(1873) 208–11.
KEENE, ALEXANDER, assumed name of Alexander Findlay). _b._
London 1821; a pugilist; beaten by the Young Greek near Twyford
30 April 1844; beat Wm. Cain £25 a side at Horley 17 Dec. 1846;
beat Joseph Phelps £100 a side, 119 rounds in 2 hours and 45
minutes at Woking Common 9 Sep. 1847; beat Young Sambo (Welsh)
£100 a side at Eight Mile Bottom, Newmarket 20 June 1848; beaten
by Jack Grant £100 a side at Fleetpond 16 Oct. 1849; beat Wm.
Hayes £100 a side 20 Aug. 1850; landlord of the Victoria inn,
Willesden lane near London 1867. _d._ Prince of Wales’ hotel,
Molesey, Surrey 30 Jany. 1881. _Illust. sporting news_, _iii_
497, 504 (1864), 2 _portraits_.
KEENE, CHARLES SAMUEL (son of Samuel Browne Keene, solicitor,
_d._ 1838). _b._ Duval’s lane, Hornsey 10 Aug. 1823; ed.
at Ipswich gr. sch.; apprenticed to Messrs. Whymper, wood
engravers, London 1842–7; worked for the Illustrated London
News and other periodicals from 1847; drew for Punch 1851–90,
also for Punch’s Almanac and Pocket Book; illustrated stories
in Once a Week 1859 and Douglas Jerrold’s Caudle Lectures in
Punch; a most perfect artist in black and white; awarded gold
medal at Paris exhibition 1889; published Our People, from the
collection of Mr. Punch 1881; a large collection of his later
drawings exhibited at Fine Art Society’s rooms, New Bond st.
March 1891; illustrated many books 1860–85. _d._ 112 Hammersmith
road 4 Jany. 1891, portrait by sir George Reid exhibited at
Victoria exhibition 1892. _The Mask_ (1868) 65, _portrait_;
_I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p._ 38, _portrait_, _21 March 1891 p._
375, _portrait_; _Black and White 21 March 1891 pp._ 205, 206,
_portrait_; _Mag. of Art_, _March 1891 pp._ 145–6, _portrait_.
KEENE, EDWIN (youngest son of John Keene). _b._ 1826; wrote
Frances, a tale of Bath, printed in Keane’s Bath Journal, and
contributed to many periodicals in London and Edinburgh; author
of Sydney Fielding, the domestic history of a gentleman who
served under their late majesties George IV. and William IV. 2
vols. 1857. _d._ 7 Kingsmead st. Bath 21 Sep. 1857.
KEENE, HENRY GEORGE (only son of Thomas Keene). _b._ 30 Sep.
1781; cadet Madras army about 1798; entered Madras civil
service Feb. 1801; assistant registrar to the Sudder courts,
Madras; wrote a book in Arabic on law, for which government
awarded him 10,000 rupees; left India 1809, retired from
C.S. 1812; matric. from Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. 13 Nov.
1811, fellow 13 Nov. 1817, 8 senior optime and B.A. 1815;
ordained 1817; contested Arabic professorship at Camb. March
1819; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college,
Haileybury 1824 to 1834; lived at Tunbridge Wells 1834 to death;
author of Akhlák-i-Mahsini translated from the Persian 1850;
Anwás-i-Suhaili; Persian fables for young and old 1833; Persian
stories 1835; Sermons of rev. W. Sharpe with a memoir 1836. _d._
3 Mount Ephraim road, Tunbridge Wells 29 Jany. 1864.
KEENE, JAMES. _b._ 1796; proprietor of Keene’s Bath Journal to
death, edited it from 1818, supplying nearly all the leaders and
superintending the management till his death; minister of the
New Church (Swedenborgian) denomination; a supporter of the Bath
Athenæum. _d._ 16 Norfolk buildings, Bath 25 Dec. 1875.
