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KIPPIST, RICHARD. _b._ Stoke Newington, London 11 June 1812;
travelled with Joseph Woods the architect and botanist, and
helped to compile his Tourist’s Flora; entered service of the
Linnæan Society 1830, librarian 1842–81; A.L.S. _d._ 12 Burnaby
st. King’s road, Chelsea 14 Jany. 1882. _Proc. of Linnæan Soc._
(1881–2) 64–5.
KIRBY, ELIZABETH (youngest child of John Kirby, manufacturer).
_b._ Southgate st. Leicester 15 Dec. 1823; author with her
sister Mary Kirby (Mrs. Gregg) of 22 books for children
including The discontented children 1855; Caterpillars,
butterflies and moths 1857; The Italian goldsmith, or the story
of Cellini 1861, 2 ed. 1875; Chapters on Trees 1873; Sketches
of insect life 1874. _d._ Melton Mowbray 23 June 1873. _bur._
Brooksby ch. yard 30 June. _Mary Kirby’s Leaflets from my life_
(1887) 232.
KIRBY, JOHN. Ed. at Dublin univ., B.A. 1805, LL.B. and LL.D.
1832; F.R.C.S.I. and professor of practice of physic there;
surgeon St. Peter’s and St. Bridget’s hospital, Dublin, and
lecturer on anatomy and surgery there; consulting surgeon Coombe
st. Lying-in hospital; author of Observations on the treatment
of hemorrhoidal excrescences 1817; Additional observations on
hemorrhoidal excrescences 1825. _d._ Newton house, Rathfarnham,
co. Dublin 26 May 1853.
KIRBY, JOSHUA HENRY. Ensign 34 foot 10 Aug. 1838; lieut. 86 foot
8 April 1842, major 1 June 1860; major 68 foot 23 April 1861,
lieut. col. 10 Nov. 1869 to death; brigadier general Bombay
12 Oct. 1874 to death; colonel in the army 10 Nov. 1874. _d._
Belgaum, Bombay 30 June 1877.
KIRBY, SIR RICHARD CHARLES. _b._ 1788; junior clerk in office of
sec.-at-war March 1804, senior clerk Sep. 1826, chief examiner
of accounts July 1849, retired from the service Jany. 1856;
reappointed as accountant general of the army Nov. 1856, retired
Aug. 1860 on full pay of £1500 a year; C.B. 20 Dec. 1858;
knighted at St. James’ palace 14 Feb. 1861. _d._ at the Rock,
Reigate hill, Surrey 6 Oct. 1867.
KIRBY, STEPHEN. _b._ 1782; 2 lieut. R.A. 1 Aug. 1799, lieut.
col. R.A. 20 July 1834 to 17 Aug. 1843 when he retired on full
pay; L.G. 4 Feb. 1857. _d._ Claydon near Ipswich 22 Dec. 1857.
KIRBY, THOMAS. _b._ Osbaldwick near York, Aug. 1770; went to
Russia with a cargo of horses 1791; in the service of count
Poltrowsky, in charge of 100 mares; with Primrose won a £50
plate at Chesterfield 29 Aug. 1804; a breeder of horses from
1804; in 1821 eight horses carrying his colours chocolate and
white cap were racing; sold General Chasse to Nicholas emperor
of Russia for 2250 guineas and Van Tromp for 2000 guineas;
consulted by the government about shipping the horses to the
Crimea in 1854. _d._ York, Feb. 1858. _The Post and the paddock.
By The Druid_ (1880) 66–73; _Sporting Rev. xxxviii_ 161–3 (1857)
_portrait_, _xxxix_ 154 (1858).
KIRBY, THOMAS COX. Ensign 54 foot 1 March 1800, captain 26 Sep.
1806, placed on h.p. 23 May 1822; served in Flanders and at
battle of Waterloo; captain 86 foot 5 May 1828; major on h.p. 13
Aug. 1830; sold out 1845; K.H. 1837. _d._ 1855.
