Modern English biography

(1873) 208–11. KEENE, ALEXANDER, assumed name of Alexander Findlay). _b._ London 1821; a pugilist; beaten by the Young Greek near Twyford 30 April 1844; beat Wm. Cain £25 a side at Horley 17 Dec. 1846; beat Joseph Phelps £100 a side, 119 rounds in 2 hours and 45 minutes at Woking Common 9 Sep. 1847; beat Young Sambo (Welsh) £100 a side at Eight Mile Bottom, Newmarket 20 June 1848; beaten by Jack Grant £100 a side at Fleetpond 16 Oct. 1849; beat Wm. Hayes £100 a side 20 Aug. 1850; landlord of the Victoria inn, Willesden lane near London 1867. _d._ Prince of Wales’ hotel, Molesey, Surrey 30 Jany. 1881. _Illust. sporting news_, _iii_ 497, 504 (1864), 2 _portraits_. KEENE, CHARLES SAMUEL (son of Samuel Browne Keene, solicitor, _d._ 1838). _b._ Duval’s lane, Hornsey 10 Aug. 1823; ed. at Ipswich gr. sch.; apprenticed to Messrs. Whymper, wood engravers, London 1842–7; worked for the Illustrated London News and other periodicals from 1847; drew for Punch 1851–90, also for Punch’s Almanac and Pocket Book; illustrated stories in Once a Week 1859 and Douglas Jerrold’s Caudle Lectures in Punch; a most perfect artist in black and white; awarded gold medal at Paris exhibition 1889; published Our People, from the collection of Mr. Punch 1881; a large collection of his later drawings exhibited at Fine Art Society’s rooms, New Bond st. March 1891; illustrated many books 1860–85. _d._ 112 Hammersmith road 4 Jany. 1891, portrait by sir George Reid exhibited at Victoria exhibition 1892. _The Mask_ (1868) 65, _portrait_; _I.L.N. 10 Jany. 1891 p._ 38, _portrait_, _21 March 1891 p._ 375, _portrait_; _Black and White 21 March 1891 pp._ 205, 206, _portrait_; _Mag. of Art_, _March 1891 pp._ 145–6, _portrait_. KEENE, EDWIN (youngest son of John Keene). _b._ 1826; wrote Frances, a tale of Bath, printed in Keane’s Bath Journal, and contributed to many periodicals in London and Edinburgh; author of Sydney Fielding, the domestic history of a gentleman who served under their late majesties George IV. and William IV. 2 vols. 1857. _d._ 7 Kingsmead st. Bath 21 Sep. 1857. KEENE, HENRY GEORGE (only son of Thomas Keene). _b._ 30 Sep. 1781; cadet Madras army about 1798; entered Madras civil service Feb. 1801; assistant registrar to the Sudder courts, Madras; wrote a book in Arabic on law, for which government awarded him 10,000 rupees; left India 1809, retired from C.S. 1812; matric. from Sidney Sussex coll. Camb. 13 Nov. 1811, fellow 13 Nov. 1817, 8 senior optime and B.A. 1815; ordained 1817; contested Arabic professorship at Camb. March 1819; professor of Arabic and Persian at East India college, Haileybury 1824 to 1834; lived at Tunbridge Wells 1834 to death; author of Akhlák-i-Mahsini translated from the Persian 1850; Anwás-i-Suhaili; Persian fables for young and old 1833; Persian stories 1835; Sermons of rev. W. Sharpe with a memoir 1836. _d._ 3 Mount Ephraim road, Tunbridge Wells 29 Jany. 1864. KEENE, JAMES. _b._ 1796; proprietor of Keene’s Bath Journal to death, edited it from 1818, supplying nearly all the leaders and superintending the management till his death; minister of the New Church (Swedenborgian) denomination; a supporter of the Bath Athenæum. _d._ 16 Norfolk buildings, Bath 25 Dec. 1875. KEENE, LAURA (dau. of Mr. Lee and wife of Mr. Taylor). _b._ England 1830; acted at the Lyceum under Madame Vestris; played Pauline in Lady of Lyons, Olympic theatre Oct. 1851; appeared as Albina Mandeville in The Will, Wallack’s theatre, New York 20 Sep. 1852; acted in California and Australia 1852–5; opened Laura Keene’s Varieties theatre, New York 27 Dec. 1855; opened Laura Keene’s New theatre with As you like it 18 Nov. 1856 and remained lessee till 1868; produced Our American Cousin, in which E. A. Sothern, Joseph Jefferson