Modern English biography

KIPPIST, RICHARD. _b._ Stoke Newington, London 11 June 1812; travelled with Joseph Woods the architect and botanist, and helped to compile his Tourist’s Flora; entered service of the Linnæan Society 1830, librarian 1842–81; A.L.S. _d._ 12 Burnaby st. King’s road, Chelsea 14 Jany. 1882. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._ (1881–2) 64–5. KIRBY, ELIZABETH (youngest child of John Kirby, manufacturer). _b._ Southgate st. Leicester 15 Dec. 1823; author with her sister Mary Kirby (Mrs. Gregg) of 22 books for children including The discontented children 1855; Caterpillars, butterflies and moths 1857; The Italian goldsmith, or the story of Cellini 1861, 2 ed. 1875; Chapters on Trees 1873; Sketches of insect life 1874. _d._ Melton Mowbray 23 June 1873. _bur._ Brooksby ch. yard 30 June. _Mary Kirby’s Leaflets from my life_ (1887) 232. KIRBY, JOHN. Ed. at Dublin univ., B.A. 1805, LL.B. and LL.D. 1832; F.R.C.S.I. and professor of practice of physic there; surgeon St. Peter’s and St. Bridget’s hospital, Dublin, and lecturer on anatomy and surgery there; consulting surgeon Coombe st. Lying-in hospital; author of Observations on the treatment of hemorrhoidal excrescences 1817; Additional observations on hemorrhoidal excrescences 1825. _d._ Newton house, Rathfarnham, co. Dublin 26 May 1853. KIRBY, JOSHUA HENRY. Ensign 34 foot 10 Aug. 1838; lieut. 86 foot 8 April 1842, major 1 June 1860; major 68 foot 23 April 1861, lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to death; brigadier general Bombay 12 Oct. 1874 to death; colonel in the army 10 Nov. 1874. _d._ Belgaum, Bombay 30 June 1877. KIRBY, SIR RICHARD CHARLES. _b._ 1788; junior clerk in office of sec.-at-war March 1804, senior clerk Sep. 1826, chief examiner of accounts July 1849, retired from the service Jany. 1856; reappointed as accountant general of the army Nov. 1856, retired Aug. 1860 on full pay of £1500 a year; C.B. 20 Dec. 1858; knighted at St. James’ palace 14 Feb. 1861. _d._ at the Rock, Reigate hill, Surrey 6 Oct. 1867. KIRBY, STEPHEN. _b._ 1782; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug. 1799, lieut. col. R.A. 20 July 1834 to 17 Aug. 1843 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 4 Feb. 1857. _d._ Claydon near Ipswich 22 Dec. 1857. KIRBY, THOMAS. _b._ Osbaldwick near York, Aug. 1770; went to Russia with a cargo of horses 1791; in the service of count Poltrowsky, in charge of 100 mares; with Primrose won a £50 plate at Chesterfield 29 Aug. 1804; a breeder of horses from 1804; in 1821 eight horses carrying his colours chocolate and white cap were racing; sold General Chasse to Nicholas emperor of Russia for 2250 guineas and Van Tromp for 2000 guineas; consulted by the government about shipping the horses to the Crimea in 1854. _d._ York, Feb. 1858. _The Post and the paddock. By The Druid_ (1880) 66–73; _Sporting Rev. xxxviii_ 161–3 (1857) _portrait_, _xxxix_ 154 (1858). KIRBY, THOMAS COX. Ensign 54 foot 1 March 1800, captain 26 Sep. 1806, placed on h.p. 23 May 1822; served in Flanders and at battle of Waterloo; captain 86 foot 5 May 1828; major on h.p. 13 Aug. 1830; sold out 1845; K.H. 1837. _d._ 1855. KIRBY, WALTER (son of W. Kirby, M.D., F.L.S.). _b._ 14 Nov. 1791; entered R.N. 23 Oct. 1803; served on coast of France, Spain and in West Indies; lieut. 