KIRBY, WALTER (son of W. Kirby, M.D., F.L.S.). _b._ 14 Nov.
1791; entered R.N. 23 Oct. 1803; served on coast of France,
Spain and in West Indies; lieut. 1811; when in the Windsor
Castle he effected preservation of the Union 104 guns when
adrift and on shore during a storm 12 Jany. 1828; commander 22
July 1830 and then on h.p.; K.H. 13 Jany. 1835; retired captain
1 April 1856. _d._ Jermyn st. London 10 Dec. 1859.
KIRBY, WILLIAM HUMPHREYS. _b._ 6 Dec. 1819; ensign 94 foot 14
Oct. 1836, major 29 Dec. 1854 to 17 April 1868 when placed
on h.p.; military sec. Bombay 1860–2; D.A.G. Bombay 1863–7;
adjutant general Bombay 23 Dec. 1867 to 29 May 1872; placed
on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. _d._ St.
Servan, Brittany 28 June 1890.
KIRK, ALEXANDER CARNEGIE (son of rev. John Kirk). _b._ in
Manse of Barry, Forfarshire 1830; partner in shipbuilding firm
of Robert Napier and Sons, Glasgow, became senior partner;
president of the Engineers and Shipbuilders’ Institute of
Scotland; wrote On compressed air and other refrigerating
machinery, printed in Heat in its mechanical application,
Lectures Institution of Civil Engineers (1885) 175–200. _d._
suddenly at 19 Athole Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow 5 Oct. 1892.
_D. Pollock’s Modern shipbuilding_ (1884) 44, _portrait_.
KIRK, JOHN (son of Wm. Kirk). _b._ Ruckley near Acton Burnell,
Shropshire 13 April 1760; ed. at Sedgley park sch. Staffs. and
English college at Rome; ordained priest 18 Dec. 1784; chaplain
at Sedgley park school 1786, president 1793–7; built a chapel
at Lichfield, opened 11 Nov. 1803; erected chapels at Hopwas
near Tamworth and in Tamworth; D.D. by Pope Gregory XVI. 9 Nov.
1841; collected for 40 years materials forming 50 vols. for a
Continuation of Dodd’s Church history of England, which was
brought out to the year 1625 by Rev. M. A. Tierney in 5 vols.
1839–43; author with Rev. Joseph Berington of The faith of
Catholics confirmed by scripture and attested by the Fathers
1813, 3 ed. 3 vols. 1846, a work to which several replies were
made 1819–40. _d._ Lichfield 21 Dec. 1851. _Catholic Directory_
(1853) 129, _portrait_; _G.M. xxxvii_ 304–306 (1852).
KIRK, WILLIAM (1 son of Hugh Kirk). _b._ Larne, co. Antrim 16
Oct. 1795; linen merchant; M.P. Newry 1852–57 and 1868 to death;
contested Armagh 1865; sheriff of Armagh 1863. _d._ Newry 20
Dec. 1870. _I.L.N. lvii_ 691 (1870).
KIRKES, WILLIAM SENHOUSE. _b._ Holker near Cartmel, Lancs. 1823;
entered St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1841, medical registrar
and demonstrator of morbid anatomy, assist. physician 1854
and physician 1864 to death; M.D. Berlin 1846; L.R.C.P. 1850,
F.R.C.P. 1855, Gulstonian lecturer 1856; author with W. Baly of
Recent advances in the physiology of motion 1848; and with James
Paget of Hand-book of physiology 1848, 12 ed. 1888. _d._ 2 Lower
Seymour st. Portman sq. London 8 Dec. 1864. _Proc. Med. and
Chir. Soc. v_ 47 (1867).
