KAVANAGH, Morgan Peter. Author of The wanderings of Lucan and Dinah, a romance. By M.P.K. 1824; The reign of Lockrin, a poem. By M. P. K. 1839; The discovery of the science of languages 2 vols. 1844; Aristobulus, the last of the Maccabees 3 vols. 1855; Myths traced to their primary source through language 2 vols. 1856; Origin of language and myths 2 vols. 1871; The Hobbies, a novel 3 vols. 1857, edited by Julia Kavanagh his dau. who repudiated having anything to do with this work. d. from an accident March 1874. Athenæum (1857) 43, 761, 792, 822, 854, 909.
KAVANAGH, Thomas Henry (son of band master of 3 regt. of foot). b. Mullinger, Ireland 1821; entered uncovenanted service of H.E.I. Co. Dec. 1834; assistant comr. in Oudh and stationed at Lucknow; went disguised through Lucknow to the Alum Bagh to communicate with sir C. Campbell 8 Nov. 1857 and to act as his guide to Lucknow; V.C. 6 July 1859; requested to retire from the service, he being at that time in debt 22 Oct. 1875; granted his full pension of 5000 rupees per annum; author of Guilty or not guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. Lucknow 1876. d. Gibraltar, Nov. 1882. I.L.N. xxxiv 108, 109 (1859), portrait; How I won the Victoria cross (1860). By T. H. Kavanagh, portrait; The Verdict. By T. H. Kavanagh. Lucknow (1877).
KAY, Alexander. b. 1816; member of faculty of procurators, Glasgow; member of Glasgow Shakspeare club, instituted 1838; director of the Glasgow Athenæum; a contributor to Tait’s Mag., London Journal, Glasgow Tales of the borders, West of Scotland Mag., and Dramatic Rev.; dramatised Dickens’ Christmas Carol; wrote poetical introduction to Tam O’Shanter, a pantomime at Adelphi theatre, Glasgow, which ran 82 nights; author of Florine, a dramatic poem in ten scenes 1858. d. 1860. monu. to his memory in Sighthill cemet. Inglis’ Dramatic writers (1868) 69.
KAY, Joseph (3 son of Robert Kay 1768–1834). b. Ordsall cottage, Salford, Manchester 27 Feb. 1821; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; travelling bachelor of the Univ. 1845; B.A. 1845, M.A. 1849; wrote in the Manchester Examiner on Free trade in land; barrister I.T. 5 May 1848, bencher 31 May 1870 to death; judge of Salford Hundred court of record, June 1862 to death; Q.C. 22 June 1869; solicitor general of county palatine of Durham 15 Feb. 1872 to death; contested Salford 1874 and 1877; author of The education of the poor in England and Europe 1846; The social condition of the people in England and Europe 2 vols. 1850; The condition and education of poor children in English and in German towns 1853; The law relating to shipmasters and seamen 2 vols. 1875. d. Fredley near Dorking, Surrey 9 Oct. 1878. Joseph Kay’s Free trade in land (1879); J. S. Bright’s History of Dorking (1884) 371–3.
KAY, Joseph Henry. b. 1814; midshipman R.N. Dec. 1827, commander 23 Aug. 1849, retired captain 1 Jany. 1865; director of royal magnetic observatory, Hobart Town to 1853; private sec. to sir Charles Hotham, governor of Victoria 1854–5; clerk of executive council, Melbourne to 1 July 1875; F.R.S. 26 Feb. 1846; member of Tasmanian Philos. soc.; contributed papers to Tasmanian Journal of science; author of Observations made at the observatory at Hobarton 1850. d. South Yarra, Melbourne 17 July 1875. The Argus 19 July 1875 p. 5.
KAY, William (youngest child of Thomas Kay of Knaresborough). b. Pickering, North Yorkshire 8 April 1820; ed. at Giggleswick sch. 1834–6; scholar of Lincoln coll. Oxf. 1836, fellow 1840, tutor 1842; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, B.D. 1849, D.D. 1854; Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew scholar 1842; principal of Bishop’s college, Calcutta 1849–64; select preacher at Oxf. 1865; R. of Great Leghs, Essex 1866 to death; Grinfield lecturer on the Septuagint 1869; one of the Old Testament revisers 1870–85; hon. canon of St. Alban’s 1877 to death; contributed to the Speaker’s Bible, Commentaries on Isaiah (1875) and on the Epistle to the Hebrews (1881); author of The influence of christianity on the position and character of women. Calcutta 1859; The Psalms with notes 1863, 5 ed. 1877; Crisis Hupfeldiana, an examination of Hupfeld’s Criticism on Genesis 1865; A commentary on the two Epistles of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1887. d. Great Leghs 16 Jany. 1886. Burgon’s Lives of twelve good men (1891) pp. ix–xi 150, 167, 172.
KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, Sir James Phillips, 1 Baronet (brother of Joseph Kay 1821–78). b. Rochdale 20 July 1804; educ. Edinb. univ., M.D. 1827; senior president Royal Medical soc. 1826; physician Manchester 1827; sec. Manchester board of health; assistant poor law commissioner 1835; first sec. of committee of privy council on education 1839–49; with E. Carleton Tufnell established first training coll. for teachers at Battersea 1839, existing methods of public education founded on his system; assumed by r.l. name of Shuttleworth 14 Feb. 1842; cr. baronet 9 Jany. 1850; vice chairman of central relief committee, Manchester, during cotton famine 1861–5; sheriff of Lancashire 1863; D.C.L. Oxf. 22 June 1870; contested N.E. Lancashire 13 Feb. 1874; author of The moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture 1832; Public education as affected by the minutes of the committee of privy council 1853; Scarsdale, or life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border 3 vols. 1860; Thoughts and suggestions on social problems 1873; Ribblesdale, or Lancashire sixty years ago 3 vols. 1874. d. 68 Cromwell road, Kensington, London 26 May 1877. Graphic, xv 549 (1877), portrait.
KAYE, John (son of Abraham Kaye, linen draper, Angel row, Hammersmith). b. Hammersmith 27 Dec. 1783; ed. at Ch. coll. Camb., scholar, fellow 1804, foundation fellow 1811, tutor 1808–14, master 5 Sep. 1814 to Nov. 1830; senior wrangler, chancellor’s medallist and B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1814, D.D. 1815; vice chancellor 1815; regius professor of divinity July 1816 to Nov. 1830, revived public lectures which had been suspended for more than a century; nominated bishop of Bristol 1 July 1820, consecrated at Lambeth 30 July, translated to Lincoln 12 Feb. 1827; visitor of Balliol coll. Oxf. 1848 to death; contributed papers to British Mag. under signature of Philalethes Cantabrigiensis; F.R.S.; author of The ecclesiastical history of the second and third centuries 1826; Some account of the writings and opinions of Justin Martyr 1829; A charge to the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln 1843, 3 ed. 1843; Some account of the council of Nicæa, in connexion with the life of Athanasius 1853; Some account of the government of the church of Christ during the first three centuries 1855; The works of John Kaye 8 vols. 1888. d. Riseholme palace near Lincoln 18 Feb. 1853. G.M. xxxix 428–31, 570 (1853).
KAYE, Sir John William (2 son of Charles Kaye, solicitor to bank of England). b. London 1814; ed. at Eton and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 23 May 1836, resigned the service 1841; started the Calcutta Review 1846; entered Home civil service of H.E.I.C. 1856; sec. in political and secret department of India office 1858 to 1874 when he retired; K.C.S.I. 20 May 1871; F.R.S. 7 June 1866; published History of the war in Afghanistan 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1874; The administration of the East India company 1853; The life and correspondence of Charles lord Metcalfe 1854; The life and correspondence of sir John Malcolm 2 vols. 1856; Christianity in India 1859; A history of the Sepoy war in India 3 vols. 1864–76, revised and continued by colonel G. B. Malleson 6 vols. 1890. d. Rose hill, Forest hill 24 July 1876.
KAYE, Peter M. b. Warrington about 1800; ed. at Ushaw coll. Durham and at English coll. Rome; ordained priest in Rome 1829; missioner at Rook st. Manchester 1829, at Bradford, Yorkshire 1835, at St. George’s, London 1843; R. of St. Alban’s, Blackburn 1845 to death; rural dean; reputed restorer of R.C. guilds in England; a well known preacher; author of The laws and constitutions of the holy guild of St. Joseph and our Blessed Lady 1840. d. Blackburn 6 Aug. 1856. Lamp 30 Aug. 1856 pp. 139–40; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii 674–5 (1887).