to 1861. d. Brynstedfod, Conway, Denbighshire 29 Sep. 1869.
JONES, Hugh Hyndman (son of R. M. Jones of Houston, Demerara). Ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; C. of St. James, Cheltenham 1840–2; C. of St. Bride, Fleet st. London 1842–6; C. of St. George, Hanover sq. 1847–8; assistant sec. of S.P.G. 1848–50; archdeacon of Demerara and R. of St. George, George town, Demerara, Oct. 1853 to 1873; C. of Cheddon-Fitzpaine, Somerset 1874–5; lived at Houston villa, Craven road, Reading 1875 to death. d. 1884.
JONES, Inigo William (brother of Henry Richmond Jones 1808–80). b. 1806; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1836; cornet 6 dragoon guards 8 July 1828; major 11 hussars 25 March 1836 to 24 Dec. 1852; lieut. col. 3 West India regiment 24 Dec. 1852, placed on h.p. 11 March 1853; sold out March 1857. d. 3 Oct. 1878.
Note.—His son Christopher Neeld Jones b. Aug. 1851, captain 94 foot, volunteered for service with Royal Irish regiment and was killed at battle of Tel-el-Kebir 13 Sep. 1882.
JONES, James (4 son of Michael Jones of Caton, Lancashire). b. 1782 or 1783; cornet 22 light dragoons 6 Nov. 1801; captain 87 foot 17 Aug. 1808 to 31 Aug. 1815 when placed on h.p.; served in East Indies 1802–4 and in Peninsula 1809–14; M.G. 20 June 1854; K.H. 1831; knight of the order of Charles III. of Spain. d. Jermyn st. St. James’s, London 22 Sep. 1856.
JONES, James (5 son of Samuel Jones). b. Wolverhampton; ed. Oscott coll., ordained priest there 31 May 1822; chaplain Worksop manor, Notts., Feb. 1824 to death; chaplain at Hodsock park, Notts.; a member of the chapter of Nottingham 1850, V.G. and provost of the diocese; translated The way of salvation. By B. Alphonsus Liguori 1836, and other works by the same author; Philothea or an introduction to devout life. By St. Francis of Sales 1848; published A manual of instruction on plain chant, with the chants as used in Rome 1845. d. Worksop 19 May 1861. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 655–7 (1887).
JONES, James. b. London 6 April 1790; a copper and tin worker near London docks; resident mechanist and engineer at St. Katherine’s docks 1831–36; a manager for Ransomes & Co. at Ipswich 1842–52; engineer of Oxford waterworks at Oxford 1852 or 1853 to death; one of the 6 founders of Institution of civil engineers 2 Jany. 1818, sec. and treasurer 6 Jany. 1818. d. Radcliffe infirmary, Oxford 25 April 1864, having fallen into a vat of boiling liquid at Evans’s brewery at Cowley the day before. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. xxiv 532–33 (1865).
JONES, James. b. north of Ireland; F.R.C.S. Eng. 1846, M.D. Lond. 1851, M.R.C.P. 1859; practised in London; senior physician Metropolitan free hospital; author of On the use of perchloride of iron and other chalybeate salts in the treatment of consumption 1862; On tuberculosis, the action of local inflammation in cachectic subjects in the production of consumption 1865. d. 4 Harley st. London 6 June 1871.
JONES, James Felix. Midshipman of the Palinurus in H.E.I. Co.’s navy 14 June 1828; commander 13 Sep. 1847, captain 1 Feb. 1858–62; surveyed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers 1843–8; political agent at Bagdad and consul general in Turkish Arabia 1853; political agent at Bushire in the Persian Gulf 1855–8; F.R.G.S.; contributed to Geographical Mag.; most important of his numerous memoirs are included in Selections from the records of the Bombay government. 1857, new series No. 43. d. Fernside, Church road, Upper Norwood, Surrey 3 Sep. 1878. Geographical Mag., Oct. 1878 p. 264.
JONES, James Rhys, known as Kilsby Jones, (son of Rhys Jones, farmer and preacher). b. Penylan farm near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire 4 Feb. 1813; ed. at Blackburn coll. and Carmarthen coll.; independent minister at Kilsby, Northamptonshire 1840–50; minister at Birmingham, then at Bolton; pastor of Tonbridge congregational chapel, London; preacher at Rhayadr 1857–60, at Caebach, Llandrindod Wells 1868 to death; assumed additional name of Kilsby before 1850; the most popular lecturer in Wales; Welsh editor for William Mackenzie of Glasgow; published Welsh versions of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s progress 1869; A Family Bible 1869; translated many books into Welsh and Welsh books into English; in M. E. Braddon’s Hostages to Fortune 1875 he is described under name of rev. Slingsby Edwards. d. 10 April 1889. bur. Llanwrtyd ch. yard where is monu. Congregational Year book (1890) 156–7.
JONES, John (2 son of Henry Jones). b. Bala, Merionethshire 10 Feb. 1792; ed. at Carmarthen gr. sch. and Jesus coll. and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1821; chaplain of Ch. Ch. 1819–43, precentor 1823; P.C. of St. Thomas, Oxf. 1823–41; V. of Nevern, Pembrokeshire 1841 to death; preb. of St. David’s cath. 1848 to death; took a leading part in the Welsh eisteddfods from 1841; known as Tegid; published The book of the prophet Isaiah, a translation 1830, 2 ed. 1842; The New Testament in Welsh 1828, in his own system of spelling, which was not generally popular; transcribed the Mabinogion and other Welsh romances for lady Charlotte Guest, who used his text in her edition 3 vols. 1838–49. d. 2 May 1852. Gwaith Barddonawl. By Tegid (1859), with a memoir.
JONES, John. b. Northamptonshire 1823; beat Edward Hill 1846 and W. Cole 1847; beaten by Joseph Rowe 1849; beat Harry Martin 1850 and G. Crockett £50 a side 15 Oct. 1850; beaten by Mike Madden £50 a side 5 March 1851; beaten by Wm. Hayes £50 a side 2 Dec. 1851 and £200 a side 15 Nov. 1853; fought Edward Donnelly £50 a side at East Tilbury when darkness came on 30 March 1853; beat Donnelly £100 a side at Brandon Heath 1 June 1853; fought Robert Brettle £100 a side at Purfleet 21 Nov. 1854 when darkness came on, a new place was appointed for 25 Nov. when stakes were given to Jones, Brettle having got himself apprehended; struck on the left side of the head by Mike Madden at Long Reach, Kent 11 Dec. 1855 in a 23 round fight for £50 a side lasting one hour and nine minutes, d. Long Reach tavern 12 Dec. bur. Westminster cemet. Brompton 19 Dec. Fistiana (1868) 69, 77; Bell’s Life in London 16 Dec. 1855 p. 7, 23 Dec. p. 7.
JONES, John (eld. child of a small farmer). b. Tanycastell, Dolyddelen, Carnarvonshire 1 March 1796; a farmer, afterwards a quarryman; began to preach about 1820, ordained 1829, one of the greatest of Welsh preachers; known as Talsarn; composed 40 tunes published in Jeduthrum, a collection of Congregational tunes, psalms and hymns, ed. by Morris Davis at Bangor. d. 17 Aug. 1857. bur. Llanllyfni.
JONES, John. b. Llanasa, Flintshire 1788; apprenticed to a cotton-spinner at Holywell 1796–1803; served in the navy 1805–15; worked as a cotton-spinner at Stalybridge, Cheshire 1820 to death; wrote a poetical version of Æsop’s and other fables; author of two poems, The Cotton Mill 1821, The Sovereign 1827; a collection of his works was published as Poems. By John Jones 1826; known as the Welsh bard. d. Stalybridge 19 June 1858.
JONES, John. d. Newborough villas, St. Paul’s road, Highbury park, London 15 Feb. 1861 aged 102. bur. Highgate cemet.
JONES, John. b. London 1796; appeared at Adelphi theatre in an operetta The Conjurer 1816; came out in New York as Mr. Dulcet in Amateurs and Actors, at Niblo’s garden 1828; at Chestnut st. theatre, Philadelphia 28 Nov. 1831 as Felix in Cinderella; sang at Park theatre, New York 1831–44; the leading tenor in La Dame Blanche, Norma and Cinderella; teacher of vocal music 1844 to death; had a pension from Dramatic fund association; composer of The Mellow horn, a popular song. d. New York 1 Nov. 1861.
JONES, John. b. 1788; ed. at univ. of Edinb.; studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1809; founded a self supporting dispensary at Derby; contributed numerous papers to Medical Physical Journal, Provincial Medical Journal, Lancet and Association Journal; author of On self supporting dispensaries, their adaptation to the relief of the poor and working classes 1862. d. 27 Friargate, Derby 23 June 1863.
JONES, John. b. the Harp inn, Llanfairtalhaiarn near Abergele 1810; brought up as an architect; general manager to sir Joseph Paxton; a writer of Welsh words to the old Welsh airs, which are more often sung with his words than with those of any other writer; published 3 vols. of poetry in 1855, 1862 and 1869. d. Falhaiarn 13 Oct. 1869 from the effects of an attempt on his own life. Works of J. Jones in Welsh and English (1855).
JONES, John, the taken name of John Owen. b. 1832; blacksmith; murdered 7 persons, Emmanuel Marshall blacksmith of Cheapside in village of Denham near Uxbridge, his wife, sister, mother and three children at Denham 22 May 1870, tried at Aylesbury assizes before Baron Channell 22 July when sentenced to death; hanged by Calcraft in the yard of Aylesbury gaol 8 Aug. 1870. A.R. (1870) 53, 97, 191–8; Bucks. Herald 23 July 1870 p. 4, 13 Aug. p. 4.
JONES, John. b. Bath 1800; ensign 23 Bengal N.I. 16 Aug. 1819; captain 46 Bengal N.I. 20 April 1826; quartermaster general, Bengal; surveyed province of Assam 1826; erected a small observatory at Adsett court near Gloucester; F.R.A.S. 8 May 1835. d. Torquay 7 April 1875. Monthly notices of R. Astronom. soc. xxxvi 143 (1876).
JONES, John. b. near Wolverhampton 1835; sec. of South Staffordshire Ironmasters’ Association to 1866; sec. to Cleveland Ironmasters’ Assoc. 1866; sec. of Middlesbrough chamber of commerce; sec. of British iron trade assoc.; founded the Iron and Steel Institute 1868, sec. and editor of its journal 1868 to death; founded and edited the Iron and coal trades review Dec. 1866, and other newspapers; A.I.M.E. 1869, M.I.M.E. 1873; wrote about 20 papers on scientific subjects. d. Saltburn-by-Sea 6 June 1877. Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute (1877) p. 414, and Appendix C. p. viii.
JONES, Sir John (natural son of Horace St. Paul). b. 1811; ensign 5 foot 12 June 1828; 1 lieut. 60 rifles 4 Jany. 1833, major 20 July 1849, lieut. col. of the 1st battalion 20 June 1854 to 1 April 1861; brigadier in command of the Roorkee field force 17 April to 20 June 1858; acquired sobriquet of ‘the Avenger’; inspecting field officer at Liverpool, March 1864 to March 1868; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; granted distinguished service pension 27 May 1858; K.C.B. 16 Nov. 1858. d. Torquay 21 Feb. 1878.
JONES, John (eld. son of Roger Jones, farmer). b. Tanyrhelig near Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire about 1821; a miner at Dowlais 1838–9; a Baptist preacher 1841; studied at Baptist college, Haverfordwest 1843–6; pastor of Bethlehem church at Porthyrhyd 1846–8, at Caersalem Newydd near Swansea 1849–54, at Rhymney, Monmouthshire 1862–77 and at Salem church, Briton Ferry 1877 to death; known as Mathetes; author of Geiriadur Beiblaidd a Duwingddol 3 vols. Carmarthen 1864–69–83, a biblical and theological dictionary. d. Briton Ferry 18 Nov. 1878. bur. Pant cemetery, Dowlais.
JONES, John. b. Middlesex about 1800; army clothier at 6 Regent st. London 1827–68, opened a branch at 16 Bachelors’ Walk, Dublin 1840; lived at 95 Piccadilly 1865 to death; made a collection valued at £250,000 of pictures, furniture, books, porcelain, ivories and other objects of vertu, all of which he left by his will to the South Kensington museum on condition of their being kept separate as one collection; he left about £70,000 to the convalescent hospital at Ventnor; a Catalogue of the Jones Bequest was published 1882. d. 95 Piccadilly, London 7 Jany. 1882, personalty sworn at £359,000, 11 March 1882. Handbook of the Jones collection (1883), memoir pp. 1–7 and portrait; Athenæum 16 Dec. 1882 pp. 819, 820; Art Journal (1883) 124, 197, 233, 365, 401.
JONES, John (3 son of John Jones of Blaenos near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire). b. 11 Dec. 1815; ed. at Shrewsbury; barrister M.T. 7 June 1839; sheriff of Carmarthenshire 1854; M.P. for Ca rmarthenshire 1868–80. d. Blaenos co. Carmarthen 1 March 1886.
JONES, John. b. near Dolgelly 1804; printer and publisher at Llanidloes, mayor there 1847–8; a local Wesleyan preacher, joined Church of England 1853; C. of Llandyssul, Cardiganshire 1853–8; V. of Llandysilio Gogo, Cardiganshire 1858 to death; granted civil list pension of £50, 31 Oct. 1881; known as Idrisyn; author of A commentary on the Pentateuch and New Testament 4 vols. 1845; A critical exposition of the Old and New Testament 5 vols. 1852, six editions; translated Her Majesty’s Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, into Welsh 1868; Pregethau, gan y parch John Jones (Idrisyn) 1884; Baptism by sprinkling 1885. d. New Quay near Llandysilio Gogo 17 Aug. 1887.
JONES, John (son of Rice Jones, captain in the army). b. London 5 Oct. 1791; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820; C. of St. Mary’s, Leicester 1815; P.C. of Seaforth 1815; P.C. of St. Andrew’s ch. Liverpool, Dec. 1815 to 1850; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Waterloo, Liverpool, Dec. 1850 to death; archdeacon of Liverpool, Oct. 1855 to 1886; author of Expository lectures on portions of the Acts of the Apostles 2 vols. 1841; Lectures on the principal types of the Old Testament 1845; Hints on preaching 1861. d. 14 Esplanade, Waterloo, Liverpool 5 Dec. 1889. Guardian 11 Dec. 1889 p. 1916.
JONES, John Andrews (son of a manufacturing tobacconist). b. Bristol 10 Oct. 1779; ed. at Colston’s charity sch. Bristol 1789–94; apprenticed to a Bristol merchant; a bookbinder at Guildford 1801–13; became a Baptist 1807, baptized 3 July 1808; minister at Hartley Row, Hants. 1816–18, at Ringstead, Northamptonshire 1821–5, at Brentford 1825–31, at Jireh chapel, Brick lane, Old st. London 1831–61, and at chapel in East st. City road, London 1861 to death; edited Gill’s Body of divinity 1839; author of The history of the iniquitous schism bill of 1714, 1843; Bunhill memorials, sacred reminiscences 1849; Sacred remains, an appendix to Bunhill memorials 1852. d. 50 Murray st. New North road, London, Aug. 1868.
JONES, John Charles Hill. Ensign 54 foot 16 Dec. 1840, lieut. col. 21 Sep. 1860 to May 1866 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 14 depot battalion Sheffield 1866–9, lieut. col. 3 depot battalion Pembroke 1869 to 1 June 1870 when placed on h.p.; col. in the army 21 Sep. 1865; lieut. col. brigade depot Warrington 1 April 1873 to death. d. brigade depot Liverpool 3 Sep. 1876.
JONES, John Edward. b. 1783; 2 lieut. R.A. 14 July 1797, col. 23 Nov. 1841, colonel commandant 17 Feb. 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Warwick lodge, Hampton Wick, Middlesex 29 Aug. 1854.
JONES, John Edward. b. Dublin 1806; civil engineer in London 1839–46; a sculptor in London 1846–62; exhibited 108 sculptures at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1842–62; among his sitters were queen Victoria, prince Albert, Louis Philippe and Napoleon III.; the full-length statue of sir Robert Alexander Ferguson at Londonderry 1860 is by him, but he generally executed busts only. d. Dublin 25 July 1862.
JONES, John Mather. b. Bangor 9 June 1826; went to U.S. America 1849; founded the Welsh town of New Cambria; with James A. Whittaker purchased a large tract of land in Osage county, Kansas, where he founded the town of Avonia 1869; proprietor and publisher of Y Drych (The Mirror) the oldest Welsh newspaper in America 1865 to death; author of History of the Rebellion (in Welsh). Utica 1866. d. Utica, New York 21 Dec. 1874. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 467 (1887).
JONES, John Ogwen (son of David Jones of Tyddyn, Llanllechid near Bangor). b. Tyddyn 2 June 1829; a merchant’s clerk in Liverpool 1844–9, then in London; studied at Calvinistic methodist college, Bala 1852–6; matric. at Univ. of London 1856, B.A. 1858, M.A.; Calvinistic minister at Birkenhead and Liverpool 1857–67, at Oswestry 1867–76, at Rhyl 1876 to death; practical founder of county examinations of Sunday schools in North Wales; edited Y Symbylydd 1 vol. Liverpool 1864, a monthly mag.; author of Testament y Miloedd. 1883, a commentary on the New Testament. d. Rhyl 22 Sep. 1884.
JONES, John Pike (eld. son of John Jones, tradesman). b. Chudleigh, Devon 1790; admitted sizar at Pembroke coll. Camb. 4 July 1809, B.A. 1813; C. of North Bovey, Devon 1816–31; V. of Alveton, Staffs. 12 May 1829 to death; R. of Butterleigh, Devon 12 May 1832 to death; author of Botanical tour through various parts of Devon and Cornwall 1820, 2 ed. 1821; Historical and monumental antiquities of Devonshire 1823; Guide to scenery in neighbourhood of Ashburton 1823, another ed. 1830; author with J. F. Kingston of Flora Devoniensis 1829. d. Cheadle, Staffs. 4 Feb. 1857. Davidson’s Bibliotheca Devoniensis (1852) 9, 10, 13, 36, 118, 135, 172.
JONES, John Powell (2 son of Morgan Jones). b. Llysnony, Corseinon near Swansea 4 April 1823; ed. St. David’s coll. Lampeter 1840–6, B.D. 1855; C. of Loughor ch. Glamorgan 1846 and rector 1850; V. of Llantrisant, Glamorgan 1865 to death; canon of Llandaff 1879 to death; P.C. of Talygarn chapel, Llantrisant 1870 to death; a well known Greek and Hebrew scholar; author with rev. E. Bickersteth of Y Ddyledswydd Grist’ nogol o borthi trueiniaid y praidd. Llanymddfri 1847. d. Llantrisant vicarage 21 Dec. 1883. Red Dragon, v 481–7 (1884), portrait.
JONES, John Salisbury. Ensign 84 foot 5 Jany. 1805; captain 69 foot 25 Feb. 1817 to 25 Sep. 1835 when placed on h.p. with rank of major; K.H. 1836. d. 1881 or before.
Note.—He is not in Dod’s Peerage after 1881, but is in Burke’s Peerage 1891.
JONES, John Winter (son of John Jones, editor of the Naval chronicle and European magazine). b. Lambeth 16 June 1805; ed. at St. Paul’s sch. 1813–21; travelling sec. to charity commissioners 1835–7; assistant in library of British museum, April 1837, assistant keeper of the printed books 1850 and keeper March 1856, principal librarian July 1866, resigned Aug. 1878; a Spanish and Russian scholar; much connected with removal of Br. Museum books from Montague house to the new buildings 1837; chief compiler of the famous 91 cataloguing rules 1838, and general superintendent of new MS. catalogue 1839 etc.; joined with sir A. Panizzi in planning and arranging the new circular reading room 1856–7; F.S.A. 23 March 1854 and V.P. 8 May 1862; president of Library Assoc. of U.K. 2 Oct. 1877; edited and translated books for Hakluyt soc. 1850–63, and guide books for the British museum 1858–78; author of Riddles, charades and conundrums. Anon. 1822; A translation of all the Greek, Latin, Italian and French quotations in Blackstone’s Commentaries 1823. d. Underwood, Henley on Thames 7 Sep. 1881. Cowtan’s Memoirs of Br. Museum (1872) 109–12, 245–7; I.L.N. xlix 437 (1866), portrait; Graphic xxiv 389 (1881), portrait; Fourth Annual Rep. Library Association (1882) 59–67.
JONES, John Wynne (2 son of rev. Hugh Jones). b. 1805; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829; R. of Heneglwys, Anglesey 1844–68; canon and archdeacon of Bangor 1863–86; V. of Bodedern, Anglesey 1868 to death. d. Chester 8 Feb. 1888.
JONES, Joseph (son of rev. David Jones of Longham, Gloucester). b. 1782; ed. at Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807; P.C. of Repton, Derbyshire 1843 to 1856; author of Family devotions, a course of prayers 1820; Serious musings 1822; Moral hours, a poem 1823; Osborne or the country gentleman, a tale 1833; An essay on episcopacy 1839; The books of psalms, with reflections 1846; Spiritual piety, meditations of the Christian in hours of retirement 1855, and upwards of 40 other books. d. Repton, in Oct. 1856. S. A. Pear’s Sermon on late rev. J. Jones (1856).
JONES, Joseph. J.P. for West Riding of Yorkshire; resided at Severn Stoke, Worcestershire; sheriff of Worcs. 1874. d. Abberley hall, Stourport, Worcestershire 15 Oct. 1880, will proved 3 Jany. 1881, personalty under £500,000 in the United Kingdom.
JONES, Joseph. Always known as the eccentric Joey Jones; a well known attendant on race courses and at prize fights, where his sayings and doings amused all classes of society; he was often fortunate in making money on horses; a master of the ceremonies at benefits and other sporting meetings; the oldest knight of the Royal Antidiluvian order of Buffaloes. d. 19 April 1889. Sporting Life 20 April 1889 p. 7; Illust. sporting news, iii 129, 132 (1864), portrait.
JONES, Joseph David (son of a farmer and local preacher). b. Bryncrugog, parish of Llanfair-Caereinion, Montgomeryshire 1827; held singing classes at Towyn, Merionethshire 1848–57; in charge of the British school, Ruthin 1857–66; kept a private school at Ruthin 1866 to death; published Perganiedydd 1847, a collection of congregational tunes; Tonau ac Emynau 1868, a collection of hymns and tunes; composer of Riflemen form, a new song. Ruthin 1862; Llys Arthur or Arthur’s court, a cantata 1864. d. Ruthin 17 Sep. 1870.
JONES, Latimer Maurice (son of rev. Thomas William Jones, P.C. of Llanybri). b. 8 July 1833; ed. at Lampeter coll., B.D. 1864; V. of St. Peter’s, Carmarthen 1863 to death; proctor to lower house of convocation 1874; travelled in Palestine and on his return lectured on Egypt and the Holy Land 1874; author of The Welsh people and the Welsh tongue 1862. d. Carmarthen 11 Oct. 1877. The Carmarthen Journal 12 Oct. 1877 p. 5, 19 Oct. p. 5.
JONES, Lestock Boileau. Entered Bengal army 16 July 1842; captain 56 Bengal N.I. 9 March 1852; deputy judge advocate general Peshawur 27 April 1857; commandant 3 Punjab cavalry 11 Nov. 1859 to death; col. in the army 16 July 1873. d. Hampstead 5 May 1879.
JONES, Lewis. b. Penponpren, Cardiganshire 14 Feb. 1793; a master at Clitheroe gram. sch. Lancashire; P.C. of Llandevaud, Monmouthshire 1822–52; V. of Almondbury, Yorkshire 13 March 1823 to death; P.C. of Meltham, Yorkshire 1829–38; instrumental in erecting 14 churches in Almondbury 1822–66. d. Almondbury 26 Aug. 1866. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 49, 64, 79, 452–4, 592.
JONES, Lloyd. b. Bandon, co. Cork, March 1811; a fustian-cutter at Manchester 1827–37; joined a co-operative society in Salford 1829; chief advocate of Robert Owen’s plan of village communities; the best public lecturer and debater of his day; had a chief part in organisation and development of co-operative movement 1837 to death; pres. of the Oldham congress 1885; established the Leeds Express 1857; an editor of the London Reader 1863; editor of Miner’s Watchman and labour sentinel 1878; author of Life, times and labours of Robert Owen 1889 and of many pamphlets; author with J. M. Ludlow of The progress of the working classes 1867. d. 23 May 1886. Notice of life of Lloyd Jones (1885); L. Jones’s Life of R. Owen (1889), memoir.
JONES, Loftus Francis. Second lieut. 95 rifles 7 Feb. 1811, lieut. 1812, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818; lieut. 59 foot 1822; lieut. 2 foot 1823; lieut. 96 foot 1824, captain 9 March 1834, placed on h.p. 14 Jany. 1848; major 62 foot 2 Nov. 1849 to 23 May 1851; lieut. col. 2 West India regiment 23 May 1851 to death; served in the Peninsula, June 1811 to end of the war 1814. d. St. Vincent, West Indies 13 Feb. 1853.
JONES, Margaret Charlotte (elder dau. of sir George Campbell of Edenwood, Fifeshire). b. 1825. (m. (1) 28 July 1845 at St. Margaret’s, Westminster, David Jones of Pantglos, Carmarthen, M.P. co. Carmarthen 1852–74; m. (2) 10 Feb. 1870 sir Richard George Augustus Levinge, baronet of Knockdrin castle, co. Westmeath); an exhibitor at Exhibition of Water colours; author of Scattered leaves, or twilight trifles 1853; Lottery, a tale 1858. d. Lowndes sq. London 5 Nov. 1871. The Court Album (1854), portrait.
JONES, Maria B. (dau. of Charles Jones, actor, and of Mrs. C. Jones of theatre royal, Brighton). b. 1846; first appeared on the stage at Bradford; leading lady of Prince of Wales theatre, Liverpool 3 seasons; first appeared in London at Olympic theatre as Florence Conway, in Tom Taylor’s Handsome is that handsome does 3 Sep. 1870; leading lady at Surrey theatre 1871; at Drury Lane, Sep. 1872 as the Lady of the Lake. (m. July 1871 Francis Charles Philips of 2nd foot). d. London 11 Feb. 1873. bur. Brompton cemetery 18 Feb. Era 16 Feb. 1873 p. 11, 23 Feb. p. 11.
JONES, Michael (2 son of Michael Jones of Caton, Lancashire). b. 1774; barrister L.I. 13 May 1809; collected books and MSS. and materials for pedigrees of R.C. families; claimed that the ancient barony of Scrope was vested in his family 1815. d. 1851 or 1852. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 668–70 (1887).
JONES, Nathaniel. Entered Bengal army 1815; lieut. col. of 58 Bengal N.I. 12 Aug. 1847, of 17 N.I. 1850, of 49 N.I. 1853, of 64 N.I. 1855–46; colonel 49 Bengal N.I. 31 May 1857 to death; M.G. 30 May 1859. d. Murree 21 July 1869.
JONES, Oliver John. b. 15 March 1813; entered navy 7 Sep. 1826; captain 29 Sep. 1855, retired R.A. 25 Aug. 1873; author of Recollections of a winter campaign in India. 1859. d. Westfield house, Bramston, Northants. 11 Jany. 1878.
JONES, Owen (only son of Owen Jones, antiquary 1741–1814). b. 148 Upper Thames st. London 15 Feb. 1809; ed. Charterhouse; pupil of Louis Vulliamy 1825–31; travelled in the East and took much notice of Arabic decorations 1833 and 1837; superintendent of works of Great Exhibition 1851 and helped to decorate and arrange the building; joint director of decoration of Crystal palace 1852 and designer of Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Alhambra courts; employed in decorating private houses; decorated palace of viceroy of Egypt; architect of St. James’ hall, London 1857; exhibited 12 architectural drawings at R.A. 1831–61; gold medal of R. Instit. of B.A. 1857; author of Plans, elevations, etc. of the Alhambra 2 vols. 1842–5; The polychromatic ornaments of Italy 1846; The grammar of ornament 1856, another ed. 1865; One thousand and one initial letters 1864. d. 9 Argyll place, Regent st. London 19 April 1874. bur. Kensal green. Practical Mag. iii 400 (1874), vii 257–60 (1877), portrait; Graphic, ix 433 (1874), portrait; I.L.N. xix 487, 508 (1851) portrait, lxiv 445, 446 (1874) portrait.
JONES, Owen (son of John Thomas of Y Gaerwen Bach, in parish of Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog, Anglesea). b. 15 July 1806; a farm servant, then a schoolmaster; a lay methodist preacher about 1827; pastor successively at Llangoed, Mold 1833, Manchester 1844 and Llandudno 1866; ordained 1842; preached 12,000 times and left 6000 manuscript sermons; Welsh editor for Messrs. Blackie of Glasgow 1867 to death; author, translator or editor of 40 works in Welsh. d. Llandudno 10 Oct. 1889. Bye Gones relating to Wales for 16 Oct. 1889 p. 240.
JONES, Rice. Second lieut. R.E. 1 Feb. 1806, captain 1814, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1819; captain R.E. 18 Nov. 1820, col. 9 Nov. 1846 to death; present at passage of the Douro and capture of Oporto; K.H. 1834. d. Gibraltar 20 March 1854.
JONES, Richard (son of a builder). b. Birmingham 1779; ed. for an architect; acted in Lichfield, Birmingham and other towns to 1799; appeared at Crow st. theatre, Dublin 20 Nov. 1799 and remained in Ireland till 1807; made his début in London at Covent garden as Goldfinch in The road to ruin 9 Oct. 1807, the original Count Ignatio in Dibdin’s Two faces under one hood 17 Nov.; played the Copper Captain in Rule a wife and have a wife, at the Haymarket 5 June 1809; became a most popular comedian and was always known as Gentleman Jones; the best Roderigo on the stage; gave an entertainment called a Carnival, which was not successful; last appeared on stage 3 June 1833; a teacher of elocution, especially for the pulpit 1833 to death; author of The Green man, a comedy played at the Haymarket 15 Aug. 1818; Too late for dinner, a farce, Covent Garden 22 Feb. 1820; The School for gallantry, a comedy; Peter Fin’s trip to Brighton, a farce; and with Theodore Hook, of Hoaxing. d. 14 Chapel st. Belgrave sq. London 30 Aug. 1851. bur. St. Peter’s ch. Pimlico. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. ii 181 (1825), portrait; Monthly Mirror, Aug. 1809 pp. 67–9, portrait; Mark Boyd’s Reminiscences of 50 years (1871) 251–67.
JONES, Richard (son of Richard Jones, solicitor). b. Tunbridge Wells 1790; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; C. of Brasted, Kent 1822–33; professor of political economy, King’s coll. London 1833–5; professor of political economy and history in Haileybury coll. 1835 to death; commissioner under tithe commutation act 183– to 1851; sec. to capitular commission 1851–3; third Charity estate commissioner 24 Oct. 1853 to death; author of An essay on the distribution of wealth and on the sources of taxation 1831; A few remarks on the proposed commutation of tithes 1833; Remarks on the government bill for the commutation of tithes 1836, 2 ed. 1836; Remarks on the manner in which tithe should be assessed to the poor’s rates 1838, to which there were 4 replies; Text book of lectures on the political economy of nations. Hertford 1852. d. East India coll. Haileybury 26 Jany. 1855. G.M. xliii 316–7 (1855); Illustrated Mag., Aug. 1855 pp. 95–104; Literary remains of R. Jones (1859), portrait.
JONES, Richard. b. 1780; 2 lieut. R.A. 12 May 1797, col. 23 Nov. 1841, col. commandant 12 Jany. 1854 to death; L.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Cheshunt, Herts. 18 May 1863.
JONES, Richard Lambert. b. 1783; a working man; plumber, painter and glazier at Little Moorfields, London; estate and house agent, 40 Little Moorfields 1825–53; member of court of common council of city of London for ward of Cripplegate without 1819–51, chairman of improvements committee, of committee for rebuilding London bridge 1824–31, of committee for rebuilding the Royal exchange 1838–44, retired from corporation 1851; presented with his bust in marble (placed in the council chamber Guildhall), with a gold medal, and surplus of subscriptions used in founding a Lambert Jones scholarship at city of London school 17 June 1852. d. Lowestoft 16 Aug. 1863. I.L.N. 3 July 1852 p. 12, with woodcut of medal; Reminiscences of R. L. Jones (1863); The Town, ii 811 (1839).
JONES, Robert. Ed. at St. Bees; V. of Branxton, Northumberland, Feb. 1835 to death; author of A sermon 1841; The plague spots in the church of England 18—, a tract; The Battle of Flodden, and of sermons in Church of England Mag. d. 1870.
JONES, Robert (eld. son of Robert Jones). b. Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire 6 Jany. 1810; ed. at Oswestry sch. and Jesus coll. Oxf., B.A. 1837; vicar of All Saint’s, Rotherhithe 1841 to death; Welsh tutor to Prince Lucien Bonaparte; his fine collection of Welsh books is in the Swansea free library; first editor of Y Cym mrodor 1876; author of The history of the Cymmrodorion; edited The poetical works of the rev. Goronwy Owen 2 vols. 1876. d. All Saints’ vicarage, Deptford 28 March 1879.
JONES, Robert Harries. Ed. at univ. of Gottingen, M.A. and Ph. D.; C. of Hollinwood near Manchester 1847–9; C. of Bolton 1852–7; C. of Llanfairfechnan, Bangor 1861–7; V. of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire 1867 to death; editor of Y Cymro 1851–3; author of Lectures on The affinity of European races; Landmarks in the reign of Henry VIII.; The Inquisition; author of translations from the Russian of Marlinska, Poushkin and Lermontoff for the Bolton Chronicle; translated into Welsh, Hecuba, Schiller’s Raeuber and Cæsar Cantu’s Margareta Pusterla. d. 1878.
