Modern English biography

Edited by his wife 2 vols._ (1877), _portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _vol. ii_ 257–60, _portrait_; _Cartoon portraits_ (1873) 90–93, _portrait_; _Modern men of letters. By J. H. Friswell_ (1870) 313–32; _Illust. news of the world_, _viii_ (1861), _portrait_; _C. K. Paul’s Biographical sketches_ (1883) 115–39; _Alton Lock, new ed._ (1876), _memoir by T. Hughes_; _T. H. Ward’s English poets 2 ed. iv_ 608–14 (1883); _F. M. Muller’s Biographical essays_ (1884) 363–83. KINGSLEY, FRANCES ELIZABETH (youngest dau. of Pascoe Grenfell, M.P. d. 1837). _b._ 1814; (_m._ at Bath 10 Jany. 1844 rev. C. Kingsley 1819–75); greatly aided her husband in all his parish work at Eversley, wrote from his dictation and copied for the press; edited the following works about and by her husband, Charles Kingsley, his letters and memories of his life 1877, 2 ed. 1883; True words for a brave man 1878; Out of the deep 1880; Daily thoughts selected from the writings of C. Kingsley 1884; From death to life, fragments of teaching to a village congregation 1887; declined the Queen’s offer of apartments in Hampton court palace 1875; granted civil list pension of £200, 4 May 1875. _d._ Bishop’s Tachbrook near Leamington 12 Dec. 1891. _I.L.N. 19 Dec. 1891 p._ 794, _portrait_. KINGSLEY, GEORGE HENRY (brother of rev. C. Kingsley 1819–75). _b._ Barnack, Northamptonshire 14 Feb. 1827; ed. at King’s coll. London, Edin. univ. and Paris; M.D. Edin. 1846; practised in England from 1850; adopted foreign travel as his method of treatment of his patients, explored many foreign countries; a sportsman and linguist; author of Four phases of love translated from the German of P. J. L. Heyse 1857; A gossip on a Sutherland hillside 1861, included in Francis Galton’s Vacation tourists and notes of travel; South Sea Bubbles; By the Earl and the Doctor 1872, an account of his travels in Polynesia with the Earl of Pembroke 1867–70, 2 ed. 1873. _d._ 7 Mortimer road, Cambridge 5 Feb. 1892. KINGSLEY, HENRY (brother of the preceding). _b._ Barnack 2 Jany. 1830; ed. at King’s coll. London and Worcester coll. Oxf. 1850–3; went to the Australian goldfields 1853, returned to England 1858; edited the Edinburgh Daily Review 1870–1, correspondent for his paper during Franco-German war 1870, present at battle of Sedan 1 Sep. 1870, the first Englishman to enter Sedan afterwards; author of The recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn 3 vols. 1859, 3 ed. 1864; Ravenshoe 3 vols. 1862, 2 ed. 1862; Austin Elliott 2 vols. 1863, 2 ed. 1863; The Hillyars and the Burtons 3 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 1865; Mademoiselle Mathilde 3 vols. 1868, 2 ed. 1868; Stretton 3 vols. 1869, and 15 other books. _d._ of cancer in the tongue at Attrees, Cuckfield, Sussex 24 May 1876. _Graphic_, _xiii_ 563, 564 (1876), _portrait_. KINGSMILL, SIR JOHN. _b._ 1798; captain of the Battle Axe guards, Dublin Castle 1828–1834 when corps was dissolved; knighted by lord lieut. of Ireland 1830. _d._ 23 Oct. 1859. KINGSMITH, JOSEPH. Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1836; chaplain Pentonville prison, London 1843–59; author of Chapters on prisons and prisoners and the prevention of crime 1849, 3 ed. 1854; A common sense view of the treatment of prisoners 1850; Missions and missionaries 1853, 2 ed. 1854; On the present aspect of serious crime in England 1856; British rule and British christianity in India 1859; Our police, friendly council to the police 1860. _d._ 142 Marina, St. Leonards 25 Dec. 1865. KINGSTON, ROBERT HENRY KING, 4 Earl of (2 son of 3 earl of Kingston 1771–1839). _b._ 4 Oct. 1796; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1818; ensign 5 foot 31 Oct. 1816, placed on h.p. 24 Dec. 1818; lieut. 