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.