Modern English biography

KERR, WALTER MONTAGU (3 son of lord Charles Lennox Kerr _b._ 1814, capt. 42 regt.) _b._ June 1852; made a journey from Cape of Good Hope by the Zambesi to Lake Nyassa 1885; left England intending to cross Africa from Zanzibar and to visit Emin Pasha 1887, when at Mombassa ready to start fell ill of fever; author of The far interior, a narrative of travel and adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the lake regions of Central Africa 2 vols. 1886. _d._ South of France 23 April 1888. KERRICK, RICHARD EDWARD. Ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., 7 senior optime and B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, ordained 1830; F.S.A. 11 March 1830, gave to the society 3 portraits and a collection of 4000 coins, chiefly Roman 22 Nov. 1849. _d._ 13 Free school lane, Cambridge 13 May 1872. KERRISON, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (only son of Matthias Kerrison 1742–1827). _b._ Hexney hall near Bungay 30 July 1776; cornet 6 dragoons 23 June 1796; lieut. col. 7 dragoons 4 April 1805 to 28 Sep. 1826; col. of 14 light dragoons 18 June 1830 to death; served in the Helder expedition 1799, in Spain, and at Waterloo; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 22 June 1815; baronet by patent dated 27 July 1821; K.C.H. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.H. 1831; K.C.B. 18 July 1840; M.P. Shaftesbury 1812–18; M.P. Northampton 1818–24; M.P. Eye 1824–52. _m._ 20 Oct. 1813 Mary Martha dau. of Alexander Ellice of Pittencreff, Fife. _d._ 13 Great Stanhope st. London 9 March 1853. _I.L.N. xxii_ 227, 323 (1853); _Burke’s Portrait gallery_, _ii_ 131 (1833), _portrait of lady Kerrison_. KERRISON, SIR EDWARD CLARENCE, 2 Baronet (1 son of preceding). _b._ The Wick, Brighton 2 Jany. 1821; M.P. Eye 1852–66; M.P. East Suffolk 1866–67; steward of H.M. manor of Northstead, York; succeeded 9 March 1853; a great friend of the agricultural labourers; established the Thorndown reformatory; instrumental in erecting Albert memorial coll. Framlingham; took part in laying down Mellis and Eye railway; president of R. Agricultural soc. at Plymouth 1865; a good shot, a good coachman; master of Norfolk hounds 1869. _d._ Brome hall, Scole, Norfolk 12 July