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