KARKEEK, WILLIAM FLOYD (son of George Karkeek). _b._ Truro 9 Sep. 1802; passed as a veterinary surgeon 31 Jany. 1825; sec. Cornwall agricultural assoc.; encouraged scientific farming in Cornwall; one of the editors of The Veterinarian 1833–41; author of An essay on artificial and other manures 1844; An essay on fat and muscle 1844; On the farming of Cornwall 1845; Diseases of cattle and sheep 1851. _d._ Pentreve, Truro 25 June 1858. _The Veterinarian_, _xxxi_ 478–80 (1858).
KARSLAKE, EDWARD KENT (eld. son of Henry Karslake of 4 Regent st. London, solicitor, who _d._ 3 Aug. 1857 aged 72). _b._ 1820; ed. at Harrow; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1838–41, Ireland scholar 1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; fellow of Balliol coll. 1841–50; barrister L.I. 6 May 1846, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death, treasurer 1892 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; M.P. Colchester 15 Feb. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868; contested Colchester 18 Nov. 1868; author of Oratio Latino aureo numismate Roberti Peel dignata et in auditorio recitata scholæ Harroviensis 1836; Concio apud scholæ Hergensis Gubernatores habita iii 1837. _d._ Turvey, Beds. 31 May 1892. _Pen and ink sketches in chancery_ (1867), _No. 3 pp._ 14–16.
KARSLAKE, SIR JOHN BURGESS (brother of the preceding). _b._ Bencham near Croydon 13 Dec. 1821; ed. at Harrow; solicitor; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846; went western circuit, leader of it with John Duke Coleridge; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861, bencher of his inn 7 May 1861 to death, treasurer 1873; solicitor general 29 Nov. 1866; knighted at Osborne 28 Dec. 1866; attorney general 18 July 1867 to Nov. 1868 and 27 Feb. 1874 to April 1874 when he resigned in consequence of his failing sight; M.P. Andover 11 Feb. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868; contested Exeter 16 Nov. 1868; M.P. Huntingdon 20 Dec. 1873, accepted Chiltern hundreds Feb. 1876; P.C. 24 March 1876; member of judicature commission; revised Dr. Charles P. Collyn’s Notes on the chase of the wild red deer 1862. _d._ 7 Chester sq. London 4 Oct. 1881. _I.L.N. xlix_ 648, 649 (1866), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _ix_ 191, 196 (1874), _portrait_; _A generation of Judges by Their Reporter_ (1886) 183–9.
KARSLAKE, WILLIAM HEBERDEN (1 son of William Karslake, V. of Culmstock, Devon 1811, _d._ 1861). _b._ 1809; ed. at the Charterhouse and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; R. of Meshaw and Creacombe, Devon 29 Oct. 1832 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 1875 to death; R.D. of South Molton to death, chairman of quarter sessions; banquet given to him at South Molton 24 Oct. 1878 when he was presented with 300 guineas to restore Meshaw ch.; found dead in his bed at Meshaw rectory 29 Oct. 1878. _Mozley’s Reminiscences_, _ii_ 123–9 (1882); _The Guardian 30 Oct. 1878 p._ 1506.
KATER, EDWARD. F.R.S. 19 Nov. 1840; M.R.I.A.; lived at 46 Sussex gardens, London. _d._ 1866.
KATON, JAMES EDWARD (only son of James Katon, vice admiral, _d._ 1845). _b._ 18 Nov. 1810; entered navy 5 Nov. 1823; captain 1 Jany. 1856, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27 March 1885. _d._ St. Thomas’s house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 20 Dec. 1886.
KAVANAGH, ARTHUR MACMORROUGH (3 son of Thomas Kavanagh 1767–1837, M.P. for co. Carlow). _b._ Borris house, co. Carlow 25 March 1831 with only the rudiments of arms and legs; became a good driver, rider, angler, shooter, draughtsman and painter; acted as a volunteer scout during Smith O’Brien’s rebellion 1848; went to India by way of Russia and Persia 1849–51; succeeded to the family estates 1854 on death of his brother Charles Kavanagh; rebuilt villages of Borris and Ballyragget 1855–6; subsidised and managed railway from Borris to Bagnalstown 1858 etc.; sheriff of Kilkenny 1856 and of Carlow 1857; M.P. for co. Wexford 1866–68; M.P. co. Carlow 1868–80; lord lieut. of co. Carlow 1880; initiated the Irish land committee 1882, founded the Land corporation 1883; P.C. Ireland 1886; author of The cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva. Dublin 1865. _d._ 19 Tedworth sq. Chelsea, London 25 Dec. 1889. _bur._ in ruined church on Ballycopigan, Borris. _Sarah L. Steele’s A. M. Kavanagh_ (1891), _portrait_; _Blackwood’s Mag. March 1891 pp._ 429–44; _The Lancet 14 March 1891 p._ 608.
