KENYON, JOHN ROBERT (3 son of succeeding). _b._ 13 Jany. 1807; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1828, B.C.L. 1831, D.C.L. 1836; fellow of All Souls 1828; barrister M.T. May 1834; judge and assessor of chancellor’s court of univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1840 to Nov. 1859; recorder of Oswestry 1 June 1842 to death; Vinerian prof. of common law in univ. of Oxf. Nov. 1843 to death; Q.C. 1 Nov. 1862; bencher of his inn 19 Nov. 1862 to death, treasurer 1874; chairman of Shropshire quarter sessions March 1871. _d._ The Pradoe, Erdiston, West Felton, Shropshire 17 April 1880. _Law Times_, _lxix_ 34 (1880).
KENYON, Thomas (youngest son of 1 baron Kenyon 1732–1802). _b._ 27 Sep. 1780; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1801; filazer, exigenter and clerk of the outlawries office in the Inner Temple 1807–37 when office was abolished by 1 Vict. cap. xxx 12 July 1837; chairman of court of quarter sessions, Shropshire 1830 or 1831 to 1850. _d._ The Pradoe, co. Salop 4 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvi_ 649–51 (1851).
KEOGH, WILLIAM NICHOLAS (eld. son of William M. Keogh of Corkip, co. Roscommon, clerk of the crown for the city and co. of Kilkenny, _d._ July 1865). _b._ Gardiner st. Dublin 7 Dec. 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., LL.D. 1866; called to bar in Ireland 1840, went the Connaught circuit; M.P. for Athlone Aug. 1847 to Feb. 1856; Q.C. 23 May 1850; solicitor gen. for Ireland, Dec. 1852 to March 1855, attorney gen. March 1855 to Feb. 1856; P.C. Ireland 1855; justice of the common pleas March 1856, of the common pleas division 1 Jany. 1878 to death; with Mr. Justice Fitzgerald tried the Fenian prisoners 1865; tried the Galway county election petition 1872 and henceforth was denounced by the Roman Catholics and went in fear of his life; author of Ireland under Lord de Grey 1844; Ireland imperialised; Milton’s prose, a lecture 1863; with M. J. Barry A treatise on the practice of the court of chancery in Ireland 1840. _d._ Bingen on the Rhine 30 Sep. 1878. _bur._ cemetery of R.C. ch. at Bonn 3 Oct. _Sullivan’s New Ireland_ (1877) _i_ 331–53; _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_ (1885) 255–60; _Law mag. and law review_, _iv_ 62–72 (1878); _Irish Law times_, _xii_ 498–500 (1878); _I.L.N. xvi_ 261 (1850), _portrait_; _Graphic_, _vi_ 90, 95 (1872), _portrait_.
KEON, MYLES GERALD (only son of Myles Gerald Keon, barrister, _d._ 1824). _b._ Keonbrooke, co. Leitrim 20 Feb. 1821; ed. at Stonyhurst 8 years; served in French army in Algeria a short time; student at Gray’s Inn, admitted 11 Nov. 1840; edited Dolman’s Magazine, April to Nov. 1846; on the staff of the Morning Post 1847–58, went as its representative to St. Petersburgh 1850 and 1856; colonial secretary at Bermuda, March 1859 to death; author of The life of the Roman patrician Alexis 1847; a novel called Harding the Money-Spinner, in the London Journal 1852 published in 3 vols. 1879; Dion and the Sibyls, a romance of the first century 2 vols. 1866, 2 ed. New York 1871. _d._ Bermuda 3 June 1875. _Stonyhurst Mag. March and June 1886_; _Boucher de Perthes’ Voyage en Russie en 1856_ (1859), _passim_.
KER, ALAN. _b._ 1820; barrister M.T. 25 Nov. 1842; attorney general of Antigua 1851–54; chief justice of Nevis 1854–6; chief justice of Dominica 1856–61; puisne judge of supreme court of Jamaica 1861 to death; author of Remarks on the representative system as illustrated by the defeat of Mr. Macaulay at Edinburgh 1847. _d._ Kingston, Jamaica 20 March 1885.
KER, CHARLES HENRY BELLENDEN (son of John Bellenden Ker, botanist 1765–1842). _b._ about 1785; barrister L.I. 28 June 1814; a member of the boundary commission 1830–2, of the public records commission, of the criminal and statute law commission 1833; head of the board to consider consolidation of statute law 1853 and of the royal commission on same subject 1854; suggested and prepared the Leases and Sales of settled estates act 1856 and Lord Cranworth’s act 1860; conveyancing counsel to court of chancery 1852–60; recorder of Andover 1842 to July 1855; one of the first private growers of orchids; wrote a series of articles in the Gardeners’ Chronicle under the pseudonym ‘Dodman’; F.R.S. to 1831; lived at Cannes 1860 to death; author of The question of registry or no registry considered, with reference to the interests of landholders 1830; Shall we register our deeds? 1853. _d._ Cannes 2 Nov. 1871.
KER, DAVID STEWART (only son of David Ker of Montalto, co. Down). _b._ 5 Nov. 1816; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1841; M.P. co. Down 1852–57; M.P. Downpatrick 1859–67. _d._ Crawfordsburn 8 Oct. 1878.