KIRKHAM, GAWIN. _b._ Eskrigg, Lancashire 1830; connected with
St. Paul’s, Bermondsey, London as a scripture reader for 4
years; secretary of the Open-Air mission 1860 to death, and ran
some risks when attending fairs, races and executions; helped
to distribute relief during Lancashire cotton famine 1862; the
pioneer of open-air preaching on the Continent; author of The
broad and narrow way. The picture accompanying Mr. G. Kirkham’s
lecture on the broad and narrow way 1886; Hints for beginners in
open-air services, printed in G. H. Pike’s Beneath the blue sky
(1888) 61–71. _d._ London, May 1892.
KIRKLAND, SIR JOHN (eld. son of John Kirkland of Glasgow). _b._
Ayr 1796; deputy assistant commissary general 4 May 1815, placed
on h.p. 24 Aug. 1816; army agent at 8 Bennett st. St. James’s,
London 1820, then at 6 Whitehall, and lastly at 17 Whitehall
place to death; receiver of crown rents for Middlesex, city of
London and bailiwick of St. James, Westminster 1827 to death;
general agent for the recruiting service about 1830 to death;
knighted at St. James’s palace 18 July 1838. _d._ Beckenham
place, Kent 13 Jany. 1871.
KIRKLAND, WILLIAM (son of William Kirkland _d._ 1 Oct. 1834).
_b._ Dundee; apprentice to J. and C. Carmichael, engineers,
Dundee to 1829; partner with his father as W. Kirkland and Sons,
wood merchants, Dundee 1829; perfected the machinery for wood
cutting in all its branches and for cutting mouldings. _d._
Oak lodge, Constitution road, Dundee 16 April 1869. _Dundee
Advertiser 17 April 1869 p._ 4.
KIRKPATRICK, JOHN. _b._ 1786; advocate at Scottish bar 1809;
Greek scholar; chief justice of Ionian islands 1820–35; revised
the code of Malta 1830; great pedestrian, walked from Dunkeld
to Edinburgh viâ Queensferry 70 miles in one day; a swimmer
and bather all the year round, won a 3 mile swimming match at
Corfu. _d._ 39 Moray place, Edinburgh 10 Feb. 1871. _Journal of
Jurisprudence, Feb. 1871 p._ 140.
KIRKPATRICK, JOHN RUTHERFORD. _b._ 1832; ed. Dublin univ., B.A.
1854, M.B. 1855; L.R.C.S.I. 1855, F.R.C.S.I. 1857; L.M. Lying-in
hospital, Dublin 1854; L.K.Q.C.P. 1859, L.M. 1860; king’s
professor of midwifery, school of physic in Ireland, April 1882
to death. _d._ 4 Upper Merrion st. Dublin 16 April 1889. _bur._
Mount Jerome cemet. 20 April.
KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM BAILLIE. _b._ Ballynahinch, co. Down 1802;
ed. at Glasgow college, M.A.; licensed by presbytery of Armagh
1827; a minister of St. Mary’s Abbey church, Dublin 29 July
1829; moderator of general assembly 1850; a comr. of charitable
donations and bequests; a comr. of endowed schools; author of
Chapters in Irish history. Dublin [1875], 2 ed. 1875. _d._ Bray,
co. Wicklow 23 Sep. 1882. _bur._ Mount Jerome cemetery, Dublin.
KIRKUP, SEYMOUR STOCKER (eld. child of Joseph Kirkup, jeweller).
_b._ London 1788; student of the R.A. 1809, exhibited 2 pictures
at R.A. 1833–36; lived at Rome, then at Florence many years,
at Leghorn 1872 to death; a student of Dante, found on 21 July
1840 the portrait of Dante painted by Giotto in the chapel of
the Palazzo del Podestà at Florence, of which he made a drawing
and tracing; created cavaliere of the order of SS. Maurizio e
Lazzaro 1865 and called himself Barone Kirkup; a disciple of
Daniel Home the spiritualist; his library was sold at Sotheby’s,
Dec. 1871 for £2,555. _d._ 4 Via Scali del Ponte Nuovo, Leghorn
3 Jany. 1880.
KIRKWOOD, ANDERSON (son of Mr. Kirkwood of Edinburgh, merchant).
