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