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.