KARSLAKE, ARTHUR THOMAS, brother of Henry John Karslake (qv) ; b. 3 Jan 1841 ; adm. Jan 1854 ; QS 1855 ; left 1859 ; a tea and rubber planter in Ceylon ; d. in Ceylon 1 Mar 1893.
KARSLAKE, CHARLES JAMES, brother of Henry John Karslake (qv) ; b. 22 Feb 1839 ; adm. 10 Jun 1852 ; entered father’s office with intention of becoming a solicitor, but became a Roman Catholic in 1862 and took priest’s orders in Roman Catholic Church ; member, Society of Jesus ; stationed at Rhyl, Flintshire ; d. unm. 5 Jun 1915.
KARSLAKE, HENRY JOHN, son of Henry Karslake, Regent Street, London, and Croydon, Surrey, solicitor, and his second wife Mary, dau. of John Day, Robert Street, Bedford Row, London ; half-brother of William Henry Karslake (qv) ; b. 14 Feb 1832 ; adm. from King’s Coll.Sch. 3 Jun 1847 ; left Midsummer 1848 ; adm.solicitor Hilary 1855 ; Roman Catholic convert 1862 ; took priest’s orders in Roman Catholic Church ; Religious Inspector of Schools, Archdiocese of Westminster ; secular priest at Dartmouth, Devon ; d. unm. 3 Jan 1902.
KARSLAKE, WILLIAM HENRY, fourth son of Henry Karslake, Regent Street, London, and Croydon, Surrey, solicitor, by his first wife Elizabeth Marsh, eldest dau. of Richard Preston QC MP, Ashburton, Devon ; b. 23 Aug 1825 ; at Harrow Sch.1835-8 ; adm. 1 Oct 1838 (G) ; left 23 Jun 1842 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 1 Dec 1843 ; 1st cl.Classics 1848 ; BA 1848 ; MA 1852 ; Fellow of Merton Coll. 1851-63, Tutor 1853, Senior Dean and Librarian 1855 ; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1855, priest 15 Jun 1862 (both Oxford) ; Perpetual Curate of St.Andrew’s, Hove 1862-6 ; Vicar of Westcott, Surrey 1866-82 ; Assistant Preacher, Lincoln’s Inn 1870-80 ; author, History of the Litany of the English Church, 1876, and other works ; m. 6 Nov 1862 Annie, dau. of Thomas Ellames Withington, Culcheth Hall, Warrington, Lancs. ; d. 26 Nov 1902.
KAVANAGH, THOMAS, son of Bryan Kavanagh, Borris, co.Carlow, and Mary, dau. of Thomas Butler, Kilcash, co.Kilkenny ; b. 28 Jul 1728 ; adm. Jan 1742/3 ; his father, who was a Roman Catholic, died in 1741, and Thomas, being a minor, became a ward in chancery ; as such, he was sent by the Lord Chancellor to Westminster School, in order that he might be brought up as a Protestant (A Tour through Ireland by Two English Gentlemen, as quoted Lecky, History of England, 1883, i, 201 note) ; of Borris House, co.Carlow ; m. 24 Nov 1755 his cousin Lady Susanna Butler, dau. of Walter Butler, and sister of John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde (I) ; d. 18 Jun 1790.
KAY, — ; b. ; in school lists 1765, 1767.
KAY, — ; b. ; in school lists 1767, 1769-71.
KAYE, — ; b. ; adm. 13 Jan 1766 ; left 1768 (“senior”).
KAYE, — ; b. ; adm. 13 Jan 1766 ; left 1771 (“junior”).
KAYE, JOHN, see LISTER-KAYE, SIR JOHN, BART. (adm.1777).
KAYE, SIR JOHN LISTER, BART., only son of Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart., MP, Lord Mayor of York, and his first wife Ellen, dau. of John Wilkinson, Greenhead, near Huddersfield, Yorks. ; b. 26 Jun 1725 ; adm.Apr 1740 ; left 1743 ; Lincoln Coll.Oxford, matr. 28 Feb 1743/4 ; succ. father as 5th baronet 5 Apr 1752 ; High Sheriff, Yorkshire 1761 ; d.unm. 27 Dec 1789.
KAYE, RICHARD HENRY LESLIE, youngest son of Sir William Squire Barker Kaye CB LLD QC, Assistant Under-Secretary for Ireland, barrister, and his first wife Frances, youngest dau. of Richard Barker, Stirling, Clonee, co.Meath ; b. 10 Oct 1867 ; adm. 26 Jan 1881 (G) ; left Apr 1884 ; 2nd Lieut., Royal Irish Fusiliers (from Militia) 8 Jun 1889 ; Lieut., 5 Aug 1891 ; Army Service Corps 1 Oct 1892 ; Capt., 1 Apr 1896 ; res. 1 Dec 1897 ; m. Mar 1900 Constance Mary, second dau. of Charles Shakespear, Langley Priory, Leics. ; d. at Amsterdam 24 Feb 1907.
KAYE, WILKINSON LISTER, natural son of Sir John Lister Kaye., Bart. (qv) ; b. 28 Sep 1773 ; adm. 7 Feb 1787 ; Ensign, 45th Foot 19 Feb 1793 ; Lieut., 7th Light Dragoons 11 Jun 1793 ; Capt., 21st Light Dragoons 24 Feb 1794 ; Maj., 1 Sep 1795 ; Lieut.-Col., 17 May 1798 ; retd. 1 May 1806 ; m. 4 Feb 1808 Elizabeth, widow of Lieut.-Col. Peter Murray, EICS Bengal, and dau. of — Tuting ; d. 9 Sep 1845.
KEARSLY, — ; b. ; adm.1656 (school lists 1656, last two quarters).
KEATE, SIR WILLIAM, BART., youngest son of Sir Gilbert Hoo Keate, Bart., The Hoo, Kimpton, Herts., and Elizabeth — (IGI) ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 15) 1716 ; Worcester Coll.Oxford, matr. 13 Jul 1717 ; BA 1721 ; BCL 1724 ; DCL 1731 ; ordained deacon 31 May 1724, priest 20 Dec 1724 (both Lincoln) ; Vicar of Kimpton, Herts., from 25 Apr 1725 ; Rector of Digswell, Herts., from 25 Jul 1729 ; succ.brother as 4th baronet 8 Aug 1744 ; d.unm. 6 Mar 1757.
KEATING, ALFRED, brother of James Keating (qv) ; b. Bimlimpitam, India 25 Dec 1816 ; adm. 15 Jan 1828 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1837 ; Ensign, unattached 28 Feb 1837 ; 30th Madras Native Infantry 6 Jul 1837 ; 50th Native Infantry 31 Jul 1837 ; Lieut., 3 Oct 1840 ; Capt., 31 Mar 1848 ; resigned in India 30 Sep 1861, but gazetted Maj., 11 Feb 1862 ; living at Bathwick, Somerset, as Lieut.-Col. on retired list, in 1881 (1881 Census) ; m. at Madras 15 Apr 1852 Mary Timins, dau. of Edward Blenkinsop ; d. 8 Dec 1883.
KEATING, JAMES, son of Richard Keating, Bimlipatam, Madras, merchant, and Matilda Brew ; b. 14 Nov 1814 ; adm. (G) 28 Mar 1825 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1832 ; [perhaps James Keatinge at Addiscombe Coll. 1832-3] ; Ensign, unattached 15 Dec 1833 ; 3rdMadras Native Infantry 29 Nov 1834 ; Lieut., 2 Jun 1838 ; Capt., 7 Apr 1846 ; Brevet Maj., 23 Jul 1858 ; Maj., 3rd Native Infantry 1 Jan 1862 ; d. at Arcot, Madras 22 Mar 1863.
KEENE, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jul 1748 ; left 1751 (“exempt from payment”). [Perhaps bapt.Buckland, Berks., 20 Aug 1738, son of Thomas Keene, and Mary — (IGI)]. [Whitmore : “prob = Talbot”]
KEENE, RICHARD ; b. 21 Dec 1813 ; adm. 10 Mar 1828. [perhaps Richard Keene, 63 Bridge Avenue, Hammersmith, surgeon, d. 30 Nov 1880, in 67th year ; he studied medicine at King’s Coll.Hospital and was LSA 1836]
KEENE, TALBOT, son of William Keene, Dublin ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1752 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1757, adm.pens. 9 Jun 1757, scholar 21 Apr 1758, matr. Mich.1758 ; BA 1761 ; MA 1770 ; ordained deacon 21 Sep 1761 (Lincoln), priest 3 Oct 1762 (Winchester) ; Curate, Great Bookham, Surrey 1762 ; Rector of Goldhanger, Essex, 22 Aug 1765 – Apr 1770 ; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1770 ; Vicar of Brigstock-cum-Stanion, Northants, from 2 Apr 1773 ; Rector of Tadmarton, Oxfordshire, from 16 Apr 1788 ; author, Miscellaneous Pieces Original and Collected, 1787 (poetry) ; m. 1765 Hester, dau. of Jonathan Frohock, innkeeper ; d. 26 Feb 1824.
KEIGHTLY, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1724/5 ; left 1728. [Perhaps son of Michael Keightly, and Sarah — ; bapt.Crowle, Lincs., 15 Jun 1712 (IGI)].
KEILL, JAMES, elder but only surviving son of John Keill DM FRS, Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Oxford, and Mary, dau. of James Clements, Oxford, bookbinder ; b. 15 Nov 1718 ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1729 ; in under school list 1731 ; apprenticed to John Manship, citizen and fishmonger, London, 26 Jul 1735 ; became “a linen draper of good repute near the Mansion-house in London” ; partner in firm Brough Maltby and James Keill, The Poultry, City of London, linendrapers, as of 13 Jul 1745 (firm known as Maltby Keill & Dyer by 1760 (still 1767), but by 1773 firm’s name was Maltby and Dyer).
KEILY, TOWNSEND RICHARD, only son of Rev.Arthur Keily, Curate of Douglas, Carrigaline, co.Cork, Ireland, and Dorothea, dau. of Edward Mansel Townsend, Whitehall, co.Cork ; b. ; adm. 30 Oct 1797 (Clapham) ; KS (aged 14) 1798 ; played cricket against Eton at Lord’s 31 Jul 1800, 31 Jul 1801 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 1 Jun 1802, scholar 22 Apr 1803, matr. Lent 1804 ; BA 1806 ; Cornet, 1st Dragoons 10 Jun 1809 ; Lieut., 25 Oct 1810 ; Capt., 26 May 1825 ; half-pay, unattached 19 Jan 1826 ; severely wounded at battle of Waterloo ; d. 5 Apr 1854.
KEITH, ALEXANDER ; b. ; adm. 27 Jan 1812 ; in school list Oct 1814.
KEITH, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1730 ; left 1730.
KEITH, PETER, only son of James Keith MD LRCP, Bloomsbury Square, London ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1726 ; KS 1729 ; Capt. of the School 1733 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1734, matr. 12 Jun 1734, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1734 – void by death 11 Mar 1740 ; BA 1738 ; author of the poem on Milton printed in the sixth edition of the Poems of Vincent Bourne (qv) ; d. 1740 (will proved PCC 2 Mar 1740). [Presumably Peter Keith, son of James Keith, and Elizabeth —, bapt. St.Andrew, Holborn 15 Jul 1715 (IGI)].
KEITH, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1748/9 ; left 1751. [Perhaps Ensign in the Army 28 Mar 1758 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 30 Jan 1759 ; Lieut. and Capt. 12 Jun 1765 ; Lieut.-Col., 3rd Foot Guards 14 May 1778 ; d. unm. c. May 1780, aged 40 (will proved PCC 19 May 1780), son of Alexander Keith, Uras, Kincardineshire] [alternatively son of John Keith, and Mary —, bapt.St.James Piccadilly Feb 1739 (IGI), no doubt brother of William Keith (qv)]
KEITH, WILLIAM, son of John Keith, London, and Mary — (IGI) ; bapt. St.James Piccadilly 8 Jul 1736 (IGI) ; in school list 1746 ; KS (aged 15) 1751 ; left 1751.
KELLEY, see also KELLY.
KELLEY, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Jun 1734 ; left 1737.
KELLEY, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 15) Apr 1716.
KELLY, — ; b. ; adm. 2 Apr 1765 ; left Whitsun 1767 (“senior”).
KELLY, — ; b. ; adm. 15 Jan 1766 ; left Easter 1767 (“junior”).
KELLY, ANDERSON LINDSAY, brother of Edward Festus Kelly (qv) ; b. 27 Feb 1858 ; adm. 8 Jun 1871 (G) ; left Dec 1875 ; 2ndLieut., 24th Foot 26 Mar 1879 ; Lieut., South Wales Borderers 16 Aug 1880 ; 20th Light Dragoons (Hussars) 15 Nov 1884 ; Capt., 7thLight Dragoons (Hussars) 2 Oct 1889 ; retd. 1892 ; Maj., North Somerset Yeomanry 1904-12, Hon.Lieut.-Col. 1908 ; served on Sudan expedition 1888-9 ; of Woolston House, North Cadbury, Somerset ; JP Somerset 1902 ; m. 8 Oct 1889 Elsie Nevins, dau. of Charles Lawrence Perkins, New York, USA, businessman ; d. 7 Oct 1920.
KELLY, EDWARD FESTUS, eldest son of Edward Robert Kelly, Upper Phillimore Gardens, Kensington, printer and publisher, and Harriott, dau. of Anderson Radford, Cambridge ; b. 28 Jan 1854 ; adm. 26 Jan 1867 (G) ; Min.Can.1869 ; left May 1869 ; chairman, Kelly’s Directories Ltd., London ; of Northerwood Park, Lyndhurst, Hampshire ; JP Hampshire 1910 ; m. 1879 Constance, dau. of Maj. Horatio Edinborough, West Essex Militia (marriage registered Fulham third quarter 1879) ; d. 23 Jun 1939.
KELLY, GEORGE, see KELLY-HOLDSWORTH, GEORGE.
KELLY, GEORGE DE SMETH, only son of John Kelly MD, Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, and his first wife Maria Sophia Seidel (alias De Smeth), dau. of Rev. Georg Seidel DD, Lutheran clergyman from Halberstadt, Germany, subsequently resident in Oxford ; bapt. St Aldates, Oxford 12 Jun 1760 ; adm. 6 Feb 1770 ; KS 1776 ; convicted with four other Westminster boys at Middlesex QS 21 May 1779, of a gross assault on a man in Dean’s Yard (Annual Register 1779, 213) ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1780, matr. 24 May 1780, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1780 – void 16 Jan 1790 (expiry year of grace as V.Featherstone) ; BA 1784 ; MA 1787 ; ordained deacon 6 Jun 1784, priest 22 May 1785 (both Oxford) ; Curate, Doncaster, Yorks., 1786 ; Vicar of Featherstone, Yorks., from 3 Jan 1789 ; Vicar of Darrington, Yorks., 24 Jan 1791-1815 ; Vicar of Silkstone, Yorks., 26 Jun 1804 – Apr 1815 ; Vicar of Kirk Ireton, Derbs., from 2 Mar 1815 ; Vicar of Wirksworth, Derbs., from 1 Aug 1815 ; Prebendary of Southwell from 17 Jan 1789 ; Prebendary of York from 29 Jul 1801, Canon Residentiary from 9 Apr 1802 ; m. 30 Mar 1789 Catherine Dewelda, sister of Henry Thomas Laye (qv) ; d. 17 Oct 1823, aged 63.
KELLY, HINTON, brother of John Francis Kelly (qv) ; b. ; adm. 8 Dec 1786 ; in school list Dec 1788. [perhaps = Redmond Hinton Kelly (qv)]
KELLY, JAMES FRANCIS, brother of John Francis Kelly (qv) ; b. ; adm. 11 Sep 1786 ; Lieut., Royal Navy 29 Sep 1799 ; drowned in shipwreck off Devon coast 3 Sep 1802.