_b._ 1822; manager of business of Messrs. Bannatyne, writers to
the signet, Glasgow 1839, a partner in the firm 1842; the first
professor of conveyancing in univ. of Glasgow 1861–7; dean of
the faculty of procurators, Glasgow 1875–80; hon. D.C.L. Glasgow
1867; assessor to council of univ. of Glasgow 1867–87; presented
with his portrait by citizens of Glasgow 1876; contested seat
for united univs. of Glasgow and Aberdeen 1876. _d._ Stirling 16
Feb. 1889. _Law Times 16 March 1889 pp._ 379–80.
KIRKWOOD, JAMES PUGH. _b._ Edinburgh 27 March 1807; civil
engineer Glasgow 1832; assistant engineer on railway work in
U.S. of America 1832; United States constructing engineer for
docks, hospitals and workshops at Pensacola, Florida; chief
engineer in Missouri Pacific railway 1850–5; chief engineer
Nassau waterworks, Brooklyn 1856–60; municipal water works were
his speciality, and he was the best engineer in that line in the
U.S. America; president American Soc. of Civil engineers 1867–8;
author of Report on filtration of river waters for the supply
of cities 1869; and with T. Weston of A report on the district
supplying water to Brooklyn 1861. _d._ Brooklyn, New York 22
April 1877.
KIRKWOOD, ROBERT. _b._ Paisley 25 May 1793; ed. at Glasgow
coll.; pastor of Dutch Reformed church Courtlandville, New
York, pastor at Auburn and at Sandbeach, New York till 1839;
a domestic missionary in Illinois 1839–46; agent for Bible
and Tract society 1846–57; joined the Presbyterian church at
Yonkers, N.Y. 1857; author of A lecture on the millennium
1855; Universalism explained 1856; A plea for the Bible 1860;
Illustrations of the office of Christ 1862. _d._ Yonkers 26 Aug.
1866.
KIRWAN, ANDREW VALENTINE (eld. son of Thomas Kirwan of Well
Park, co. Dublin). _b._ 1804; student G.I. 9 Feb. 1821,
barrister 14 May 1828; called to Irish bar 1825; practised in
London and Dublin till 1850 when he retired; furnished practice
cases to The Jurist 1824–44; author of The ports, arsenals and
dockyards of France. By A Traveller 1841; The army and garrison
of France 1841; Modern France, its journalism, literature
and society 1863; Host and Guest 1864; with Frederick A.
Carrington, Reports of cases at nisi prius 3 vols. 1845–53. d.
Claverton st. Pimlico, London 22 Oct. 1870. _Law Times_, _xlix_
459 (1870).
NOTE.--In 1840 he was appointed by the court of exchequer, on behalf of
the proprietors of the Times a commissioner for taking the evidence of
the various bankers in most of the cities of Europe in the famous law
suit of Bogle _v_ Lawson.
KIRWAN, ANTHONY LATOUCHE (son of Walter Blake Kirwan, dean of
Killala, _d._ 1805). Ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1832, B.D.
and D.D. 1863; V. of Kilcornan; dean of Kilmacduagh and R. of
Gort; R. of Derrygalvin and Incumbent of St. Mary’s, Limerick;
dean of Limerick 1849 to death; a very successful preacher. _d._
in the Turkish baths, Military road, Limerick 13 July 1868.
_bur._ Limerick cath.
KIRWAN, DANIEL JOSEPH. _b._ Newtonbarry, Ireland about 1843;
connected with the press in U.S. of America, on the World and
the Tribune 1863 etc.; went to England to report the Harvard and
Cambridge boat race 1869; reporter for New York Herald 1870;
author of Palace and hovel 1870. _d._ New York 25 Nov. 1876.
KIRWAN, JAMES M. _b._ 1798; M.D.; coroner for city of Dublin
1843 to death. _d._ 44 Mountjoy square, Dublin 3 Feb. 1868.
_bur._ Glasnevin cemet. 5 Feb.
