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KELAART, EDWARD FREDERICK. _b._ Ceylon 1818 or 1819; assistant
surgeon in army 16 July 1841, surgeon 16 July 1852 to death;
F.G.S. 1845; author of Flora Calpensis, contributions to
the flora and topography of Gibraltar 1846; Prodromus faunæ
Zeylanicæ, being contributions to the zoology of Ceylon 1852–54;
Introductory report on the natural history of the pearl oyster
of Ceylon 1857; Contributions to marine zoology, descriptions of
Ceylon nudibranchiate mollusca, sea anemones and entozoa 1859.
_d._ on board the Ripon on the evening before her arrival at
Southampton 31 Aug. 1860. _Proc. of Linnean soc._ (1861) _p._ 41.
KELK, JOHN. _b._ 1798; a student at Leyden 30 Sep. 1822 and M.D.
1824; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; author of Dissertatio de sylphide.
Leyden 1824; The Scarborough spa, its analysis and medical use,
to which is added On the utility of the bath 1841, 4 ed. 1860.
_d._ 1 Brunswick ter. Scarborough 3 May 1873.
KELK, SIR JOHN, 1 Baronet (3 son of John Kelk of London
1781–1848). _b._ London 16 Feb. 1816; apprentice to Thomas
Cubitt, builder; partner with Mr. Newton as builders 12 Margaret
st. Cavendish sq. till 1845; contractor for railway and other
works, being at times associated with Brassey, Peto and Betts
and others; agent for the commissioners of the Great Exhibition
of 1851 in purchasing the Gore house estate; gave £15,000
towards debt on Great Exhibition of 1862, which he and Mr. Lucas
erected; constructed the Albert memorial without pecuniary
benefit 1864; with Messrs. Aird made the Millwall docks 1868;
built the Victoria station and Pimlico railway 1858–60;
constructed works on the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District
railways 1860–71; built Smithfield goods depôt and meat market
1866–9; erected with Mr. Lucas the Alexandra palace, opened 22
May 1873, burnt 9 June 1873, re-erected it and lost much money
in the undertaking, it was reopened 1 May 1875; M.P. Harwich
1865–8; A.I.C.E. 5 Feb. 1861; cr. baronet 1 May 1874; sheriff
of co. Southampton 1884. _d._ 12 Sep. 1886. _Min. of Proc. of
I.C.E. lxxxvii_ 451–5 (1886); _I.L.N. May 1862 pp._ 479, 481,
_portrait_; _Law Reports. Chancery Division_, _xxvi_ 107–54
(1884).
KELKE, WILLIAM HASTINGS. Ed. at Jesus coll. Camb., B.A. 1828; R.
of Osgathorpe, Leics. 1836–40; R. of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks.
1840–60; author of Notices of sepulchral monuments in English
churches 1850; Britain’s ancient church and Rome’s usurpations
1851; The churchyard manual, with designs for memorials 1851;
Family prayers 1854. _d._ Little Missenden, Bucks. 12 April 1865.
KELL, EDMUND (son of a unitarian minister). _b._ Wareham 18
Jany. 1799; ed. at Glasgow 1815, M.A. 1819, and at Manchester
New coll. York; unitarian minister Newport, Isle of Wight
1823–53, where he also kept a school; hon. sec. Unitarian
societies of South of England; minister at Southampton 1853 to
death; the first to draw public attention to the Roman remains
in the Isle of Wight; F.S.A.; author of An earnest appeal
to unitarian christians on the duty of supporting their own
religious institutions 2 ed. 1848; What patriotism, justice
and christianity demand for India, a sermon 1857, 4 ed. 1858;
Shall christians seek to build up a faith with the weapons of
misrepresentation. Controversy between Dr. Cumming and rev. E.
Kell 1858. _d._ Southampton 17 Jany. 1874. _Memorials of rev. E.
Kell_ (1875); _Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi_ 230–31.