KELLY, JOHN FRANCIS, son of Redmond Kelly, Dean’s Yard, Westminster, Lieut-Col. East Devonshire Militia, and Bridget, sister of George Parker (adm.1739, qv) ; b. ; adm. 11 Sep 1786 ; he or one of his brothers actor in Town Boy play King John Dec 1789 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.pens. 23 Dec 1790, but did not matr. ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 8 Jun 1791 ; Lieut. and Capt., 23 Jan 1794 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 21 Aug 1801 ; Brevet Col., 25 Jul 1810 ; Maj.-Gen., 4 Jun 1813 ; served in Flanders 1793, Netherlands 1794, in Spain under Sir John Moore 1808-9, and in Walcheren expedition 1809 ; d. 23 Feb 1814, as a result of injuries sustained in a fire at the Customs House in Lower Thames Street, City of London, where his sister was housekeeper.
KELLY, MONTAGUE HENRY, brother of John Francis Kelly (qv) ; bap 24 Mar 1773 ; adm. 11 Sep 1786 ; entered Royal Navy 28 Feb 1791 ; Lieut., 18 Sep 1797 ; retd. as Cdr., 20 Dec 1830 ; served as a midshipman on HMS Russell in the sea battle with the French on the “Glorious First of June”, wounded ; m. 21 Oct 1801 Eliza, dau. of John Raphael Smith, artist and engraver ; death registered St George Southwark second quarter 1838 (will proved PCC 20 Apr 1838).
KELLY, REDMOND HINTON, brother of John Francis Kelly (qv) ; b. (Richmond) ; adm. ; KS (aged 12) 1793 ; played cricket v.Eton on Hounslow Heath 25 Jul 1796 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1797, matr. 19 Jun 1797, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1797 – void 9 Apr 1805 ; BA 1801 ; Ensign, 76thFoot J Jan 1804 ; 17th Foot 23 Jun 1804 ; Lieut., 2nd West India Regt., 16 May 1804 ; 64th Foot 7 Sep 1804 ; Capt., 4 Jan 1810 ; half-pay 25 Feb 1817 ; sold out 14 Jul 1825 ; Provost Marshal, Tobago [but check, occurs as R.H.Kelly 1836 (sic)] ; d. 1831.
KELLY, ROBERT HENRY, brother of Edward Festus Kelly (qv) ; b. 4 Aug 1855 ; adm. 12 Jun 1868 (G) ; QS 1870 ; left Mar 1873 ; went to Australia ; drowned while crossing river Logan, New South Wales Apr 1875.
KELLY-HOLDSWORTH, GEORGE, son of George De Smeth Kelly (qv) ; b. 10 Jun 1793 ; adm. Lady Day 1808 ; left 1811 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 Jan 1813, aged 19 ; ordained deacon 11 Aug 1816 (York), priest Sep 1818 (Chester, lit.dim. from Lichfield)) ; Vicar of Withernwick, Yorks., 1818 ; Vicar of Aldborough, Yorks., from 1822 ; MA Lambeth 7 Oct 1827 ; assumed additional surname of Holdsworth 1835 ; m. 1 Jul 1829 Albinia, fourth dau. of Lieut.-Col.John Dalton, 4th Dragoons, Sleningford Park, Yorks. ; d. 22 Aug 1863.
KELSALL, GEORGE, son of Henry Kelsall (qv) ; bapt. St Martin’s in the Fields, London 16 Feb 1726/7 ; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1740/1 ; left 1743 ; Clerk, Foreign Department, General Post Office (Chamberlayne 1748) ; drowned while bathing with Charles Tufnell (qv) in river Thames near Staines Bridge May 1753 (London Evening Post 26 May 1753).
KELSALL, HENRY, son of Henry Kelsall, Chester ; b. ; at school under Knipe (W.W.R.Ball & J.A.Venn, eds., Admissions to Trin.Coll.Camb., iii, 24) ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 7 Feb 1707/8, aged 15, scholar 13 May 1709 ; BA 1711/2 ; MA 1715 ; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1714, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1715 ; Chief Clerk, Treasury, from Nov 1714 ; MP Chichester 3 Dec 1719-22, Bossiney 1722-7, Mitchell 1727-34 ; a Commissioner of Taxes from 18 Oct 1735 ; FRS 27 May 1736 ; m. 9 Jul 1720 Elizabeth Elson [probably dau. of William Elson MP, Chichester, Sussex] ; d. 10 Feb 1762.
KELSALL, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Feb 1730/1 ; left 1737 ; Writer, EICS Madras 1741 ; Resident, Madapollem 1742 ; transferred to EICS Bengal 1743 ; Resident, Balasore (in 1748) ; Senior Merchant and Deputy Import Warehouse Keeper 8 Dec 1755 ; Mayor of Calcutta 1754-6 ; m. 14 Sep 1749 Isabella Crooke, Calcutta (“inhabitant”) ; buried Calcutta 11 Feb 1757.
KELSALL, JOHN, son of John Kelsall, purser EIC Maritime Service, and Alice, dau. of Maj. Nevil Maskelyne, Purton, Wilts. ; bapt. 25 May 1732 ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1741/2 ; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1745-6 ; d. young.
KELSALL, THOMAS, brother of John Kelsall (qv) ; b. 31 Mar 1736 ; adm. Jan 1743/4 ; left 1750 ; Writer, EICS Madras 1754 ; arrived in India 1755 ; Junior Merchant, Masulipatam 1756 ; Under Secretary, Madras 1759 ; Paymaster and Commissary, Northern Department 1765 ; Superintendent of Revenue 1765 ; transferred to EICS Bengal 1767 as Resident, Dacca ; Member of Council, Bengal, 1767 – Dec 1771, when he left to return to England ; travelling in Italy with Lord Clive 1773-4 ; latterly of Maze Hill, Greenwich, Kent ; m. 20 Apr 1780 Sarah, dau. of Thomas Phipps, Heywood House, Westbury, Wilts. ; d. 10 Jul 1796.
KEMBLE, HENRY JAMES VINCENT, younger son of Charles Kemble, St.James’s Street, Buckingham Gate, Westminster, actor, and Maria Theresa De Camp, actress, dau. of George De Camp, flute player in court orchestra at Vienna ; b. Dec 1812 ; adm. 18 Jul 1827 ; left 1830 ; Ensign, 67th Foot (from 41st) 16 Mar 1832 ; Lieut., 5 Aug 1837 ; Capt., 10 Mar 1843 ; retd., half-pay 8 Jan 1847 ; signed Play Protest 1847 ; m. [presumably : son Henry b. 1 Jun 1848] ; d. 19 Aug 1857.
KEMP, see also KEMPE.
KEMP, ANTHONY ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Feb 1743/4 ; left 1744. [Perhaps Anthony Facer Kemp, son of Isaac Kemp, and Martha Scattergood, bapt. St.Stephen, Coleman Street, London, 28 Aug 1730 (IGI) ; a brandy and tobacco merchant, Aldgate, City of London ; member, Common Council, City of London, Portsoken Ward Dec 1775 (still 1783) ; m.1766 Susannah Fenn ; d. 14 Dec 1815].
KEMP, EDWARD, see KEMPE, EDWARD.
KEMP, SIR JOHN, BART., eldest son of Rev.Thomas Kemp, Rector of Gissing and Flordon, Norfolk, and his second wife Priscilla, dau. of Thomas Holden, Penryn, Cornwall ; b. 1754 ; adm. 11 Jan 1768 ; left Dec 1770 ; succeeded uncle as 6th baronet 25 Nov 1761 ; d.unm. 16 Jan 1771. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
KEMP, REGINALD, only son of Thomas Richardson Kemp QC, Queen’s Gate Terrace, South Kensington, barrister, and Emily Jane Catherine Elizabeth Colmar, eldest dau. of Charles James Plumptre, Hamilton Terrace, St.John’s Wood, barrister ; b. 13 May 1866 ; adm. 27 May 1880 (H) ; left Dec 1883 ; adm.Middle Temple 30 Oct 1884, called to bar 22 Jun 1887 ; South-Eastern Circuit ; Coroner for West Middlesex 1915 – ; JP Middlesex 1907 ; m. 29 Mar 1894 Bertha, youngest dau. of Abraham Augustus Flint, Uttoxeter, Staffs., solicitor, Coroner for Derbyshire ; d. 3 Mar 1943.
KEMP, THOMAS READ, younger but only surviving son of Thomas Kemp MP, Lewes, Sussex, wool-stapler, and Anne, dau. of Henry Read, Brookland, Kent ; b. 1782 ; adm. 31 Mar 1796 (Clapham) ; in school list 1797 ; left Christmas 1797 (?) ; St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm. 5 Nov 1800, matr. Mich.1801, readm. fellow commoner 15 Feb 1802 ; BA 1805 ; MA 1810 ; adm.Middle Temple 16 May 1804 ; MP Lewes 10 May 1811 – Mar 1816, Arundel 21 Feb 1823-6, Lewes 1826 – Apr 1837 ; the developer of the Kemp Town suburb of Brighton ; m.1st, 12 Jul 1806 Frances, fourth dau. of Sir Francis Baring, Bart. MP ; m.2nd, 26 Nov 1832 Frances Margaretta, widow of Vigors Harvey, Killaine Castle, co.Wexford, and dau. of Charles William John Shakerley (qv) ; d. at Paris 20 Dec 1846. ODNB.
KEMP, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1673.
KEMPE, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1656 (School Lists 1656, first two quarters).
KEMPE, BOYLE STAUNTON, only son of John Kempe (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Jul 1737 ; left 1738 ; m. 15 Mar 1765 Mary Cray ; d. Aug 1786.
KEMPE, EDWARD, son of Henry Kempe, barrister, Bencher Inner Temple, and Ann, dau. of William York, Basset’s Down, Lydiard Tregoze, Wilts. ; b. ; at school 1659-61 (Busby’s Account Book) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Nov 1661, aged 16 ; adm.Inner Temple 28 Feb 1662/3, called to bar 28 Nov 1669.
KEMPE, HARRY ROBERT, youngest son of Rev.John Edward Kempe, Rector of St.James’s, Piccadilly, London, and Prebendary of St.Paul’s, and Harriett, dau. of Edward Atkins Wood, Osmington House, Dorset ; b. 1 Mar 1852 ; adm. 28 Sep 1865 ; left Whitsun 1867 ; King’s Coll.London ; entered Telegraph Dept., Post Office, at Southampton under Sir W.H.Preece 1871, for many years acting as his assistant ; Electrician to Post Office 1907-13 ; consulting engineer ; AMICE 15 Jan 1878, MICE 16 Feb 1904 ; MIMechE ; MIEE ; member, “Air Inventions” Committee during 1914-18 war ; author, A Handbook of Electrical Testing, 1876, and other books and articles on electrical subjects ; founded The Engineer’s Year Book 1894 ; m. 8 Jul 1880 Helen Catherine, dau. of Maj.-Gen.Thomas Richard Byng CB, Madras Army, previously EICS Madras ; d. 10 Apr 1935. ODNB.
KEMPE, JOHN, only son of George Kempe, St.James’s, Westminster ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1716 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1720, matr. 23 Jun 1720, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1720 – void 28 Jun 1733 ; BA 1724 ; MA 1727 ; adm.Middle Temple 15 Jan 1723/4, called to bar 20 Jun 1729 ; m. Elizabeth, only dau. of John Staunton, Longbridge, Warwicks. ; d. 11 Oct 1738. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
KEMPE, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1597, adm.scholar 1598, matr.1598 ; BA 1601/2 ; MA 1605 ; presumably “Thomas Kempe a scholler at Cambridge” mentioned in will dated 1599 of Richard Kempe, Gissing, Norfolk, and Grays Inn, London, barrister ; ordained deacon and priest 21 Sep 1606 (Norwich), aged 26 ; Curate, Teversham, Cambs., 1606.
KEMPE, WILLIAM, brother of Edward Kempe (qv) ; b. ; at school in 1667 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1671, aged 18 ; BA 1675 ; MA 1678 ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1681, priest 12 Mar 1681/2 (both Oxford) ; Vicar of East Garston, Berks., from 13 Nov 1690 ; buried East Garston 8 Aug 1720.
KEMPLAND, FREDERICK ; b. ; adm. 15 Sep 1785.
KENDAL, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1750/1 ; in school list 1754 ; apprenticed to Thomas Vialls, St.Ann’s, Westminster, carver, 16 Oct 1754.
KENDALL, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; served with English forces in the Low Countries for seven years ; claimed a descent from the Roos family of Routh, Yorks. ; employed as an “intelligencer” by Secretary Cecil in the Spanish Netherlands 1600/1 (CSP Dom 1598-1601, 484-5 ; CSP Dom 1601-3, 37, 38, 140) ; perhaps Capt.George Kendall who was one of the original British settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, North America, in Apr 1607 ; member, Council, Virginia ; tried and convicted of mutiny ; sentenced to death and executed c. Aug 1607.
KENDALL, JAMES, brother of Thomas Kendall (qv) ; bapt. 17 Jun 1647 ; adm. 10 Jul 1658 ; KS (aged 13) 1661 ; adm. Middle Temple 27 Apr 1666, Lincoln’s Inn 28 Nov 1666 ; Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 1675 ; Lieut.-Col. of Foot, Lord Morpeth’s Regiment 1678-9 ; Capt., Coldstream Guards 1680-5 ; MP West Looe 1685 –90, 1695-1702, Lostwithiel from 17 Jan 1706 ; Governor of Barbados 5 Jul 1689-94 (taking up post in spring 1690) ; a Lord of the Admiralty 24 Feb 1695/6- May 1699 ; d. unm. 10 Jul 1708. Buried North Aisle, Westminster Abbey.
KENDALL, JOHN, brother of Thomas Kendall (qv) ; b. ; adm. Oct 1657 ; a boarder ; left 1662. [perhaps of London, adm. Inner Temple 31 Jan 1662]
KENDALL, JONATHAN, son of Reginald Kendall, and Ann, sister of John Heaton, agent to estates of Duke of Devonshire ; bapt. Romaldkirk, Yorks. 16 Apr 1765 ; adm. 13 Jan 1779 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 1784 ; ordained deacon 9 Mar 1800, priest 3 Jun 1800 (both Winchester) ; Curate, Wotton, Surrey 1800 ; Rector of Martinsthorpe, Rutland, from 14 Oct 1801 ; Rector of Barrowby, Lincs., from 9 Aug 1802 ; m. 28 Feb 1793 Charlotte Williams, illegitimate dau. of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire KG ; d. 5 May 1849.
KENDALL, THOMAS, son of Thomas Kendall MP, Chiswick, Middlesex, merchant, plantation owner in Barbados, West Indies, and Grace, second dau. of John Modyford, Exeter, Devon, merchant ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 14) 1660 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 11 May 1663, called to bar 21 Nov 1671 ; of Killigarth, Talland, Cornwall ; lic. to m. 29 Oct 1670 Mary, dau. and heiress of John Hallett, Killigarth ; buried Talland, Cornwall 17 Oct 1684.
KENNEDY, HON.ALEXANDER, brother of Archibald Kennedy, 2nd Marquis of Ailsa (qv) ; b. 7 Apr 1818 ; adm. 19 Sep 1826 ; d. unm. 9 Oct 1832.
KENNEDY, ARCHIBALD, 2ND MARQUIS OF AILSA, eldest son of Archibald Kennedy, Earl of Cassilis MP, and Eleanor, only dau. of Alexander Allardyce, Dunnottar, Kincardineshire ; b. 25 Aug 1816 ; adm. 28 Sep 1825 ; 2nd Lieut., Rifle Brigade 5 Jul 1833 ; Lieut., 19 Oct 1838 ; 17th Lancers 9 Aug 1839 ; retd. 18 Mar 1842 ; succ. grandfather as 2nd Marquis of Ailsa 8 Sep 1846 ; took Conservative whip, House of Lords ; KT 7 Mar 1859 ; DL Ayrshire 1842, Lord Lieut. from 7 Dec 1861 ; m. 10 Nov 1846 Julia, second dau. of Sir Richard Mounteney Jephson, Bart., Judge of the Admiralty and Judge Advocate at Gibraltar ; d. from effects of accident in hunting field 20 Mar 1870.