KIRWAN, JOHN JOSEPH ANDREW (eld. son of Martin Kirwan of
Hillsbrook, co. Galway, _d._ 1827). _b._ 31 Oct. 1811; ed. Trin.
coll. Dublin; barrister Dublin 1844; went Connaught circuit;
resident magistrate for co. Roscommon 1848, for co. Kilkenny
1853 to death; one of the wittiest and most amusing men of his
time; known as the poor man’s magistrate; his judgments were so
full of fun that the prisoners often left the dock laughing.
_d._ March 1869. _O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Connaught circuit_
(1885) 319.
KISLINGBURY, FREDERICK FOSTER. _b._ Ilsley near Windsor castle
25 Dec. 1847; served in a cavalry regt. in civil war, U.S.
America 1863–5; chief clerk of the Department of the Lakes at
Detroit 1865; commanded a band of scouts fighting the Indians,
2 lieut. of 2 infantry serving in the Plains, second in
command under Adolphus W. Greely in the expedition to the far
north 1881–4; a member of the Knights of Pythias, a lodge of
which order has been erected to his memory at Rochester. _d._
of exhaustion at Cape Sabine, Greenland 1 June 1884. _bur._
Rochester, N.W.
KITCHEN, WILLIAM HEWGILL. _b._ June 1787; entered navy 3 Feb.
1799, in active service for 31 years and was several times
wounded; captain 9 Nov. 1846, granted Greenwich hospital pension
10 Nov. 1856; retired R.A. 15 June 1864. _d._ 4 Holland park
ter. Notting hill, London 30 Sep. 1865.
KITCHING, ALFRED. _b._ 1808; iron founder Hopetown, Darlington
1832 where he built locomotives and waggons; removed to Whessoe
foundry, Darlington 1862; director of Stockton and Darlington
railway and of North Eastern railway; mayor of Darlington
1870; a quaker; member of Iron and steel institute 1872. _d._
Darlington 13 Feb. 1882, personalty sworn under £344,000, 22
April 1882. _Journal of iron and steel institute_ (1882) 658–59.
KITCHING, JOHN BENJAMIN. _b._ Horsforth, W.R. Yorkshire 20 April
1813; in house of Tomlinson and Booth, New York 1824, then in
business on his own account; connected with telegraphy and the
Atlantic cable; spent much money on the Ericsson, a steamer
to be propelled by air engines 183-, which sank on her trial
trip; helped to found banks in Brooklyn 1840; a promoter of the
Manhattan market and the Garfield National bank. _d._ New York
city 19 July 1887.
KITSON, JAMES. _b._ 1807 or 1808; student at Mechanics’
institute, Leeds, hon. sec. and then president; well known
locomotive engineer; partner with Mr. Laird at Airedale foundry,
then with Messrs. Thompson and Hewitson, and afterwards partner
with his sons in the Mark Bridge iron works; a director of North
Eastern railway co. and of Yorkshire banking co. _d._ Leeds 29
July 1885. _Engineering 3 July 1885 p._ 20.
KITTO, JOHN (eld. son of John Kitto of Plymouth, mason). _b._
Plymouth 4 Dec. 1804; while carrying slates up a ladder fell
35 feet and was thenceforth stone deaf; in Plymouth workhouse
15 Nov. 1819 to 17 July 1823; apprenticed to John Bowden of
Plymouth, shoe maker 8 Nov. 1821; pupil of A. N. Groves,
dentist, Exeter; resided at Missionary coll. Islington, July
1825 where he was trained as a printer at one of the foreign
presses; at Malta as a printer 20 June 1827 to Jany. 1829;
travelled in the East with A. N. Groves, June 1829 to June 1833;
contributed to Penny Magazine from 10 Aug. 1833; D.D. Univ. of
Giessen 1844; F.S.A. 1845; granted £100 a year from civil list
2 Jany. 1851; author of The Pictorial Bible in parts 3 vols.
Dec. 1835 to May 1838; Pictorial history of Palestine and the
Holy Land 1840; Palestine, the Bible history of the Holy Land
1841; A Cyclopædia of Biblical literature 2 vols. 1845; The lost
senses 1845; A pictorial life of our Saviour 1847; The Journal
of sacred literature 1848–53; Daily Bible illustrations 4 vols.
