KANE, Denis. b. Ardnahue, co. Carlow 3 March 1822; ed. at Tullow monastery, Carlow diocesan sch., Carlow coll. and Maynooth; dean of the lay house 1848 and then professor of natural philosophy Carlow coll. 1851–7; curate in Leighlin-bridge 1857, administrator at Tullow 1860; in pastoral charge of Philipstown 1867 and of Baltinglas 1871; vicar general of Carlow 1878 to death; D.D. d. Carlow 2 July 1883. M. Comerford’s Collections of Kildare and Leighlin (1883) 232, 330–1.
KANE, Sir Robert John (2 son of John Kane, chemist). b. Dublin 24 Sep. 1809; ed. at Dublin univ., LL.D. 1868, member of academic council 16 Dec. 1874; clinical clerk Meath hospital, Dublin 1830; F.K. and Q.C.P. Dublin 1835; lecturer in chemistry Apothecaries’ Co. of Ireland medical sch. Dublin 1831–45; discovered an arsenide of manganese since known as Kaneite; claimed to be the discoverer of the ethyl theory 183-; experimented on the compounds of ammonia; member R. Irish Acad. 1832, sec. 1842–9, Cunningham medal 1843, president 1877–82; royal medal of Royal Soc. 1841 for paper on archil and litmus; F.R.S. 7 June 1849; professor of natural philosophy Royal Dublin soc. 1834–47; originator and first director of Museum of Irish industry, Dublin 1845–9; established Royal coll. of science, Ireland; knighted by lord Heytesbury, Feb. 1846; president Queen’s coll. Cork 1849, resigned May 1873; commissioner of national education in Ireland 1873; president R. Geol. soc. of Ireland; commissioner of national education Aug. 1875; vice chancellor R. University of Ireland 1880. (m. 1838 Katharine dau. of Henry Baily of London, she was author of The Irish Flora, and d. 1886); originated Dublin Journal of Medical science 1832, one of the editors to 1834; an editor of Philosophical mag. 1840; author of Elements of practical pharmacy 1831; Industrial resources of Ireland 1844, 2 ed. 1845; The large and small farm question considered 1844; The elements of chemistry 1846, 2 ed. 1849. d. 2 Wellington road, Dublin 16 Feb. 1890. Proc. of Royal Soc. xlvii pp. xii–xvii (1890); Muspratt’s Chemistry, vol. i (1853), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. May 1849 pp. 626–37, portrait.
KARKEEK, William Floyd (son of George Karkeek). b. Truro 9 Sep. 1802; passed as a veterinary surgeon 31 Jany. 1825; sec. Cornwall agricultural assoc.; encouraged scientific farming in Cornwall; one of the editors of The Veterinarian 1833–41; author of An essay on artificial and other manures 1844; An essay on fat and muscle 1844; On the farming of Cornwall 1845; Diseases of cattle and sheep 1851. d. Pentreve, Truro 25 June 1858. The Veterinarian, xxxi 478–80 (1858).
KARSLAKE, Edward Kent (eld. son of Henry Karslake of 4 Regent st. London, solicitor, who d. 3 Aug. 1857 aged 72). b. 1820; ed. at Harrow; student of Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1838–41, Ireland scholar 1840, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1846; fellow of Balliol coll. 1841–50; barrister L.I. 6 May 1846, bencher 11 Jany. 1867 to death, treasurer 1892 to death; Q.C. 15 Dec. 1866; M.P. Colchester 15 Feb. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868; contested Colchester 18 Nov. 1868; author of Oratio Latino aureo numismate Roberti Peel dignata et in auditorio recitata scholæ Harroviensis 1836; Concio apud scholæ Hergensis Gubernatores habita iii 1837. d. Turvey, Beds. 31 May 1892. Pen and ink sketches in chancery (1867), No. 3 pp. 14–16.
