KELSO, THOMAS. _b._ Ireland 1784, settled at Baltimore, U.S. America 1791; director of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railway co. 37 years; president Equitable fire insurance co.; V.P. of First National bank of Baltimore; founded the Kelso orphan home, Baltimore at cost of 120,000 dollars. _d._ Baltimore 26 July 1878.
KELTY, MARY ANN (dau. of an Irish surgeon who _d._ Cambridge 1822). _b._ Cambridge 1789; converted under Charles Simeon’s preaching at Cambridge; lived at 5 Hanover st. Rye lane, Peckham, London 1832 to death; author of The Favourite of Nature 1821 an anonymous novel, translated into French under title of Eliza Rivers 1823; Early days in the Society of Friends 1840; Reminiscences of thought and feeling 1852; The real and the beau ideal 1860; The solace of a solitaire 1869; the majority of her works simply bear her initials M.A.K. _d._ 5 Hanover st. Peckham 8 Jany. 1873.
KELYNACK, WILLIAM (3 child of Nicholas Kelynack of Newlyn near Penzance, _drowned_ 21 Jany. 1854). _b._ Newlyn 22 May 1832; ed. at Penzance; Wesleyan M. minister 1854 when he went as a missionary to New South Wales; representative of N.S.W. conference at the conference at Bristol 1876; D.D. of Univ. of New Orleans 1877; president of N.S.W. Wesleyan conference 1880; sec. of
Wesleyan missions 1882; president of Newington coll. Sydney; a great orator, called The silver trumpet of Australia; with others edited The Christian advocate and Wesleyan record. Sydney 187-. _d._ Sydney, Oct. 1891.
KEMBLE, ADELAIDE (younger dau. of the succeeding). _b._ Covent Garden chambers, London 1814; first appeared as a soprano singer at Concert of ancient music 13 May 1835; sang at Prague and Paris 1837–8; first appeared in opera at the Fenice theatre, Venice as Norma; sang at Covent Garden and in the provinces 1841–2, her chief characters being Norma, Susanna and Amina; last appeared on the stage 23 Dec. 1842; one of the best English singers of the century. (_m._ 1843 Edward John Sartoris of Warnford park, Hants., _b._ 1817, M.P. for Carmarthen 1868–74); composed a few vocal pieces; author of A week in a French country house 1867; Medusa and other tales 1868, reprinted as Past Hours 2 vols. 1880. _d._ Warsash house, Warsash, Hampshire 4 Aug. 1879. _Wilson’s Our Actresses_, _ii_ 253–68 (1844), _portrait_; _Cruikshank’s Omnibus_ (1842) 238, _portrait_; _C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 402–5.
KEMBLE, CHARLES (4 son of Roger Kemble 1721–1802, theatrical manager). _b._ Brecknock, South Wales 25 Nov. 1775; ed. at R.C. coll. Douay 3 years; clerk in general post office, London; made his début at Sheffield as Orlando, in As you like it 1792; appeared at Drury Lane as Malcolm 21 April 1794; during 30 years he is said to have steadily improved; played at Haymarket in summer season; the original of Henry Woodville in The Wheel of Fortune 28 Feb. 1794, and of Alonzo in Pizarro 24 May 1799; joined his brother at Covent Garden 1803; the original Knight of Snowdon in the Lady of the Lake 5 Feb. 1811; acted in Brussels, Calais and Boulogne 1813–15; manager of Covent Garden 1822–32; assaulted C. M. Westmacott editor of the Age, for remarks made on his dau. Fanny Kemble 1830; visited America with his dau. 1832–34; made his last appearance on the stage 10 April 1840; examiner of plays 17 Oct. 1836 to 22 Feb. 1840; gave Shakespearean readings at Willis’ rooms 1844–45. (_m._ 2 July 1806 Maria Theresa dau. of George De Camp, she was _b._ Vienna 17 Jany. 1774, dancer and actress, _d._ Chertsey 3 Sep. 1838); entertained by the Garrick club 10 Jany. 1837; his best characters were Romeo, Hamlet and Mercutio; author of The wanderer or the rights of hospitality, a drama 1808; Plot or counterplot or the portrait of Michael Cervantes, a farce 1808; The point of honour, a play 1800; C. Kemble’s Shakespeare readings 1870; Shakespeare for schools, as abridged by C. Kemble 1883. _d._ Saville row, London 12 Nov. 1854. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography_, _iii_ 1–14 (1825), _portrait_; _A. Brereton’s Some famous Hamlets_ (1884) 27–30; _Bentley’s Miscellany_, _xxxvi_ 623–30 (1854); _Fraser’s Mag. Dec. 1854 pp._ 607–617; _P. Fitzgerald’s The Kembles_, _i_ 225, 310, _ii_ 386–9 (1871); _I.L.N. i_ 364 (1842), _portrait_, _xxv_ 514–6 (1854).