JONES, Robert Oliver (eld. son of major general Oliver Thomas Jones). b. 16 Dec. 1811; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 97 foot 25 June 1829, lieut. 1832–34; barrister M.T. 25 Jany. 1850; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1838; stipendiary magistrate for Cardiff 18 Feb. 1858 to death; chairman of Glamorganshire quarter sessions. d. Fonmon castle, Cowbridge 14 Nov. 1886.
JONES, Roger Lyon. d. Princes park, Liverpool 1 Jany. 1875, personalty sworn under £350,000, 13 Feb. 1875, left greater part of his estate to Liverpool charities. Times 12 Feb. 1875 p. 11.
JONES, Theobald (2 son of James Jones, R. of Urney, Derry). b. 1790; entered navy 1 June 1803, captain 25 Aug. 1828, retired admiral 12 Sep. 1865; M.P. co. Londonderry 1830–57. d. 18 Harcourt st. Marylebone road, London 7 Feb. 1868.
JONES, Thomas. b. 24 June 1775; optician at 62 Charing Cross, London 1815–50, at 4 Rupert st. 1850 to death; constructed astronomical instruments for chief observatories of Great Britain and the colonies; a founder of Astronomical Society 1820; F.R.S. 4 June 1835; invented or improved the Englefield improved side transit instrument, the Sectograph, an improved hygrometer, and a double eye-piece; author of Description and use of the sectograph 1814; A companion to the mountain barometer, consisting of tables, &c. 1817, 2 ed. 1820. d. 4 Rupert st. London 29 July 1852.
JONES, Thomas. b. 1812; a special pleader to 1846; barrister M.T. 22 May 1846, bencher Nov. 1866 to death; Q.C. 23 July 1866. d. 57 Craven hill gardens, London 17 Oct. 1869.
JONES, Thomas (3 son of Philip Jones). b. Underhill, Margam near Neath, Glamorgansh. 1810; ed. Cowbridge gr. sch. and Jesus coll. Oxf., scholar 1829–35, B.A. 1832; librarian Chetham library, Manchester, March 1845 to death, when the number of volumes grew from 19,000 to 40,000; gave evidence before public committee on libraries 1849; F.S.A. 22 Feb. 1866; a contributor to Notes and Queries under name of Bibliothecarius Chethamensis; author of Catalogue of the Neath library 1842; Catalogue of Chetham Soc. Lib. 2 vols. 1862–3; Catalogue of the collection of tracts for and against popery in Chetham Library 2 vols. 1859–62. d. Southport, Manchester 29 Nov. 1875. Manchester Courier 3 Dec. 1875 p. 5; Papers of Manchester Literary club, ii 59–65 (1876).
JONES, Thomas. b. 1791; Roman catholic bookseller, the first who settled in Paternoster row, Dec. 1823, retired 1870; lost his invested money, when a public subscription was raised for him 1877. d. Great Ormond st. London 25 May 1882. Illustrated Catholic Mag. ii 334–6 (1872); Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 674 (1887).
JONES, Thomas (son of John Jones, commercial traveller, d. 1829). b. Rhayader, Radnorshire 17 July 1819; a collier at Brynmawr 1837, then a check weigher; ordained Independent pastor of Bryn chapel near Llanelly, July 1844; pastor of Libanus church, Morriston near Swansea 1850; known in Wales for his eloquence and originality as Jones Treforris and the Welsh poet preacher; pastor of Albany chapel, Frederick st. London 1858 and of Bedford chapel near Oakley sq. 1861 to Dec. 1869; pastor of congregational church, Walter’s road, Swansea, Jany. 1870 to 1877 and 1881 to death; pastor of congregational church, Collins st. Melbourne, Australia 1877–80; chairman of Congregational Union of England and Wales 1871–2; author of The work of the christian preacher 1871; The answer of the church to the scepticism of the age 1871; a series of his sermons appeared in Words of Peace, Melbourne 1877–78, and another in the Sunday Mag. Lond. 1883. d. Swansea 19 June 1882. The Divine and other sermons by T. Jones (1884), memoir pp. v–viii, portrait; Lyric thoughts of T. Jones (1886), memoir pp. 1–27.
JONES, Thomas Rymer (son of a captain in the navy). b. 1810; studied at Guy’s hospital and in Paris; M.R.C.S. 1833, but did not practice as he was deaf; the first professor of comparative anatomy in King’s college, London 1836–74; Fullerian professor of physiology at Royal Institution 1840–2; F.R.S. 21 March 1844; granted civil list pension of £50, 7 Aug. 1873; author of A general outline of the animal kingdom and manual of comparative anatomy 1841, 4 ed. 1871; The natural history of animals 2 vols. 1845–52; The animal creation a popular introduction to zoology 1865; The natural history of birds 1867; Mammalia 1873. d. 22 Castletown road, West Kensington, London 10 Dec. 1880.
Note.—His 2 son Alexander Manson Jones b. 15 July 1845, d. 5 Oct. 1881, was a civil engineer, he invented an automatic levelling machine called the ‘Temnograph.’
JONES, Thomas Wharton (son of Richard Jones of H.M.’s customs, Scotland). b. St. Andrews 1808; ed. at univ. of Edin.; F.R.S. 30 April 1840; F.R.C.S. 1844; lecturer on physiology at Charing Cross hospital; Fullerian prof. of physiology in Royal Institution of Great Britain 1851–54; Emeritus prof. of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, Univ. coll. hospital, London; granted civil list pension of £150, 31 Oct. 1881; author of A manual of ophthalmic medicine and surgery 1847, 3 ed. 1865; The wisdom of the Almighty displayed in the sense of vision 1851; Defects of sight, their nature, cause and prevention 1856, the 2 ed. was entitled Defects of sight and hearing 1866, 3 ed. 1877; A catalogue of the medicine and surgery of the eye and ear 1857; Evolution of the human race from apes, a doctrine unsanctioned by science 1876. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 7 Oct. 1891.
JONES, William. b. Battersea, London 15 April 1795; clerk to an attorney; attorney at law; a superintendent of Surrey chapel Sunday sch. 1815; an itinerant preacher among the Independents 1820; on committee of Religious Tract Soc. 1820–4, and travelling secretary Sep. 1824 to death; wrote the annual reports for 31 years to 1855 and many Tracts; author of The Jubilee memorial of the Religious Tract Soc. 1850; Recollections of the late George Stokes; Memoir of the rev. Rowland Holt 1834. d. London 5 April 1855. W. H. R. Jones’s Life of Wm. Jones (1857), portrait.
JONES, William. b. 1811; studied at Middlesex and Westminster hospitals and in Paris; L.S.A. 1832, M.R.C.S. 1834, M.D. King’s coll. Aberdeen 1850; invented the syphon douche 1848; author of Practical observations on the diseases of women 1839; Gas and gas meters, an address 1843; An essay on some of the most important diseases of women 1848. d. 10 Lower Seymour st. Portman sq. London 26 Jany. 1863. Journal British Archæol Assoc. (1864) 168.
JONES, William. Ed. at Glasgow univ. and Lampeter; V. of Nevin, Carnarvonshire 1842–62; R. of Llanenddwyn, Merionethshire 1862 to death; author of A portrait of the true philosopher 1831, a lecture; The character of the Welsh as a nation at the present day. Carnarvon 1840, a prize essay in Welsh and English; The Resurrection, a poem. Ruthin 1853, and of essays, orations and sermons. d. 1873.
JONES, Sir William (only son of Wm. Jones of Glan Helen, Carnarvonshire). b. 1808; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 61 foot 10 April 1825, lieut. col. 29 Dec. 1848 to 16 Nov. 1860 when placed on h.p.; served in Punjaub campaign 1848, and Indian mutiny 1857–8, commanded 3rd infantry brigade at siege of Delhi 1 July to 11 Oct. 1857 and was in charge during six days fighting in the streets; col. of 32 foot 2 Jany. 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 9 June 1849, K.C.B. 2 June 1869, G.C.B. 29 May 1886. d. Lansdown lodge, Lansdown road, Dublin 8 April 1890.
JONES, William Arthur (youngest son of Wm. Jones, corn merchant). b. Carmarthen 1 May 1818; ed. at Carmarthen college and Glasgow univ., M.A. 1841; Unitarian minister at Northampton 1842–9, at Bridgwater 1849–52, at Taunton 1852–66; hon. sec. of Taunton and Somerset archæological and natural history soc. about 1853 to death, contributed to its Proceedings many papers; established a school of science and art at Taunton; author with rev. W. P. Williams of A glossary of the Somersetshire dialect. d. Tauntfield, Taunton 23 April 1873, memorial monument erected in grounds of Taunton Castle. The Taunton Courier 30 April 1873 p. 5.
JONES, William Bence (elder son of Wm. Jones, lieut.-col. 5 dragoon guards, d. 1843). b. Beccles, Suffolk 5 Oct. 1812; ed. at Harrow and Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1836; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837; farmed and made great improvements on Lisselan estate, co. Cork 1838–80, when refusing to accept Griffith’s valuation from his tenants he was boycotted although he had always shown the greatest kindness to them; author of The Irish church from the point of view of one of its laymen 1868; The life’s work in Ireland of a landlord who tried to do his duty 1880. d. 34 Elvaston place, London 22 June 1882. Agricultural Gazette 13 March 1882, portrait.
JONES, William Daniel, b. 1787; 2 lieut. R.A. 12 Sep. 1803, col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 6 Jany. 1855 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 13 Dec. 1854. d. Bournemouth 20 May 1857.
JONES, William Frank (only son of Wm. Jenkin Saer of Newport, Pembrokeshire). b. 1842; ed. at St. Mary hall, Oxf., S.C.L. and B.A. 1870, B.C.L. and M.A. 1871; barrister L.I. 30 April 1874; assumed surname of Jones in lieu of Saer; edited with H. E. Hirst, Edward Chitty’s Index to all reported cases decided in several courts of equity in England and Ireland, the Privy Council and the House of Lords, 4 ed. 9 vols. 1883–9. d. Baroda, Ventnor, Isle of Wight 27 Dec. 1890.
JONES, William Gore (son of John Gore Jones of Sligo). b. 12 March 1826; cadet R.N. 12 Feb. 1841; commanded boats of Firebrand in Black sea, destroying the Russian establishments between the Danube and the Dneister 1854; first lieut. of Firebrand in attack on Sebastopol 17 Oct. 1854; Crimean and Turkish medals; 3 class Medjidie 25 March 1870; captain 20 Aug. 1861; flag capt. on Indian and China stations; naval attaché at Washington 1873–9; granted good service pension 6 Sep. 1871; C.B. 2 June 1877; V.A. 6 May 1882; author of A scheme by which it is proposed to increase the employment of naval officers 1863. d. 26 Ashburn place, South Kensington, London 28 May 1888.
JONES, William Henry. Assistant manager at Crystal palace, Sydenham; manager of and afterwards partner in firm of C. T. Brock and Co., pyrotechnists, Nunhead, Surrey; manager of Alexander palace, Muswell Hill 1 May 1880, palace reopened 15 May 1880 by James Willing, advertisement contractor; lessee of Alexandra palace with Benjamin Barber at rent of £10,000 per annum 25 March 1881. d. Magdala, Campsbourne, Hornsey 17 March 1883 aged 39.
JONES, William Henry Rich- (eld. son of Wm. Jones 1795–1855, chief secretary of Religious tract society). b. parish of Christchurch, Blackfriars, London 31 Aug. 1817; ed. at Totteridge, Herts., King’s coll. London and Magd. hall, Oxf.; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1844; C. of St. Andrew, Holborn 1841–2; R. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields 1842–5; Inc. of St. James’s, Curtain road, Shoreditch 1845–51; V. of Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts. 1851 to death, where he restored the church; surrogate and canon of Salisbury 1872 to death; prefixed his wife’s maiden name Rich to his surname 1883; F.S.A. 6 June 1861; edited for the Rolls series, The Registers of St. Osmund 2 vols. 1863–4; author of The life and times of St. Aldhelm. 1874; An account of the Saxon church of Bradford-on-Avon 1878; Fasti ecclesiæ Sarisberiensis 1879; Salisbury, a history of the diocese 1880. d. the vicarage, Bradford-on-Avon 28 Oct. 1885.
JONES, Sir Willoughby, 3 Baronet (2 son of Sir John Thomas Jones, K.C.B., major general d. 1843). b. Woolwich 24 Nov. 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1842, 20 wrangler 1843, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1847; succeeded his brother sir Lawrence Jones 1845; M.P. for Cheltenham 29 July 1847, but unseated on petition for bribery 28 June 1848; sheriff of Norfolk 1851; chairman of quarter sessions 1856; author of Public libraries, an address 1855; Christianity and common sense 1863. d. Cranmer hall, Fakenham, Norfolk 21 Aug. 1884. Power, Rodwell and Dew’s Reports, i 179–89 (1853).
JONGHMANS, F. b. 1822; a singer and musical conductor at Evans’ Supper rooms, Covent Garden, London 1852; a singer at Canterbury music hall, London; musical conductor at Oxford music hall, London, from the opening 26 March 1861 to about 1868; vocal director at Royal Alhambra palace 1869–70; sang at Argyll rooms when re-opened as the Trocadero 30 Oct. 1882. d. 15 Hemberton road, Mayflower road, Clapham 17 Oct. 1887. bur. St. Mary’s cemet. Kensal green 21 Oct. Entr’Acte Almanac (1876) 77, portrait.
JOPE, William (2 son of rev. John Jope, V. of St. Cleer, Cornwall, d. 1844). bapt. St. Cleer 12 Feb. 1789; barrister G.I. 20 June 1820, bencher 1847 to death, treasurer 1847; mayor of Liskeard 1820, 1828; recorder of Liskeard 1835 to death; recorder of Helston 1846–52. d. Thames Ditton 1 May 1854, monument in St. Cleer church.
JOPLING, Joseph Midleton (son of Joseph Jopling, clerk in the Horse Guards, Whitehall, London). b. 1831; clerk in adjutant general’s department Horse Guards 1848–70; associate of New Soc. of Painters in water colours 1859–76; exhibited 27 pictures at R.A. and 21 at Suffolk st. 1848–76; an early member of the Arts club, Hanover sq.; director of fine art section of Philadelphia international exhibition 1876; member of 3rd Middlesex rifle corps, won the queen’s prize at Wimbledon 1861. d. 28 Beaufort st. Chelsea, Dec. 1884.
JORDAN, John. Ed. at Clare coll. Camb., B.A. 1826; C. of Little Dean 1827–30; C. of Handborough 1830–6; C. of Somerton 1836–40; V. of Church-Enstone, Oxfordshire 15 Aug. 1840 to death; author of Review of tradition as taught by the writers of tracts for the times 1840; The Holy Baptist 1843, poem in 5 cantos; Scriptural views of the Sabbath of God 1848; A parochial history of Enstone 1857, and of many pamphlets. d. 16 May 1874 aged 70.
JORDAN, Robert Jacob. M.R.C.S. Eng. 1859; L.R.C.P. Edin. 1859; practised at 19 Berner’s st. Oxford st. London 1859–60, his name struck off the Medical Register 1864; kept anatomical museum 29 George st. Hanover square 1860–9; lived at 6 Bedford sq. London; proprietor of the Cordial balm of Rakasira; author of Diseases of the skin 1860; Skin diseases and their remedies 1860; Exposure of quackery and quacks. By Protector. d. London 14 April 1874, will which is signed Lewis Jacob Jordan proved 11 July 1874, personalty under £90,000. F. B. Courtenay’s Revelations of quacks and quackery 3 ed. (1871) 19, 98–110.
JORDAN, Thomas Brown (son of Thomas Jordan). b. Bristol 24 Oct. 1807; an artist at Falmouth 1827, a mathematical instrument maker there; made improvements in the miners’ dial, and aided R. W. Fox in the construction of his dipping needle 1834; devised instrument for recording variations of barometer by photography 1838; sec. of R. Polytechnic soc. Falmouth 1835–40; first keeper of mining records, London 1840–5; invented wood carving by machinery and established works at Lambeth 1845; mechanical engineer at Manchester, then at Glasgow to 1870; mining engineer London 1871 to death. d. London 30 May 1890. Iron 20 June 1890 p. 541.
Note.—He experimented in electro-metallurgy, and in 1841 made an egg cup of electro deposited copper, plated with silver outside and gold inside. This is now in Museum of practical geology, London.
JORDEN, George (son of a labourer, his mother was a herb-doctress). b. Clee Hills, in Farlow parish, Shropshire 1783; came to Bewdley as an errand boy; servant to James Fryer, M.D. 1806–56; botanist, his Flora Bellus Locus is in the Worcester museum; he collected, mounted and named every plant he was able to find; accumulated antiquarian lore including ballads and electioneering songs, which he bequeathed to Worcester museum. d. Bewdley 1871. J. R. Burton’s Bewdley (1883) 60.
JORDON, Edward. b. Jamaica 1801; a quadroon; agitated for the free political right of the coloured population, and then for the abolition of slavery in Jamaica; edited a newspaper in Jamaica, for an article in which he was tried for high treason but acquitted; prime minister in first executive committee, Jamaica 1860, member of the committee again April 1863 to Oct. 1864; receiver general Oct. 1864 to Aug. 1865; island secretary and governor’s secretary Aug. 1865 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860, the first coloured man so honoured. d. Kingston, Jamaica 8 Feb. 1869. American Annual Cyclop. for 1869 p. 529.
JOSEPH, Felix (eld. son of Abraham Joseph of 3 Woodstock st. Oxford st. London, curiosity dealer, d. 1872). b. London 1840; ed. at Ghent; in business with his father to 1872 when he retired; made a collection of old Wedgwood ware, now in the Nottingham castle museum; a selection from his best examples was on loan at the Guelph exhibition in London; a benefactor to the museums of Nottingham, Maidstone, Norwich, Sandgate and Derby; a full length portrait of him by Knighton Warren is in Nottingham castle museum. d. Southsea 19 Aug. 1892. Daily Graphic 18 Dec. 1891 p. 9, col. 1, portrait.
JOSEPH, Henry Samuel. b. 1801; Jewish rabbi at Bedford; ordained as a literate in the ch. of England 1835; travelling sec. to society for promoting christianity among the Jews; chaplain to Chester castle 1847–56; author of Reason for embracing christianity 1834; Memoirs of convicted prisoners. Chester 1853. d. Strasburg, France 28 Jany. 1864.
JOSEPH, John Charles. b. 1810; proprietor of Northumberland hotel, Dublin; patentee and owner of Queen’s theatre, Great Brunswick st. Dublin 29 June 1844 to death; a guardian of the poor of the North Union; member of municipal council of Dublin, representing the North Dock ward 15 years. d. Northumberland buildings, Eden quay, Dublin 8 Nov. 1871. The Freeman’s Journal 9 Nov. 1871 pp. 3, 4, 14 Nov. p. 3.
JOSEPHS, Frances Adeline, known as Fanny Josephs (dau. of W. H. Josephs, manager of Sadler’s Wells theatre, London). b. 1842; first appeared in London at Sadler’s Wells as Celia in As you like it 8 Sep. 1860; a member of the Strand burlesque co. 1861; played Lord Woodbie in The Flying Scud, on opening night of Holborn theatre 6 Oct. 1866 and 200 nights afterwards; manager of the Holborn theatre April 1868 to 29 March 1869; the original Emily Mervyn in Byron’s comedy Partners for life, at Globe theatre 7 Oct. 1871; acted Bella in School, at Prince of Wales’ 20 Sep. 1873 to 1 April 1874, and Lady Sneerwell in School for Scandal 4 April to 7 Aug. 1874; the original Lady Marie Wagstaff in The Pink Dominos, Criterion theatre 31 March to Dec. 1877; lessee of the Olympic, Easter 1879; played Mary Blythe in The World, at Drury Lane 31 July 1880; lessee and manager of Prince of Wales’, Liverpool 1884–90. (m. captain George Wombwell). d. Margate 17 June 1890. bur. Brompton cemet. Illust. sport. and dram. news, i 649, 674 (1874) portrait, xiii 565, 570 (1880) portrait; Era 21 June 1890 p. 8; Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 215–6; Saturday Programme 11 March 1876 pp. 7–8, portrait.
Note.—Her sister Eliza Stuart Patti Josephs, always known as Patti Josephs, was b. 1849, acted in England and America, d. Philadelphia 5 Oct. 1876, m. John Fitzpatrick, actor.
JOSSELYN, George (younger son of John Josselyn of Sproughton near Ipswich, land agent). b. 1 Jany. 1807; solicitor at Ipswich 1828–86; member of Ipswich town council 1840, mayor 1842, 1851, 1859, alderman 1846–78; a director of Eastern Union and Great Eastern railway companies. d. Sproughton near Ipswich 27 May 1888. Public men of Ipswich (1875) 110–6.
JOSSELYN, John (son of John Josselyn of Boxted, Essex, d. 1819). b. 1816; ed. C.C. coll. Camb.; sheriff of Suffolk 1855; master of Suffolk fox hounds 20 years. d. St. Edmund’s hill, Bury St. Edmunds 19 Feb. 1884.
JOULE, James Prescott (son of Benjamin Joule of Salford, brewer 1784–1858). b. New Bailey st. Salford 24 Dec. 1818; pupil of John Dalton the chemist at Manchester; member of Manchester literary and philosophical soc. 1842, librarian 1844, hon. sec. 1846, vice pres. 1851, pres. 1860; F.R.S. 6 June 1850, royal medal 1852, Copley medal 1870; LL.D. Dublin 1857, D.C.L. Oxf. 1860, LL.D. Edin. 1871; granted civil list pension of £200, 19 June 1878; received Albert medal of Society of Arts 1880; experimented on electro-magnetism with view of applying it as a motive power; discovered that the attractive force exercised by two electric magnets is proportioned to the square of the strength of the magnetising current 1840; established the relation between heat and chemical affinity 1840; established the mechanical equivalent of heat by experiments 1842–9; had a laboratory at Whalley Range 1844; wrote upwards of 100 scientific papers; author of New theory of heat 1846; Mechanical equivalent of heat 1859; The scientific papers of J. P. Joule. Published by The Physical society of London 2 vols. 1884–7, with portrait. d. 12 Wardle road, Sale near Manchester 11 Oct. 1889. Popular Science Monthly, v 103–7, portrait; Leisure Hour, Aug. 1873 pp. 549–52; Nature 26 Oct. 1882 pp. 617–20, portrait; Graphic 2 Nov. 1869 pp. 530, 532, portrait.
JOWETT, Joseph. b. 1784; ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1806, M.A. 1823; R. of Silk Willoughby near Sleaford 1810 to death; composer of Musæ Solitariæ. A collection of original melodies adapted to various measures of psalms and hymns 2 vols. 1823–7; Lyra Sacra. Select extracts from the cathedral music of the Church of England 1825; A manual of parochial psalmody 1832; Pocket index to the final key note in any piece of music 1842. d. Silk Willoughby 13 May 1856.
JOWETT, William (son of J. Jowett of Newington, Surrey). b. 1787; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow 1811–16; twelfth wrangler 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, Hulsean prizeman 1810; first Anglican clergyman who volunteered for foreign service of Church missionary soc. 1813; missionary of Church Missionary Soc. in Mediterranean 1815–20, in Syria and Holy Land 1823–4; clerical sec. of the C.M. Soc. 1832–40; Sunday evening lecturer at St. Mary, Aldermanbury to 1851; Inc. of St. John, Clapham Rise, London 1851 to death; author of An essay to prove that the propensity of the Jews to idolatry affords no grounds for disbelieving miracles 1811; Christian researches in the Mediterranean 1822; Christian researches in Syria and the Holy Land 1825, 2 ed. 1826; Scripture characters from the Old Testament, three series 1847–8; Scripture characters from the New Testament 1850. d. 4 The Rise, Larkhall lane, Clapham 20 Feb. 1855. bur. Lewisham churchyard.
JOY, Henry Holmes (3 son of Henry Joy of Belfast). b. the Lodge, Belfast 1805; ed. at Belfast academy and Trin. coll. Dublin; B.A. 1829, M.A. 1841, LL.B. and LL.D. 1856; called to Irish bar 1827, Q.C. 13 Feb. 1849. d. Tunbridge Wells 28 Feb. 1875.
JOY, John Cantiloe (son of Mr. Joy, guard to mail coach between Yarmouth and Ipswich). b. Yarmouth 1806; employed by the government as draughtsman at Portsmouth about 1832; marine painter with his brother Wm. Joy at Chichester, Putney and London, the two brothers always worked together on the same pictures; exhibited 6 sea pieces at Suffolk st. London 1826–7. d. London 1866.
JOY, Thomas Musgrave (only son of Thomas Joy). b. Boughton-Monchelsea, Kent 1812; pupil of Samuel Drummond, A.R.A.; exhibited 67 pictures at R.A., 82 at B.I. and 50 at Suffolk st. 1831–67; painted subject pictures and portraits of the prince of Wales and princess Royal 1841–3, sir Charles Napier and duke of Cambridge; his best picture Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was in R.A. 1853; painted a picture of the Meeting of the subscribers to Tattersall’s before the races 1864; his pictures were sold at Christie’s on the Ascot settling day after his death. d. of bronchitis, 32 St. George’s sq. Pimlico, London 7 April 1866. Art Journal, Aug. 1866 p. 240.
JOY, William (brother of John Cantiloe Joy 1806–66). b. Yarmouth 1803; employed by government as draughtsman at Portsmouth about 1832; always worked with his brother on the same pictures; exhibited 2 sea pieces at R.A., 2 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1823–45. d. Chichester 1867.
JOYCE, Frank (son of Pierce Joyce of Merview, Galway, d. 1883). Agent for marquess of Clanricarde, resigned and brought an action against his employer for libel; well known sportsman in Galway; resided at Tallyho, Loughrea; upset in a jaunting car and d. at Loughrea from a wound in his head May 1890. Times 9 May 1890 p. 10.
JOYCE, James Gerald (eld. son of Harry Gandy Joyce). b. Clonmel, Ireland 1819; ed. Magd. hall, Oxf., B.A. 1846; V. of Burford with Fullbrook 1850–5; R. of Strathfieldsaye, Hants. 1855 to death; F.S.A. 1 June 1865; took much interest in the excavations at Silchester and contributed papers on the discoveries made there 1865 etc.; author of Can the liturgy be used to attach the people to the church? 1869; The Fairford windows. A monograph. Published by the Arundel society 1872, the letter press and the drawings on wood, stone and paper were all by him. d. Strathfieldsaye rectory 28 June 1878. Proc. Soc. Antiq. London, viii 106–8 (1881).
JOYCE, James Wayland (eld. son of rev. James Joyce of Henley, Oxon). b. 1812; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1828–44; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; R. of Burford (3rd portion), Salop 1843 to death; proctor of diocese of Hereford 1852–80; preb. of Hereford 1868 to death; author of England’s sacred synods 1855; Ecclesia vindicata: a treatise on appeals in matters spiritual 1862; The civil power in its relation to the church 1869; On the courts of final appeal as proposed by the commissioners on ecclesiastical courts 1884; Acts of the church 1531. 1885; The church her own reformer 1886. d. Burford 16 Nov. 1887. The Hereford Journal 26 Nov. 1887 p. 4.
JOYCE, Robert Dwyer. b. in co. Limerick, Sep. 1836; ed. Queen’s univ. Dublin; professor of English literature in college of R.C. univ. Dublin; surgeon in Dublin to 1866; went to U.S. America and resided at Boston till his death; member of R. Irish acad.; author of Ballads, romances and songs. Dublin 1861; Legends of the war in Ireland. Boston 1868; Fireside stories of Ireland 1871; Ballads of Irish chivalry, songs and poems. Boston 1875; Deirdrè [A poem by R.D.J.] 1876; Blanid, a poem. Boston 1879; The squire of Castleton. d. Dublin 23 Oct. 1883.
JOYCE, Samuel (3 son of James Joyce of Chapel st. Pentonville, London). b. 1817; barrister G.I. and M.T. 21 Jany. 1846; Q.C. 5 Feb. 1874; bencher of G.I. 1874 to death; author of Remarks on the operations of the county courts act 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, with suggestions for amendment of practice of superior courts in personal actions 1850. d. 12 Endsleigh st. Tavistock sq. London 6 Jany. 1876. bur. in Highgate cemetery.
JOYCE, William (2 son of James Joyce of Pentonville, London). Barrister I.T. 21 Nov. 1851 and of L.I. 14 Jany. 1860; resided 12 Endsleigh st. Tavistock sq.; author of The law and practice of injunctions in equity and at common law 2 vols. 1872; The doctrines and principles of the law of injunctions 1877; Proposals for an intellectual franchise. d. Thirlestane, Hampton hill 19 Oct. 1891.
JOYNER, Henry Batson (eld. son of Henry St. John Joyner). b. Northwick, Harrow 9 July 1839; resident engineer to Tunbridge Wells commissioners 1868–70; in service of Japanese government, constructing railways, making a trigonometrical survey and organising a department of meteorology 1870–7; engineer in chief of water supply and sewerage system of city of Sāo Paulo, Brazil 1877–84; A.I.C.E. 6 May 1879, M.I.C.E. 29 Nov. 1881; F.R.G.S.; author of The progress and ultimate results of meteorology, specially considered in reference to Japan 1876. d. England 23 Nov. 1884. Min. of Proc. I.C.E. lxxix 370–1 (1885).
JUDD, William Henry. M.R.C.S. 1815, hon. F.R.C.S. 1844; assistant surgeon 3 foot guards 25 Feb. 1819, battalion surgeon 12 July 1827, surgeon major 22 July 1845 to 17 Feb. 1854 when placed on h.p.; the first advocate to claim justice for the army surgeon; he caused the abolition of the cross belts and the substitution of the present manner of carrying the cartouch box and ammunition; surgeon in ordinary to the Prince Consort; edited Part 4 of vol. i. of Transactions of the Royal Medico-Botanical Society 1839; author of A practical treatise on urethritis and syphilis 1836. d. 41 Maddox st. Regent st. London 7 or 10 Sep. 1868 aged 73.
JUDKIN, Thomas James. b. 1788; ed. Gonville and Caius coll. Camb., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; admitted ad eundem at Oxf. 1 Dec. 1842; P.C. of Somers chapel, Somers Town, London 1828–68; author of Twelve signs of the times; Church and home psalmody, being a collection of psalms from the old and new versions and original hymns 1831, 7 ed. 1851; Bygone moods, or hues of fancy and feeling from the spring to the autumn of life 1856. d. Reigate-heath 11 Sep. 1871.
JUKES, Joseph Beete (only son of John Jukes of Birmingham, manufacturer, who d. 1819). b. Summerhill near Birmingham 10 October 1811; ed. at Wolverhampton and Birmingham gr. schs. and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1836; geological surveyor of Newfoundland 1839–40; naturalist to expedition for surveying coast of Australia, Torres Strait and New Guinea 1842–6; member of the English geological survey 1 Oct. 1846 to 1850; director of the Irish survey Nov. 1850 to 1870; lecturer on geology at R. coll. of science, Dublin 1854; member of commission to enquire into the resources of the coal fields 1860; wrote upwards of 50 papers on geology in scientific journals; author of Excursions in and about Newfoundland 2 vols. 1842; Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Fly 2 vols. 1847; A sketch of the physical structure of Australia 1850; The student’s manual of geology 1857, 3 ed. 1872; injured his brain by a fall and d. Upper Leeson st. Dublin 29 July 1869. bur. Selley Oak near Birmingham. Letters of J. B. Jukes (1871), portrait; Quarterly Journ. Geol. Soc. xxvi 32–4 (1870).
JUKES, Robert Boswell. Ed. at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A. 1838; chaplain to Leopold I. king of the Belgians; consular chaplain at Ostend 1846–75; Raine lecturer St. Michael’s Cornhill, London 1875 to death. d. in St. Michael’s ch. a few minutes after finishing his sermon 9 July 1882. Guardian 12 July 1882 p. 964.
JULIAN, Charles Saint. Chief justice of Fiji 1871–4; author of Notes on the latent resources of Polynesia. Sydney 1851; The international status of Fiji and the political rights of British subjects residing in the Fijian archipelago 1872; with Edward Kennedy Silvester, The productions, industry and resources of New South Wales 1853. d. Vadratan, New Zealand 26 Dec. 1874.
JULIAN, William Robert (son of William Julian d. 25 Jany. 1872 aged 74). b. 1827; connected with Masks and Faces entertainment; an entertainer on the music hall stage; dramatic and musical agent at 34 Wellington st. Strand 1864–70, at 29 Bow st. Covent Garden 1870–4, at 75 Berwick st. Soho 1875 to death. d. 4 April 1886. bur. Woking cemet. 11 April. Era 10 April 1886 p. 7.