KEENE, LAURA (dau. of Mr. Lee and wife of Mr. Taylor). _b._
England 1830; acted at the Lyceum under Madame Vestris; played
Pauline in Lady of Lyons, Olympic theatre Oct. 1851; appeared
as Albina Mandeville in The Will, Wallack’s theatre, New York
20 Sep. 1852; acted in California and Australia 1852–5; opened
Laura Keene’s Varieties theatre, New York 27 Dec. 1855; opened
Laura Keene’s New theatre with As you like it 18 Nov. 1856
and remained lessee till 1868; produced Our American Cousin,
in which E. A. Sothern, Joseph Jefferson and herself appeared
18 Oct. 1858 which ran to 25 March 1859; in England 1868;
starred in America with her own company 1868 to death; edited
Shakespeare’s Play of a Midsummer Night’s dream, with notes
1863; left two daughters by her first husband. _d._ Montclair,
New Jersey 4 Nov. 1873. _J. Jefferson’s Autobiography_ (1890)
183, 489, _portrait_; _Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 202,
_portrait_; _The Era 30 Nov. 1873 p._ 10.
KEENE, RICHARD WYNNE. _b._ Norwich 1810 or 1811; a sculptor;
inventor of Keene’s cement made by saturating plaster of Paris
in small lumps with alum and recalcining it, patented by himself
and J. D. Greenwood 27 Feb. 1838; designer and modeller of the
masks and symbolic properties for the Drury Lane pantomimes
1852–73 under the name of Dykwynkyn; a pensioner on the Dramatic
and musical sick fund from Oct. 1884. _d._ 32 Hanbury road,
Lavender hill, London 28 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Woking. _Belgravia_,
_i_ 359–64 (1867).
KEHOE, LAWRANCE. _b._ parish of Litter, Wexford 24 July 1832;
editor and publisher of New York Tablet 1857–65; founded the
Catholic publication society co. 1865 and was manager to his
death; manager of the Catholic World; edited The complete works
of J. Hughes, archbishop of New York 1866. _d._ Brooklyn, New
York 27 Feb. 1890. _The Tablet 22 March 1890 p._ 473.
KEIGHTLEY, JOHN. _b._ 1778; lieut. 57 foot 22 July 1795; major
23 foot 25 July 1816 to 16 Oct. 1823 when placed on half pay;
lieut. col. 11 foot 2 June 1825 to 29 May 1835; resident
governor of Santa Maura; lieut. col. 35 foot 29 May 1835 to 17
June 1836 when he sold out; resident governor of Zante. _d._
Pickhill hall near Wrexham 6 Sep. 1852.
KEIGHTLEY, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Keightley of Newtown,
Kildare). _b._ Dublin 17 Oct. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1808; came to London 1824 and became a journalist; granted
civil list pension of £100, 31 Jany. 1855; author of The fairy
mythology 2 vols. 1828, anon., another ed. 1850; Outlines of
history 1829; History of the war of independence in Greece 2
vols. 1830; The mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy 1832,
2 ed. 1834; Tales and popular fictions 1834; The history of
England 2 vols. 1837–9, three editions; The history of Greece
1835, 3 ed. 1839; The Crusaders 2 vols. 1834; Secret societies
of the Middle Ages 1837; edited the Bucolics and Georgics 1847;
The poems of John Milton, with notes 2 vols. 1859; The plays and
poems of William Shakespeare 6 vols. 1864. _d._ Hartwell lodge,
Lessness Heath near Erith, Kent 4 Nov. 1872. _bur._ Erith. _C.
R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 322 (1883); _I.L.N. lxi_ 479
(1872).
KEILLER, JAMES M. Confectioner and maker of preserves at Dundee;
commenced producing Seville orange marmalade, the first to make
it as an article of commerce, its use spread to England and it
is now sent all over the world; the marmalade season lasts from
Dec. to March, the candied peel season is from March to June,
and the jam fruit season begins in June; maker also of lozenges,
comfits, candies and gum goods; gave £10,500 to clear off the
debt on Dundee free library 1885. _Bremner’s Industries of
Scotland_ (1869) 466–72; _Dundee Year Book_ (1886) _p._ 5.
KEITH, ALEXANDER (son of George Skene Keith, D.D. 1752–1823).
_b._ manse of Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 30 Nov. 1791; ed. at
Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, B.A. 1809, D.D. 1833;
minister of St. Cyrus parish, Forfarshire 1816, resigned 1840;
one of a deputation to Palestine with rev. Robert McCheyne, rev.