1811; when in the Windsor Castle he effected preservation of the Union 104 guns when adrift and on shore during a storm 12 Jany. 1828; commander 22 July 1830 and then on h.p.; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; retired captain 1 April 1856. _d._ Jermyn st. London 10 Dec. 1859. KIRBY, WILLIAM HUMPHREYS. _b._ 6 Dec. 1819; ensign 94 foot 14 Oct. 1836, major 29 Dec. 1854 to 17 April 1868 when placed on h.p.; military sec. Bombay 1860–2; D.A.G. Bombay 1863–7; adjutant general Bombay 23 Dec. 1867 to 29 May 1872; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._ St. Servan, Brittany 28 June 1890. KIRK, ALEXANDER CARNEGIE (son of rev. John Kirk). _b._ in Manse of Barry, Forfarshire 1830; partner in shipbuilding firm of Robert Napier and Sons, Glasgow, became senior partner; president of the Engineers and Shipbuilders’ Institute of Scotland; wrote On compressed air and other refrigerating machinery, printed in Heat in its mechanical application, Lectures Institution of Civil Engineers (1885) 175–200. _d._ suddenly at 19 Athole Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow 5 Oct. 1892. _D. Pollock’s Modern shipbuilding_ (1884) 44, _portrait_. KIRK, JOHN (son of Wm. Kirk). _b._ Ruckley near Acton Burnell, Shropshire 13 April 1760; ed. at Sedgley park sch. Staffs. and English college at Rome; ordained priest 18 Dec. 1784; chaplain at Sedgley park school 1786, president 1793–7; built a chapel at Lichfield, opened 11 Nov. 1803; erected chapels at Hopwas near Tamworth and in Tamworth; D.D. by Pope Gregory XVI. 9 Nov. 1841; collected for 40 years materials forming 50 vols. for a Continuation of Dodd’s Church history of England, which was brought out to the year 1625 by Rev. M. A. Tierney in 5 vols. 1839–43; author with Rev. Joseph Berington of The faith of Catholics confirmed by scripture and attested by the Fathers 1813, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1846, a work to which several replies were made 1819–40. _d._ Lichfield 21 Dec. 1851. _Catholic Directory_ (1853) 129, _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvii_ 304–306 (1852). KIRK, WILLIAM (1 son of Hugh Kirk). _b._ Larne, co. Antrim 16 Oct. 1795; linen merchant; M.P. Newry 1852–57 and 1868 to death; contested Armagh 1865; sheriff of Armagh 1863. _d._ Newry 20 Dec. 1870. _I.L.N. lvii_ 691 (1870). KIRKES, WILLIAM SENHOUSE. _b._ Holker near Cartmel, Lancs. 1823; entered St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841, medical registrar and demonstrator of morbid anatomy, assist. physician 1854 and physician 1864 to death; M.D. Berlin 1846; L.R.C.P. 1850, F.R.C.P. 1855, Gulstonian lecturer 1856; author with W. Baly of Recent advances in the physiology of motion 1848; and with James Paget of Hand-book of physiology 1848, 12 ed. 1888. _d._ 2 Lower Seymour st. Portman sq. London 8 Dec. 1864. _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. v_ 47 (1867). KIRKHAM, GAWIN. _b._ Eskrigg, Lancashire 1830; connected with St. Paul’s, Bermondsey, London as a scripture reader for 4 years; secretary of the Open-Air mission 1860 to death, and ran some risks when attending fairs, races and executions; helped to distribute relief during Lancashire cotton famine 1862; the pioneer of open-air preaching on the Continent; author of The broad and narrow way. The picture accompanying Mr. G. Kirkham’s lecture on the broad and narrow way 1886; Hints for beginners in open-air services, printed in G. H. Pike’s Beneath the blue sky (1888) 61–71. _d._ London, May 1892. KIRKLAND, SIR JOHN (eld. son of John Kirkland of Glasgow). _b._ Ayr 1796; deputy assistant commissary general 4 May 1815, placed on h.p. 24 Aug. 1816; army agent at 8 Bennett st. St. James’s, London 1820, then at 6 Whitehall, and lastly at 17 Whitehall place to death; receiver of crown rents for Middlesex, city of London and bailiwick of St. James, Westminster 1827 to death; general agent for the recruiting service about 1830 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. _d._ Beckenham place, Kent 13 Jany. 1871. KIRKLAND, WILLIAM (son of William Kirkland _d._ 1 Oct. 1834). _b._ Dundee; apprentice to J. and C. Carmichael, engineers, Dundee to 1829; partner with his father as W. Kirkland and Sons, wood merchants, Dundee 1829; perfected the machinery for wood cutting in all its branches and for cutting mouldings. _d._ Oak lodge, Constitution