Modern English biography

306–9; _I.L.N. lxviii_ 190, 213 (1876), _portrait_. KEATS, WILLIAM. _b._ 1794 or 1795; entered navy 30 Sep. 1805; captain 27 March 1826; admiral on half pay 11 Jany. 1864. _d._ Porthill near Bideford 2 May 1874. KEAYS, ROBERT YOUNG (son of Robert Y. Keays of Walworth, Surrey). _b._ 1799; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; chaplain of H.E.I.C. 1823; archdeacon and commissary of Bombay 1852 to death. _d._ on board the Africa, on his voyage to England 11 March 1855. KEBBEL, HENRY, _b._ 1772; ed. Sidney Sussex coll. Camb., LL.B. 1810; V. of Wistow with C. of Newton Harcourt, and also P.C. of Kilby, Leicestershire, July 1813 to death; originator of the system of allotment grounds for agricultural labourers; author of A sermon recommending the establishment of a society for bettering the condition of the poor 1838. _d._ Kilby 13 July 1867. KEBLE, JOHN (elder son of John Keble 1745–1835, V. of Coln, St. Aldwyn’s, Gloucs.) _b._ Fairford, Gloucs. 25 April 1792; ed. by his father and at C.C. coll. Oxf., scholar 12 Dec. 1806; B.A. double first 1810, M.A. 1813; fellow of Oriel coll. Oct. 1812 to May 1823, tutor 1818–23, public examiner in the univ. 1813, 1814–16 and 1821–23, master of the schools 1816 to May 1823; C. of East Leach and Burthorpe, Gloucs. 1815–28; C. of Southrop 1823–5; C. of Hursley near Winchester 1825–6; professor of poetry, Oxf. 1831–41; took part in originating the Tractarian movement 1832 etc.; preached assize sermon at St. Mary’s, Oxf. on the national apostasy 14 July 1833; contributed to Tracts for the Times 1833, seven numbers; V. of Hursley with Otterbourne and Ampfield, Hants. Jany. 1836 to death, instituted 9 March; author of The Christian year. Anon. 2 vols. 23 June 1827, of which 109 editions were printed; Lyra innocentium, thoughts in verse on christian children, their ways and their privileges. Anon. 1846, the profits of these two works were applied to the restoration of Hursley ch.; Sermons, academical and occasional 1847; edited The works of R. Hooker 1836; with E. B. Pusey and others, A library of Fathers 1838. _d._ Bournemouth 29 March 1866. _bur._ Hursley 6 April. _Sir J. T. Coleridge’s Memoir of J. Keble_ (1870); _J. F. Moor’s The Birthplace of the author of The Christian year_ (1867), _memoir pp._ 9–54, _portrait_; _Illustrated Review_, _v_ 371–81 (1873), _portrait_; _R. H. Haweis’ Poets in the pulpit_ (1880), _memoir_ 145–93, _portrait_; _I.L.N. xlviii_ 365, 366 (1866), _portrait_. NOTE.--From the first publication of the ‘Christian year’ in 1827 to expiry of the copyright in 1873, there were sold no less than 379.000 copies; the selling price of these was £56,000, and the sum paid to him by his publisher John Henry Parker was £14,000. KEBLE, THOMAS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Fairford 29 Oct. 1793; ed. by his father; Gloucestershire scholar of C.C. coll. Oxf. 1809–20, tutor 1819, fellow 1820–5, junior dean 1822; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1815, B.D. 1824; C. of Cirencester 1824; V. of Bisley, Gloucs. 1827–73; one of the first revivers of daily church services; wrote 4 of the Tracts for the Times, No. 12, 22, 43 and 84, and forty eight of the Plain Sermons; translated the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews, for the Library of the Fathers; author of Considerations on the value of the Athanasian Creed 1872. _d._ Bisley 5 Sep. 1875. _Richard Nelson’s Conversations with T. Keble_ (1870); _The Guardian 15 Sep. 1875 p._ 1172. KEDDIE, WILLIAM, _b._ Peebles 22 March 1809; in a printing establishment, Glasgow 1822–9; sub-editor Scottish Guardian 1832, principal editor to 1859; lecturer in natural history in Free Church coll. 1860; his geological and zoological collections were given to the college; sec. of Glasgow Philosophical soc. and editor of its Transactions; edited The Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856; author of Moffat, its walks and wells 1845; Staffa and Iona described and illustrated 1850; Maclure and Macdonald’s Series of guides to the Highlands of Scotland. By W. Keddie 4 numbers 1859; Cyclopædia of literary and scientific anecdote 1854, another ed.