Modern English biography

520 (1878). KEELEY, LOUISA MARY (youngest dau. of the succeeding). _b._ 1835; played in the provinces; first appeared at Drury Lane 12 July 1856 as Gertrude in the Loan of a Lover; a pleasing singer; acted at Princess’s 1859–60; played Ixion in Burnand’s burlesque Venus and Adonis, at Haymarket 29 March 1864; played Eurydice in Planche’s Orpheus in the Haymarket, at Haymarket 29 Dec. 1865. (_m._ 12 Aug. 1858 Montagu Stephen Williams _b._ 1834, barrister I.T. 1862, police magistrate). _d._ 44 Upper Brook st. London 24 Jany. 1877. _The Players 29 Dec. 1860 p._ 199, _portrait_; _Planche’s Extravaganzas_, _v_ 193 (1879), _portrait_. KEELEY, ROBERT (son of a watch maker). _b._ 3 Grange court, Carey st. Chancery lane, London 1793; apprenticed to Hansard the printer 3 years; acted in the Norwich circuit 4 years 1814–18; the original Leporello in Giovanni in London, at the Olympic 1818, and Jemmy Green in Tom and Jerry, at the Adelphi 26 Nov. 1821; played Jerry in Pierce Egan’s Life in London, at Sadler’s Wells 8 April 1822; acted at Covent Garden 1822, Victoria 1833, in U.S. of America 1836–7, at Olympic 1838–41, at Drury Lane 1841–2, at Covent Garden 1843; manager with Strutt of the Lyceum 1844–7; manager with Charles Kean of the Princess’s 1850–1; played the Carrier, in Henry IV. at Windsor castle 1850; acted at Haymarket, Adelphi, Olympic and Drury Lane 1852–7; his last appearance was as Euclid Facile in Twice killed, Drury Lane 27 March 1862; a genuine comedian in much favour with the public. (_m._ 1825 Mary Anne Goward, she was _b._ Ipswich 1806, a well known actress). He _d._ 10 Pelham crescent, Brompton, London 3 Feb. 1869; will proved 24 March, personalty under £18,000. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biog. v_ 145 (1826), _portrait_; _Register and Mag. of Biog. i_ 229–31, 523 (1869); _T. Marshall’s Lives of most celebrated actors_ (1847) 91–108, _portrait_; _Actors by Daylight 2 June 1838 pp._ 105–7, _portrait on horseback_; _W. Marston’s Our recent actors_, _ii_ 19–107 (1888). KEELING, ISAAC. _b._ Newcastle-under-Lyne 12 Feb. 1789; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1811, at Macclesfield 1823–6, at Leeds 1826–8, 1852–8, London 1839–42, 1855–8, Bristol 1844–7, Bath 1858–61 and at 17 other places; governor of Wesley coll. Sheffield 1842–4; president of the conference 1855; a popular and well known preacher; author of Sermons and some small works 1820–63. _d._ Ripon 11 Aug. 1869. KEELING, WILLIAM KNIGHT. _b._ Cooper st. Manchester 1807; assistant to Wm. Bradley, portrait painter in London; portrait painter and drawing master at Manchester about 1835; a founder of Manchester academy of fine arts, president 1864–77; associate of New Soc. of painters in water-colour 1840, member 1841; exhibited at Royal Manchester institution from 1831, at Manchester academy of fine arts, and at New Soc. of Painters; his best known pictures are The Betrothed; Gurth and Wamba; and Touchstone, Audrey and William. _d._ Barton-upon-Irwell near Manchester 21 Feb. 1886. KEENAN, STEPHEN. _b._ Fermanagh, Jany. 1805; ed. at Glasgow, the R.C. coll. Aberdeen and at Rome; missioner in Edinburgh 1830; assistant priest Dundee 1839; minister of St. Andrew’s chapel, Nethergate, Dundee 1847 to death; a public controversialist in the interest of the R.C. ch.; the pope gave him a D.D. degree 1857; erected churches and schools in Dundee, where he was a popular preacher among the Irish; author of Controversial catechism or protestantism refuted and catholicism established 1846, 4 ed. 1874; Catechism of the Christian religion, being with some changes a compendium of the Catechism of Montpellier