69 foot 3 Jany. 1822, placed on h.p. 12 June 1826; M.P. Cork 1831–32; known as viscount Kingsborough 1837–39; succeeded 18 Oct. 1839; frequently sued by cabmen in the police courts and behaved in an unseemly manner in the house of lords; declared of unsound mind April 1861. _d._ 21 Jany. 1867. _G.M. March 1867 pp._ 380–81. KINGSTON, JAMES KING, 5 Earl of. _b._ 8 April 1880; barrister King’s inns, Dublin 1825, Lincoln’s inn 25 May 1827; succeeded 21 Jany. 1867. _d._ Mitchelstown castle 8 Sep. 1869. KINGSTON, ROBERT KING, 6 Earl of. _b._ Henrietta st. Dublin 17 July 1804; M.P. for Roscommon 1826–1830; succeeded his father 20 Nov. 1854 as viscount Lorton, and his cousin 8 Sep. 1869 as earl of Kingston. _d._ London 16 Oct. 1869. KINGSTON, ROBERT EDWARD KING, 7 Earl of. _b._ Dublin 18 Oct. 1831; succeeded 16 Oct. 1869. _d._ Alexandra hotel, Hyde park corner, London 21 June 1871. NOTE.--The four Earls of Kingston died in less than 4½ years. KINGSTON, ALFRED. _b._ 1829; junior clerk in public record office, London 23 May 1844, an assistant keeper of records 27 July 1875 to death; hon. sec. to Camden society Dec. 1872 to death. _d._ 12 Chancery lane, London 24 April 1885. KINGSTON, GEORGE TEMPLEMAN. _b._ 1817; ed. at Caius coll. Camb., 1 class mathematics and B.A. 1846, M.A. 1849; professor of meteorology Univ. coll. Toronto; director of magnetical observatory, Toronto 1855; author of Abstracts of magnetical observations. Toronto 1863; and many papers in Canadian Journal on meteorology, temperature, the winds, electricity, magnetism, etc. 1855–63. _d._ Toronto 21 Jany. 1886. KINGSTON, WILLIAM HENRY GILES (eld. son of Lucy Henry Kingston of Oporto). _b._ Harley st. London 28 Feb. 1814; lived in Oporto many years; entered his father’s business at Oporto; wrote newspaper articles on Portugal, for which he received an order of Portuguese knighthood and a pension from Donna Maria da Gloria; edited The Colonist, London 1844, two numbers only; The Colonial Mag. and East India review, vols. 16 to 23, 1849–51; Kingstone’s Magazine for boys, vols. 1 to 4, 1859–63, and with G. A. Henty The Union Jack, tales for boys, vol. 1, 1880; lectured on colonization 1849; promoted an improved system of emigration and was hon. sec. of a colonisation soc.; sent by emigration commissioners to visit north of Scotland; originated Soc. for Improvement of religious and moral condition of seamen; a great traveller and a yachtsman; author of The Circassian chief 1844; Peter the whaler 1850, his first book for boys; Western wanderings, a Canadian tour 1856; The cruise of the Frolic 1860; The three midshipmen 1873; Eldol the Druid 1874; The three lieutenants 1875; The three commanders 1876; Popular history of the navy 1876; Half hours with the kings and queens of England 1876; The three admirals 1878; Kidnapping in the Pacific 1879; A yacht voyage round England 1879; Adventures in the far West 1881; Mungo Park’s travels 1886; his original writings, translations, etc. occupy 180 volumes, some of which went to many editions. _d._ Stormont lodge, Willesden near London 5 Aug. 1880. _Boys’ Own Paper 11 Sep. 1880 pp._ 796–97, _portrait_; _James Braithwaite, by W. H. G. Kingston_ (1882), _memoir pp. v–ix_, _portrait_. KINKEL, JOHANN GOTTFRIED. _b._ Obercassel near Bonn 15 Aug. 1815; poet; professor at univ. Bonn 1845, took part in revolution of 1848, imprisoned at Spandau, escaped and fled to England Nov. 1850; examiner in German language at univ. of London 1851–66; lectured on the modern drama 28 April 1851; founded a German journal in London, Hermann Deutsches Wochenblatt aus London, edited it 8 Jany. 1859 to 1869; professor of archæology in polytechnikum, Zurich 1866 to death; author of Festrede bei der Schillerfeier in Krystallpalast. London 1859; Lecture on physical geography and its application to the teaching of geography in schools, delivered in Science and Art Department, London 1860; and about 50 other works printed at Basle, Bonn, Berlin, Cologne, Essen, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipsic, Stuttgard, Vienna and Zurich 1841–79. _d._ Zurich 13 Nov. 1882. _m._ Johanna Mockel who _d._ London 15 Nov. 1858, she was the author of Hans Ibeles in London, Stuttgard 2 vols. 1860, and of Twelve stories of earth, air and water, printed in Mama’s Stories, London 1872 pp. 133–75, she was also a musical composer. KINLESIDE, ROBERT RAIKES. Second