1849–54; Scripture lands 1850. _m._ Ch. Ch. Newgate st. London
21 Sep. 1833 Annabella Fenwick, she was granted a civil list
pension of £50, 31 Jany. 1855. _d._ Cannstatt near Munich 25
Nov. 1854. _bur._ Cannstatt churchyard 27 Nov. _John Eadie’s
Life of John Kitto_ (1857), _portrait_; _Western Antiquary_,
_iii_ 33–35 (1883).
KLING, JOSEPH. _b._ Mayence 19 March 1811; educated in music
1826; organist to a church in Mayence many years; came to London
1850, music publisher at 27 Sherrard st. Golden sq. 1850–1;
opened a chess room as a rival to the Divan at 454 Oxford st.
1854, closed it 1856; a pioneer of the modern style of chess
problems; author of The chess euclid, a collection of two
hundred problems and end games 1849; and with B. Horwitz of
Chess studies or endings of games 1851 and The chess player
vols. 1–4, 1851–3; retired from chess playing. _d._ Dec. 1876.
_The Westminster papers 1 Jany. 1877 p._ 163.
KLITZ, PHILIP (eld. son of George Philip Klitz of Lymington,
Hants., musical composer 1777–1839). _b._ Lymington 7 Jany.
1805; resided at Southampton about 1828 to death; introduced
the Hullah system into Southampton and other places; lectured
on music at literary institutions; organist of All Saints’
church, Southampton 1845 to death; composed classical music
and ballads, the words of which were frequently his own, and a
series of naval songs called ‘Songs of the mid-watch,’ which
the admiralty ordered to be added to Dibdin’s in an edition
published for the navy 1850; one of first writers of songs for
Ethiopian serenaders 1847; published Sketches of life, character
and scenery in the New Forest 1850. _d._ 24 Portland place,
Southampton 13 Jany. 1854.
KLOSS, WILHELM (son of Karl Johann C. Kloss, composer, who _d._
Riga 1853). Ed. at Cologne under Heinrich Dorn; sent to England
by Mendelssohn, where he played on the piano before the Queen;
settled in England; pianist and composer in London. _d._ Feb.
1892.
KMETY, GYÖRGY. _b._ Pkoragy, Hungary, May 1813; commanded a
battalion in Hungarian army in war with Austria 1849, a general,
routed the Austrians at Csorna 13 June 1849; in Turkish service
1850, in command of a division during blockade of Kars, under
name of Madjar Ismail Pacha, when he defeated the Russians 29
Sep. 1855, made lieut. general and decorated, served in Syria
1856, retired with a pension; in England studying music 1851,
returned to England 1856; author of A refutation of some of the
misstatements in Görgei’s Life and actions in Hungary 1853; A
narrative of the defence of Kars 1856. _d._ Conduit st. Bond st.
London 25 April 1865. _G.M. Sep. 1865 pp._ 383–6.
KNAPP, FREDERICK HENRY. Ed. at King’s coll. London, associate
1862; C. of Christ Church, Ware, Herts. 1862–64; C. of
Patrixbourne, Kent 1864–6; C. of St. Helen’s, Isle of Wight
1866; author of A sad case 1862; Faithful wounds, a few thoughts
on christian friendship 1864; The preciousness of Christ,
meditations 1866. _d._ Sea View, Isle of Wight 15 Sep. 1866.
KNAPP, RUSSELL GEORGE ATKINSON. _b._ 1831; proprietor and editor
of the ‘Surrey Comet’ from 1859. _d._ Clarence st. Kingston,
Surrey 7 June 1867.