road, Dundee 16 April 1869. _Dundee Advertiser 17 April 1869 p._ 4. KIRKPATRICK, JOHN. _b._ 1786; advocate at Scottish bar 1809; Greek scholar; chief justice of Ionian islands 1820–35; revised the code of Malta 1830; great pedestrian, walked from Dunkeld to Edinburgh viâ Queensferry 70 miles in one day; a swimmer and bather all the year round, won a 3 mile swimming match at Corfu. _d._ 39 Moray place, Edinburgh 10 Feb. 1871. _Journal of Jurisprudence, Feb. 1871 p._ 140. KIRKPATRICK, JOHN RUTHERFORD. _b._ 1832; ed. Dublin univ., B.A. 1854, M.B. 1855; L.R.C.S.I. 1855, F.R.C.S.I. 1857; L.M. Lying-in hospital, Dublin 1854; L.K.Q.C.P. 1859, L.M. 1860; king’s professor of midwifery, school of physic in Ireland, April 1882 to death. _d._ 4 Upper Merrion st. Dublin 16 April 1889. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemet. 20 April. KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM BAILLIE. _b._ Ballynahinch, co. Down 1802; ed. at Glasgow college, M.A.; licensed by presbytery of Armagh 1827; a minister of St. Mary’s Abbey church, Dublin 29 July 1829; moderator of general assembly 1850; a comr. of charitable donations and bequests; a comr. of endowed schools; author of Chapters in Irish history. Dublin [1875], 2 ed. 1875. _d._ Bray, co. Wicklow 23 Sep. 1882. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin. KIRKUP, SEYMOUR STOCKER (eld. child of Joseph Kirkup, jeweller). _b._ London 1788; student of the R.A. 1809, exhibited 2 pictures at R.A. 1833–36; lived at Rome, then at Florence many years, at Leghorn 1872 to death; a student of Dante, found on 21 July 1840 the portrait of Dante painted by Giotto in the chapel of the Palazzo del Podestà at Florence, of which he made a drawing and tracing; created cavaliere of the order of SS. Maurizio e Lazzaro 1865 and called himself Barone Kirkup; a disciple of Daniel Home the spiritualist; his library was sold at Sotheby’s, Dec. 1871 for £2,555. _d._ 4 Via Scali del Ponte Nuovo, Leghorn 3 Jany. 1880. KIRKWOOD, ANDERSON (son of Mr. Kirkwood of Edinburgh, merchant). _b._ 1822; manager of business of Messrs. Bannatyne, writers to the signet, Glasgow 1839, a partner in the firm 1842; the first professor of conveyancing in univ. of Glasgow 1861–7; dean of the faculty of procurators, Glasgow 1875–80; hon. D.C.L. Glasgow 1867; assessor to council of univ. of Glasgow 1867–87; presented with his portrait by citizens of Glasgow 1876; contested seat for united univs. of Glasgow and Aberdeen 1876. _d._ Stirling 16 Feb. 1889. _Law Times 16 March 1889 pp._ 379–80. KIRKWOOD, JAMES PUGH. _b._ Edinburgh 27 March 1807; civil engineer Glasgow 1832; assistant engineer on railway work in U.S. of America 1832; United States constructing engineer for docks, hospitals and workshops at Pensacola, Florida; chief engineer in Missouri Pacific railway 1850–5; chief engineer Nassau waterworks, Brooklyn 1856–60; municipal water works were his speciality, and he was the best engineer in that line in the U.S. America; president American Soc. of Civil engineers 1867–8; author of Report on filtration of river waters for the supply of cities 1869; and with T. Weston of A report on the district supplying water to Brooklyn 1861. _d._ Brooklyn, New York 22 April 1877. KIRKWOOD, ROBERT. _b._ Paisley 25 May 1793; ed. at Glasgow coll.; pastor of Dutch Reformed church Courtlandville, New York, pastor at Auburn and at Sandbeach, New York till 1839; a domestic missionary in Illinois 1839–46; agent for Bible and Tract society 1846–57; joined the Presbyterian church at Yonkers, N.Y. 1857; author of A lecture on the millennium 1855; Universalism explained 1856; A plea for the Bible 1860; Illustrations of the office of Christ 1862. _d._ Yonkers 26 Aug. 1866. KIRWAN, ANDREW VALENTINE (eld. son of Thomas Kirwan of Well Park, co. Dublin). _b._ 1804; student G.I. 9 Feb. 1821, barrister 14 May 1828; called to Irish bar 1825; practised in London and Dublin till 1850 when he retired; furnished practice cases to The Jurist 1824–44; author of The ports, arsenals and dockyards of France. By A Traveller 1841; The army and garrison of France 1841; Modern France, its journalism, literature and society 1863; Host and Guest 1864; with Frederick A. Carrington, Reports of cases at nisi prius 3 vols. 1845–53. d. Claverton st. Pimlico, London 22 Oct. 1870. _Law Times_, _xlix_ 459 (1870). NOTE.