lieut. Bengal artillery 28 Sep. 1827, colonel R.A. 18 Feb. 1861 to death; M.G. 14 July 1867. _d._ Landour near Mussouree 27 Aug. 1871. KINLOCK, ALFRED (6 son of James Kinlock of Brunswick sq. London). _b._ 10 Feb. 1819; ed. at Rugby 1833–7, captain of the school, at Oriel coll. and St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1842; assistant chaplain Madras army 1846; chaplain to the staff of the division of troops under sir G. C. Whitlock which captured town of Banda 20 April 1858 and town of Kirwee 6 June 1858 with property of the estimated value of 7,000,000 rupees; brought an action 15 May 1879 against the secretary of state for India on behalf of himself and all other persons entitled to share in the booty under royal grant dated 10 June 1864, after much litigation the House of Lords decided against him 19 May 1882, he then presented a petition of right to the Queen but the Court of Appeal again decided against him 21 March 1884; author of The Kirwee prize fight in various aspects, or great wars and little jars, to which is added a letter to a ghost 1866; The Duke’s Wink, or prize-money defalcations. By Tom Brown Agonistes. Tunbridge Wells 1884, and of other pamphlets relating to the Banda and Kirwee booty; wrote the historical part pp. 1–151 of St. John Colbran’s Guide to Tunbridge Wells 2nd ed. 1884. _d._ 31 Monson terrace, Tunbridge Wells 27 March 1890. _Banda and Kirwee Booty 10 vols. of parliamentary papers_ 1865–66 _folio_. KINLOCK, SIR GEORGE, 1 Baronet (eld. son of George Kinlock of Kinlock, Meigle, Perthshire, M.P. Dundee, _d._ 28 March 1833 aged 58). _b._ Kinlock house 13 Oct. 1800; ed. at univ. of Edin.; advocate 1823; cr. baronet 16 April 1873. _d._ Kinlock house 17 June 1881. KINLOCK, GEORGE RITCHIE. _b._ Stonehaven, Kincardineshire 1797 or 1798; clerk to 3 successive advocates depute; assistant keeper of register of deeds in Register house, Edinburgh 1842, keeper 1851–69; author of The ballad book, edited with a Biographia Lesleyana 1827; Ancient Scottish ballads 1827; Reliquiæ antiquæ Scoticæ 1848; edited for the Maitland club, A. Pitcairne’s Babell, a satirical poem 1830, and The diary of Mr. John Lamont of Newton 1649–1671, 1830. _d._ West Coates villa, Edinburgh 21 April 1877. KINNAIRD, GEORGE WILLIAM FOX KINNAIRD, 9 Baron (eld. son of 8 baron Kinnaird 1780–1826). _b._ Drimmie house, Perthshire 14 April 1807; educ. at Eton; cornet 1 life guards 24 Nov. 1825, lieut. 18 Feb. 1828, placed on h.p. 1 Feb. 1831; succeeded as 9 baron Kinnaird 11 Dec. 1826; grand master of the Freemasons of Scotland 1830–1; cr. a peer of the United Kingdom as baron Rossie of Rossie, co. Perth 11 June 1831; cr. baron Kinnaird of Rossie, Perth 1 Sep. 1860; master of the buckhounds 21 Dec. 1839, resigned Sep. 1841; P.C. 15 June 1840; K.T. 6 July 1857; lord lieut. of Perthshire 14 March 1866 to death, sheriff principal 28 Feb. 1866; made excavations near Rome, the antiquities discovered are at Rossie priory; the first to introduce steam ploughs, threshing machines and ‘roadsters’ into the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire; chief promoter of the Forbes Mackenzie act in Scotland 1853; chairman of the royal commission on metalliferous mines; introduced the game of cricket into Scotland; author of Profitable investment of capital or 11 years practical experience in farming. Dundee 1849; Rinderpest or the treatment of cattle 1866, 2 ed. 1866; The new mint buildings, a letter to P. H. Muntz esq. 1871; The royal mint, altered returns presented to parliament 1871; The royal mint, treatment of brittle gold, new buildings and the copper account 1871. _d._ Rossie priory, Inchture, Perthshire 7 Jany. 1878. _Waagen’s Galleries of art_ (1857) 445–48. KINNAIRD, ARTHUR FITZGERALD KINNAIRD, 10 Baron (3 son of 8 baron Kinnaird 1780–1826). _b._ Rossie priory, Perthshire 8 July 1814; ed. at Eton; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburg 1835–7; private sec. to the earl of Durham; partner in bank of Ransom & Co. 1 & 2 Pall Mall East, London 1837, head of the firm, which became Ransom, Bouverie & Co. 