and herself appeared 18 Oct. 1858 which ran to 25 March 1859; in England 1868; starred in America with her own company 1868 to death; edited Shakespeare’s Play of a Midsummer Night’s dream, with notes 1863; left two daughters by her first husband. _d._ Montclair, New Jersey 4 Nov. 1873. _J. Jefferson’s Autobiography_ (1890) 183, 489, _portrait_; _Brown’s American stage_ (1870) 202, _portrait_; _The Era 30 Nov. 1873 p._ 10. KEENE, RICHARD WYNNE. _b._ Norwich 1810 or 1811; a sculptor; inventor of Keene’s cement made by saturating plaster of Paris in small lumps with alum and recalcining it, patented by himself and J. D. Greenwood 27 Feb. 1838; designer and modeller of the masks and symbolic properties for the Drury Lane pantomimes 1852–73 under the name of Dykwynkyn; a pensioner on the Dramatic and musical sick fund from Oct. 1884. _d._ 32 Hanbury road, Lavender hill, London 28 Nov. 1887. _bur._ Woking. _Belgravia_, _i_ 359–64 (1867). KEHOE, LAWRANCE. _b._ parish of Litter, Wexford 24 July 1832; editor and publisher of New York Tablet 1857–65; founded the Catholic publication society co. 1865 and was manager to his death; manager of the Catholic World; edited The complete works of J. Hughes, archbishop of New York 1866. _d._ Brooklyn, New York 27 Feb. 1890. _The Tablet 22 March 1890 p._ 473. KEIGHTLEY, JOHN. _b._ 1778; lieut. 57 foot 22 July 1795; major 23 foot 25 July 1816 to 16 Oct. 1823 when placed on half pay; lieut. col. 11 foot 2 June 1825 to 29 May 1835; resident governor of Santa Maura; lieut. col. 35 foot 29 May 1835 to 17 June 1836 when he sold out; resident governor of Zante. _d._ Pickhill hall near Wrexham 6 Sep. 1852. KEIGHTLEY, THOMAS (eld. son of Thomas Keightley of Newtown, Kildare). _b._ Dublin 17 Oct. 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1808; came to London 1824 and became a journalist; granted civil list pension of £100, 31 Jany. 1855; author of The fairy mythology 2 vols. 1828, anon., another ed. 1850; Outlines of history 1829; History of the war of independence in Greece 2 vols. 1830; The mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy 1832, 2 ed. 1834; Tales and popular fictions 1834; The history of England 2 vols. 1837–9, three editions; The history of Greece 1835, 3 ed. 1839; The Crusaders 2 vols. 1834; Secret societies of the Middle Ages 1837; edited the Bucolics and Georgics 1847; The poems of John Milton, with notes 2 vols. 1859; The plays and poems of William Shakespeare 6 vols. 1864. _d._ Hartwell lodge, Lessness Heath near Erith, Kent 4 Nov. 1872. _bur._ Erith. _C. R. Smith’s Retrospections_, _i_ 322 (1883); _I.L.N. lxi_ 479 (1872). KEILLER, JAMES M. Confectioner and maker of preserves at Dundee; commenced producing Seville orange marmalade, the first to make it as an article of commerce, its use spread to England and it is now sent all over the world; the marmalade season lasts from Dec. to March, the candied peel season is from March to June, and the jam fruit season begins in June; maker also of lozenges, comfits, candies and gum goods; gave £10,500 to clear off the debt on Dundee free library 1885. _Bremner’s Industries of Scotland_ (1869) 466–72; _Dundee Year Book_ (1886) _p._ 5. KEITH, ALEXANDER (son of George Skene Keith, D.D. 1752–1823). _b._ manse of Keith hall, Aberdeenshire 30 Nov. 1791; ed. at Marischal coll. and univ. of Aberdeen, B.A. 1809, D.D. 1833; minister of St. Cyrus parish, Forfarshire 1816, resigned 1840; one of a deputation to Palestine with rev. Robert McCheyne, rev. A. Bonnar and rev. A. Black to enquire into state of the Jews described in Narrative of Mission to the Jews 1839, revisited Palestine 1844 and was the first to take daguerrotype views of places in Syria; one of founders of Free church of Scotland 1843, declined the moderatorship