--In 1840 he was appointed by the court of exchequer, on behalf of the proprietors of the Times a commissioner for taking the evidence of the various bankers in most of the cities of Europe in the famous law suit of Bogle _v_ Lawson. KIRWAN, ANTHONY LATOUCHE (son of Walter Blake Kirwan, dean of Killala, _d._ 1805). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, B.D. and D.D. 1863; V. of Kilcornan; dean of Kilmacduagh and R. of Gort; R. of Derrygalvin and Incumbent of St. Mary’s, Limerick; dean of Limerick 1849 to death; a very successful preacher. _d._ in the Turkish baths, Military road, Limerick 13 July 1868. _bur._ Limerick cath. KIRWAN, DANIEL JOSEPH. _b._ Newtonbarry, Ireland about 1843; connected with the press in U.S. of America, on the World and the Tribune 1863 etc.; went to England to report the Harvard and Cambridge boat race 1869; reporter for New York Herald 1870; author of Palace and hovel 1870. _d._ New York 25 Nov. 1876. KIRWAN, JAMES M. _b._ 1798; M.D.; coroner for city of Dublin 1843 to death. _d._ 44 Mountjoy square, Dublin 3 Feb. 1868. _bur._ Glasnevin cemet. 5 Feb. KIRWAN, JOHN JOSEPH ANDREW (eld. son of Martin Kirwan of Hillsbrook, co. Galway, _d._ 1827). _b._ 31 Oct. 1811; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin; barrister Dublin 1844; went Connaught circuit; resident magistrate for co. Roscommon 1848, for co. Kilkenny 1853 to death; one of the wittiest and most amusing men of his time; known as the poor man’s magistrate; his judgments were so full of fun that the prisoners often left the dock laughing. _d._ March 1869. _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885) 319. KISLINGBURY, FREDERICK FOSTER. _b._ Ilsley near Windsor castle 25 Dec. 1847; served in a cavalry regt. in civil war, U.S. America 1863–5; chief clerk of the Department of the Lakes at Detroit 1865; commanded a band of scouts fighting the Indians, 2 lieut. of 2 infantry serving in the Plains, second in command under Adolphus W. Greely in the expedition to the far north 1881–4; a member of the Knights of Pythias, a lodge of which order has been erected to his memory at Rochester. _d._ of exhaustion at Cape Sabine, Greenland 1 June 1884. _bur._ Rochester, N.W. KITCHEN, WILLIAM HEWGILL. _b._ June 1787; entered navy 3 Feb. 1799, in active service for 31 years and was several times wounded; captain 9 Nov. 1846, granted Greenwich hospital pension 10 Nov. 1856; retired R.A. 15 June 1864. _d._ 4 Holland park ter. Notting hill, London 30 Sep. 1865. KITCHING, ALFRED. _b._ 1808; iron founder Hopetown, Darlington 1832 where he built locomotives and waggons; removed to Whessoe foundry, Darlington 1862; director of Stockton and Darlington railway and of North Eastern railway; mayor of Darlington 1870; a quaker; member of Iron and steel institute 1872. _d._ Darlington 13 Feb. 1882, personalty sworn under £344,000, 22 April 1882. _Journal of iron and steel institute_ (1882) 658–59. KITCHING, JOHN BENJAMIN. _b._ Horsforth, W.R. Yorkshire 20 April 1813; in house of Tomlinson and Booth, New York 1824, then in business on his own account; connected with telegraphy and the Atlantic cable; spent much money on the Ericsson, a steamer to be propelled by air engines 183-, which sank on her trial trip; helped to found banks in Brooklyn 1840; a promoter of the Manhattan market and the Garfield National