JULLIEN or JULIEN, Louis George Antoine Jules (son of M. Jullien, conductor of band of the Garde Nationale). b. Sisteron, Basses Alpes 23 Aug. 1812; a piccolo player in band of the Garde Nationale; played violin solos in concerts in Italy 1834; served in French navy and army for short periods; studied at the Conservatoire, Paris under J. H. Halevy 1833–6; founder and conductor of concerts in the Jardin Turc, Paris 1836 which for a time were a great success; director of Bals d’Opera, Paris; rented and opened the Hotel of the Duke of Parma in the Chaussée d’Antin as a casino, soon closed by the police; published a programme in which he turned the government into ridicule, fled to England to escape imprisonment 1838; conducted dance music at Drury Lane 1838 and then became chief conductor there for the first time Nov. 1838; conductor of concerts d’hiver 1841 and of concerts de societé 1842, before one shilling audiences; his winter seasons of concerts at Drury lane lasted 1842–59; much noticed in Punch where he was called The Great Mons.; opened at Drury Lane 6 Dec. 1847 with Lucia di Lammermoor; bankrupt 19 April 1848, awarded first class certificate; gave out-door promenade concerts at Surrey gardens 1849; kept a depot for sale of dance music at 214 Regent st. 1845–58 and the royal conservatory of music at 45 King st. Golden sq. 1846–58; produced his own opera Pietro il Grande at Covent Garden 17 Aug. 1852, played 4 times; in U.S. America, July 1853 to June 1854; opened New Music hall, Surrey gardens 15 July 1856, gardens closed 1857 when he lost £6000; the whole of his engraved and manuscript music burnt in Covent Garden 5 March 1856; gave his concerts d’adieu, his twentieth season at the Lyceum 1858; in prison at Clichy, France 4 months May-Aug. 1859; composer of British army quadrilles and 150 pieces of music; the first to familiarize the masses with the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn; placed in a lunatic asylum 10 March 1860, wounded himself with a knife. d. Neuilly, Paris 14 March 1860. Dramatic and musical review, i 5 (1842), portrait; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages 4 series (1860), portrait; G.M. viii 632–4 (1860); I.L.N. iii 348, 413 (1843) portrait, ix 289 (1846) view of concert; You have heard of them by Q. (1854) 283–92; Reynolds’ Miscellany, xi 181 (1854), portrait, xvii 344 (1857), portrait; Belgravia, xli 285–96 (1880); Putnam’s Monthly Mag. ii 423–33 (1853).
JUNG, Sir Salar. b. 1829; dewan or prime minister of Hydrabad 1853, when he made great reform in the management of the state; remained faithful at the time of the mutiny 1857; one of the regents of Hydrabad 1866; visited England 1876, D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1876; presented to the queen at Windsor 29 June 1876; voted freedom of city of London 29 June 1876, admitted 25 July 1876; G.C.S.I. 31 May 1870. d. Hydrabad 8 Feb. 1883. To-day, July 1883; Times 10 Feb. 1883 p. 5, 11 Feb. p. 8, 12 Feb. p. 5.
JUNG, Sir Salar. b. 1863; prime minister of Hydrabad to 1887; visited England in the Jubilee year 1887 when he resided in the house of lord Howard, Rutland gate, London; author of two papers entitled Europe revisited in Nineteenth Century, Aug. and Oct. 1887; K.C.I.E. 15 Feb. 1887. d. Hydrabad 7 July 1889. Times 8 July 1889 p. 5, 9 July p. 5, 15 July p. 5.
JUNNER, Robert Gordon. b. Edinburgh 1841; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1865; went Midland circuit, attended Birmingham sessions, and lord mayor’s court, London; author of The practice before the railway commissioners 1874. d. Portobello near Edinburgh 27 Aug. 1874.
JUPP, Edward Basil (son of Richard Webb Jupp). b. 1 Jany. 1812; admitted solicitor 1836; partner with his father 1836–44, with Richard Samuel Jupp 1844–48, practised alone 1848 to death; joint clerk with his father to the Carpenters’ company 1843–52, and clerk 1852 to death; collected works of Thomas Bewick, which were sold by auction at Christie’s Feb. 1878; author of An historical account of the worshipful company of carpenters of the City of London 1848, 2 ed. 1887; Genealogical memoranda relating to R. Wyatt of Hall place, Shackleford 1870. d. 4 Paragon, Blackheath, Kent 30 May 1877.
JUPP, Henry (son of C. Jupp a cricketer). b. Dorking, Surrey 19 Nov. 1841; a brickmaker; played his first match at Lords 16–18 May 1864; played in the Surrey Eleven 1864–81; one of the best batsmen in England, also a good field; made 216 runs in one innings in match Players of the South v. Gentlemen of the South 25 Sep. 1865; scored 1557 runs in 1866; played in Australia 1874; landlord of Sun inn, Dorking about 1867–75, of Horns tavern, Lower Norwood 1875–8, of Onslow Arms, Cranleigh, Surrey 1878. d. Bermondsey, London 8 April 1889. Baily’s Mag. xxvi 403 (1875), portrait; Grace’s Cricket (1891) 331–2; Illust. sporting and dramatic news, i 568, 570 (1874), portrait.
JUPP, Richard Webb. b. 1767; solicitor in City of London 1792–1844; clerk to the Carpenters’ company 1798 to death; member of common council for Broad st. to death. d. Carpenters’ hall, 6 London Wall, London 26 Aug. 1852.
JUST, John (eld. son of Jonathan Just, farmer). b. Natland near Kendal 3 Dec. 1797; ed. at Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale gram. schools 1811–17; second master of Bury gr. sch. 1832 to death; lecturer on botany at Pine street (afterwards Royal Manchester) school of medicine and surgery Sep. 1833, lectured annually 1834–52; hon. professor of botany at Royal Manchester Institution, Oct. 1848, delivered 3 courses of lectures 1849–51; investigated the Roman roads in Lancashire; deciphered the Runic inscriptions in the Isle of Man; wrote numerous papers on farming, botany and philosophy. d. Bury 14 Oct. 1852. Memoirs of Literary and Philos. Soc. of Manchester, xi 91–121 (1854); Journal of British Archæological Assoc. ix 105–11 (1854).
JUSTICE, William. Entered Madras army 1818; lieut. col. of 52 Madras N.I. 29 Sep. 1842, of 15 N.I. 1844–5, of 11 N.I. 1845–8, of 4 N.I. 1848–50, of 49 N.I. 1850–1, of 34 N.I. 1851–3, of 7 N.I. 1853–4; col. of 32 Madras N.I. 1854–60, of 39 N.I. 1860–1, of 5 N.I. 1861 to death; L.G. 6 Dec. 1866. d. Bath 27 Oct. 1868.
JUSTYNE, Percy William (son of Percy Justyne). b. Rochester 1812; landscape painter; exhibited 1 picture at R.A. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1837–8; private sec. to Charles Joseph Doyle, governor of island of Grenada 1841–5, acting stipendiary magistrate in Grenada, returned to England 1848; a skilful illustrator of books; employed on the Illustrated London News 1849–50, London Journal, National Mag., Graphic, &c. d. 6 June 1883. bur. Norwood cemetery.
JUTSUM, Henry. b. London 1816; ed. in Devonshire; pupil of James Stark 1839; member of New Water-colour Soc. 1843; exhibited 68 pictures at R.A., 75 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. 1836–69; the drawings chiefly of English scenery which he had collected were sold at Christie’s 17 April 1882; of his paintings ‘The Noonday walk’ is in the Royal collection, and ‘The Foot Bridge’ in South Kensington museum. d. 88 Hamilton terrace, St. John’s Wood, London 3 March 1869.
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KAHN, Joseph. b. Germany; opened a small anatomical museum at 315 Oxford st. London 1851; kept anatomical museum, 4 Coventry st. Leicester sq. 1855–7; physician at 17 Harley st. Cavendish sq. 1857–62; kept museum and gallery of science 3 Tichborne st. 1857–66, re-opened with exhibitions and lectures on oxhydrogen, microscope, dissolving views, &c., besides lectures on the laws of life and preservation of health, lecturers Dr. Kahn and Dr. Sexton 8 Dec. 1857; returned to Germany about 1866; author of Catalogue of Dr. Kahn’s Anatomical museum exhibiting at 315 Oxford st. 1851; Atlas of the formation of the human body 1852; The evangel of human nature, fourteen lectures 1856; The philosophy of marriage 1859. F. B. Courtenay’s Revelations of Quacks, 3 ed. (1871) 76–8; The Era 13 Dec. 1857 p. 13.
KALEY, James. Scotch giant nearly 8 feet high; exhibited at a cafe on the Boulevards, Paris, d. Paris, Dec. 1852 aged 27.
KALISCH, Marcus Moritz. b. Treptow, Pomerania 16 May 1825; ed. at univ. of Berlin; Ph.D. Halle; came to England as a refugee 1848; sec. to Nathan Marcus Adler, chief rabbi of the great synagogue, London 1848–53; tutor to sons of baron Lionel Rothschild and to the daughters of sir Anthony Rothschild; the liberality of the Rothschild family enabled him to publish his literary works; author of A historical and critical commentary on the Old Testament Hebrew and English 1855, with English edition of the same 1858; The life and writings of Oliver Goldsmith, two lectures 1860; A Hebrew grammar with exercises 1862–3; Bible studies 1877–8; Path and gaol. A discussion on the elements of civilisation and the conditions of happiness 1880; resided 35 Longridge road, Earl’s court, London. d. Baslow hydropathic establishment, Rowsley, Derbyshire 23 Aug. 1885. bur. Jewish cemetery, Willesden. The Jewish Chronicle 28 Aug. 1885 pp. 5, 10.
KANE, Daniel Ryan. Called to Irish bar 1825; Q.C. 15 Feb. 1847; commissioner of bankrupts 1826; assistant barrister for county of Leitrim. d. Vesey place, Kingstown 17 Jany. 1883. Law Mag. and Law Rev. Aug. 1858 pp. 261–2.
KANE, Denis. b. Ardnahue, co. Carlow 3 March 1822; ed. at Tullow monastery, Carlow diocesan sch., Carlow coll. and Maynooth; dean of the lay house 1848 and then professor of natural philosophy Carlow coll. 1851–7; curate in Leighlin-bridge 1857, administrator at Tullow 1860; in pastoral charge of Philipstown 1867 and of Baltinglas 1871; vicar general of Carlow 1878 to death; D.D. d. Carlow 2 July 1883. M. Comerford’s Collections of Kildare and Leighlin (1883) 232, 330–1.
KANE, Sir Robert John (2 son of John Kane, chemist). b. Dublin 24 Sep. 1809; ed. at Dublin univ., LL.D. 1868, member of academic council 16 Dec. 1874; clinical clerk Meath hospital, Dublin 1830; F.K. and Q.C.P. Dublin 1835; lecturer in chemistry Apothecaries’ Co. of Ireland medical sch. Dublin 1831–45; discovered an arsenide of manganese since known as Kaneite; claimed to be the discoverer of the ethyl theory 183-; experimented on the compounds of ammonia; member R. Irish Acad. 1832, sec. 1842–9, Cunningham medal 1843, president 1877–82; royal medal of Royal Soc. 1841 for paper on archil and litmus; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; professor of natural philosophy Royal Dublin soc. 1834–47; originator and first director of Museum of Irish industry, Dublin 1845–9; established Royal coll. of science, Ireland; knighted by lord Heytesbury, Feb. 1846; president Queen’s coll. Cork 1849, resigned May 1873; commissioner of national education in Ireland 1873; president R. Geol. soc. of Ireland; commissioner of national education Aug. 1875; vice chancellor R. University of Ireland 1880. (m. 1838 Katharine dau. of Henry Baily of London, she was author of The Irish Flora, and d. 1886); originated Dublin Journal of Medical science 1832, one of the editors to 1834; an editor of Philosophical mag. 1840; author of Elements of practical pharmacy 1831; Industrial resources of Ireland 1844, 2 ed. 1845; The large and small farm question considered 1844; The elements of chemistry 1846, 2 ed. 1849. d. 2 Wellington road, Dublin 16 Feb. 1890. Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvii pp. xii–xvii (1890); Muspratt’s Chemistry, vol. i (1853), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. May 1849 pp. 626–37, portrait.
KARKEEK, William Floyd (son of George Karkeek). b. Truro 9 Sep. 1802; passed as a veterinary surgeon 31 Jany. 1825; sec. Cornwall agricultural assoc.; encouraged scientific farming in Cornwall; one of the editors of The Veterinarian 1833–41; author of An essay on artificial and other manures 1844; An essay on fat and muscle 1844; On the farming of Cornwall 1845; Diseases of cattle and sheep 1851. d. Pentreve, Truro 25 June 1858. The Veterinarian, xxxi 478–80 (1858).
KARSLAKE, Edward Kent (eld. son of Henry Karslake of 4 Regent st. London, solicitor, who d. 3 Aug. 1857 aged 72). b. 1820; ed. at Harrow; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1838–41, Ireland scholar 1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; fellow of Balliol coll. 1841–50; barrister L.I. 6 May 1846, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death, treasurer 1892 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; M.P. Colchester 15 Feb. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868; contested Colchester 18 Nov. 1868; author of Oratio Latino aureo numismate Roberti Peel dignata et in auditorio recitata scholæ Harroviensis 1836; Concio apud scholæ Hergensis Gubernatores habita iii 1837. d. Turvey, Beds. 31 May 1892. Pen and ink sketches in chancery (1867), No. 3 pp. 14–16.
KARSLAKE, Sir John Burgess (brother of the preceding). b. Bencham near Croydon 13 Dec. 1821; ed. at Harrow; solicitor; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846; went western circuit, leader of it with John Duke Coleridge; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861, bencher of his inn 7 May 1861 to death, treasurer 1873; solicitor general 29 Nov. 1866; knighted at Osborne 28 Dec. 1866; attorney general 18 July 1867 to Nov. 1868 and 27 Feb. 1874 to April 1874 when he resigned in consequence of his failing sight; M.P. Andover 11 Feb. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868; contested Exeter 16 Nov. 1868; M.P. Huntingdon 20 Dec. 1873, accepted Chiltern hundreds Feb. 1876; P.C. 24 March 1876; member of judicature commission; revised Dr. Charles P. Collyn’s Notes on the chase of the wild red deer 1862. d. 7 Chester sq. London 4 Oct. 1881. I.L.N. xlix 648, 649 (1866), portrait; Graphic, ix 191, 196 (1874), portrait; A generation of Judges by Their Reporter (1886) 183–9.
KARSLAKE, William Heberden (1 son of William Karslake, V. of Culmstock, Devon 1811, d. 1861). b. 1809; ed. at the Charterhouse and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; R. of Meshaw and Creacombe, Devon 29 Oct. 1832 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 1875 to death; R.D. of South Molton to death, chairman of quarter sessions; banquet given to him at South Molton 24 Oct. 1878 when he was presented with 300 guineas to restore Meshaw ch.; found dead in his bed at Meshaw rectory 29 Oct. 1878. Mozley’s Reminiscences, ii 123–9 (1882); The Guardian 30 Oct. 1878 p. 1506.
KATER, Edward. F.R.S. 19 Nov. 1840; M.R.I.A.; lived at 46 Sussex gardens, London. d. 1866.
KATON, James Edward (only son of James Katon, vice admiral, d. 1845). b. 18 Nov. 1810; entered navy 5 Nov. 1823; captain 1 Jany. 1856, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27 March 1885. d. St. Thomas’s house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 20 Dec. 1886.
KAVANAGH, Arthur Macmorrough (3 son of Thomas Kavanagh 1767–1837, M.P. for co. Carlow). b. Borris house, co. Carlow 25 March 1831 with only the rudiments of arms and legs; became a good driver, rider, angler, shooter, draughtsman and painter; acted as a volunteer scout during Smith O’Brien’s rebellion 1848; went to India by way of Russia and Persia 1849–51; succeeded to the family estates 1854 on death of his brother Charles Kavanagh; rebuilt villages of Borris and Ballyragget 1855–6; subsidised and managed railway from Borris to Bagnalstown 1858 etc.; sheriff of Kilkenny 1856 and of Carlow 1857; M.P. for co. Wexford 1866–68; M.P. co. Carlow 1868–80; lord lieut. of co. Carlow 1880; initiated the Irish land committee 1882, founded the Land corporation 1883; P.C. Ireland 1886; author of The cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva. Dublin 1865. d. 19 Tedworth sq. Chelsea, London 25 Dec. 1889. bur. in ruined church on Ballycopigan, Borris. Sarah L. Steele’s A. M. Kavanagh (1891), portrait; Blackwood’s Mag. March 1891 pp. 429–44; The Lancet 14 March 1891 p. 608.
KAVANAGH, Julia (only child of the succeeding). b. Thurles 1824; lived with her parents in Paris to 1844; wrote tales and essays for periodicals; author of The three paths 1847; Women in France during the eighteenth century 2 vols. 1850; Women of christianity 1852; A summer and winter in the Two Sicilies 2 vols. 1858; English women of letters 1862; French women of letters 2 vols. 1862; Queen Mab 3 vols. 1863; Dora 3 vols. 1868; Bessie 3 vols. 1872; Two lilies 3 vols. 1877. d. Nice 28 Oct. 1877, portrait by Chanet placed in national gallery of Ireland 1884. Irish Monthly, vi 96–100 (1878).
KAVANAGH, Morgan Peter. Author of The wanderings of Lucan and Dinah, a romance. By M.P.K. 1824; The reign of Lockrin, a poem. By M. P. K. 1839; The discovery of the science of languages 2 vols. 1844; Aristobulus, the last of the Maccabees 3 vols. 1855; Myths traced to their primary source through language 2 vols. 1856; Origin of language and myths 2 vols. 1871; The Hobbies, a novel 3 vols. 1857, edited by Julia Kavanagh his dau. who repudiated having anything to do with this work. d. from an accident March 1874. Athenæum (1857) 43, 761, 792, 822, 854, 909.
KAVANAGH, Thomas Henry (son of band master of 3 regt. of foot). b. Mullinger, Ireland 1821; entered uncovenanted service of H.E.I. Co. Dec. 1834; assistant comr. in Oudh and stationed at Lucknow; went disguised through Lucknow to the Alum Bagh to communicate with sir C. Campbell 8 Nov. 1857 and to act as his guide to Lucknow; V.C. 6 July 1859; requested to retire from the service, he being at that time in debt 22 Oct. 1875; granted his full pension of 5000 rupees per annum; author of Guilty or not guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Lucknow 1876. d. Gibraltar, Nov. 1882. I.L.N. xxxiv 108, 109 (1859), portrait; How I won the Victoria cross (1860). By T. H. Kavanagh, portrait; The Verdict. By T. H. Kavanagh. Lucknow (1877).
KAY, Alexander. b. 1816; member of faculty of procurators, Glasgow; member of Glasgow Shakspeare club, instituted 1838; director of the Glasgow Athenæum; a contributor to Tait’s Mag., London Journal, Glasgow Tales of the borders, West of Scotland Mag., and Dramatic Rev.; dramatised Dickens’ Christmas Carol; wrote poetical introduction to Tam O’Shanter, a pantomime at Adelphi theatre, Glasgow, which ran 82 nights; author of Florine, a dramatic poem in ten scenes 1858. d. 1860. monu. to his memory in Sighthill cemet. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 69.
KAY, Joseph (3 son of Robert Kay 1768–1834). b. Ordsall cottage, Salford, Manchester 27 Feb. 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; travelling bachelor of the Univ. 1845; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849; wrote in the Manchester Examiner on Free trade in land; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848, bencher 31 May 1870 to death; judge of Salford Hundred court of record, June 1862 to death; Q.C. 22 June 1869; solicitor general of county palatine of Durham 15 Feb. 1872 to death; contested Salford 1874 and 1877; author of The education of the poor in England and Europe 1846; The social condition of the people in England and Europe 2 vols. 1850; The condition and education of poor children in English and in German towns 1853; The law relating to shipmasters and seamen 2 vols. 1875. d. Fredley near Dorking, Surrey 9 Oct. 1878. Joseph Kay’s Free trade in land (1879); J. S. Bright’s History of Dorking (1884) 371–3.
KAY, Joseph Henry. b. 1814; midshipman R.N. Dec. 1827, commander 23 Aug. 1849, retired captain 1 Jany. 1865; director of royal magnetic observatory, Hobart Town to 1853; private sec. to sir Charles Hotham, governor of Victoria 1854–5; clerk of executive council, Melbourne to 1 July 1875; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1846; member of Tasmanian Philos. soc.; contributed papers to Tasmanian Journal of science; author of Observations made at the observatory at Hobarton 1850. d. South Yarra, Melbourne 17 July 1875. The Argus 19 July 1875 p. 5.
KAY, William (youngest child of Thomas Kay of Knaresborough). b. Pickering, North Yorkshire 8 April 1820; ed. at Giggleswick sch. 1834–6; scholar of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1836, fellow 1840, tutor 1842; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1854; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1842; principal of Bishop’s college, Calcutta 1849–64; select preacher at Oxf. 1865; R. of Great Leghs, Essex 1866 to death; Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint 1869; one of the Old Testament revisers 1870–85; hon. canon of St. Alban’s 1877 to death; contributed to the Speaker’s Bible, Commentaries on Isaiah (1875) and on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1881); author of The influence of christianity on the position and character of women. Calcutta 1859; The Psalms with notes 1863, 5 ed. 1877; Crisis Hupfeldiana, an examination of Hupfeld’s Criticism on Genesis 1865; A commentary on the two Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1887. d. Great Leghs 16 Jany. 1886. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1891) pp. ix–xi 150, 167, 172.
KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, Sir James Phillips, 1 Baronet (brother of Joseph Kay 1821–78). b. Rochdale 20 July 1804; educ. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1827; senior president Royal Medical soc. 1826; physician Manchester 1827; sec. Manchester board of health; assistant poor law commissioner 1835; first sec. of committee of privy council on education 1839–49; with E. Carleton Tufnell established first training coll. for teachers at Battersea 1839, existing methods of public education founded on his system; assumed by r.l. name of Shuttleworth 14 Feb. 1842; cr. baronet 9 Jany. 1850; vice chairman of central relief committee, Manchester, during cotton famine 1861–5; sheriff of Lancashire 1863; D.C.L. Oxf. 22 June 1870; contested N.E. Lancashire 13 Feb. 1874; author of The moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture 1832; Public education as affected by the minutes of the committee of privy council 1853; Scarsdale, or life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border 3 vols. 1860; Thoughts and suggestions on social problems 1873; Ribblesdale, or Lancashire sixty years ago 3 vols. 1874. d. 68 Cromwell road, Kensington, London 26 May 1877. Graphic, xv 549 (1877), portrait.
KAYE, John (son of Abraham Kaye, linen draper, Angel row, Hammersmith). b. Hammersmith 27 Dec. 1783; ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., scholar, fellow 1804, foundation fellow 1811, tutor 1808–14, master 5 Sep. 1814 to Nov. 1830; senior wrangler, chancellor’s medallist and B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814, D.D. 1815; vice chancellor 1815; regius professor of divinity July 1816 to Nov. 1830, revived public lectures which had been suspended for more than a century; nominated bishop of Bristol 1 July 1820, consecrated at Lambeth 30 July, translated to Lincoln 12 Feb. 1827; visitor of Balliol coll. Oxf. 1848 to death; contributed papers to British Mag. under signature of Philalethes Cantabrigiensis; F.R.S.; author of The ecclesiastical history of the second and third centuries 1826; Some account of the writings and opinions of Justin Martyr 1829; A charge to the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln 1843, 3 ed. 1843; Some account of the council of Nicæa, in connexion with the life of Athanasius 1853; Some account of the government of the church of Christ during the first three centuries 1855; The works of John Kaye 8 vols. 1888. d. Riseholme palace near Lincoln 18 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix 428–31, 570 (1853).
KAYE, Sir John William (2 son of Charles Kaye, solicitor to bank of England). b. London 1814; ed. at Eton and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 23 May 1836, resigned the service 1841; started the Calcutta Review 1846; entered Home civil service of H.E.I.C. 1856; sec. in political and secret department of India office 1858 to 1874 when he retired; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; published History of the war in Afghanistan 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1874; The administration of the East India company 1853; The life and correspondence of Charles lord Metcalfe 1854; The life and correspondence of sir John Malcolm 2 vols. 1856; Christianity in India 1859; A history of the Sepoy war in India 3 vols. 1864–76, revised and continued by colonel G. B. Malleson 6 vols. 1890. d. Rose hill, Forest hill 24 July 1876.
KAYE, Peter M. b. Warrington about 1800; ed. at Ushaw coll. Durham and at English coll. Rome; ordained priest in Rome 1829; missioner at Rook st. Manchester 1829, at Bradford, Yorkshire 1835, at St. George’s, London 1843; R. of St. Alban’s, Blackburn 1845 to death; rural dean; reputed restorer of R.C. guilds in England; a well known preacher; author of The laws and constitutions of the holy guild of St. Joseph and our Blessed Lady 1840. d. Blackburn 6 Aug. 1856. Lamp 30 Aug. 1856 pp. 139–40; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 674–5 (1887).
KEAN, Charles John (2 son of Edmund Kean 1787–1833). b. Waterford, Ireland 18 Jany. 1811; entered Eton as an Oppidan, June 1824; made his first appearance on the stage at Drury Lane theatre as Young Norval in Douglas 1 Oct. 1827; visited America 1830, 1839, 1845; played Hamlet at Drury Lane 8 Jany. 1838; manager of Princess’s theatre, London with Robert Keeley 28 Sep. 1850, sole manager 17 Oct. 1851 to 29 Aug. 1859; played in the provinces 1859–61; subscription testimonial vase value 2000 guineas presented to him at banquet in St. James’ hall, London 22 March 1862; acted in Australia, United States and Canada 1863–66; made his last appearance at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Liverpool 28 May 1867 as Louis XI.; F.S.A. 18 June 1857; F.R.G.S.; his best characters were Hamlet, Richard III. and Louis XI.; edited nine of Shakspeare’s plays with notes 1853–59; arranged Selections from the plays of Shakspeare 1860; directed private theatricals at Windsor Castle 1849–60. d. Queensborough ter. Bayswater, London 23 Jany. 1868. bur. Catherington ch. near Horndean, Hants. 30 Jany., his personalty sworn under £35,000, 25 March 1868. J. W. Cole’s Life of C. Kean 2 vols. (1860), portrait; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 1 series (1859), portrait; E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 153–63 (1881); W. Marston’s Our recent actors, i 168–215 (1888); I.L.N. 1 Feb. 1868 p. 117, portrait.
KEAN, Ellen (dau. of Cornelius Tree of Lancaster buildings, St. Martin’s lane, London). b. South of Ireland, Dec. 1805; appeared at Covent Garden 21 May 1823 as Olivia in Twelfth Night; played at Bath 1824–6; the original Mavilla in R. Allen’s The Parricide 12 May 1824; acted at Drury Lane 1826–29, and at Covent Garden 1829–36 and 1839–42; the original Mariana in Sheridan Knowles’s The Wife 1833, and the original Clemanthe in Talfourd’s Ion 26 May 1836; played in U.S. of America 1836–9, 1845–7. (m. 29 Jany. 1842 Charles J. Kean 1811–68); acted many Shakespearean parts at Haymarket 1842; the original of Lady Eveline Amyott in The Wife’s Secret, at Haymarket 20 June 1849; played many original parts at Princess’ theatre 1850–59; retired from the stage 1868; a perfect Gertrude in Hamlet and very effective as Mrs. Beverley. d. 47 Queensborough terrace, Bayswater, London 20 Aug. 1880. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses, ii 129–39 (1844), portrait; Cole’s Life of C. Kean 2 vols. (1860), portrait; W. Marston’s Our recent actors, i 216–32 (1888); C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 217–25.
KEANE, David Deady. b. 1810 or 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb. and univ. of Gottingen; Ph.D. Gottingen 1831; a parliamentary reporter; barrister M.T. 12 June 1835; revising barrister on Norfolk circuit 1856–63; recorder of Bedford, July 1861 to death; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1864; bencher of his inn 1864 to death; published Courts of requests, their jurisdiction and powers 3 ed. 1845; A collection of all the statutes now in force relating to gaols and houses of correction in England and Wales 1850; The nuisances removal acts for England and Wales 1855, 6 ed. 1870; Reports of cases in the common pleas on appeals from the revising barristers from 1854 to 1862. 1863. d. 20 June 1870.
KEANE, george Disney (3 son of 1 baron Keane 1781–1844). b. 26 Sep. 1817; entered R.N. 8 Oct. 1831, captain 9 July 1855, R.A. 30 April 1873, retired 27 Sep. 1877; admiral 30 Oct. 1884; served in Syrian war 1840, Kaffir war 1851–2, and at rout of imperial camp at Shanghai 1854; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. Mere hall, Knutsford 19 Oct. 1891.
KEANE, Sir John Henry, 3 Baronet. b. Cappoquin house, Waterford 12 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., B.C.L. 1841; rowed No. 6 in Cambridge boat against Oxford 17 June 1836 and No. 4 in first match against Leander club 9 June 1837; succeeded 16 Feb. 1855; sheriff of Waterford 1856; author of An address to the young men of Ireland 1835; Lady Alice, the flower of Ossorye 1836; The substance of three lectures on the history of Ireland 1839; The Old Jewry, a tragedy 1860. d. Cappoquin house, Waterford 26 Nov. 1881.
KEANE, Joseph B. Educ. as an architect in office of works at Dublin; F.R.I.A. Ireland, F.S.C.E.; designed R.C. churches of St. Francis Xavier, Dublin 1832 and of St. Lorcan Ua Tuathal, Dublin 1858; Queen’s college, Galway, was built from his designs 1846–50; exhibited a drawing at R.A. London 1842. d. Dublin 7 Oct. 1859.
KEANE, Sir Richard, 2 Baronet. b. Lismore, co. Waterford, March 1780; lieut. col. Waterford militia 30 July 1804 to death; succeeded 18 April 1829; M.P. Waterford 1832–5. d. Waterford 16 Feb. 1855.
KEANE, William (8 son of Robert Keane of Beech park, co. Clare). b. 1818; ed. at Charterhouse and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; C. of Fenstanton, Hunts. 1843–6; canon of St. Paul’s cath. Calcutta 1846; association sec. to Church missionary soc. 1852; P.C. of Whitby 1853, R. of Whitby 1861 to death; F.R.A.S.; author of A letter to the late J. E. D. Bethune on the government public instruction in Bengal 1851, 2 ed. 1852; Romanism and Hindooism. Madras 1851, and pamphlets on India education and temperance. d. 1873. Rev. G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 189–92; I.L.N. xxii 277 (1853).
KEANE, William. Vice rector of Irish college in Paris 14 years; parish priest of Midleton; bishop of Ross 19 Nov. 1850, consecrated 2 Feb. 1851, translated to Cloyne 27 April 1857. d. 15 Jany. 1874. Brady’s Episcopal succession, ii 103–105 (1876).
KEARNEY, William Henry. b. 1800 or 1801; an original member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1831, vice pres.; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1823–58; his picture Ruins of the sallyport Framlingham, is in the Irish National Gallery; published Illustrations of the Surrey zoological gardens, drawn on stone with descriptive notices 1832, three parts. d. 114 High Holborn, London 25 June 1858.
KEARY, Annie (2 dau. of rev. Wm. Keary, R. of Bilton, Yorkshire, d. 1856). b. Bilton 3 March 1825; lived at Addison road, Kensington 1854–71; travelled in Egypt 1858; often resided at Pegomas near Cannes, where she wrote some of her books; joined Church of Rome; author of Early Egyptian history. Anon. 1861; Little Wanderlin and other fairy tales 1865; Oldburg 3 vols. 1869; The nations around Palestine 1870; A York and a Lancaster rose 1876; Castle Daly, the story of an Irish home 3 vols. 1875; A doubting heart 3 vols. 1879; Sidney Grey, or a year from home 1883. d. Eastbourne 3 March 1879. Memoir of Annie Keary by her sister (1882), portrait; Macmillan’s Mag. xlii 259–67 (1880).
KEATE, JOHN (son of Wm. Keate, prebendary of Wells, d. 1795). b. Wells, Somerset 1773; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., carried off 4 of sir Wm. Browne’s medals 1793–5, B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, D.D. 1810; assistant master Eton 1795–1802, lower master 1802–9, head master 1809 to 1834; on 30 June 1832 he flogged more than 80 boys, his success as a teacher was considerable, although a severe disciplinarian he was popular, and on his resignation he left in the college 570 boys; canon of Windsor 14 March 1820 to death; V. of Nether Stowey, Somerset 1820–24; R. of Hartley Westpall, Hants. 1824–49; edited T. Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri sex 1813, and in Fasciculus Carminum. Etonæ 1839 wrote Immortalitas Animæ pp. 17–21. d. Hartley Westpall rectory 5 March 1852. H. C. Maxwell Lyte’s History of Eton college (1875) 358–404, 2 portraits; C. A. Wilkinson’s Reminiscences of Eton in Keate’s times (1887).
KEATE, Robert (brother of the preceding). b. Laverton 14 March 1777; ed. at Bath gr. sch. to 1792; studied at St. George’s hospital, London 1793; hospital mate at Chelsea hospital 1794; member of Surgeons’ Corporation 1798; staff surgeon in the army 1798; inspector general 21 Jany. 1807, placed on h.p. 25 March 1810; assistant surgeon at St. George’s hospital 1800, surgeon 1813–53; examiner of college of surgeons 1827–55, pres. 1830, 31 and 39; surgeon extraordinary to Wm. IV. 1830–2 and surgeon 1832–7; sergeant surgeon to Victoria 1841 to death; a firstrate operator. d. 11 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 2 Oct. 1857. J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections (1874) 378–85, 510–19; Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. ii 51 (1858).
Note.—He is reported to have said, I have attended four sovereigns and have been badly paid for my services; one of them now deceased owed me nine thousand guineas. No doubt George IV. is alluded to.
KEATE, Robert William (younger son of the preceding). b. 15 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 16 June 1814; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1842; played with Marylebone cricket club several seasons, was in Oxford eleven 1833, 34, 35, member of the I. Zingari; barrister L.I. 7 May 1844; civil commissioner of the Seychelles 1849; governor of Grenada 1853–6; governor of Trinidad, Nov. 1856 to April 1864; governor of Natal 20 Feb. 1867 to 1872; governor in chief of West Coast settlement 30 Nov. 1872 to death, d. Cape Coast Castle 17 March 1873. Cricket Scores, ii 192 (1862), v p. xv (1876).