KENNEDY, SIR ROBERT HUGH, brother of Thomas Chamberlain Alexander Kennedy (qv) ; b. Aug 1772 ; adm. 21 Jan 1784 ; Min.Can.1787 ; KS (Capt.) 1788 ; Capt. of the School 1791 ; left 1791 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm.pens. 14 May 1792, but did not matr. ; Assistant Commissary-Gen., HM Forces on Continent 10 Jan 1798, Deputy Commissary-Gen., 21 Feb 1801, Commissary-Gen. from 3 Nov 1808 (still in post 1831, and still in Army List at death, but on half-pay) ; served as Commissary-Gen. to Duke of Wellington’s forces in Peninsular War ; knighted 8 May 1812 ; KCH 1834 ; m.1st, 3 Aug 1796 (IGI), Mary, sister of John William Bourke (qv) ; m.2nd, 18 Jul 1839 Anna Maria, widow of Robert Hillingsford, and dau. of Samuel Harrison, Percy Street, Bedford Square, London [singer ?] ; d. at Beziers, France 8 May 1840.
KENNEDY, THOMAS CHAMBERLAIN ALEXANDER, son of Hugh Alexander Kennedy MD, Physician Extraordinary to Prince of Wales and Inspector of British Hospitals on the Continent, and Devereux, dau. of Thomas Chamberlain, Wardington, Oxfordshire ; bapt. 20 Dec 1769 ; adm. 21 Jan 1784 ; in school lists 1786 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 22 May 1787, aged 17 ; BA 1791 ; Ensign, 19thFoot 11 May 1791 ; Lieut., 31 Jul 1793 ; Adjutant 27 Nov 1794 – 18 Jan 1800 ; Capt.-Lieut. and Capt., 1 Sep 1795 ; served in campaign in Germany 1794-5 ; d. at Colombo, Ceylon 15 Apr 1800.
KENNETT, WHITE, son of Rev.Basil Kennett, Vicar of Postling and Rector of Dymchurch, Kent, and Mary, eldest dau. of Thomas White, Dover, Kent, master shipwright ; b. 10 Aug 1660 ; at school under Busby (White Kennett, Case of Impropriations, 1704, 340, where Kennett describes Busby as “my honoured Master”) ; he was “removed to Westminster above the Curtain, but falling sick of the Small-pox, at the very time of Election, his Father thought it not advisable that he shou’d wait another year” (i.e. he entered the School in an upper form, but did not become a KS and left the school before the next year’s Election) (Life of the Right Reverend Dr White Kennett, 1730, 2) ; St.Edmund Hall, Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1678 ; BA 1682 ; MA 22 Jan 1684/5 ; BD 1694 ; DD 1700 (incorp.Cambridge 1702) ; Tutor and Vice-Principal, St.Edmund Hall 1691-5 ; ordained deacon 1684 [check], priest 15 Mar 1684/5 (Oxford) ; Curate, Bicester, Oxfordshire 1684 ; Vicar of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire 19 Jul 1685-1700 ; Rector of Shottesbrooke, Berks., 10 Jun 1694 – Oct 1708 ; Archdeacon of Huntingdon 15 May 1701 – May 1720 ; Prebendary of Salisbury 15 Apr 1702 – May 1720 ; Rector of St.Botolph without Aldgate, London 1703-8 ; Dean of Peterborough 21 Feb 1707/8 – Nov 1718 ; Prebendary of Lincoln 27 Feb 1707/8- 25 May 1720 ; Rector of St.Mary Aldermary, London, from 5 May 1708 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Anne and George I 11 Jun 1707 – Nov 1718 ; consecrated Bishop of Peterborough 9 Nov 1718 ; a zealous Whig partisan ; one of founders of Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts ; a painstaking antiquary ; author, Compleat History of England, 1706, and other works ; m.1st, 6 Jun 1693 Sarah, only dau. of Robert Carver, Bicester, Oxfordshire ; m.2nd, 6 Jun 1695 Sarah, sister of Richard Smith MD, London and Aylesbury, Bucks. ; m.3rd, 1703 Dorcas, widow of Clopton Havers MD, and dau. of Rev.Thomas Fuller, Rector of Willingale, Essex ; d. 19 Dec 1728. ODNB.
KENNETT, WHITE, son of White Kennett (qv), and his second wife ; b. ; adm. (aged 16) Jan 1716/7 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 1 Feb 1717/8 ; BA 1721 ; MA 1724 ; ordained deacon 21 Feb 1723/4, priest 7 Mar 1723/4 (both Peterborough) ; Prebendary of Peterborough from 9 Mar 1724/5, Lincoln from 6 Dec 1725, St.Paul’s from 2 Nov 1727 ; Rector of Alwalton, Hunts., 28 Sep 1726 – Mar 1729/30 ; Rector of Burton Coggles, Lincs., from 18 Oct 1728 ; Rector of Peakirk cum Glinton, Northants, from 23 Feb 1737/8 ; m. 21 Feb 1731 Mary, dau. of Robert Deepup, Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, Northants ; d. 6 May 1740.
KENSEL, JAMES, son of John Kensel, Morton, Norfolk ; b. ; adm. ; KS (aged 14) 1660 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1662, adm.pens. 27 Jun 1662, scholar 1663, matr.1662.
KENSINGTON, CHARLES JEPHSON WILLIAM, son of John Larkins Kensington, Senior Assistant Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Tobago, West Indies, and [his first wife ?] Catherine Gwynne, dau. of Colin Jones, Holyhead, Anglesey, shipmaster, previously in Royal Navy ; b. 25 Jun 1816 ; adm. 18 Jan 1830 ; of Prince’s Hill, Wilts., and of Tobago, West Indies ; emigrated to New Zealand 1862 ; bankrupt 1866 ; m. Sep 1844 Olivia, dau. of William Maturin, Deputy Commissary General, Bermuda ; d. at Port Charles, New Zealand 12 Dec 1877.
KENT, — , son of Matthew Kent, St.Martin’s in the Fields, London, and Broad Chalke and Netheravon, Wilts., merchant taylor ; b. ; at school 1690 (Christian name perhaps George). [Whitmore : but no authority cited]
KENT, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715-8.
KENT, GREGORY ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1636 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.sizar 1637, scholar 1641, BA 1641/2 ; ordained deacon 6 Mar 1641/2 (Rochester), priest 25 Sep 1642 (Lincoln) ; Rector of Great Sheepy, Leics., (south mediety), from 25 Jan 1642/3 ; buried 5 Dec 1685. [perhaps son of Anthony Kent, bapt.Tealby, Lincs., 16 May 1627 (IGI) ; m. 30 Jun 1653 Anne Cater (IGI)]
KENWARD, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1715, 1716.
KEPPEL, AUGUSTUS, 1ST VISCOUNT KEPPEL, brother of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (qv) ; b. 25 Apr 1725 ; adm. May 1733 ; left 1735 ; entered Royal Navy 1735, joining HMS Oxford ; served under Anson in HMS Centurion during his voyage round the world ; Lieut., 25 Jul 1744 ; Cdr., 7 Nov 1744 ; Post Capt., 11 Dec 1744 ; on special mission to Dey of Algiers 1748-51 ; Commander-in-Chief, North American station 1754-5 ; commaned squadron sent to Goree 1758 ; took part in battle of Quiberon Bay 1759 ; commanded squadron off Belleisle 1761 ; Rear-Adm., 21 Oct 1762 ; second-in-command of expedition against Havana 1762 ; Vice-Adm., 24 Oct 1770 ; Adm., 29 Apr 1778 ; Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet 22 Mar 1778 ; court-martialled for his conduct of operations off Brest 1779, but the charge was found “malicious and ill-founded” and Keppel became the hero of the day ; received freedom, City of London 11 Dec 1779 ; MP Chichester 15 Jan 1755-61, Windsor 1761-80, Surrey 1780 – 27 Apr 1782 ; a Colonel of Marines 1760-2 ; Groom of the Bedchamber 17 Feb 1761 – Dec 1766 ; a Lord of the Admiralty 21 Dec 1765 – Dec 1766 ; First Lord of the Admiralty 30 Mar 1782 – Jan 1783, 8 Apr – Dec 1783 ; Privy Councillor 30 Mar 1782 ; Elder Brother of Trinity House 5 Sep 1767, Master from 1782 ; created Viscount Keppel 27 Apr 1782 ; d. unm. 3 Oct 1786. ODNB.
KEPPEL, HON.CHARLES JAMES, brother of George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle (qv) ; godson of Right Hon.Charles James Fox, Whig politician ; b. 1 Nov 1801 ; adm. 6 Jun 1814 ; left Christmas 1816 ; accidentally killed while out shooting at Kirby Cane, Norfolk 27 Sep 1817.
KEPPEL, EDWARD GEORGE WALPOLE, second son of Frederick Keppel (adm.1770, qv) ; b. 13 Apr 1799 ; adm. 28 Jan 1809 ; left 1812 ; Ensign, 43rd Foot 4 Jun 1818 ; Lieut., 29 Aug 1822 ; Capt., 1 Sep 1825 ; Maj., 23 Dec 1831 ; half-pay, unattached 14 Oct 1836 ; Lieut.-Col., 9 Nov 1846 ; Col., 20 Jun 1854 ; m. 26 May 1859 Harriet Jacqueline, youngest dau. of Sir Anthony Buller (qv) ; d. 12 Nov 1859.
KEPPEL, HON.EDWARD SOUTHWELL, brother of George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle (qv) ; b. 16 Aug 1800 ; adm. 6 Jun 1814 ; left Bartholomewtide 1816 ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.nob. 30 Nov 1818, matr. Mich.1818 ; MA 1820 ; ordained deacon 5 Oct 1823, priest 17 Oct 1824 (both Norwich) ; Rector of Quiddenham, Norfolk, from 18 Oct 1824 ; Rector of Snetterton St.Andrew with All Saints, Norfolk, from 4 Nov 1824 ; Rector of Tittleshall with Godwick, and Wellingham, Norfolk 17 Mar 1826 – Aug 1835 ; Deputy Clerk of the Closet to Queen Victoria 1841-75 ; Hon.Canon, Norwich 1841 ; m. 24 Jul 1828 Lady Maria Clements, eldest dau. of Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim (I) KP ; d. 1 Dec 1883.
KEPPEL, HON.FREDERICK, brother of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (qv) ; b. 19 Jan 1728/9 ; adm. May 1737 ; KS 1743 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1747, matr. 26 Jun 1747, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1747 – void by marriage 16 Sep 1758 ; BA 1752 ; MA 1754 ; DD 1762 ; ordained deacon 7 Aug 1748 (St Asaph), priest Feb 1752/3 [check] ; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II and III 16 Apr 1753 – 1762 ; Canon of Windsor 19 Apr 1754- Nov 1762 ; Deputy Clerk of the Closet c.1759-62 ; Rector of Hartley Wespall, Hampshire, 1 Jul 1760 – Dec 1762 ; consecrated Bishop of Exeter 7 Nov 1762 (also Treasurer, Prebendary and Archdeacon of Exeter, and Rector of Shobbrooke, Devon, in commendam) ; Dean of Windsor from 19 Oct 1765 (also Registrar, Order of the Garter, and Dean of Wolverhampton) ; Rector of Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, from 1765 ; m. 13 Sep 1758 Louisa, natural dau. of Hon.Sir Edward Walpole KB MP ; d. 27 Dec 1777. ODNB.
KEPPEL, FREDERICK, eldest son of Hon.Frederick Keppel (adm.1737, qv) ; b. 12 Nov 1762 ; adm. 23 Mar 1770 (G) ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Dec 1778, Canoneer Student 23 Dec 1778 – void 9 Dec 1782 ; Ensign, unattached 20 May 1780 ; 1st Foot 31 May 1780 ; Capt., 28 Feb 1787 ; 46th 31 May 1787 ; Lieut.-Col., 28 Mar 1794 ; 49th Foot, 1 Sep 1795 ; [not in Army List 1802] ; of Lexham Hall, Norfolk ; m. 3 Aug 1796 Louisa, sister of Henry Clive (qv) ; d. 12 Apr 1830.
KEPPEL, FREDERICK WALPOLE, eldest son of Frederick Keppel (adm.1770, qv) ; b. 23 May 1797 ; adm. 28 Jan 1809 ; left 1812 ; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 9 Jan 1814 ; Lieut. and Capt., 3 Aug 1820 ; retd. 6 Jul 1830 ; m. 22 Jul 1848 Mary Anne, widow of Robert R.Wilson, and dau. of Edward Hodgkinson ; d. 24 Dec 1858.
KEPPEL, GEORGE, 3RD EARL OF ALBEMARLE, eldest son of William Anne Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle KG KB, Ambassador in Paris, Lieut.-Gen. in the Army, and Lady Anne Lennox, eldest dau. of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond KG ; b. 5 Apr 1724 ; styled Viscount Bury to 1754 ; adm. Apr 1732 ; left 1740 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 1 Feb 1738 ; Capt.-Lieut., 1st Royal Dragoons 25 Apr 1741 ; 2nd Foot Guards 14 Apr 1743 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 27 May 1745 ; Col., 20th Foot 1 Nov 1749 – Apr 1755, 3rd Dragoons from 8 Apr 1755 ; Maj.-Gen., 1 Feb 1756 ; Lieut.-Gen., 1 Apr 1759 ; Gen., 26 May 1772 ; ADC to Duke of Cumberland, with whom he was present at battles of Fontenoy and Culloden ; ADC to George II (Chamberlayne 1748) ; Lord of Bedchamber to Duke of Cumberland 1746-65 ; Equerry to Augusta, Princess of Wales 1751 ; commanded land forces in Havana expedition 1762-3 ; MP Chichester 19 Aug 1754 – 22 Dec 1754 ; succ.father as 3rd Earl of Albemarle 22 Dec 1754 ; Privy Councillor 28 Jan 1761 ; Governor of Jersey from 28 Jan 1761 ; KG 26 Dec 1765, installed 25 Jul 1771 ; m. 20 Apr 1770 Anne, youngest dau. of Sir John Miller, Bart. ; d. 13 Oct 1772. ODNB.
KEPPEL, GEORGE THOMAS, 6TH EARL OF ALBEMARLE, third son of William Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle PC, Master of the Horse, Whig politician, and his first wife Hon.Elizabeth Southwell, sister of Edward Southwell-Clifford, 18th Baron De Clifford (qv) ; b. 13 Jun 1799 ; adm. 13 Mar 1808 (G) ; expelled 20 Mar 1815 for getting out of Grants after lockers and going to the theatre ; Ensign, 14th Foot 4 Apr 1815 ; 22nd Foot 5 Feb 1818 ; Lieut., 24th Foot 25 May 1820 ; 20th Foot 27 Nov 1821 ; Capt., 62ndFoot 17 Feb 1825 ; Maj., unattached 20 Mar 1827 ; Lieut.-Col., 23 Nov 1841 ; Col. in the Army 20 Jun 1854 ; Maj.-Gen., 26 Oct 1858 ; Lieut.-Gen., 31 Mar 1866 ; Gen., 7 Feb 1874 ; served at battle of Waterloo ; ADC to Marquis of Hastings, Governor-Gen.India, 1821-3 ; MP (Whig) Norfolk East 1832-4, Lymington 1847-50 ; Groom in Waiting to Queen Victoria 1838-41 ; Private Secretary to Lord John Russell (qv) when Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury Jul 1846 – Jul 1847 ; JP Norfolk, DL 1859 ; High Sheriff, co.Leitrim 1838 ; succeded brother as 6th Earl of Albemarle 15 Mar 1841 ; took Whig/Liberal whip in House of Lords to 1886, afterwards Liberal Unionist ; Busby Trustee 26 May 1854 ; author, Fifty Years of My Life, 1876, in which he refers to his school life and schoolfellows ; m. 4 Aug 1831 Susan, third dau. of Sir Coutts Trotter, Bart. ; d. 21 Feb 1891. ODNB.
KEPPEL, HON.HENRY, brother of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (qv) ; b. 11 Aug 1741 ; adm. ; described as “now at Westminster School” by Arthur Collins, Peerage of England, 1756, vol.3, p.181, and therefore presumably Kepple, Christian name not stated, in school list 1754 ; Capt., 57th Foot Mar 1759 ; d. young.
KEPPEL, JOHN CHRISTOPHER FREDERICK, illegitimate son of Hon.William Keppel (qv), and Hannah Haughton, St.Marylebone, London, actress at Drury Lane Theatre ; bapt.St.James’s, Piccadilly 28 Oct 1764 (IGI) (as John Frederick Christopher Keppel) ; adm. 19 Jan 1775 (G) ; left Whitsun 1780 ; dead by Jun 1781.
