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_.
KERSHAW, JOHN (3 son of William Kershaw, shoemaker). _b._
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.