bank. _d._ New York city 19 July 1887. KITSON, JAMES. _b._ 1807 or 1808; student at Mechanics’ institute, Leeds, hon. sec. and then president; well known locomotive engineer; partner with Mr. Laird at Airedale foundry, then with Messrs. Thompson and Hewitson, and afterwards partner with his sons in the Mark Bridge iron works; a director of North Eastern railway co. and of Yorkshire banking co. _d._ Leeds 29 July 1885. _Engineering 3 July 1885 p._ 20. KITTO, JOHN (eld. son of John Kitto of Plymouth, mason). _b._ Plymouth 4 Dec. 1804; while carrying slates up a ladder fell 35 feet and was thenceforth stone deaf; in Plymouth workhouse 15 Nov. 1819 to 17 July 1823; apprenticed to John Bowden of Plymouth, shoe maker 8 Nov. 1821; pupil of A. N. Groves, dentist, Exeter; resided at Missionary coll. Islington, July 1825 where he was trained as a printer at one of the foreign presses; at Malta as a printer 20 June 1827 to Jany. 1829; travelled in the East with A. N. Groves, June 1829 to June 1833; contributed to Penny Magazine from 10 Aug. 1833; D.D. Univ. of Giessen 1844; F.S.A. 1845; granted £100 a year from civil list 2 Jany. 1851; author of The Pictorial Bible in parts 3 vols. Dec. 1835 to May 1838; Pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy Land 1840; Palestine, the Bible history of the Holy Land 1841; A Cyclopædia of Biblical literature 2 vols. 1845; The lost senses 1845; A pictorial life of our Saviour 1847; The Journal of sacred literature 1848–53; Daily Bible illustrations 4 vols. 1849–54; Scripture lands 1850. _m._ Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London 21 Sep. 1833 Annabella Fenwick, she was granted a civil list pension of £50, 31 Jany. 1855. _d._ Cannstatt near Munich 25 Nov. 1854. _bur._ Cannstatt churchyard 27 Nov. _John Eadie’s Life of John Kitto_ (1857), _portrait_; _Western Antiquary_, _iii_ 33–35 (1883). KLING, JOSEPH. _b._ Mayence 19 March 1811; educated in music 1826; organist to a church in Mayence many years; came to London 1850, music publisher at 27 Sherrard st. Golden sq. 1850–1; opened a chess room as a rival to the Divan at 454 Oxford st. 1854, closed it 1856; a pioneer of the modern style of chess problems; author of The chess euclid, a collection of two hundred problems and end games 1849; and with B. Horwitz of Chess studies or endings of games 1851 and The chess player vols. 1–4, 1851–3; retired from chess playing. _d._ Dec. 1876. _The Westminster papers 1 Jany. 1877 p._ 163. KLITZ, PHILIP (eld. son of George Philip Klitz of Lymington, Hants., musical composer 1777–1839). _b._ Lymington 7 Jany. 1805; resided at Southampton about 1828 to death; introduced the Hullah system into Southampton and other places; lectured on music at literary institutions; organist of All Saints’ church, Southampton 1845 to death; composed classical music and ballads, the words of which were frequently his own, and a series of naval songs called ‘Songs of the mid-watch,’ which the admiralty ordered to be added to Dibdin’s in an edition published for the navy 1850; one of first writers of songs for Ethiopian serenaders 1847; published Sketches of life, character and scenery in the New Forest 1850. _d._ 24 Portland place, Southampton 13 Jany. 1854. KLOSS, WILHELM (son of Karl Johann C. Kloss, composer, who _d._ Riga 1853). Ed. at Cologne under Heinrich Dorn; sent to England by Mendelssohn, where he played on the piano before the Queen; settled in England; pianist and composer in London. _d._ Feb. 1892. KMETY, GYÖRGY. _b._ Pkoragy, Hungary, May 1813; commanded a battalion in Hungarian army in war with Austria 1849, a general, routed the Austrians at Csorna 13 June 1849; in Turkish service 1850, in command of a division during blockade of Kars, under name of Madjar Ismail Pacha, when he defeated the Russians 29 Sep. 1855, made lieut. general and decorated, served in Syria 1856, retired with a pension; in England studying music 1851, returned to England 1856; author of A refutation of some of the misstatements in Görgei’s Life and actions in Hungary 1853; A narrative of the defence of Kars 1856. _d._ Conduit st. Bond st. London 25 April 1865. _G.M. Sep. 1865 pp._ 383–6. KNAPP, FREDERICK HENRY. Ed. at King’s coll. London, associate 1862; C. of Christ Church, Ware, Herts. 