_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.