KEATING, Sir Henry Singer (3 son of sir Henry Sheehy Keating, K.C.B., d. 1846). b. Dublin 13 Jany. 1804; barrister I.T. 4 May 1832, bencher 27 April 1849 to 1859 and 1877 to death; Q.C. Feb. 1849; M.P. for Reading 1852–9, introduced and passed The Bills of Exchange act 1854; solicitor general 2 June 1857 to March 1858 and 18 June to 14 Dec. 1859; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; serjeant-at-law Dec. 1859; judge of court of common pleas 14 Dec. 1859 to 5 Feb. 1875 when retired on pension; P.C. 4 Feb. 1875; edited with J. S. Willes, J. W. Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various branches of the law, with notes, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1849 and 4 ed. 2 vols. 1856. d. St. Leonards 1 Oct. 1888. Drawing room portrait gallery, 3rd series (1860), portrait; The Statesmen of England (1862), portrait 34; I.L.N. lxvi 181, 182 (1875), portrait.
KEATINGE, Richard (2 son of Maurice Keatinge of Dublin, barrister). b. Dublin 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1813; K.C. 1835; queen’s serjeant Nov. 1842; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1843; judge of the prerogative court Aug. 1843; judge of the probate court Jany. 1858 to Oct. 1868; P.C. Ireland, Sep. 1843. d. 21 Merrion sq. Dublin 9 Feb. 1876. O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 306–9; I.L.N. lxviii 190, 213 (1876), portrait.
KEATS, William. b. 1794 or 1795; entered navy 30 Sep. 1805; captain 27 March 1826; admiral on half pay 11 Jany. 1864. d. Porthill near Bideford 2 May 1874.
KEAYS, Robert Young (son of Robert Y. Keays of Walworth, Surrey). b. 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; chaplain of H.E.I.C. 1823; archdeacon and commissary of Bombay 1852 to death. d. on board the Africa, on his voyage to England 11 March 1855.
KEBBEL, Henry, b. 1772; ed. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., LL.B. 1810; V. of Wistow with C. of Newton Harcourt, and also P.C. of Kilby, Leicestershire, July 1813 to death; originator of the system of allotment grounds for agricultural labourers; author of A sermon recommending the establishment of a society for bettering the condition of the poor 1838. d. Kilby 13 July 1867.
KEBLE, John (elder son of John Keble 1745–1835, V. of Coln, St. Aldwyn’s, Gloucs.) b. Fairford, Gloucs. 25 April 1792; ed. by his father and at C.C. coll. Oxf., scholar 12 Dec. 1806; B.A. double first 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of Oriel coll. Oct. 1812 to May 1823, tutor 1818–23, public examiner in the univ. 1813, 1814–16 and 1821–23, master of the schools 1816 to May 1823; C. of East Leach and Burthorpe, Gloucs. 1815–28; C. of Southrop 1823–5; C. of Hursley near Winchester 1825–6; professor of poetry, Oxf. 1831–41; took part in originating the Tractarian movement 1832 etc.; preached assize sermon at St. Mary’s, Oxf. on the national apostasy 14 July 1833; contributed to Tracts for the Times 1833, seven numbers; V. of Hursley with Otterbourne and Ampfield, Hants. Jany. 1836 to death, instituted 9 March; author of The Christian year. Anon. 2 vols. 23 June 1827, of which 109 editions were printed; Lyra innocentium, thoughts in verse on christian children, their ways and their privileges. Anon. 1846, the profits of these two works were applied to the restoration of Hursley ch.; Sermons, academical and occasional 1847; edited The works of R. Hooker 1836; with E. B. Pusey and others, A library of Fathers 1838. d. Bournemouth 29 March 1866. bur. Hursley 6 April. Sir J. T. Coleridge’s Memoir of J. Keble (1870); J. F. Moor’s The Birthplace of the author of The Christian year (1867), memoir pp. 9–54, portrait; Illustrated Review, v 371–81 (1873), portrait; R. H. Haweis’ Poets in the pulpit (1880), memoir 145–93, portrait; I.L.N. xlviii 365, 366 (1866), portrait.
Note.—From the first publication of the ‘Christian year’ in 1827 to expiry of the copyright in 1873, there were sold no less than 379.000 copies; the selling price of these was £56,000, and the sum paid to him by his publisher John Henry Parker was £14,000.
KEBLE, Thomas (brother of the preceding). b. Fairford 29 Oct. 1793; ed. by his father; Gloucestershire scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 1809–20, tutor 1819, fellow 1820–5, junior dean 1822; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1824; C. of Cirencester 1824; V. of Bisley, Gloucs. 1827–73; one of the first revivers of daily church services; wrote 4 of the Tracts for the Times, No. 12, 22, 43 and 84, and forty eight of the Plain Sermons; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews, for the Library of the Fathers; author of Considerations on the value of the Athanasian Creed 1872. d. Bisley 5 Sep. 1875. Richard Nelson’s Conversations with T. Keble (1870); The Guardian 15 Sep. 1875 p. 1172.
KEDDIE, William, b. Peebles 22 March 1809; in a printing establishment, Glasgow 1822–9; sub-editor Scottish Guardian 1832, principal editor to 1859; lecturer in natural history in Free Church coll. 1860; his geological and zoological collections were given to the college; sec. of Glasgow Philosophical soc. and editor of its Transactions; edited The Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856; author of Moffat, its walks and wells 1845; Staffa and Iona described and illustrated 1850; Maclure and Macdonald’s Series of guides to the Highlands of Scotland. By W. Keddie 4 numbers 1859; Cyclopædia of literary and scientific anecdote 1854, another ed. 1873. d. Oban 26 July 1877. Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix 520 (1878).
KEELEY, Louisa Mary (youngest dau. of the succeeding). b. 1835; played in the provinces; first appeared at Drury Lane 12 July 1856 as Gertrude in the Loan of a Lover; a pleasing singer; acted at Princess’s 1859–60; played Ixion in Burnand’s burlesque Venus and Adonis, at Haymarket 29 March 1864; played Eurydice in Planche’s Orpheus in the Haymarket, at Haymarket 29 Dec. 1865. (m. 12 Aug. 1858 Montagu Stephen Williams b. 1834, barrister I.T. 1862, police magistrate). d. 44 Upper Brook st. London 24 Jany. 1877. The Players 29 Dec. 1860 p. 199, portrait; Planche’s Extravaganzas, v 193 (1879), portrait.
KEELEY, Robert (son of a watch maker). b. 3 Grange court, Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1793; apprenticed to Hansard the printer 3 years; acted in the Norwich circuit 4 years 1814–18; the original Leporello in Giovanni in London, at the Olympic 1818, and Jemmy Green in Tom and Jerry, at the Adelphi 26 Nov. 1821; played Jerry in Pierce Egan’s Life in London, at Sadler’s Wells 8 April 1822; acted at Covent Garden 1822, Victoria 1833, in U.S. of America 1836–7, at Olympic 1838–41, at Drury Lane 1841–2, at Covent Garden 1843; manager with Strutt of the Lyceum 1844–7; manager with Charles Kean of the Princess’s 1850–1; played the Carrier, in Henry IV. at Windsor castle 1850; acted at Haymarket, Adelphi, Olympic and Drury Lane 1852–7; his last appearance was as Euclid Facile in Twice killed, Drury Lane 27 March 1862; a genuine comedian in much favour with the public. (m. 1825 Mary Anne Goward, she was b. Ipswich 1806, a well known actress). He d. 10 Pelham crescent, Brompton, London 3 Feb. 1869; will proved 24 March, personalty under £18,000. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. v 145 (1826), portrait; Register and Mag. of Biog. i 229–31, 523 (1869); T. Marshall’s Lives of most celebrated actors (1847) 91–108, portrait; Actors by Daylight 2 June 1838 pp. 105–7, portrait on horseback; W. Marston’s Our recent actors, ii 19–107 (1888).
KEELING, Isaac. b. Newcastle-under-Lyne 12 Feb. 1789; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1811, at Macclesfield 1823–6, at Leeds 1826–8, 1852–8, London 1839–42, 1855–8, Bristol 1844–7, Bath 1858–61 and at 17 other places; governor of Wesley coll. Sheffield 1842–4; president of the conference 1855; a popular and well known preacher; author of Sermons and some small works 1820–63. d. Ripon 11 Aug. 1869.
KEELING, William Knight. b. Cooper st. Manchester 1807; assistant to Wm. Bradley, portrait painter in London; portrait painter and drawing master at Manchester about 1835; a founder of Manchester academy of fine arts, president 1864–77; associate of New Soc. of painters in water-colour 1840, member 1841; exhibited at Royal Manchester institution from 1831, at Manchester academy of fine arts, and at New Soc. of Painters; his best known pictures are The Betrothed; Gurth and Wamba; and Touchstone, Audrey and William. d. Barton-upon-Irwell near Manchester 21 Feb. 1886.
KEENAN, Stephen. b. Fermanagh, Jany. 1805; ed. at Glasgow, the R.C. coll. Aberdeen and at Rome; missioner in Edinburgh 1830; assistant priest Dundee 1839; minister of St. Andrew’s chapel, Nethergate, Dundee 1847 to death; a public controversialist in the interest of the R.C. ch.; the pope gave him a D.D. degree 1857; erected churches and schools in Dundee, where he was a popular preacher among the Irish; author of Controversial catechism or protestantism refuted and catholicism established 1846, 4 ed. 1874; Catechism of the Christian religion, being with some changes a compendium of the Catechism of Montpellier 1851. d. Dundee 28 Feb. 1862. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 208–11.
KEENE, Alexander, assumed name of Alexander Findlay). b. London 1821; a pugilist; beaten by the Young Greek near Twyford 30 April 1844; beat Wm. Cain £25 a side at Horley 17 Dec. 1846; beat Joseph Phelps £100 a side, 119 rounds in 2 hours and 45 minutes at Woking Common 9 Sep. 1847; beat Young Sambo (Welsh) £100 a side at Eight Mile Bottom, Newmarket 20 June 1848; beaten by Jack Grant £100 a side at Fleetpond 16 Oct. 1849; beat Wm. Hayes £100 a side 20 Aug. 1850; landlord of the Victoria inn, Willesden lane near London 1867. d. Prince of Wales’ hotel, Molesey, Surrey 30 Jany. 1881. Illust. sporting news, iii 497, 504 (1864), 2 portraits.
KEENE, Charles Samuel (son of Samuel Browne Keene, solicitor, d. 1838). b. Duval’s lane, Hornsey 10 Aug. 1823; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch.; apprenticed to Messrs. Whymper, wood engravers, London 1842–7; worked for the Illustrated London News and other periodicals from 1847; drew for Punch 1851–90, also for Punch’s Almanac and Pocket Book; illustrated stories in Once a Week 1859 and Douglas Jerrold’s Caudle Lectures in Punch; a most perfect artist in black and white; awarded gold medal at Paris exhibition 1889; published Our People, from the collection of Mr. Punch 1881; a large collection of his later drawings exhibited at Fine Art Society’s rooms, New Bond st. March 1891; illustrated many books 1860–85. d. 112 Hammersmith road 4 Jany. 1891, portrait by sir George Reid exhibited at Victoria exhibition 1892. The Mask (1868) 65, portrait; I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p. 38, portrait, 21 March 1891 p. 375, portrait; Black and White 21 March 1891 pp. 205, 206, portrait; Mag. of Art, March 1891 pp. 145–6, portrait.
KEENE, Edwin (youngest son of John Keene). b. 1826; wrote Frances, a tale of Bath, printed in Keane’s Bath Journal, and contributed to many periodicals in London and Edinburgh; author of Sydney Fielding, the domestic history of a gentleman who served under their late majesties George IV. and William IV. 2 vols. 1857. d. 7 Kingsmead st. Bath 21 Sep. 1857.
KEENE, Henry George (only son of Thomas Keene). b. 30 Sep. 1781; cadet Madras army about 1798; entered Madras civil service Feb. 1801; assistant registrar to the Sudder courts, Madras; wrote a book in Arabic on law, for which government awarded him 10,000 rupees; left India 1809, retired from C.S. 1812; matric. from Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. 13 Nov. 1811, fellow 13 Nov. 1817, 8 senior optime and B.A. 1815; ordained 1817; contested Arabic professorship at Camb. March 1819; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college, Haileybury 1824 to 1834; lived at Tunbridge Wells 1834 to death; author of Akhlák-i-Mahsini translated from the Persian 1850; Anwás-i-Suhaili; Persian fables for young and old 1833; Persian stories 1835; Sermons of rev. W. Sharpe with a memoir 1836. d. 3 Mount Ephraim road, Tunbridge Wells 29 Jany. 1864.
KEENE, JAMES. b. 1796; proprietor of Keene’s Bath Journal to death, edited it from 1818, supplying nearly all the leaders and superintending the management till his death; minister of the New Church (Swedenborgian) denomination; a supporter of the Bath Athenæum. d. 16 Norfolk buildings, Bath 25 Dec. 1875.
KEENE, Laura (dau. of Mr. Lee and wife of Mr. Taylor). b. England 1830; acted at the Lyceum under Madame Vestris; played Pauline in Lady of Lyons, Olympic theatre Oct. 1851; appeared as Albina Mandeville in The Will, Wallack’s theatre, New York 20 Sep. 1852; acted in California and Australia 1852–5; opened Laura Keene’s Varieties theatre, New York 27 Dec. 1855; opened Laura Keene’s New theatre with As you like it 18 Nov. 1856 and remained lessee till 1868; produced Our American Cousin, in which E. A. Sothern, Joseph Jefferson and herself appeared 18 Oct. 1858 which ran to 25 March 1859; in England 1868; starred in America with her own company 1868 to death; edited Shakespeare’s Play of a Midsummer Night’s dream, with notes 1863; left two daughters by her first husband. d. Montclair, New Jersey 4 Nov. 1873. J. Jefferson’s Autobiography (1890) 183, 489, portrait; Brown’s American stage (1870) 202, portrait; The Era 30 Nov. 1873 p. 10.
KEENE, Richard Wynne. b. Norwich 1810 or 1811; a sculptor; inventor of Keene’s cement made by saturating plaster of Paris in small lumps with alum and recalcining it, patented by himself and J. D. Greenwood 27 Feb. 1838; designer and modeller of the masks and symbolic properties for the Drury Lane pantomimes 1852–73 under the name of Dykwynkyn; a pensioner on the Dramatic and musical sick fund from Oct. 1884. d. 32 Hanbury road, Lavender hill, London 28 Nov. 1887. bur. Woking. Belgravia, i 359–64 (1867).
KEHOE, Lawrance. b. parish of Litter, Wexford 24 July 1832; editor and publisher of New York Tablet 1857–65; founded the Catholic publication society co. 1865 and was manager to his death; manager of the Catholic World; edited The complete works of J. Hughes, archbishop of New York 1866. d. Brooklyn, New York 27 Feb. 1890. The Tablet 22 March 1890 p. 473.
KEIGHTLEY, John. b. 1778; lieut. 57 foot 22 July 1795; major 23 foot 25 July 1816 to 16 Oct. 1823 when placed on half pay; lieut. col. 11 foot 2 June 1825 to 29 May 1835; resident governor of Santa Maura; lieut. col. 35 foot 29 May 1835 to 17 June 1836 when he sold out; resident governor of Zante. d. Pickhill hall near Wrexham 6 Sep. 1852.
KEIGHTLEY, Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Keightley of Newtown, Kildare). b. Dublin 17 Oct. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808; came to London 1824 and became a journalist; granted civil list pension of £100, 31 Jany. 1855; author of The fairy mythology 2 vols. 1828, anon., another ed. 1850; Outlines of history 1829; History of the war of independence in Greece 2 vols. 1830; The mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy 1832, 2 ed. 1834; Tales and popular fictions 1834; The history of England 2 vols. 1837–9, three editions; The history of Greece 1835, 3 ed. 1839; The Crusaders 2 vols. 1834; Secret societies of the Middle Ages 1837; edited the Bucolics and Georgics 1847; The poems of John Milton, with notes 2 vols. 1859; The plays and poems of William Shakespeare 6 vols. 1864. d. Hartwell lodge, Lessness Heath near Erith, Kent 4 Nov. 1872. bur. Erith. C. R. Smith’s Retrospections, i 322 (1883); I.L.N. lxi 479 (1872).
KEILLER, James M. Confectioner and maker of preserves at Dundee; commenced producing Seville orange marmalade, the first to make it as an article of commerce, its use spread to England and it is now sent all over the world; the marmalade season lasts from Dec. to March, the candied peel season is from March to June, and the jam fruit season begins in June; maker also of lozenges, comfits, candies and gum goods; gave £10,500 to clear off the debt on Dundee free library 1885. Bremner’s Industries of Scotland (1869) 466–72; Dundee Year Book (1886) p. 5.
KEITH, Alexander (son of George Skene Keith, D.D. 1752–1823). b. manse of Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 30 Nov. 1791; ed. at Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, B.A. 1809, D.D. 1833; minister of St. Cyrus parish, Forfarshire 1816, resigned 1840; one of a deputation to Palestine with rev. Robert McCheyne, rev. A. Bonnar and rev. A. Black to enquire into state of the Jews described in Narrative of Mission to the Jews 1839, revisited Palestine 1844 and was the first to take daguerrotype views of places in Syria; one of founders of Free church of Scotland 1843, declined the moderatorship repeatedly on account of his health; author of Evidence of the truth of the Christian religion derived from the fulfilment of prophecy 1828, 40 ed. 1873, translated into many foreign languages; The signs of the times as denoted by the fulfilment of historical predictions 2 vols. 1832, 8 ed. 1847; The harmony of prophecy 1851; The history and destiny of the world and of the church 1861. d. Aberdeen house 56 West st. Buxton, where he had resided for some years, 8 Feb. 1880. bur. Chinley, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire 12 Feb. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 331–8, portrait; H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticaniæ, iii, pt. ii, 585, 865 (1871).
KEITH, Hester Maria, viscountess Keith (eld. dau. of Henry Thrale, brewer, d. 1781). b. 1762; from 1765 Dr. Johnson called her Queenie, wrote verses for her and directed her education; by death of her only brother 1776 she became a rich heiress; greatly disapproved of her mother’s marriage to Piozzi; a considerable scholar in history, poetry, Hebrew and mathematics; refused Samuel Rogers the poet. (m. 10 Jany. 1808 at Ramsgate, George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, b. 7 Jany. 1746, cr. viscount Keith 1 June 1814, d. 10 March 1823); one of the patronesses of Almack’s 1808; a prominent leader of society in London and Edinburgh 1814–50; she was the last survivor of the persons who are mentioned in Boswell’s Johnson. d. 110 Piccadilly, London 31 March 1857. Willis’ Current Notes 1857 p. 29; G.M. ii 615–6 (1857).
KEITH, Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, Baroness Keith (eld. dau. of George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, viscount Keith 1746–1823). b. Hertford st. Mayfair, London 12 June 1788; styled hon. Margaret Elphinstone 1797–1817; was in the household of the princess Charlotte. (m. 20 June 1817 at Edinburgh, Augustus Charles Joseph, count de Flahault de la Billardrie, French ambassador to London 1860, d. 2 Sep. 1870 aged 85); baroness Keith of Stonehaven Marishal and baroness Keith of Banheath on death of her father 10 March 1823; baroness Nairne on the death of her cousin William 4 lord Nairne 7 Dec. 1837; styled baroness Nairne and Keith 1837 to death. d. at palace of the legion of honour, Paris 11 Nov. 1867.
KEITH-FALCONER, Ion Grant Neville (3 son of 9 Earl of Kintore). b. Edinburgh 5 July 1856; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1878; Tyrwhitt univ. Hebrew scholar; defeated John Keen by five yards in a two-mile bicycle race at Cambridge 11 May 1878; rode 50 miles in 2 hours and 44 minutes at Crystal palace, beating the record 9 July 1882; rode from Land’s End to John o’ Groat’s House 994 miles in 13 days, June 1882; Hebrew lecturer at Clare college, Camb.; missionary of Free church of Scotland 26 May 1886; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Camb. 1886 to death, gave 3 lectures on the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Nov.; arrived at Aden 8 Dec. 1886; began to build a permanent home for a mission at Shaikh Othman near Aden, attacked by Aden fever Feb. 1887. d. Shaikh Othman 11 May 1887. bur. Aden cemetery. R. Sinker’s Memorials of Ion Keith-Falconer (1888); Sporting Mirror, iv 49–52 (1882), portrait.
KEKEWICH, George Granville (1 son of George Kekewich of Dartmouth). b. 1802; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; judge of county courts circuit 60 (Cornwall), March 1847 to death. d. Exeter 7 Jany. 1857.
KEKEWICH, Samuel Trehawke (son of Samuel Kekewich, D.C.L., d. 26 Aug. 1822). b. Bowden house near Totnes, Devon 31 Oct. 1796; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1814; M.P. Exeter 1826–30; M.P. South Devon 1858 to death; sheriff of Devon 1834. d. Peamore near Exeter 1 June 1873.
KELAART, Edward Frederick. b. Ceylon 1818 or 1819; assistant surgeon in army 16 July 1841, surgeon 16 July 1852 to death; F.G.S. 1845; author of Flora Calpensis, contributions to the flora and topography of Gibraltar 1846; Prodromus faunæ Zeylanicæ, being contributions to the zoology of Ceylon 1852–54; Introductory report on the natural history of the pearl oyster of Ceylon 1857; Contributions to marine zoology, descriptions of Ceylon nudibranchiate mollusca, sea anemones and entozoa 1859. d. on board the Ripon on the evening before her arrival at Southampton 31 Aug. 1860. Proc. of Linnean soc. (1861) p. 41.
KELK, John. b. 1798; a student at Leyden 30 Sep. 1822 and M.D. 1824; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; author of Dissertatio de sylphide. Leyden 1824; The Scarborough spa, its analysis and medical use, to which is added On the utility of the bath 1841, 4 ed. 1860. d. 1 Brunswick ter. Scarborough 3 May 1873.
KELK, Sir John, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Kelk of London 1781–1848). b. London 16 Feb. 1816; apprentice to Thomas Cubitt, builder; partner with Mr. Newton as builders 12 Margaret st. Cavendish sq. till 1845; contractor for railway and other works, being at times associated with Brassey, Peto and Betts and others; agent for the commissioners of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in purchasing the Gore house estate; gave £15,000 towards debt on Great Exhibition of 1862, which he and Mr. Lucas erected; constructed the Albert memorial without pecuniary benefit 1864; with Messrs. Aird made the Millwall docks 1868; built the Victoria station and Pimlico railway 1858–60; constructed works on the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District railways 1860–71; built Smithfield goods depôt and meat market 1866–9; erected with Mr. Lucas the Alexandra palace, opened 22 May 1873, burnt 9 June 1873, re-erected it and lost much money in the undertaking, it was reopened 1 May 1875; M.P. Harwich 1865–8; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1861; cr. baronet 1 May 1874; sheriff of co. Southampton 1884. d. 12 Sep. 1886. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxxxvii 451–5 (1886); I.L.N. May 1862 pp. 479, 481, portrait; Law Reports. Chancery Division, xxvi 107–54 (1884).
KELKE, William Hastings. Ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1828; R. of Osgathorpe, Leics. 1836–40; R. of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks. 1840–60; author of Notices of sepulchral monuments in English churches 1850; Britain’s ancient church and Rome’s usurpations 1851; The churchyard manual, with designs for memorials 1851; Family prayers 1854. d. Little Missenden, Bucks. 12 April 1865.
KELL, Edmund (son of a unitarian minister). b. Wareham 18 Jany. 1799; ed. at Glasgow 1815, M.A. 1819, and at Manchester New coll. York; unitarian minister Newport, Isle of Wight 1823–53, where he also kept a school; hon. sec. Unitarian societies of South of England; minister at Southampton 1853 to death; the first to draw public attention to the Roman remains in the Isle of Wight; F.S.A.; author of An earnest appeal to unitarian christians on the duty of supporting their own religious institutions 2 ed. 1848; What patriotism, justice and christianity demand for India, a sermon 1857, 4 ed. 1858; Shall christians seek to build up a faith with the weapons of misrepresentation. Controversy between Dr. Cumming and rev. E. Kell 1858. d. Southampton 17 Jany. 1874. Memorials of rev. E. Kell (1875); Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi 230–31.
KELLAND, Philip (son of Philip Kelland, R. of Dunster, Somerset). b. Dunster 1808; ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., senior wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; tutor of his college; professor of mathematics in univ. of Edinb. 19 Oct. 1838 to death, secretary of the Senatus Academicus till 1867; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1838; F.R.S. Edinb. 1839, president Nov. 1878 to death; pres. of Society of arts 1853–54; one of founders of Life association of Scotland; wrote the article Algebra, in 9 ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica; author of Theory of heat 1837; The elements of algebra 1839, 3 ed. 1861; How to improve the Scottish universities, a lecture 1855; Transatlantic sketches 1858; with P. G. Tait, Introduction to quaternions 1873. d. Bridge of Allan 7 May 1879. Sir A. Grant’s Story of univ. of Edinb. ii 304–305 (1884); Proc. of R.S. of Edinb. x 208, 211, 321–29 (1880); Proc. of R.S. xxix pp. vii–x (1879).
KELLETT, Sir Henry (son of John Dalton Kellett of Clonacody, co. Tipperary). b. 2 Nov. 1806; entered R.N. 7 Jany. 1822; in the Eden employed in scheme for colonising Fernando Po 1827; lieut. in Ætna surveying vessel 1831–5; in Starling cutter in war in Canton river; capt. 23 Dec. 1842; C.B. 24 Dec. 1832, K.C.B. 2 June 1869; in the Herald co-operated in Behring’s Straits with Franklin search expedition 1848–50; commander of the Resolute in search for sir John Franklin 1852, the ship abandoned by sir E. Belcher’s orders 15 May 1854, the Resolute was found by the Americans, refitted and sent to England as a present to the queen and people of Great Britain 12 Dec. 1856; commodore at Jamaica 1855–9; superintendent Malta dockyard 26 Nov. 1864 to 16 April 1868; retired V.A. 8 April 1868; commander in chief China 1869–71. d. Clonacody house, Tipperary 1 March 1875. Seeman’s Narrative of voyage of H.M.S. Herald 2 vols. (1853); G. F. Mc. Dougall’s Eventful voyage of H.M. discovery ship Resolute (1857).
KELLETT, Sir Richard, 1 Baronet (son of Richard Kellett, alderman of Cork, d. 25 Jany. 1828 aged 95). b. Cork 16 May 1761; created baronet 6 Aug. 1801; of Lota co. and city of Cork. d. 5 Mespil parade, Dublin 1853.
KELLIE, Walter Coningsby Erskine, 12 Earl of (2 son of Henry David Erskine 1776–1846). b. Warkworth, Northumberland 12 July 1810; ed. at Durham gr. school and univ. of Edinb.; entered Bengal army 1827; served in and had medals for Sutlej campaign; commissioner of Jubbulpore during the mutiny 1857; retired lieut. col. 25 Sep. 1861; C.B. 18 May 1860; succeeded his cousin as 12 earl of Kellie 19 June 1866; Scotch representative peer 8 July 1869 to death; claimed earldom of Mar 1867 but died before the decision. d. Cannes 15 Jany. 1872.
KELLNER, Sir George Welsh (son of Francis Daniel Kellner). b. 1825; entered service of H.E.I.C. 1841; inspector general of accounts 1866–70; military accountant general of India 1871–7; financial commissioner and member of council in Cyprus 1878; assist. paymaster general in chancery Feb. 1884 to death; C.S.I. 1 Jany. 1877; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879. d. 46 Pembridge villas, Bayswater, London 10 June 1886.
KELLY, Ann. b. 1749; of a theatrical family; acted in many theatres in England, Ireland and Scotland; played with Edmund Kean and James Sheridan Knowles; frequently played Alicia to the Jane Shore of Mrs. Siddons; became deaf and left the stage 1809; J. S. Knowles befriended her from that time till her death; twice married to persons called Kelly. d. Lewisham, Kent 15 March 1852 aged 103. bur. Sydenham on Good Friday.
KELLY, Benedictus Marwood (2 son of Benedictus Marwood Kelly of Holsworthy, Devon, attorney, d. 1836). b. Holsworthy 1 Sep. 1790; entered navy 19 Oct. 1798; wounded in a boat attack on the French in the island of Elba 1801; captain 19 July 1821; admiral on half pay 27 April 1863. d. Saltford house, Bath 26 Sep. 1867.
Note.—He left by his will a sum of £200,000 for Kelly college, which was built close to Tavistock and opened Sep. 1877, the endowments are devoted to education of the founder’s kin and of the orphan sons of naval officers, but there is also full provision for a first-grade public school.
KELLY, Bernard (son of Peter Kelly, grocer and owner of potteries). b. Ballyshannon, co. Donegal; in business with his father; sec. to local branch of National League; M.P. South Donegal, Dec. 1885 to death. d. Mountcharles, co. Donegal 1 Jany. 1887.
KELLY, Charles, stage name of Charles Clavering Wardell (son of rev. Henry Wardell, R. of Winlaton, Durham). b. Newcastle 1839; made first public appearance at T.R. Hull as Montano in Othello 1868; played in Halliday’s The great city, at Surrey theatre 1869, and in Tom Taylor’s Arkwright’s Wife as Richard Arkwright, at Globe theatre 6 Oct. 1873; acted Samuel Brown in New Men and Old Acres, Court theatre 2 Dec. 1875 which was played 250 times; played Darnley in Lord Lytton’s House of Darnley, at Court theatre 6 Oct. 1877, and Robert L’Estrange in Bondage, Opera Comique 31 March 1883; his characteristic was his ability to indicate strong emotion without obtrusive display; made his final appearance at a complimentary benefit given to him at Prince’s theatre 16 July 1883. (m. at St. Phillip’s ch. South Kensington 21 Nov. 1877 Ellen Terry dau. of Benjamin Terry); Kelly’s first wife Anne Maria d. 7 Nov. 1875. He d. of apoplexy 27 Bedford place, London 17 April 1885. C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 229–31.
KELLY, David. b. Manchester 1821; in employment of George Simms, bookseller, Exchange st. Manchester (the founder of firm of Simms and Dinham) till 1851; bookseller in partnership with Edwin Slater 1851 and then on his own account in Market st.; became acquainted with Edwin Waugh 1852 and was instrumental in the publication of Waugh’s Lancashire sketches 1855; published many of Waughs’ poems on cards 1856 etc. which had immense circulation; furnished some information to Procter’s Memorials of Manchester streets 1874. d. Brunswick st. Stretford near Manchester 2 Nov. 1891.
KELLY, Dennis (eld. son of James Kelly). b. 1804 or 1805; ed. at Dundalk and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825; C. of Crewe to 1832; V. of Killyon and Kilronan 1832–4; C. of St. John’s, Chatham 1834–6; C. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1836–8; P.C. of Trinity ch. Gough sq. Fleet st. London on its consecration June 1838 to death; contributed 250 essays to Church of England Magazine; author of Practical Sermons 1836, 2 ed. 1837; Sabbath evening readings, 1st series 1835, 22 ed. 1845, 2nd series 1842–3, the two series complete 1 vol. 1853; Self inspection 1845; Characters 1846; Neophilus or moral reflections 1846. d. 5 New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 14 Nov. 1866. D. Kelly’s Posthumous Sermons (1867), memoir pp. vii–xv.
KELLY, Edward (eld. son of John Kelly of Belfast, afterwards a convict in Tasmania, who d. Victoria 1865). b. Victoria 1854; imprisoned 3 years for horse-stealing; shot a constable at his house near Greta, April 1878; bushranger in Australia with his brothers James and Daniel and two men called Byrne and Hart from 1878 to death, Victoria and New South Wales governments jointly offered a reward of £8000 for their apprehension; robbed the bank of Euroa, Victoria of £3000, 11 Dec. 1878; held the town of Jerilderie, New South Wales for 2 days and robbed the bank of about £700, Feb. 1879; they wore iron plates weighing nearly 100 lb. each, they were killed near Beechworth 27 June 1880 except Edward Kelly who was tried at Beechworth, convicted Oct. 1880 and hanged there 11 Nov. F. A. Hare’s Last of the Bushrangers (1891), portrait; I.L.N. lxxvii 252 (1880), portrait; Graphic, xxii 225 (1880), portrait.
KELLY, Edward. b. 26 April 1836; entered navy 1850; first lieut. of Bombay 67 guns, destroyed by fire off Montevideo 14 Dec. 1864; captain 22 Oct. 1870; commanded Achilles during Egyptian war 1882; A.D.C. to the Queen 1885–7; captain superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1 Jany. 1886 to 10 June 1887; R.A. 10 June 1887; admiral superintendent of Chatham dockyard 1 Nov. 1887 to death. d. of influenza at Admiralty house, Chatham dockyard 17 Jany. 1892. bur. Rochester cathedral cemetery.
KELLY, Sir Fitzroy Edward (son of Robert Hawke Kelly, captain R.N.) b. London 9 Oct. 1796; practised as special pleader; barrister L.I. 7 May 1824; went Norfolk circuit; K.C. 27 Dec. 1834, bencher of his inn 1838–66; contested Hythe 1830, Ipswich 1832 and 1841, and Lyme Regis 1847; M.P. for Ipswich 8 Jany. 1835 to June 1835 when unseated on petition; contested Ipswich 27 July 1837, seated on petition 26 Feb. 1838 and sat for it until 1841; M.P. for Cambridge borough 1843–1847, M.P. East Suffolk 1852–1866; standing counsel to Bank of England, May 1845; solicitor general 29 June 1845 to 2 July 1846 and 27 Feb. 1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1845; attorney general 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; serjeant at law 16 July 1866, admitted 2 Nov. 1866; lord chief baron of court of exchequer 16 July 1866 to Nov. 1875 when he became a judge of supreme court of judicature but retained his former title by act of parliament; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866. d. Bedford hotel, Brighton 17 Sep. 1880. bur. Highgate cemet. 22 Sep. A generation of Judges. By Their Reporter (1886) 38–53; Public men of Ipswich (1875) 71–8; Illust. news of the world, vol. i (1858), portrait; I.L.N. vii 48 (1845) portrait, lxxvii 324 (1880) portrait.