KAVANAGH, JULIA (only child of the succeeding). _b._ Thurles 1824; lived with her parents in Paris to 1844; wrote tales and essays for periodicals; author of The three paths 1847; Women in France during the eighteenth century 2 vols. 1850; Women of christianity 1852; A summer and winter in the Two Sicilies 2 vols. 1858; English women of letters 1862; French women of letters 2 vols. 1862; Queen Mab 3 vols. 1863; Dora 3 vols. 1868; Bessie 3 vols. 1872; Two lilies 3 vols. 1877. _d._ Nice 28 Oct. 1877, portrait by Chanet placed in national gallery of Ireland 1884. _Irish Monthly_, _vi_ 96–100 (1878).
KAVANAGH, MORGAN PETER. Author of The wanderings of Lucan and Dinah, a romance. By M.P.K. 1824; The reign of Lockrin, a poem. By M. P. K. 1839; The discovery of the science of languages 2 vols. 1844; Aristobulus, the last of the Maccabees 3 vols. 1855; Myths traced to their primary source through language 2 vols. 1856; Origin of language and myths 2 vols. 1871; The Hobbies, a novel 3 vols. 1857, edited by Julia Kavanagh his dau. who repudiated having anything to do with this work. _d._ from an accident March 1874. _Athenæum_ (1857) 43, 761, 792, 822, 854, 909.
KAVANAGH, THOMAS HENRY (son of band master of 3 regt. of foot). _b._ Mullinger, Ireland 1821; entered uncovenanted service of H.E.I. Co. Dec. 1834; assistant comr. in Oudh and stationed at Lucknow; went disguised through Lucknow to the Alum Bagh to communicate with sir C. Campbell 8 Nov. 1857 and to act as his guide to Lucknow; V.C. 6 July 1859; requested to retire from the service, he being at that time in debt 22 Oct. 1875; granted his full pension of 5000 rupees per annum; author of Guilty or not guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Lucknow 1876. _d._ Gibraltar, Nov. 1882. _I.L.N. xxxiv_ 108, 109 (1859), _portrait_; _How I won the Victoria cross_ (1860). _By T. H. Kavanagh_, _portrait_; _The Verdict. By T. H. Kavanagh. Lucknow_ (1877).
KAY, ALEXANDER. _b._ 1816; member of faculty of procurators, Glasgow; member of Glasgow Shakspeare club, instituted 1838; director of the Glasgow Athenæum; a contributor to Tait’s Mag., London Journal, Glasgow Tales of the borders, West of Scotland Mag., and Dramatic Rev.; dramatised Dickens’ Christmas Carol; wrote poetical introduction to Tam O’Shanter, a pantomime at Adelphi theatre, Glasgow, which ran 82 nights; author of Florine, a dramatic poem in ten scenes 1858. _d._ 1860. _monu._ to his memory in Sighthill cemet. _Inglis’ Dramatic writers_ (1868) 69.
KAY, JOSEPH (3 son of Robert Kay 1768–1834). _b._ Ordsall cottage, Salford, Manchester 27 Feb. 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; travelling bachelor of the Univ. 1845; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849; wrote in the Manchester Examiner on Free trade in land; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848, bencher 31 May 1870 to death; judge of Salford Hundred court of record, June 1862 to death; Q.C. 22 June 1869; solicitor general of county palatine of Durham 15 Feb. 1872 to death; contested Salford 1874 and 1877; author of The education of the poor in England and Europe 1846; The social condition of the people in England and Europe 2 vols. 1850; The condition and education of poor children in English and in German towns 1853; The law relating to shipmasters and seamen 2 vols. 1875. _d._ Fredley near Dorking, Surrey 9 Oct. 1878. _Joseph Kay’s Free trade in land_ (1879); _J. S. Bright’s 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.