KARSLAKE, Sir John Burgess (brother of the preceding). b. Bencham near Croydon 13 Dec. 1821; ed. at Harrow; solicitor; barrister M.T. 30 Jany. 1846; went western circuit, leader of it with John Duke Coleridge; Q.C. 22 Feb. 1861, bencher of his inn 7 May 1861 to death, treasurer 1873; solicitor general 29 Nov. 1866; knighted at Osborne 28 Dec. 1866; attorney general 18 July 1867 to Nov. 1868 and 27 Feb. 1874 to April 1874 when he resigned in consequence of his failing sight; M.P. Andover 11 Feb. 1867 to 11 Nov. 1868; contested Exeter 16 Nov. 1868; M.P. Huntingdon 20 Dec. 1873, accepted Chiltern hundreds Feb. 1876; P.C. 24 March 1876; member of judicature commission; revised Dr. Charles P. Collyn’s Notes on the chase of the wild red deer 1862. d. 7 Chester sq. London 4 Oct. 1881. I.L.N. xlix 648, 649 (1866), portrait; Graphic, ix 191, 196 (1874), portrait; A generation of Judges by Their Reporter (1886) 183–9.
KARSLAKE, William Heberden (1 son of William Karslake, V. of Culmstock, Devon 1811, d. 1861). b. 1809; ed. at the Charterhouse and Oriel coll. Oxf., B.A. 1830; R. of Meshaw and Creacombe, Devon 29 Oct. 1832 to death; preb. of Exeter cath. 1875 to death; R.D. of South Molton to death, chairman of quarter sessions; banquet given to him at South Molton 24 Oct. 1878 when he was presented with 300 guineas to restore Meshaw ch.; found dead in his bed at Meshaw rectory 29 Oct. 1878. Mozley’s Reminiscences, ii 123–9 (1882); The Guardian 30 Oct. 1878 p. 1506.
KATER, Edward. F.R.S. 19 Nov. 1840; M.R.I.A.; lived at 46 Sussex gardens, London. d. 1866.
KATON, James Edward (only son of James Katon, vice admiral, d. 1845). b. 18 Nov. 1810; entered navy 5 Nov. 1823; captain 1 Jany. 1856, retired 1 July 1864; retired admiral 27 March 1885. d. St. Thomas’s house, Ryde, Isle of Wight 20 Dec. 1886.
KAVANAGH, Arthur Macmorrough (3 son of Thomas Kavanagh 1767–1837, M.P. for co. Carlow). b. Borris house, co. Carlow 25 March 1831 with only the rudiments of arms and legs; became a good driver, rider, angler, shooter, draughtsman and painter; acted as a volunteer scout during Smith O’Brien’s rebellion 1848; went to India by way of Russia and Persia 1849–51; succeeded to the family estates 1854 on death of his brother Charles Kavanagh; rebuilt villages of Borris and Ballyragget 1855–6; subsidised and managed railway from Borris to Bagnalstown 1858 etc.; sheriff of Kilkenny 1856 and of Carlow 1857; M.P. for co. Wexford 1866–68; M.P. co. Carlow 1868–80; lord lieut. of co. Carlow 1880; initiated the Irish land committee 1882, founded the Land corporation 1883; P.C. Ireland 1886; author of The cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva. Dublin 1865. d. 19 Tedworth sq. Chelsea, London 25 Dec. 1889. bur. in ruined church on Ballycopigan, Borris. Sarah L. Steele’s A. M. Kavanagh (1891), portrait; Blackwood’s Mag. March 1891 pp. 429–44; The Lancet 14 March 1891 p. 608.
KAVANAGH, Julia (only child of the succeeding). b. Thurles 1824; lived with her parents in Paris to 1844; wrote tales and essays for periodicals; author of The three paths 1847; Women in France during the eighteenth century 2 vols. 1850; Women of christianity 1852; A summer and winter in the Two Sicilies 2 vols. 1858; English women of letters 1862; French women of letters 2 vols. 1862; Queen Mab 3 vols. 1863; Dora 3 vols. 1868; Bessie 3 vols. 1872; Two lilies 3 vols. 1877. d. Nice 28 Oct. 1877, portrait by Chanet placed in national gallery of Ireland 1884. Irish Monthly, vi 96–100 (1878).