KELLAND, PHILIP (son of Philip Kelland, R. of Dunster,
Somerset). _b._ Dunster 1808; ed. Queen’s coll. Camb., senior
wrangler and Smith’s prizeman 1834; B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; tutor
of his college; professor of mathematics in univ. of Edinb. 19
Oct. 1838 to death, secretary of the Senatus Academicus till
1867; F.R.S. 6 Dec. 1838; F.R.S. Edinb. 1839, president Nov.
1878 to death; pres. of Society of arts 1853–54; one of founders
of Life association of Scotland; wrote the article Algebra, in 9
ed. of Encyclopædia Britannica; author of Theory of heat 1837;
The elements of algebra 1839, 3 ed. 1861; How to improve the
Scottish universities, a lecture 1855; Transatlantic sketches
1858; with P. G. Tait, Introduction to quaternions 1873. _d._
Bridge of Allan 7 May 1879. _Sir A. Grant’s Story of univ. of
Edinb. ii_ 304–305 (1884); _Proc. of R.S. of Edinb. x_ 208, 211,
321–29 (1880); _Proc. of R.S. xxix pp. vii–x_ (1879).
KELLETT, SIR HENRY (son of John Dalton Kellett of Clonacody, co.
Tipperary). _b._ 2 Nov. 1806; entered R.N. 7 Jany. 1822; in the
Eden employed in scheme for colonising Fernando Po 1827; lieut.
in Ætna surveying vessel 1831–5; in Starling cutter in war in
Canton river; capt. 23 Dec. 1842; C.B. 24 Dec. 1832, K.C.B. 2
June 1869; in the Herald co-operated in Behring’s Straits with
Franklin search expedition 1848–50; commander of the Resolute
in search for sir John Franklin 1852, the ship abandoned by sir
E. Belcher’s orders 15 May 1854, the Resolute was found by the
Americans, refitted and sent to England as a present to the
queen and people of Great Britain 12 Dec. 1856; commodore at
Jamaica 1855–9; superintendent Malta dockyard 26 Nov. 1864 to 16
April 1868; retired V.A. 8 April 1868; commander in chief China
1869–71. _d._ Clonacody house, Tipperary 1 March 1875. _Seeman’s
Narrative of voyage of H.M.S. Herald 2 vols._ (1853); _G. F.
Mc. Dougall’s Eventful voyage of H.M. discovery ship Resolute_
(1857).
KELLETT, SIR RICHARD, 1 Baronet (son of Richard Kellett,
alderman of Cork, _d._ 25 Jany. 1828 aged 95). _b._ Cork 16 May
1761; created baronet 6 Aug. 1801; of Lota co. and city of Cork.
_d._ 5 Mespil parade, Dublin 1853.
KELLIE, WALTER CONINGSBY ERSKINE, 12 Earl of (2 son of Henry
David Erskine 1776–1846). _b._ Warkworth, Northumberland 12 July
1810; ed. at Durham gr. school and univ. of Edinb.; entered
Bengal army 1827; served in and had medals for Sutlej campaign;
commissioner of Jubbulpore during the mutiny 1857; retired
lieut. col. 25 Sep. 1861; C.B. 18 May 1860; succeeded his cousin
as 12 earl of Kellie 19 June 1866; Scotch representative peer 8
July 1869 to death; claimed earldom of Mar 1867 but died before
the decision. _d._ Cannes 15 Jany. 1872.
KELLNER, SIR GEORGE WELSH (son of Francis Daniel Kellner). _b._
1825; entered service of H.E.I.C. 1841; inspector general of
accounts 1866–70; military accountant general of India 1871–7;
financial commissioner and member of council in Cyprus 1878;
assist. paymaster general in chancery Feb. 1884 to death; C.S.I.
1 Jany. 1877; K.C.M.G. 24 May 1879. _d._ 46 Pembridge villas,
Bayswater, London 10 June 1886.
KELLY, ANN. _b._ 1749; of a theatrical family; acted in many
theatres in England, Ireland and Scotland; played with Edmund
Kean and James Sheridan Knowles; frequently played Alicia to
the Jane Shore of Mrs. Siddons; became deaf and left the stage
1809; J. S. Knowles befriended her from that time till her
death; twice married to persons called Kelly. _d._ Lewisham,
Kent 15 March 1852 aged 103. _bur._ Sydenham on Good Friday.