KNATCHBULL, HENRY EDWARD (6 son of sir Edward Knatchbull, bart.
_d._ 1819). _b._ 30 Aug. 1808; ed. at Winchester and Wadham
coll. Oxf., scholar 1826–33; B.A. 1830; first played at Lord’s
in Winchester _v._ Harrow 27 July 1825, a free hitter and a
good field, under the name of Edwards; played 6 times for the
Gentlemen against the Players; V. of North Elmham, Norfolk
1833–67; R. of Campsey Ash, Suffolk 1867 to death. _d._ Campsey
Ash 31 Aug. 1876.
KNATCHBULL, WILLIAM FRANCIS (2 son of Wyndham Knatchbull,
merchant 1750–1833). _b._ Russell place, London 30 July 1804;
sheriff of Somerset 1841; M.P. East Somerset 1852–65. _d._ 11
Cavendish sq. London 2 May 1871. _I.L.N. lviii_ 475 (1871).
KNATCHBULL, WYNDHAM (brother of Henry Edward Knatchbull
1808–76). _b._ 23 Aug. 1786; ed. Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1808, of All
Souls’ coll., M.A. 1812, B.D. 1820, D.D. 1823; R. of Westbere,
Kent 5 Sep. 1811 to death; R. of Bircholt, Kent 1821–1836;
Laudian professor of Arabic at Oxford 1823–40; R. of Aldington
with Smeath, Kent 31 July 1823 till decease; author of Kalila
and Dimna, or the fables of Bidpai translated 1819; Harethi
Moallakah. Arabic and Latin 1820. _d._ Smeath rectory 5 April
1868.
KNELL, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS. Painter of shipping and sea pieces;
exhibited 29 pictures at R.A., 44 at B.I. and 19 at Suffolk st.
1825–74; his picture The Landing of Prince Albert was purchased
for the royal collection and engraved by Miller for the Art
Journal 1857. _d._ 10 July 1875. _bur._ Abney park cemet.
KNIGHT, ADELA M’CULLOCH. _b._ South Australia; passed matric.
exam. of univ. of London at Adelaide, attended Adelaide univ.
and took sir Thomas Elder prize for physiology 1883; entered
London sch. of medicine for women and the Royal Free hospital,
London 1885; M.B. Lond. Nov. 1889, the first Australian
woman who took the degree there; resident medical officer at
New hospital for women 1890, removed the hospital from 222
Marylebone road to 144 Euston road 1890; took Helen Prideaux
prize June 1890 and went to Vienna to study. _d._ of typhlitis
at Vienna 8 May 1891.
KNIGHT, SIR ARNOLD JAMES (youngest son of Alexander Knight).
_b._ Six Hills Grange, Lincs. 1789; ed. at Edinb. univ., M.D.
1811; a physician at Sheffield; knighted at St. James’ palace
24 March 1841. _d._ The Priory, Little Malvern 12 Jany. 1871.
_I.L.N. lviii_ 115, 267 (1871); _Times 20 Jany. 1871 p._ 12.
KNIGHT, CHARLES (son of Charles Knight, bookseller, Windsor).
_b._ Windsor 15 March 1791; apprentice to his father 1805;
edited Windsor and Eton Express 1 Aug. 1812 to 1826; with
Edward Hawke Lockyer brought out the Plain Englishman 1 Feb.
1820 to Dec. 1822; editor and part proprietor of The Guardian,
London 13 June 1820 to Dec. 1822; publisher 7 Pall Mall East
1822 to 1827; started Knight’s Quarterly Magazine 1823, 7
numbers only; superintendent of publications of Society for
the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 26 July 1827 to 11 March
1846; re-established himself at 13 Pall Mall, March 1829; wrote
The Menagerie, the first vol. of The Library of Entertaining
Knowledge 1829; published Quarterly Journal of Education
1831–6; The Penny Magazine 31 March 1832 to 29 Dec. 1845, which
had a circulation of 200,000; publisher at 22 Ludgate Hill
1834–48, at 90 Fleet st. 1848 to death; publisher to the Poor
law commission 1835; brought out Pictorial History of England
8 vols. 1837–44; edited The Pictorial edition of the works of
Shakspere 1838–41; published Penny Cyclopedia 27 vols. 2 Jany.