KER, JOHN. _b._ farmhouse of Bield, parish of Tweedsmuir, Peebleshire 7 April 1819; ed. at Edinburgh high sch. and univ.; entered divinity hall of united secession church 1838; minister of Clayport st. ch. Alnwick, Feb. 1845, of East Campbell st. ch. Glasgow 19 March 1851, removed to a new ch. in Sydney place 28 Nov. 1857; his health broke down May 1858, spent many winters abroad, resumed work 1872; D.D. Edin. 1869; professor of practical training in theological hall of his church 1876 to death; author of The psalms in history and biography 1886; Scottish nationality and other papers 1887; Lectures on the history of preaching 2 ed. 1888. _d._ Hermitage, Murrayfield, Edinburgh 4 Oct. 1886. _United Presbyterian Mag. Nov. 1886 pp._ 485–89 _and Dec. pp._ 534–40; _John Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy 3rd Series_ (1851) 272–80.
KERFERD, GEORGE BRISCOE (eld. son of Joseph Kerferd of Liverpool, merchant). _b._ Liverpool 1831; emigrated to Victoria 1852, a territorial magistrate 1856, carried on a large business in Beechwood, mayor 4 times; member for the Oven’s district of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864 to Dec. 1885; minister of mines and vice pres. of board of lands and works 1866–68; called to bar in Victoria 12 Dec. 1867; solicitor general 10 June 1872 to April 1874, attorney general 2 May 1874 to 7 Aug. 1875 and 20 Oct. 1875 to 21 May 1877, premier 31 July 1874 to 7 Aug. 1875; a judge of supreme court of Victoria, Dec. 1885 to death; edited with Mr. Box, Digest of all decisions of supreme court of Victoria 1846–71. _d._ Sorrento, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1889.
KERFOOT, JOHN BARRETT. _b._ Dublin 1 March 1816; taken to U.S. America 1819; ordained protestant episcopal minister 1837; master of St. James’ hall, Maryland and then of the college of St. James 1842–64; president of Trinity coll.; first bishop of Pittsburg, consecrated 25 Jany. 1866; attended first and second conferences at Lambeth 1875, and the Old Catholic conference Bonn 1875; D.D. of Columbia coll. 1850, and of Trinity 1865; LLD. of Camb. 1867. _d._ Meyersdale, Pennsylvania 10 July 1881. _Appleton’s American Biog. iii_ 524 (1887), _portrait_; _H. G. Batterson’s Sketch book of American episcopate_ (1878) 219.
KERR, ROBERT. _b._ 1806; entered navy 2 Dec. 1819, captain 1 Jany. 1850, retired R.A. 6 April 1866, retired admiral 21 March 1878. _d._ 14 Suffolk sq. Cheltenham 29 Oct. 1886.
KERR, WALTER MONTAGU (3 son of lord Charles Lennox Kerr _b._ 1814, capt. 42 regt.) _b._ June 1852; made a journey from Cape of Good Hope by the Zambesi to Lake Nyassa 1885; left England intending to cross Africa from Zanzibar and to visit Emin Pasha 1887, when at Mombassa ready to start fell ill of fever; author of The far interior, a narrative of travel and adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the lake regions of Central Africa 2 vols. 1886. _d._ South of France 23 April 1888.
KERRICK, RICHARD EDWARD. Ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., 7 senior optime and B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, ordained 1830; F.S.A. 11 March 1830, gave to the society 3 portraits and a collection of 4000 coins, chiefly Roman 22 Nov. 1849. _d._ 13 Free school lane, Cambridge 13 May 1872.
KERRISON, SIR EDWARD, 1 Baronet (only son of Matthias Kerrison 1742–1827). _b._ Hexney hall near Bungay 30 July 1776; cornet 6 dragoons 23 June 1796; lieut. col. 7 dragoons 4 April 1805 to 28 Sep. 1826; col. of 14 light dragoons 18 June 1830 to death; served in the Helder expedition 1799, in Spain, and at Waterloo; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 22 June 1815; baronet by patent dated 27 July 1821; K.C.H. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.H. 1831; K.C.B. 18 July 1840; M.P. Shaftesbury 1812–18; M.P. Northampton 1818–24; M.P. Eye 1824–52. _m._ 20 Oct. 1813 Mary Martha dau. of Alexander Ellice of Pittencreff, Fife. _d._ 13 Great Stanhope st. London 9 March 1853. _I.L.N. xxii_ 227, 323 (1853); _Burke’s Portrait gallery_, _ii_ 131 (1833), _portrait of lady Kerrison_.
KERRISON, SIR EDWARD CLARENCE, 2 Baronet (1 son of preceding). _b._ The Wick, Brighton 2 Jany. 1821; M.P. Eye 1852–66; M.P. East Suffolk 1866–67; steward of H.M. manor of Northstead, York; succeeded 9 March 1853; a great friend of the agricultural labourers; established the Thorndown reformatory; instrumental in erecting Albert memorial coll. Framlingham; took part in laying down Mellis and Eye railway; president of R. Agricultural soc. at Plymouth 1865; a good shot, a good coachman; master of Norfolk hounds 1869. _d._ Brome hall, Scole, Norfolk 12 July 1886. _Baily’s Mag. xxiv_ 125–6 (1874), _portrait_; _Public men of Ipswich_ (1875) 35–42.