repeatedly on account of his health; author of Evidence of the truth of the Christian religion derived from the fulfilment of prophecy 1828, 40 ed. 1873, translated into many foreign languages; The signs of the times as denoted by the fulfilment of historical predictions 2 vols. 1832, 8 ed. 1847; The harmony of prophecy 1851; The history and destiny of the world and of the church 1861. _d._ Aberdeen house 56 West st. Buxton, where he had resided for some years, 8 Feb. 1880. _bur._ Chinley, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire 12 Feb. _Wylie’s Disruption Worthies_ (1881) 331–8, _portrait_; _H. Scott’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticaniæ_, _iii_, _pt. ii_, 585, 865 (1871). KEITH, HESTER MARIA, viscountess Keith (eld. dau. of Henry Thrale, brewer, _d._ 1781). _b._ 1762; from 1765 Dr. Johnson called her Queenie, wrote verses for her and directed her education; by death of her only brother 1776 she became a rich heiress; greatly disapproved of her mother’s marriage to Piozzi; a considerable scholar in history, poetry, Hebrew and mathematics; refused Samuel Rogers the poet. (_m._ 10 Jany. 1808 at Ramsgate, George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, _b._ 7 Jany. 1746, cr. viscount Keith 1 June 1814, _d._ 10 March 1823); one of the patronesses of Almack’s 1808; a prominent leader of society in London and Edinburgh 1814–50; she was the last survivor of the persons who are mentioned in Boswell’s Johnson. _d._ 110 Piccadilly, London 31 March 1857. _Willis’ Current Notes_ 1857 _p._ 29; _G.M. ii_ 615–6 (1857). KEITH, MARGARET MERCER ELPHINSTONE, Baroness Keith (eld. dau. of George Keith Elphinstone, admiral, viscount Keith 1746–1823). _b._ Hertford st. Mayfair, London 12 June 1788; styled hon. Margaret Elphinstone 1797–1817; was in the household of the princess Charlotte. (_m._ 20 June 1817 at Edinburgh, Augustus Charles Joseph, count de Flahault de la Billardrie, French ambassador to London 1860, _d._ 2 Sep. 1870 aged 85); baroness Keith of Stonehaven Marishal and baroness Keith of Banheath on death of her father 10 March 1823; baroness Nairne on the death of her cousin William 4 lord Nairne 7 Dec. 1837; styled baroness Nairne and Keith 1837 to death. _d._ at palace of the legion of honour, Paris 11 Nov. 1867. KEITH-FALCONER, ION GRANT NEVILLE (3 son of 9 Earl of Kintore). _b._ Edinburgh 5 July 1856; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1878; Tyrwhitt univ. Hebrew scholar; defeated John Keen by five yards in a two-mile bicycle race at Cambridge 11 May 1878; rode 50 miles in 2 hours and 44 minutes at Crystal palace, beating the record 9 July 1882; rode from Land’s End to John o’ Groat’s House 994 miles in 13 days, June 1882; Hebrew lecturer at Clare college, Camb.; missionary of Free church of Scotland 26 May 1886; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic at Camb. 1886 to death, gave 3 lectures on the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Nov.; arrived at Aden 8 Dec. 1886; began to build a permanent home for a mission at Shaikh Othman near Aden, attacked by Aden fever Feb. 1887. _d._ Shaikh Othman 11 May 1887. _bur._ Aden cemetery. _R. Sinker’s Memorials of Ion Keith-Falconer_ (1888); _Sporting Mirror_, _iv_ 49–52 (1882), _portrait_. KEKEWICH, GEORGE GRANVILLE (1 son of George Kekewich of Dartmouth). _b._ 1802; ed. at Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1827; judge of county courts circuit 60 (Cornwall), March 1847 to death. _d._ Exeter 7 Jany. 1857. KEKEWICH, SAMUEL TREHAWKE (son of Samuel Kekewich, D.C.L., _d._ 26 Aug. 1822). _b._ Bowden house near Totnes, Devon 31 Oct. 1796; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 27 Oct. 1814; M.P. Exeter 1826–30; M.P. South Devon 1858 to death; sheriff of Devon