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_.