KELLY, BENEDICTUS MARWOOD (2 son of Benedictus Marwood Kelly of
Holsworthy, Devon, attorney, _d._ 1836). _b._ Holsworthy 1 Sep.
1790; entered navy 19 Oct. 1798; wounded in a boat attack on the
French in the island of Elba 1801; captain 19 July 1821; admiral
on half pay 27 April 1863. _d._ Saltford house, Bath 26 Sep.
1867.
NOTE.--He left by his will a sum of £200,000 for Kelly college, which
was built close to Tavistock and opened Sep. 1877, the endowments are
devoted to education of the founder’s kin and of the orphan sons of
naval officers, but there is also full provision for a first-grade
public school.
KELLY, BERNARD (son of Peter Kelly, grocer and owner of
potteries). _b._ Ballyshannon, co. Donegal; in business with
his father; sec. to local branch of National League; M.P. South
Donegal, Dec. 1885 to death. _d._ Mountcharles, co. Donegal 1
Jany. 1887.
KELLY, CHARLES, stage name of Charles Clavering Wardell (son
of rev. Henry Wardell, R. of Winlaton, Durham). _b._ Newcastle
1839; made first public appearance at T.R. Hull as Montano in
Othello 1868; played in Halliday’s The great city, at Surrey
theatre 1869, and in Tom Taylor’s Arkwright’s Wife as Richard
Arkwright, at Globe theatre 6 Oct. 1873; acted Samuel Brown
in New Men and Old Acres, Court theatre 2 Dec. 1875 which was
played 250 times; played Darnley in Lord Lytton’s House of
Darnley, at Court theatre 6 Oct. 1877, and Robert L’Estrange in
Bondage, Opera Comique 31 March 1883; his characteristic was his
ability to indicate strong emotion without obtrusive display;
made his final appearance at a complimentary benefit given to
him at Prince’s theatre 16 July 1883. (_m._ at St. Phillip’s
ch. South Kensington 21 Nov. 1877 Ellen Terry dau. of Benjamin
Terry); Kelly’s first wife Anne Maria _d._ 7 Nov. 1875. He _d._
of apoplexy 27 Bedford place, London 17 April 1885. _C. E.
Pascoe’s Dramatic List_ (1880) 229–31.
KELLY, DAVID. _b._ Manchester 1821; in employment of George
Simms, bookseller, Exchange st. Manchester (the founder of firm
of Simms and Dinham) till 1851; bookseller in partnership with
Edwin Slater 1851 and then on his own account in Market st.;
became acquainted with Edwin Waugh 1852 and was instrumental in
the publication of Waugh’s Lancashire sketches 1855; published
many of Waughs’ poems on cards 1856 etc. which had immense
circulation; furnished some information to Procter’s Memorials
of Manchester streets 1874. _d._ Brunswick st. Stretford near
Manchester 2 Nov. 1891.
KELLY, DENNIS (eld. son of James Kelly). _b._ 1804 or 1805; ed.
at Dundalk and at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1825; C. of Crewe
to 1832; V. of Killyon and Kilronan 1832–4; C. of St. John’s,
Chatham 1834–6; C. of St. Bride’s, Fleet st. London 1836–8; P.C.
of Trinity ch. Gough sq. Fleet st. London on its consecration
June 1838 to death; contributed 250 essays to Church of England
Magazine; author of Practical Sermons 1836, 2 ed. 1837; Sabbath
evening readings, 1st series 1835, 22 ed. 1845, 2nd series
1842–3, the two series complete 1 vol. 1853; Self inspection
1845; Characters 1846; Neophilus or moral reflections 1846. _d._
5 New Bridge st. Blackfriars, London 14 Nov. 1866. _D. Kelly’s
Posthumous Sermons_ (1867), _memoir pp. vii–xv_.