1856; M.P. Perth 1837–9 and 1852 to 7 Jany. 1878 when he succeeded his brother; well known as a philanthropist and an attendant at the May meetings; considered the successor to lord Shaftesbury; F.R.G.S.; author of Bengal, its landed tenure and police system 1857. _d._ 2 Pall Mall East, London 26 April 1887. _Fraser’s Mary Jane Kinnaird_ (1890), _portrait_; _Dundee Year Book_ (1887) 42. KINNAIRD, MARY JANE KINNAIRD, Baroness (dau. of William Henry Hoare of London, banker). _b._ Blatherwick park, Northamptonshire 14 March 1816; instituted St. John’s training school for domestic servants 1841; edited a vol. of Servants’ Prayers 1848; associated with lady Canning in sending nurses to the Crimea 1854–5; founder of London Young women’s christian association and helped to found numerous other charitable societies. (_m._ 28 June 1843 the preceding). _d._ Plaistow lodge near Bromley, Kent 1 Dec. 1888. _Fraser’s Mary Jane Kinnaird_ (1890), _portrait_. KINNEAR, DAVID. _b._ Edinburgh about 1807; an advocate but never practised; engaged in commerce in London; went to U.S. of America 1835, a farmer at Drummondville, Lower Canada; bore arms against the insurgents during rebellion of 1837, stipendiary magistrate in charge of the police force organized to restore order; editor of the Montreal Gazette; a partner in the Herald newspaper of Montreal, senior partner in and editor of the Herald to death. _d._ Montreal 20 Nov. 1862. _H. J. Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis_ (1867) 212. KINNEAR, SARAH HARRIET (only child of George Frith of Worksop, Notts., surgeon, _d._ 1832). Made her first appearance on the stage at Brighton as Beatrice in Much ado about nothing, Sep. 1846; assumed stage name of Frankland; leading lady at T.R. Birmingham and at T.R. Edinburgh 1849–51; played at Princess’ theatre, London 1851–52 when she made her last appearance on the stage as Portia in the Merchant of Venice. (_m._ at Stockton-upon-Tees 12 Aug. 1852 John Boyd Kinnear of Kinnear, Fifeshire). _d._ Norwood, Surrey 1 June 1866. _bur._ ch. yard of Collessie, Fifeshire. KINNIS, JOHN. _b._ 1794 or 1795; hospital assistant in the army 16 June 1815; surgeon 90 foot 22 June 1838; deputy inspector general 25 June 1847; F.R.S. Edin.; author of A report on small-pox as it appeared in Ceylon. Colombo 1835; A letter to the inhabitants of Ceylon on vaccination 1837; Observations on tubercular elephantiasis 1842. _d._ Edinburgh 18 Aug. 1853. KINNOUL, THOMAS ROBERT DRUMMOND HAY, 10 Earl of (only son of 9 Earl of Kinnoul 1751–1804). _b._ 5 April 1785; styled viscount Duplin 1787–1804; ed. at Westminster; succeeded 12 April 1804; Lord Lyon king of arms 12 April 1804 to death; col. of royal Perthshire militia 1809 to 30 Oct. 1855; lord lieut. of Perthshire 1830 to death. _d._ St. Clair, Torquay 18 Feb. 1866. _bur_. at Aberdalgie 26 Feb. KINSELLA, THOMAS. _b._ Ireland 1832; a printer in U.S. of America; editor of the Eagle at Brooklyn, New York 1861; postmaster of Brooklyn 1866; member of congress 1871–73; president of the Faust soc. _d._ Brooklyn 11 Feb. 1884. _Appleton’s American biography_, _iii_ 552 (1887). KINSEY, WILLIAM MORGAN (son of Robert Morgan Kinsey of Abergavenny). _b._ Abergavenny 1788 or 1789; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1812–15, fellow 1815–44, dean 1822, V.P. 1823, bursar 1824; B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1822, proctor of univ. 1821; chaplain to lord Auckland; one of ministers of St. John’s ch. Cheltenham to Jany. 1842; R. of Rotherfield Greys, Oxon. 1843 to death; author of Portugal illustrated 1828, 2 ed. 1829; contributed Random recollections of a visit to Walton hall the seat of Charles Waterton esq., to Gentleman’s Magazine, Jany. 1848 pp. 33–39. _d._ Rotherfield Greys rectory 6 April 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 95 (1851). KINTORE, FRANCIS ALEXANDER KEITH-FALCONER, 8 Earl of. _b._ Wadley house, Berks. 7 June 1828; succeeded 11 July 1844; lord lieut. of Kincardineshire 28 May 1856 and of Aberdeenshire 12 Jany. 1864. _d._ 22 Mansfield st. Marylebone, London 18 July