KYLE, Samuel Moore. b. 1800 or 1801; archdeacon of St. Peter’s, Cork 6 July 1833; vicar general and chancellor of Cork and Ross 30 June 1837 to death; vicar general of Cloyne 1840; author of The ministration of private baptism. Cork 1853. d. 37 Upper Fitzwilliam st. Dublin 1 May 1890.
KYNASTON, Herbert (4 son of Roger Kynaston of Warwick). b. Warwick 23 Nov. 1809; ed. Westminster 1821–7 and Ch. Ch. Oxf., tutor and Greek reader 1836, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, B.D. and D.D. 1849; C. of Culham, Oxfordshire 1834–8; high master of St. Paul’s sch. London 22 June 1838 to Dec. 1876; select preacher of univ. of Oxf. 1842–43; R. of St. Nicholas-Cole-Abbey with St. Nicholas Olave, London 1850–66; preb. of St. Paul’s cath. July 1853 to death; contested chair of poetry at Oxford 1867; few scholars equalled him as a composer of Latin verse, he for long wrote annual compositions in praise of John Colet founder of St. Paul’s sch.; author of Miscellaneous poems 1841; Lays of the seven half centuries 1859; The number of the fish, a poem 1864; edited with a translation The glory of paradise, by Peter Damiani 1857. d. 31 Alfred place west, South Kensington, London 26 Oct. 1878. bur. Friern Barnet 2 Nov. Leisure Hour, March 1879 pp. 180–82.
KYNASTON, Sir John Roger, 3 Baronet. b. 2 July 1797; ed. Rugby and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1820; capt. North Salop yeomanry cavalry 1831–50; succeeded 26 April 1839; sheriff of co. Montgomery 1842. d. Great Western hotel, Paddington, London 7 March 1866.
KYNASTON, Roger. b. London 5 Nov. 1805; ed. Eton; first played at Lord’s in Lord’s v. Eton 31 July 1823, played for 30 seasons; generally fielded long-stop; sec. Marylebone club 14 June 1842 to May 1858 and treasurer 1858–66. d. 43 Devonshire st. Portland place, London 21 June 1874. I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1844 p. 125, portrait.
KYNNERSLEY, Thomas Clement Sneyd- (2 son of Thomas Sneyd-Kynnersley of Loxley park, Staffs. 1774–1844). b. 23 July 1803; ed. at Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister M.T. 20 June 1828; revising barrister on Oxford circuit 1832–55; commissioner of bankrupts for Stafford, Lichfield and Newcastle-under-Lyme to 12 Nov. 1842 when granted pension of £147 on abolition of the office; stipendiary magistrate Birmingham 5 April 1856 to Aug. 1888; chief founder of St. Martin’s shoe-black brigade, Birmingham 5 April 1858; much interested in criminal reform, prisoners’ aid societies and industrial schools; recorder of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Nov. 1858 to June 1887; edited J. T. Pratt’s Law of highways 9 ed. 1863, 10 ed. 1865, 11 ed. 1870; author of The law relating to dealers in old metals and marine store dealers 1862; The law relating to juvenile offenders 1862. d. Moon Green, Moseley, Birmingham 2 May 1892. The Biograph, March 1882 pp. 276–79.
KYNOCH, George (youngest son of John Kynoch of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire). b. Peterhead 22 Aug. 1834; clerk at Birmingham and Midland bank some years; founded the Lion ammunition works, Witton, Birmingham; partner with John Abraham 1873, partnership dissolved, business became a limited co. 6 July 1884, he received £60,000 in cash, £10,000 in fully paid preference shares and the whole of the £40,000 ordinary shares, managing director 1884–6, sold his interest in it 1887; pres. of Aston conservative association March 1885; M.P. Aston manor 3 July 1886 to death, absent from House of Commons 1889–90; gun manufacturer Lichfield road, Aston 1887–88; lived at Hamstead hall, Handsworth, Birmingham; went to South Africa, Nov. 1888; a general merchant Johannesburgh 1888; obtained special concessions from Transvaal government for arms and ammunition; invented a solid Martini cartridge used by the government. d. from internal cancer at Johannesburgh 28 Feb. 1891. Daily Graphic 3 March 1891 p. 9, portrait; London Figaro 7 March 1891 p. 9, portrait; Birmingham Weekly Post 7 March 1891.
KYTE, Ambrose. b. Tipperary 1822; went to Australia 1840; a merchant at Melbourne; retired with a large fortune 1857; offered £1000 towards expenses of exploring expedition to cross Australia from south to north Sep. 1858, this led to despatch of Burke and Wills’ expedition Aug. 1860; member for East Melbourne of legislative assembly 1861–6; a great philanthropist, gave many cheques for £1000 each from ‘A Merchant of Melbourne.’ d. Melbourne 1868.
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LABELLE, A. (son of a shoemaker). b. St. Roch, Quebec 1834; parish priest of St. Jerome; founder of national colonization in Canada and known as The Apostle of colonization; took the lead in raising men to oppose the Fenians 1868; promoted Canadian Pacific railway 1881; appointed a deputy commissioner of agriculture, his bishop refused his assent to his taking this office, but the Pope did not order him to give it up. d. Quebec 4 Jany. 1891.
LABLACHE, Fanny (dau. of Mr. Wilton). b. Scotland; acted in the provinces under stage name of Fanny Wyndham; studied at Royal Academy of Music, London 1836–7; made her début at Lyceum theatre 1836; sang at Her Majesty’s with success the contralto part in Rossini’s opera Donna del Lago; m. Frederick Lablache (1815–87) when she retired from the stage; taught singing; struck with a wave while bathing. d. Paris 23 Sep. 1877.