Note.—At one time his income at the bar amounted to £25,000 a year, a sum scarcely ever equalled by an advocate of late years, except by Lord Selborne when Roundell Palmer. He made his famous defence of John Tawell the Quaker murderer, at Aylesbury assizes March 1845, which gained him sobriquet of ‘Apple pip Kelly,’ this was the first occasion on which the telegraph was called in to assist in securing a murderer. See Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials (1883) 16–49.
KELLY, Frances Maria (dau. of Mark Kelly d. Canterbury 4 April 1833). b. Brighton 15 Dec. 1790; appeared at Drury Lane in opera of Bluebeard 16 Jany. 1798; chorister Drury Lane 1799; took many of Madame Storace’s characters and afterwards those of Mrs. Jordan, at Drury Lane and the Italian opera 1800–1806; learnt Italian, French and Latin; co-operated with Edmund Kean at Drury Lane 1812 and frequently played Ophelia to his Hamlet; while acting in Modern Antiques at Covent Garden 17 Feb. 1816 George Barnett fired a pistol at her; made final appearance at Drury Lane 8 June 1835; besides impersonating many of Shakespeare’s heroines, she played all the leading comedy characters in the English drama, and was superior in melodrama to all other actresses; lessee of New Strand theatre where she gave a monologue entertainment Feb. to Oct. 1833 with which she afterwards travelled in the provinces; built a theatre at back of 73 Dean st. Soho for a dramatic school, opened 25 March 1840 and called Miss Kelly’s theatre, where she gave occasional dramatic performances; gave Shakespeare readings in the country; her theatre seized by the landlord 1849, she lost £16,000. d. Ross cottage, Feltham, Middlesex 6 Dec. 1882. bur. Brompton cemetery 16 Dec. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography, i 215–24 (1825), portrait; Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses, ii 223–34 (1844); Illust. sp. and dr. news, xii 414 (1880), portrait; Theatrical Inquisitor, v 203–206 (1814), portrait, viii 83–86 (1816), portrait; I.L.N. viii 9 (1846), portrait, lxxxi 661 (1882), portrait.
Note.—Her sister Lydia Eliza Kelly an actress b. London 2 June 1795, d. in U.S. of America before 1882. Theatrical Inquisitor, vi 323 (1815), portrait; Ireland’s Records, i 433 (1866).
KELLY, Francis (son of Edward Kelly). b. Drumragh, co. Tyrone 31 July 1813; ed. at Maynooth 1835; ordained priest 13 June 1840; C. of Drumragh 1840–6; professor in the diocesan seminary, Derry, July 1846; C. of Strabane; C. of Culdaff; parish priest of Upper Fahan to 1849; D.D.; bishop of Derry 8 Aug. 1849 to death, consecrated in Derry 21 Oct. 1849; built Derry cath. at cost of £40,000. d. St. Eugene’s, Derry 1 Sep. 1889. The Derry Journal 2, 4, 6 Sep. 1889.
KELLY, Gordon William (only child of rev. Dr. John Kelly 1750–1809, Manx scholar, V. of Ardleigh near Colchester). b. Isle of Man 1786; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811; called to bar of Isle of Man; recorder of Colchester to death. (m. 1830 Miss White, she founded 1858 the Kelly scholarship in King William’s college, Isle of Man, also the Kelly prize in same college for proficiency in the Manx language). d. Oxney Green House, Whittle near Chelmsford 4 April 1858.
KELLY, John. b. Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1801; independent minister of Bethesda chapel, Liverpool, Sep. 1829; his new chapel at Everton, Liverpool, opened 23 Nov. 1837, retired from it 28 Sep. 1873; a director of London missionary society many years; chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales in London, May 1851, and at Northampton, Oct. 1851; author of The voluntary support of the Christian ministry the law of the New Testament 1838; Discourses on holy scripture 1850 and other books. d. 18 Richmond terrace, Liverpool 12 June 1876. Hassan’s Rev. John Kelly, a memorial (1876), portrait; Waddington’s Congregational history, v 561–9 (1880).
KELLY, John. b. 1834; presbyterian minister at Hebburn and Streatham; editor of tracts of Religious tract soc. 56 Paternoster row, London; author of P. Gerhardt’s Spiritual songs, translated 1867; The king and the kingdom 1867; Who is the apostate? A passover story by A Saphir, translated 1878; Louisa of Prussia and other sketches 1888. d. Braemar 19 July 1890. Christian World 24 July 1890 p. 601.
KELLY, Matthew (eld. son of James Kelly). b. Maudlin st. Kilkenny 21 Sep. 1814; studied at Maynooth 1831–9; professor of philosophy and theology successively in the Irish college, Paris 1839–41; professor of belles-lettres and French at Maynooth 5 Nov. 1841, of ecclesiastical history 20 Oct. 1857 to death; created D.D. by Pius IX. 1854; a canon of Ossory about 1854; member of council of Celtic Society for which he edited John Lynch’s Cambrensis Eversus. Dublin 3 vols. 1848–52; also edited White’s Apologia 1849, and O’Sullivan Beare’s Historiæ Catholicæ Hiberniæ Compendium; author of Calendar of Irish saints, the martyrology of Tallagh, with notices of the patron saints of Ireland. Dublin 1857. d. Maynooth 30 Oct. 1858. Dissertations chiefly on Irish church history, by M. Kelly (1864), with a memoir by Dr. Mc.Carthy, pp. v–xiii.
KELLY, Peter Burrowes. b. Stradbally; called to bar in Ireland; clerk of the peace for Queen’s co. to death; contributed to Dublin Review and other periodicals; author of The manor of Glenmore, or the Irish peasant. By a Member of the Irish bar 3 vols. 1839; The Polish mother, a tragedy in five acts 1840, and of some light dramatic pieces which are still played. d. Glentolka, Fairview near Dublin 24 March 1883. Irish Law Times, xvii 183 191 (1883).
KELLY, Thomas (son of John Kelly of Chevening, Kent, innkeeper, d. 1810). b. Chevening 7 Jany. 1772; assistant in employ of Alexander Hogg of 16 Paternoster row 1786–1809; publisher at 52 Paternoster row 1809; one of common council of ward of Farringdon within 9 May 1823, alderman of same ward Dec. 1830 to death; sheriff of London 1825–6, lord mayor 1836–37; lived at Streatham hill; printed Kelly’s Practical Builders’ price book 1850, 2 ed. 1861. d. 4 Buenos Ayres, Margate 7 Sep. 1855. bur. churchyard of Chelsham, Surrey, by the side of his parents. Passages from the life of Alderman Kelly. By R. C. Fell (1856), portrait; Curwen’s Booksellers (1873) 363–71.
KELLY, Thomas Conynyham. b. 22 Dec. 1808; ensign 31 foot 3 April 1828, lieut. col. 15 June 1855 to 11 March 1857 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. of 38 foot 17 July 1857, and of 47 foot 4 Feb. 1859 to 3 March 1863 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 22 Dec. 1878; hon. general 1 July 1881; C.B. 17 June 1858. d. Ellerslie, Canterbury 15 March 1887.
KELSEY, Elizabeth. b. 1852; ballet dancer and actress; appeared in New York 12 Sep. 1866 with her sister Harriet Kelsey in The White Fawn, then in The Black Crook; appeared in burlesques in the English provinces to 1886; played in New York in Lost in the Snow. d. New York 14 Feb. 1888.
KELSIEFF, Basil Ivanovitch. b. St. Petersburg about 1835; came to London 1857; on the staff of Alexander Hertzen’s journal The Kolokol; with his brother John Kelsieff attempted a revolution in Russia which failed; returned to England 1865; removed publication of the Kolokol to Geneva; reconciled to Russian government; published many works in Russian. d. St. Petersburg 1872.
KELSO, Thomas. b. Ireland 1784, settled at Baltimore, U.S. America 1791; director of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railway co. 37 years; president Equitable fire insurance co.; V.P. of First National bank of Baltimore; founded the Kelso orphan home, Baltimore at cost of 120,000 dollars. d. Baltimore 26 July 1878.
KELTY, Mary Ann (dau. of an Irish surgeon who d. Cambridge 1822). b. Cambridge 1789; converted under Charles Simeon’s preaching at Cambridge; lived at 5 Hanover st. Rye lane, Peckham, London 1832 to death; author of The Favourite of Nature 1821 an anonymous novel, translated into French under title of Eliza Rivers 1823; Early days in the Society of Friends 1840; Reminiscences of thought and feeling 1852; The real and the beau ideal 1860; The solace of a solitaire 1869; the majority of her works simply bear her initials M.A.K. d. 5 Hanover st. Peckham 8 Jany. 1873.
KELYNACK, William (3 child of Nicholas Kelynack of Newlyn near Penzance, drowned 21 Jany. 1854). b. Newlyn 22 May 1832; ed. at Penzance; Wesleyan M. minister 1854 when he went as a missionary to New South Wales; representative of N.S.W. conference at the conference at Bristol 1876; D.D. of Univ. of New Orleans 1877; president of N.S.W. Wesleyan conference 1880; sec. of
Wesleyan missions 1882; president of Newington coll. Sydney; a great orator, called The silver trumpet of Australia; with others edited The Christian advocate and Wesleyan record. Sydney 187-. d. Sydney, Oct. 1891.
KEMBLE, Adelaide (younger dau. of the succeeding). b. Covent Garden chambers, London 1814; first appeared as a soprano singer at Concert of ancient music 13 May 1835; sang at Prague and Paris 1837–8; first appeared in opera at the Fenice theatre, Venice as Norma; sang at Covent Garden and in the provinces 1841–2, her chief characters being Norma, Susanna and Amina; last appeared on the stage 23 Dec. 1842; one of the best English singers of the century. (m. 1843 Edward John Sartoris of Warnford park, Hants., b. 1817, M.P. for Carmarthen 1868–74); composed a few vocal pieces; author of A week in a French country house 1867; Medusa and other tales 1868, reprinted as Past Hours 2 vols. 1880. d. Warsash house, Warsash, Hampshire 4 Aug. 1879. Wilson’s Our Actresses, ii 253–68 (1844), portrait; Cruikshank’s Omnibus (1842) 238, portrait; C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 402–5.
KEMBLE, Charles (4 son of Roger Kemble 1721–1802, theatrical manager). b. Brecknock, South Wales 25 Nov. 1775; ed. at R.C. coll. Douay 3 years; clerk in general post office, London; made his début at Sheffield as Orlando, in As you like it 1792; appeared at Drury Lane as Malcolm 21 April 1794; during 30 years he is said to have steadily improved; played at Haymarket in summer season; the original of Henry Woodville in The Wheel of Fortune 28 Feb. 1794, and of Alonzo in Pizarro 24 May 1799; joined his brother at Covent Garden 1803; the original Knight of Snowdon in the Lady of the Lake 5 Feb. 1811; acted in Brussels, Calais and Boulogne 1813–15; manager of Covent Garden 1822–32; assaulted C. M. Westmacott editor of the Age, for remarks made on his dau. Fanny Kemble 1830; visited America with his dau. 1832–34; made his last appearance on the stage 10 April 1840; examiner of plays 17 Oct. 1836 to 22 Feb. 1840; gave Shakespearean readings at Willis’ rooms 1844–45. (m. 2 July 1806 Maria Theresa dau. of George De Camp, she was b. Vienna 17 Jany. 1774, dancer and actress, d. Chertsey 3 Sep. 1838); entertained by the Garrick club 10 Jany. 1837; his best characters were Romeo, Hamlet and Mercutio; author of The wanderer or the rights of hospitality, a drama 1808; Plot or counterplot or the portrait of Michael Cervantes, a farce 1808; The point of honour, a play 1800; C. Kemble’s Shakespeare readings 1870; Shakespeare for schools, as abridged by C. Kemble 1883. d. Saville row, London 12 Nov. 1854. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography, iii 1–14 (1825), portrait; A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets (1884) 27–30; Bentley’s Miscellany, xxxvi 623–30 (1854); Fraser’s Mag. Dec. 1854 pp. 607–617; P. Fitzgerald’s The Kembles, i 225, 310, ii 386–9 (1871); I.L.N. i 364 (1842), portrait, xxv 514–6 (1854).
KEMBLE, Charles (only son of Charles Adams Kemble of Clapham common, Surrey d. 1819). b. 1819; ed. Wad. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of St. Michael’s, Stockwell 1842–44; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Stockwell 1844–59; Sunday evening lecturer at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1848–51; R. of Bath abbey ch. 1859 to death; preb. of Wells cath. 1866; member of Bath sch. board 31 Jany. 1871, chairman thereof; author of The mysteries of the gospel 1853; Farewell sermons preached at St. Michael’s church, Stockwell 1859; Suggestive hints on parochial machinery 1859, 3 ed. 1865; Memorials of a closed ministry, a selection of sermons 3 vols. 1875; edited Church psalmody, a selection of psalm and hymn tunes 1840; A selection of psalms and hymns by S. S. Wesley, arranged by C. Kemp 1864. d. Vellore, Bath 18 Nov. 1874.
KEMBLE, Henry (son of Edward Kemble, member of corporation of London). b. 1787; M.P. for East Surrey 3 Aug. 1837 to 23 July 1847. d. Grove hill, Camberwell, London 18 May 1857.
KEMBLE, John Mitchell (eld. son of Charles Kemble 1775–1854). b. London 2 April 1807; ed. by Dr. C. Richardson the philologist at Clapham, at Bury St. Edmunds gr. sch. and at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; studied at the Inner Temple; studied in Germany under Jacob Grimm; lectured at Cambridge on the Anglo-Saxon language and literature 1834; editor of British and Foreign Rev. 1835–44; examiner of stage plays 24 Feb. 1840 to death; lived in Hanover and made archæological excavations in Lüneburg for the government July 1849 to May 1855, his official duties in England being taken by W. B. Donne; went to Dublin to collect Keltic and Roman antiquities for Art treasures exhibition, Manchester, Feb. 1857; editor of The Anglo-Saxon poems of Beowulf, edited with a glossary and preface 1833; Codex diplomaticus ævi Saxonici opera J. M. K. English Historical Soc. 6 vols. 1839–48; The poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, with a translation. Aelfric Soc. 1843; Certaine considerations upon the government of England. Camden Soc. 1849; State papers and correspondence illustrative of the state of Europe from the revolution to the accession of the house of Hanover 1857; author of The Saxons in England. A history of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest 2 vols. 1849, new ed. 2 vols. 1876. d. Gresham hotel, 21 Upper Sackville st. Dublin 26 March 1857. bur. St. Jerome cemet. Fraser’s Mag. May 1857 pp. 612–18; G.M. ii 620–21 (1857).
KEMEYS-TYNTE, Charles John (only son of Charles Kemeys-Tynte of Halswell house, Bridgewater, Somerset). b. Halswell house 9 April 1800; ed. at Eton; M.P. for West Somerset 1832–37; contested West Somerset 1837; M.P. for Bridgewater 1847–65; col. of Royal Glamorgan militia 1848–62; claimed the barony of Wharton; author of Sketch of the French revolution of 1830. d. Balnageith, Torquay 16 Sep. 1882.
KEMM, William Henry. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 62 Bengal N.I. 11 Nov. 1837; col. 25 Bengal N.I. 1849 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. St. Heliers, Jersey 25 May 1859 aged 76.
KEMMIS, HENRY (2 son of Thomas Kemmis of Shaen castle near Maryborough, Queen’s county 1753–1823). b. 19 Sep. 1776; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1795; M.P. for Tralee 1797–1800; assist. barrister for co. Kildare, afterwards for co. Dublin; chairman of quarter sessions of Kilmainham; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s Inns 1843. d. Kilmainham, Dublin 2 April 1857.
KEMMIS, Thomas (2 son of William Kemmis d. 1864). b. 9 April 1807; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829; barrister in Ireland 1834; crown solicitor for Leinster circuit, Dec. 1852 to Sep. 1869; solicitor to the crown and treasury, Ireland, Sep. 1869 to death, this office had been held in his family uninterruptedly since 1783. d. 45 Kildare st. Dublin 18 Dec. 1868.
KEMMIS, William (3 son of Thomas Kemmis of Shaen castle 1753–1823). b. 23 Oct. 1777; crown solicitor for Dublin 1801–52; for the Leinster circuit 1801–52; solicitor to the Treasury 1801–59; conducted the state prosecutions 1798–1848, was present and assisted at all the great state trials of his time. d. 45 Kildare st. Dublin 20 July 1864.
KEMP, Edward Curtis. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 12th wrangler 1817, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of Lyndhurst 1825–8; R. of Whissonsett and Horningtoft 1829–65; chaplain to Dukes of Cambridge 1841 to death; P.C. of St. George, Yarmouth 1865 to death; author of A small dictionary for the use of the poor, an attempt to explain difficult words in the Bible and Prayer book 1826; The refutation of nonconformity on its own professed principle 1836; An exposition of some of the differences between Scripture and Calvinism 1843; Every infant regenerated in baptism, a doctrine of the church of England 1850; An introduction to the newly discovered proofs of the divine authority of the New Testament 1859; Isaaci Wattsii Carminum Fasciculus qui inscribitur “Divine Songs” Latine redditorum 1848. d. 51 King st. Yarmouth 10 June 1881 aged 86.
KEMP, Francis Baring (son of Thomas Read Kemp, M.P. Lewes, founder of Kemp-town, Brighton). b. 1812; ed. at Eton; writer H.E.I.C.S. 1830; served in the revenue and judicial departments in various districts of Bengal; collector Tirhoot 1851; civil and sessions judge Backergunge and Jessore 1855–62; judge of the high court of judicature, Calcutta 1862, retired 1878. d. 14 Denmark ter. Brighton 20 Jany. 1892.
KEMP, George Rees. b. 1780; entered Bombay army 1796; colonel 13 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to 1860; general 20 June 1854. d. Spring lodge, East Hoathly, Sussex 16 Sep. 1861.
KEMP, Grover (eld. son of John Kemp). b. Bermondsey, London 10 Sep. 1792; ed. at Hitchin and Epping; apprentice to John Glaisyer, chemist and druggist, Brighton, became a partner in the firm, retired 1863; a minister among the Friends 1823; continually visited the meetings in Great Britain and Ireland during 50 years; preached to the free black population in the West Indies 1857–58; author of A tract for the season. d. Brighton 21 Dec. 1869. Biog. Cat. of Lives of Friends (1888) 393–8.
KEMP, Henry Latimer. b. Birmingham; reporter on Manchester Guardian; reporter and sub-editor Birmingham Daily Press till its discontinuance 1859; reporter on Derby Mercury 1859, sub-editor 1860, then responsible editor to his death; edited The Derbyshire red book, an annual 1862; author of A history of the Derby charities 1861. d. Derby 30 April 1869. The Newspaper Press, iii 123 (1869).
KEMP, Henry William. b. St. Peter’s, Isle of Thanet 23 June 1820; ed. at Beverley gram. sch. and at C.C. coll. Camb., B.A. 1843; C. of St. Helen’s 1843; C. of St. John’s, Hull 1846; V. of St. John’s, Hull 1847–79, where he had one of the largest congregations in the north of England; V. of Millington with Givendale near York 1879–80; master of the Charterhouse, Hull 1868 to death; president of Hull literary and philosophical soc.; preb. of York 1886 to death; author of Sermons 1854. d. The Charterhouse, Hull 7 March 1888. Church Portrait Journal, ii 21–4 (1881), portrait; Biograph, vi 297 (1881).
KEMP, Isaac. Proprietor of Phœnix music hall, Dover before 1868 to death. d. 29 Aug. 1889. bur. Copt hill cemet. 2 Sep. The Era 7 Sep. 1889 p. 15.
KEMP, James. b. Edinburgh 1831; parochial schoolmaster in Scotland; head master of St. Andrew’s sch. Hong Kong; editor and proprietor of China Mail and of the Hong Kong Evening Mail; editor and proprietor of India Mail; wrote a series of 60 papers entitled Voices from the Verandah, treating of Anglo-Chinese life; author of A rock ahead in China. d. 17 Nov. 1865. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 132–4.
KEMPLAY, James (youngest son of Richard Kemplay of Leeds). b. Leeds 1810; ed. at Leeds gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb., 3rd wrangler 1833, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; special pleader; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1852; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872, bencher of his inn 29 Jany. 1874; author of Proposed plan for dealing with the statute law 1855. d. 48 Leinster gardens, Hyde park, London 4 June 1882.
KEMPSTER, Francis Greetham. b. 21 July 1821; ensign 6 Madras N.I. 2 Feb. 1838, captain 22 Aug. 1853; lieut. col. Madras staff corps 5 Oct. 1863; brigadier general Madras 27 June 1876 to 8 Sep. 1880; L.G. 1 Oct. 1882. d. Tiptree hall, Kelvedon 13 Jany. 1887.
KEMPT, Sir James (son of Gavin Kempt of Southampton and Edinburgh). b. Edinburgh 1765; ensign 101 foot 31 March 1783, lieut. 1784, regiment disbanded April 1785; helped to raise 113 foot in Ireland, captain 30 May 1794, major 18 Sep. 1794, regiment was reduced 1795; served in Holland and in campaign in Egypt 1801; lieut. col. 81 foot 23 July 1803 to 4 Nov. 1813; the light brigade under his command bore the brunt of battle of Maida 2 July 1806; col.-commandant 60 foot 1813–18; commanded a brigade of light division at Vera, Nivelle, Nive, Orthez and Toulouse 1813–14; lieut. governor of Fort William, Inverness 10 Oct. 1812 to death; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 22 June 1815, G.C.H. 1816; col. of 3 West India foot 1818–19, of 81 foot 1819–29, of 40 foot 1829–34, of 2 foot 1834–46 and of 1 foot 1846 to death; governor of Nova Scotia 20 Oct. 1819 to 8 Jany. 1829; governor general of Canada 10 July 1828 to 24 Nov. 1830; P.C. 8 Dec. 1830; master general of the ordnance 1830 to 1834; general 23 Nov. 1841. d. 32 South st. Grosvenor sq. London 20 Dec. 1854.
KENAH, Sir Thomas (son of T. Kenah of Bridgefields, co. Cork). b. 1782; ensign 5 foot 14 Aug. 1799; major 58 foot 5 Nov. 1812 to 3 April 1817 when placed on h.p.; served in Holland 1790, in Egypt 1801, in Sicily 1808–12, at siege of Genoa 1814; col. 63 foot 25 Nov. 1850 to death, general 26 Dec. 1859; C.B. 24 Oct. 1818, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; gold medal from the Grand Seignior for the Egyptian campaign. d. 24 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 26 March 1868.
KENDALL, Charles. b. Bishop Norton, Lincolnshire 19 Feb. 1818; a cobbler at Ashby, a shoemaker at Burringham; primitive methodist minister at Halifax 1839 and successively at 18 other places including Leeds and Hull; president of the conference at Hull 1881; helped to edit 2 volumes of the Primitive Pulpit; author of The Monitor 1852; The Christian minister in earnest, or the life of Atkinson Smith 1854; Hindrances to a revival of religion; How to promote a revival of religion; Little Willie; God’s Hand in the storm; The life of the rev. W. Sanderson; How to live in the street called Straight. d. Hilda st. Hull 5 May 1882. Primitive Methodist Mag. (1882) 491–6.
KENDALL, Henry Clarence (son of Basil Kendall). b. Ulladulla near Shoalhaven, New South Wales 18 April 1841; went to sea 1856, spent 2 years in the South Sea islands; clerk to James Lionel Michael, solicitor and author, Sydney 1860; contributed to Empire and Herald newspapers 1865, clerk in lands department, N.S.W. 1863, then in colonial secretary’s office, resigned 1869; journalist Melbourne 1869–73; inspector of forests, N.S.W.; author of Poems and songs 1862, which he suppressed in 1865; At Long Bay, Euroclydon, poems. d. at the house of the Messrs. Fagan Bros., Redfern near Sydney 1 Aug. 1882. Barton’s Poets of New South Wales (1866) pp. 192–206; Sladen’s Australian poets (1888) p. 280; H. Kendall’s Poems (1886), memoir pp. xi–xvi.
KENDALL, Joseph. Jockey; won the Chester cup on Nancy 1851 when he weighed only 4 st. 12 lb.; won the Liverpool Grand National on Jealously 1861; one of the finest horsemen ever seen. d. 21 March 1892.
KENDALL, Nicholas (1 son of rev. Charles Kendall, V. of Talland, d. 1806). b. Tredethy, St. Mabyn 22 Dec. 1800; ed. Trin. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; sheriff of Cornwall 1847; M.P. East Cornwall 1852–68; received a piece of plate and £1100 for his services to county of Cornwall 18 Feb. 1869; police magistrate of city and garrison of Gibraltar 30 Dec. 1868 to Sep. 1875, an attempt made to assassinate him March 1873. d. Pelynt near Lostwithiel 8 June 1878.
KENDALL, William. b. Padstow 1803; in employment of Shepherd and Gain, woollen drapers, Exeter; a linen draper Queen st. Exeter; partner in firm of Shepherd, Kendall and Tucker, woollen drapers, Exeter 1834, made a fortune and retired; mayor of Exeter 1862 when he contributed to the cost of the Albert memorial museum; V.P. of Devonshire Assoc. at Exeter meeting 1862; instrumental in building Wonford asylum 1869; fell down stairs and broke his thigh 25 March, d. 6 Summerland, Heavitree road, Exeter 29 March 1878. Trans. Devonshire Assoc. x 56–7 (1878).
KENDRICK, Emma Eleonora (dau. of Josephus Kendrick, sculptor). b. 1788; a successful miniature painter; miniature painter to Princess Elizabeth of Hesse Homburg, and to Wm. IV. 1831; exhibited 84 miniatures at R.A., 1 at B.I. and 74 at Suffolk st. 1811–40; author of Conversations on the art of miniature painting 1830. d. 6 April 1871.
KENDRICK, James (1 son of James Kendrick 1771–1847, M.D.) b. Buttermarket st. Warrington 7 Nov. 1809; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D. 1 Aug. 1833; in practice at Warrington 1833 to death; took charge of the antiquities in Warrington museum 1859; paid for the excavation of the Roman station at Wilderspool and gave the remains discovered to the museum; gave 300 books bearing the Warrington imprint to the library; wrote papers in archæological journals; author of Cursory remarks on the present epidemick 1832; An account of excavations made at Mote Hill, Warrington 1853; Profiles of Warrington worthies 1853, 2 ed. 1854; A morning’s ramble in Old Warrington 1855; with William Robson, Memorials of Dr. Robson of Warrington. d. Warrington 6 April 1882. bur. Padgate 11 April. His dau. gave his seals and 100 vols. to Warrington museum. Palatine Note Book, ii 113–16, 179–80 (1882), portrait.
KENEALY, Edward Vaughan Hyde (son of William Kenealy, merchant). b. Cork 2 July 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840, LL.B. 1846, LL.D. 1850; called to bar in Ireland 2 Nov. 1840; barrister G.I. 1 May 1847, disbarred 2 Dec. 1874 for his libellous articles in The Englishman; ordered to give up his chambers by the vice chancellor 29 June 1876; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868 to 11 Dec. 1874 when he was removed; bencher of Gray’s inn, April 1868 to 1 Aug. 1874 when he was disbenched; M.P. Stoke upon Trent 18 Feb. 1874 to 1880; contested Wednesbury 18 Nov. 1868; contested Stoke, April 1880; prosecuted for cruelty to Edward Hyde his natural son aged 6, May 1850 and imprisoned for a month; junior counsel in defence of Wm. Palmer the Rugeley poisoner 1856; led the prosecution of Overend, Gurney & Co., bankers 1869; succeeded serjeant Sleigh as leading counsel for Arthur Orton the Tichborne claimant 1873, conducted the case in a most outrageous manner, insulting the bench and witnesses, the jury censured him in a rider to their verdict; started The Englishman in which he continued to abuse the chief justice and the solicitor general 11 April 1874; expelled from the mess of the Oxford circuit 2 April 1874; founded the Magna Charta association 1874; author of Brallaghan or the Deipnosophists 1845; Goethe, a new pantomime 1850, 3 ed. 1863; Poems and translations 1864; An introduction to the Apocalypse; E. W. Montagu, an autobiography, edited by Y. 3 vols. 1869; The trial at bar of sir R. C. D. Tichborne, Bart. 5 vols. 1875–8; Poetical works 3 vols. 1875–9; Fo, the third messenger of God 1878. d. 6 Tavistock sq. London 16 April 1880. bur. Hangleton near Brighton 22 April. H. G. Gill’s Life and forensic career of E. V. Kenealy (1874), portrait; I.L.N. lxiii 161 1873), portrait; The Englishman 24 April 1880 et seq., a long memoir; G.M. Feb. 1874 pp. 220–7, June 1875 pp. 698–709; London Sketch Book, Jany. 1874, portrait.
Note.—There is on the south-east angle of the south transept of Chester cathedral a series of twelve corbels with carved subjects illustrating an allegory, three of these are undoubted likenesses of the Earl of Beaconsfield, Mr. Gladstone and Dr. Kenealy.
KENMARE, Valentine Browne, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Earl of Kenmare 1754–1812). b. 15 Jany. 1788; succeeded as 2 earl 3 Oct. 1812; lord lieut. of Kerry 1831 to death; col. of Kerry militia 24 Jany. 1837 to death; created baron Kenmare of Castle Rosse in the United Kingdom 17 Aug. 1841; one of the visitors of Maynooth coll. 1845. d. Great Malvern 31 Oct. 1853.
KENMARE, Thomas Browne, 3 Earl of (bro. of the preceding). b. 15 Jany. 1789; ensign 40 foot 6 Aug. 1807, captain 1812–14; in Peninsula 1809 to 1814, war medal and 9 clasps; succeeded his brother 31 Oct. 1853; cr. baron Kenmare in peerage of the U.K. by letters patent 12 March 1856; lord lieut. of Kerry 19 March 1866. d. 54 Eaton place, London 26 Dec. 1871.
KENNARD, Coleridge John (1 son of John Peirse Kennard of Hoodle Cliff, Hants.) b. Oct. 1828; managing director of Heywood, Kennards & Co. bankers, London, merged in Consolidated bank 1864; founder of the Evening News 1889 which became the Evening News and Post 1890; contested Salisbury 1874, 1880 and 1885; M.P. Salisbury 20 Nov. 1882 to 18 Nov. 1885; the friend and adviser of the duke of Albany. d. 39 Upper Grosvenor st. London 25 Dec. 1890.
KENNARD, Robert William (2 son of John Kennard of Lombard st. London, banker). b. London 18 Jany. 1800; an ironmaster in Scotland and south Wales and at Thames st. London; president of Tournay and Jurbise railway company; chairman of Northern and Eastern railway company; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1846–47; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 11 Feb. to 21 March 1857 and 30 April 1859 to 11 Nov. 1868; author of A controversial correspondence between the rev. Paul Maclachlan, Roman Catholic priest in Falkirk, and R. W. Kennard, three parts 1854. d. 37 Porchester ter. Bayswater, London 10 Jany. 1870.
KENNAWAY, Charles Edward (2 son of sir John Kennaway, 1 baronet 1758–1836). b. 3 Jany. 1800; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 15 wr. 1822, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, fell. of his coll.; V. of Chipping Campden, Gloucs. 1832–72; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham 1840–43; P.C. of Holy Trinity, Brighton 1843–47; hon. canon in Gloucester cath. 1861 to death; author of The churchman’s brief manual of baptism, in four parts 1840; Sermons, practical, historical and doctrinal 1842; Sermons preached at Brighton 1845, Second series 1847; Poems 1846; Perdita and Angelina or the lost one found. An Anglo-Roman dialogue 1854–57; Some tones of the voice of prophecy and of the voice of miracle 1867. d. Goodrest, Great Malvern 3 Nov. 1875.
KENNEDY, Andrew. b. Kilcock, co. Kildare, Ireland 1804; private in regiment of Hohenlohe 1825; made four campaigns in the Morea and 14 in Algeria; commander of 33 regt. 1860–63 when he retired; commander of legion of honour; resided at Landerneau 1863 to death. d. Landerneau, Oct. 1865. Times 13 Oct. 1865 p. 10 col. 1.
KENNEDY, Sir Arthur Edward (4 son of Hugh Kennedy of Cultra, co. Down). b. 9 April 1810; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; ensign 11 foot 15 Aug. 1827, lieut. 1832 to 1840; captain unattached 12 June 1840; captain 68 foot 19 March 1841 to April 1848; poor law inspector for Ireland 1846–51; governor of the Gambia 25 May 1852, of Sierra Leone 13 Sep. 1852, of Western Australia June 1855 to 17 Feb. 1862, of Vancouver’s Island 4 Dec. 1863, of West African settlements 15 Jany. 1868 to 1872; governor and commander in chief of Hong Kong 20 Feb. 1872, of Queensland 6 Jany. 1877 to death; C.B. 23 July 1862; knighted at Osborne 20 Dec. 1867; K.C.M.G. 29 Sep. 1871, G.C.M.G. 24 May 1881. d. off Aden in the Red Sea, on his way to England 3 June 1883.
KENNEDY, Benjamin Hall (eld. son of rev. Rann Kennedy 1772–1851, P.C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham). b. Summerhill, Birm. 6 Nov. 1804; ed. at Birm. gr. sch., Shrewsbury and St. John’s coll. Camb.; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830, D.D. 1836; fellow of his coll. 1828–36, hon. fellow 1880–85 and fellow again 1885; a master at Harrow 1830–36; head master of Shrewsbury 1836 to June 1866; the greatest classical teacher of his day; preb. of Lichfield 1843–1867; select pr. in univ. of Camb. 1860; R. of West Felton, Salop 1865–67; regius professor of Greek and canon of Ely 1867 to death; took part in revision of the New Testament 1870–80; LL.D. of Dublin univ. 1885; author of Elementary Latin grammar 1843 on which was founded The public school Latin grammar 1871 used in nine of the chief schools in England; Sabrinæ Corolla 1850, 4 ed. 1890; The Birds of Aristophanes translated into English verse 1874; Between whiles or wayside amusements of a working life 1877, 2 ed. 1882; Pauline Christology 1883. d. Shiphay house near Torquay 6 April 1889. Classical Review, iii 226–7, 278–81 (1889); Biograph, iv 229–30 (1880).
