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.