1862–64; C. of Patrixbourne, Kent 1864–6; C. of St. Helen’s, Isle of Wight 1866; author of A sad case 1862; Faithful wounds, a few thoughts on christian friendship 1864; The preciousness of Christ, meditations 1866. _d._ Sea View, Isle of Wight 15 Sep. 1866. KNAPP, RUSSELL GEORGE ATKINSON. _b._ 1831; proprietor and editor of the ‘Surrey Comet’ from 1859. _d._ Clarence st. Kingston, Surrey 7 June 1867. KNATCHBULL, HENRY EDWARD (6 son of sir Edward Knatchbull, bart. _d._ 1819). _b._ 30 Aug. 1808; ed. at Winchester and Wadham coll. Oxf., scholar 1826–33; B.A. 1830; first played at Lord’s in Winchester _v._ Harrow 27 July 1825, a free hitter and a good field, under the name of Edwards; played 6 times for the Gentlemen against the Players; V. of North Elmham, Norfolk 1833–67; R. of Campsey Ash, Suffolk 1867 to death. _d._ Campsey Ash 31 Aug. 1876. KNATCHBULL, WILLIAM FRANCIS (2 son of Wyndham Knatchbull, merchant 1750–1833). _b._ Russell place, London 30 July 1804; sheriff of Somerset 1841; M.P. East Somerset 1852–65. _d._ 11 Cavendish sq. London 2 May 1871. _I.L.N. lviii_ 475 (1871). KNATCHBULL, WYNDHAM (brother of Henry Edward Knatchbull 1808–76). _b._ 23 Aug. 1786; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1808, of All Souls’ coll., M.A. 1812, B.D. 1820, D.D. 1823; R. of Westbere, Kent 5 Sep. 1811 to death; R. of Bircholt, Kent 1821–1836; Laudian professor of Arabic at Oxford 1823–40; R. of Aldington with Smeath, Kent 31 July 1823 till decease; author of Kalila and Dimna, or the fables of Bidpai translated 1819; Harethi Moallakah. Arabic and Latin 1820. _d._ Smeath rectory 5 April 1868. KNELL, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS. Painter of shipping and sea pieces; exhibited 29 pictures at R.A., 44 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st. 1825–74; his picture The Landing of Prince Albert was purchased for the royal collection and engraved by Miller for the Art Journal 1857. _d._ 10 July 1875. _bur._ Abney park cemet. KNIGHT, ADELA M’CULLOCH. _b._ South Australia; passed matric. exam. of univ. of London at Adelaide, attended Adelaide univ. and took sir Thomas Elder prize for physiology 1883; entered London sch. of medicine for women and the Royal Free hospital, London 1885; M.B. Lond. Nov. 1889, the first Australian woman who took the degree there; resident medical officer at New hospital for women 1890, removed the hospital from 222 Marylebone road to 144 Euston road 1890; took Helen Prideaux prize June 1890 and went to Vienna to study. _d._ of typhlitis at Vienna 8 May 1891. KNIGHT, SIR ARNOLD JAMES (youngest son of Alexander Knight). _b._ Six Hills Grange, Lincs. 1789; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D. 1811; a physician at Sheffield; knighted at St. James’ palace 24 March 1841. _d._ The Priory, Little Malvern 12 Jany. 1871. _I.L.N. lviii_ 115, 267 (1871); _Times 20 Jany. 1871 p._ 12. KNIGHT, CHARLES (son of Charles Knight, bookseller, Windsor). _b._ Windsor 15 March 1791; apprentice to his father 1805; edited Windsor and Eton Express 1 Aug. 1812 to 1826; with Edward Hawke Lockyer brought out the Plain Englishman 1 Feb. 1820 to Dec. 1822; editor and part proprietor of The Guardian, London 13 June 1820 to Dec. 1822; publisher 7 Pall Mall East 1822 to 1827; started Knight’s Quarterly Magazine 1823, 7 numbers only; superintendent of publications of Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 26 July 1827 to 11 March 