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 1851. _d._ Dundee 28 Feb. 1862. _Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (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.