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.