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 1883. _d._ Eastbourne 3 March 1879. _Memoir of Annie Keary by her sister_ (1882), _portrait_; _Macmillan’s Mag. xlii_ 259–67 (1880).
KEATE, JOHN (son of Wm. Keate, prebendary of Wells, _d._ 1795). _b._ Wells, Somerset 1773; ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Camb., carried off 4 of sir Wm. Browne’s medals 1793–5, B.A. 1796, M.A. 1799, D.D. 1810; assistant master Eton 1795–1802, lower master 1802–9, head master 1809 to 1834; on 30 June 1832 he flogged more than 80 boys, his success as a teacher was considerable, although a severe disciplinarian he was popular, and on his resignation he left in the college 570 boys; canon of Windsor 14 March 1820 to death; V. of Nether Stowey, Somerset 1820–24; R. of Hartley Westpall, Hants. 1824–49; edited T. Lucretii Cari de rerum natura libri sex 1813, and in Fasciculus Carminum. Etonæ 1839 wrote Immortalitas Animæ pp. 17–21. _d._ Hartley Westpall rectory 5 March 1852. _H. C. Maxwell Lyte’s History of Eton college_ (1875) 358–404, 2 _portraits_; _C. A. Wilkinson’s Reminiscences of Eton in Keate’s times_ (1887).
KEATE, ROBERT (brother of the preceding). _b._ Laverton 14 March 1777; ed. at Bath gr. sch. to 1792; studied at St. George’s hospital, London 1793; hospital mate at Chelsea hospital 1794; member of Surgeons’ Corporation 1798; staff surgeon in the army 1798; inspector general 21 Jany. 1807, placed on h.p. 25 March 1810; assistant surgeon at St. George’s hospital 1800, surgeon 1813–53; examiner of college of surgeons 1827–55, pres. 1830, 31 and 39; surgeon extraordinary to Wm. IV. 1830–2 and surgeon 1832–7; sergeant surgeon to Victoria 1841 to death; a firstrate operator. _d._ 11 Hertford st. Mayfair, London 2 Oct. 1857. _J. F. Clarke’s Autobiographical recollections_ (1874) 378–85, 510–19; _Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. ii_ 51 (1858).
NOTE.--He is reported to have said, I have attended four sovereigns and have been badly paid for my services; one of them now deceased owed me nine thousand guineas. No doubt George IV. is alluded to.
KEATE, ROBERT WILLIAM (younger son of the preceding). _b._ 15 Albemarle st. Piccadilly, London 16 June 1814; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1836, M.A. 1842; played with Marylebone cricket club several seasons, was in Oxford eleven 1833, 34, 35, member of the I. Zingari; barrister L.I. 7 May 1844; civil commissioner of the Seychelles 1849; governor of Grenada 1853–6; governor of Trinidad, Nov. 1856 to April 1864; governor of Natal 20 Feb. 1867 to 1872; governor in chief of West Coast settlement 30 Nov. 1872 to death, _d._ Cape Coast Castle 17 March 1873. _Cricket Scores_, _ii_ 192 (1862), _v p. xv_ (1876).
KEATING, SIR HENRY SINGER (3 son of sir Henry Sheehy Keating, K.C.B., _d._ 1846). _b._ Dublin 13 Jany. 1804; barrister I.T. 4 May 1832, bencher 27 April 1849 to 1859 and 1877 to death; Q.C. Feb. 1849; M.P. for Reading 1852–9, introduced and passed The Bills of Exchange act 1854; solicitor general 2 June 1857 to March 1858 and 18 June to 14 Dec. 1859; knighted at St. James’s palace 18 June 1857; serjeant-at-law Dec. 1859; judge of court of common pleas 14 Dec. 1859 to 5 Feb. 1875 when retired on pension; P.C. 4 Feb. 1875; edited with J. S. Willes, J. W. Smith’s A selection of leading cases on various branches of the law, with notes, 3 ed. 2 vols. 1849 and 4 ed. 2 vols. 1856. _d._ St. Leonards 1 Oct. 1888. _Drawing room portrait gallery_, _3rd series_ (1860), _portrait_; _The Statesmen of England_ (1862), _portrait_ 34; _I.L.N. lxvi_ 181, 182 (1875), _portrait_.
KEATINGE, RICHARD (2 son of Maurice Keatinge of Dublin, barrister). _b._ Dublin 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1813; K.C. 1835; queen’s serjeant Nov. 1842; bencher of King’s inns, Dublin 1843; judge of the prerogative court Aug. 1843; judge of the probate court Jany. 1858 to Oct. 1868; P.C. Ireland, Sep. 1843. _d._ 21 Merrion sq. Dublin 9 Feb. 1876. _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885) 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. 1873. _d._ Oban 26 July 1877. _Proc. Royal Soc. of Edinb. ix_ 520 (1878).