KEPPEL, HON.WILLIAM, brother of George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle (qv) ; b. 5 Nov 1727 ; at school under Nicoll (list of noblemen appended to alphabetical admissions of Nicoll’s time, Chapter Muniments) ; known at school as “Fat Van” (The Hothams, 1918, ii, 5 and 9) ; Page of Honour to George II 23 Oct 1741 – Jun 1746, Gentleman of Horse 14 Jan 1747-60 ; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards 26 Jun 1744 ; Lieut. and Capt., 25 Jun 1745 ; Capt.-Lieut., 1st Foot Guards 28 Apr 1751 ; Capt. and Lieut.-Col., 16 Mar 1752 ; Second Maj., 21 Jul 1760 ; Col., 56th Foot 17 Dec 1761 – May 1765 ; Maj.-Gen., 10 Jul 1762 ; Col., 14th Foot 31 May 1765 – Oct 1775 ; Lieut.-Gen., 25 May 1772 ; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland Dec 1773 ; Col., 12th Light Dragoons, from 18 Oct 1775 ; ADC to Sir John Ligonier in Flanders ; wounded and taken prisoner at battle of Laffeldt 1 Jul 1747 ; served in expedition against Havana 1762-3 ; Equerry to George III 23 Dec 1760 – Sep 1767 ; MP Chichester from 26 Jan 1767 ; d.unm. 1 Mar 1782.
KEPPEL, WILLIAM ARNOLD WALPOLE, youngest son of Frederick Keppel (adm.1770, qv) ; b. 7 Oct 1804 ; adm. 3 Feb 1817 (G) ; left 16 Dec 1820 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 13 Oct 1821, matr. Mich.1822 ; BA 1826 ; ordained deacon 19 Oct 1828, priest 24 May 1829 (both Norwich) ; Registrar, Diocese of Exeter, Nov 1829 ; Rector of St.Devereux, Herefs., 10 Jun 1830 ; Rector of Brampton, Norfolk 30 Jun 1830-6 ; Rector of Haynford, Norfolk 14 Jan 1837-77 ; of Lexham Hall, Norfolk ; JP Norfolk ; m. 7 Sep 1830 Frances Sophia Georgina, eldest dau. of Robert Marsham, Stratton Strawless, Norfolk ; d. 26 Nov 1888.
KEPPLE, — (in school list 1754), see KEPPEL, HON.HENRY
KERBY, HAMILTON, brother of Nelmes Kerby (qv) ; bapt. 4 Nov 1718 ; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1730 ; left 1733 ; adm.Inner Temple 5 Dec 1734 ; Ensign, 38th Foot 25 Jan 1740 ; Lieut., 1 Aug 1744 ; res. 12 May 1753 ; m. 13 May 1746 Anne, sister of Thomas Warner (qv) ; d. 18 Sep 1767.
KERBY, NELMES, son of Thomas Kerby, Antigua, West Indies, and Mincing Lane, London, and Jane Gamble ; bapt. 27 Nov 1708 ; adm. May 1722 ; in under school list 1724 ; buried St.Dionis Backchurch, London 10 Mar 1726/7.
KERBY, THOMAS NORBURY, brother of Nelmes Kerby (qv) ; bapt. 15 Aug 1711 ; adm.May 1722 ; in under school list 1726 ; apprenticed to James Baker, St.Marylebone, barber 2 Jun 1731 ; d. before 7 Jun 1746.
KERCHER, ROBERT, eldest son of John Kercher, Mayor of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, and Joan — ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1586, adm.scholar 1587 ; BA 1590/1 (incorp.Oxford 1590/1) ; MA 1594 (incorp.Oxford 9 Jul 1594) ; BD 1601 ; DD 1606 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1593 – c.1604 ; ordained ; Rector of Arley, Staffs., 15 Jul 1598 ; Rector of Corfe Castle, Dorset 26 Nov 1600 (still 1613) ; Chaplain to Chief Justice Coke (occurs as such 1610) ; Rector of Fawley, Hampshire, from 1 Nov 1613 ; Prebendary of Winchester from 26 Feb 1602/3 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 5 Jul 1614 ; m. ; d. 9 Oct 1644.
KERR, FREDERICK WILLIAM, son of Thomas Nixon Kerr, Tavistock Square, London, and Charlotte Lucy, dau. of John William Innes, First Class Clerk, Admiralty ; b. 7 Jun 1859 ; adm. 6 Apr 1872 ; left 1873. [presumably Frederick William Kerr, d. at Kensington, Victoria, Australia 1 Oct 1890, aged 31].
KERR, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) May 1738 ; left 1740.
KERR, WILLIAM, 6TH MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN (S), eldest son of William Kerr, 5th Marquis of Lothian (S) KT, Gen. in the Army, and Elizabeth, only dau. of Chichester Fortescue MP (I), Dromisken, co.Louth ; b. 4 Oct 1764 ; styled Earl of Ancram 1775-1815 ; adm. 26 Oct 1779 ; Ensign, 102nd Foot 30 Apr 1785 ; Lieut., 101st Foot 23 Dec 1785 ; 30th Foot 12 Mar 1789 ; 25th Foot, half-pay 5 Dec 1790 ; Col., Edinburgh Militia, from 25 Mar 1811 ; succ.father as 6th Marquis of Lothian (S) 4 Jan 1815 ; created Baron Ker (UK) 17 Jul 1821 ; Lord Lieut., Roxburghshire 1812, Midlothian 1819 ; KT 26 Apr 1820 ; m.1st, 16 Apr 1793 Lady Harriet Hobart, formerly wife of Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Earl of Belmore (I), and dau. of John Hobart, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire (qv) ; m. 2nd, 1 Dec 1806 Lady Harriet Scott, dau. of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch KG KT ; d. 27 Apr 1824.
KERRY, EARL OF, see PETTY-FITZMAURICE, WILLIAM THOMAS, EARL OF KERRY.
KEY, SAMUEL, third son of Rev.Samuel Key, Fulford Hall, Yorks., and Harriet, dau. of William Lumb, Whitehaven, Cumberland, solicitor ; b. 21 Jul 1848 ; adm. 24 Sep 1863 (G) ; left Christmas 1864 ; an artist ; m. 11 Nov 1873 Blanche Lefroy, youngest dau. of Joshua Francis Whittell, Upper Helmsley Hall, Yorks. ; d. 13 Mar 1922.
KEYS, — ; b. ; in under school list 1719.
KEYS, FRANCIS ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Jul 1718 ; left 1718.
KIDD, see also KYD.
KIDD, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. 29 Mar 1784 ; in school list Dec 1788.
KIDD, JOHN, brother of William Holland Kidd (qv) ; b. 10 Sep 1775 ; adm. 16 Jan 1786 ; KS (Capt.) 1789 ; Capt. of the School 1792 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1793 (“the golden election”), matr. 30 May 1793, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1793 – Nov 1802, Faculty Student 23 Nov 1802 – void by marriage 24 Jun 1805 ; BA 1797 ; MA 1800 ; MB 1801 ; MD 1801 ; medical student, Guy’s Hospital 1797-1801 ; Aldrich Professor of Chemistry 1803-22 ; Physician to Radcliffe Infirmary 1808-26 ; Dr.Lee’s Reader in Anatomy, Christ Church 1816 ; Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, from 1822 ; Radcliffe Librarian from 1834 ; FRCP 16 Mar 1818, Harveian Orator 1836 ; FRS 28 Mar 1822 ; author, On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, 1833, and other works ; m. 13 Jan 1805 Isabella, dau. of Rev.Servington Savery, Chaplain, St.Thomas’s Hospital, London ; d. 17 Sep 1851. ODNB.
KIDD, WILLIAM HOLLAND, son of John Kidd, St.James’s, Piccadilly, Westminster, Capt.Merchant Service, and Beatrice, eldest dau. of Rev.Samuel Burslem, Vicar of Etwall, Derbs. ; b. 16 May 1772 ; adm. 2 Jul 1781 ; left Aug 1781 ; joined EI Maritime Service as seaman 1786 ; midshipman 1790 ; 3rdMate 1792 ; 2nd Mate 1794 ; 1st Mate 1799 ; Capt. ; m. 10 Sep 1806 Katharine Stephens (IGI) ; d. 29 Aug 1811.
KIDMAN, RALPH ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1596 ; contributor to the collection of verses written by the QSS on the death of Lady Elizabeth Cecil 1597 (Salisbury MSS, Hatfield House). [perhaps Rector of Stoke Ash, Suffolk, 21 Feb 1605/6, successor instituted 1 Jun 1607] [perhaps Vicar of Balraddary, co.Dublin 6 Jul [8th year of James I] to death c.1611/2]
KIDSON, ALFRED BOWMAN, son of William Kidson, merchant trading with Mauritius, and Ernestine Morris (born Port Louis, Mauritius, 1881 Census) ; b. 23 Oct 1863 ; adm. 6 Jun 1874 ; left Dec 1880 ; solicitor’s articled clerk (1881 Census) ; adm.solicitor 1886 ; emigrated to Western Australia ; in legal practice, Gawler and Kidson, Fremantle, Western Australia ; called to Western Australian bar 1887 ; member, Legislative Council, Western Australia 18 Jul 1895 – May 1902 (Western Province) ; Police Magistrate, Perth Oct 1923 – Nov 1931 ; m. 27 Apr 1887 Constance Caroline, dau. of Lieut.-Col. Charles D’Oyley Forbes, Army Pay Department ; d. 23 May 1937.
KILBURNE, GEORGE ; b. ; in school lists Feb 1727/8 (fourth form), 1729.
KILHAM, LEONARD, brother of Thomas Kilham (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jun 1728 ; in under school list 1731 ; apprenticed to John Trotman, Barr Street, corn factor 24 Dec 1737 ; of Argyle Street, London ; m. 1st, 15 Jun 1754 Sarah, sister of Melancthon Strong (qv) ; m.2nd, 12 Jun 1763 (IGI) Frances, sister of Josiah Spearman, Camberwell Surrey ; d. 12 Sep 1799, in 78th year (sic).
KILHAM, THOMAS, son of Capt.Thomas Kilham, St.Katherine’s by the Tower, London, and Mary — ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Feb 1725/6 ; in under school list 1729 ; probably Thomas Kilham who served in EIC Maritime Service 1736-45 ; Commander of the Chandos sloop (at death) ; d. 26 Aug 1748, aged 31 (sic, MI St.Catherine’s by the Tower), “by his falling into a Vault as he was crossing Covent-Garden on Saturday Night, between Nine and Ten o’Clock” (General Evening Post, 20 Aug 1748] [father maybe Commander of the Townshend Sloop]
KILLETT, SAMUEL, son of Samuel Killett, Gorleston, Norfolk, merchant, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Turner, Caister, Norfolk ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Sep 1721 ; in under school list 1723 ; subsequently went to Norwich Sch. ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 21 Feb 1726 ; LLB 1731 ; ordained deacon 24 Sep 1732, priest 24 Dec 1732 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Bradwell and of Lound, Suffolk, from 19 Apr 1733 ; lic. to m. 7 Apr 1733 Susanna Yardley, Great St.Mary, Cambridge ; d. 6 Oct 1767.
KILLICK, WILLIAM ; b. 5 Mar 1801 ; adm. 10 Jan 1815 ; left Christmas 1815.
KILNER, JAMES, only son of Thomas Kilner, London, and Elizabeth — (IGI) ; bapt St.Dunstan in the East, London 30 Mar 1694 (IGI) ; at school under Knipe (Foster, Alum.Oxon.) ; Brasenose Coll.Oxford, matr. 9 Mar 1710/1 ; BA 1714 ; MA 1717 ; ordained deacon 26 Apr 1718, priest 8 Jun 1718 (both Winchester) ; Chaplain, 3rd Troop, Horse Guards 1718 ; Vicar of Christ Church, Old Southgate, Middlesex Sep 1722-9 ; Rector of Daglingworth, Gloucs., 28 Jun 1723 – Oct 1729 ; Rector of Lexden St.Leonard, Essex, from 10 Sep 1729 ; Rector of Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex, from 25 Mar 1741 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II 12 Aug 1746 – Jun 1756 ; m. 1st, 18 Jun 1718 Anne, widow of Digby Carleton, Herts., and dau. of Rev.Joseph Harrison, Rector of Daglingworth, Gloucs. ; m.2nd, 26 Dec 1734 Elizabeth, third dau. of Samuel Rawstorn, Lexden, Essex ; d. 26 Nov 1769.
KILSHA, RICHARD, second son of Richard Kilsha, Putney, Surrey, and Cecil Court, St.Clement Danes, London, coffee house proprietor and wine merchant ; b. ; adm. (boarder up Grant’s) ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1762 ; left 22 Jun 1764 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 19 Mar 1766 ; BA 1769 ; MA 1772 ; adm.Middle Temple 28 Apr 1766 ; ordained deacon 10 Jun 1770, priest 12 Dec 1771 (both Oxford) ; Domestic Chaplain to Archibald, Earl of Eglintoun 12 Jun 1770 ; Vicar of Stoke, Warwicks., 6 Jun 1772-7 ; Vicar of Walsgrave-on-Sowe, Warwicks., 24 Jul 1772-8 ; Vicar of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey 1 Apr 1777 – Sep 1798 ; Master, Hampton Free School, Middlesex, licensed 23 Feb 1793-1803 ; Rector of Fetcham, Surrey 18 Jul 1793 – Jun 1794 ; Rector of Stoke Poges, Bucks., 29 Apr 1794 – Jun 1803 ; Perpetual Curate of Fairfield, Kent, from 29 Jan 1795 ; Rector of St.Peter’s, St.Albans, Herts. 22 Jul 1799 – Apr 1801 ; Rector of Barkston, Lincs., from 15 Apr 1801 ; m. 21 Jun 1770 Charlotte Nash, widow ; buried Barkston, Lincs., 5 Aug 1829.
KILVINGTON, ORFEUR WILLIAM, brother of Thomas Henry Kilvington (qv) ; b. 16 Nov 1780 ; in school lists 1795, 1797 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Feb 1800, aged 19 ; BA 1805 ; MA 1808 ; Capt. Yorkshire East Riding Militia (in 1806) ; ordained deacon 20 Sep 1807 (Carlisle, lit.dim. from York), priest 14 Aug 1808 (York) ; Chaplain to the Forces 6 Aug 1813 ; present at battle of Waterloo ; Vicar of Brignall, Yorks., from 19 July 1816 ; m. 29 Aug 1816 Hon.Maria Margaret Napier, eldest dau. of Francis Napier, 8thBaron Napier (S) ; d. 17 Oct 1854.
KILVINGTON, THOMAS HENRY, elder son of John Kilvington, Red Lion Square, Holborn, and Croydon, Surrey, attorney, and Anne — ; b. 31 Oct 1779 ; in school list 1795 ; d. unm. at Cape Coast Castle, West Africa 1805 (will proved PCC 6 Jun 1806). [mother maybe dau. of Manning Lethieullier : “John Kilvington, Esq., of Chancery Lane” m. 8 Sep 1772 “Miss Letheuillier, of Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields”, Middlesex Journal 8 Sep 1772]
KIMBER, JABEZ WILLIAM, son of Thomas Kimber, Burfield Hall, Wymondham, Norfolk, and Bonchurch Road, London, cashier, and Louisa, eldest daughter of Charles Henry Clifford, Camden Town, London, publican ; b. 2 Aug 1864 ; adm. from Marlborough Coll. 22 Jan 1880 (H) ; left Dec 1881 ; a clerk, Norwich Union Life Insurance Co. ; living at Reading, Berks., in 1901 (1901 Census) ; d. 1946 (death registered Poole second quarter 1946, aged 81). [presumably m. Annie Maria Swann, marriage registered West Ham third quarter 1897]
KING, — ; b. ; adm. Jun or Jul 1716 ; in under school lists 1716-20.
KING, — ; b. ; adm. Jun or Jul 1716 ; in under school lists 1716-20.
KING, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1722-6.
KING, — ; b. ; in under school lists 1730, 1731.
KING, — ; b. ; in under school list 1731.
KING, — ; b. ; in school lists 1742-4.
KING, — ; b. ; in school list 1754.
KING, — ; b. ; adm.Lady Day 1808 ; left 1810.