A. Bonnar and rev. A. Black to enquire into state of the Jews
described in Narrative of Mission to the Jews 1839, revisited
Palestine 1844 and was the first to take daguerrotype views of
places in Syria; one of founders of Free church of Scotland
1843, declined the moderatorship repeatedly on account of
his health; author of Evidence of the truth of the Christian
religion derived from the fulfilment of prophecy 1828, 40 ed.
1873, translated into many foreign languages; The signs of the
times as denoted by the fulfilment of historical predictions
2 vols. 1832, 8 ed. 1847; The harmony of prophecy 1851; The
history and destiny of the world and of the church 1861. _d._
Aberdeen house 56 West st. Buxton, where he had resided for
some years, 8 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Chinley, Chapel-en-le-Frith,
Derbyshire 12 Feb. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 331–8,
_portrait_; _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticaniæ_, _iii_, _pt.
ii_, 585, 865 (1871).
KEITH, HESTER MARIA, viscountess Keith (eld. dau. of Henry
Thrale, brewer, _d._ 1781). _b._ 1762; from 1765 Dr. Johnson
called her Queenie, wrote verses for her and directed her
education; by death of her only brother 1776 she became a
rich heiress; greatly disapproved of her mother’s marriage to
Piozzi; a considerable scholar in history, poetry, Hebrew and
mathematics; refused Samuel Rogers the poet. (_m._ 10 Jany.
1808 at Ramsgate, George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, _b._ 7
Jany. 1746, cr. viscount Keith 1 June 1814, _d._ 10 March 1823);
one of the patronesses of Almack’s 1808; a prominent leader
of society in London and Edinburgh 1814–50; she was the last
survivor of the persons who are mentioned in Boswell’s Johnson.
_d._ 110 Piccadilly, London 31 March 1857. _Willis’ Current
Notes_ 1857 _p._ 29; _G.M. ii_ 615–6 (1857).
KEITH, MARGARET MERCER ELPHINSTONE, Baroness Keith (eld. dau. of
George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, viscount Keith 1746–1823).
_b._ Hertford st. Mayfair, London 12 June 1788; styled hon.
Margaret Elphinstone 1797–1817; was in the household of the
princess Charlotte. (_m._ 20 June 1817 at Edinburgh, Augustus
Charles Joseph, count de Flahault de la Billardrie, French
ambassador to London 1860, _d._ 2 Sep. 1870 aged 85); baroness
Keith of Stonehaven Marishal and baroness Keith of Banheath on
death of her father 10 March 1823; baroness Nairne on the death
of her cousin William 4 lord Nairne 7 Dec. 1837; styled baroness
Nairne and Keith 1837 to death. _d._ at palace of the legion of
honour, Paris 11 Nov. 1867.
KEITH-FALCONER, ION GRANT NEVILLE (3 son of 9 Earl of Kintore).
_b._ Edinburgh 5 July 1856; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb.,
B.A. 1878; Tyrwhitt univ. Hebrew scholar; defeated John Keen
by five yards in a two-mile bicycle race at Cambridge 11 May
1878; rode 50 miles in 2 hours and 44 minutes at Crystal palace,
beating the record 9 July 1882; rode from Land’s End to John o’
Groat’s House 994 miles in 13 days, June 1882; Hebrew lecturer
at Clare college, Camb.; missionary of Free church of Scotland
26 May 1886; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Camb. 1886
to death, gave 3 lectures on the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Nov.;
arrived at Aden 8 Dec. 1886; began to build a permanent home for
a mission at Shaikh Othman near Aden, attacked by Aden fever
Feb. 1887. _d._ Shaikh Othman 11 May 1887. _bur._ Aden cemetery.
_R. Sinker’s Memorials of Ion Keith-Falconer_ (1888); _Sporting
Mirror_, _iv_ 49–52 (1882), _portrait_.
KEKEWICH, GEORGE GRANVILLE (1 son of George Kekewich of
Dartmouth). _b._ 1802; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A.
1827; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; judge of county courts
circuit 60 (Cornwall), March 1847 to death. _d._ Exeter 7 Jany.
1857.
KEKEWICH, SAMUEL TREHAWKE (son of Samuel Kekewich, D.C.L., _d._
26 Aug. 1822). _b._ Bowden house near Totnes, Devon 31 Oct.
1796; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1814; M.P.
Exeter 1826–30; M.P. South Devon 1858 to death; sheriff of Devon