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History of Dorking_ (1884) 371–3. KAY, JOSEPH HENRY. _b._ 1814; midshipman R.N. Dec. 1827, commander 23 Aug. 1849, retired captain 1 Jany. 1865; director of royal magnetic observatory, Hobart Town to 1853; private sec. to sir Charles Hotham, governor of Victoria 1854–5; clerk of executive council, Melbourne to 1 July 1875; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1846; member of Tasmanian Philos. soc.; contributed papers to Tasmanian Journal of science; author of Observations made at the observatory at Hobarton 1850. _d._ South Yarra, Melbourne 17 July 1875. _The Argus 19 July 1875 p._ 5. KAY, WILLIAM (youngest child of Thomas Kay of Knaresborough). _b._ Pickering, North Yorkshire 8 April 1820; ed. at Giggleswick sch. 1834–6; scholar of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1836, fellow 1840, tutor 1842; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1854; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1842; principal of Bishop’s college, Calcutta 1849–64; select preacher at Oxf. 1865; R. of Great Leghs, Essex 1866 to death; Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint 1869; one of the Old Testament revisers 1870–85; hon. canon of St. Alban’s 1877 to death; contributed to the Speaker’s Bible, Commentaries on Isaiah (1875) and on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1881); author of The influence of christianity on the position and character of women. Calcutta 1859; The Psalms with notes 1863, 5 ed. 1877; Crisis Hupfeldiana, an examination of Hupfeld’s Criticism on Genesis 1865; A commentary on the two Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1887. _d._ Great Leghs 16 Jany. 1886. _Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men_ (1891) _pp. ix–xi_ 150, 167, 172. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, SIR JAMES PHILLIPS, 1 Baronet (brother of Joseph Kay 1821–78). _b._ Rochdale 20 July 1804; educ. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1827; senior president Royal Medical soc. 1826; physician Manchester 1827; sec. Manchester board of health; assistant poor law commissioner 1835; first sec. of committee of privy council on education 1839–49; with E. Carleton Tufnell established first training coll. for teachers at Battersea 1839, existing methods of public education founded on his system; assumed by r.l. name of Shuttleworth 14 Feb. 1842; cr. baronet 9 Jany. 1850; vice chairman of central relief committee, Manchester, during cotton famine 1861–5; sheriff of Lancashire 1863; D.C.L. Oxf. 22 June 1870; contested N.E. Lancashire 13 Feb. 1874; author of The moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture 1832; Public education as affected by the minutes of the committee of privy council 1853; Scarsdale, or life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border 3 vols. 1860; Thoughts and suggestions on social problems 1873; Ribblesdale, or Lancashire sixty years ago 3 vols. 1874. d. 68 Cromwell road, Kensington, London 26 May 1877. _Graphic_, _xv_ 549 (1877), _portrait_. KAYE, JOHN (son of Abraham Kaye, linen draper, Angel row, Hammersmith). _b._ Hammersmith 27 Dec. 1783; ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., scholar, fellow 1804, foundation fellow 1811, tutor 1808–14, master 5 Sep. 1814 to Nov. 1830; senior wrangler, chancellor’s medallist and B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814, D.D. 1815; vice chancellor 1815; regius professor of divinity July 1816 to Nov. 1830, revived public lectures which had been suspended for more than a century; nominated bishop of Bristol 1 July 1820, consecrated at Lambeth 30 July, translated to Lincoln 12 Feb. 1827; visitor of Balliol coll. Oxf. 1848 to death; contributed papers to British Mag. under signature of Philalethes Cantabrigiensis; F.R.S.; author of The ecclesiastical history of the second and third centuries 1826; Some account of the writings and opinions of Justin Martyr 1829; A charge to the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln 1843, 3 ed. 1843; Some account of the council of Nicæa, in connexion with the life of