KENNEDY, Charles Rann (brother of preceding). b. Birmingham 1808; ed. at Shrewsbury, Birm. gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.; scholar 1829, fellow 1831, senior classic 1831; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834; barrister L.I. 19 Nov. 1835; professor of law Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1849–56; applied to be allowed to join Midland circuit, the mess refused his request 1850; adviser of Mrs. Swinfen the plaintiff in case of Swinfen v. Swinfen, brought action against her for £20,000 for his services, and obtained a verdict, but the common pleas decided that a barrister could not sue for his fees 1863; author of Translation of Select speeches of Demosthenes 1841; Poems, original and translated 1843; New rules for pleading 1838, 2 ed. 1841; A treatise on annuities 1846. d. Birmingham 17 Dec. 1867. Law Journal, ii 557, 571 (1867); J. Scott’s Common Bench Reports, xiii 677–742 (1863); C. Beavan’s Chancery Reports, xxxiii 133–54 (1865).
KENNEDY, David (son of David Kennedy, weaver and precentor, d. 1874). b. Perth 15 April 1825; apprenticed to a painter 1841; a painter at Perth; precentor of Nicholson st. United Presbyterian ch. Edin.; began a series of weekly concerts 1859; first appeared in London at Hanover sq. rooms 1862; gave 100 concerts in Egyptian hall Dec. 1862 to May 1863; sang in Canada and United States 1866–9; made a tour round the world with his family 1872–6; toured in G.B. and Ireland 1876–9, South Africa 1879, India 1879–80, Canada 1881, United States and Australia 1882–4; had a rich tenor voice and was an effective reader and declaimer; lost 3 children in the fire at the theatre at Nice 23 March 1881, namely James baritone singer aged 25, Kate contralto aged 20 and Elizabeth soprano aged 18; author of Book of words of Mr. Kennedy’s Entertainment on the songs of Scotland 1866; Kennedy’s Colonial travel. A narrative of a four years tour through Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc. 1876; Kennedy at the Cape, a tour through Cape Colony, the Orange Free state, the Diamond fields and Natal 1879. d. Stratford, Ontario 12 Oct. 1886. Life of D. Kennedy (1887), portrait.
KENNEDY, Hugh A. Chess player; played with Popert, Staunton and Walker; in London tournament 1851 took 6th prize; played at Leamington 28 June 1855; chairman of the British chess association meeting at Bristol 10 Sep. 1861; author of Waifs and strays chiefly from the chess-board 1862, 2 ed. 1876. d. 22 Oct. 1878. Westminster Papers, Dec. 1878 p. 165; I.L.N. 14 June 1855 pp. 43, 44, portrait; Illust. News of the World 14 Sep. 1861 p. 164, portrait.
KENNEDY, James. b. 1785; ed. at univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 1813; physician to the Loughborough dispensary; practised at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, retired from practice 1842 and lived at Woodhouse near Loughborough 1842 to death; occupied for many years in compiling a bibliography of medical treatises with biographies of their authors, which he did not live to print; published A dissertation on the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human tongue 1813; Instruction to mothers and nurses on the management of children Glasgow 1825; Lecture on Asiatic cholera 1832. d. 24 Great Russell st. Bloomsbury, London 9 May 1851 aged 66.
KENNEDY, James. Barrister L.I. 10 July 1821; M.P. for Tiverton 12 Dec. 1832, unseated on petition; M.P. for Tiverton again 24 May 1833 to May 1835; judge of mixed commission for protection of slaves at Havanah 10 Feb. 1837 to 14 Dec. 1852 when superannuated; author of England and Venice compared. An argument on the policy of England towards her colonies 1827; Selections from the poems of J. M. Heredia, with translations 1844; Modern poets and poetry of Spain 1852; Ethnological and philological essays 1855; Essays, ethnological and linguistic 1861. d. Liddiard house, Grove ter. Notting hill, London 15 May 1859.
KENNEDY, James. b. 1778 or 1779; entered Bengal army 1797; colonel 5 Bengal light cavalry 26 Dec. 1832 to 1858, col. 5 European light cavalry 1858–9; C.B. 20 July 1838; commanded Benares division 20 March 1847 to 26 June 1852; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Benares 25 Sep. 1859.
KENNEDY, James. b. Dundee 1801; shoemaker; schoolmaster in the Carse of Gowrie, at Carnoustie and at Lochee; manager of the Tay and Tyne shipping co. to his death, member of town council from 1851 for many years; dean of guild 1861, re-elected 3 times; sec. and manager of Dundee property investment co. from its formation; lectured at the Watt Institution. d. Dundee 25 July 1867. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 295–6.
KENNEDY, James. b. June 1803; M.R.C.S. 1828; author of The history of the contagious cholera with facts explanatory of its origin and laws and of a method of cure 1831, 3 ed. 1832; Medical monopolies with a plan of reform. d. 17 Tavistock sq. London 1868. bur. Highgate cemetery.
KENNEDY, Sir James Shaw (eld. son of John Shaw who served in 76 highlanders). b. The Largs, Straiton parish, Ayrshire 13 Oct. 1788; ensign 43 foot 18 April 1805; served in Denmark, Spain and Portugal; present at Waterloo, where his plan of infantry formation was adopted; A.Q.M.G. of 3 division of Anglo allied army May 1815; commander of establishment formed at Calais to keep up communication between the army and England 1815–18; A.A.G. in Ireland 1826 and in England 1826–36; assumed additional name of Kennedy, April 1834; commanded forces in North Britain 1852; inspector general of Irish constabulary 1836–8; col. of 47 foot 27 Aug. 1854 to death; general 19 Aug. 1862; C.B. 19 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 June 1861; author of A manual of outpost duties 1851; Notes on the defence of Great Britain and Ireland 1859, 4 ed. 1859. d. 8 Circus, Bath 30 May 1865. Notes on the battle of Waterloo. By Sir J. S. Kennedy (1865), with a memoir of his life and services pp. 3–46.
KENNEDY, John (3 son of Robert Kennedy). b. Knocknalling, Kirkcudbright 4 July 1769; apprenticed to Cannan and Smith, machine-maker at Chowbent, Lancashire 1784–91; partner with Benjamin and William Sandford and James M’Connel, machine makers and mill spinners, Manchester 1791; introduced a new motion in cotton spinning called the double speed and improved the jack frame; member of Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. April 1803, contributed papers to Memoirs of the soc. 1815–30; umpire in locomotive competition at Rainhill, Oct. 1829. d. Ardwick hall, Manchester 30 Oct. 1855. John Kennedy’s Early Recollections (1849); Memoirs of Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc. i 147–57 (1862); Smiles’s Industrial Biography (1879) 317–23.
KENNEDY, John (4 son of rev. John Kennedy). b. at the manse of Killearnan, Rossshire 15 Aug. 1819; ed. at Aberdeen univ. 1836, M.A. 1840, D.D. 1873; minister of the Free ch. at Dingwall, Rossshire, Feb. 1844 to death; preached in Gaelic and English, sometimes delivering 10 sermons a week; took part in the Strome Ferry case, an attempt to resist the Sunday traffic on the Highland railway 1883; a leader in the Highlands, of the opposition to the attempted union of the Free and United Presbyterian churches; refused to have an organ or to use uninspired hymns in his church; he was the acknowledged successor of Dr. John Macdonald and was sometimes called the second Apostle of the North; author of Days of the fathers in Rossshire 1861; The apostle of the north, the life and labours of Dr. Macdonald 1866; Man’s relation to God traced in the light of the present truth 1869. d. Bridge of Allan, Stirling 28 April 1884. Auld’s Life of John Kennedy, D.D. (1887), portrait; Biograph, v 241 (1881).
KENNEDY, John Pitt (4 son of rev. John Pitt Kennedy, R. of Carn Donagh, co. Donegal). b. Donagh 8 May 1796; 2 lieut. R.E. 1 Sep. 1815, on h.p. 28 May 1822; 1 lieut. R.E. 1825; sec. to sir Charles Napier and director of public works in island of Cephalonia 1822; sub-inspector of militia, Ionian islands 3 Jany. 1828 to 1 March 1832 when placed on h.p., sold out 1835; inspector general national educational department, Ireland, and teacher of agriculture, Nov. 1837 to March 1839; agent to lord Devon’s estates, co. Limerick 1843; sec. to Irish famine relief commission 1845; military sec. to sir Charles Napier in India 1849; projected with lieut. col. French what is now Bombay Baroda and central India railway 1852, consulting engineer and managing director of the co. 1853; wrote many pamphlets on Indian subjects; M.I.C.E. 3 March 1868; F.S.S.; author of Instruct, employ, don’t hang them, or Ireland tranquilized without soldiers 1835; Lectures on agriculture 1841; Road making in the hills, having reference to the road from Kalka viâ Simla to Kunawar and Thibet 1850; Finances, military occupation, government and industrious development of India 1858. d. 66 St. George’s sq. London 28 June 1879. Min. of proc. of I.C.E. lix 293–8 (1880).
KENNEDY, Patrick. b. co. Wexford 1801; assistant in a training school, Kildare place, Dublin 1823; kept a bookseller’s shop and circulating library, Anglesea place, Dublin to death; wrote in the Dublin Review and Dublin Univ. Mag.; author of Legendary fictions of the Irish Celts 1866, new ed. 1892; The banks of the Boro, a chronicle of Wexford 1867; The bardic stories of Ireland 1871; The book of modern Irish anecdotes 1872; and under the pseud. of Harry Whitney, Legends of Mount Leinster 1855. d. Anglesea place, Dublin 29 March 1873. Dublin Univ. Mag. lxxxi 581–2 (1873).
KENNEDY, Rann (son of Benjamin Kennedy, surgeon at Annapolis in Maryland, d. 1784). b. 1772; lived at Withington near Shrewsbury 1784–91; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1795, M.A. 1798; master in King Edward’s school, Birmingham 1795, second master 1807 to about 1836; C. of St. Paul’s, Birmingham 1797–1817 and P.C. 1817–48; author of A poem on the death of the princess Charlotte 1817; A tribute in verse to the character of George Canning 1827; Britain’s Genius, a mask on occasion of marriage of Victoria, queen of Great Britain 1840. d. at res. of his son Chas. Kennedy, St. Paul’s sq. Birmingham 2 Jany. 1851. B. H. Kennedy’s Between Whiles 2 ed. (1882).
KENNEDY, Richard Hartley. Assistant surgeon Bombay army 30 June 1811, surgeon 1822, physician general 1842, retired 1 May 1843; alderman of ward of Cheap 1853–58; sheriff of London 1855; a director of the Royal British bank opened 17 Nov. 1849, deputy governor Nov. 1849 to Jany. 1850 and 1854–5, bank closed 3 Sep. 1856; tried for fraud with 7 other directors in court of Queen’s Bench, Guildhall 13–27 Feb. 1858 and sentenced to 9 months imprisonment, but released July 1858; resided 11 Ladbroke ter. Notting hill 1855; author of Notes on the epidemic cholera. Calcutta 1827, 2 ed. 1846; Visconti, an historical tragedy 1829; The Relicquary (sic) a collection of poetical fragments 1835; Narrative of the campaign of the army of the Indus 2 vols. 1840; The Sutti, as witnessed at Baroda 1855. d. Great Western hotel, Paddington 24 July 1865. Orridge’s Citizens of London (1867) 163–4; A.R. (1858) 330–9.
KENNEDY, Thomas (1 son of John Kennedy 1730–1816, violin maker, London). b. Houghton st. Clare market, London 21 Jany. 1784; apprentice to Thomas Powell, violin maker 1795; violin maker Princes st. Westminster, then at 364 Oxford st. 1816 to 1849 when he retired from business; worked much for the music trade; made 300 violoncellos; lived at 162 Pentonville road 1849 to death. d. 162 Pentonville road, London 1872. Sandys and Forster’s History of the Violin (1864) 353–4.
KENNEDY, Thomas. b. 1809; solicitor 26 Chancery lane, London 1831 to death; author of The code of practice of the high court of chancery 2 vols. 1843–52, 2 ed. 1845–53; The general orders of the high court of chancery 1850. d. Devonshire road, Balham hill 27 Sep. 1873.
KENNEDY, Thomas Francis (only son of Thomas Kennedy of Dunure, Ayrshire, d. 1819). b. Dalquharran castle, Ayrshire 11 Nov. 1788; ed. at Harrow and at univ. of Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1811; M.P. for Ayr district of burghs 1818–34; chairman of committee on salmon fishing laws 1824; his draft formed basis of Scottish reform bill 1832; clerk of the ordnance 8 Feb. 1832 to 1833; a junior lord of the treasury Nov. 1832 to April 1834; paymaster of the civil services in Ireland 1837–50; P.C. Ireland 1837; comr. of woods and forests 28 Aug. 1850 to 1854; Lord Murray gave him a pension of £1200 a year; author of Letter to lord John Russell from T. F. Kennedy relative to his removal from the office of commissioner of woods 1854; Three letters to H. A. Bruce, secretary for home department on the public prosecutor in Scotland 1869–72; Papers relating to the improvement in the salmon fishery 1872; Two letters relating to a passage in the life of lord Brougham 1872. d. Dalquharran castle 1 April 1879. Scotsman 2 April 1879 pp. 6–7.
KENNEDY, Tristram (brother of John Pitt Kennedy 1796–1879). b. Glebe house, Donagh, co. Donegal 1805; ed. at Foyle college, Londonderry; sheriff of Londonderry 1828; called to Irish bar 1834; founded Dublin Law Institute 1839; M.P. for Louth co. 1852–7 and 1865–8; contested Louth co. 1857, King’s co. 1859 and Donegal 1874. d. Charleville, Weston-Super-Mare 20 Nov. 1885.
KENNEDY, William. b. near Dublin 26 Dec. 1799; ed. at Belfast college 1819; journalist on the Paisley Magazine at Paisley 1828–9; worked with Leitch Ritchie in London 1830–3; private sec. to earl of Durham, governor general of Canada 1838; assist. comr. on enquiry into municipal institutions of Lower Canada, Aug. 1838; British consul at Galveston, Texas, Dec. 1841 to 1847; retired on a pension 1849; edited the Continental annual 1832; author of My early days 1824; Fitful fancies 1827; The arrow and the rose and other poems 1830; The siege of Antwerp 1838; The rise, progress and prospects of the republic of Texas 2 vols. 1841. d. Paris 1871. G. Gilfillan’s History of a man (1856) p. 169; J. Grant Wilson’s Poets of Scotland, ii 213–17 (1877); N. and Q. 2 S. i 113, 163, 183, 342, 400 (1856).
KENNEDY, William. b. 1813; in employment of Hudson Bay Co.; stationed in Labrador 8 years; commander of the Prince Albert, lady Franklin’s searching vessel 22 May 1851, wintered at Batty bay, left the ship, sledge travelling 25 Feb. 1852 and was at Fury Beach 7–29 March, discovered Bellot’s Strait, marched over Prince of Wales’ Land and round North Somerset, being away 97 days and covering 1100 miles with dogs and sledges; returned to Aberdeen, Oct. 1852; author of A short narrative of the second voyage of the Prince Albert in search of sir John Franklin 1853. d. St. Andrew’s, Winnipeg 25 July 1890. Markham’s Arctic Navy list (1875) 27; Times 21 Feb. 1890 p. 10.
KENNEDY, William Denholm. b. Dumfries 16 June 1813; entered R.A. school, London 1833, won the gold medal for his picture Apollo and Idas 1835, awarded the travelling allowance and spent 2 years in Rome 1840–2; exhibited 52 pictures at R.A., 22 at B.I. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1833–65. d. 26 Soho sq. London 2 June 1865.
KENNEDY, William James (4 son of rev. Rann Kennedy 1772–1851). b. 1814; ed. Birmingham gram. sch. and St. John’s coll. Camb., Porson prize for Greek iambics 1835, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1844; sec. of National Soc. for promotion of education 1848; H.M. inspector of schools in north western counties 16 Dec. 1848 to 1878; V. of Barnwood, Gloucs. 1878 to death; author of The conscience clause, read at Manchester congress of social science 1866; Agnosticism, a sermon 1884; The English clergyman and the present times 1887; while giving evidence in house of lords in Berkeley peerage case caught cold, d. Barnwood, June 1891.
KENNEDY-BAILIE, James (son of Nicholas Kennedy, schoolmaster). b. Ireland 1793; pensioner Trin. coll. Dublin 1807, scholar 1810; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1819, B.D. 1823, D.D. 1828; fellow of Trin. coll. 1817 to 29 May 1831, Donnelan lecturer 1824; delivered in Trin. coll. chapel Ten lectures on the philosophy of the Mosaic record of creation, published in 2 vols. 1827; R. of Ardtrea, co. Tyrone 13 Oct. 1830 to death; assumed additional surname of Bailie 1835; author of Æschylus Agamemnon, with a translation 1829; Fasciculus inscriptionum Græcarum 3 vols. 1842–9; The Iliad with notes by J. K. Bailie 1846. d. Ardtrea 18 Jany. 1864. W. B. S. Taylor’s History of the University of Dublin (1845) 497.
KENNELL, John Fisher. b. 1817; sec. of London and Blackwall and London, Tilbury and Southend railway companies before 1866 to death. d. Hornton cottage, Hornton st. Kensington 1 Feb. 1881.
KENNETT, Bradeley. b. 1778; entered Bombay army 1795; colonel 22 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824 to death; general 28 Nov. 1854. d. Coonor, Neilgherry hills 12 Oct. 1857 aged 79, from wounds received at hands of an assassin 8 Oct.
KENNETT, Edward Hoile. Entered R.N. 15 July 1826, served on North America and West India stations; lieut. 12 Nov. 1839; retired commander 3 Jany. 1866; naval knight of Windsor 29 Nov. 1867, governor of the naval knights 15 Aug. 1873 to death; granted pension of £30, 18 April 1871. d. Travers college, Windsor 11 March 1880.
KENNEY, Arthur Henry (youngest son of Edward Kenney, vicar choral and prebendary of Cork). b. 1776 or 1777; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1793; B.A. 1795, M.A. 1800, B.D. 1806, D.D. 1812; fellow Trinity Monday 1800 to 1809; R. of Kilmacrenan, Dublin 15 May 1810; dean of Achonry 27 June 1812 to May 1821 when he resigned; R. of St. Olave, Southwark, London, July 1821 to death; his living was sequestered about 1844; resided abroad during last ten years of his life; edited with his initials Magee’s Discourses on atonement and sacrifice 3 vols. 1832, and The works of W. Magee 1842; published An enquiry concerning some of the doctrines maintained by the church of Rome 1818; Principles and practices of pretended reformers in church and state 1819; Facts and documents illustrative of the history of the period immediately preceding the accession of William III. 1827; The dangerous nature of Popish power in these countries 1839; A comment on the epistles and gospels relating to our Blessed Saviour 2 vols. 1842. d. Boulogne-sur-Mer 27 Jany. 1855.
KENNEY, Charles Lamb (son of James Kenney 1780–1849, dramatist). b. Bellevue near Paris 29 April 1821; Charles Lamb was one of his godfathers; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ sch. 1829 etc.; clerk in the general post office 1837; assistant foreign editor, dramatic critic and scientific reporter on the Times 1840; sec. to sir Joseph Paxton during organization of transport service for the Crimea 1855; barrister I.T. 17 Nov. 1856; sec. to F. De Lesseps 1856–57; on the Standard 1858; one of the wittiest men of his time; author of The gates of the East 1857; Memoirs of M. W. Balfe 1875; adapted more than 20 foreign operas, including Fair Helen 1866, Princess of Trebizonde 1870, The Grand Duchess of Gérolstein 1871 and La Jolie Parfumeuse 1875; wrote Wanted husbands, sketch Drury Lane 1867; Valentine and Orson, pantomime Holborn 1867; Our autumn manœuvres, farce Adelphi 1871; wrote The Vagabond 1871 and other songs. d. Eldon road, Kensington 25 Aug. 1881. Illust. sporting and dr. news 3 Sep. 1881 p. 583; Era 3 Sep. 1881 p. 6; I.L.N. 3 Sep. 1881 pp. 223, 242.
KENNION, Charles John (son of Edward Kennion, artist 1744–1809). b. 1789; water-colour painter; exhibited 26 landscapes at R.A. and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1804–53. d. Robert st. Regent’s park, London 10 Sep. 1853.
KENNION, George. b. 1814; M.D. Edin. 1837; in practice at Harrogate 1837 to death; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1865; physician Harrogate Bath hospital; wrote on Bisulphide of carbon as a cure for the headache in Medical Times 18 July 1868 p. 77; author of On the medical springs of Harrogate 1845; Observations on the medicinal springs of Harrogate 1853, 8 ed. 1872. d. Oak lodge, Harrogate, Yorkshire 30 June 1868 aged 54. Medical Times 18 July 1868 p. 81–2; British Medical Journal, ii 72 (1868).
KENNY, William Stopford. b. 1788; kept a classical school at 5 Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London many years; a good chess player; translated F. A. Danican Philidor’s Analysis of the game of chess 1819; author of Practical chess grammar 1817, 2 ed. 1817; Practical chess exercises 1818; The manual of science 1844; Why and because, a collection of questions and answers on air, water, light and fire 1830, 18 ed. 1854; The grammatical omnibus 8 ed. 1853; Kenny’s School geography or earth and heaven 1856 and many other school books. d. Lower road, Richmond, Surrey 16 Nov. 1867.
KENRICK, Francis Patrick. b. Dublin 3 Dec. 1797; ordained a priest in Rome 1821; conducted a theological seminary at Bardstown, Kentucky, U.S. of America 1821; bishop of Arath; bishop of Philadelphia 1842; archbishop of Baltimore, Aug. 1851 to death; apostolic delegate, presiding over the first plenary council of the U.S. of America at Baltimore, May 1852; primate of the U.S. of America 1859; author of Letters of Omicron to Omega 1828; The primacy of the apostolic see and the authority of general councils vindicated 1838, 2 ed. 1845; Theologia dogmatica 4 vols. 1839–40, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1858; Theologia moralis 3 vols. 1841–3; Letters on christian union 1841; The four gospels translated from the Latin vulgate with notes 1849. d. Baltimore 6 July 1863. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 519 (1887), portrait.
KENRICK, George (4 son of rev. Timothy Kenrick 1759–1804, unitarian commentator). b. Exeter 28 Oct. 1792; ed. at Glasgow coll. and Manchester coll. York; M.A.; unitarian minister at Chesterfield 1813–14, Hull 1815–21, Maidstone 1822–6, Hampstead 1829–45 and Battle 1845–7; a trustee of Dr. Williams’s foundation 1833–60; contributed to the Monthly Repository and other periodicals, and published some sermons 1822–34. d. Tunbridge Wells 2 Dec. 1874. The Inquirer 12 Dec. 1874 pp. 813–4; Appendix to rev. G. Kenrick’s farewell discourse at Hampstead, containing the correspondence which led to his resignation 1845, 2 ed. 1845.
KENRICK, John (brother of the preceding). b. Exeter 4 Feb. 1788; ed. at Exeter academy 1799–1805 when academy was dissolved; studied at Glasgow univ. 1807–10, M.A. 1 May 1810; tutor in classics, history and literature at Manchester college, York 1810–40; professor of history, Manchester New college, Manchester 1840–50; F.S.A. 4 Feb. 1858; author of Exercises on Latin Syntax 1825, 4 ed. 1838; The Egypt of Herodotus with notes 1841; Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs 2 vols. 1850; Phœnicia 1855; Biblical essays 1864. d. 38 Monkgate, York 7 May 1877. J. Martineau’s Essays, reviews and addresses, i 397–421 (1890); Theological Review, July 1877 pp. 374–97.
KENRICK, Timothy (son of Archibald Kenrick). b. 1807; with his father and brother developed the hollow ware trade, retired; a founder of the Nurses’ training institution, Birmingham, for which he purchased a home; a director of Midland railway 1858, deputy chairman; deputy chairman Lloyds’ Banking co. d. Maple Bank, Edgbaston 23 Feb. 1885. Birmingham Weekly Post 28 Feb. 1885 p. 3.
KENSINGTON, William Edwardes, 2 Baron. b. 24 April 1777; succeeded 13 Dec. 1801; M.P. for Haverfordwest 12 Jany. 1802 to 10 June 1818. d. 23 Kensington crescent, London 10 Aug. 1852. G.M. xxxviii 306 (1852).
KENT, Maria Louisa Victoria, Duchess of (6 child and 4 dau. of Francis Frederick Anthony, duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 1750–1806). b. Coburg 17 Aug. 1786. m. (1) 21 Dec. 1803 Ernest Charles prince of Leiningen, he was b. 27 Sep. 1763 and d. 4 July 1814; m. (2) at Coburg 29 May 1818 and at Kew palace 11 July 1818 Edward Augustus duke of Kent and Streathearn, 5 child and 4 son of King George the third, he was b. 2 Nov. 1767 and d. 23 Jany. 1820; mother of queen Victoria. d. of cancer at Frogmore near Windsor 16 March 1861. bur. in royal vault, St. George’s chapel, Windsor 25 March, but moved to mausoleum at Frogmore 1 Aug. Jerdan’s National portrait gallery, iv (1833), portrait; W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery, iv 41, portrait; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 42–54; Sams’s Annual peerage, ii (1827), portrait; T. Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort 5 ed. iii (1878), portrait.
KENT, George. b. Tunbridge Wells 1806; an apprentice to the wire work trade in Chelsea; a window blind maker, Constitution row, Gray’s Inn road, London; took out a patent dated 12 June 1844 for a knife cleaning machine; knife cleaning machine maker at 329 Strand, 218 Regent st. and 101 Holborn to 1854; manufacturer of labor saving articles of domestic utility at 199 High Holborn 1854 to death; his name has become a household word all over the civilized world. d. Southwood, 72 Southwood lane, Highgate 23 May 1890.
Note.—His eldest son George E. Kent d. 12 Manor villas, Theydon Bois, Essex 30 Jany. 1892 aged 54.
KENT, George H. b. London 1809; reporter on rowing, sailing matches, pedestrianism, cricket and shooting matches to all the London daily and weekly papers except The Times and Bell’s Life from 1826; police reporter at Queen square for the Morning Post 1838. d. Brighton 6 June 1883. The Town 10 March 1838 p. 323.
KENT, James Henry. b. 1810; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; surgeon at Stanton near Bury St. Edmunds; famous for his scientific preparation of medicinal extracts and dried pharmaceutical herbs, for which he gained medals at great exhibitions of London 1851, Paris 1855 and New York 1853; author of Remarks on the injuriousness of the consolidation of small farms and the benefit of small occupations 1844. d. Stanton 22 Oct. 1855.
Note.—His elder brother Walton Kent, educ. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; fellow of Obstetrical Soc.; L.S.A. 1827; surgeon at Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk about 1832–62; carried on the above business after his brother’s death; author of Essay on lingering or protracted labour 1828. d. Walsham 24 June 1862.
KENTISH, John (only son of John Kentish, draper, d. 1814). b. St. Albans 26 June 1768; ed. at Daventry academy 1784–8, at Hackney college 1788–90; unitarian minister at Plymouth Dock 1790, chapel in George st. opened 27 April 1791; minister of Treville st. chapel, Plymouth 1794–5; afternoon preacher at the Gravel Pit, Hackney 1795; morning preacher at St. Thomas’s chapel, Southward 1802; pastor of New Meeting, Birmingham 23 Jany. 1803 to 1844; author of A Letter to James White on the unitarian christians in West of England 1794; A vindication of the principles upon which unitarian christians recommend their views by the distribution of books 2 ed. 1800; Notes and comments on passages of scripture 1844, 3 ed. 1848. d. Park Vale, Edgbaston, Birmingham 6 March 1853. J. Kenrick’s Memoir of J. Kentish (1854), portrait.
KENYON, George Kenyon, 2 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron Kenyon 1732–1802). b. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 22 July 1776; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1814; succeeded his father as 2 baron 4 April 1802; barrister M.T. 3 May 1793, bencher 1811 to death, reader 1815, treasurer 1823; custos brevium of court of queen’s bench 1802–37 when office was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837; a comr. for building churches; F.S.A.; a trustee of the Theological seminary in Ohio 1825; the 77th anniversary of his birthday celebrated by a public festivity at Hanmer, Flint 22 July 1853; author of Observations on the Roman Catholic question 1810, 4 ed. 1812. d. Gredington hall, Flintshire 25 Feb. 1855. bur. at Hanmer. I.L.N. xxiii 112, 113 (1853).
KENYON, Lloyd Kenyon, 3 Baron. b. Gredington hall, Flintshire 1 April 1805; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; succeeded 25 Feb. 1855; M.P. for St. Michael’s, Cornwall 1830–2. d. Eastbourne, Sussex 14 July 1869. Reg. and mag. of biog. ii 87 (1869).
KENYON, John (son of Mr. Kenyon of parish of Trelawney, Jamaica, sugar planter). b. parish of Trelawney, Jamaica 1784; ed. at Sawyer’s school, Bristol, the Charterhouse, London, and Peter house, Camb. 1808; studied chemistry under W. Nicholson in Soho square; friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, C. Lamb and other literary celebrities; a well known gastronome; published Rhymed plea for tolerance 1833, 2 ed. 1839; Poems for the most part occasional 1838; A day at Tivoli with other verses 1849. d. Cowes, Isle of Wight 3 Dec. 1856. bur. in Lewisham churchyard. G.M. ii 309–15 (1857).
Note.—Browning sent him the poem Andrea del Sarto from Florence, and in 1856 while staying in his house in England Mrs. Browning finished Aurora Leigh and dedicated it to Kenyon. He left by his will 80 legacies to 80 of his literary friends, the poets included were Robert Browning £6,500, Mrs. Browning £4000, B. W. Procter known as Barry Cornwall £6500.
KENYON, John Robert (3 son of succeeding). b. 13 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, B.C.L. 1831, D.C.L. 1836; fellow of All Souls 1828; barrister M.T. May 1834; judge and assessor of chancellor’s court of univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1840 to Nov. 1859; recorder of Oswestry 1 June 1842 to death; Vinerian prof. of common law in univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1843 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1862; bencher of his inn 19 Nov. 1862 to death, treasurer 1874; chairman of Shropshire quarter sessions March 1871. d. The Pradoe, Erdiston, West Felton, Shropshire 17 April 1880. Law Times, lxix 34 (1880).
KENYON, Thomas (youngest son of 1 baron Kenyon 1732–1802). b. 27 Sep. 1780; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1801; filazer, exigenter and clerk of the outlawries office in the Inner Temple 1807–37 when office was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837; chairman of court of quarter sessions, Shropshire 1830 or 1831 to 1850. d. The Pradoe, co. Salop 4 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvi 649–51 (1851).
KEOGH, William Nicholas (eld. son of William M. Keogh of Corkip, co. Roscommon, clerk of the crown for the city and co. of Kilkenny, d. July 1865). b. Gardiner st. Dublin 7 Dec. 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., LL.D. 1866; called to bar in Ireland 1840, went the Connaught circuit; M.P. for Athlone Aug. 1847 to Feb. 1856; Q.C. 23 May 1850; solicitor gen. for Ireland, Dec. 1852 to March 1855, attorney gen. March 1855 to Feb. 1856; P.C. Ireland 1855; justice of the common pleas March 1856, of the common pleas division 1 Jany. 1878 to death; with Mr. Justice Fitzgerald tried the Fenian prisoners 1865; tried the Galway county election petition 1872 and henceforth was denounced by the Roman Catholics and went in fear of his life; author of Ireland under Lord de Grey 1844; Ireland imperialised; Milton’s prose, a lecture 1863; with M. J. Barry A treatise on the practice of the court of chancery in Ireland 1840. d. Bingen on the Rhine 30 Sep. 1878. bur. cemetery of R.C. ch. at Bonn 3 Oct. Sullivan’s New Ireland (1877) i 331–53; O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit (1885) 255–60; Law mag. and law review, iv 62–72 (1878); Irish Law times, xii 498–500 (1878); I.L.N. xvi 261 (1850), portrait; Graphic, vi 90, 95 (1872), portrait.
KEON, Myles Gerald (only son of Myles Gerald Keon, barrister, d. 1824). b. Keonbrooke, co. Leitrim 20 Feb. 1821; ed. at Stonyhurst 8 years; served in French army in Algeria a short time; student at Gray’s Inn, admitted 11 Nov. 1840; edited Dolman’s Magazine, April to Nov. 1846; on the staff of the Morning Post 1847–58, went as its representative to St. Petersburgh 1850 and 1856; colonial secretary at Bermuda, March 1859 to death; author of The life of the Roman patrician Alexis 1847; a novel called Harding the Money-Spinner, in the London Journal 1852 published in 3 vols. 1879; Dion and the Sibyls, a romance of the first century 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. New York 1871. d. Bermuda 3 June 1875. Stonyhurst Mag. March and June 1886; Boucher de Perthes’ Voyage en Russie en 1856 (1859), passim.
KER, Alan. b. 1820; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; attorney general of Antigua 1851–54; chief justice of Nevis 1854–6; chief justice of Dominica 1856–61; puisne judge of supreme court of Jamaica 1861 to death; author of Remarks on the representative system as illustrated by the defeat of Mr. Macaulay at Edinburgh 1847. d. Kingston, Jamaica 20 March 1885.
