306–9; _I.L.N. lxviii_ 190, 213 (1876), _portrait_.
KEATS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1794 or 1795; entered navy 30 Sep. 1805;
captain 27 March 1826; admiral on half pay 11 Jany. 1864. _d._
Porthill near Bideford 2 May 1874.
KEAYS, ROBERT YOUNG (son of Robert Y. Keays of Walworth,
Surrey). _b._ 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A.
1823; chaplain of H.E.I.C. 1823; archdeacon and commissary of
Bombay 1852 to death. _d._ on board the Africa, on his voyage to
England 11 March 1855.
KEBBEL, HENRY, _b._ 1772; ed. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., LL.B.
1810; V. of Wistow with C. of Newton Harcourt, and also P.C. of
Kilby, Leicestershire, July 1813 to death; originator of the
system of allotment grounds for agricultural labourers; author
of A sermon recommending the establishment of a society for
bettering the condition of the poor 1838. _d._ Kilby 13 July
1867.
KEBLE, JOHN (elder son of John Keble 1745–1835, V. of Coln, St.
Aldwyn’s, Gloucs.) _b._ Fairford, Gloucs. 25 April 1792; ed. by
his father and at C.C. coll. Oxf., scholar 12 Dec. 1806; B.A.
double first 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of Oriel coll. Oct. 1812
to May 1823, tutor 1818–23, public examiner in the univ. 1813,
1814–16 and 1821–23, master of the schools 1816 to May 1823; C.
of East Leach and Burthorpe, Gloucs. 1815–28; C. of Southrop
1823–5; C. of Hursley near Winchester 1825–6; professor of
poetry, Oxf. 1831–41; took part in originating the Tractarian
movement 1832 etc.; preached assize sermon at St. Mary’s, Oxf.
on the national apostasy 14 July 1833; contributed to Tracts for
the Times 1833, seven numbers; V. of Hursley with Otterbourne
and Ampfield, Hants. Jany. 1836 to death, instituted 9 March;
author of The Christian year. Anon. 2 vols. 23 June 1827, of
which 109 editions were printed; Lyra innocentium, thoughts in
verse on christian children, their ways and their privileges.
Anon. 1846, the profits of these two works were applied to the
restoration of Hursley ch.; Sermons, academical and occasional
1847; edited The works of R. Hooker 1836; with E. B. Pusey
and others, A library of Fathers 1838. _d._ Bournemouth 29
March 1866. _bur._ Hursley 6 April. _Sir J. T. Coleridge’s
Memoir of J. Keble_ (1870); _J. F. Moor’s The Birthplace of
the author of The Christian year_ (1867), _memoir pp._ 9–54,
_portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _v_ 371–81 (1873), _portrait_;
_R. H. Haweis’ Poets in the pulpit_ (1880), _memoir_ 145–93,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xlviii_ 365, 366 (1866), _portrait_.
NOTE.--From the first publication of the ‘Christian year’ in 1827 to
expiry of the copyright in 1873, there were sold no less than 379.000
copies; the selling price of these was £56,000, and the sum paid to him
by his publisher John Henry Parker was £14,000.
KEBLE, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Fairford 29
Oct. 1793; ed. by his father; Gloucestershire scholar of C.C.
coll. Oxf. 1809–20, tutor 1819, fellow 1820–5, junior dean
1822; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1824; C. of Cirencester 1824;
V. of Bisley, Gloucs. 1827–73; one of the first revivers of
daily church services; wrote 4 of the Tracts for the Times,
No. 12, 22, 43 and 84, and forty eight of the Plain Sermons;
translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle
to the Hebrews, for the Library of the Fathers; author of
Considerations on the value of the Athanasian Creed 1872. _d._
Bisley 5 Sep. 1875. _Richard Nelson’s Conversations with T.
Keble_ (1870); _The Guardian 15 Sep. 1875 p._ 1172.
KEDDIE, WILLIAM, _b._ Peebles 22 March 1809; in a printing
establishment, Glasgow 1822–9; sub-editor Scottish Guardian
1832, principal editor to 1859; lecturer in natural history
in Free Church coll. 1860; his geological and zoological
collections were given to the college; sec. of Glasgow
Philosophical soc. and editor of its Transactions; edited
The Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856; author of
Moffat, its walks and wells 1845; Staffa and Iona described
and illustrated 1850; Maclure and Macdonald’s Series of guides
to the Highlands of Scotland. By W. Keddie 4 numbers 1859;
Cyclopædia of literary and scientific anecdote 1854, another ed.