KELLY, EDWARD (eld. son of John Kelly of Belfast, afterwards
a convict in Tasmania, who _d._ Victoria 1865). _b._ Victoria
1854; imprisoned 3 years for horse-stealing; shot a constable at
his house near Greta, April 1878; bushranger in Australia with
his brothers James and Daniel and two men called Byrne and Hart
from 1878 to death, Victoria and New South Wales governments
jointly offered a reward of £8000 for their apprehension; robbed
the bank of Euroa, Victoria of £3000, 11 Dec. 1878; held the
town of Jerilderie, New South Wales for 2 days and robbed the
bank of about £700, Feb. 1879; they wore iron plates weighing
nearly 100 lb. each, they were killed near Beechworth 27 June
1880 except Edward Kelly who was tried at Beechworth, convicted
Oct. 1880 and hanged there 11 Nov. _F. A. Hare’s Last of the
Bushrangers_ (1891), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxvii_ 252 (1880),
_portrait_; _Graphic_, _xxii_ 225 (1880), _portrait_.
KELLY, EDWARD. _b._ 26 April 1836; entered navy 1850; first
lieut. of Bombay 67 guns, destroyed by fire off Montevideo 14
Dec. 1864; captain 22 Oct. 1870; commanded Achilles during
Egyptian war 1882; A.D.C. to the Queen 1885–7; captain
superintendent of Pembroke dockyard 1 Jany. 1886 to 10 June
1887; R.A. 10 June 1887; admiral superintendent of Chatham
dockyard 1 Nov. 1887 to death. _d._ of influenza at Admiralty
house, Chatham dockyard 17 Jany. 1892. _bur._ Rochester
cathedral cemetery.
KELLY, SIR FITZROY EDWARD (son of Robert Hawke Kelly, captain
R.N.) _b._ London 9 Oct. 1796; practised as special pleader;
barrister L.I. 7 May 1824; went Norfolk circuit; K.C. 27 Dec.
1834, bencher of his inn 1838–66; contested Hythe 1830, Ipswich
1832 and 1841, and Lyme Regis 1847; M.P. for Ipswich 8 Jany.
1835 to June 1835 when unseated on petition; contested Ipswich
27 July 1837, seated on petition 26 Feb. 1838 and sat for it
until 1841; M.P. for Cambridge borough 1843–1847, M.P. East
Suffolk 1852–1866; standing counsel to Bank of England, May
1845; solicitor general 29 June 1845 to 2 July 1846 and 27 Feb.
1852 to 28 Dec. 1852; knighted at Buckingham palace 8 Aug. 1845;
attorney general 26 Feb. 1858 to 18 June 1859; serjeant at law
16 July 1866, admitted 2 Nov. 1866; lord chief baron of court of
exchequer 16 July 1866 to Nov. 1875 when he became a judge of
supreme court of judicature but retained his former title by act
of parliament; P.C. 10 Nov. 1866. _d._ Bedford hotel, Brighton
17 Sep. 1880. _bur._ Highgate cemet. 22 Sep. _A generation of
Judges. By Their Reporter_ (1886) 38–53; _Public men of Ipswich_
(1875) 71–8; _Illust. news of the world_, _vol. i_ (1858),
_portrait_; _I.L.N. vii_ 48 (1845) _portrait_, _lxxvii_ 324
(1880) _portrait_.
NOTE.--At one time his income at the bar amounted to £25,000 a year,
a sum scarcely ever equalled by an advocate of late years, except by
Lord Selborne when Roundell Palmer. He made his famous defence of John
Tawell the Quaker murderer, at Aylesbury assizes March 1845, which
gained him sobriquet of ‘Apple pip Kelly,’ this was the first occasion
on which the telegraph was called in to assist in securing a murderer.
See _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 16–49.
