Modern English biography

vols. to Warrington museum. _Palatine Note Book_, _ii_ 113–16, 179–80 (1882), _portrait_. KENEALY, EDWARD VAUGHAN HYDE (son of William Kenealy, merchant). _b._ Cork 2 July 1819; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1840, LL.B. 1846, LL.D. 1850; called to bar in Ireland 2 Nov. 1840; barrister G.I. 1 May 1847, disbarred 2 Dec. 1874 for his libellous articles in The Englishman; ordered to give up his chambers by the vice chancellor 29 June 1876; Q.C. 21 Feb. 1868 to 11 Dec. 1874 when he was removed; bencher of Gray’s inn, April 1868 to 1 Aug. 1874 when he was disbenched; M.P. Stoke upon Trent 18 Feb. 1874 to 1880; contested Wednesbury 18 Nov. 1868; contested Stoke, April 1880; prosecuted for cruelty to Edward Hyde his natural son aged 6, May 1850 and imprisoned for a month; junior counsel in defence of Wm. Palmer the Rugeley poisoner 1856; led the prosecution of Overend, Gurney & Co., bankers 1869; succeeded serjeant Sleigh as leading counsel for Arthur Orton the Tichborne claimant 1873, conducted the case in a most outrageous manner, insulting the bench and witnesses, the jury censured him in a rider to their verdict; started The Englishman in which he continued to abuse the chief justice and the solicitor general 11 April 1874; expelled from the mess of the Oxford circuit 2 April 1874; founded the Magna Charta association 1874; author of Brallaghan or the Deipnosophists 1845; Goethe, a new pantomime 1850, 3 ed. 1863; Poems and translations 1864; An introduction to the Apocalypse; E. W. Montagu, an autobiography, edited by Y. 3 vols. 1869; The trial at bar of sir R. C. D. Tichborne, Bart. 5 vols. 1875–8; Poetical works 3 vols. 1875–9; Fo, the third messenger of God 1878. _d._ 6 Tavistock sq. London 16 April 1880. _bur._ Hangleton near Brighton 22 April. _H. G. Gill’s Life and forensic career of E. V. Kenealy_ (1874), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxiii_ 161 1873), _portrait_; _The Englishman 24 April 1880 et seq., a long memoir_; _G.M. Feb. 1874 pp._ 220–7, _June 1875 pp._ 698–709; _London Sketch Book_, _Jany. 1874_, _portrait_. NOTE.--There is on the south-east angle of the south transept of Chester cathedral a series of twelve corbels with carved subjects illustrating an allegory, three of these are undoubted likenesses of the Earl of Beaconsfield, Mr. Gladstone and Dr. Kenealy. KENMARE, VALENTINE BROWNE, 2 Earl of (eld. son of 1 Earl of Kenmare 1754–1812). _b._ 15 Jany. 1788; succeeded as 2 earl 3 Oct. 1812; lord lieut. of Kerry 1831 to death; col. of Kerry militia 24 Jany. 1837 to death; created baron Kenmare of Castle Rosse in the United Kingdom 17 Aug. 1841; one of the visitors of Maynooth coll. 1845. _d._ Great Malvern 31 Oct. 1853. KENMARE, THOMAS BROWNE, 3 Earl of (bro. of the preceding). _b._ 15 Jany. 1789; ensign 40 foot 6 Aug. 1807, captain 1812–14; in Peninsula 1809 to 1814, war medal and 9 clasps; succeeded his brother 31 Oct. 1853; cr. baron Kenmare in peerage of the U.K. by letters patent 12 March 1856; lord lieut. of Kerry 19 March