KEMBLE, CHARLES (only son of Charles Adams Kemble of Clapham common, Surrey _d._ 1819). _b._ 1819; ed. Wad. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844; C. of St. Michael’s, Stockwell 1842–44; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Stockwell 1844–59; Sunday evening lecturer at Ch. Ch. Spitalfields 1848–51; R. of Bath abbey ch. 1859 to death; preb. of Wells cath. 1866; member of Bath sch. board 31 Jany. 1871, chairman thereof; author of The mysteries of the gospel 1853; Farewell sermons preached at St. Michael’s church, Stockwell 1859; Suggestive hints on parochial machinery 1859, 3 ed. 1865; Memorials of a closed ministry, a selection of sermons 3 vols. 1875; edited Church psalmody, a selection of psalm and hymn tunes 1840; A selection of psalms and hymns by S. S. Wesley, arranged by C. Kemp 1864. _d._ Vellore, Bath 18 Nov. 1874.
KEMBLE, HENRY (son of Edward Kemble, member of corporation of London). _b._ 1787; M.P. for East Surrey 3 Aug. 1837 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Grove hill, Camberwell, London 18 May 1857.
KEMBLE, JOHN MITCHELL (eld. son of Charles Kemble 1775–1854). _b._ London 2 April 1807; ed. by Dr. C. Richardson the philologist at Clapham, at Bury St. Edmunds gr. sch. and at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833; studied at the Inner Temple; studied in Germany under Jacob Grimm; lectured at Cambridge on the Anglo-Saxon language and literature 1834; editor of British and Foreign Rev. 1835–44; examiner of stage plays 24 Feb. 1840 to death; lived in Hanover and made archæological excavations in Lüneburg for the government July 1849 to May 1855, his official duties in England being taken by W. B. Donne; went to Dublin to collect Keltic and Roman antiquities for Art treasures exhibition, Manchester, Feb. 1857; editor of The Anglo-Saxon poems of Beowulf, edited with a glossary and preface 1833; Codex diplomaticus ævi Saxonici opera J. M. K. English Historical Soc. 6 vols. 1839–48; The poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, with a translation. Aelfric Soc. 1843; Certaine considerations upon the government of England. Camden Soc. 1849; State papers and correspondence illustrative of the state of Europe from the revolution to the accession of the house of Hanover 1857; author of The Saxons in England. A history of the English Commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest 2 vols. 1849, new ed. 2 vols. 1876. _d._ Gresham hotel, 21 Upper Sackville st. Dublin 26 March 1857. _bur._ St. Jerome cemet. _Fraser’s Mag. May 1857 pp._ 612–18; _G.M. ii_ 620–21 (1857).
KEMEYS-TYNTE, CHARLES JOHN (only son of Charles Kemeys-Tynte of Halswell house, Bridgewater, Somerset). _b._ Halswell house 9 April 1800; ed. at Eton; M.P. for West Somerset 1832–37; contested West Somerset 1837; M.P. for Bridgewater 1847–65; col. of Royal Glamorgan militia 1848–62; claimed the barony of Wharton; author of Sketch of the French revolution of 1830. _d._ Balnageith, Torquay 16 Sep. 1882.
KEMM, WILLIAM HENRY. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 62 Bengal N.I. 11 Nov. 1837; col. 25 Bengal N.I. 1849 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 25 May 1859 aged 76.
KEMMIS, HENRY (2 son of Thomas Kemmis of Shaen castle near Maryborough, Queen’s county 1753–1823). _b._ 19 Sep. 1776; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1795; M.P. for Tralee 1797–1800; assist. barrister for co. Kildare, afterwards for co. Dublin; chairman of quarter sessions of Kilmainham; K.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s Inns 1843. _d._ Kilmainham, Dublin 2 April 1857.
KEMMIS, THOMAS (2 son of William Kemmis _d._ 1864). _b._ 9 April 1807; ed. Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1829; barrister in Ireland 1834; crown solicitor for Leinster circuit, Dec. 1852 to Sep. 1869; solicitor to the crown and treasury, Ireland, Sep. 1869 to death, this office had been held in his family uninterruptedly since 1783. _d._ 45 Kildare st. Dublin 18 Dec. 1868.
KEMMIS, WILLIAM (3 son of Thomas Kemmis of Shaen castle 1753–1823). _b._ 23 Oct. 1777; crown solicitor for Dublin 1801–52; for the Leinster circuit 1801–52; solicitor to the Treasury 1801–59; conducted the state prosecutions 1798–1848, was present and assisted at all the great state trials of his time. _d._ 45 Kildare st. Dublin 20 July 1864.
KEMP, EDWARD CURTIS. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., 12th wrangler 1817, B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820; C. of Lyndhurst 1825–8; R. of Whissonsett and Horningtoft 1829–65; chaplain to Dukes of Cambridge 1841 to death; P.C. of St. George, Yarmouth 1865 to death; author of A small dictionary for the use of the poor, an attempt to explain difficult words in the Bible and Prayer book 1826; The refutation of nonconformity on its own professed principle 1836; An exposition of some of the differences between Scripture and Calvinism 1843; Every infant regenerated in baptism, a doctrine of the church of England 1850; An introduction to the newly discovered proofs of the divine authority of the New Testament 1859; Isaaci Wattsii Carminum Fasciculus qui inscribitur “Divine Songs” Latine redditorum 1848. _d._ 51 King st. Yarmouth 10 June 1881 aged 86.