KER, Charles Henry Bellenden (son of John Bellenden Ker, botanist 1765–1842). b. about 1785; barrister L.I. 28 June 1814; a member of the boundary commission 1830–2, of the public records commission, of the criminal and statute law commission 1833; head of the board to consider consolidation of statute law 1853 and of the royal commission on same subject 1854; suggested and prepared the Leases and Sales of settled estates act 1856 and Lord Cranworth’s act 1860; conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852–60; recorder of Andover 1842 to July 1855; one of the first private growers of orchids; wrote a series of articles in the Gardeners’ Chronicle under the pseudonym ‘Dodman’; F.R.S. to 1831; lived at Cannes 1860 to death; author of The question of registry or no registry considered, with reference to the interests of landholders 1830; Shall we register our deeds? 1853. d. Cannes 2 Nov. 1871.
KER, David Stewart (only son of David Ker of Montalto, co. Down). b. 5 Nov. 1816; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841; M.P. co. Down 1852–57; M.P. Downpatrick 1859–67. d. Crawfordsburn 8 Oct. 1878.
KER, John. b. farmhouse of Bield, parish of Tweedsmuir, Peebleshire 7 April 1819; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; entered divinity hall of united secession church 1838; minister of Clayport st. ch. Alnwick, Feb. 1845, of East Campbell st. ch. Glasgow 19 March 1851, removed to a new ch. in Sydney place 28 Nov. 1857; his health broke down May 1858, spent many winters abroad, resumed work 1872; D.D. Edin. 1869; professor of practical training in theological hall of his church 1876 to death; author of The psalms in history and biography 1886; Scottish nationality and other papers 1887; Lectures on the history of preaching 2 ed. 1888. d. Hermitage, Murrayfield, Edinburgh 4 Oct. 1886. United Presbyterian Mag. Nov. 1886 pp. 485–89 and Dec. pp. 534–40; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3rd Series (1851) 272–80.
KERFERD, George Briscoe (eld. son of Joseph Kerferd of Liverpool, merchant). b. Liverpool 1831; emigrated to Victoria 1852, a territorial magistrate 1856, carried on a large business in Beechwood, mayor 4 times; member for the Oven’s district of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864 to Dec. 1885; minister of mines and vice pres. of board of lands and works 1866–68; called to bar in Victoria 12 Dec. 1867; solicitor general 10 June 1872 to April 1874, attorney general 2 May 1874 to 7 Aug. 1875 and 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877, premier 31 July 1874 to 7 Aug. 1875; a judge of supreme court of Victoria, Dec. 1885 to death; edited with Mr. Box, Digest of all decisions of supreme court of Victoria 1846–71. d. Sorrento, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1889.
KERFOOT, John Barrett. b. Dublin 1 March 1816; taken to U.S. America 1819; ordained protestant episcopal minister 1837; master of St. James’ hall, Maryland and then of the college of St. James 1842–64; president of Trinity coll.; first bishop of Pittsburg, consecrated 25 Jany. 1866; attended first and second conferences at Lambeth 1875, and the Old Catholic conference Bonn 1875; D.D. of Columbia coll. 1850, and of Trinity 1865; LLD. of Camb. 1867. d. Meyersdale, Pennsylvania 10 July 1881. Appleton’s American Biog. iii 524 (1887), portrait; H. G. Batterson’s Sketch book of American episcopate (1878) 219.
KERR, Robert. b. 1806; entered navy 2 Dec. 1819, captain 1 Jany. 1850, retired R.A. 6 April 1866, retired admiral 21 March 1878. d. 14 Suffolk sq. Cheltenham 29 Oct. 1886.
KERR, Walter Montagu (3 son of lord Charles Lennox Kerr b. 1814, capt. 42 regt.) b. June 1852; made a journey from Cape of Good Hope by the Zambesi to Lake Nyassa 1885; left England intending to cross Africa from Zanzibar and to visit Emin Pasha 1887, when at Mombassa ready to start fell ill of fever; author of The far interior, a narrative of travel and adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the lake regions of Central Africa 2 vols. 1886. d. South of France 23 April 1888.
KERRICK, Richard Edward. Ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., 7 senior optime and B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, ordained 1830; F.S.A. 11 March 1830, gave to the society 3 portraits and a collection of 4000 coins, chiefly Roman 22 Nov. 1849. d. 13 Free school lane, Cambridge 13 May 1872.
KERRISON, Sir Edward, 1 Baronet (only son of Matthias Kerrison 1742–1827). b. Hexney hall near Bungay 30 July 1776; cornet 6 dragoons 23 June 1796; lieut. col. 7 dragoons 4 April 1805 to 28 Sep. 1826; col. of 14 light dragoons 18 June 1830 to death; served in the Helder expedition 1799, in Spain, and at Waterloo; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 22 June 1815; baronet by patent dated 27 July 1821; K.C.H. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.H. 1831; K.C.B. 18 July 1840; M.P. Shaftesbury 1812–18; M.P. Northampton 1818–24; M.P. Eye 1824–52. m. 20 Oct. 1813 Mary Martha dau. of Alexander Ellice of Pittencreff, Fife. d. 13 Great Stanhope st. London 9 March 1853. I.L.N. xxii 227, 323 (1853); Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii 131 (1833), portrait of lady Kerrison.
KERRISON, Sir Edward Clarence, 2 Baronet (1 son of preceding). b. The Wick, Brighton 2 Jany. 1821; M.P. Eye 1852–66; M.P. East Suffolk 1866–67; steward of H.M. manor of Northstead, York; succeeded 9 March 1853; a great friend of the agricultural labourers; established the Thorndown reformatory; instrumental in erecting Albert memorial coll. Framlingham; took part in laying down Mellis and Eye railway; president of R. Agricultural soc. at Plymouth 1865; a good shot, a good coachman; master of Norfolk hounds 1869. d. Brome hall, Scole, Norfolk 12 July 1886. Baily’s Mag. xxiv 125–6 (1874), portrait; Public men of Ipswich (1875) 35–42.
KERRY, Elizabeth. Her husband died 179-; lived with her dau. at Needham Market, Suffolk; received many presents on her birthdays; living Oct. 1859 aged 105. I.L.N. xxxv 358 (1859), portrait.
KERSHAW, James (son of T. Kershaw a working man). b. Manchester 1795; clerk in firm of Lees, Millington & Cullender, cotton spinners, Manchester 1811, became a partner, afterwards head of firm of Kershaw, Lees and Sidebottom; set the Mersey mills at Stockport to work employing 1200 hands 1842; member of council of anti-corn law league 1838; instrumental in obtaining municipal franchise for Manchester 1838; mayor of Manchester 1842–43; M.P. Stockport 1847 to death. d. the Manor house, Streatham, Surrey 27 April 1864, personalty sworn under £300,000, 16 July 1864. I.L.N. xvi 213 (1850), portrait.
KERSHAW, John (3 son of William Kershaw, shoemaker). b. Lower Fold, Healey, parish of Rochdale 25 Aug. 1792; baptized 24 May 1809, preached his first sermon 9 Jany. 1814; minister of Hope st. Baptist chapel, Rochdale 1817 to death; the means of establishing chapels at Bacup and Goodshaw; celebrated his jubilee at Hope chapel 6 March 1867 when he was presented with £325; a well known preacher in London, Manchester, &c.; author of A protest against the doctrine that a child of God cannot backslide 1848. d. Rochdale 11 Jany. 1870. The Rochdale Observer 15 Jany. 1870 p. 4, 22 Jany. p. 5; Memorials, being the autobiography of J. Kershaw (1870).
KERSHAW, John. b. Liverpool 24 Dec. 1816; a member of Unitarian body to 1837; ordained a R.C. priest 1840, missioner at Neston, Cheshire 1843; priest at Barton-on-Irwell 1844 to death; domestic prelate to the Pope 1879 with title of Monseignor; canon and rural dean of diocese of Salford. d. All Saints’, Barton 31 May 1890. Tablet 7 June 1890 p. 904.
KERSLAKE, Thomas. b. Exeter, July 1812; second-hand bookseller with his brother-in-law Samuel Cornish in Barton alley, Bristol 1830–9, alone at Park st. 1839–70; he acquired a reputation as a bookseller that has been eclipsed only by B. Quaritch, his catalogues were literary curiosities; collected antiquarian and archæological books, many of which were destroyed in a fire 1860; author of The word ‘Metropolis.’ The ancient word Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Bristol and Fossil Taunton. Three essays. Bristol 1880; Traces of the ancient kingdom of Damnonia outside Cornwall in remains of Celtic hagiology 1878; Vestiges of the supremacy of Mercia in the south of England 1878. d. Wynfred, Clevedon 5 Jany. 1891. Index catalogue of the Somerset archæological society library, Taunton (1889) p. 99; N. and Q. 3 Ser. ix 193, 398 (1866); Athenæum 10 Jany. 1891 p. 53.
KESSLER, Ferdinand Mozart. b. 1849; subconductor of music North Woolwich gardens; musical director and conductor at Brighton theatre 1872 to death; composer of I have wandered by the crystal stream, ballad 1877; The château Florence, polka 1879; Love’s impulse, a song 1879; The outpost, a march for the pianoforte 1884. d. Brighton 4 June 1888.
KESSON, John. b. Aberdeen; private sec. to Joseph Hume, M.P.; a transcriber on the catalogue of the British Museum 1838, retired 1857; a French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Icelandic scholar; contributed to the Critic, Literary Gazette and New Quarterly Review, and was editor of last numbers of each of these publications in 1863, 1862 and 1862; resided in Paris as a newspaper correspondent 1857 &c.; employed at South Kensington museum in preparing the Universal catalogue of books on art 1869; compiled A catalogue of the Dyce books in the South Kensington museum 1875; editor of Travels in Scotland, by J. G. Kohl, a translation 1844; The childhood of king Erik Menved, by S. B. Ingemann, a translation 1846; author of The cross and the dragon, or the fortunes of christianity in China 1854; with R. T. Scott, A complete guide to the British museum 1843. d. 1876. Cowtan’s Memories of British museum (1872) 311–16.
KESTEVEN, John Trollope, 1 Baron (eld. son of sir John Trollope 6 baronet 1766–1820). b. Casewick house, Stamford 8 May 1800; ed. at Eton; cornet 10 hussars 10 July 1817; succeeded his father 28 April 1820; sheriff of Lincolnshire 1825; chairman of Lincolnshire quarter sessions; M.P. South Lincolnshire 1841–68; president of poor law board for England 3 March 1852 to 31 Dec. 1852; P.C. 5 March 1852; master of Cottesmore hounds 1855–69; created baron Kesteven of Casewick, co. Lincoln 15 April 1868. d. 6 Cavendish sq. London 17 Dec. 1874. I.L.N. xxi 459 (1852), portrait, lxvi 22, 115 (1875).
KETCHEN, James. Second lieut. Madras artillery 1806, colonel 26 March 1844 to death; L.G. 12 Oct. 1857. d. Kingillie, Nairn 8 June 1862.
KETTLE, John Lucena Ross (eld. son of John Kettle of Overseale, co. Leicester). b. Overseale 1809; ed. at Shrewsbury and Ex. coll. Oxf.; B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835, B.C.L. 1838; exhibitioner of Lincoln coll. 1831–6, fellow 1836 to death; barrister L.I. 29 Jany. 1840; practised as conveyancer in New square; author of Letter to rev. James Thompson on proceedings at Lincoln college on election of rector 1851; Letter to the rev. T. E. Espin on close fellowships at Oxford 1851. d. Old Government house, Guernsey 27 Jany. 1872. Law Times, lii 279, 301, 375 (1872).
KETTLE, Robert (son of a farmer). b. in village of Kintillo at foot of the Ochill hills, Forfar 18 Dec. 1761; a weaver at Perth; in W. Kelly & Co.’s cotton mill, Glasgow 1815–29; president of Glasgow abstinence soc. 1831–46; president of Scottish temperance union 1838; editor Scottish Temperance journal 1 Jany. 1839; left the Presbyterian ch. and joined the Baptists 1834; took part in formation of Evangelical Alliance 1845; president of Scottish Temperance league 1848; author of Compulsoryism and endowments exposed. Glasgow 1837. d. Glasgow 23 March 1852. Temperance memorials of Robert Kettle (1854), memoir pp. ix–xcvi; S. Couling’s History of temperance movement (1862) 136, 318–19.
KEY, Sir Astley Cooper (2 son of Charles Aston Key, surgeon 1793–1849). b. 18 Jany. 1821; entered navy 2 Aug. 1835; captain 11 Oct. 1850; commanded the Amphion frigate in the Baltic 1854–5; commanded a battalion of naval brigade at capture of Canton 28–9 Dec. 1857, arrested Yeh the Chinese governor Jany. 1858; member of royal commission on national defence 1858–60; captain of the Excellent and superintendent of royal naval college 1863–6; R.A. 20 Nov. 1866; director general of naval ordnance 1866–9; superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard 1869–70 and of Malta dockyard 1870–72; planned Royal naval college, Greenwich, opened Feb. 1873, pres. Dec. 1872 to Jany. 1876; commander-in-chief on North American and West Indian station Dec. 1875 to May 1878; admiral 21 March 1878, retired 18 Jany. 1886; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 1878–86; first naval lord of the admiralty 1879–85; granted special pension of £500 a year 1885; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873, G.C.B. 24 Nov. 1882; P.C. 11 Aug. 1884; F.R.S. 4 June 1868; D.C.L. Oxf. 1880; author of A narrative of the recovery of H.M.S. Gorgon stranded in the bay of Monte Video 10 May 1844. 1847. d. Laggan house, North Town, Maidenhead 3 March 1888, portrait in library of royal naval college 1876. Proc. of Royal Soc. xliii pp. ix–xi (1888).
KEY, George William. b. 6 Feb. 1812; cornet 16 lancers 5 July 1831; lieut. 15 hussars 1834, lieut. col. 9 Feb. 1847 to 23 Sep. 1859 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general cavalry brigade, Curragh 1861–6; col. of 11 hussars 29 March 1868, and 15 hussars 19 Nov. 1871 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; placed on retired list 1 July 1881. d. the Manor house, Coates near Cirencester 20 Aug. 1883.
KEY, Henry Cooper (eld. son of Charles Aston Key, surgeon 1793–1849). b. London 1819; ed. at private schools and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; R. of Stretton, Sugwas, Hereford 1846 to death; invented method of grinding glass mirrors for Newtonian reflectors; discovered remarkable depression in the moon’s surface which has been named after him; F.R.A.S. 9 Nov. 1860. d. Stretton rectory 25 Dec. 1879. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xl 199 (1880).
KEY, Sir John (eld. son of John Key of Denmark hill, Surrey, d. 28 Aug. 1821). b. 16 Aug. 1794; wholesale stationer 97 and 103 Newgate st. London; alderman for Langbourn ward 8 April 1823, and for Bridge without 1851 to 7 June 1853 when he resigned; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1824; master of Stationers’ Co. 1830; lord mayor 1830 and 1831; baronet by patent dated 17 Aug. 1831; chamberlain of city of London 30 May 1853 to death; M.P. city of London 12 Dec. 1832 to Aug. 1833. d. Streatham, Surrey 15 July 1858. London’s Roll of fame (1884) 209, portrait.
Note.—He was one of the leading supporters of the reform bill in the city, and was re-elected lord mayor in 1831 as an expression in favour of reform upon the part of the city.
KEY, Thomas Hewitt (youngest son of Thomas Key of London, physician). b. Southwark, London 20 March 1799; ed. at Buntingford, Herts, and St. John’s and Trin. colls. Camb., scholar of Trin. coll. 1819; 19 wr. and B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824; studied at Guy’s hospital 1822–24; professor of mathematics in univ. of Virginia at Charlottesville 1825–27; professor of Latin in London univ. 1828–42, university opened 1 Oct. 1828, professor of comparative grammar univ. coll. London 1842 to death; joint head master with professor Henry Malden of the univ. school in Gower st. 1833–42 and head master alone 1842 to death when he left 600 scholars; president of philological society of London; introduced the crude-form system of teaching classical languages 1831; author of The Alphabet 1844, 2 ed. 1849; A Latin grammar on the system of crude forms 1845, 5 ed. 1863; Philological essays 1868; A Latin-English dictionary 1888. d. 21 Westbourne sq. London 29 Nov. 1875. bur. Highgate cemetery 6 Dec., marble bust by T. Woolner, R.A. in Univ. coll. London. Proc. of royal society, xxiv 10–16 (1876); I.L.N. lxvii 566, 581 (1875).
KEYL, Friedrich Wilhelm. b. Frankfort-on-the-Maine 17 Sep. 1823; pupil of sir Edwin Landseer in London 1845; an animal painter; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. and 34 at B.I. 1847–72; naturalised 6 March 1858; illustrated Scenes and stories of the Rhine, by Miss M. B. Edwards 1863; Wonders and curiosities of animal life, by G. Kearley 1878, and 12 other books 1863–78. d. London 5 Dec. 1873.
KEYWORTH, Thomas (son of Thomas Keyworth, bookseller). b. Nottingham 1782; converted from unitarianism and ed. at Cheshunt coll.; congregational minister at Sleaford, Ashborn, Runcorn, Wantage, London, Faversham, Milton and Nottingham successively; minister at Aston Tirrold, Berkshire 1842 to Dec. 1851; with bishops of Durham and Salisbury promoted system of garden allotments for the poor; author of A daily expositor of the New Testament 1825; A practical exposition of the Revelation of St. John 1828; A pocket expositor of the New Testament 1834, 2 ed. 1835; author with David Jones of Principia Hebraica 1817, another ed. 1825. d. Cheltenham 7 Nov. 1852. Congregational yearbook (1853) 212–13.
KIALLMARK, George Frederick (eld. son of George Kiallmark, musical composer 1781–1835). b. Camden st. Islington 7 Nov. 1804; studied music at Rouen and Paris 1820–5; pupil of Moscheles; gave his first public concert at King’s theatre, London 1832; his playing on the piano was remarkable for delicacy of touch, played Chopin’s works superbly; taught the piano at his residence 29 Percy st. Tottenham court road from 1842. d. 5 Pembridge gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Dec. 1887, bust by E. H. Baily 1845. Musical Keepsake (1834), portrait.
KICKHAM, Charles Joseph (son of a shopkeeper). b. Mullinahone, co. Tipperary 1826; sight and hearing damaged by an explosion of gunpowder; took part in young Ireland movement 1848; became a Fenian about 1860; one of the triumvirate appointed by James Stephens to govern projected Irish republic 1865; one of the editors of “Irish people” newspaper, which was suppressed 15 Sep. 1865; arrested 11 Nov. 1865, tried for treason felony, sentenced to 14 years imprisonment, served nearly 4 years; contested Tipperary as the national candidate 23 Feb. 1870, Denis Heron, Q.C. declared elected by 4 votes on scrutiny 26 Feb. 1870; author of Sally Cavanagh or the untenanted graves, a tale 1869, written in prison; Poems, sketches and narratives illustrative of Irish life 1870; Knocknagow or the homes of Tipperary 1879, a novel; For the old land, a tale of twenty years ago 1886, another ed. 1887. d. Blackrock near Dublin 21 Aug. 1882. C. J. Kickham’s Sally Cavanagh (1869), portrait; J. H. McCarthy’s Ireland since the union (1887) 183, 187, 188, 307–308; Sir C. G. Duffy’s Four years of Irish history (1883) 658–59.
KIDD, John (son of John Kidd, captain of a merchant ship). b. London 10 Sep. 1775; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Oxf., student 1793, B.A. 1797, M.A. 1800, M.B. 1801, M.D. 1804; studied at Guy’s hospital 1797–1801; chemical lecturer at Oxf. 1801, Aldrich’s professor of chemistry 1803–22, reader in anatomy on Dr. Lee’s foundation 1816, regius professor of physic 1822–51; physician to Radcliffe infirmary 1808–26; Radcliffe librarian 1834 to death; candidate of R.C.P. 31 March 1817, a fellow 16 March 1818, Harveian orator 1836; F.R.S. 28 March 1822; F.L.S. 1835; author of Outlines of mineralogy 2 vols. Oxford 1809; On the adaptation of external nature to the physical condition of man (The Second Bridgewater treatise) 1833, 6 ed. 1852; Observations on medical reform 1841. d. 37 St. Giles’s street, Oxford 17 Sep. 1851. Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians, iii 178 (1878).
KIDD, Joseph Bartholomew. b. 1808; an original associate of Royal Scottish Academy 1826, an academician 1829–38; taught drawing at Greenwich from 1838; chiefly painted scenery of Scotland; painted a portrait of the Queen for Royal hospital schools, Greenwich; illustrated The miscellany of natural history, by sir T. D. Lauder 1833. d. 24 Egerton road, Greenwich 7 May 1889.
KIDD, William. b. Edinburgh about 1790; exhibited 33 pictures at R.A., 68 at B.I. and 88 at Suffolk st. 1817–53; many of his pictures were engraved; hon. member of Royal Scottish academy 1849; had a pension from Royal Academy; made 12 original paintings in illustration of Poems of Robert Burns which were engraved 1832. d. London 24 Dec. 1863.
KIDD, William. b. 1803; apprenticed to Baldwin, Craddock and Joy, booksellers, London; bookseller at Chandos st., at Regent st. to 1859 when he sold his business; published London Journal 24 numbers May to Oct. 1835 dealing with natural history; Kidd’s Own Journal 1852–4 re-issued in 5 vols.; built a fine aviary in the New road, Hammersmith, which was burnt down; delivered many lectures in the country from 1859; author of Kidd’s New guide to the lions of London 1832; Kidd’s Picturesque steam-boat companion to Herne Bay 1832; Kidd’s Picturesque pocket companion to Dover 1835. d. 3 Talbot villas, New road, Hammersmith 7 Jany. 1867.
KIDD, William John (son of W. H. Kidd, captain E.I.C.S.). b. 1808 or 1809; ed. at St. Bees; C. of St. Anne, Manchester 1834–36; P.C. of St. Matthew, Manchester 1836–41; R. of Didsbury, Lancs. 1841 to death; author of Reflections on unitarianism. Manchester 1835; The Sunday question considered in the light of holy scripture 1856; Bible class notes on the epistle to the Hebrews 1857; killed at Didsbury railway station 17 Dec. 1880.
KIDSTONE, William (son of rev. William Kidstone, secession minister, Stowe, co. Edinburgh). b. Stowe 9 Sep. 1768; ed. at Stirling gram. sch. and Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister of East Campbell st. chapel, Glasgow 18 Oct. 1791 to 1838; the first to establish Bible classes; chief originator of Friendly Clerical Soc. in Glasgow 1793; president Glasgow missionary soc.; clerk of the synod in presbytery of Glasgow 1795–1836; an original member of Evangelical Alliance; D.D. d. Ibroxholm, Glasgow 23 Oct. 1852. J. Kerr and J. Macfarlane’s Christian Old age, the life of W. Kidstone (1852); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 369–77.
KIERNAN, Francis. b. Ireland 2 Oct. 1800; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s hospital; held anatomy classes at his residence Charterhouse sq., suppressed by the hospital 1825; M.R.C.S. Nov. 1825, F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1850, member of court of examiners 1862, V.P. 1864, gave his collections to the Hunterian museum; made discoveries respecting the structure of and circulation through the liver; F.R.S. 18 Dec. 1834, Copley medal 1836; one of founders of univ. of London 1836, member of the senate, examiner in anatomy and physiology 1840–61; made a fine collection of engravings of sacred subjects; author of Anatomical researches on the structure of the liver. d. 30 Manchester st. Manchester sq. London 31 Dec. 1874. bur. R.C. cemet. Mortlake 4 Jany. 1875. Medical Times, Jany. 1875 pp. 22–23, 52; Nature 7 Jany. 1875 p. 193.
KILBY, Thomas (son of John Kilby of Leeds). b. York 1794; matric. from Queen’s coll. Oxf. 20 March 1816 aged 21; C. of Linton in Craven 1820; R. of Alverthorp to 1825; P.C. of St. John’s, Wakefield 1825 to death; author of Scenery in the vicinity of Wakefield with descriptive account 1843; Views in Wakefield 1853; Sermons 1866. d. St. John’s parsonage, Wakefield 5 Sep. 1868. Wakefield Journal and Examiner 11 Sep. 1868 p. 3.
KILLEN, Thomas Young (son of Edward Killen, merchant). b. Ballymena, co. Antrim 30 Oct. 1826; ed. at Belfast college; licensed to preach by presbytery of Carrickfergus 19 May 1848; minister of 3rd Ramelton, co. Donegal 25 Sep. 1850, of Ballykelly, co. Londonderry 1857–62; took a leading part in Ulster revival 1859; minister of Duncairn church, Belfast 26 Feb. 1862; moderator of Irish general assembly 1882; created D.D. by presbyterian theological faculty 1883; edited The Evangelical Witness, a monthly mag. 4 years; author of A Sacramental Catechism. Belfast 1874. d. Duncairn manse, Antrim road, Belfast 21 Oct. 1886.
KILLICK, Henry. b. Crabtree near Horsham July 1837; a carpenter at Brighton; scored 182 runs not out in the cricket match Sussex v. 22 veterans and colts of Sussex, Sep. 1865; kept wicket for Sussex; played his first match at Lords 9–10 July 1866; engaged on the Sussex county ground at Hove, Brighton 1873–4; fell down dead in Brighton 22 Nov. 1877.
KILMOREY, Francis Jack Needham, 2 Earl of. b. 12 Dec. 1787; M.P. for Newry 1819–26; styled viscount Newry and Morne 1822–32; succeeded his father as 2 earl 30 Nov. 1832. d. Gordon house, Isleworth, Middlesex 20 June 1880. Some professional recollections. By A former member of council of the Incorporated Law Society (1883) 93–118.
KILNER, Thomas. b. London 1777; a provincial actor; appeared at Park theatre, New York 1815 and was always known as Old Tom Kilner; lessee with Mr. Clarke of Federal st. theatre, Boston 1821, and appeared as sir Anthony Absolute, his wife playing Lucy 28 Sep. 1821; his other chief characters were Polonius, Squire Hawthorn and Capt. Copp; retired from the stage 1831. d. on his farm, Wilmington, Dearborn county, Indiana 2 Jany. 1862.
KILPACK, Thomas. b. 1794; proprietor of Gliddon’s divan 42 King st. Covent Garden (started by Arthur Gliddon, tobacconist 1825) 1828 or 1829 to death, where he had also a bowling alley; much frequented by artists, authors and actors. d. 42 King st. Covent Garden, London 10 Aug. 1874. The Town, i 75 (1837).
Note.—His dau. Miss S. L. Kilpack exhibited 2 sea pictures at the British Institution in 1867.
KILVERT, Francis (eld. son of Francis Kilvert of Bath). b. Westgate st. Bath, Good Friday 1793; ed. at Hungerford, Bath gr. sch. and Worc. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1824; assist. master at Bath gr. sch.; C. of Claverton near Bath 1816; took private pupils in Bath and Claverton; edited Literary remains of Bishop Warburton 1841; published in vol. 14 of The works of W. Warburton 1811, A selection from unpublished papers of W. Warburton bishop of Gloucester; author of Pinacothecae Historicae specimen 2 vols. 1848–50; Ralph Allan and Prior park 1857; Memoirs of the life and writings of Richard Hurd 1860; Sermons preached at Christ Church, Bath 1827; Fourteen sermons at St. Mary’s, Bathwick 1837. d. Claverton lodge, Bath 16 Sep. 1863. Remains in verse and prose of F. Kilvert, with a brief memoir pp. ix–xx, Bath (1866), portrait.
KIMBER, Thomas. M.A.; L.C.P.; conductor of classical and military establishment, Holland house, Lee road, Blackheath 1854; master at Haberdashers’ school, 103 Bunhill row, Hoxton; author of Construction of Vauban’s first system, six drawings as executed at Sandhurst and Addiscombe 1851; A mathematical course for the university of London 1853; Students’ casual papers, Holland house, Blackheath 1857; Selections of examination questions in arithmetic and algebra selected from papers set at college of preceptors, college of surgeons, London matriculation and Oxford and Cambridge local examinations 1879; London graduation mathematics, 41 years’ questions set at the university of London for the degrees of B.A. and B.Sc. 1880.
KINAHAN, Sir Edward Hudson Hudson-, 1 Baronet (2 son of Robert Henry Kinahan, whiskey distiller 1799–1861). b. 27 Nov. 1828; partner in firm of Kinahan and Sons, distillers, Dublin and London; sheriff of city of Dublin 1868 and of co. of Dublin 1875; grand treasurer of the Masonic order in Ireland; a director of Constitutional club; cr. baronet 26 Sep. 1887; assumed by r.l. prefix, surname and arms of Hudson, Oct. 1887; sheriff of Queen’s county 1892. d. Maryborough 8 March 1892.
KINAHAN, John Robert. b. 1828; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1851, M.B. 1854, M.D. 1858; lecturer on botany Carmichael sch.; professor of zoology in department of science and art, museum of industry; wrote papers in scientific journals. d. Dawson st. Dublin 2 Feb. 1863.
KINAHAN, Robert Henry (youngest son of Daniel Kinahan of Robuck park, co. Dublin 1756–1827). b. Oct. 1799; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1818, M.A. 1854; distiller of whiskey at Dublin to death; sheriff of city of Dublin 1851, lord mayor 1853. d. 29 April 1861.
KINCAID, Sir John (2 son of John Kincaid of Dalbeath near Falkirk). b. Dalbeath house, Jany. 1787 or 1789; 2 lieut. 95 foot 27 April 1809; served in the Peninsula 1811–14 and at Waterloo; 1 lieut. rifle brigade 23 May 1811, captain 25 Nov. 1826, sold out 21 June 1831; one of exons of H.M.’s royal body guard 25 Oct. 1844 to death, senior exon 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 30 June 1852; government inspector of prisons for Scotland 1847 to death; inspector of factories for Scotland and north of England 1850, resigned 1862; published Adventures in the rifle brigade 1830, 2 ed. 1838; Random shots from a rifleman 1835. d. Hastings 22 April 1862.
KINDER, Thomas William. b. London 10 Nov. 1817; ensign Worcestershire militia 1840, capt. 1853, regiment embodied 1854, disembodied 1859, when he was transferred to 3 West York militia, retired as major 22 March 1870; proprietor of railway works at Bromsgrove and Oldbury 1845–55; conducted locomotive department Shrewsbury and Birmingham railway; manager Midland Great Western railway of Ireland 1851–55; master of mint Hong Kong 1863 which was suppressed 1868; master of mint at Osaka, Japan 1868–75; helped to originate the postal department, Japan; first master of Kobé masonic lodge; A.I.C.E. 4 Dec. 1860. d. Norwood junction station, London, Brighton and South coast line 2 Sep. 1884. Min. of Proc. of I.C.E. lxxviii 448–50 (1884).
KINDERSLEY, Sir Richard Torin (eld. son of Nathaniel Edward Kindersley of Sunning hill, Berks.) b. Madras 5 Oct. 1792; ed. at Haileybury sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.; 4 wr. 1814, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, fellow of his college Oct. 1815 to 1824; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1818, practised in court of chancery; K.C. Jany. 1835; chancellor of county palatine of Durham, Sep. 1846; master in chancery 6 March 1848; vice chancellor 8 Oct. 1851 to 29 Nov. 1866; knighted at Windsor castle 23 Oct. 1851; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866. d. Clyffe, Dorchester 22 Oct. 1879.
KING, Alfred (youngest son of Joseph King, author of Tables of interest). b. Liverpool 24 Dec. 1797; engineer to Liverpool gas company 1826 to death; will always be identified with history of gas lighting; invented the delicate pressure guage and the photometer; suggested application of gas for cooking; invented a self-registering barometer; A.I.C.E. 25 Feb. 1840, M.I.C.E. 5 May 1840. d. 27 April 1867.
KING, Anthony Singleton, ensign 71 foot 22 Feb. 1802; captain 99 foot 28 Feb. 1805, major 3 May 1810; commanded the troops in Newfoundland from 1 Oct. 1816 to the peace; returned to England, his regiment was disbanded 1818; lieut. col. 12 Aug. 1819, sold out; K.H. 1837. d. 1880.
KING, Charles William (eld. son of rev. Wm. Clark King, V. of Norham, Northumberland). Matric. from Univ. coll. Oxf. 20 Nov. 1849 aged 17; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1851–5; B.A. 1853, M.A. 1856; C. of Woodhorn, Northumberland 1855–9; R. of St. Mary-le-Bow, Durham 1859–67; principal of Female training coll. Durham 1859–64; inspector of schools for Durham and Northumberland 10 June 1864 to death. d. 8 Aug. 1872.
KING, Charles William (son of a shipping agent in the iron trade). b. Newport, Monmouthshire 5 Sep. 1818; a sizar at Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1836, scholar 1839, fellow 1842 to death; B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; collected antique gems in Italy 1845–77, sold his collection consisting of 331 engraved stones about 1878, it has been in the Metropolitan museum of art at New York since 1881; ordained deacon 1845; author of Antique Gems, their origin, use and value 1860; The Gnostics and their remains 1864, 2 ed. 1887; The natural history, ancient and modern, of precious stones and gems 1865; The handbook of engraved gems 1866, 2 ed. 1885; Antique gems and rings 2 vols. 1872. d. London 25 March 1888. bur. Highgate cemetery. Athenæum 31 March 1888 p. 412, 7 April 1888 p. 441; Proceedings Numismatic Soc. 1888 p. 28.
KING, David. b. Ayr 1787; ed. at Ayr and univ. of Edin.; M.R.C.S. England 1810; practised at Eltham 1811 to death; president of West Kent Medico chirurgical society; author of The history of Eltham palace and its subterranean passage; General observations regarding pestilential diseases 1854; General observations on church patronage, with a history of the patronage of Eltham church 1855. d. Eltham 23 Aug. 1865. Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v 148, 163 (1867).
