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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