KEAN, Charles John (2 son of Edmund Kean 1787–1833). b. Waterford, Ireland 18 Jany. 1811; entered Eton as an Oppidan, June 1824; made his first appearance on the stage at Drury Lane theatre as Young Norval in Douglas 1 Oct. 1827; visited America 1830, 1839, 1845; played Hamlet at Drury Lane 8 Jany. 1838; manager of Princess’s theatre, London with Robert Keeley 28 Sep. 1850, sole manager 17 Oct. 1851 to 29 Aug. 1859; played in the provinces 1859–61; subscription testimonial vase value 2000 guineas presented to him at banquet in St. James’ hall, London 22 March 1862; acted in Australia, United States and Canada 1863–66; made his last appearance at Prince of Wales’s theatre, Liverpool 28 May 1867 as Louis XI.; F.S.A. 18 June 1857; F.R.G.S.; his best characters were Hamlet, Richard III. and Louis XI.; edited nine of Shakspeare’s plays with notes 1853–59; arranged Selections from the plays of Shakspeare 1860; directed private theatricals at Windsor Castle 1849–60. d. Queensborough ter. Bayswater, London 23 Jany. 1868. bur. Catherington ch. near Horndean, Hants. 30 Jany., his personalty sworn under £35,000, 25 March 1868. J. W. Cole’s Life of C. Kean 2 vols. (1860), portrait; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 1 series (1859), portrait; E. Stirling’s Old Drury Lane, ii 153–63 (1881); W. Marston’s Our recent actors, i 168–215 (1888); I.L.N. 1 Feb. 1868 p. 117, portrait.
KEAN, Ellen (dau. of Cornelius Tree of Lancaster buildings, St. Martin’s lane, London). b. South of Ireland, Dec. 1805; appeared at Covent Garden 21 May 1823 as Olivia in Twelfth Night; played at Bath 1824–6; the original Mavilla in R. Allen’s The Parricide 12 May 1824; acted at Drury Lane 1826–29, and at Covent Garden 1829–36 and 1839–42; the original Mariana in Sheridan Knowles’s The Wife 1833, and the original Clemanthe in Talfourd’s Ion 26 May 1836; played in U.S. of America 1836–9, 1845–7. (m. 29 Jany. 1842 Charles J. Kean 1811–68); acted many Shakespearean parts at Haymarket 1842; the original of Lady Eveline Amyott in The Wife’s Secret, at Haymarket 20 June 1849; played many original parts at Princess’ theatre 1850–59; retired from the stage 1868; a perfect Gertrude in Hamlet and very effective as Mrs. Beverley. d. 47 Queensborough terrace, Bayswater, London 20 Aug. 1880. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses, ii 129–39 (1844), portrait; Cole’s Life of C. Kean 2 vols. (1860), portrait; W. Marston’s Our recent actors, i 216–32 (1888); C. E. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 217–25.
KEANE, David Deady. b. 1810 or 1811; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb. and univ. of Gottingen; Ph.D. Gottingen 1831; a parliamentary reporter; barrister M.T. 12 June 1835; revising barrister on Norfolk circuit 1856–63; recorder of Bedford, July 1861 to death; Q.C. 13 Feb. 1864; bencher of his inn 1864 to death; published Courts of requests, their jurisdiction and powers 3 ed. 1845; A collection of all the statutes now in force relating to gaols and houses of correction in England and Wales 1850; The nuisances removal acts for England and Wales 1855, 6 ed. 1870; Reports of cases in the common pleas on appeals from the revising barristers from 1854 to 1862. 1863. d. 20 June 1870.
KEANE, george Disney (3 son of 1 baron Keane 1781–1844). b. 26 Sep. 1817; entered R.N. 8 Oct. 1831, captain 9 July 1855, R.A. 30 April 1873, retired 27 Sep. 1877; admiral 30 Oct. 1884; served in Syrian war 1840, Kaffir war 1851–2, and at rout of imperial camp at Shanghai 1854; C.B. 20 May 1871. d. Mere hall, Knutsford 19 Oct. 1891.
KEANE, Sir John Henry, 3 Baronet. b. Cappoquin house, Waterford 12 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Camb., B.C.L. 1841; rowed No. 6 in Cambridge boat against Oxford 17 June 1836 and No. 4 in first match against Leander club 9 June 1837; succeeded 16 Feb. 1855; sheriff of Waterford 1856; author of An address to the young men of Ireland 1835; Lady Alice, the flower of Ossorye 1836; The substance of three lectures on the history of Ireland 1839; The Old Jewry, a tragedy 1860. d. Cappoquin house, Waterford 26 Nov. 1881.
KEANE, Joseph B. Educ. as an architect in office of works at Dublin; F.R.I.A. Ireland, F.S.C.E.; designed R.C. churches of St. Francis Xavier, Dublin 1832 and of St. Lorcan Ua Tuathal, Dublin 1858; Queen’s college, Galway, was built from his designs 1846–50; exhibited a drawing at R.A. London 1842. d. Dublin 7 Oct. 1859.
KEANE, Sir Richard, 2 Baronet. b. Lismore, co. Waterford, March 1780; lieut. col. Waterford militia 30 July 1804 to death; succeeded 18 April 1829; M.P. Waterford 1832–5. d. Waterford 16 Feb. 1855.
KEANE, William (8 son of Robert Keane of Beech park, co. Clare). b. 1818; ed. at Charterhouse and Emm. coll. Camb., B.A. 1840, M.A. 1843; C. of Fenstanton, Hunts. 1843–6; canon of St. Paul’s cath. Calcutta 1846; association sec. to Church missionary soc. 1852; P.C. of Whitby 1853, R. of Whitby 1861 to death; F.R.A.S.; author of A letter to the late J. E. D. Bethune on the government public instruction in Bengal 1851, 2 ed. 1852; Romanism and Hindooism. Madras 1851, and pamphlets on India education and temperance. d. 1873. Rev. G. Smales’s Whitby authors (1867) 189–92; I.L.N. xxii 277 (1853).
KEANE, William. Vice rector of Irish college in Paris 14 years; parish priest of Midleton; bishop of Ross 19 Nov. 1850, consecrated 2 Feb. 1851, translated to Cloyne 27 April 1857. d. 15 Jany. 1874. Brady’s Episcopal succession, ii 103–105 (1876).
KEARNEY, William Henry. b. 1800 or 1801; an original member of Institute of painters in water-colours 1831, vice pres.; exhibited 9 pictures at R.A. and 6 at Suffolk st. 1823–58; his picture Ruins of the sallyport Framlingham, is in the Irish National Gallery; published Illustrations of the Surrey zoological gardens, drawn on stone with descriptive notices 1832, three parts. d. 114 High Holborn, London 25 June 1858.