KING, David (son of John King 1762–1827, pastor of second united associate church in Montrose). b. Montrose 20 May 1806; ed. at univs. of Aberdeen and Edinb.; minister of first united secession church, Dalkeith 13 Jany. 1830, and of Greyfriars secession church, Glasgow 15 Oct. 1833 to 12 Feb. 1855; LL.D. Glasgow 1840; an active founder of Evangelical Alliance 1845; founded a Presbyterian congregation at Bayswater, London 1860, minister to 1869; moderator of synod of Presbyterian church of Scotland 1863–7; minister at Morningside near Edinb. 1869–73; author of The ruling eldership of the christian church 1846, 3 ed. 1861; The state and prospects of Jamaica 1850; The principles of geology explained in their relation to religion 1850, 2 ed. 1850; An exposition of the presbyterian form of government 1853. d. Hamilton terrace, London 20 Dec. 1883. Memoir of David King, by his wife and daughter (1885) 1–263, portrait; John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 30–6.
KING, Edward Bolton. b. 1801; sheriff of Warwickshire 1830; M.P. Warwick 1831–37; M.P. South Warwickshire 1857–59. d. Chadshunt near Leamington 23 March 1878.
KING, Sir Edward Durnford (son of Wm. King of Southampton). b. 1775; midshipman June 1789, captain 8 Jany. 1801, R.A. 22 July 1830; commander in chief on the Cape of Good Hope and Brazil station, Aug. 1840 to Dec. 1841; commander in chief at the Nore 18 April 1845 to 9 May 1848; admiral 30 Oct. 1849; K.C.H. 1 Jany. 1833; knighted at the pavilion, Brighton 22 Jany. 1833. d. at his residence in Devonshire 14 Jany. 1862.
KING, Francis. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, scholar 1838; B.A. 1841, M.A. B.D. and D.D. 1879; C. of Abbeyleix, Queen’s co. 1843–9; C. of Oswestry, Salop 1849–53; P.C. of St. Patrick’s chapel of ease, Newry, co. Down 1853 to death; archdeacon of Dromore 1887 to death; wrote to Mr. Gladstone at time of passing of act disestablishing Church of Ireland, warning him against that measure and predicting his political downfall; the oldest clergyman in the Irish church. d. Downshire road, Newry 7 Nov. 1891.
KING, George. b. 1813; ensign 13 foot 13 April 1831, lieut. col. 17 Nov. 1857 to 19 Jany. 1864 when he retired on full pay with rank of M.G. d. Bradford, Abbas, Dorset 11 March 1868.
KING, Sir George St. Vincent Duckworth, 4 Baronet (2 son of sir Richard King, 2 baronet, vice admiral 1774–1834). b. Stonehouse, Devon 15 July 1809; entered navy 8 Feb. 1822, captain 28 Aug. 1841; second in command of naval brigade at siege of Sebastopol; R.A. 4 April 1862; commander-in-chief in China 1863 to 1867; admiral 20 April 1875; C.B. 1855, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; granted good service pension of £300, 19 Aug. 1876; succeeded his brother sir Richard Duckworth King 2 Nov. 1887; assumed by r.l. additional name of Duckworth. d. Wear house, Exeter 18 Aug. 1891.
KING, George William. b. London 15 June 1822; ed. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847; a cricketer, played for Surrey 1846–9; started the Brighton cricket club 1848, hon. sec. 1848–54, pres. 1855. d. Brighton 22 Dec. 1881. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, iii 404 (1863).
KING, Sir Henry. b. 1777 or 1778; cornet 24 light dragoons 25 March 1794; lost his right leg in attack on Rahmanie, Egypt 9 May 1801; major Sicilian regiment 5 Feb. 1807; major 82 foot 30 April 1807, lieut. col. 4 June 1813 to 25 Feb. 1816 when placed on h.p.; general 20 June 1854; col. 3 foot 18 March 1845 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; governor of Heligoland 1817–1840; knighted at St. James’s palace 5 June 1834; K.C.H. 1834. d. 7 Sussex terrace, Hyde park, London 24 July 1854.
KING, Henry (son of Charles King, huntsman to the Pytchley hounds to 1818, d. 1857). b. Brington near Althorp park 1815; in the Warwickshire kennels under Jack Wood 1828–30; second whip to Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake 1830 and to Mr. Applewhaite 1831–36; third whip to the Royal Buckhounds, July 1836, second whip 1850, first whip 1855–65; her majesty’s huntsman 2 April 1866 to death, the kennel consisted of 40 couple of hounds. d. the Royal kennels, Ascot 30 Dec. 1871. bur. Sunninghill churchyard 6 Jany. 1872. Baily’s Mag. xvii (1870) portrait, xviii 5–14 (1870), xxi 246 (1872); Windsor and Eton Express 6 Jany. 1872 p. 4, 13 Jany. p. 4.
KING, Henry Samuel (son of Henry King of Brighton). b. Lewes 15 Nov. 1817; bookseller at Brighton with an elder brother 1837 or 1838, then alone; partner in firm of Smith, Elder & Co., Cornhill, London, in 1868 the partners separated, H. S. King retaining the Indian agency and banking business in his own name; firm became Henry S. King & Co. bankers and East India, army, navy and colonial agents 45 Pall Mall, 65 Cornhill and 14 Worship st.; proprietor of the Homeward Mail and the Overland Mail; published many works 1871–77; relinquished publishing and bookselling portion of his business 1877. d. 45 Pall Mall, London 17 Nov. 1878. Bookseller 2 Dec. 1878 p. 1215; Academy, ii 497 (1878).
KING, James King (elder son of rev. James Simpkinson 1767–1842, R. of St. Peter-le-Poor, London, who assumed name of King 1837). b. Weybridge, Surrey 6 Nov. 1806; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1865; sheriff of Hereford 1845; M.P. Herefordshire 1852–68. d. Staunton park, Herefordshire 17 June 1881.
KING, John. b. Moy, co. Antrim 15 Dec. 1838; a private in 70 regt. in India, where he was employed by G. T. Landells when purchasing the camels for the Burke and Wills Australian exploring expedition 1860; went on the expedition to Carpentaria, the only survivor of the party which started from Cooper’s Creek 16 Dec. 1860, rescued by Alfred Howitt, July 1861; had pension from Victorian government of £180 a year. d. of phthisis at Melbourne 15 Jany. 1872.
KING, John. b. Stirling 1789; ed. Stirling gram. sch.; manager of Hurlet and Campsie alum co.’s works at Campsie; manager of G. Macintosh and co.’s Cudbear dye works at Dunchattan 1825, a partner 1825, became sole owner 1848, closed the works 1851; partner in Hurlet and Campsie alum co. 1851 to death. d. Levernholme, parish of Eastwood 31 Oct. 1875. Memoirs of One hundred Glasgow men, ii 169–70 (1886), portrait.
Note.—The staple articles in the dye works were cudbear and archil, extracted from seaweed imported from Sweden and Peru, used in colouring woollens and silks crimson and purple, the new modern brilliant dyes ruined this business.
KING, John Crookshanks. b. Kilwinning, Ayrshire 11 Oct. 1806; went to U.S. America 1829, a superintendent of factories; in Cincinnati and Louisville several years; made a clay model of his wife’s head 1834; resided in New Orleans modelling busts and making cameo likenesses 1837–40; removed to Boston, Massachusetts; made busts of D. Webster, J. Q. Adams, Louis Agassiz and R. W. Emerson. d. Boston 21 April 1882.
KING, John Duncan. b. 1789; ensign 71 foot 28 Aug. 1806; lieut. 7 foot 13 June 1811, placed on h.p. 20 April 1820; lieut. 75 foot 14 May 1829, placed on h.p. 28 Dec. 1830; served in the Walcheren expedition and in Peninsular war; military knight of Windsor 1850 to death; landscape painter, exhibited 18 pictures at R.A., 39 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. 1824–58. d. Windsor Castle 21 Aug. 1863.
KING, John Hynde. Ensign 49 foot 6 Sep. 1844, major 2 Oct. 1855; wounded in the assault on the Redan 16 June 1855; captain grenadier guards 19 Dec. 1856 and major 29 May 1867 to death; C.B. 2 June 1869. d. Aldershot camp 9 July 1870.
KING, John Langley. Lecturer at Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent st. London many years; F.G.S. d. 6 Eastfield villas, Church hill, Walthamstow 26 Jany. 1891.
KING, John Myers (2 son of Edward King of Askham, Westmoreland). b. 1804; ed. at Balliol coll. Oxf., scholar 1821–7; B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; V. of Cutcombe, Somerset 8 Dec. 1832 to death; author of The Georgics of Virgil translated into English verse 1843, another ed. 1871; The Aeneid of Virgil translated into English verse 1847, another ed. 1875; The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil translated into English verse 1882. d. 1887.
KING, John William (son of colonel Nevile King of Ashby hall, Sleaford, Leics.) b. 1792; ed. at C.C. coll. Oxf., scholar 1810–20, fellow 1820–33; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1818, B.D. 1827; V. of Ashby-de-la-Launde, co. Lincoln 15 Jany. 1822 to death; R. of Bassingham, co. Lincoln 15 May 1832 to 1874; assumed name of Mr. Launde on the turf 1861; won the One thousand guineas, Oaks and St. Leger with Apology ridden by John Osborne 1874. d. Ashby hall 9 May 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 475 (1875), lxvii 119 (1875).
KING, Joseph. b. 1802; solicitor in London, Jany. 1836 to Nov. 1874; contributed to The Critic; author of Flights of Phædo 1859, a poem in reply to Tennyson’s Maud; and The Guildford farce, a satirical poem 1860 both anonymous. d. 16 North Buildings, Finsbury circus, London 1 April 1875. Law Times, lix 17 (1875).
KING, Joshua (son of David King of Lowick Bridge, Ulverstone, Lancs.). b. 16 Jany. 1798; ed. at Hawkshead gram. sch. and Trinity coll. Camb. 1815, sizar of Queen’s coll. Feb. 1816; senior wrangler and B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822, LL.D. 1838; fellow of Queen’s coll. Jany. 1820, tutor 1820, elected president by a dispensation from the crown, for his not being in holy orders 1832, remained till death; vice chancellor 1833; F.R.S.; Lucasian professor of mathematics in univ. of Camb. 1839, resigned 1849; personally argued in an appeal to the Crown as visitor, that the president of Queen’s had no voice in the election of the fellows, but lord Lyndhurst gave judgment against him 22 Jany. 1828. d. President’s lodge, Queen’s college 1 Sep. 1857. The case of the president of Queen’s college, containing the two petitions of J. King against the election of H. Godfrey (1821); Cambridge Chronicle 5 Sep. 1857 p. 4, 12 Sep. p. 4.
KING, Kate (dau. of T. C. King, actor). b. Camden-town, London 1852; appeared with her brother Harry King (who d. 17 May 1870 aged 19) as Irish duettists and dancers with Dr. Corri’s diorama of Ireland; played at the Alhambra and other music halls in London; member of Arthur Lloyd’s concert party in his “Two hours fun” entertainment to 1870; played in burlesque at Vaudeville theatre; m. 31 July 1871 Arthur Lloyd comic singer; acted at Queen’s theatre, Dublin during her husband’s lesseeship 1874–6, toured with his Ballyvogan company playing her original part of Norah O’Sullivan in his drama Ballyvogan, autumn seasons of 1887–90, a part she played upwards of 500 times; last appeared in London at Oxford music hall 20 March 1891; last appeared on the stage at Moss’s Varieties, Edinburgh 7 April 1891. d. 3 Priory villas, Byrne road, Balham, Surrey 2 May 1891. bur. Abney park cemetery 7 May.
KING, Mitchell. b. Crail, Fifeshire 8 June 1783; landed in Charlestown, U.S. America 17 Nov. 1805, schoolmaster 1806; assistant teacher Charlestown coll. 1 March 1806, principal of the college 1810; admitted to the bar 1810; a founder of the Philosophical Soc. 1809; judge of the city court 1819 and 1842–44; LL.D. of Charlestown coll. 1857; author of The culture of the olive 1846, and of many essays and addresses. d. Flat Rock, South Carolina 12 Nov. 1862.
KING, Peter John Locke (2 son of 7 baron King 1775–1833). b. Ockham, Surrey 25 Jany. 1811; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; contested East Surrey 1837; M.P. for East Surrey 11 Aug. 1847 to 26 Jany. 1874; got Real Estate charges act known as Locke-King’s act passed 11 Aug. 1854 and Act to abolish property qualifications of members of parliament passed 28 June 1858; defeated and caused resignation of Russell ministry on motion to reduce franchise in counties to £10, 20 Feb. 1851; author of Injustice of the law of succession to the real property of intestates 1854, 3 ed. 1855. d. Brooklands, Weybridge 12 Nov. 1885. Statesmen of England (1862) No. 46, portrait; Drawing-room portrait gallery, 2nd series (1859), portrait.
KING, Philip Parker (1 son of Philip Gidley King 1758–1808, governor of New South Wales). b. Norfolk island 13 Dec. 1791; entered navy Nov. 1807; captain 25 Feb. 1830, surveyed the Southern coasts of America 1826–30 and Patagonia, the Straits of Magellan and Terra del Fuego 1830; retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855 being first native of Australia so honoured; a nominee member of legislative council 1829; member for Gloucester and Macquarie 1851 to death; chairman of denominational board of education; manager of Australian Agricultural Society 1831; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1824; published Narrative of a survey of the inter-tropical and western coasts of Australia 1827; A voyage to Torres straits in search of the survivors of the ship Charles Eaton by C. M. Lewis, arranged by P. P. King 1837. d. Grantham, North Shore, Sydney, New South Wales 26 Feb. 1856. Fitzroy’s Voyages of the Adventurer and Beagle (1839); Proc. of Linnæan society (1856) 28–31; Rev. J. E. T. Wood’s History of the Discovery of Australia, i 246–304 (1865).
KING, Richard. b. about 1811; ed. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. 1832; L.S.A. 1832, member of court of examiners; hon. M.D. New York 1833; surgeon and naturalist to Back’s expedition to mouth of Great Fish river 1833–5; issued prospectus which originated Ethnological Soc. 20 July 1842, the first sec. 1844; assistant surgeon to the Resolute in expedition sent out to search for sir John Franklin 1850, arctic medal 1857; edited The Medical Times some time; author of Narrative of a journey to the shore of the Arctic ocean under command of captain Back 2 vols. 1836; The preservation of children in delivery 1847; The Franklin expedition from first to last 1855; The causes of death in the still-born 1858; The Manx of the Isle of Man 1870; The Laplanders 1871. d. 1 Blandford st. Manchester sq. London 7 Feb. 1876.
KING, Richard John (eld. son of Richard King of Pennycross, d. April 1829). b. Montpelier, Pennycross, Plymouth 18 Jany. 1818; ed. at Exeter college, Oxf., B.A. 1841; collected a fine library which he sold 1854; member of Devonshire Association 1874, pres. 1875; author of Selections from the early ballad poetry 1842; Anschar: a story of the north. Plymouth 1850, anon.; wrote for John Murray, A handbook for travellers in Kent and Sussex 1858, 1863, 1868, 1877; A handbook for Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 1858, 1865, 1870; Handbook to the cathedrals of England 6 vols. 1864–81; Handbook for Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridge 1870; Handbooks to the cathedrals of Wales 1873; author of Sketches and Studies 1874 a selection of his articles to Saturday Review, Quarterly Review and Fraser’s Mag. d. The Limes, Crediton, Devon 10 Feb. 1879, memorial window Crediton ch. Devon Assoc. Trans. xi 58–60 (1879).
KING, Richard Thomas. b. 1785 or 1786; 2 lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, lieut. col. 10 Jany. 1837, retired on full pay 22 July 1840; L.G. 27 June 1864. d. 21 Argyll st. London 5 Dec. 1866.
KING, Robert Turner. b. Leicestershire 1824; ed. Emmanuel coll. Camb., B.A. 1849; as a point at cricket was far famed, could cover an immense deal of ground and make wonderful catches; played at Lord’s, Undergraduates of Cambridge v. Marylebone 8 June 1846; C. of Fridaybridge near Wisbeach 1871–5; V. of Fridaybridge 1880 to death. d. Bootle, Lancashire 12 May 1884. Lillywhite’s Cricket scores, iii 387 (1863).
KING, Samuel William (eld. son of rev. Wm. Hutchinson King, V. of Nuneaton, Warws.) b. 20 Sep. 1821; ed. at St. Cath. coll. Camb., B.A. 1845, M.A. 1853; R of Saxlingham-Nethergate, Norfolk 1851 to death; an entomologist and geologist; F.R.G.S. 1858; F.G.S. 1860; author of The Italian valleys of the Pennine Alps 1858; left his collection of Norfolk fossil mammalia to Museum of practical geology, London. d. Pontresina 8 July 1868. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxv 29 (1869).
KING, Thomas. b. 1777 or 1778; entered Madras army 1799; col. 19 Madras N.I. 1845 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Louisa terrace, Exmouth 29 Dec. 1859.
KING, Thomas. b. Silver st. Stepney, London 14 Aug. 1835; in the navy a short time; foreman of labourers at Victoria Docks, London; beat Tom Truckle of Portsmouth £50 a side, 49 rounds in 62 minutes 27 Nov. 1860; beat Wm. Evans known as Young Broome £50 a side, 43 rounds in 42 minutes 21 Oct. 1861; beaten by James Mace £200 a side, 43 rounds in 68 minutes 28 Jany. 1862; beat James Mace £200 a side and the championship, 21 rounds in 38 minutes 26 Nov. 1862; resigned the championship and would not fight Mace again; fought John Camel Heenan for £1000 a side and the championship at Wadhurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1863 when King won in 24 rounds lasting 35 minutes, this fight brought him in by means of stakes and presents nearly £4000; stood 6 feet 2¼ inches and weighed 176 lbs.; a bookmaker 1863 to death; sculled races on the river 1867; took many prizes at flower shows in and around London. d. of bronchitis at Clarence house, Clarence road, Clapham, London 4 Oct. 1888, value of his personalty declared at £54,472. H. D. Miles’s Pugilistica, iii 490–518 (1881), portrait; Modern Boxing, By Pendragon [Henry Sampson] (1879) 43–50, 57–78; Sporting Times 13 March 1875, portrait; W. E. Harding’s Champions of the American prize ring (1888) 54–9, portrait.
KING, Thomas William. b. 21 June 1801; F.S.A. 14 Jany. 1836, on library committee 1853–65, a contributor to the Archæologia and to the Proceedings of the Soc. of Antiquaries; Rouge Dragon pursuivant, Herald’s Office, London 20 May 1833 to 17 June 1848, York Herald 17 June 1848 to death; wrote Lancashire Funeral certificates, Chetham Society vol. 75 (1869); The pedigree of sir Philip Sidney. By R. Cooke. The restorations made by T. W. King 1869. d. Leicester road, New Barnett 4 Feb. 1872.
KING, Walker (son of Walker King 1751–1827, bishop of Rochester). b. St. Marylebone, London 1798; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1822; R of Stone, Kent 6 July 1822 to death; P.C. of Bromley, Kent 1824–7; preb. of Rochester 1827 to death; archdeacon of Rochester 25 June 1827 to death, installed 6 July 1827; author of The revival of diocesan synods, a charge 1838. d. Woodside, Stone, Kent 13 March 1859.
KING, William (son of rev. John King, master of Ipswich gr. sch.) b. Ipswich 17 April 1786; ed. at Peterhouse coll. Camb., fellow 1806–21; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1812, M.D. 1819; F.R.C.P. 1820, delivered Harveian oration 1843; lived at Brighton 1823 to death; wrote a small monthly periodical entitled The Co-operator, May 1828 to July 1830; consulting phys. to Sussex county hospital 1842–61; published Observations on the artificial mineral waters of Dr. Struve prepared at Brighton 1826; The Institutions of De Fellenberg 1842; Medical Essays 1850. d. 23 Montpellier road, Brighton 19 Oct. 1865. Munk’s College of physicians, iii 226–7 (1878).
KING, William. Art dealer and broker in London. d. 19 Ovington gardens, London 24 April 1884, will proved 9 July exceeding £136,000; left £100,000, 3 per cent. consols, to St. George’s hospital, London on condition that one ward should always be called the William King ward. The Times 19 July 1884 p. 6.
KING, William. b. Hartlepool, Durham, April 1809; curator of Museum of natural history at Newcastle-on-Tyne 1841–9, lecturer on geology in school of medicine there; professor of geology Queen’s college, Galway 1849–83 and professor of natural history there 1882–3, emeritus professor of geology, mineralogy and natural history there 1883 to death; the first D.Sc. of Queen’s Univ. of Ireland 1870; author of Monograph of the Permian fossils, published by Palæontographical Soc. London 1850. d. Glenoir, Taylor’s Hill, Galway 24 June 1886. Nature 1 July 1886 p. 200.
KING, William Smyth. b. 1809; incumbent of Carlow to death; canon of St. Patrick’s cath. Dublin to death; dean of Leighlin 1877 to death. d. Carlow 30 Dec. 1889.
KING, William Thomas Poole (son of Thomas King). b. 1805 or 1806; member of Bristol town council many years; sheriff of Bristol 1871; master of Merchant Venturers’ soc.; one of the pioneers of the West Africa commerce with England; led a party of men armed with cutlasses against the Bristol rioters in 1831; director of Bristol and Exeter railway co. 1836; a founder and member of Bristol Engineer volunteer corps 16 April 1861. d. Avonside, Clifton 13 Sep. 1887.
KING-CHURCH, Henry John. b. 1787; employed in Tower of London; took additional name of Church by r.l. 13 Feb. 1849; apostle of the Irvingite or Catholic Apostolic church 14 Dec. 1833 to death, Denmark, Holland and Belgium were assigned to his care. d. Albury, Surrey 16 Sep. 1865. E. Miller’s History of Irvingism i 139, 167, 181, 294 (1878).
KINGCOME, Sir John (son of Henry Kingcome). b. Revelstoke, Devon 14 Feb. 1794; entered navy 28 May 1808, captain 28 June 1838; present at signature of treaty of peace with China 29 Aug. 1842; captain of the Royal William 120 guns 16 Feb. 1854 to 18 June 1856; granted good service pension 1 Nov. 1854; R.A. of the Blue 10 Sep. 1857; commander in chief in the Pacific 31 Oct. 1862 to 10 May 1864; retired admiral 10 Sep. 1869; K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 5 Windsor villas, Plymouth 7 Aug. 1871. I.L.N. lix 187 (1871).
KINGDOM, John M. b. London; solicitor; wrote the following plays, Marcoretti; Madeline; Which is my husband; The old ferry house; Three musketeers; Giraldo; Tancred; The crusaders; The old house on the Thames; The three princes, a romantic extravaganza, Surrey theatre 1 April 1850; The fountain of beauty, or the king, the princess and the geni, a fairy extravaganza, Drury Lane 5 Sep. 1853; Queen Mary, a drama by A. Tennyson, with full stage directions 1875. d. New York 24 July 1876.
KINGDON, Emmeline Maria (youngest dau. of rev. Thomas Hockin Kingdon, R. of Pyworthy, Devon 1808 until his death 31 Jany. 1853 aged 78). Lady superintendent of the Royal School for the daughters of officers of the army, Lansdowne, Bath 1864–82 when she became paralysed; the school attained a high reputation through her energy and judgment. d. 1 Dynham road, West Hampstead, London 25 March 1890. bur. Paddington cemet. 29 March.
KINGDON, Samuel Nicholson (brother of the preceding). b. Bridgerule, Devon 16 March 1805; V. of Bridgerule 1844 to death; author of Church Psalmody 1856; The history and sacred obligation of the Sabbath 1856; Tracts for the times on political subjects [n.d.] 1866, anon. d. Bridgerule 17 March 1872. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 299 (1874).
KINGDON, Thomas Kingdon (3 son of Samuel Kingdon of Exeter, ironmonger). b. Exeter 1812; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; practised as a special pleader 9 years; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848, bencher 25 Jany. 1867 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; recorder of Bristol 21 Aug. 1872 to death. d. 3 Clarendon road, Kensington 2 Dec. 1879.
KINGLAKE, Alexander William (eld. son of Wm. Kinglake of Taunton, banker and solicitor, d. 1847). b. Taunton 5 Aug. 1809; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836; travelled in the East about 1835; barrister L.I. 5 May 1837, retired from practice 1856; visited French army in Algeria 1845; contested Bridgewater 1852; M.P. Bridgewater 1857–68, re-elected 17 Nov. 1868, election declared void on petition 23 Feb. 1869, borough disfranchised 1869; visited the Crimea, saw battle of the Alma and the trenches at Sebastopol 1854; author of Eothen, or traces of travel brought home from the East 1844, 6 ed. 1878; The invasion of the Crimea, its origin and an account of its progress down to the death of lord Raglan 8 vols. 1863–87, 6 ed. 9 vols. 1877–88. d. 17 Bayswater terrace, London 2 Jany. 1891, cremated at Woking cemetery 8 Jany. Blackwood’s Mag. Feb. 1891 pp. 302–338; I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p. 43, portrait; Graphic 10 Jany. 1891 p. 43, portrait.
KINGLAKE, John Alexander (son of Robert Kinglake, M.D. of Taunton). b. 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; serjeant at law 10 July 1844, patent of precedence to rank after sir John Rolt, Feb. or March 1849; recorder of Exeter, July 1851 to Nov. 1856; recorder of Bristol, Nov. 1856 to death; contested Wells 1852 and 1855; M.P. for Rochester 30 March 1857 to death. d. 113 St. George’s sq. Pimlico, London 9 July 1870. I.L.N. xxxii 560, 561 (1858), portrait.
KINGSALE, John Constantine De-Courcy, 29 Baron (eld. son of 27 baron Kingsale 1805–47). b. Salcombe, Devon 5 Nov. 1827; succeeded 7 Jany. 1847 as premier baron in peerage of Ireland; captain East Devon militia 1853–5; put into operation the alleged De Courcy privilege of remaining covered in the presence of royalty, before the Queen 25 June 1859, this ceremony astonished all who saw it, as it had not been performed since 15 Sep. 1762. d. 13 Eaton sq. London 15 June 1865. G. E. Cokayne’s Complete Peerage, iv 396, 399 (1892).
KINGSALE, John Fitzroy De-Courcy, 31 Baron (only son of lieut. col. Gerald De-Courcy d. Oct. 1848). b. Corfu 30 March 1821; ensign 47 foot 28 Dec. 1838, lieut. 2 July 1841, sold out 11 June 1847; served as a major in Turkish contingent during Crimean war 1854–6; stipendiary magistrate at San Juan, Vancouver’s island during the Harney disturbances 1859; served as a colonel in Federal army during American civil war 1861–5; succeeded his cousin Michael 15 April 1874 as premier baron in peerage of Ireland. d. Florence 20 Nov. 1890.
KINGSBURY, Frederick. b. 1814 or 1815; studied at R. Academy of music 1844–45; conductor at Strand music hall (now Gaiety theatre) 1866–7; one of conductors of promenade concerts at Agricultural hall, Islington 20 July 1868; founded and conducted the London vocal academy, Rose Hersee was one of his pupils; professor at Guildhall school of music; wrote Letter on cultivation of the voice in reading, printed in J. J. Halcombe’s The Speaker at home (1860) pp. 171–78. d. of paralysis 21 Cecil st. Strand, London 26 Feb. 1892.
KINGSCOTE, Henry Robert (2 son of Thomas Kingscote d. 1811). b. 25 May 1802; ed. at Harrow; was 6 feet 5 inches in height; played his first cricket match at Lords 21 May 1823; pres. of Marylebone cricket club 1827; sent out supplies to the troops during Crimean war 1855; founder of scheme for establishing workshops for the indigent blind, and of National Orphan home at Ham Common, Surrey 1849. d. 10 Seville st. Lowndes sq. London 13 July 1882. Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores, i 468 (1862).
KINGSDOWN, Thomas Pemberton-Leigh, 1 Baron (elder son of Robert Pemberton, barrister, d. 2 Aug. 1804). b. London 11 Feb. 1793; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816, bencher 1830 to death; practised in equity courts 1816–43; K.C. Nov. 1829; leader in the rolls court 1835; declined the solicitor generalship, a puisne judgeship and vice-chancellorship; M.P. Rye 1831–32; M.P. Ripon 1835–43; attorney general to prince of Wales 1841–43; chancellor of duchy of Cornwall, May 1843 to 1861; on death of his kinsman sir Robert Leigh, came into a life interest in the Wigan estate of £17,000 a year Jany. 1843; took additional surname of Leigh by r.l. 7 March 1843; P.C. 10 June 1843, member of its judicial committee 1843–63 for which he declined to take any remuneration; declined the Great Seal from the Derby ministry 1858; created baron Kingsdown of Kingsdown, Kent 28 Aug. 1858. d. Torre hill, Sittingbourne, Kent 7 Oct. 1867. Law mag. and law review, xxvi 216–23 (1869); Annual Register (1867) pp. 187–89.
KINGSFORD, Anna (dau. of John Bonus, ship broker, d. 1881). b. Maryland Point, Stratford, Essex 16 Sep. 1846; baptized Annie; (m. 1867 Algernon Godfrey Kingsford, V. of Atcham, Shropshire since 1882); wrote stories in the Penny Post signed Ninon Kingsford and Mrs. Algernon Kingsford 1868–72; received into church of Rome by cardinal Manning 1870, when she adopted the Christian names Annie Mary Magdalen Maria Johanna; purchased The Lady’s Own Paper 1872, edited it 1872–3; studied medicine in Paris 1874–80; M.D. Paris 22 July 1880; a physician in London, very successful with women; pres. of London lodge of Theosophical Soc. 1883; founded the Hermetic Soc. 1884; a vegetarian and an opponent of vivisection; author of Beatrice, a tale of the early Christians 1863; River Reeds 1866 anon., a vol. of verse; Rosamunda the princess 1868; The perfect way in diet, a treatise advocating a return to the natural food of our race 1882, 3 ed. 1890; Health, beauty and the toilet 1886, 2 ed. 1886; Dreams and dream stories 1888; Clothed with the sun. New York 1889; with Edward Maitland The perfect way or the finding of Christ 1882. d. from consumption, 15 Wynnstay gardens, Kensington 22 Feb. 1888. bur. Atcham churchyard. Lady’s Pictorial 3 March 1888 pp. 209, 216, portrait.
KINGSFORD, Douglas (8 son of rev. Sampson Kingsford of Faversham, Kent). b. Faversham, Nov. 1839; ed. at Faversham gr. sch. and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister M.T. 18 Nov. 1867; reporter for the Law Times Reports, for some years; member of the bar committee Dec. 1883; recorder of Margate, March 1885. d. 43 Courtfield road, Kensington, London 12 Aug. 1885. bur. Ealing cemetery 15 Aug.
KINGSLEY, Charles (son of Charles Kingsley 1782–1860, R. of Chelsea, Middlesex). b. Holme vicarage, South Devon 12 June 1819; ed. at Clifton, Helston gr. sch., King’s coll. London and Magd. coll. Camb., scholar 1839; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1860; C. of Eversley, Hants. July 1842 to May 1844, R. of Eversley, May 1844 to death; canon of Middleham, Derbyshire 1845 to death; professor of English literature, Queen’s coll. Harley st. London 1848–49; F.L.S. 1857; F.G.S. 1863; domestic chaplain to viscount Sidney 1843 to death; one of H.M.’s chaplains in ord. 12 July 1859 to death; regius prof. of modern history in univ. of Cambridge 25 June 1860, resigned 1869; chaplain to prince of Wales 16 Feb. 1863 to death; edited Fraser’s Mag. for J. A. Froude 1867; canon of Chester 1869–73; canon of Westminster 4 April 1873 to death; author of The saint’s tragedy, or the true story of Elizabeth of Hungary 1848; Twenty-five village sermons 1849; Alton Locke, tailor and poet: an autobiography 2 vols. 1850 anon., 9 ed. 1881; Cheap clothes and nasty. By Parson Lot 1850; Yeast: a problem by C.K. 1851, 5 ed. 1881; Hypatia 2 vols. 1853, 2 ed. 1881; Westward Ho! 3 vols. 1855, 3 ed. 1881; Glaucus or the wonders of the shore 1855, 4 ed. 1859; Two years ago, a novel 3 vols. 1857, 3 ed. 1881; The water-babies, a fairy tale 1863, 3 ed. 1886; Hereward the Wake 1866, 3 ed. 1881; The Works of C. Kingsley 28 vols. 1884–85. d. Eversley rectory 23 Jany. 1875. Charles Kingsley, his letters and memories of his life. Edited by his wife 2 vols. (1877), portrait; Illustrated Review, vol. ii 257–60, portrait; Cartoon portraits (1873) 90–93, portrait; Modern men of letters. By J. H. Friswell (1870) 313–32; Illust. news of the world, viii (1861), portrait; C. K. Paul’s Biographical sketches (1883) 115–39; Alton Lock, new ed. (1876), memoir by T. Hughes; T. H. Ward’s English poets 2 ed. iv 608–14 (1883); F. M. Muller’s Biographical essays (1884) 363–83.
KINGSLEY, Frances Elizabeth (youngest dau. of Pascoe Grenfell, M.P. d. 1837). b. 1814; (m. at Bath 10 Jany. 1844 rev. C. Kingsley 1819–75); greatly aided her husband in all his parish work at Eversley, wrote from his dictation and copied for the press; edited the following works about and by her husband, Charles Kingsley, his letters and memories of his life 1877, 2 ed. 1883; True words for a brave man 1878; Out of the deep 1880; Daily thoughts selected from the writings of C. Kingsley 1884; From death to life, fragments of teaching to a village congregation 1887; declined the Queen’s offer of apartments in Hampton court palace 1875; granted civil list pension of £200, 4 May 1875. d. Bishop’s Tachbrook near Leamington 12 Dec. 1891. I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p. 794, portrait.