KING, BENJAMIN ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1717 ; in under school list 1722.
KING, BERRINGTON, son of Berrington King, St.Martin’s in the Fields, London, grocer, Master Poulters’ Company, and Catherine — (IGI) ; b. 27 Jul 1718 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Oct 1730 (in Record as Bevington King) ; in under school list 1731 ; apprenticed to John Price, barber-surgeon 6 Nov 1735 ; surgeon ; of Winchester, Hampshire ; Mayor of Winchester 1758, 1764 ; m. 8 Feb 1757 Elizabeth Prior, Winchester ; d. Apr 1773 (will proved PCC 27 May 1773).
KING, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) May 1735 ; left 1737.
KING, CHARLES BAKER, son of Abraham King, and Jane — ; bapt.St.Andrew, Holborn 25 Feb 1787 (IGI) ; in third form lists Mar 1798 – Christmas 1799. [presumably m. 25 Nov 1823 Martha Mould (IGI)]
KING, CHARLES LEWIS, son of Charles Benjamin King, Bolton Street, Piccadilly, London, banker, and Maria Spong, St.James’s, Westminster ; b. 9 Aug 1813 ; adm. 13 Oct 1823 ; officer, Austrian Cavalry ; subsequently of Newtown House, Leixlip, co.Kildare ; m.1853 Jane Stawell Bernard, dau. of Capt. Sampson Stawell Sealy, 84th Foot, Richmount, Bandon, co.Cork ; d. 7 Mar 1869.
KING, CLIFFORD, third but eldest surviving son of Neville King (qv) ; b. 6 Dec 1787 ; adm. 11 Mar 1801 (Clapham) ; in school lists 1801, May 1803 ; left 1803 ; went to Louth GS ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 27 Apr 1808, but did not matr. ; resident in Lincoln ; d.unm. 4 Aug 1841.
KING, COTTON, son of Capt.Thomas King, Chester, and Philadelphia, widow of Sir Thomas Cotton, Bart., Combermere, Cheshire, and dau. of Sir Thomas Lynch, Kt, Esher, Surrey, Governor of Jamaica ; bapt. 5 Mar 1719/20 ; adm. (aged 7) Jan 1728/9 ; left 1733 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Mar 1736/7 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 1 Feb 1738/9 ; Sword Bearer to Lord Mayor of London Apr 1746 – Jan 1754/5 ; of Mickleham, Surrey ; d. 19 Jan 1762.
KING, EDWARD ; b. ; adm. 21 Feb 1788 ; presumably “King”, actor in Town Boy play King John Dec 1789.
KING, EDWARD DAWSON, brother of Walker King (adm.1811, qv) ; b. ; adm. Lady Day 1814 ; d. 15 May 1816, aged 15.
KING, ERASMUS, son of Erasmus King, St.Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, scientific lecturer, and Elizabeth — ; b. 13 Jan 1744 ; adm. ; KS (aged 12) 1758 ; at Charterhouse Sch. 1758-61 ; Pembroke Coll.Oxford, matr. 28 Apr 1761 ; BA 1765 ; ordained deacon 20 Dec 1767 (Oxford, lit.dim. from Worcester), priest 21 May 1769 (Worcester) ; Vicar of Upper and Lower Guiting, Gloucs., from 23 Jun 1769 ; m. (by 1771) Mary Nelson ; d. 1 Mar 1777 (M.I.Temple Guiting, Gloucs.).
KING, HENRY, eldest son of John King (elected to Oxford 1576, qv) ; bapt. 16 Jan 1591/2 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1608, matr. 20 Jan 1608/9, aged 17, Westminster Student to 1616 ; BA 1611 ; MA 1614 ; BD and DD 1625 ; ordained c.1616 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s 24 Jan 1615/6 – Feb 1641/2 ; Archdeacon of Colchester 10 Apr 1617 – Feb 1641/2 ; Rector of Fulham, Middlesex 18 Nov 1618 – Feb 1641/2 ; Chaplain to James I (by 1617) and to Charles I (still 1635) ; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford 3 Mar 1623/4 – Feb 1641/2 ; Dean of Rochester 6 Feb 1638/9 – Feb 1641/2 ; Rector of Petworth, Sussex from 19 Jan 1641/2 (ejected 1643 but reinstated 1660) ; consecrated Bishop of Chichester 6 Feb 1641/2 ; ejected from bishopric during the Commonwealth and reinstated at the Restoration ; the old altar books of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, were presented by him in 1638 (Thompson, Christ Church, 258) ; friend of Ben Jonson (qv), Isaac Walton and John Donne ; author, Poems, 1657 ; m. by 21 Dec 1616 Anne, eldest dau. of Robert Berkeley, Boycourt, Ulcombe, Kent ; d. 30 Sep 1669. ODNB.
KING, ISAAC, son of Isaac King, High Wycombe, Bucks., Alderman and Mayor of High Wycombe, and Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Shrimpton, High Wycombe, Bucks. ; b. 21 Mar 1776 ; adm. 17 Jul 1787 ; KS 1791 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1795, adm.pens. 2 Jun 1795, aged 19, scholar 8 Apr 1796, matr. Lent 1796 ; migr. to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 20 Jan 1797 ; LLB 1801 ; ordained deacon 12 May 1799 (Norwich), priest 15 Jun 1800 (Exeter, lit.dim. from Norwich) ; Perpetual Curate of St.Leonard’s, Bucks., 1802 ; Perpetual Curate of Lee, Bucks., from 23 Dec 1803 ; Vicar of West Wycombe, Bucks., from 28 Mar 1805 ; Rector of Halton, Bucks., 16 Jul 1805-26 ; Chaplain to Prince Regent ; m. 23 Jun 1803 Hester Maria, dau. of William Beeston Coyte MD, Ipswich, Suffolk ; d. 20 Jan 1832.
KING, JAMES, brother of Walker King (adm.1811, qv) ; bapt. St.Mary, St.Marylebone Road 25 Dec 1801 (IGI) ; adm. Lady Day 1814 ; KS (aged 14) 1815 ; left Easter 1816 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 15 Dec 1818 ; BA 1822 ; MA 1825 ; ordained deacon 1825 (Rochester), priest 18 Jun 1825 (Bath & Wells) ; Rector of Longfield, Kent, from 24 Jun 1825 ; Vicar of Frindsbury, Kent 31 Aug 1825 – Feb 1826 ; Rector of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 18 Dec 1825-52 ; m. 30 Jul 1825 Maria, eldest dau. of Lieut.-Col. Hon.George Carleton, Inspector of Militia, Canada ; d. 21 Jun 1864.
KING, JOHN, son of Philip King, Worminghall, Bucks., Page to Henry VIII, and Elizabeth, dau. of Edmund Conquest, Houghton Conquest, Beds. ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1576, Westminster Student 18 Jun 1577-91 ; BA 26 Jan 1579/80 ; MA 15 Feb 1582/3 (incorp. Cambridge 1584) ; BD 1591 ; DD 1601 ; Proctor 1589 ; ordained ; Domestic Chaplain to Most Rev.John Piers, Archbishop of York, to 1594 ; Prebendary of Salisbury 17 Feb 1589 – c. Mar 1590 ; Archdeacon of Nottingham 12 Aug 1590- Sep 1611 ; Vicar of Hamstead Norreys, Berks., 30 Jul 1594 – 1597 [check] ; Rector of St.Andrew’s, Holborn 10 May 1597-1611 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s 16 Aug 1599- Sep 1611 ; Chaplain to Sir Thomas Egerton, Kt, Lord Keeper, to 1600 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Elizabeth and to James I ; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 4 Aug 1605-11 ; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1607-11 ; Prebendary of Lincoln 16 Dec 1610- Sep 1611 ; consecrated Bishop of London 8 Sep 1611 ; a learned divine and styled by James I “the King of Preachers” ; the last bishop to burn a heretic (Thompson, Christ Church, 47) ; author, Lectures upon Jonas delivered at Yorke, 1597 ; m. c.1591 Joan, dau. of Henry Freeman, Henley, Bucks. ; d. 30 Mar 1621. ODNB.
KING, JOHN, second son of John King (elected to Oxford 1576, qv) ; b.1595 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1608, matr. 20 Jan 1608/9, Westminster Student to 1619 ; BA 1611 ; MA 1614 ; BD and DD 1625 ; Public Orator 14 Dec 1622 – Jul 1625 ; ordained ; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 28 Aug 1624 ; Canon of Windsor from 6 Aug 1625 ; Rector of Remenham, Berks., from 3 Sep 1622 (reinstituted 5 Mar 1628/9) ; m. Mary, widow of Benjamin Baron, St.Andrew Undershaft, London, citizen and grocer, and dau. of William Harrison, London ; d. 2 Jan 1638/9. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. ODNB (s.v.father).
KING, JOHN, son of Rev.John King DD, Prebendary of Westminster and Rector of Stourton, Wilts., and Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Foxcroft, Fellow of St.John’s Coll.Cambridge ; bapt. Stourton, Wilts. 4 Jan 1607/8 ; adm. ; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1625, matr. 3 Feb 1625/6, aged 18, Westminster Student to between 1636 and 1641 ; BA 1629 ; MA 1632 ; m. (by Jul 1636) Judith — ; living 8 Mar 1648/9. [maybe “Mr John Kinge, Auditor of Christ Church” removed “for his contempt” by the Parliamentary Visitors 3 Oct 1648 (Burrows, ed., 1881, 193), having previously been “in armes against the Parliament” ; a petition by him for restoration to his place was rejected by the Visitors 19 Sep 1653 (Burrows, op.cit., 365) ; restored to office Sep 1660]
KING, JOHN ; b. ; adm. ; Min.Can.1641.
KING, JOHN, only son of John King, Stamford, Lincs., physician and classical writer, and Lucy, sister of William Morice (qv) ; bapt.St.George’s, Stamford, Lincs. 23 Jan 1727 (IGI) ; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1738 ; left 1746 ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 12 Aug 1746 ; ordained deacon 24 May 1752, priest 11 Jun 1752 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Pertenhall, Beds., 11 Jun 1752 – Jun 1800 ; m. 1752 Margaret, dau. of Rev.Hans De Veil, Vicar of Saling and of Felsted, Essex, and Head Master of Felsted School ; d. 6 Oct 1812.
KING, JOHN ; b. 21 Dec 1817 ; adm. 12 Jan 1830.
KING, NEVILLE, eldest son of John King, Ashby-de-la-Launde, Lincs., Capt., 3rd Foot Guards, and Millicent Mary, sister of John Fox (qv) ; bapt. Ashby de la Launde, Lincs. 28 Nov 1752 (IGI) ; adm. 14 Feb 1766 ; KS (aged 14) 1768 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1772, adm.pens. 17 Jun 1772, scholar 7 May 1773, matr. Mich.1775 ; BA 1776 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 27 May 1772 ; High Sheriff, Lincolnshire 1816 ; racehorse owner ; m. 22 May 1786 Sarah, dau. of Thomas Gildart, Finchley, Middlesex, and Norton Hall, Staffs. ; buried 25 Jun 1833.
KING, PHILIP, brother of John King (elected to Oxford 1576, qv) ; b. ; at school (aged 12) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050) ; incorp. MA Oxford 1614/5 (from Cambridge, date not known) ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 11 Feb 1606 ; Auditor, Christ Church, Oxford (by 1631) ; buried Bath Abbey, Somerset 23 Sep 1635.
KING, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. ; KS 12 Aug 1549 (Acts of Chapter, surname read by Knighton as Kyng).
KING, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. ; KS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1624, but never adm.
KING, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; BB c. 25 Mar 1654/5 – 25 Mar 1658/9 ; two undated petitions by Margaret Bigg, widow, to the Governors, are on behalf of her grandson Thomas King, “a schollar in the College Schoole almost these two yeares”, who is “lame of one arme, and is a child inclinable to learne and very hopefull” (Chapter Muniments 43080 a, b) ; an accompanying testimonial from Busby certifies “the qualitie and proficiencie of my scholar Thomas King”.
KING, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1728/9 ; left 1733.
[KING, THOMAS ; b. ; in school list Dec 1736. Forename probably an error]
KING, THOMAS, son of Thomas King, London ; b. ; adm. (aged 7) Apr 1741 ; left 1751 ; Merton Coll.Oxford, matr. 20 Aug 1751 ; BA 1757. [perhaps Thomas King ordained deacon 25 Sep 1757 (Peterborough)].
KING, THOMAS, son of Thomas King, and Mary — (ODNB), proprietors of Moll’s coffee house in Covent Garden ; b. 20 Aug 1730 ; adm. Jun 1744 ; articled to a London solicitor, but went on the stage ; engaged by Garrick for Drury Lane 1748 ; acted under Thomas Sheridan (qv) at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 1750-8, where he made his mark as an actor in comedy ; again at Drury Lane 1759-1802 ; the original Sir Peter Teazle in the first production of The School for Scandal, 8 May 1777, and Puff in the original cast of The Critic 29 Oct 1779 ; connected with the management of Drury Lane and Sadler’s Wells ; ruined himself by gambling ; m. 1766 Mary Baker, hornpipe dancer ; d. 11 Dec 1805. ODNB.
KING, THOMAS BAKER ; b. ; adm. 24 Jul 1801 (Clapham) ; left Bartholomewtide 1801.
KING, W.W. ; b. ; adm. 18 Sep 1809 ; left 1809.
KING, WALKER, eldest son of Right Rev.Walker King DD, Bishop of Rochester, and Sarah, only dau. of Edward Dawson, Long Whatton, Leics. ; b. ; adm. Mich.1811 ; KS (aged 13) 1812 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1816, but went to Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 24 May 1816 ; BA 1821 ; MA 1822 ; ordained deacon 28 Mar 1822 (Rochester), priest 31 May 1822 (London, lit.dim. from Rochester) ; Rector of Stone, Kent, from 6 Jul 1822 ; Rector of Frindsbury, Kent 27 Jan 1823-5 ; Perpetual Curate of Bromley, Kent 1824 – Sep 1827 ; Vicar of Dartford, Kent 9 Apr 1825 (disp. to hold with R.Stone) ; Archdeacon and Prebendary of Rochester from 25 Jun 1827, but did not obtain stall as Prebendary until Jan 1832 (see King v Baylay, Barnewall and Adolphus, i, 761) ; m. 15 May 1823 Anne, sister of William Heberden (adm.1809, qv), by whom he was father of Right Rev.Edward King DD, Bishop of Lincoln ; d. 13 Mar 1859.
KING, WALKER, eldest son of Walker King (qv) ; b. 21 Dec 1827 ; adm. 3 Apr 1839 ; QS 1840 ; left 1840 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 5 Mar 1846 ; rowed in Oxford eight at Henley 1847 ; BA 1850 ; MA 1853 ; ordained deacon 1850, priest 1851 (both Canterbury) ; Curate, Stone, Kent 1850-9 ; Rector of Leigh, Essex, from 1859 ; Hon.Canon, St.Albans 1882 ; m. 28 Dec 1850 Juliana, eldest dau. of Capt.Henry Stuart, 69th Foot ; d. 20 Jul 1892.
KING, WILLIAM, son of Ezekiel King, Clerkenwell, London, and Elizabeth, dau. of Nicholas Backhouse, St.Helen’s, Bishopsgate, London ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1678 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1681, matr. 16 Dec 1681, aged 18, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1681 – Dec 1693, Faculty Student from 23 Dec 1693 ; BA 1685 ; MA 1688 (incorp.Cambridge 1705) ; BCL and DCL 1692 ; adm.advocate, Doctors’ Commons 12 Nov 1692 ; Judge of Admiralty Court (I) 1701 ; Agent for Prizes (I) 29 Aug 1702 – May 1706 ; Vicar-General, Diocese of Armagh c.1703 Keeper of Records, Dublin Castle 19 Jun 1707 – Nov 1707, when he resigned and returned to England ; ; Writer of Gazette Dec 1711 – c. Jul 1712 ; an able but indolent man, of strong Tory and High Church views, a moderate poet and a witty miscellaneous writer ; known by contemporaries as “King of the Commons” ; according to Johnson, “though his life had not been without irregularity, his principles were pure and orthodox, and his death was pious” (Lives of the Poets, ed.G.B.Hill, ii, 31) ; author of an attack upon Bentley entitled Dialogues of the Dead, 1699, and other books and pamphlets ; a collection of his Original Works, ed.Nichols, was published in 1776 ; d. unm. 25 Dec 1712. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
KING, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1735 ; left 1740.