1833 to 1844; History of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace
2 vols. 1850–1; started Town and Country newspaper 1855. _d._
Addlestone, Surrey 9 March 1873. _bur._ Old Windsor churchyard
14 March. _Charles Knight, a memoir. By Alice A. Clowes_
(1892), 2 _portraits_; _C. Knight’s Passages of a working life
during half a century 3 vols._ (1865); _Illustrated Review_,
_vol. v_, _pp._ 57–67, _portrait_; _Gibson Craig’s Half length
portraits_ (1876) 241–52; _The Critic_, _xxii_ 624–28, 632
(1861) _portrait_, _xxiii_ 32–37 (1861); _Curwen’s Booksellers_
(1873) 251–66, _portrait_; _H. J. Nichol’s Great Movements_
(1881) 175–84.
NOTE.--His only son Barry Charles Henry Knight, senior partner in firm
of Knight & Co., publishers 90 Fleet st. London, _d._ Brighton 16 Aug.
1884 aged 56.
KNIGHT, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1794; entered R.N. 25 Dec. 1806; in
the Impregnable in the battle of Algiers 1816; in command of
Snapper gun brig went up Calabar river 60 miles in search of
slaves June 1821; commander 3 June 1822; saved the crew of the
Hound revenue cutter in Weymouth bay 1836; retired captain 28
July 1851; K.H. 1 Jany. 1837. _d._ royal naval hospital, Haslar
29 Jany. 1863.
KNIGHT, EDWARD HENRY. _b._ London 1 June 1824; patent agent
Cincinnati, Ohio 1846–53; an agriculturalist 1853–63; employed
preparing annual reports of U.S.A. patent office from 1863;
issued the Official Gazette of the United States patent office
1871, since continued weekly; LLD. of Iowa Wesleyan univ.
1876; U.S. commissioner to Paris exhibition 1878, a chevalier
of legion of honour; author of A library of poetry and song
1870; Knight’s American mechanical dictionary 3 vols. 1874–77;
The practical dictionary of mechanics 4 vols. 1877–84. _d._
Bellefontaine, Ohio 22 Jany. 1883.
NOTE.--His brain was found to weigh 64 ounces, being the second largest
on record, that of Cuvier weighing 64½ ounces.
KNIGHT, GEORGE JOSEPH. _b._ 1798; principal of Albion
international college, Broadway, South Hackney 1828; kept
private school 120 Lauriston road, Hackney. _d._ at res. of rev.
Jonah Reeve, Thorley house, 32 Powerscourt road, Clapton park 25
Nov. 1883. _The Fairlop Friday services, established by G. J.
Knight on the first Friday in July 1860_ (1870).
KNIGHT, GEORGE THOMAS. _b._ Goodnestone, Kent 22 Nov. 1795; his
first match at Lord’s was England _v._ Hampshire 3 July 1820;
played for Hampshire and Kent; his place was generally middle
wicket; one of the 3 first to introduce round arm bowling, which
at first was not allowed; a very hard hitter; wrote in the
Sporting Magazine in 1827 on round arm bowling. _d._ 5 Moorfield
place, Hereford 25 Aug. 1867. _Lillywhite’s Cricket scores_, _i_
433, _v p. xiii_.
KNIGHT, JAMES (son of Samuel Knight 1759–1827, vicar of
Halifax). _b._ 1793; scholar of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1812–15,
B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817; P.C. of St. Paul’s, Sheffield 1824–60;
author of Discourses on the principal parables of our Lord
1829; Discourses on the principal miracles of our Lord 1831; A
short series of discourses on the Lord’s Prayer 1832; A concise
treatise on the truth and importance of the Christian religion
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