Modern English biography

KINGDON, THOMAS KINGDON (3 son of Samuel Kingdon of Exeter, ironmonger). _b._ Exeter 1812; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; practised as a special pleader 9 years; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848, bencher 25 Jany. 1867 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; recorder of Bristol 21 Aug. 1872 to death. _d._ 3 Clarendon road, Kensington 2 Dec. 1879. KINGLAKE, ALEXANDER WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Kinglake of Taunton, banker and solicitor, _d._ 1847). _b._ Taunton 5 Aug. 1809; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1836; travelled in the East about 1835; barrister L.I. 5 May 1837, retired from practice 1856; visited French army in Algeria 1845; contested Bridgewater 1852; M.P. Bridgewater 1857–68, re-elected 17 Nov. 1868, election declared void on petition 23 Feb. 1869, borough disfranchised 1869; visited the Crimea, saw battle of the Alma and the trenches at Sebastopol 1854; author of Eothen, or traces of travel brought home from the East 1844, 6 ed. 1878; The invasion of the Crimea, its origin and an account of its progress down to the death of lord Raglan 8 vols. 1863–87, 6 ed. 9 vols. 1877–88. _d._ 17 Bayswater terrace, London 2 Jany. 1891, cremated at Woking cemetery 8 Jany. _Blackwood’s Mag. Feb. 1891 pp._ 302–338; _I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p._ 43, _portrait_; _Graphic 10 Jany. 1891 p._ 43, _portrait_. KINGLAKE, JOHN ALEXANDER (son of Robert Kinglake, M.D. of Taunton). _b._ 1805; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1826, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1830; serjeant at law 10 July 1844, patent of precedence to rank after sir John Rolt, Feb. or March 1849; recorder of Exeter, July 1851 to Nov. 1856; recorder of Bristol, Nov. 1856 to death; contested Wells 1852 and 1855; M.P. for Rochester 30 March 1857 to death. _d._ 113 St. George’s sq. Pimlico, London 9 July 1870. _I.L.N. xxxii_ 560, 561 (1858), _portrait_. KINGSALE, JOHN CONSTANTINE DE-COURCY, 29 Baron (eld. son of 27 baron Kingsale 1805–47). _b._ Salcombe, Devon 5 Nov. 1827; succeeded 7 Jany. 1847 as premier baron in peerage of Ireland; captain East Devon militia 1853–5; put into operation the alleged De Courcy privilege of remaining covered in the presence of royalty, before the Queen 25 June 1859, this ceremony astonished all who saw it, as it had not been performed since 15 Sep. 1762. _d._ 13 Eaton sq. London 15 June 1865. _G. E. Cokayne’s Complete Peerage_, _iv_ 396, 399 (1892). KINGSALE, JOHN FITZROY DE-COURCY, 31 Baron (only son of lieut. col. Gerald De-Courcy _d._ Oct. 1848). _b._ Corfu 30 March 1821; ensign 47 foot 28 Dec. 1838, lieut. 2 July 1841, sold out 11 June 1847; served as a major in Turkish contingent during Crimean war 1854–6; stipendiary magistrate at San Juan, Vancouver’s island during the Harney disturbances 1859; served as a colonel in Federal army during American civil war 1861–5; succeeded his cousin Michael 15 April 1874 as premier baron in peerage of Ireland. _d._ Florence 20 Nov. 1890. KINGSBURY, FREDERICK. _b._ 1814 or 1815; studied at R. Academy of music 1844–45; conductor at Strand music hall (now Gaiety theatre) 1866–7; one of conductors of promenade concerts at Agricultural hall, Islington 20 July 1868; founded and conducted the London vocal academy, Rose Hersee was one of his pupils; professor at Guildhall school of music; wrote Letter on cultivation of the voice in reading, printed in J. J. Halcombe’s The Speaker at home (1860) pp. 171–78. _d._ of paralysis 21 Cecil st. Strand, London 26 Feb. 1892. KINGSCOTE, HENRY ROBERT (2 son of Thomas Kingscote _d._ 1811). _b._ 25 May 1802; ed. at Harrow; was 6 feet 5 inches in height; played his first cricket match at Lords 21 May 1823; pres. of Marylebone cricket club 1827; sent out supplies to the troops during Crimean war 1855; founder of scheme for establishing workshops for the indigent blind, and of National Orphan home at Ham Common, Surrey 1849. _d._ 10 Seville st. Lowndes sq. London 13 July 1882. _Lillywhite’s Cricket Scores_, _i_ 468 (1862). KINGSDOWN, THOMAS PEMBERTON-LEIGH, 1 Baron (elder son of Robert Pemberton, barrister, _d._ 2 Aug. 1804). _b._ London 11 Feb. 1793; barrister L.I. 18 Nov. 1816, bencher 1830 to death; practised in equity courts 1816–43; K.C. Nov. 1829; leader in the rolls court 1835; declined the solicitor generalship, a puisne judgeship and vice-chancellorship; M.P. Rye 1831–32; M.P. Ripon 1835–43; attorney general to prince of Wales 1841–43; chancellor of duchy of Cornwall, May 1843 to 1861; on death of his kinsman sir Robert Leigh, came into a life interest in the Wigan estate of £17,000 a year Jany. 1843; took additional surname of Leigh by r.l. 7 March 1843; P.C. 10 June 1843, member of its judicial committee 1843–63 for which he declined to take any remuneration; declined the Great Seal from the Derby ministry 1858; created baron Kingsdown of Kingsdown, Kent 28 Aug. 1858. _d._ Torre hill, Sittingbourne, Kent 7 Oct.