KING, WILLIAM, fourth son of Rev.John King, Witnesham, Suffolk, Head Master Ipswich GS, and Elizabeth Sarah, dau. of Rev.Thomas Bishop, Vicar of St.Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, Suffolk ; b. 17 Apr 1786 ; adm. Oct 1801 (Clapham) ; took part of Iago in performance of Othello by “the Clapham fellows at Dawsons” 7 Dec 1803 (Lord John Russell’s MS diary) ; left Jan 1804 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 16 Feb 1804, but did not go into residence ; remained at Westminster until he left Christmas 1806 ; Peterhouse, Cambridge, adm.pens. 27 Dec 1806, matr. Lent 1807 ; BA and 12th Wrangler 1809 ; MA 1812 ; Fellow, Peterhouse 1812 ; MD 1819 ; St. Bartholomew’s Hospital ; FRCP 1820, Harveian Orator 1843 ; practised at Brighton, Sussex, from 1823 ; the friend and adviser of Lady Byron, who left a sum of money for the publication of his works ; a staunch advocate of co-operation, editing The Co-operator1828-30 ; author of papers on medical subjects ; m. 17 Jan 1821 Mary, dau. of Rev.Thomas Redman Hooker DD, Vicar of Rottingdean, Sussex ; d. 20 Oct 1865. ODNB.
KING, WILLIAM MANSFIELD, brother of Charles Lewis King (qv) ; b. 9 May 1814 ; adm. 13 Oct 1823 ; Clerk, Inland Office, General Post Office 1 Jun 1838 (still 1844) ; prisoner for debt in Aylesbury Gaol at 24 Sep 1851 ; 2nd Class Clerk, Surveyors Dept., General Post Office, in 1866 ; Assistant Surveyor, Eastern District Gas (1881 Census) ; m. 3 Aug 1841 Emily Rose, second dau. of Henry Percy MD, Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London ; d. 13 Jul 1890.
KINGHED, — ; b. ; adm. ; left 1656 (school lists 1656, first three quarters).
KINGSLEY, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1743/4 ; left 1751.
KINGSMAN, see also KINSMAN.
KINGSMAN, — ; b. ; adm. Jun 1719 ; in under school lists 1719-22.
KINGSMAN, GEORGE WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. 7 Feb 1771. [perhaps William George Kingsman, and if so an older brother of Thomas Kingsman (adm.1775, qv) (?) ; bapt.Botley, Hampshire 5 Jan 1755 ; apprenticed to Benjamin Wilby, St.James’s, Westminster, attorney 27 Aug 1775 ; living parish St.John’s, Westminster, at 10 Aug 1796 ; m. 27 Aug 1776 Mary Cummings].
KINGSMAN, HENRY LONG, son of William Long Kingsman DCL MP (I), Newbury, Berks., and Dorothea, formerly wife of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, opera singer, and dau. of Thomas Maunsell LLD KC MP (I), Counsel to Commissioners of Customs (I) ; grandson of Thomas Kingsman (adm.1719, qv) ; bapt. 22 Jul 1775 ; adm. 24 Jan 1784 ; KS (Capt., aged 12) 1787 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 11 Jul 1792, called to bar 22 Jun 1798 ; appears to have been confined to Fleet Prison Apr 1802 ; d. in Jamaica 1802.
KINGSMAN, THOMAS, son of Thomas Kingsman, Covent Garden, London, wine merchant, and his second wife Anne, sister of Rear-Adm.Robert Long, Royal Navy ; bapt. St.Paul, Covent Garden 12 Jun 1710 ; adm. 1719 ; readm. (aged 10) Oct 1721 ; Min.Can. 1724 ; KS 1725 ; Capt. of the School 1728 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1729, matr. 12 Jun 1729, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1729 – void 10 Oct 1741 (expiry year of grace as R,Woolwich from 8 Oct 1740) ; BA 1733 ; MA 1736 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 17 Jun 1731 ; ordained deacon 20 Oct 1734, priest 2 Mar 1734/5 (both Rochester) ; Rector of Woolwich, Kent, from 1 Oct 1740 ; Rector of St.Paul’s Cray, Kent, from 5 Feb 1739/40 ; m. 7 May 1743 Arabella, dau. of John Scattergood, Madras, free merchant ; buried St.Paul’s Cray, Kent 23 Jul 1752.
KINGSMAN, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. 27 Sep 1775 ; left 1779. [Perhaps Thomas Kingsman, Extra Clerk, Treasury 16 Dec 1783 – Dec 1789, Receiver of Fees 24 Dec 1789 – dead by 15 Jan 1791, also Clerk of Bills, Treasury 29 Jul 1785 – Dec 1789 ; and perhaps Thomas Kingsman, son of Rev.Thomas Kingsman, Rector of Botley, Hampshire, and his second wife Mary —, bapt.Botley, Hampshire 17 Nov 1761 (IGI)]. [probably Thomas Kingsman who committed suicide 6 Sep 1790 at his house in Berwick Street, Westminster]
KINGSTON, PETER NUGENT, son of John Kingston, Commissioner of Stamps, and his first wife Julia, sister of Henry Barrett, Richmond, Surrey, owner of sugar plantations in Jamaica ; b. (Marylebone) 25 Sep 1805 ; adm. 18 Sep 1820 ; MD Edinburgh 1831 ; MRCP 1833 ; FRCP 1847 ; practised in Curzon Street, Mayfair, London (no longer in practice in 1881) ; Physician to Westminster Hospital 1843-55, Consulting Physician 1855 ; m. (by 1832) Catherine Minette, dau. of Charles Chamier Raper, Chelsea, Middlesex, Chief Clerk, War Office ; d. 11 Nov 1882.
KINNAIRD, — ; b. ; in school lists May and Oct 1803 (Glover).
KINNAIRD, PATRICK, 4TH BARON KINNAIRD (S) , only son of Patrick Kinnaird, 3rd Baron Kinnaird (S), and his second wife Lady Elizabeth Lyon, widow of Charles Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aboyne (S), and second dau. of Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorn (S) ; bapt.Old Machar, Aberdeen 21 Dec 1709 (IGI) ; succ.father as 4th Baron Kinnaird (S) 31 Mar 1715 ; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1720 (Bedford) ; in under school list 1724 ; d.unm. Sep 1727.
KINNERSLEY, see KYNNERSLEY.
KINNOULL, EARLS OF, see HAY and HAY-DRUMMOND.
KINSEY, — ; b. ; in school list 1764 ; left 1764.
KINSMAN (or KYNNESMAN), EDMUND, second son of Harold Kinsman, Broughton, Northants, and Elizabeth, dau. of William Golborne, Liverpool ; bapt. Broughton, Northants 6 Jul 1605 ; adm. ; KS in 1619 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1623, adm. scholar 1624 ; BA 1627/8 ; MA 1631 ; ordained ; Vicar of Steventon, Herts., 7 Jun 1636 ; Rector of Clipston, Northants, in 1640 ; m. Dorothy, only dau. of Moyle Deale, London ; d. 17 Oct 1640.
KIRBY, see also KERBY.
KIRBY, HENRY, son of Rev.John Kirby, Vicar of Mayfield, Sussex, and Anne Ruth, dau. of George Baker, Mayfield, Sussex ; b. ; adm. Christmas 1811 ; left 1813 ; Clare Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 3 Mar 1813, matr. Mich.1813 ; BA 1817 ; MA 1820 ; Fellow, Clare Coll. 25 Nov 1817 ; Senior Proctor 1829 ; Whitehall Preacher 1827-9 ; ordained deacon 17 May 1818, priest 19 Sep 1819 (both Lincoln) ; Rector of Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, from 1842 ; d. 29 Jan 1858, aged 64.
KIRBY, ROWLAND ARTHUR, son of Thomas Charles Kirby MD LRCP (I) MRCS, Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, London, and Henrietta Sophia, dau. of Edward Peploe Smith, EICS Bengal ; b. 29 Jan 1868 ; adm. 22 Sep 1881 (H) ; left Aug 1884 ; went to University Coll.School ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 6 Oct 1887, matr. Mich.1887 ; BA 1890 ; MB 1897 ; MRCS LRCP 1893 ; Surgeon, Royal Navy, 16 May 1894 – 20 Oct 1902 ; medical practitioner (no longer in practice by 1926) ; d. 30 Jan 1940.
KIRBY, WILLIAM, only son of John Joshua Kirby FRS FSA, Drawing Master to George III when Prince of Wales, and Sarah, dau. of Abraham Bull, Framlingham, Suffolk ; b. ; at school under Markham (Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer, 1814, i, 8) ; a pupil of Gainsborough ; Joint Clerk of Works, Richmond and Kew, with his father, from 1761 ; member, Incorporated Society of Artists, in 1766 ; studying architecture at Rome 1768-70 ; m. Oct 1766 — Anderson (subsequently House Keeper at Richmond Lodge) ; d. 13 Jul 1771.
KIRK, see also KIRKE and KURKE.
KIRK, ROBERT ; b. ; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1731/2 ; left 1736.
KIRKE, — ; b. ; in school list Aug 1733 (first form).
KIRKE, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. 28 Sep 1784 ; left Christmas 1786.
KIRKE, JAMES ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1732 ; left 1734 (apparently still in school list Dec 1736, but Christian name may be an error).
KIRKHAM, ROBERT, son of Edward Kirkham, St.Mary le Savoy, London, Yeoman of the Revels ; b. ; adm. ; QS in 1596 ; from the verses contributed by him as a QS on the death of Lady Elizabeth Cecil it would appear that he was a godson of her husband ; in a letter to Sir Robert Cecil dated 22 Apr 1597 Edward Kirkham states that his son “at the last election of the scholars of Westminster failed of his preferment, merely by want of some honourable good friends to speak for him” and begs Cecil to send for the Dean of Christ Church “who has the choice of scholars and move him in behalf of my son” (HMC Salisbury MSS, vii, 170) ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1597, matr. Feb 1597/8, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1602 ; BA 1601 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 2 Jul 1601 ; Secretary to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury 1607-12 ; Secretary to Treasury Commissioners 1612-4 ; Clerk of the Signet from 13 Jan 1615/6 (having had grant of post in reversion 25 Apr 1611) ; MP St Albans 1628-9 ; Secretary of Embassy, Paris 1629-30 ; buried Richmond, Surrey 12 Nov 1638.
KIRKHAM, ROGER, brother of Robert Kirkham (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1609 ; Broadgates Hall, Oxford, matr. 18 Jun 1610, aged 16 ; adm. Middle Temple 13 Jan 1612/3 (as Kyrkham), tenant chambers there 1613-7 ; joined household of William Cecil, 2ndEarl of Salisbury 1627 ; Steward of Earl of Salisbury’s household 1631-4, Receiver-General from 1634 ; of Cheshunt, Herts. ; MP Old Sarum from 1646 ; m. ; buried Richmond, Surrey 24 Nov 1646.
KITCHIN, ARTHUR, third son of Joseph Kitchin, Westerham, Kent, and Norwood, Surrey, farmer and hotel keeper, and Fanny, dau. of Arthur Swan, London ; b. 14 Mar 1855 ; adm. 31 May 1866 (G) ; left May 1871 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1873 ; BA 1877 ; MA 1880 ; Lichfield Theol.Coll. 1877 ; ordained deacon 1878, priest 1879 (both Canterbury) ; Curate, Christ Church, Bexleyheath, Kent 1878-82, Gulval, Cornwall 1882-3 ; Chaplain, Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment 1883-1907 ; Archdeacon of Calcutta 1903-7 (on furlough 1905-7) ; Rector of Rushden, Northants 1905-13 ; Vicar of Hardingstone, Northants, from 1913 ; m. 29 Mar 1883 Edith Ann, dau. of Thomas Everard, New Hall Park, Thurlaston, Leics. ; d. 17 Feb 1928.
KITCHIN, BARCLAY, brother of Arthur Kitchin (qv) ; b. 17 Jun 1861 ; adm. 29 Jan 1875 (G) ; left Easter 1877 ; Chichester Theol.Coll. 1883 ; ordained deacon 1885, priest 1886 (both Canterbury) ; Curate, Selsey, Sussex 1885-6, Basingstoke, Hampshire 1886-8 ; Chaplain, Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment 1888-1909 ; returned to England 1909 ; licensed preacher, Diocese of Winchester 1910-23, Chichester 1925- ; m.1st, 7 Jun 1900 Emily Christabel, fourth dau. of Rev.Charles Edward Shirley Woolmer, Rector of St.Andrew’s, Deal, Kent ; m.2nd, Cordelia Julia Haslett (marriage registered Westhampnett third quarter 1912) [probably dau. of Charles Haslett, Islington, Middlesex] ; death registered Worthing fourth quarter 1941, aged 80.
KITCHIN, THOMAS ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; elected head to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1591, adm.scholar 1592 ; BA 1595/6 ; MA 1599 ; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1597-1621, Junior Bursar 1609-10, Junior Dean 1611-2, Senior Fellow 1616 ; Taxor 1611 ; Proctor 1614-5 ; ordained deacon and priest 15 Jun 1606 (Norwich) ; Vicar of Trumpington, Cambs., 18 Apr 1612 – 3 ; Vicar of Bottisham, Cambs., 24 Apr 1613 – Mar 1617/8 ; Rector of Grundisburgh, Suffolk 1617 (still 1636).
KITCHIN, WALTER, brother of Arthur Kitchin (qv) ; b. 14 May 1856 ; adm. 31 May 1866 (G) ; left Dec 1870 ; Heidelberg Univ. ; partner, family business of wine merchants, 1877-9 ; Chichester Theol.Coll. 1879 ; ordained deacon and priest 1881 (both Worcester) ; Curate, Leigh, Worcs. 1881-3, St.Michael’s, Handsworth, Staffs. 1883-5, Sidcup, Kent 1885 ; Chaplain, Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment 1885-1906 ; Vicar of Podington, Beds., from 1906 ; m. 23 Jan 1888 Dorothy Gordon, fourth dau. of Samuel Henry Robinson, Ghoosery, Howrah, Bengal, sugar planter, and sister of George Gidley Robinson, Assistant Master (see that entry) ; d. 16 Jun 1924.
KITCHING, FRANCIS, son of Robert Kitching, Norton, co.Durham (but living in Marsham Street, Westminster, in 1743/4) ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Apr 1741 ; KS 1743 ; left 1744. [mother probably Dorothea —] [dead by 1768 ?] [mother perhaps Dorothea, dau. of William Bisshop, Frensham, Surrey]
KITCHING, ROBERT, brother of Francis Kitching (qv) ; b. ; adm. (aged 10) Oct 1738 ; KS 1743 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1747, adm.pens. 17 Jun 1747, scholar 6 May 1748, matr.1747 ; living 1755 [dead by 1768 ?]
KITSON, THOMAS, son of Rev.William Kitson, Shiphay House, St.Mary Church, Devon, Vicar of Abbotskerswell, Devon, and Susan, dau. of Thomas Abraham, Grurrington, Ashburton, Devon ; b. 1 Sep 1798 ; adm. 15 Jun 1808 ; in school list Oct 1814 ; still at the School Christmas 1815, when a Home Boarder ; Balliol Coll.Oxford, matr. 3 Apr 1816, aged 17 ; Devon Fellow, Exeter Coll. 1819 – Jun 1824, vacated by marriage ; BA 1823 ; MA 1824 ; ordained deacon 16 Sep 1821 (Bristol, lit.dim. from Exeter), priest 1 Sep 1822 (Exeter) ; Curate, Combe in Teignhead, Devon, West Ogwell, Devon 1840-7, Haccombe, Devon 1847-68 ; m. 7 Jun 1824 Mary Luckem, only dau. of Capt.Thomas Ley, Little Bradley, Highweek, Devon [perhaps Thomas Ley, 1st Mate, East India Maritime Service] ; d. 5 Apr 1880.
KNAPP, JOHN, eldest son of Rev.Matthew Knapp, Rector of Shenley, Bucks., and Catherine, dau. of Humphrey Primatt, Hampton, Middlesex ; bapt. 1 Mar 1721 ; adm. (aged 14) Mar 1734/5 ; d. when at school.
