Modern English biography

_Daily Telegraph 5 Aug. 1863 p._ 4; _G.M. Sep. 1863 pp._ 378–9; _Spectator 8 Aug. 1863 p._ 2335. NOTE.--Two of her servants wrote to a London paper to complain that their mistress ought to have been burnt and her ashes thrown into the Ganges. KOZMIAN, STANISLAS. _b._ in Grand duchy of Posen 21 April 1811; ed. at Warsaw; a political refugee in England during many years; author of Dziela dramatozne Szekspira Posen 1866, and other works published at Posen. _d._ Posen 23 April 1885. KRASINSKI, COUNT WALERJAN SKOROBOHATY. _b._ White Russia 1780; chief of department of ministry of public instruction in kingdom of Poland; established a Jewish college at Warsaw; introduced stereotyping into Poland; member of Polish diplomatic mission to England 1830–31; condemned to perpetual banishment; lived in London 1830–50, in Edinburgh 1850 to death; published Historical sketch of rise, progress and decline of the reformation in Poland 2 vols. 1838–40; Poland, its history, constitution, literature, manners, customs, etc. 1855 and 10 other works. _d._ Edinburgh 22 Dec. 1855. _G.M. xiv_ 625 (1840), _xlv_ 199 (1856). KRAUSE, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ island of St. Croix, West Indies 6 July 1796; ed. at Fulham and Richmond; ensign 51 foot 21 Oct. 1813, lieut. 1815, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1818, sold out 1824 or 1825; at battle of Waterloo; moral agent on Irish estates of Earl of Farnham to look after schools and moral and religious welfare of tenantry; entered at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1830, M.A. 1838; C. of Cavan 1838–40; incumbent of Bethesda chapel, Dublin 1840 to death, where he became one of the best known evangelicals; author of Sermons preached in Bethesda chapel, Dublin 3 vols. 1853, Second series 2 vols. 1856–58; Sketches of nineteen discourses on the wiles of Satan 1872. _d._ Dublin 27 Feb. 1852. _C. S. Stanford’s Memoir of W. H. Krause_ (1854), _portrait_. KUPER, SIR AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD (son of rev. Wm. Kuper, D.D., chaplain to queen Adelaide, _d._ 13 Warwick road, Upper Clapton 27 Nov. 1861). _b._ 16 Aug. 1809; entered navy 19 April 1823; assisted sir J. J. G. Bremer in forming settlement of Port Essington, North Australia 1839; captain 8 June 1841; captain of the Calliope during Chinese war 1841–3; R.A. of the Blue 29 July 1861; commander-in-chief China 8 Feb. 1862 to 17 Jany. 1865, co-operated with French and Dutch forces in Straits of Simonoseki, Japan 1864 and opened up the inland seas to all nations, for which he received legion of honour and military order of William of the Netherlands 1865; admiral 20 Oct. 1872; C.B. 21 Jany. 1842, K.C.B. 25 Feb. 1864, G.C.B. 2 June 1869. _d._ The Rock, South Brent near Totnes, Devon 29 Oct. 1885. _I.L.N. xliv_ 189, 190 (1862), _portrait_. KURTZ, ANDREW GEORGE. Collector of works of art, his pictures included samples of Bonheur, Leighton, Tadema, Millais, Leslie, Faed and Linnell; his galleries often opened to the public at Grove house, Wavertree, Liverpool. _d._ Aberystwith 20 Sep.