Modern English biography

KENT, JAMES HENRY. _b._ 1810; M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. 1838; surgeon at Stanton near Bury St. Edmunds; famous for his scientific preparation of medicinal extracts and dried pharmaceutical herbs, for which he gained medals at great exhibitions of London 1851, Paris 1855 and New York 1853; author of Remarks on the injuriousness of the consolidation of small farms and the benefit of small occupations 1844. _d._ Stanton 22 Oct. 1855. NOTE.--His elder brother Walton Kent, educ. at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospitals; fellow of Obstetrical Soc.; L.S.A. 1827; surgeon at Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk about 1832–62; carried on the above business after his brother’s death; author of Essay on lingering or protracted labour 1828. _d._ Walsham 24 June 1862. KENTISH, JOHN (only son of John Kentish, draper, _d._ 1814). _b._ St. Albans 26 June 1768; ed. at Daventry academy 1784–8, at Hackney college 1788–90; unitarian minister at Plymouth Dock 1790, chapel in George st. opened 27 April 1791; minister of Treville st. chapel, Plymouth 1794–5; afternoon preacher at the Gravel Pit, Hackney 1795; morning preacher at St. Thomas’s chapel, Southward 1802; pastor of New Meeting, Birmingham 23 Jany. 1803 to 1844; author of A Letter to James White on the unitarian christians in West of England 1794; A vindication of the principles upon which unitarian christians recommend their views by the distribution of books 2 ed. 1800; Notes and comments on passages of scripture 1844, 3 ed. 1848. _d._ Park Vale, Edgbaston, Birmingham 6 March 1853. _J. Kenrick’s Memoir of J. Kentish_ (1854), _portrait_. KENYON, GEORGE KENYON, 2 Baron (2 son of 1 Baron Kenyon 1732–1802). _b._ Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 22 July 1776; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1797, M.A. 1801, D.C.L. 1814; succeeded his father as 2 baron 4 April 1802; barrister M.T. 3 May 1793, bencher 1811 to death, reader 1815, treasurer 1823; custos brevium of court of queen’s bench 1802–37 when office was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837; a comr. for building churches; F.S.A.; a trustee of the Theological seminary in Ohio 1825; the 77th anniversary of his birthday celebrated by a public festivity at Hanmer, Flint 22 July 1853; author of Observations on the Roman Catholic question 1810, 4 ed. 1812. _d._ Gredington hall, Flintshire 25 Feb. 1855. _bur._ at Hanmer. _I.L.N. xxiii_ 112, 113 (1853). KENYON, LLOYD KENYON, 3 Baron. _b._ Gredington hall, Flintshire 1 April 1805; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; succeeded 25 Feb. 1855; M.P. for St. Michael’s, Cornwall 1830–2. _d._ Eastbourne, Sussex 14 July 1869. _Reg. and mag. of biog. ii_ 87 (1869). KENYON, JOHN (son of Mr. Kenyon of parish of Trelawney, Jamaica, sugar planter). _b._ parish of Trelawney, Jamaica 1784; ed. at Sawyer’s school, Bristol, the Charterhouse, London, and Peter house, Camb. 1808; studied chemistry under W. Nicholson in Soho square; friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, C. Lamb and other literary celebrities; a well known gastronome; published Rhymed plea for tolerance 1833, 2 ed. 1839; Poems for the most part occasional 1838; A day at Tivoli with other verses 1849. _d._ Cowes, Isle of Wight 3 Dec. 1856. _bur._ in Lewisham churchyard. _G.M. ii_ 309–15 (1857). NOTE.--Browning sent him the poem Andrea del Sarto from Florence, and in 1856 while staying in his house in England Mrs. Browning finished Aurora Leigh and dedicated it to Kenyon. He left by his will 80 legacies to 80 of his literary friends, the poets included were Robert Browning £6,500, Mrs. Browning £4000, B. W. Procter known as Barry Cornwall £6500. KENYON, JOHN ROBERT (3 son of succeeding). _b._ 13 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, B.C.L. 1831, D.C.L. 1836; fellow of All Souls 1828; barrister M.T. May 1834; judge and assessor of chancellor’s court of univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1840 to Nov. 1859; recorder of Oswestry 1 June 1842 to death; Vinerian prof. of common law in univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1843 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1862; bencher of his inn 19 Nov. 1862 to death, treasurer 1874; chairman of Shropshire quarter sessions March 1871. _d._ The Pradoe, Erdiston, West Felton, Shropshire 17 April 1880. _Law Times_, _lxix_ 34 (1880). KENYON, Thomas (youngest son of 1 baron Kenyon 1732–1802). _b._ 27 Sep. 1780; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1801; filazer, exigenter and clerk of the outlawries office in the Inner Temple 1807–37 when office was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837; chairman of court of quarter sessions, Shropshire 1830 or 1831 to 1850. _d._ The Pradoe, co. Salop 4 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 649–51 (1851). KEOGH, WILLIAM NICHOLAS (eld. son of William M. Keogh of Corkip, co. Roscommon, clerk of the crown for the city and co. of Kilkenny, _d._ July 1865). _b._ Gardiner st. Dublin 7 Dec. 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., LL.D. 1866; called to bar in Ireland 1840, went the Connaught circuit; M.P. for Athlone Aug. 1847 to Feb. 1856; Q.C. 23 May 1850; solicitor gen. for Ireland, Dec. 1852 to March 1855, attorney gen. March 1855 to Feb. 1856; P.C. Ireland 1855; justice of the common pleas March 1856, of the common pleas division 1 Jany. 1878 to death; with Mr. Justice Fitzgerald tried the Fenian prisoners 1865; tried the Galway county election petition 1872 and henceforth was denounced by the Roman Catholics and went in fear of his life; author of Ireland under Lord de Grey 1844; Ireland imperialised; Milton’s prose, a lecture 1863; with M. J. Barry A treatise on the practice of the court of chancery in Ireland 1840. _d._ Bingen on the Rhine 30 Sep. 1878. _bur._ cemetery of R.C. ch. at Bonn 3 Oct. _Sullivan’s New Ireland_ (1877) _i_ 331–53; _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885) 255–60; _Law mag. and law review_, _iv_ 62–72 (1878); _Irish Law times_, _xii_ 498–500 (1878); _I.L.N. xvi_ 261 (1850), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _vi_ 90, 95 (1872), _portrait_. KEON, MYLES GERALD (only son of Myles Gerald Keon, barrister, _d._ 1824). _b._ Keonbrooke, co. Leitrim 20 Feb. 1821; ed. at Stonyhurst 8 years; served in French army in Algeria a short time; student at Gray’s Inn, admitted 11 Nov. 1840; edited Dolman’s Magazine, April to Nov. 1846; on the staff of the Morning Post 1847–58, went as its representative to St. Petersburgh 1850 and 1856; colonial secretary at Bermuda, March 1859 to death; author of The life of the Roman patrician Alexis 1847; a novel called Harding the Money-Spinner, in the London Journal 1852 published in 3 vols. 1879; Dion and the Sibyls, a romance of the first century 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. New York 1871. _d._ Bermuda 3 June 1875. _Stonyhurst Mag. March and June 1886_; _Boucher de Perthes’ Voyage en Russie en 1856_ (1859), _passim_. KER, ALAN. _b._ 1820; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; attorney general of Antigua 1851–54; chief justice of Nevis 1854–6; chief justice of Dominica 1856–61; puisne judge of supreme court of Jamaica 1861 to death; author of Remarks on the representative system as illustrated by the defeat of Mr. Macaulay at Edinburgh