KNAPP-FISHER, SIR EDWARD FRANCIS, second son of George Henry Knapp-Fisher, Cavendish Road West, Regent’s Park, London, solicitor, and Elizabeth Grace, dau. of John Goodchild MD, Westerham, Kent ; b. 15 Nov 1864 ; adm. 27 Sep 1877 (R) (as Edward Francis Fisher) ; left Dec 1878 ; adm.solicitor Mar 1887 ; assumed additional surname of Knapp 1900 ; Receiver-Gen. and Chapter Clerk, Westminster Abbey 1917-38 ; Secretary to Governing Body, Westminster School 1918-38 ; knighted 1930 ; CVO 1938 ; m.1st, 28 Jul 1892 Winifred, youngest dau. of James Wilson Holme, London, solicitor ; m. 2nd, 16 Jun 1917 Ethel Mary Eykyn, elder dau. of John Bagnold Burgess RA, painter ; d. 29 Nov 1940.
KNATCHBULL, THOMAS, son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart. MP, and Alice, dau. of John Wyndham, Norrington, Wilts. ; b. 14 Jun 1704 ; adm. (aged 14) Nov 1717 ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, matr. 23 Nov 1720 ; BA 1724 ; MA 1727 ; ordained deacon 24 Sep 1727 (Salisbury) ; d.unm.
KNATCHBULL, WADHAM, eldest son of Rev.Wadham Knatchbull LLD, Chancellor and Prebendary of Durham, and Vicar of Chilham, Kent, and Harriet, dau. of Charles Parry, Oakfield, Berks. ; nephew of Thomas Knatchbull (qv) ; bapt. Durham Cathedral 27 Jan 1745/6 ; adm. ; KS (aged 13) 1759 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Jun 1764, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1764 ; BA 1768 ; MA 1771 ; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1768 (Oxford), priest 11 Mar 1770 (London) ; Preacher, Highgate Chapel, Middlesex, from 20 Mar 1770 ; d. 6 Jan 1773.
KNELLER, GODFREY JOHN, son of John Kneller, Donhead Hall, Wilts., and Sophia, dau. of Rev.John Hayne, Curate, Cockington and Tormohun, Devon ; b. ; adm. ; left 1803 ; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 1 Feb 1810, retd. 11 Sep 1811 ; of Donhead Hall, Wilts. ; m. 9 May 1812 Frances Mary, third dau. of Samuel Johnson, Gloucester Place, London, formerly EICS Madras ; d. at Maastricht, Netherlands 15 Apr 1857, aged 65.
KNIGHT, — ; b. ; in school lists 1731, 1732/3, 1733-5 (“pays nothing”).
KNIGHT, EDWARD FREDERICK, son of Edward Knight, Papcastle, Cumberland, Army officer, and Emma Catherine, dau. of Rev. Edward Robert Pemberton DCL (formerly Butcher), Rector of North Huish, Devon ; b. 23 Apr 1852 ; adm. 26 Sep 1867 (R) ; left Dec 1869 ; Gonville and Caius Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 1 Oct 1873, matr. Mich.1873 ; BA 1877 ; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Jan 1876, called to bar 7 May 1879 ; a journalist with The Morning Post ; travelled in South America, South Africa, Central Asia ; Timescorrespondent in Hunza-Nagar campaign 1891, Matabeleland 1893-5, Madagascar 1895, Sudan 1896 and 1897-8, Greece 1897, Cuba 1898 and Spain 1899 ; Morning Post correspondent in South African War 1899-1900 ; severely wounded at Belmont and had right arm amputated ; with the Ophit tour round the world 1901 ; with Kuroki’s army in Russian-Japanese war 1904, in Turkey 1908, and with Harwich Naval Forces in 1914-18 war ; a keen yachtsman ; author, Where Three Empires Meet, 1893, The Cruise of the Falcon, and other works ; his Reminiscences, 1923, give some account of his school days at Westminster ; m. 1st, 1 Sep 1892 Elizabeth Ann, dau. of John Butt, actor ; m.2nd, Miriam [Mariane ?], widow of Cosmo Rose-Innes, barrister, and dau. of William Bowen Rowlands KC, County Court Judge (marriage registered Holborn first quarter 1911) ; d. 3 Jul 1925.
KNIGHT, FRANCIS, son of Francis Knight, St.James’s, Piccadilly, Westminster, and Catherine Mortimer (IGI) ; bapt.St.James Piccadilly 8 Feb 1767 (IGI) ; adm. 1 Jul 1778 ; Magdalen Hall, Oxford, matr. 10 Oct 1798, aged 31 ; BA 1802 ; MA 1819 ; BD and DD 1819 ; ordained deacon 15 Aug 1807 (Bath & Wells), priest 18 Mar 1809 (Peterborough) ; Curate, Passenham, Northants 1808-9, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts., 1811 ; m. 1796 Catherine Matilda Hutchins ; d. 30 Oct 1837. [father presumably of St.James’s Street, Westminster, Bookseller and Stationer to George III] [presumably partner with father in bookselling firm, Knight and Son, 1790-4]
KNIGHT, GEORGE ROCKCLIFFE, youngest son of Finlay Knight, Stafford Terrace, Kensington, barrister, Registrar, Court of Bankruptcy, and Eleanor Georgina, younger dau. of William Billinghurst, Brighton, Sussex ; b. 7 Jan 1858 ; adm. 21 Jan 1870 (G) ; left before Whitsun 1870 ; at Uppingham Sch. Oct-Dec 1872 ; resident in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1879 ; moved to Chicago, Illinois, USA, in 1881 ; practised at Chicago bar ; m. (by 1879) Margaret Theresa Walsh ; d. at Ravenswood, Illinois, USA 14 Jan 1887.
KNIGHT, HENRY ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1749 ; in school list 1754.
KNIGHT, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1724 ; left 1725.
KNIGHT, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 13) Oct 1729 ; in under school list 1731.
KNIGHT, SIR RICHARD, son of Richard Knight, Chawton, Hampshire, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Fielder, Burrow Court, Berks. ; b. 21 Nov 1639 ; adm. ; a boarder (Busby’s Account Book) ; left 19 Nov 1656 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 10 Mar 1656/7 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 12 Jun 1658 ; travelled abroad ; knighted 10 Jan 1667/8 ; of Chawton, Hampshire ; MP Lymington 11 Feb 1677/8 – Jan 1679 ; m. c.1667 Priscilla, dau. of Sir Robert Reynolds, Kt MP, Elvetham, Hampshire ; d. 12 Aug 1679.
KNIGHT, THOMAS JOHN, brother of William Palmer Knight (qv) ; b. 1 Nov 1805 ; adm. 14 Sep 1818 ; KS 1820 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1824, adm.pens. 12 Jun 1824, scholar 1825, matr. Mich.1824 ; BA 1828 ; MA 1831 ; adm.Middle Temple 12 Jun 1826, called to bar 25 Nov 1831 ; adm. Inner Temple 6 Aug 1836 ; special pleader ; Hampshire circuit and Surrey Sessions ; Chairman of Quarter Sessions, Jamaica 1841-4 ; emigrated to Hobart, Tasmania 1845, where he continued to practice as a barrister ; QC Tasmania ; member, Legislative Council, Tasmania, to 1857 ; Solicitor-Gen., Tasmania 25 Apr 1857 – 1 Nov 1860, Attorney-Gen. 2 Nov 1860 – 4 Feb 1861 ; member, House of Assembly, Tasmania 22 Nov 1862-5 ; returned to England 1865 ; m. 5 May 1841 Margaret, dau. of Rev.William Ward, Diss, Norfolk ; d. 25 Apr 1870.
KNIGHT, WILLIAM ; b. ; adm. (aged 12) Apr 1744 ; left 1747.
KNIGHT, WILLIAM PALMER, eldest surviving son of William Young Knight, St.James’s Square, Westminster, solicitor, Vestry Clerk of St.James’s, Piccadilly, and joint Solicitor to the Admiralty, and Elizabeth Claridge, Birlingham, Worcs. ; b. 19 May 1802 ; adm. 13 Jan 1817 ; left Whitsun 1819 ; articled to father ; of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London ; d. 8 Jul 1854.
KNIGHT-BRUCE, HORACE JOHN MAJORIBANKS, youngest son of Lewis Bruce Knight-Bruce, Rivermead, Sunbury, Middlesex, and his cousin Caroline Margaret Eliza, only dau. of Thomas Newte, Tidcombe, Devon ; b. 6 Apr 1863 ; adm. 26 Sep 1878 (R) ; left Apr 1881 ; d. 2 Nov 1882.
KNIGHTLEY, see also KNIGHTLY.
KNIGHTLEY, JOHN, brother of Thomas Knightley (qv) ; b.1677 ; adm. ; KS 1691 ; left 1692 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 24 Jan 1692/3 ; an attorney ; resided in Ireland ; m. ; d. 1736.
KNIGHTLEY, RICHARD, only son of Sir Richard Knightley, KB MP, Fawsley, Northants, and his first wife Elizabeth, eldest dau. of John Hampden MP, Hampden, Bucks. ; bapt. 7 May 1641 ; adm.1656 ; in school lists 1656 ; a boarder (Busby’s Account Book) ; d.unm. at Paris 5 Oct 1665.
KNIGHTLEY, THOMAS, fifth son of Rev.Richard Knightley, Prebendary of Durham and Rector of Byfield, Northants, and Sarah, dau. of John Wood, Hookland Park, Sussex ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1689 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1693, adm.pens. 28 Jun 1693, aged 17, scholar 20 Apr 1694, matr.1694 ; BA 1696/7 ; MA 1700 ; ordained deacon 28 Feb 1696/7, priest 19 Dec 1697 (both Winchester) ; Rector of Byfield, Northants, from 24 Dec 1697 ; allegation for lic.to m. 2 Nov 1698 Sarah, dau. of Humphrey Mitford, Mitford, Northumberland ; d. 14 Sep 1721.
KNIGHTLY, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764-5,1767,1769 ; left 1769. [This and the following entry doubtless relate to “Master Charles Knightley” and “Master James Knightley”, subscribers to Peirson Lloyd’s Sermons, 1765] [presumably therefore James Knightley, fourth son of Valentine Knightley MP, Fawsley, Northants., and Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Dummer, Swaythling, Hampshire ; b. 5 Aug 1752 ; adm. Rugby Sch. 1763 ; of Exeter, Devon ; m. Mary Davies ; d. 10 Nov 1829] [perhaps Cornet, Royal Horse Guards 31 May 1769 ; Lieut., 16 Oct 1772 – Mar 1775]
KNIGHTLY, — ; b. ; in school lists 1764-5, 1767, 1769-71 ; left Whitsun 1771. [presumably Charles Knightley, brother of James Knightley (qv) ; b. 29 Oct 1753 ; adm. Rugby Sch. 1763 ; Trinity Coll.Oxford, matr. 21 Feb 1771 ; BCL 1778 ; ordained deacon 22 Dec 1776 (Oxford), priest 25 Mar 1778 (Rochester) ; Rector of Preston Capes, Northants, from 23 Jul 1778 ; Vicar of Fawsley, Northants, from 22 Jul 1778 ; m. 13 Jun 1779 Elizabeth, only dau. of Henry Boulton (qv) ; d. 28 Jun 1787].
KNIPE, CHRISTOPHER, brother of Edward Knipe (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; KS 1670 ; buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey 28 Apr 1673.
KNIPE, EDWARD, eldest son of Edward Knipe, Ember Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey, merchant, and Elizabeth Watts, Devon ; b.c.1649 ; adm. 14 Jan 1662/3 ; a boarder ; a letter from Richard Alie to his aunt Elizabeth Knipe, dated 23 Jun 1666, refers to Busby rebuking her son Edward for his being “negligent and carelesse” of his exercise (Chapter Muniments : see also Elizabethan xii, 335).
KNIPE, RANDOLPH RICHARD, son of Robert Knipe, New Lodge, Berkhamsted, Herts., and Jane, dau. of Sir John Davis, Kt, Epsom, Surrey ; b. 22 Dec 1772 ; adm. 23 May 1785 ; Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1791, aged 18 ; BA 1795 ; MA 1799 ; ordained deacon 19 Jul 1795 (Salisbury, lit.dim. from Winchester), priest 19 Sep 1802 (Winchester) ; Curate, Walton on the Hill, Surrey 1795 ; Rector of West Wickham, Kent 21 Apr 1808-14 ; Rector of Water Newton, Hunts., 18 Apr 1807-50 ; Rector of Denton, Hunts., 25 Jan 1816 ; Rector of Great Tey, Essex 18 Apr 1827 ; m. 1810 Harriet, youngest dau. of Thomas Willard, Eastbourne, Sussex ; d. 20 Apr 1859.
KNIPE, RICHARD, son of Thomas Knipe (elected to Oxford 1657, qv) ; godson of Richard Busby (qv) ; bapt. Westminster Abbey 24 Mar 1668/9 ; adm. ; KS (Capt.) 1684 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1686, matr. 17 Dec 1686, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1686 – void by marriage 4 Jul 1689 ; MA Lambeth 22 Jul 1702 ; High Bailiff of Westminster from 23 Aug 1692 ; m.1689 Elizabeth — ; buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey 22 Feb 1702/3.
KNIPE, RICHARD, son of Richard Knipe (qv) ; godson of Richard Busby (qv) ; b. ; adm. ; QS (Capt.) 1707 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1712, matr. 4 Jul 1712, aged 18, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1712 – void 1720 ; BA 1716 ; MA 1719 ; DD 1729 ; adm. Middle Temple 23 Nov 1717 ; ordained deacon 4 Jun 1721 (Winchester), priest 1722 (Winchester, lit.dim. from Canterbury) ; Vicar of Bexley, Kent, from 1722 ; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 23 Sep 1729 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I and II 19 May 1726 – 1732 ; Hearne describes him as “a great Rattle, being soft and weak” (Remarks and Collections x, 180-1) ; d. 19 Oct 1736.
KNIPE, THOMAS, son of Rev.Thomas Knipe, Middlesex ; b. ; adm. ; BB in 1652 ; at school in Jun 1654, aged 15 (WAM 43112) ; KS (Capt.) 1656 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1657, matr. 31 Jul 1658, Westminster Student ; BA 22 Feb 1660/1 ; MA 1663 ; BD and DD 1695 ; an Usher at the School 1661, Under Master 1663-95, Head Master from 6 Apr 1695 ; ordained deacon 19 Dec 1685, priest 26 Feb 1685/6 (both Rochester) ; Rector of Mixbury, Oxfordshire 26 Nov 1686 – May 1708, res. ; Prebendary of Westminster from 17 Oct 1707 ; one of the original trustees of Busby’s will ; author of several textbooks for use of the School ; m.1st, (by 1669) Anne, dau. of Devereux Wolseley, Ravenstone, Staffs. ; m.2nd, 1 Feb 1693/4 Alicia, widow of James Talbot, Westminster, and mother of James Talbot (KS 1678, qv) ; d. 6 Aug 1711, aged 72. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey, monument in South Aisle of Choir. ODNB.
KNIPE, THOMAS, son of Richard Knipe (KS 1684, qv) ; b. ; adm. ; QS (aged 14) 1711 ; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1716, matr. 8 Jun 1716, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1716 – void 1722 ; BA 1720 ; ordained deacon 12 Jun 1720 (Oxford), priest 18 Dec 1720 (Rochester) ; Domestic Chaplain to William, Earl of Denbigh 22 Aug 1720 (still 1730) ; Rector of Fawkham, Kent 10 Jan 1720/1 – Apr 1726 ; Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; MA 1729 ; Vicar of St.Peter’s, Maldon, Essex, 17 Mar 1725 – May 1730 ; Vicar of Dengie, Essex, from 19 Sep 1729 ; Vicar of St.Peter and All Hallows, Colchester, Essex, from 2 May 1730 ; m. 17 Jul 1725 Catherine, sister of Joseph Greenhill (qv) ; d. 16 Feb 1749.