KELLY, FRANCES MARIA (dau. of Mark Kelly _d._ Canterbury 4
April 1833). _b._ Brighton 15 Dec. 1790; appeared at Drury
Lane in opera of Bluebeard 16 Jany. 1798; chorister Drury Lane
1799; took many of Madame Storace’s characters and afterwards
those of Mrs. Jordan, at Drury Lane and the Italian opera
1800–1806; learnt Italian, French and Latin; co-operated with
Edmund Kean at Drury Lane 1812 and frequently played Ophelia to
his Hamlet; while acting in Modern Antiques at Covent Garden
17 Feb. 1816 George Barnett fired a pistol at her; made final
appearance at Drury Lane 8 June 1835; besides impersonating many
of Shakespeare’s heroines, she played all the leading comedy
characters in the English drama, and was superior in melodrama
to all other actresses; lessee of New Strand theatre where she
gave a monologue entertainment Feb. to Oct. 1833 with which she
afterwards travelled in the provinces; built a theatre at back
of 73 Dean st. Soho for a dramatic school, opened 25 March
1840 and called Miss Kelly’s theatre, where she gave occasional
dramatic performances; gave Shakespeare readings in the country;
her theatre seized by the landlord 1849, she lost £16,000. _d._
Ross cottage, Feltham, Middlesex 6 Dec. 1882. _bur._ Brompton
cemetery 16 Dec. _Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography_, _i_ 215–24
(1825), _portrait_; _Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses_, _ii_
223–34 (1844); _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _xii_ 414 (1880),
_portrait_; _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _v_ 203–206 (1814),
_portrait_, _viii_ 83–86 (1816), _portrait_; _I.L.N. viii_ 9
(1846), _portrait_, _lxxxi_ 661 (1882), _portrait_.
NOTE.--Her sister Lydia Eliza Kelly an actress _b._ London 2 June 1795,
_d._ in U.S. of America before 1882. _Theatrical Inquisitor_, _vi_ 323
(1815), _portrait_; _Ireland’s Records_, _i_ 433 (1866).
KELLY, FRANCIS (son of Edward Kelly). _b._ Drumragh, co. Tyrone
31 July 1813; ed. at Maynooth 1835; ordained priest 13 June
1840; C. of Drumragh 1840–6; professor in the diocesan seminary,
Derry, July 1846; C. of Strabane; C. of Culdaff; parish priest
of Upper Fahan to 1849; D.D.; bishop of Derry 8 Aug. 1849 to
death, consecrated in Derry 21 Oct. 1849; built Derry cath. at
cost of £40,000. _d._ St. Eugene’s, Derry 1 Sep. 1889. _The
Derry Journal 2, 4, 6 Sep. 1889._
KELLY, GORDON WILLIAM (only child of rev. Dr. John Kelly
1750–1809, Manx scholar, V. of Ardleigh near Colchester). _b._
Isle of Man 1786; ed. at St. John’s coll. Camb., fellow, B.A.
1808, M.A. 1811; called to bar of Isle of Man; recorder of
Colchester to death. (_m._ 1830 Miss White, she founded 1858
the Kelly scholarship in King William’s college, Isle of Man,
also the Kelly prize in same college for proficiency in the Manx
language). _d._ Oxney Green House, Whittle near Chelmsford 4
April 1858.
KELLY, JOHN. _b._ Edinburgh 1 Dec. 1801; independent minister
of Bethesda chapel, Liverpool, Sep. 1829; his new chapel at
Everton, Liverpool, opened 23 Nov. 1837, retired from it 28
Sep. 1873; a director of London missionary society many years;
chairman of Congregational union of England and Wales in London,
May 1851, and at Northampton, Oct. 1851; author of The voluntary
support of the Christian ministry the law of the New Testament
1838; Discourses on holy scripture 1850 and other books. _d._
18 Richmond terrace, Liverpool 12 June 1876. _Hassan’s Rev.
John Kelly, a memorial_ (1876), _portrait_; _Waddington’s
Congregational history_, _v_ 561–9 (1880).
KELLY, JOHN. _b._ 1834; presbyterian minister at Hebburn
and Streatham; editor of tracts of Religious tract soc. 56
Paternoster row, London; author of P. Gerhardt’s Spiritual
songs, translated 1867; The king and the kingdom 1867; Who is
the apostate? A passover story by A Saphir, translated 1878;
Louisa of Prussia and other sketches 1888. _d._ Braemar 19 July
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