1846; re-established himself at 13 Pall Mall, March 1829; wrote The Menagerie, the first vol. of The Library of Entertaining Knowledge 1829; published Quarterly Journal of Education 1831–6; The Penny Magazine 31 March 1832 to 29 Dec. 1845, which had a circulation of 200,000; publisher at 22 Ludgate Hill 1834–48, at 90 Fleet st. 1848 to death; publisher to the Poor law commission 1835; brought out Pictorial History of England 8 vols. 1837–44; edited The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere 1838–41; published Penny Cyclopedia 27 vols. 2 Jany. 1833 to 1844; History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace 2 vols. 1850–1; started Town and Country newspaper 1855. _d._ Addlestone, Surrey 9 March 1873. _bur._ Old Windsor churchyard 14 March. _Charles Knight, a memoir. By Alice A. Clowes_ (1892), 2 _portraits_; _C. Knight’s Passages of a working life during half a century 3 vols._ (1865); _Illustrated Review_, _vol. v_, _pp._ 57–67, _portrait_; _Gibson Craig’s Half length portraits_ (1876) 241–52; _The Critic_, _xxii_ 624–28, 632 (1861) _portrait_, _xxiii_ 32–37 (1861); _Curwen’s Booksellers_ (1873) 251–66, _portrait_; _H. J. Nichol’s Great Movements_ (1881) 175–84. NOTE.--His only son Barry Charles Henry Knight, senior partner in firm of Knight & Co., publishers 90 Fleet st. London, _d._ Brighton 16 Aug. 1884 aged 56. KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1794; entered R.N. 25 Dec. 1806; in the Impregnable in the battle of Algiers 1816; in command of Snapper gun brig went up Calabar river 60 miles in search of slaves June 1821; commander 3 June 1822; saved the crew of the Hound revenue cutter in Weymouth bay 1836; retired captain 28 July 1851; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837. _d._ royal naval hospital, Haslar 29 Jany. 1863. KNIGHT, EDWARD HENRY. _b._ London 1 June 1824; patent agent Cincinnati, Ohio 1846–53; an agriculturalist 1853–63; employed preparing annual reports of U.S.A. patent office from 1863; issued the Official Gazette of the United States patent office 1871, since continued weekly; LLD. of Iowa Wesleyan univ. 1876; U.S. commissioner to Paris exhibition 1878, a chevalier of legion of honour; author of A library of poetry and song 1870; Knight’s American mechanical dictionary 3 vols. 1874–77; The practical dictionary of mechanics 4 vols. 1877–84. _d._ Bellefontaine, Ohio 22 Jany. 1883. NOTE.--His brain was found to weigh 64 ounces, being the second largest on record, that of Cuvier weighing 64½ ounces. KNIGHT, GEORGE JOSEPH. _b._ 1798; principal of Albion international college, Broadway, South Hackney 1828; kept private school 120 Lauriston road, Hackney. _d._ at res. of rev. Jonah Reeve, Thorley house, 32 Powerscourt road, Clapton park 25 Nov. 1883. _The Fairlop Friday services, established by G. J. Knight on the first Friday in July 1860_ (1870). KNIGHT, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ Goodnestone, Kent 22 Nov. 1795; his first match at Lord’s was England _v._ Hampshire 3 July 1820; played for Hampshire and Kent; his place was generally middle wicket; one of the 3 first to introduce round arm bowling, which at first was not allowed; a very hard hitter; wrote in the Sporting Magazine in 1827 on round arm bowling. _d._ 5 Moorfield place, Hereford 25 Aug. 1867. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_, _i_ 433, _v p. xiii_. KNIGHT, JAMES (son of Samuel Knight 1759–1827, vicar of Halifax). _b._ 1793; scholar of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1812–15, B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Sheffield 1824–60; author of Discourses on the principal parables of our Lord 1829; Discourses on the principal miracles of our Lord 1831; A short series of discourses on the Lord’s Prayer 1832; A concise treatise on the truth and importance of the Christian religion