KNOLES, CHARLES ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1717/8 (in under school list as Knowles). [Note Charles Knollys, son of Charles Knollys (who styled himself 4th Earl of Banbury), and his second wife Mary, dau. of Thomas Wood ; b. (Westminster) 26 Mar 1703 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 May 1722, aged 19, BA 1725, MA 1728 ; adm. Inner Temple 14 Apr 1722 ; ordained deacon 16 Jan 1731/2, priest 5 Mar 1731/2 (both Oxford); Vicar of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, from 8 Mar 1731/2 ; Vicar of Burford, Oxfordshire, from 20 Oct 1747 ; claimant to Earldom of Banbury ; m. 28 Dec 1725 (IGI) Martha Hughes, Nursling, Hampshire ; d. 13 Mar 1771]
KNOLLES, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner in 1567 (tutor, the Dean) (Chapter Muniments 54015).
KNOLLES, JOHN ; b. ; adm. (aged 14) Apr 1728.
KNOLLYS, SIR HENRY, third son of Gen.Right Hon.Sir William Thomas Knollys KCB, Treasurer and Comptroller of the Household to Prince of Wales, Receiver-Gen., Duchy of Cornwall, and Elizabeth, fifth dau. of Sir John St.Aubyn, Bart. (qv) ; b. 20 Jun 1840 ; adm. Jan 1854 (G) ; QS Oct 1855 ; left 1856 ; RMC Sandhurst and RMA Woolwich ; Gent.Cadet, Royal Artillery 2 Aug 1858 ; Lieut., 1 Nov 1860 ; Capt., 16 Apr 1873 ; Brevet Maj., 1 Jul 1881 ; Maj., 30 Jul 1881 ; Lieut.-Col., 29 Jan 1888 ; commanded Royal Artillery in South Africa 1889-91 ; half-pay 26 Apr 1893 ; Brevet Col., 29 Sep 1893 ; retd. 20 Jun 1897 ; Comptroller and Private Secretary to HRH Princess Maud as Princess Charles of Denmark 1896-1905 and as Queen of Norway 1906-19 ; MVO 16 Aug 1901 ; CVO 26 Nov 1905 ; KCVO 26 Nov 1906 ; Knight, Order of St.Olav (Norway) ; Order of the Dannebrog (Denmark) ; Busby Trustee 16 May 1916 ; author, English Life in China, 1885, and other works ; m.1st, 8 Aug 1876 Louise Elizabeth, second dau. of Rev.Edward Eyre, Rector of Larling, Norfolk ; m.2nd, 22 Jan 1909 Flora, dau. of Louis Arthur Goodeve (qv) ; d. 1 Mar 1930.
KNOLLYS, ROBERT, elder son of William Knollys MP, Greys Court, Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, and Margaret, dau. of John Saunders MP, Thame, Oxfordshire, barrister ; b. ; at school 1659-62 (Busby’s Account Book) ; Wadham Coll.Oxford, matr. 13 Nov 1662, aged 16 ; adm.Middle Temple 10 May 1662 ; d. Apr 1670.
KNOWLES, — ; b. ; in school list May 1803 ; left 1803.
KNOWLES, W.E. ; b. ; in school list May 1803 ; left Mich.1803.
KNOX, DAVID GEORGE, son of David Knox, East Grinstead, Sussex ; b. ; adm. 20 Sep 1799 (Clapham) ; left Mich.1801 ; Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 30 Apr 1804, aged 18, matr. Mich.1804 ; BA 1808 ; ordained deacon 1 Oct 1809, priest 23 Sep 1810 (both London) ; m. 1st, 24 Oct 1808 Anna Maria, second dau. of John Sprott, Madras [check if EICS Madras] ; m.2nd, 1810 Marianna, dau. of John Sherman, Harpenden, Herts., dancing master ; d. 9 Dec 1810.
KNOX, GEORGE ; b. ; adm. (Clapham) 28 Jan 1793 ; left Christmas 1793. [perhaps second son of George Knox, Westminster, adm. Inner Temple 13 Mar 1797, called to bar 9 Feb 1810] [perhaps George Knox, barrister, Solicitor General for Tobago (by c.1815) and Attorney-General for Trinidad, who d. at Trinidad 11 Mar 1822, and who m. Sophia, dau. of Chevalier de Saint Leon, but this George Knox seems to have been a brother of Thomas Knox (qv)]
KNOX, JOHN WILLIAM, brother of Thomas Knox (qv) ; b. 14 Feb 1784 ; adm. ; KS 1798 ; elected to Trinity Coll.Cambridge 1802, adm.pens. 1 Jun 1802, scholar 22 Apr 1803, matr. Mich.1804 ; BA 1806 ; MA 1809 ; an Usher at the School 1806- Christmas 1821, attached to the Du Brieux boarding house in Dean’s Yard ; ordained deacon 29 Nov 1810 (Bath & Wells), priest 1810 (Gloucester, lit.dim. from Rochester) ; Rector of Yerbeston, Pembrokeshire, from 8 Dec 1810 ; d. 10 Jan 1862.
KNOX, THOMAS, eldest son of William Knox, St.George’s, Westminster, and Llanstinan, Pembrokeshire, Under Secretary of State, Colonial Dept., and Letitia, dau. of James Ford, St.Anne’s, Dublin ; b. ; adm. 17 Jun 1782 ; left Midsummer 1786 ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 20 Feb 1787, aged 17 ; adm.Lincoln’s Inn 14 Mar 1787, called to bar 27 Nov 1792 ; Lieut.-Col. commanding Fishguard Fencibles in Pembrokeshire during French invasion of 1797 ; suffered from mental instability in later life ; living in Kensington, Middlesex, in 1824 ; d. by 11 Jun 1825.
KNYVETT, ARTHUR, brother of Charles William Knyvett (qv) ; b. 3 Dec 1804 ; adm. 27 Mar 1818 (G) ; left Christmas 1818 ; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1820 ; Ensign 4 Apr 1821 ; Lieut., 54th Bengal Native Infantry 4 Sep 1823 ; Capt., 13 Mar 1835 ; Brevet Maj., 9 Nov 1846 ; Maj., 26 Oct 1848 ; Lieut.-Col., 1 Feb 1854 ; retd. on full pay as Col., 11 May 1855 ; d.unm. 18 Apr 1886.
KNYVETT, CHARLES, only son of Charles Knyvett, Westminster, and Jane Jordan, Westminster ; b. 11 Feb 1751/2 ; adm.1762 ; chorister ; in school lists 1764 ; member, Royal Society of Musicians, from 4 Jan 1778 ; one of the principal alto singers at the Handel Commemoration 1784 ; a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal 6 Nov 1786 – Dec 1802 ; Composer of the Chapel Royal 27 Dec 1802 – Jun 1808 ; directed oratorio performances at Covent Garden 1789 ; established the Vocal Concerts at Willis’s Rooms 1791 ; Organist of the Chapel Royal from 25 Jul 1796 ; for many years Secretary to the Noblemen’s and Gentlemen’s Catch Club ; considered “one of the best singers of glees” and “perhaps the best catch singer in England” (Parke, Musical Memoirs, ii, 77, 236) ; m. 16 Jun 1772 Rose, dau. of William Alleway, Sonning, Berks. ; d. 19 Jan 1822. ODNB. [father perhaps cabinet maker]
KNYVETT, CHARLES WILLIAM, eldest son of Charles Knyvett, Sonning, Berks., Organist of St.George’s, Hanover Square, London, and Jane, dau. of John Laney, Shorwell, Isle of Wight ; grandson of Charles Knyvett (qv) ; b. 11 Aug 1796 ; adm. 28 Jun 1808 ; KS 1811 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1815, matr. 8 May 1815, Westminster Student to 1829 ; BA 1819 ; MA 1821 ; ordained deacon 17 Oct 1819, priest 17 Dec 1820 (both Salisbury) ; an Usher at the School 1823-7 ; Perpetual Curate of Maiden Bradley, Wilts., 4 Jul 1829-42 ; Minor Canon of Windsor 7 May 1834 – Apr 1848 ; Rector of West Heslerton, Yorks., from 1847 ; m. 2 Jul 1829 Julia, second dau. of John Bromfield Ferrers (qv) ; d. 20 Dec 1881.
KNYVETT, FELIX, fourth son of Henry Knyvett, Chief Paymaster, Isle of Wight Depot, and Sophia, dau. of John Hussey, Clapton, Middlesex ; grandson of Charles Knyvett (qv) ; b. 26 Oct 1808 ; adm. 4 Feb 1822 (G) ; adm.solicitor Hilary 1832, initially practising at Chester ; a notary public ; private secretary to John Bird Sumner, successively Bishop of Chester and Archbishop of Canterbury ; Apparitor-General, Province of Canterbury 1848-85 ; m. 12 Dec 1838 Marianne, dau. of John Hayes, 13thLight Dragoons [check] ; d. 29 Sep 1890.
KNYVETT, THOMAS, eldest son of Henry Knyvett, London, and Frances Browne, widow of Henry Elsyng, St.Dunstan in the West, London, citizen and merchant taylor ; b. ; adm. ; QS ; failed to obtain election to either University 1602 ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 10 Dec 1602, aged 17, Canoneer Student 1602-8 ; BA 1605 ; MA 1608 (incorp.Cambridge 1627) ; adm.Middle Temple 15 Jun 1608, called to bar 3 Feb 1615/6 ; Clerk of the Parliaments from c.1635 (granted joint reversion of post c.1611) ; m. 9 Dec 1622 (IGI) Mary, widow of Richard Lusher, Putney, Surrey, and dau. of George Scott, Stapleford Tawney, Essex ; d. Dec 1637.
KURKE, — ; b. ; adm. ; a pensioner 1568-9 (tutor, the Steward) (Chapter Muniments).
KYD, ALEXANDER, youngest illegitimate son of Lieut.-Gen.Alexander Kyd FRS, Watford, near Bridgewater, Somerset, Chief Engineer, EICS Bengal ; b. (bapt. 16 Jan 1802, aged 6) ; adm. Lady Day 1811 ; left 1814 ; Emmanuel Coll.Cambridge, adm.fellow commoner 1 Jul 1814, matr.Mich.1814 ; BA 1828 ; MA 1835 ; an East India broker, Abchurch Lane, London (in partnership with Adolphus Muller until 31 Dec 1823, when partnership was dissolved), and Camberwell, Surrey ; subsequently of independent means, and lived in various European countries ; resident in Paris in 1859 ; m. 2 Apr 1829 Emma, dau. of James Beevor, Aylsham, Norfolk.
KYNASTON, AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, brother of Charles Thomas Kynaston (qv) ; b. 12 Nov 1815 ; adm. 24 Jan 1827 ; KS 1828 ; entered Royal Navy 30 Sep 1830 ; Sub-Lieut., 27 Apr 1837 ; Lieut., 10 Nov 1842 ; Cdr., 15 Dec 1852 ; commanded HMS Spiteful in first attack on Sevastopol 17 Oct 1854, wounded ; Capt., 18 Jan 1855 ; CB 5 Jul 1855 ; m. 25 Jun 1855 Catherine Mary, third dau. of Major-Gen. Anthony Bacon ; d. from effects of his old wound 21 Mar 1860.
KYNASTON, CHARLES THOMAS, second son of Roger Kynaston, Warwick, and Sandford, Oxfordshire, barrister, Inner Temple, and Georgiana, sister of Henry Oakeley (qv) ; nephew of Thomas Southouse Kynaston (qv) ; b. 30 Nov 1806 ; adm. 10 Jun 1817 ; left 14 Feb 1818 ; Cadet, EICS Madras 1824 ; Ensign, 19th Native Infantry 6 May 1825 ; Lieut., 24 Dec 1826 ; m. at Hyderabad, India 17 Apr 1826 Catherine T.Woods ; drowned at Moulmein, Tenasserim Provinces, India 13 Aug 1829.
KYNASTON, EDWARD ; b. 10 Jun 1815 ; adm. 12 Jan 1829.
KYNASTON, HERBERT, brother of Charles Thomas Kynaston (qv) ; b. 23 Nov 1809 ; adm. 24 Jan 1821 ; KS 1823 ; severely injured by an explosion of fireworks in his pockets while celebrating 5 November in Dean’s Yard 1823 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1827, matr. 30 May 1827, Westminster Student, Tutor and Greek Reader 1836 ; 1st cl.Classics 1831 ; BA 1831 ; MA 1833 ; BD and DD 1849 ; ordained deacon 25 May 1834, priest 21 Dec 1834 (both Oxford) ; High Master, St.Paul’s Sch. 1838-76 ; Perpetual Curate of St.Botolph without Aldgate, London 18 Jul 1838-45 ; Select Preacher, Oxford Univ. 1841 ; Rector of St.Nicholas Cole Abbey and St.Olave, London 11 Oct 1850-66 ; Prebendary of St.Paul’s from 29 Apr 1853 ; a skilful writer of Latin verse ; author Miscellaneous Poetry, 1841, and other works ; m. 2 Aug 1838 Elizabeth Selina, second dau. of Hugh Kennedy, Cultra, co.Down ; d. 26 Oct 1878. ODNB.
KYNASTON, THOMAS SOUTHOUSE, son of Thomas Kynaston, The Grove, Witham, Essex, and his second wife Anne, dau. of Thomas Jones ; b 22 Jun 1771 ; adm. 10 Sep 1782 ; d. 7 Aug 1783.
KYNNERSLEY, JOHN, brother of Philip Kynnersley (qv) ; bapt.Wandsworth 16 Jun 1633 (IGI) ; adm. ; Min.Can. 1648, 1650 ; adm. Gray’s Inn 6 May 1651 ; buried Richmond, Surrey 25 Jan 1661/2.
KYNNERSLEY, PHILIP, eldest son of Clement Kynnersley (or Kinnersley), Richmond, Surrey, Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe, and Dorothy, dau. of John Perrott, Drayton, Oxfordshire ; bapt.St.Martin’s in the Fields 22 Apr 1630 (IGI, sic) ; adm. ; KS (aged 15) 1648 ; adm.Gray’s Inn 31 Dec 1650 ; Page of the Removing Wardrobe 31 Jul 1662-74, Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe 4 Jan 1674 – 11 Dec 1688 ; buried Richmond, Surrey 1700.
KYRLE-MONEY, SIR JAMES, BART., eldest son of William Money, Homme House, Much Marcle, Herefs., and Mary, dau. of William Webster, Stockton on Tees, co.Durham ; b. 15 Aug 1775 ; at school 1791 (Severne) ; still at school 1792 ; assumed additional surname and arms of Kyrle by royal licence 26 Apr 1809 ; Ensign, Army 2 Nov 1793 ; Lieut., 84th Foot 8 Mar 1794 (in Army List 1795 as William Money) ; Capt., 18 Aug 1795 ; 35th Foot 17 Sep 1799 ; Maj., 28 Sep 1804 ; 21st Foot 22 Aug 1805 ; Lieut,-Col., 4 Jun 1811 ; half-pay, Armstrong’s Recruiting Corps ; Col., 27 May 1825 ; Major-Gen., 10 Jan 1837 ; created baronet 13 Aug 1838 ; of Much Marcle, Herefordshire ; DL JP Herefordshire ; m. 20 Sep 1830 Ann Caroline, eldest dau. of Robert Taylor, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, London ; d. 26 Jun 1843.
KYTE, JOSHUA, twin son of William Kyte, Sherborne, Gloucs., and Anne — ; bapt.Sherborne, Gloucs. 13 Oct 1723 ; adm. ; Min.Can. (aged 13) 1738 ; KS 1739 ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1743, matr. 1 Jun 1743, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1743 – void 23 Dec 1765, expiry year of grace as R.Wendlebury from 24 Dec 1764 ; BA 1747 ; MA 1751 ; BD and DD 1765 ; an Usher at the School Jan 1751 – Feb 1764 ; ordained deacon 21 Dec 1745, priest 20 Dec 1747 (both Gloucester) ; Lecturer, St.John the Evangelist, Westminster Jan 1763 ; Chaplain, 32nd Foot 25 Jan 1763 – 73 ; Rector of Wendlebury, Oxfordshire, from 1764 ; Rector of Swyncombe, Oxfordshire, from 21 Jul 1788 ; master of a school at Hammersmith, Middlesex ; m. c. Nov 1766 Loretta Maria, dau. of William Whitaker, Bromley, Kent, and Barbados, West Indies ; d. 22 Nov 1788.