Athanasius 1853; Some account of the government of the church of Christ during the first three centuries 1855; The works of John Kaye 8 vols. 1888. _d._ Riseholme palace near Lincoln 18 Feb. 1853. _G.M. xxxix_ 428–31, 570 (1853). KAYE, SIR JOHN WILLIAM (2 son of Charles Kaye, solicitor to bank of England). _b._ London 1814; ed. at Eton and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 23 May 1836, resigned the service 1841; started the Calcutta Review 1846; entered Home civil service of H.E.I.C. 1856; sec. in political and secret department of India office 1858 to 1874 when he retired; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; published History of the war in Afghanistan 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1874; The administration of the East India company 1853; The life and correspondence of Charles lord Metcalfe 1854; The life and correspondence of sir John Malcolm 2 vols. 1856; Christianity in India 1859; A history of the Sepoy war in India 3 vols. 1864–76, revised and continued by colonel G. B. Malleson 6 vols. 1890. _d._ Rose hill, Forest hill 24 July 1876. KAYE, PETER M. _b._ Warrington about 1800; ed. at Ushaw coll. Durham and at English coll. Rome; ordained priest in Rome 1829; missioner at Rook st. Manchester 1829, at Bradford, Yorkshire 1835, at St. George’s, London 1843; R. of St. Alban’s, Blackburn 1845 to death; rural dean; reputed restorer of R.C. guilds in England; a well known preacher; author of The laws and constitutions of the holy guild of St. Joseph and our Blessed Lady 1840. _d._ Blackburn 6 Aug. 1856. _Lamp 30 Aug. 1856 pp._ 139–40; _Gillow’s English Catholics_, _iii_ 674–5 (1887). KEAN, CHARLES JOHN (2 son of Edmund Kean 1787–1833). _b._ Waterford, Ireland 18 Jany. 1811; entered Eton as an Oppidan, June 1824; made his first appearance on the stage at Drury Lane theatre as Young Norval in Douglas 1 Oct. 1827; visited America 1830, 1839, 1845; played Hamlet at Drury Lane 8 Jany. 1838; manager of Princess’s theatre, London with Robert Keeley 28 Sep. 1850, sole manager 17 Oct. 1851 to 29 Aug. 1859; played in the provinces 1859–61; subscription testimonial vase value 2000 guineas presented to him at banquet in St. James’ hall, London 22 March 1862; acted in Australia, United States and Canada 1863–66; made his last appearance at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Liverpool 28 May 1867 as Louis XI.; F.S.A. 18 June 1857; F.R.G.S.; his best characters were Hamlet, Richard III. and Louis XI.; edited nine of Shakspeare’s plays with notes 1853–59; arranged Selections from the plays of Shakspeare 1860; directed private theatricals at Windsor Castle 1849–60. _d._ Queensborough ter. Bayswater, London 23 Jany. 1868. _bur._ Catherington ch. near Horndean, Hants. 30 Jany., his personalty sworn under £35,000, 25 March 1868. _J. W. Cole’s Life of C. Kean 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages_, _1 series_ (1859), _portrait_; _E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane_, _ii_ 153–63 (1881); _W. Marston’s Our recent actors_, _i_ 168–215 (1888); _I.L.N. 1 Feb. 1868 p._ 117, _portrait_. KEAN, ELLEN (dau. of Cornelius Tree of Lancaster buildings, St. Martin’s lane, London). _b._ South of Ireland, Dec. 1805; appeared at Covent Garden 21 May 1823 as Olivia in Twelfth Night; played at Bath 1824–6; the original Mavilla in R. Allen’s The Parricide 12 May 1824; acted at Drury Lane 1826–29, and at Covent Garden 1829–36 and 1839–42; the original Mariana in Sheridan Knowles’s The Wife 1833, and the original Clemanthe in Talfourd’s Ion 26 May 1836; played in U.S. of America 1836–9, 1845–7. (_m._ 29 Jany. 1842 Charles J. Kean 1811–68); acted many Shakespearean parts at Haymarket 1842; the original of Lady Eveline Amyott in The Wife’s Secret, at Haymarket 20 June 1849; played many original parts at Princess’ theatre 1850–59; retired from the stage 1868; a perfect Gertrude in Hamlet and very effective as Mrs. Beverley. _d._ 47 Queensborough terrace, Bayswater, London 20 Aug. 1880. _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses_, _ii_ 129–39 (1844), _portrait_; _Cole’s Life of C. Kean 2 vols._ (1860), _portrait_; _W. Marston’s Our recent actors_, _i_ 216–32 (1888); _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 217–25. KEANE, DAVID DEADY. _b._ 1810 or 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb. and univ. of Gottingen; Ph.D. Gottingen 1831; a parliamentary reporter; barrister M.T. 12 June 1835; revising barrister on Norfolk circuit 1856–63; recorder of Bedford, July 1861 to death; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1864; bencher of his inn 1864 to death; published Courts of requests, their jurisdiction and powers 3 ed. 1845; A collection of all the statutes now in force relating to gaols and houses of correction in England and Wales 1850; The nuisances removal acts for England and Wales 1855, 6 ed. 1870; Reports of cases in the common pleas on appeals from the revising barristers from 1854 to 1862. 1863. _d._ 20 June 1870. KEANE, GEORGE DISNEY (3 son of 1 baron Keane 1781–1844). _b._ 26 Sep. 1817; entered R.N. 8 Oct. 1831, captain 9 July 1855, R.A. 30 April 1873, retired 27 Sep. 1877; admiral 30 Oct. 1884; served in Syrian war 1840, Kaffir war 1851–2, and at rout of imperial camp at Shanghai 1854; C.B. 20 May 1871. _d._ Mere hall, Knutsford 19 Oct. 1891. KEANE, SIR JOHN HENRY, 3 Baronet. _b._ Cappoquin house, Waterford 12 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., B.C.L. 1841; rowed No. 6 in Cambridge boat against Oxford 17 June 1836 and No. 4 in first match against Leander club 9 June 1837; succeeded 16 Feb. 1855; sheriff of Waterford 1856; author of An address to the young men of Ireland 1835; Lady Alice, the flower of Ossorye 1836; The substance of three lectures on the history of Ireland 1839; The Old Jewry, a tragedy 1860. _d._ Cappoquin house, Waterford 26 Nov. 1881. KEANE, JOSEPH B. Educ. as an architect in office of works at Dublin; F.R.I.A. Ireland, F.S.C.E.; designed R.C. churches of St. Francis Xavier, Dublin 1832 and of St. Lorcan Ua Tuathal, Dublin 1858; Queen’s college, Galway, was built from his designs 1846–50; exhibited a drawing at R.A. London 1842. _d._ Dublin 7 Oct. 1859. KEANE, SIR RICHARD, 2 Baronet. _b._ Lismore, co. Waterford, March 1780; lieut. col. Waterford militia 30 July 1804 to death; succeeded 18 April 1829; M.P. Waterford 1832–5. _d._ Waterford 16 Feb. 1855. KEANE, WILLIAM (8 son of Robert Keane of Beech park, co. Clare). _b._ 1818; ed. at Charterhouse and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; C. of Fenstanton, Hunts. 1843–6; canon of St. Paul’s cath. Calcutta 1846; association sec. to Church missionary soc. 1852; P.C. of Whitby 1853, R. of Whitby 1861 to death; F.R.A.S.; author of A letter to the late J. E. D. Bethune on the government public instruction in Bengal 1851, 2 ed. 1852; Romanism and Hindooism. Madras 1851, and pamphlets on India education and temperance. _d._ 1873. _Rev. G. Smales’s Whitby authors_ (1867) 189–92; _I.L.N. xxii_ 277 (1853). KEANE, WILLIAM. Vice rector of Irish college in Paris 14 years; parish priest of Midleton; bishop of Ross 19 Nov. 1850, consecrated 2 Feb. 1851, translated to Cloyne 27 April 1857. _d._ 15 Jany. 1874. _Brady’s Episcopal succession_, _ii_ 103–105 (1876). KEARNEY, WILLIAM HENRY. _b._ 1800 or 1801; an original member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1831, vice pres.; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1823–58; his picture Ruins of the sallyport Framlingham, is in the Irish National Gallery; published Illustrations of the Surrey zoological gardens, drawn on stone with descriptive notices 1832, three parts. _d._ 114 High Holborn, London 25 June 1858. KEARY, ANNIE (2 dau. of rev. Wm. Keary, R. of Bilton, Yorkshire, _d._ 1856). _b._ Bilton 3 March 1825; lived at Addison road, Kensington 1854–71; travelled in Egypt 1858; often resided at Pegomas near Cannes, where she wrote some of her books; joined Church of Rome; author of Early Egyptian history. Anon. 1861; Little Wanderlin and other fairy tales 1865; Oldburg 3 vols. 1869; The nations around Palestine 1870; A York and a Lancaster rose 1876; Castle Daly, the story of an Irish home 3 vols. 1875; A doubting heart 3 vols. 1879; Sidney Grey, or a year from home